Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2434, Conrad Cramer, New York
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(8-1776)
SERVICE New York
Cramer, Conrad
NUMBER R.2434

Contents:
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Conrad Cramer's 
Declaration [illegible]
[illegible] 312

P.G. Keyes
Agent
Watertown N.Y
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State of New York
Jefferson County SS.

On this 6th day of June 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in & foresaid County now sitting Conrad Cramer a resident of the town of Alexandria in said County aged Seventy Years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefitz [benefits] of the act of Congress passed June of the 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated- He volunteered his services as a minute man at Canajoharrie [Canajoharie] county of Montgomery and State of New York on the first of April 1780, and that during the continuance in the service of the United States he was for the whole time under the command of Lieutenant Jacob Snyder except while he was a prisoner in Canada that he actually served under the said Snyder from the said first of April to the first of August of that year (1780) when he was taken a prisoner by the Torries and indians [Indians] near fort Blank a temporary fortification erected about four miles from Canajoharrie [Canajoharie] where he had been stationed from the time he entered the service and that he was carried a prisoner of war to Niagra Upper Canada and there detained until the peace of 1783 That the circumstances attending his capture were as follows, that whilst he and several other soldiers were on an excursion at a short distance from the fort they were unexpectedly surprised by a party of Torries and Indians and taken prisoner That several inhabitants in the vicinity of the fort were taken by the Indians at the same time to the number of 40 or 50 That among the number were his Father and sister who were killed by the Indians.  That during the above period of four months which he served at Fort Blank he was a duty daily and held himself in reading for active service.  That this deponent is not able to say at this late time who his non commissioned officers were that there was no officer superior in command to
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Lieutenant Snyder and that there was very little organization or discipline among them at that time and thinks there was from 80 to 100 men under the command of Lieutenant Snyder at that time - The route of the prisoners to Niagara was by land over the Oneida Lake Quaneka River [] and this deponent further saith that he has no documentary evidence whatever to support his claim and that he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his services except Mrs. Margaret Hogadone who was taken prisoner at the same time and who was near him during the whole of his imprisonment, and whose affidavit is hereunto annexed That there is no clergyman residing near this deponent by whom he can prove that he is reputed to have been a soldier of the Revolution, but that the following persons residing in his present neighborhood can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution viz : Allen  Cole, Leonard Bayer, George Sills, Solomon Bayer and Peter Will : That this deponent was born at Canajoharrie {Canajoharie] Montgomery Co New York in the year 1763+ but has no record of his age That he was living at a place (then) called Fort Bleak in the town of Canajoharrie [Canajoharie] aforesaid when he entered the service and that he never received a written discharge form the service from any one and this deponent further saith that after his return to the United States after the war he resided for several years at fort Blank from whence he moved to Fords Bush 10 mile below the Little Falls on the Mohawk where he resides for the space of 10 years  From thence he moved to [] Oneida county where he has lived ever since until his late removal to Alexandria in the same County
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where he now continues to reside - 
And he hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension rolls of the agency or any state - 
Sworn and subscribed Conrad his mark X Cramer
the day & year aforesaid

P Burchard Clerk

We Soloman Bayer and John Tuttle both residing in the town on Alexandria Jefferson County do hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Conrad Cramer who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration ; that we believe him to be seventy years of age ; that he is reputed and believed with neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn & subscribed the Soloman Boyer
day & year aforesaid  John Tuttle
P. Burchard Clerk
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states.
I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said court in the matter of the application of Conrad Cramer for a pension
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal affixed office this []th day of June 1833.
P. Burchard Clerk
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Amendment to Conrad Cramer's declaration
State of New York}
Jefferson County} SS

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a justice of the peace of the town of Alexandria in and for the County of Jefferson Conrad Cramer of said town who being duly sworn deposeth and saith that by reason of old age and the consequent loss of memory he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service, but according to the best of his recollection he served not less than the periods mentioned below and in the following grade : For four months I served as a private under Lieutenant Jacob Snyder at Fort Blank on the Mohawk R. and For Three years and one month I was detained a prisoner in Canada, making three years and five months for which I claim a pension- I verily believe the corps in which I was embodied was called into service by competent authority and this deponent further saith during the period in which he rendered the above service, he was not employed in any civil pursuit,
Sworn July 8th 1833}  Conrad X his mark
before me               }Cramer
Nathan M. Flower Justice of the Peace

State of New York}
Jefferson County Clerks Office} SS

I Peleg Burchard Clerk of the said County do certify that Nathan M. Fowler before whom the above affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the peace in and for the said County And that I am acquainted with his hand writing and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper hand writing and signature Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this Eighth day of July 1833.  
P. Burchard Clerk
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State of New York}
Jefferson County} SS
Margaret Hogadone of the town of Le Ray County aforesaid and state of New York being duly sworn saith that she is of the age of Seventy two years that she resided on the Mohawk River in the State of New York in the year 1780 at or near a place then called fort Blank (now in the town of Canajoharrie [Canajoharie] / a few miles from fort plain that she was at that time well acquainted with Conrad Cramer who is now applying for a pension under the Laws of the United States and that the said Cramer was according to the information which this deponent then received which she believes engaged with services of the United States, as a minuteman at fort Blank (a small fortification from which the above place took its name/some time in the summer of 1780 - That Mr. Cramer whilst thus engaged was surprised and taken prisoner by a party of Tories & Indiana's at a short distance from the fort and taken a prisoner to Niagara Upper Canada where he was detained a prisoner of War until the peace of 1783 - That this deponent had a personal knowledge of the above facts having been taken a prisoner at the same time and carried to Niagara aforesaid by the same party where she continued until the close of the Revolutionary War. And this deponent further saith that the above capture of Mr. Cramer took place about the first of August 1780,  Margarett Haggadone X her mark
Sworn June 15, 1833}
before me}
A.  Thwing  JP

