Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 3179, William Dygert, New York

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Service: New York

Dygert, William
Anna

Number: R. 3179

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Copy of family record.

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William Dygert is my name and hand; my life lies in the hands of our Lord, and am born in the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. 1750, on the 7th day of December.
In the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1763 on the 6th of December my wife Ann was born, and in the year of our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ 1782 on the 19th May I entered with her in the holy state of matrimony at Albany.  We were joined by the Rev. [Reverand] M. Gross.

I got with her a daughter on the year A. D. 1783 on the 3rd of April. she was named Elisabeth, the withnesses were Wm [William] Dygart and his wife Margaret.

In the year of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ  1784, on the 27th of June a son was born unto me. his name was William.the witnesses were Andrew Clessattel and his wife Maria.

In 1786 on the 15th of January, a daughter was born unto me her name was Dorothea, the witnesses were Pitter W. Dygart and Margaret [crossed out: Lo] Bomen.

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In 1787 on the 19th of December a son was born unto 
me, his name was Abraham, and the witnesses
were Adam Staring and his wife Catherine. 
In 1789, on the 6th of December, a son was born
unto me, his name was Henry, the witnesses were 
Marx Crantz and his wife Catherine. 
In 1792, on the 12th of January, a son was born unto me, 
his name was John the witnesses were John Bohm 
and his wife Margaret.
In 1795 on the 12th of February, a daughter was
born unto me, her name was Ann, the witnesses
were John Demuth(?) and his wife Elisa.
In 1797 on the 3rd of MArch, a son was born unto 
me, his name was George. the witnesses were George 
Dygert and his wife Catherine. 
May the Lord give you a good sense and (illegible)
science, and may his lifesong(?) be with you. 
The Lord may raise his Face to you and 
give you Peace. Amen. Jesus Christ Amen.

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(A)
William Dygert Ist mein Namen und hand, mein leben stehet in Gottes Hand, bin Geborenin jahr unsers Herren und Heilante Jesu Christi 1750
den 7ten December. Und in jahr unsers Herren Jesu christi 1763 den 6 December ist mein frau Anna zur welt gebornen, und in jahr unsers Herren und Heilander Jesu christi 1782 der 19 den May aus pfingsten in Albani habe ich mich mit jhr in den Heiligen Ehstrand Cegeben und getraut. Veir dem Herren Pfarren Grose.
Und habe mit jhr gezeigel jhm jahr Jesu christi 1783 den 3den April ein Daechterlein Elisabeth, die taufzeier [illegible] Wilhelm Dygert und seine frau Margaret
2

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[German] 
Johnes werd Herman Heilana
Christe 176{?) den 17 Juni ist mir ein [illegible]
Wilham Zurwelt gelehren die [illegible] [illegible] sind  Andreas Clepansatter une [illegible] 47 [illegible] den 15  Januari ist mir ein [illegible] zur welt gebohren Loredea die  [illegible] sind Bitter W. Bygent und [illegible] [illegible] zur welt geborhren Abraham [ilegible] [illegible] Adam Staging [illegible] ein [illegible] 4789 6 December ist mir [illegible] Heinrich zum welt gebohren die [illegible] sind Marx [illegible] und ein [illegible] Charlarina  1792 den 24 Januari ist mir ein [illegible] zur welt gebohren Johannes die taufzeigen sind Johan Bohm und sein frau Margareta 1795 den 12 Februari ist mir ein tauchter bein zum welt gebohren Anna die laugzeigen sind Johan Demuth sind ein frau Elisabad 1797 den ten Mertz Ishmin ein Soenbeing zur welt gebohren
Georgus die taufzeigen sind Georgus [illegible] und sein frau Chatarina Der Herr las  leichten  sein angesecht leben, Euch und Sein Euch geradige ser Herr Erhebe Sein angesecht aber Euch und gebe Euch seinen Fidan Amen.
Herr Jesu Amen

