Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 22,528, Jacob Waggoner, Continental New York
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(3-1776)

SERVICE                                      
Continental
New York.

Waggoner, Jacob
Salome

NUMBER
W22.528

CONTENTS
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28753   New York
   Jacob Waggoner of Montgomery Co. in the State of New York who was a Private in the Compy commanded by Captain Snyder of the Regt commanded by Col Dayton in the N York line for 18 months and 6 days
Certificate issued to Widow Salome Waggoner
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Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 60 Dollars 66 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
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Certificate of Pension issued the 10 day of June 1834 and sent to Hon C Mc Vean  Ho. Repres.
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Arrears to the 5th of May 1833  $131.76
Died 5 May 1833
{Revolutionary Claim
{Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Jon Cromwell Clerk,
book E  Vol. 4 Page 135
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I , Jacob  Wagner( Waggoner) was born February 21, 1762 and Salme Cronnern was born April 14, 1763.
On July 6, 1783 I married Salme Cronnern
Our children 
Christina      born  Feb. 23, 1784
Elizabeth.       "      Dec. 25, 1786
Maria                "     Oct. 22, 1788
Jacob              "      Apr. 8, 1791
Anna                "      July 27, 1793
Abraham.        "       May 6, 1798
Felix                 "       Feb. 25 , 1802
John                "       May22, 1804
Nenzi (Hall).     "      Oct. 25, 1805
why parentheses?

From German script
May 12. 1932
[illegible, Ser. Tinosinck?]
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In the Matter
of 
Salome Waggoner
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affdt &c 

Hon. J. H. Prentiss
HR
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss:
Abraham I. Waggoner of the town of Danube in the County of Herkimer being duly sworn says that he is the son of Jacob Waggoner, late of the Town of Minden in the County of Montgomery, deceased and Solome his wife, that he is of the age of forty two years on the 6th day of May instant as he has always understood his age from his Parents, and believes to be true, that he lived with and in the family of his said Father & Mother until the Spring of 1820. when he having been married the fall before, moved on to a farm in the said town of Danube a distance of about two & a half mile from his said Fathers residance where he has ever since resided –
this deponent further says that from his earliest recolections he has known the Family Bible of his said Father which is here product being a large German Bible weighing 10 ½ pounds, that from his boyhood and more than thirty years last past he has known the registry of his Fathers & Mothers ages, their marriage and the birth and ages of their respective children, this deponents age among the rest, on a leaf in the said Bible which this deponent has cut there from and which is hereto annexed and which shows, among other things, that the marriage of this deponents said Father & Mother took place on the 6th day of July 1783. that the said enteries or registry is in the hand writing of his said deceased Father, as he verily believes, except the entry of the 27th of July 1793 of the birth of their daughter Anna, which entry is in a hand writing intirely unknown to the deponent –
this deponent further says that the said Bible remained in his said Fathers Family up to the 5th day of May 1833 the day of his said Fathers death - after which his widow the said Solome this deponents said Mother came to reside with this deponent, bringing with her the said Bible & where she & the Bible have ever since remained and that there is no other record or register of the Marriage of this deponents parents to his knowledge or belief 
[signed] Abraham I Waggoner
Subscribed and sworn
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to this 29 day of May 1840 before me 
S. Countryman Justice of the peace. 
And I the said Justice do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with Abraham I. Waggoner the person who subscribed & swore to the foregoing affidavit before me, And that he is a person of good moral character and respectability, and that his statement is entitled to full credit - And I further Certify that the leaf containing the registry of the ages of Jacob Waggoner & wife, their marriage, and the births & ages of the Children respectively is taken from a large German Bible here present bearing marks of age corresponding with the dates of the enteries on the said leaf hereto annexed. 
[signed] Solomon Countryman Justice – 

