Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 214, Joseph Hageman, New Jersey
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Service
New Jersey

Hagaman, Joseph
Hagaman, Alledy

Number
W.214
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[printed form with handwritten entries]
22.814
New Jersey
Joseph Hagaman decd of Somerset in the State of N. J. who was a fifer in the Compy commanded by Captain Baird of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N. J. line for 12 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton at the rate of 44 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831. & Endg 11th March 1840 when he died
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1837 and sent to W. S. Allison Esq Present
Arrears to the 4th of 
Semi-annual allowance ending
Incd from $36:66
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by H. R. Weightman Clerk, Book E.2: Vol. 3. Page 135
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[number at top of page obscured]
New Jersey
Alledy Hagaman widow of Joseph Hagaman who served in the Revolutionary 
Capt Baird N. J. 
a fifer
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of 44 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1848.
Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of May 1857 and sent to W. S. Allison Present
Recorded on Roll of Pensioners under act February 2, 1848, Page 293. Vol. 4.
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27.823
Application of Joseph Hageman of Somerset N. Jersey for a pension under the act of 7th June 1832
10. Months service
10 mo musician 36.66
Send Certificate to T A Hartwell Somerset N. J.
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Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the 7th June 1832
State of New Jersey Somerset County ss.
On this fourteenth day of october in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three personally appeared before the Court of Common pleas of said County Joseph Hageman aged seventy two years in November next who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832
That he entered the army of the united states as a volunteer in the beginning of the year 1778 at the Township of Montgomery in said County of Somerset as a fifer in a Company Commanded by Captain John Baird.  That he turned out regularly in said Company under said Capt & done his full duty untill the close of the War. That in the year 1778 he performed three full tours of duty of a month each in said Company under said Capt Baird at & near Princeton, Allen Town, Monmouth & in the neighborhood of Toms land. In 1779 he performed four tours of duty of a month each under said Baird at Elizabeth Town, Aquackanonk, a place then called [illegible] & along the Millstone River. He was out one month under said Baird at & in the neighborhood of Springfield & Elizabeth Town. Cant tell the year, but says it was the time of
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the Springfield Battle. In the year 1780 he performed two tours of duty of a month each under said Baird in the neighborhood of New Brunswick & along [illegible]. He was out upon several other occassions on alarms for a few days at a time, when his Company was called out & recollects that in speaking of the Revolutionary war in his fathers family a great many years ago, it was said that this deponent was out in said service upwards of thirteen months, but by reason of age & the consequent loss of memory he cannot state his services more particularly than as above. All his services were done as a fifer in said Bairds Company & as a volunteer. His superior officers were Genl. Hurt, Colo. Van Dike & Majr W Baird. He does not know that he ever received a written discharge - if he did it is lost - he has no documentary evidence of his said services. He believes that all his officers are dead except his Capt. John Baird whose affidavit is annexed hereto. Nor does he know of any other living witness than John Van Zandt whose affidavit is also annexed by whom he can prove his services. He refers to [illegible] H. & R. Schenck, J. D, Stryker Esq, I. W. Todd Esq, the Revd. Wm Labaugh & N. Williamson Esq, his neighbors, who can testify to his character for truth & veracity. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatsoever to a pension or Annuity except the present and declare that his name is not on the pension roll agency of any State. He was born in S. County & has always resided there. His name is recorded in his Bible in
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his fathers hand writing by which it  appears he was born in the year 1761
Sworn and subscribed the day and year first above written  [signatures] Wm. B. Gaston  Joseph Hageman
Mr Gabriel Ludlow a clergiman residing in the Township of Hillsborough in said County & James D. Stryker Esq of the same place hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Joseph Hageman who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration. That we believe him to be seventy one years of age last November. That he is believed & reputed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the day & year first above written  [signatures] Gabriel Ludlow  Jas D Stryker  Wm B Gaston
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And the said Court hereby declare their opinion
after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the war department that the above named applicant Joseph Hageman was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states.