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State of New York
Herkimer County
On this 19th day of December
1842 personally appeared before me John B.
Dygert esquire a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Herkimer afore
said Anna Dygert aged Seventy nine years
on the sixth day of December 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 provisions
made by an act of Congress passed July 4
1836 and the acts amending or in addition
thereto for giving relief in such cases
that she is the widow of William
Dygert late of the town of Frankfort
in said County of Herkimer deceased
who was a part of the time a private
and a part of the time a Sergeant and as
she was informed & belives orderly Sergent
in the militia of the State of New York in the
Service of the United States from time
to time during the Revolutionary war
that she resided during said war at
a place called Normans Kill about two
miles out of the City ^of Albany within the County
of Albany in said State,
that her husband as he was in
formed and believes true resided until
between two & three years before the close
of said war on the German flatts near
the Mohawk River and at the Easterly end
of what is now the town of Frankfort
in the County of Herkimer aforesaid
that between two and three years
before the close of said war her said husband
and his fathers family as she was informed
and believes true in consequence of the

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common destruction of property including
their buildings by fire and driving off of horses
cattle & including theirs by the Tories & Indians [struck out text] and the danger of their lives went into Fort Dayton at the present cite of Herkimer Village in the County of Herkimer aforesaid for protection and remained there for a short time and until they
were under the necesity of looking for
provisions in some other quarter having
lived by hunting fishing for a time and
it being unsafe to work in the fields without
a guard and expensive in addition they left
said Fort and come to the residence of
her father at [Starmone Hill? Sharmon Kill?] aforesaid when & where the first become acquainted with her said husband, that while
he and his fathers family resided at or
near her fathers at [Morrsons Kill? Morissons Hill?] aforesaid and before she and her husband there married he was called upon 
and went into the service of the said
State against the common Enemy
and to protect the frontier on several
occasions, but to what particular place
or places he went she does not recollect
though she thinks he went on to Saratoga
and one or more times to Ticonderoga
that his regular captain was Turis [Slingerland?] and he generally went out under
him though not always, that she was
personally acquainted with said Slingerland and knew Gen Philip Schuyler
under whom she understood & belives
Captn [Captain] Slingerlands company including her
husband served, that said Service was
performed north & west of the City of Albany

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that she does not recollect the name of
any other commisioned officer having
command on the occations aforesaid

That after she was married to her
said husband and in or about the months
of September or October of that year she has
a distinct recollection that her husband
her father Abraham [Boor? Boornard?] and her hushands brother George Dygert were called
out and went into the service of the
United States under said Captain Slingerbaum
that the Service on this occasion was performed at or near Stillwater and was
to meet and drive back the enemy, that they
were absent on this occasion between
a week and a fortnight, that they took
provisions with them but were detained
longer than they expected to be and [ran out?]
of provisions and came home much
exhausted on that account and remarked
that they had succeeded in getting some
[pudding?] and milk to eat at a house but on
attempting to eat it they found pollywogs
in it and were therefore unable to
eat it or much of it and started on their
by towards home atter paying a good
round price for their meal, that they
were unable to get any thing
Else to eat Except fruit until they got so
near home that they thought they would
travel on until they got home before
making another attempt to obtain a meal
that on this occasion they were warned
out by a person by the name of Christian
Ornhout in a great hurry, that there
were a great many other men went
out at the same time. She thinks orn-

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hout was a noncommissioned officer
and she ^is sure he was a corporal. That on this occasion
Capt. Slingerland was feeble and was fearful that he had the consumption and wanted her husband to take his place and offered to resign so as to give it to him but he declined and went out with a musket. That her recollection that her husband went into said service on the occasion aforesaid after they were married is strengthened and fortified by the fact of her perilous situation at the time in respect to her eldest daughter Elizabeth who was born on the third day of April 1783 and he
consequent feeling anxiety and apprehensions on that occasion on account of her situation and the absence of her husband in said service, and that at the time when he was called into said service they were building a house to go into and that in consequence of such absence it become late in the season
before they got into it.
That in the spring following when her
said daughter was but nine weeks old
they removed to the former residence
of her husband and all the buildings on
the farm & other buildings in that neighbor
hood, except Tory houses and an old log house on said farm which had been used for a
stable having been burnt they went
to said old log house and found ^a fire brand in it and the floor covered for nearly as quite a foot thick with mud & manure ^which probably had saved it from burning and owing
to the feeble State of her health they made
up a bed in the orchard and laid her on
it where she remained until they had cleared out said log house where they remo=