State of New York 
Montgomery County Clerks office ss:  I certify that the above named Solomon Countryman whose name is subscribed to the Jurat of the foregoing affidavit &c was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for said County and duly authorized by the Laws of the said State to administer Oaths and that his signature Subscribed to the same is genuine 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the Seal of my office this 8th day of June 1840 
[signed] A J. Comrie Clerk
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Anno 1762 ten [obscured] feberwari bin ich Zum welt geboren mit Namen Jacob Wagner Anno 1763 ten 14 Abrill bin ich Zur welth geboren Mith Namen Salme bronnern Anno 1783 ten 6 Juli bin ich geheirath Mit Salme bronnern Anno 1784 ten 23 febberwari ist mir Meine dochter Zur welt geboren Mit Namen Christina Anno 1786 ten 25 december ist Mir Meine dochter Zur welt geboren Mit Namen Elizabet Anno 1788 ten 22 october ist Mir Meine dochter Zur welt geboren Mit Namen Maria Anno 1791 ten 8 Abrill ist Mir Meine Sohn Zur Welt geboren Mit Namen Jacob Waggoner 
Anno 1793 Den 27 Julyus ist mir meine Dochter zur welt geborrem mit namen Anna 
Anno 1798 den 6 May ist mir mein Sohn Zur welt geboren mit Namen Aberham Waggoner
Anno 1800 2 den 25 febwahre ist mir mein Sohn Zur welt geboren mit Namen Felix Waggoner 
Anno 1804 den 22 mey ist mir mein Sohns Zur welt geboren mit Namen John Waggoner 
Anno 1805 den 25 october is die Nenzi Hall Zur welt geboren
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May 8. 1840 6993 
Solome Waggoner 
N.Y. 
act 7 July 38 
Married 6 July 1783 
Husband died 5 May 1833- 
Col Clyde }
Capt Diefendorf}  N. Y. 
Admitted 
Private 18 mo & 6 days

[crossed out: H. Adams]
Hon. J. H. Prentiss H. R
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State of New York 
Herkimer County ss
on this 28th day of April one thousand eight hundred and forty personally appeared before Charles Gray a Judge of the County Courts in aforesaid County of Herkimer, Solome Waggoner a resident of Danube in the said County of Herkimer aged Seventy Seven years on the 14th day of April instant who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed July 7th 1838 entitled “An act granting half pay and pensions to Certain Widows" that she is the widow of Jacob Waggoner who was a soldier in the Revolutionary Army, that before his death he made application for and was placed on the pension list at a pension of sixty dollars & Sixty Six cents per annum, as she believes; that his certificate thereof bore date, as she believes some time in June one thousand eight hundred & thirty three; that the evidence of his Services are, as she believes, on file in the Pension Department, and to which she desires to refer the pension officers - that she as the widow of the said pensioner has received the pension granted to him as aforesaid, up to the 5th day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three the day of his death 
She further declares that she was married to the said Jacob Waggoner on the Sixth day of July in the year Seventeen hundred and eighty three - that her husband, the said Jacob Waggoner died on the fifth day of May one thousand eight hundred and thirty three; that she was not married to him prior to his leaving the Service, but the Marriage took place previous to the first of January, Seventeen hundred and ninety four, viz, at the time above Stated 
[signed] Solome Waggoner X her mark
Sworn to and subscribed, on the day and year above written before me 
[signed] Chas Gray 
And I the said Judge do further certify that she the said applicant cannot from
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bodily infirmity attend the Court, and that she is a person of good character, that her statement is entitled to credit and that the reason why she makes her mark is that she is unable to write 
[signed] Chas Gray 

State of New York 
Herkimer County } ss: 
I hereby certify that Charles Gray Esq before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Judge of the County Court in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the within and above signatures of "Chas. Gray” are genuine –
In Testimony whereof I have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County April 28. 1840 –
[signed] E. A. Munson Deputy for John Dygert Clerk
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State of New York 
Herkimer County ss
Elizabeth Shaul of said County being duly Sworn Says that she is the sister of Solome Waggoner the applicant for a pension in the annexed declaration named, of the age of Seventy Eight years on the twenty fifth day of December last past; that this deponent was present when the said Solome was married to Jacob Waggoner, now deceased that the marriage service was performed by a Clergyman by the name of Reas, in a block house near the Stone Church in the now town of Palatine in the County of Montgomery, in the summer of Seventeen hundred and eighty three, a short time before this deponents Marriage which took place in the fall of the same year - this deponent further says that the said Solome and the said Jacob Waggoner, her said husband lived together from the time of their marriage as aforesaid until the time of the death of the said Jacob Waggoner, in May Eighteen hundred and thirty three, and reared a family: And that the said Jacob Waggoner his wife & family have ever since the marriage aforesaid, lived within a few miles of this deponent her husband & family, and have been in the constant habit of visiting in each other families - And that the said Solome is now unmarried and remains the widow of the said Jacob Waggoner deceased 
[signed] Elisabeth Shaul X her mark
Subscribed & Sworn to this 25th day of April 1840 before me 
[signed] Cornl. T.E. Van Horne A Justice of the peace 