And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Gabriel Ludlow who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in said Township of Hillsborough in said County of Somerset & that James D. Stryker Esqr who has also signed the same is a resident in said township and is a credible person and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Wm. B. Gaston
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Somerset ss. On this 12th of October 1833 before me Wm B. Gaston one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas of said County personally appeared Capt. John Baird who being duly sworn on his oath saith that he was well acquainted with the above named Joseph Hageman in the Revolutionary war from the Commencement of 1778 until the end of the war. That at the Beginning of that year he entered the Company of this deponent as his fifer and was out upon every tour of duty with this deponent till the war closed. He was with deponent at Elizabeth Town, Springfield, Acquackanonk, Monmouth & other places-  Deponent is sattisfied that said Hageman served at least one years duty in all & upwards
The said Hageman was always ready & willing to do his duty
John Baird

Sworn & subscribed the day & year above
written before me
Wm. B. Gaston

Somerset ss.   on the day & year above, before me the said W B Gaston personally appeared John Van Zandt who being duly sworn on his oath Saith that he knew the above named Jos.
Hageman in the Revolutionary war - the said
Hagaman was a fifer in Capt John Bairds company & was out two months in sd Company
in the year 1778 or 9 at Elizabeth Town &
Acquackamonk-  Deponent recollects of sd Hageman being
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ent at other times & places in sd Bairds company but cannot name more particularly
John Van Zandt

Sworn & subscribed the day & year first
above written before me
Wm B. Gaston

Somerset County ss. I William B Gaston before whom the affidavits of (Capt) John Baird and John Van Zant were this day made & taken do hereby certify that the said Capt John Baird & John Van Zant are persons of credibility and that their statements made above are entitled to full credit and belief. Dated October 12th 1833
Wm. B. Gaston

State of New Jersey
Somerset County SS }
I John M. Mann Clerk of the inferior  Court of Common Pleas in and for said County do hereby certify that the foregoing are the original proceedings had before William B. Gaston one of the Judges of said Court in the matter of the application of Joseph Hagaman for a pension. 

In Witness whereof I have hereunto
set my hand and seal of said Court this Seventeenth day of October Eighteen hundred and thirty three-
---
J.M. Mann
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FAMILY RECORD.

MARRIAGES.

Joseph Hagaman was
married to Alledy Ditmars
on the 28th day
of December AD. 1786


MARRIAGES.
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FAMILY RECORD.


BIRTHS.
Joseph Hagaman was born the 8th day of November AD 1861

Alledy Ditmars his wife ['born on the' crossed out] was baptized in Harlingen Church in November 1766

Their progeny are as follows viz

Their oldest child Joseph Hagaman was born on the 26th day of December A D 1787-

Their second child Mariah Hagaman was born n the 8th day of May A D 1790

Their third child Hannah Hageman was born on the 19th day of September A D 1793

BIRTHS.
Their fourth child Margaret Hagaman was born on the 12th day of August AD 1796 -

Their fifth child Jane Hageman was born on the 28th day of August AD 1799-

Their sixth child Jane Hageman was born on the 20th day of October A D 1802-

Their seventh child  Nelly Hageman was born on the 21st day of January AD 1809
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Alledy Hagaman
widow of Joseph
New Jersey

Act 7 July 1838, &c

original declaration


W. S. Allison
Attorney
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County SS
On this 29th day of April A.D. 1851, personally appeared before me Joseph A. Gaston, one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas, of said County, Mrs Alledy Hagaman a resident of
said County and state aged eighty four years, who being first duly sworn according to law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of 7th July 1838, 3 Mar 1843 & 7 June 1844, that she is the widow of Joseph Hageman who was a fifer and who was a pensioner of the United States under act of 7 June 1832, of the New Jersey agency and received thirty six dollars and sixty six cts per ann: she further declares that she was married to the said Joseph
Hageman, in the year seventeen hundred and
eighty six that her husband the aforesaid
Joseph Hageman died on the eleventh day
of March 1840; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the first of January, 1794, viz, at the time above stated.

[Line of crossed out text] The deponent further states that she has a family record containing
a record of her marriage and of the ages of her children which is herewith exhibited and which was copied from the original, an old Dutch Bible which was sold after the death of her husband. The record herewith exhibited was made
in the winter of 1828. she knows of no other record
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in existence of her marriage, and has no knowledge of what has become of the old Dutch Bible before referred to.
            her
Alledy   X  Hagaman
           mark

Sworn and subscribed before me
the day & year aforesaid---
Jos. A. Gaston Judge, as
aforesaid

I hereby certify, that the above mentioned
a declarant is unable, from bodily infirmity, to appear in open Court, to make her declaration.
Jos. A. Gaston, Judge, &c.