I certify that I am personally acquainted with the above named Margaret Haggadone and that she is a person of credibility
A Thwing JP
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State of New York}
Jefferson County Clerks office} SS
I Poleg Burchard Clerk of the said County do certify that A Thwing before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was at the date of the same one of the Justices of the Peace in and for the said county and that I am acquainted with his handwriting and verily believe his name subscribed to the said affidavit to be his proper handwriting and signature
Witness my hand and the seal of the said County this Eighth day of July 1833 ~  
P. Burchard Clerk
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Amendment to Conrad Cramer's declaration which has been recently suspended at the War Department

State of New York}
Jefferson County}  SS 

Conrad Cramer being duly sworn said that Captain Jacob Snyder's corps of infantry into which this deponent volunteered on the first of April 1780 at Canajoharrie [Canajoharie] County of Montgomery & State of New York was during the period of four months the town which this deponent served under the said Snyder actually engaged in the services of the United States and was not (as Mr. Edwards in his letter to my agent served to suppose/ a collection of the inhabitants in the vicinity of fort Blank united for their domestic security against the Indians, but whilst they afforded all the protection to the inhabitants they could, they were actually engaged in the services of the United States, and by the special authority of governments as this deponent was informed and verily believes And this deponent, further said that it was his intention so to have sworn in his original declaration and supplements thereto And this deponent would refer the Department to the affidavit of Mrs. Hogadone which accompanied his original declaration as well as her affidavit hereunto annexed to prove that this deponent was at that time (1780/ reputed in the neighborhood where he lived to have been employed in the service of the United States and not one of several individuals who united in the Construction of a temporary fort for self protection.  And this deponent further saith that fort Blank was occupied by the troops only except in cases of alarm when the inhabitants fled to this fort for protection
Sworn and Subscribed before me} Conrad X his this 8 day of October 1833} mark Cramer
Nathan M. Flower J.P.

State of New York
Jefferson County SS Margaret Hogadone of the town of Le Ray Jefferson County aged seventy two years being sworn saith that the matters contained in the last ten lines of the preceeding affidavit of Conrad Cramer are to the knowledge of this deponent true.
Sworn and subscribed before me this 8th day of Oct. 1833 Nathan M. Flower JP

State of New York
Jefferson County SS

Margaret Hogadone of the town of Le Ray Jefferson County aged Seventy two years being sworn saith that the matters contained in the last ten lines of the preceding affidavit of Conrad Cramer are to the knowledge of the deponent true.
Subscribed to before me this 8 day of Oct. 1833 Margaret Hogadone X her mark
Subscribed before me 8 day of Oct. 1833 
Nathan M. Flower J P
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I Nathan M. Flower a Justice of the Peace of the town of Alexandria and in Jefferson County do hereby certify that Conrad Cramer and Margaret Hogadone who signed the preceding affidavit are persons of credety [credibility] - 
Conrad Cramer I am personally acquainted with and on his part can [] to the above - Margaret Hogadone I have no knowledge of personally.
Dated Alexandria October 2d 1833
Nathan M. Flowers

The certificate of Mr. Twing as to the credibility of Marg Hogadone is on file at the War Department and is attached to the original declaration of Mr. Cramer which is will render a further certificate unnecessary I conclude
F. G. Keyes Atty
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XJ. Calhoun, Fancy Job Printer, Watertown, N.Y.X

STATE OF NEW-YORK,}
Jefferson County Clerk's Office} SS.

I, PELEG BURCHARD, Clerk of said County, do hereby Certify, that Nathan M Flower Esqr. before whom the annexed affidavit purports to have been sworn, and who signed the annexed certificate of Credit was at the date of the same a Justice of the Peace in and for the said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorized to take the same, - And further, that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, and verily believe his name subscribed to the same, to be his proper hand writing, and signature.
Witness my hand and Seal of said County, this Seventh day of October in the year 1833
P. Burchard Clerk.


P. G. Keyes Agent Nathan
[] proof Conrad Cramer N. Y. Suspended.
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New York
Revol -
2434
Conrad Cramer

see letter to
P. G. Keyes
19 Sept. 1833.
letter to [] 8th Jany '34

Act of June 1832
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REJECTED 
2434

P.O. Conrad Cramer
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To Hon  [] Lew Cass

Letter
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Hon ble 
LL Cass

Dr. Sir

Herewith you will receive the declaration and other papers connected with the application of Conrad Cramer for a pension.

I am the agent of Mr. Cramer and as soon as his case is acted upon please to direct the return papers to me at this place.

Watertown, Jefferson County N.Y.
July 8th 1833 -

Truly yours
P. G. Keyes
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February 6, 1884

J.L. Edwards Esq
Court of Pensions
Washington City
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Watertown Dec 30, 1833

Dear Sir

The case of Conrad Cramer an applicant for a pension under the Act of 7 June 1832 has been before you for some time - Will you have the goodness to drop one a line with your final decision.  Mr. Cramer, I believe has furnished conclusive all evidence on all the points where which you have as evidence.

Very Respectfully
Perleg P. Keyes
Agent

JL Edwards Eqr