And I the said Justice do hereby certify that I am personally well acquainted with Elizabeth Shaul the person who subscribed and swore to the foregoing affidavit before me, and that she is a person of good moral character and respectability, And that her statement is entitled to full credit. And the reason why she does make her mark is that she is unable to write 
[signed] Cornl. T. E Van Horne Justice of the peace
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State of New York 
Herkimer County  } ss:  I hereby certify that Cornelius T. E. Van Home was on the day of the date of the within affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly Elected & qualified. And that I am well acquainted with his hand writing & verily believe the signatures of “Cornl T E Van Horne” Subscribed to the within affidavit & certificate are genuine – 
In Testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of the said County April 28th 1840 
[signed] E.A. Munson Deputy for John Dygert Clerk
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss: 
Abraham J. Waggoner being duly sworn deposeth & Saith that he is the son of Jacob Waggoner of Minden in said County an applicant for a pension under the act of the 7th June 1832. 
that the said Jacob Waggoner died on the 5th day of May Instant at Minden aforesaid - that for several years past the said Jacob Waggoner has been aged & infirm and had evidently underwent a loss of memory by reason of his advanced age and infirmity, And could not, if living, as deponent verily believes give a more precise statement of his services in the Revolutionary War than has been given by him in his declaration And further the deponent saith that 
[signed] Abraham T Waggoner
Subscribed & Sworn to the 25th day of May 1833 before me
[signed] Solo’n Sanders Jr. Comss of Deeds.
I Solomon Sanders Jnr do certify that I am acquainted with Abraham Waggoner who has made the foregoing affidavit that he is a credible person & that his statement is entitled to credit 
[signed] Solo’n Sanders Jr Comss. of Deeds.

State of New York 
Montgomery County ss.
I George D. Ferguson Clerk of the County of Montgomery, do certify that Solomon Sanders Junior, before whom the forgoing affidavit purports to have been taken & who has given the forgoing certificate, was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds in & for the said County & duly authorized
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by law to act as such - and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner & verily believe that the signature of the said Commissioner Subscribed to the said affidavit & certificate is Genuine –
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my seal of office this 16 day of July 1835 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson
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15.947 
Jacob Waggoner 
Montgomery Co N York 
75 
J
Col Clyde
Capt Deffandorf 
Admd

Hon C. McVean 
Fort Plain N.Y.
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WAR DEPARTMENT. 
Pension Office, 
183

Sir:
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules, and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed, before a pension can be allowed. The notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by complying with this request, greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, shewing the service of Jacob Waggoner

[BEGIN TABLE]
Period when the service was rendered  |  Duration of the service Years. Months. Days.  |   Rank of the claimant.  |  Names and Rank of the Company officers under whom he served.  |  Rank of the General and Field officers.  |  Battles in which the applicant was engaged.  |  Country through which he marched.  |  Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.  |  Evidence by which the declaration is supported.  |
June 1778  |  2 Months  |  Private  |  Capt Deivendorff  |  Col. Clyde  |    |  Continually employed in March in from different Counties on Scouting parties  |  70 years Minden N York  |  By living witnesses  |
1 Jany 1779 (about)  |  3 Months 15 Days  |  Private  |  Capt Snyder  |    |    |    |    |    |
June 1779 vol  |  1 Month 15 Days  |  Private  |  Capt Snyder  |  Colo Dayton  |    |    |    |    |
middle of July 1779 sub  |  5 Months 15 Days  |  Capt Bigbread  |    |    |    |    |    |    |
1 Jany 1780 abt  |  1 Year 1 Month  |  Private  |  Capt Denny  |  Col Hay  |    |    |    |    |
May 1781  |  5 Months  |    |  Capt Deivendorff  |  Col Willet  |  Johnstown  |    |    |    |
June 1782  |  2 Months  |    |  Capt Deivendorff  |    |    |    |    |    |
[END TABLE]