State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss.
On this 29th day of April 1851, personally appeared before me Joseph A. Gaston, Judge as aforesaid Jane Schenck, aged forty nine years, who being first duly sworn states that she is the sixth child of Mrs Alledy Hagaman the
widow of Joseph Hagaman, that her father
was a pensioner of the United States, and died
March 11, 1840, and that the annexed family
record has to her certain knowledge been
in her fathers possession from the winter of 1828 up to the date of his death and since that
period in possession of her mother
Jane Schenck

Sworn & subscribed
before me, the day
& year aforesaid,
Jos. A. Gaston, Judge &c.
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County SS
Know all men by these presents that I Alledy  Hagaman hereby authorise William S. Allison to prosecute my claim to a pension on account of the service of my husband Joseph Hagaman decd, and to obtain any increase of pension to which my said husband may be entitled for his service. In testimony whereof I hereto subscribe my mark and seal this 29th day of April A.D. 
1851. 
            her
Alledy   X   Hagaman
          mark

Jacob Schenck
Witness to the
signature of Alledy
Hagaman
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Then came the above named Alledy Hagaman
before me and acknowledged the above power
of attorney to be her act and deed.
Jos. A. Gaston Judge &c.
as aforesaid.
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State of New Jersey
Somerset County ss }
I Henry Johnson Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County and State above mentioned do hereby certify that Joseph A Gaston whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing declaration & affidavits is and was at the time of signing the same a Judge of the aforesaid Court duly commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts as such are entitled to full faith and credit and that the aforesaid Court is a Court of record having general jurisdiction

Given under my hand and the seal of the County at the Clerks office in Somerville this twenty ninth day of April AD. Eighteen hundred & fifty one
Henry D. Johnson Clerk
[seal affixed at left]
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I hereby certify that Mrs. Jane Schenck, who made the affidavit on the second page of this paper, is a lady of high respectability; & whose statements, whether made under oath, or otherwise are entitled to the fullest credit & belief.
Jos. A. Gaston, Judge &c.
as aforesaid

Alledy Hagaman
widow of Joseph
New Jersey
act 7 July 1838, &c
original declaration


W.S. Allison
Attorney
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REVOLUTIONARY WAR RECORDS SECTION.
3 -- 525
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____________, 19__

W F. 214

In reply to your request of ________, received ___________ for a statement of the military history of Joseph Hageman soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau.
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[table follows with 5 columns; column headings as follows:]
(1) DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT.
(2) LENGTH OF SERVICE.
(3) RANK.
(4) OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED.  {sub-headings:  a. CAPTAIN. b. COLONEL.}
(5) STATE.

[text beneath column headings as follows:]
(1)  1778
(2) served at various times to end of War 13 mos.
(3) Fifer
(4) a. John Baird. b. Van Dike
(5) N.J.
[end of table]
Battles engaged in, ____[check mark] ____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, __ Enlisted in Montgomery Twp. Somerset Co. N.J. ____
Date of application for pension, ___ Oct. 14 1833.  His cl. was al. ____
Residence at date of application,__  Somerset Co, N.J. _______
Age at date of application __ born Nov. 8, 1761 in Somerset Co. N.J. died Mch. 11, 1840 ____
Remarks: ____He was Dec 28. 1786 Alledy Ditmars Shear allowed pension on
an application ex. Apr 29 1857 while a resident of Somerset Co., N.J.aged 84 years. _______
___See supplement herewith for family data __

Respectfully,
ACTING  Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section.

August 13, 1914.

Mr. John J. De Mott,
Metuchen, N. J.

Sir:

In addition to the military history of Joseph Hageman.   W. File No. 214, Rev. War, you are furnished the following data as to his children:

Joseph born December 26, 1787.
Marian   "   May 8, 1790.
Hannah   "  September 19, 1793.
Margaret  "  August 12, 1796.
Jane        "   August 28, 1799.
#Jane        "  October 20, 1802.
Nelly        "  January 21, 1809.