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and her into it that said house was near a
landing place on the Mohawk River and
when Genl Washington was afterwards proceeding down said river he landed there and
she see him, that she has no documentary
resident of said service of her said
husband, though during his lifetime
she frequently heard him relate the
particulars of said service and much
other of his service during said war
with which she was unacquainted other
wise than from information, that she
frequently [^^illegible] during the life time of her
said husband heard him give the reason
why his and his fathers buildings were the
first that were burnt by the enemy in
that neighborhood it was that at the
commencement of the Revolutionary
war his father living near the same
place held a captains commission under the
King and being called in force by Sir Wm
Johnson to enter the Kings service he declined
and sent to Sir Wm his resignation which
rendered him ^and his descendants particularly obnoxious to
the Tory party and they therefore seemed to
have aimed to destroy his fathers
and his descendants property in revenge
for his disloyalty to the King on aid to the
whig cause
She further declares that she was
married to her said husband the said William
Dygert on the 19th day of May 1782 at the
City of Albany by the Revd Mr Grose, that
her husband the aforesaid William Dygert
died on the 26 day of June 1818 and that
she has remained a widow ever since
that period as will more fully appear
by reference to the [illegible] & I annexed , that her

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said marriage was Solemnized in the
presence of her father and mother
and Sisters Elizabeth & Catharine and her
husbands father and mother and his
brother George and Sister Elizabeth but
they are all dead and there is no evidence
of her said marriage in existence within
her knowledge or belief save the leaf
from the record thereof and other matters
kept by her said husband in his own hand
writing which has is hereto annexed
marked (A) and further she saith not
Subscribed & Sworn
the 19th day of December 1842
before me     Anna her X mark Dygert
John Dygert, Judge Herkimer County Courts

Herkimer County: I certify that I am well acquainted with the [illegible] named Anna
Dygert ^who is my mother and that she is a credible lady and
that she is unable to come bodily informing
to attend court. dated December  19th 1842
John B Dygert, Judge Herkimer
County Courts


In the matter of 
Anna Dygert
Pension Papers


Direct to Judd & Holmes
Frankfort
Herkimer Co.
N. York

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In the matter of
Anna Dygert
pension papers

Direct to 
Judd & Holmes
Frankfort
Herkimer Co.
N. York

[illegible]
dated December 19th 1842
John B Dygert, Judge Herkimer 
County Court

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179
P.O. Anna Dygert
Service: widow of Wm

Enlisted:__18
Discharged:__18

Application filed: __18

The printed list of 1852 gives cause of rejection as "he did not serve six months"

Attorney:__
P.O.___
____Recognized.___ Contract.
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____18


1926 Jan 14 Photos mailed at Frank D Deiel, 15 Keyes Ave, Schenectady N.Y. (sic receipt for payment to Severinus Deygert S 23208) aw

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3179
P.O. Anna Dygert
Service: widow of Wm

Enlisted:__18
Discharged:__18

Application filed: __18

The printed list of 1852 gives cause of rejection as "he did not serve six months"

Attorney:__
P.O.___
____Recognized.___ Contract.
___Cert. of Dis.  Searched for ____18


1926 Jan 14 Photos mailed at Frank D Deiel, 15 Keyes Ave, Schenectady N.Y. (sic receipt for payment to Severinus Deygert S 23208) aw

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No 57350

Anna Dygert
N York
Rejected
See letter to claimant
March 1st 1843
ditto Judd & Holmes, Mar 1843
John Hogan Nov 1846
Hon. B. Perkins 8th Jun 1854
Act 4th July 1836

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House of Representatives
June 3rd 1854
Hon L. P. Waldo
Comr &c
Herewith I inclose
a letter from Ely
Y Marsh
and beg you will do
me the favor to
give Marsh
a fitting answer to his
letter or enable me to do so
Truly Yours Perkins

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Request for Photostating 3-2006
(To be prepared in duplicate.) Ex. AW

2885 OFFICE OF THE CHIEF CLERK
Job No._____  Date Jan 9, 1926
Subject Wm Dygert  Rw. R3179
1 copies of 3 pieces consisting of 10 pages to be
forwarded when completed to the Rw & 1812 Wars Sect
Remarks: See receipt for payment in Severinus Dygert
Approved:S 23208
ME Wilson
Chief Sect