I am, respectfully 
Your obedient servant,
J. L. EDWARDS,
Commissioner of Pensions.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832. 
The following regulations have been adopted: 
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service. 
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law: 
1. The Regular Troops. 
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers. 
3. Persons employed in the Naval service. 
4. Indian Spies. 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first instance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record. 
DECLARATION. 
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832. 
State, Territory or District of County } ss.
On this ___ day of ___ personally appeared (a) before __ A.B. a resident (b) of ___ in the county of ___  and State, territory or District of ___  ages (c) ___ years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provion made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) ___  , with ___ and served in the ___ (e) regiment of the ___ line, under the following named officers: 
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers, the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he enered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which marched. [ ]This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.] 
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only on that of the Agency in the State of ___
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. ____ A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I _____ of the Court of ____ do hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of ___for a pension. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this ___ day of ___&c. 
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out. 
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz:
 (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the ___ and C. D. residing in (the same) hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with ___ , who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ___ years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]
And the said Court do 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 was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. ___ who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the ___ and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the ___ and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. 
I ___Clerk of the Court of ___ do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the applicacation of ___ for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this ___ day of ___&c. 
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction. 
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case. 
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia. 
1. Where and in what year were you born? 
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it? 
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war, and where do you now live?
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom? 
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services. 
6.  {To a Soldier} Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it?}
6. {To an Officer.} Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what has become of it?}
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution. 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant. 
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. If one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject. 
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court. 
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person is a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed is his genuine signature. 
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before the declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can procure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the period of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter. 
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.
[b] The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned. 
[d] The declarant must in the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e] Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination claim cannot be had. Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
“Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of 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 grades:--For __ year ___ months , and ___ days I served as a ___. For ___ months and ___days, I served as a ___; and for such service I claim a pension." 
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held, as the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable.   Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two years in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority;  that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.
[f] The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g] The opinion of the Court is always required. 
[h] The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i] The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.
Mode of authenticating papers. 
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate. 
Proof of Service. 
[j] In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant’s entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office.
[ ] The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note [j] applies in continental troops only.
[k] This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases.
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact.
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.
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State of New York 
County of Montgomery } ss.
On this nineteenth day of September in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty two, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, now sitting, Jacob Waggoner, a resident of the town of Minden, in the County & State aforesaid, aged Seventy years 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 7, 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated. – 
That he was called into the service as a Militia man in the month of June 1778. in a company then under the command of Capt. Jacob Deivendorff, Lieut. George Countryman and Ensign Nicholas Bort, in a Regiment under the command of Colo. Samuel Clyde & Major Abraham Crossman, was called to Fort Plank, there kept on duty & out in scouting parties at different times until about the tenth of November following, when we were marched to defend Cherry Valley from an attack by Brant & Butler with the Indians & Tories. that when we had nearly reached the seen [scene] of distruction, we were informed the enemy were about to distroy the Mohawk settlements, when he & others were ordered back to Fort Plain - that he continued to do duty at different times until about the last of December following, when he was allowed to return home for the winter, that from the time he was called in June until discharged in December as aforesaid, we were required to be in constant rediness, and that from the time he was first called into service till the time he was discharged as aforesaid, he can freely say that he done at least two months actual duty in the service of his Country, under the officers above mentioned. 