#In 1851, she signed "Jane Schenck".

Very respectfully,
E.C. Tieman
Acting Commissioner.
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22.814
New Jersey
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Joseph Hageman
of Somerset in the State of N.J.
who was a musician in the com commanded
by Captain John Baird of the [blank] commanded by [blank] in the N.J. troops
line for 10 mo---
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Inscribed on the Roll of New Jersey
at the rate of 36 Dollars 66 Cents per annum,
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of Novr 1833 and sent T.A.  Hartnell Somerset N.J.
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Arrears to the 4th of Sept 33                  $91.66
Semi-anl. allowance ending 4th Mar '34  18.33
                                                                    ______
                                                                  $109.99


{Revolutionary Claim},
{Act June 7, 1832. }

Recorded by C Laurie Clerk,
Book E    Vol. 3.    Page 115
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9.000
New Jersey
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Alledy Hagaman
widow of Joseph
who was a fifer
in the Revolution
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Inscribed on the Roll at the rate
of of 44 Dollars 00 Cents per annum, to commence
on the 4th day of March, 1843.
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Certificate of Pension issued
the 19th day of May 18[cut off]
and sent to W.S. Allison
Present
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[Acts of March 3, 1843 & June 17, 1844.]

Recorded in Book A
Vol. 2.    Page 96
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11.103
New Jersey
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Alledy Hagaman
widow of Joseph Hagaman
who died on the 11 March 1840
Somerset in the State of N. J.
he was a fifer in the Compy commanded
by Captain Baird of the Regth commanded
by Col. [blank] in the N.J. 
line for 12 months
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Inscribed on the Roll of Trenton
at the rate of 44 Dollars 00 Cents
per annum, to commence on the 12th day of
March, ['1836' crossed out] 1840 when he died
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Certificate of Pension issued the 19th day of
May 1837 and sent to
W.S. Allison Esq
Present
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Arrears to the 4th of [blank]
Semi-annual allowance ending [blank]

{Revolutionary Claim, }
Act July 7. 1838. }

Recorded by H.R. Weightman Clerk
Book. D   Vol. 1.   Page 197
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[left side]
1914 Aug. 13 Hist. to John J.
De Mott, Letter in S.F. 19
Aaron Hageman
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1921, Jan. 8 Hist to
Florence Shields - EW
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[right side]
214
Revy   WIDOW, &c.
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File No. ___ 214 ________
____ Alledy Hagaman ______
____ Widow _________
_____ Joseph Hagaman ______
____ Priv. Rev. War. _______
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Act. Feb. 2. 1848.

Index: - Vol. M, Page 304

[Arrangement of 1870.]
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Rev 4

4430 Clifton Ave.
Chicago. Dec. 2nd. 1920.

Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D. C.

Sir: -

I have an ancestor named Joseph Hageman who served in New Jersey Militia during the Revolution as a musician and drew a pension from Somerset Co. in 1833. I think he was born in 1760. Will you give me all the particulars named in his application, and name of his wife if possible?

I shall be very grateful for this information if you can give it to me.

Yours truly,
Florence Shields
4430 Clifton Ave.
Chicago.

[stamp:] U.S. PENSION OFFICE. DEC 4 1920
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No  14:328
Alledy Hageman
widow of Joseph
N.J.

Act 7 July 1838. &C.
Admd 1 yr fifer,fifer, $44
per an. from 12 March
1840 the date of the
death of her husband.
Payable to her.

Sent to
W.S. Allison
Present.
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Washington, May 7, 1851

To the Commissr. of Pensions,

Sir
Enclosed herewith you will find the claim of Alledy Hagaman widow of Joseph Hagaman
who was a pensioner of the New Jersey
agency under act 7 June 1832

Very Respy
Yr. obt. Servt.
Wm S. Allison
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Increase

Joseph Hagaman
N.J.
Act 7 June '32

dmd. 12 mo. fifer - $44.
per annum from 4 March
'31 to 11 March 1840.
when he died.
former paymts deducted
Payable to Alledy Hageman

Cert to 
WS. Allison
Present