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My Report
Omit if
copied
rejection letters
any not proved
that he was
either of the persons
named herein

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Jno Hogan
Nov 6 46

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Pension Office
Nov 6 1846
Sir
In answer to your inquiry
respecting the case of Mrs Anna
Dygert, an applicant for a pension
under the act of July 4, 1836, I
have to inform you that her claim
was rejected on the 1st of March
1843, for reasons assigned in a letter
of that date, addressed to her of which
the enclosed is a copy
John Hogan, Esq
Utica
N. York

5735 NY Act
July 4. 1836 rejd

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Oct 26/46

Recd
Ann Dygert

Hon James L Edwards
Comissioner Pensions
Washington City
D.C.

Anna Dygert
NY not adm

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Utica N.Y. Oct 22d 1846
J. L. Edwards Esq
Sir
On or about the 22d December 1842
G.B. Judd Esq. of Frankfort Herkimer County for'd
to the pension Office the papers in the case of Anna
Dygerts application for pension. She claims pension
for the Revolutionary service of her deceased
husband William Dygert Jr
The object of the present inquiry is, I wish to
ascertain in what respect the papers forward to
the pension Office by Judd were defective whether
they failed to prove the Marriage of Dygert of his service. Mr Judd the Atty who done the business recor
of receiving from the Commissioner of Pensions a letter
stating the reasons why the claim was not allowed
also where the proof was defective, but that letter has
been lost, & for the last two years the claim has lay
dormant, Therefore will the Commissoner be so kind as
to give the desired information & an early compliance
with my request will oblige
John Hogan

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Mar 6 1843

J.L. Edwards Esqr
Commissioner of
Pensions Washington City
D.C.

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In the matter of
Anna Dygert 
for a pension
Dear Sir
On the 23d Dec last we forwarded to
you papers in this matter, since which time we have heard
nothing from it. Will you be good enough to inform us if the
papers have been recd and what has been done  in the
premises

Yours Respectfully
Judd Holmes

Frankfort ^ N.Y.  March 1. 1843.

J L Edwards
Court Pensions Washington City

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Anna Dygert
March 1st 1843

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Pension Office
March 1st 1843
Sir,
The papers in the case of Anna Dygert,
widow of William Dygert deceased, 
claiming a pension under the act of July 6
1836, have been received and placed on
file in this office. The Declaration fails
to specify the services rendered and the
date thereof with the exactness required
by the Regulations of the Department nor
does it furnish the necessary proofs of the
marriage and of the period at which it
took place. Moreover admitting the whole
of the services set forth in the certificate
of the Comptroller transmitted with the
Declaration, which seems to have been performed by two different individuals, William
Dygert and William Dygert Jr the
it a private and the second a sergent;
the entire time is not sufficient to
bring the case with the provisions of the
law which requires six months, at least,
to entitle the claimant to a pension
For the above reasons the claim is rejected

Mrs Anna Dygert
Frankfort
N York

Enter on Reg
No 5735
Act 4th July 1836

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Judd & Holmes
March 8 1843

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Pension Office
Mar 8 1843

Gentlemen
In answer to your letter of the
1st inst. respecting the case of Mrs
Anna Dygert,I have to inform you
that the claim was on that day
examined and the result inadvertently
communicated to the Claimant. Enclosed
herewith is a copy of the letter
Messrs Judd & Holmes
Frankfort
N. York

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Pension Office
8th June 1854
Sir,
The letter of Mr Ely T. Marsh
in relation to the claim of Anna
Dygert decd widow of William of
New York, has been received, and
is herewith returned
The objection to this case
consists in the fact that Williams
services have not been established.
The amount of service shown by the
certificate of the Comptroller of New York
does not amount to six months
Nor is William identified with it.