That about the first of January 1777, claimant again entered the service as a volunteer under one Godliss Snyder a Lieutenant, that soon thereafter the men so raised by the said Lieut Snyder were by him ordered to proceed to Schenectady, from there we were all marched to Saratoga, near the residence of
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Gen. Philip Snyder, where we were put at work for the goverment working out materials for building boats - that after working at that place about six weeks we were then ordered to proceed north to Lake George, when we were again put at work for the goverment, under Lieut. Snyder in getting out timber for rebuilding & repairing the distructions of Burgoyne’s Armey - that we were here kept at service about seven weeks, when we were discharged & he arrived home about the middle of April following, this service was about three months & a half, was not done for the government upon civil contract by him, and that he endured great sufferings by fatigue, cold & hunger - that on or about the first of June 1779 he was again called out by his officers first above named, & by them ordered to Fort Dayton in the County of Herkimer, where he was put on duty, & on fatigue under command of Colo. Dayton & Major Christopher P. Yates - that he so remained in service until the middle of July following, when he was discharged - that about the middle of July 1779 he again entered the service, as a substitute for his Brother George Waggoner, who was enlisted for nine months & was then taken sick, that he so entered the service at Fort Herkimer in the place of his brother under Capt. John Bigbread, & Lieut. Matthias Wormuth, other officers not recollected - that he served in guarding the Fort & out in scouting parties until the first of January following, when he was discharged. 
That about the first of January 1780 he again entered the service by enlisting under Capt. John Dunney & Lieut. Sandy Campbell - that about the middle of February following, the company marched from Canajoharie for Fish Kill on the Hudson River, marched to Schenectady where we encamped two or three days, then marched to Albany when we were mustered & remained three or four days, then marched to Fishkill landing & were then commanded by Colo. Udley []Udney] Hay & Major Bates, remained there & about there on duty & fatigue until on or about the 21st of January following when they were discharged & about three days thereafter he arrived at Canajoharie aforesaid, the place of his enlistment. -
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That he was again called into the service on or about the last of May 1781 as Militia man in the company commanded by the said Jacob Diefendorff his captain & other officers above named, that he was called to Fort Plank, was there kept on duty & out in scouting parties under the command of the said officers & of Colo. Marinus Willet & Major Coopman, the most part of the time, was some times allowed to return home but was required to be in constant readiness, that about the middle of September following the company in which he belonged with some troops then at Fort Plain were marched under command of Colo. Willet across the Mohawk River in pursuit of the Indians & Tories, that we marched to the north of said River in the wilderness night & day for several days - that soon after we returned, and about the 29th day of October following we were again called upon to march from Fort Plank against the enemy then at Johnstown - that we were joined to several companies commanded by said Colo. Willet and then marched under command of Col Willet & Major Coopman to Johnstown when we engaged with the enemy under the command of Colo. Walter Butler & Major Ross, fought the Johnstown battle, defeated & drove the enemy, that we pursued them up the Mohawk River to the west Canada Creek, when the enemy were overtaken, a partial battle fought, when Col. Butler with several of his men were killed after which we were marched back, the company in which claimant was to Fort Plank - That he was there again kept on duty & out in parties the greater part of the time, until about the last of December following when we were again allowed to return home for the winter - And that from the time he was first called into service in this year until the time he was discharged as aforesaid he freely says & verily believes that he done at least five months actual duty in the service of his country as above mentioned. –
That about the first of June 1832,[sic] he was again called into the service by Jacob Difendorff his said Captain & other officers - that he was again called to Fort Plank & was there kept on duty & out in scouting parties at different times, was by times allowed to return home with orders to be in constant
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readiness, until some time in November following, where he with about fifteen men were ordered out of the Fort, put under the command of Lieut. Jacob Snyder & were marched up the Mohawk River to guard the goverment boats up to Fort Stanwix, about fifty miles, with provisions & property for the government, that this duty was performed & they returned back to the Fort in about six days, when we were again allowed to return home, and that from the time he was first called into service in this year until he was discharged as aforesaid, he freely says & verily believes that he done at least two months actual duty in the service of his country as above mentioned 
That he has no documentary evidence of his service, in the revolution, and that he knows of no person, whose testimony he can procure, who can testify to all of his service
That he was born in Lancaster in the State of Pennsylvania on the 21st day of February 1762. as he has been informed & believes –
That he has no other record of his age than one made & kept by himself, taken from one kept by his Father which is destroyed, that the record made by himself is now at his residence, and that therein his age is set down as above Stated, which is as always has been his understanding correct –
That he was living in the town of Minden, County State aforesaid when called into service, then the town of Canajoharrie & County of Tryon; where he has continued to live since the revolutionary war & now lives. 
That he was called into service at the different times and in the manner above stated – 
That he cannot State the names of regular officers with troops where he served. Continental or other Regiments or the general circumstances of his service, other than as the same is above stated. 
That he has no discharge & that he never received any in writing -
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That Cornelius Van Camp & Jacob H. Diefendorf are the names of persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood, who can testify as to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the revolution - and that there is no clergyman residing in his vicinity – 
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any state –
[signed] Jacob Waggoner X his mark
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk 
We Cornelius Van Camp --- residing in the town of Minden and Jacob H. Diefendorf residing in the same place hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with Jacob Waggoner, 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, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion – 
[signed] Cornl. Van Camp  Jacob H Diefendorff
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid. 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk 
And the said Court do 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 was a revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states, and the Court further certify, that it appears to them that Cornelius Van Camp who has signed the preceding certificate is a resident in the town of Minden and that Jacob H. Diefendorf who has also signed the same are credible persons and that their statement is entitled to credit  - and that it appears to the said Court that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of the said applicant – 
I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of the County of Montgomery
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do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Jacob Waggoner for a pension. 
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of September 1832.
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson
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Montgomery County ss. 
John Brookman of Minden in said county being duly sworn deposeth & saith that during the revolutionary war he was acquainted with Jacob Waggoner of Minden in said County, that he has ever since been acquainted with the said Jacob, that in 1781, he knew the said Jacob, to be in the service of his country in a company commanded by Capt. Jacob Diefendorff in Colo. Clydes Regiment, that he was stationed at Fort Plank kept on duty and out in parties as circumstances required until in October following when the said Jacob, with men under Colo. Willet, marched to Johnstown, was there engaged in the Battle against Butler and Ross, and that the said Jacob, marched under Colo. Willet in pursuit of Butler & his party to the west Canada Creek where Butler & several of his party were killed, that deponent was in said Battle and in the pursuit of Butler & his party & knows the said Jacob to have been therein as above stated & further deponent saith not 
[signed] John Brookman
Subscribed & sworn to this 19th day of September 1832 in open Court. 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk
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Montgomery County ss 
Peter Young & Peter Lambert being duly sworn do severally depose & say that they are well acquainted with Jacob Waggoner of the town of Minden in the County & State aforesaid that the said Jacob Waggoner enlisted into the service in the revolutionary War in a company commanded by Capt John Denny at Canajoharrie in the county aforesaid about the first of January 1780 in which said Company deponents also enlisted & served that the said Jacob Waggoner marched in the said company about the middle of February following from Canajoharrie aforesaid to Schenectady from thence to Albany was there mustered and then marched down the Hudson River to Fishkill Landing where they were commanded by Colo Hay and Major Bates that the said Jacob Waggoner was there & in that vicinity kept on duty & on fatigue as was also the deponents until about the 21st of January following when they were discharged and about the first of February following the said Jacob Waggoner deponents & others arrived at Canajoharrie aforesaid the place of their enlistment and further the deponents say not –
[signed] Peter Lambert X his mark  Peter Young
Sworn to subscribed the 19th September 1832 in open Court 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson Clerk.
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State of New York 
Montgomery County ss. 
I, George D. Ferguson, Clerk of the Court of Common pleas of Montgomery county do hereby certify that at the last September term of said Court John Brookman, Peter Lambert & Peter Young appeared in open Court before the Judges thereof & swore to & subscribed the annexed affidavits to which their names are subscribed. And the said Court have directed me as their Clerk to certify to the War department, & I hereby do certify to the same that it is the opinion of the said Court that the said John Brookman, Peter Lambert & Peter Young are credible persons & that their statements entitled to credit. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & Seal of Office the 16th July 1833
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson
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State of New York 
County of Montgomery ss:
George Waggoner of Minden in said County being duly sworn deposeth & saith that Jacob Waggoner of the town County & State aforesaid is the brother of deponant, that in 1778 he knew the said Jacob to be in the service in the war of the Revolution in a Company of Militia men commanded by Capt. Jacob Dufendorf in Colo Clydes Regiment that the said Jacob was called to Fort Plank, then kept on duty & out in scouting parties, as was also the deponent as circumstances required, at different times & in different directions, until in the fall of that year when the said Jacob, with the men of Fort Plank were marched to cherry valley to save it from Savage destruction, did not reach there in time to save the place & some were immediately marched back & others remained there to bury the dead - that the said Jacob did as deponant believes, during that season at least two months actual duty in the Service of his Country –
The deponant further saith that about the middle of July 1779 the said Jacob Waggoner Came to Fort Herkimer, when deponant was in service under an enlistment for nine months & was then sick, that the said Jacob then became a substitute in the service under Capt Bigbread for deponant by reason of deponants Sickness as aforesaid, that the said Jacob Continued to serve in said Company, as deponant believes until about the first of January following when he returned home - And further deponant saith not 
[signed] George Waggoner X his mark
Subscribed & Sworn to this 17th day of Sept. 1832 before me
[signed] Solo’n [Solomon] Sanders Jr
A Comss of Deeds 
And I the said Commissioner do certify that the said George Waggoner is a credible person & that his above statement is entitled to credit 
[signed] Solo’n Sanders Jr
A Comss of Deeds
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State of New York 
Montgomery County, ss:   I, George D. Ferguson Clerk of Montgomery County Common pleas, do hereby certify that Solomon Sanders, Junior, before whom the within affidavit purports to have been sworn was on the day of the date thereof a Commissioner of Deeds of Montgomery County, & duly authorized to act as such, and that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of the said Commissioner & verily believe that his name subscribed to the within affidavit is his own proper hand writing. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 19th day of September 1832. 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson 