Hon. Bishop Perkins
House of Reps

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In pursuance of a law passed the 27th of April, 1784, entitled "An act for the settlement of the pay of the Levies and Militia, for their services in the late War, and for other purposes therein mentioned, "the following certificates have
been issued, bearing interest at five per cent per annum, viz:
1779 August 6 1352 William Dygert Pri 1 3 1/4
1779 Decr 31   1506 William Dygert "   0 5 4
1780 Augst 31 1190 William Dygert Jr Segt 2 13 4
1779 Novr 7  1693 William Dygert Jun " 1 4 0
1781 Novr 7 29.242 Wm Tygert Pri 1 5 7 1/3
1781 Oct 28 ┃ 29 257 Wm Tygert " 1 5 7 

State of New York'
Comptroller's Office, Albany, Oct 18 - 1841
I hereby certify the above to be true extracts from Book No. 146 now remaining in this office, and that the service for which the certificates above names were issued, were performed under the following officers, viz: 

First - under Capt. John Wess in Col. Jacob Klock
Regt 
Second, " " Henry Miller " " Jacob Klock Regt.
Third, " " John Breadbake " " Jacob Klock "
Fourth, " " John Zielis " " Jacob Klock "
Fifth, " " Teunis Slingerlandt " " Philip P. Schuyler "
Sixth, " " Teunis Slingerlandt " " Philip P. Schuyler "




W H Treadway
Dep Comptroller

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State of New York
Herkimer County
William W Dygert of Frankfort in said 
county being duly sworn deposeth and
saith that he is well acquainted with
the hand writing of his deceased father William
Dygert and in his life time knew the record
contained on the leaf hereto [illegible] is marked
A and that said record is in the hand writing
of his father and is his fathers family
record and that he has known it as long
as he can remember ^ his fathers hand writing and that he is now
upwards of fifty Eight years of age, that
Anna Dygert the mother of this deponent
is now a widow and has remained
so ever since the death of his father, that
this deponents grandfather Dygerts name was
William Dygert, and that the name Dygert
was formely frequently written Tygert
and further saith not
Wm W Dygert
Subscribed & sworn
the 19th day of December 1842
Before me
John B Dygert, Judge Herkimer County Courts

Herkimer county; I certify that the above
named William W. Dygert is my brother
and that he is a credible person
dated December 19th 1842
John B Dygert, Judge Herkimer
County Courts

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5735
in the matter of
Ann Dygert
Pension Papers
---
Direct to
Judd & Holmes
Frankfort
Herkimer Co.
N.York
3179
---
Herkimer County
I certify that the above
named William W Dygert is my brother
and that he is a credible person
dated December 19th 1842
John B Dygert, Judge Herkimer
County Courts

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State of New York
Herkimer County SS Andrew Piper of the town of Frankfort
County & State aforesaid being duly sworn
deposes and says that he was well acquainted with William Dygert late of Frankfort deceased
that said Dygert was a soldier in the war of
the Revolution in the company of our Captain
Frederick Getman in the Regiment of Colonel
Peter Bellinger and as this deponent now
recollects held the rank of Orderly Sargent in
said Company and this deponent further
says that he was present at the battle of
Oriskany & knew of the said William Dygerts
being engaged in the same Battle and also
that he knows of said William Dygert being
engaged in divers other services during the war
of the Revolution but in what situation or
under what commanders this deponent is
unable to state owing to the great length of time
which has intervened between that day & the present
Subscribed & Sworn before me
this 9th day of September 1840
Andrew his X mark Piper
John B Dygert Judge
Herkimer County Courts

State of New York
Herkimer County SS
I certify that I am well acquainted with
Andrew Piper the individual who has subscribed
& Sworn to the above affidavit & that I know him to be a person of great respectibility & whose statements are entitled to full credit & belief
John B Dygert Judge Herkimer
County Court

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State of New York
Herkimer County, William W. Dygert
of Frankfort in said county being duly Sworn
according to law deposeth and saith that
Anna Dygert who has subscribed & Sworn
to the annexed pension application is his
mother and that she is the widow of this
deponents father William Dygert and has
remained a widow ever since his death
Subscribed & Sworn
the ___ day of December 1842
Before me

Herkimer County: I certify that I am well
acquainted with the aforenamed named William W Dygert and that he is a credible person
[illegible] December 1842

State of New York
Herkimer County
I certify that John B Dygert Esq
before whom the foregoing affidavits
purports to have been sworn was on the
days of the date then of a [illegible] of the
Herkimer County Courts duly Elected and
qualified & further that I am well acquainted
with his hand writing [illegible] believe the three 
[illegible] within signature purporting to be his are genuine.
Witness my hand seal of the County Dec 21 1842.
E.A. Munson Clerk