And I do further certify in addition to the above certificate that Solomon Sander Jun. whose name is subscribed to the Certificate of Character of George Waggoner the within deponent, is the same Solomon Sanders mentioned in the above certificate & that he now is & hath been ever since the taking of the affadavit of said George Waggoner, a Commissioner of Deeds in & for the said County, & that I verily believe that the name of said Commissioner subscribed to the Certificate of Character of said George Waggoner is his genuine hand writing 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 16th July 1833 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson

15947
Jacob Waggoner's Pension paper
1.37

admd.
18 mo. 6 ds pri
Certificate to be computed from 4 mar ’31 to 5 may 1833 & issued to Salome Wagener widow of Jacob Wagener decd.
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Jacob Waggoner 
W. 22528 
The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim for pension, W. 22528, based upon the military service of Jacob Waggoner in that war. 
Jacob Waggoner was born February 21, 1762, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
While residing at Canajoharie, New York, he enlisted in 1778, and served at various times at the forts and on scouting parties against the Indians on the frontiers, until November, 1782, about eighteen months in all, as a private under Lieutenants Godlip Snyder and Jacob Snyder, Captains Jacob Diefendorff, John Bigbread and John Denney, Colonels Samuel Clyde, Dayton, Marinus Willett and Udney Hay, having been placed under the last named officer while on duty at Fishkill. During one tour, he served as a substitute for his brother, George Waggoner, when the latter was taken sick. Jacob Waggoner was in the battles of Johnstown and West Canada Creek, where the Tory, Colonel Butler was killed. 
Pension was allowed on his application executed September 19, 1832, at which time he was a resident of Minden, Montgomery County, New York. 
He died May 5, 1833, at Minden, New York. 
The soldier married July 6, 1783, in a block house, near the stone church, in Palatine, Montgomery County, New York, Salome Cronnern. She was born April 14, 1763. 
Soldier's widow, Salome, was allowed pension on her application executed April 22, 1840, while residing in Danube, Herkimer County, New York. 
They had the following children: 
Christina born February 23, 1784.
Elizabeth born December 25, 1786.
Maria born October 22, 1788.
Jacob born April 8, 1791.
Anna born July 27, 1793.

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Family data of Jacob and Salome Waggoner continued:
Abraham born May 6, 1798.
Felix born February 25, 1802.
John born May 22, 1804.
Nensi (Hall) born October 25, 1805.
Son Abraham I. Waggoner was living in Danube, Herkimer County, New York, in 1840, and then stated that he married in the fall of 1819, but did not give the name of his wife. 
Mrs. Elizabeth Shaul, a sister of the widow, Salome Waggoner, was born December 25, 1762, and in 1840, was living in Herkimer County, New York. 
Very truly yours
A. D. HILLER 
Assistant to Administrator.

Date of widow’s death not on AB

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Rev WIDOW, &c. 
File No. 22528 
Salome Waggoner 
widow of Jacob Waggoner 
Pri Rev War 
Act: July 7th 38 
Index: - Vol. M, Page 313 
{Arrangement of 1870.} 

1932 - May 12 Hist to Hon Chas. A Kading
Letter in case of Geo. Waggoner S.23989 [initials]
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Albany 5524 
Salome Waggoner widow of Jacob Waggner N. Y. who was a pensioner under the Act of June 1832 and who died on the 5 May 1833 of Herkimer Co. in the State of N. York who was a Private in the company commanded by Captain Deifendorf of the Regt. commanded by Col. Clyde in the N. York line for 18 months & 6 days 

Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 60 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836. 

Certificate of Pension issued the 18th day of June 1840 and sent to Hon. J. H. Prentiss House of Representatives 

Arrears to the 4th of March 1840 242.64 
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 Sepr  30.33 
$272.97 
{Act July 7, 1838.}
Recorded by D. Brown Clerk, 
Book A. Vol. 2. Page 110

Date of death not on AB
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6993. 
NY
Suspended 
Let. to Hon J. H. Prentiss May 8th 1840

Act 7, July ‘38
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Revo.
Act 7 June 1832 
Jacob Waggoner 
Suspended 
See letter to H. Adams Fort Plain N.Y. 31. Oct 1833 
See let to Hon C. McVean May 10. 1834
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Jno. H. Prentiss
M.C.

J. L. Edwards, Esq. 
Comr. of Pensions
Washington

June 17 1840
NY

Hon J. H. Prentiss
HR
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House of Reps 
Jun 16, 1840.
J. L. Edwards
Sir:
The enclosed afft. has referred to a case submitted to you sometime since. You required further proof of marriage, which is here made out in the interest of the widow of the applicant for a pension.
Respectfully &c.
[signed] J. H. Prentiss
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Jacob Waggoners Widow 
pension paper
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The People of the State of New York, by the Grace of God Free and Independent: To all to whom these presents shall come or may concern Send Greeting: 
Know Ye, that at a Court of Common Pleas held at the Court house in Johnstown in & for the County of Montgomery in the State of New York on the 20th December 1833. before the Hon. Abraham Morrell, David Spraker Samuel A. Gilbert, Henry J. Deifendorff & John Hand Esquires, Judges of the said Court, personally appeared Henry Adams & Henry R. Smith, two reputable inhabitants of the town of Minden in said County and they being duly sworn, did depose & say that Jacob Waggoner, late a resident of the said town of Minden, a reputed Soldier of the Revolution, & an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of 7th June 1832, departed this life on or about the 5th day of May 1833, at the said town of Minden leaving his wife Salome Waggoner, him surviving, & that she now resides in the town last mentioned. 
And the said Henry Adams further saith that he is the person who drew up the application of the said Jacob for a pension & that the said application was sworn to before the Court of Common Pleas of said county at the September term thereof in 1832, & that he believes a certificate has not been issued to the said Jacob in consequence of information having been given to the Pension department of the decease of the said Jacob before it was determined that he was entitled to a pension. And the said Court certifies that the evidence was in all respects satisfactory to said Court. 
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this 20th day of December 1833. 
[signed] Geo: D. Ferguson, Clerk
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Philadelphia Pa Sept. 24th 1898 
Sir.
Will you please acknowledge this record of my great grandfather Jacob Waggoner. To allow me to join the Daughters of the Revolution. 
Respety Yours.
Hannah E Altemus.

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE SEP 26 1898

Bad address but take a chance
FW.

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Jacob Waggoner whose son was George W. Waggoner whose daughter was Mary Ann Waggoner Eyre, whose daughter I am. Hannah Eyre Altemus.
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Jacob Waggoner, who inlisted May 14th 1777 - 1781. Private. Second Pennsylvania troops. Continental line from Pennsylvania. In the war of the Revolution. Vol. I page 449.

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U.S. PENSION OFFICE. SEP 26 1898