Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 2,579, Emanuel Waggerman, New York

SERVICE
New York
NUMBER
Waggoner Emanuel Cummings, Rachel Former widow
R 2579
CONTENTS

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Wagerman, Emant
His name appears on a list of applicants for invalid pension returned by the District Court for the District of New York, submitted to the House of Representatives by the Secretary of War on April 25, 1794, and printed in the American State Papers, class 9, page 95.
Rank: Private.
Regt: Colonel Gansevoort's.
Disability: Wounded through his left hip by the accidental discharge of a musket.
When and where disabled: July, 1777, Mohawk river.
Residence: Montgomery county.
Remarks: Enlisted April 18, 1777; continued to the end.
Evidence transmitted by the District Court incomplete, viz: Physicians certify the wound is of very little consequence. As to a continuance of his disability for two years after he left the service.

State of New York Jefferson County } ss.
On this Twenty fourth day of April One thousand Eight hundred and forty personally appeared before me, Eldridge G. Merick, a judge of the Court of Common Pleas of said County, Rachael Cummings a resident of Syme in said County aged Seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on her Oath make the following Declaration (in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed July 7 th 1838 entitled "An Act granting half pay and Pensions to certain Widows") — That she is the Widow of Emanuel Waggerman, who was a private in the Third New York Regiment in the Revolutionary War, — that he enlisted the Eighteenth day of April Seventeen hundred and seventy seven, and that he remained in the Service to the close of said War; — the latter part of the time in the First New York Regiment, in Capt Bleechers Company; — that he was at the Taking of Lord Cornwallis, and was one of a party engaged in Storming one of the Enemys Redoubts: — He was also in several other Engagements, and was wounded by the accidental discharge of a Musket while going on Express from Fort Stanwix to Schenectady. — She further declares that she was Married to the said Waggerman on the Fifth day of December in the year Seventeen hundred and Eighty four and that her Husband, the aforesaid Waggerman, died on the Twenty second day of March in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety eight — 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 t at the time above stated: — She further Declares that she was again Married on or about the Fifteenth day of January in the year 1802 to Stephen Cummings, and that he the said Cummings died at or near Canwell in Upper Canada on the Seventh day of October in the year 1811 and that she now remains his Widow Sworn to and subscribed the day and Year first above written.
Rachael Cummings mark
Eldridge Merick Judge

I hereby Certify that Rachel Cummings, the person making the within Affidavit, resides about Twenty four Miles from Watertown the place where the Courts of said County of Jefferson are held, and is too infirm to ride that distance to appear before the Court. Dated this Twenty fourth day of April Eighteen hundred and forty. H.
Egbert Judge
State of New York Jefferson County
On this Twenty fourth day of April 1840 personally appeared before me Eldridge G. Morris a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in said County, Elizabeth Estes of Clayton in said County and State who being duly Sworn deposeth and saith that she well recollects the death of her Father Emanuel Waggeman the person referred to in the within Affidavit of Rachael Cummings. That the decease of said Waggeman took place at his own house in the Town of Mannheim Montgomery County & State aforesaid - in March in the year Seventeen hundred and ninety eight - she cannot recollect the precise or exact day of the month but thinks about the Twentieth - She further saith that she was Nine years old at the time her Father died and has a perfect recollection of the circumstances -
Sworn and Subscribed before me the day and year first above written. H.
Elizabeth Estes
Eg. Morris Judge
I Certify that I am well acquainted with Elizabeth Estes the above named Deponent - Her Character for Truth and veracity is good and her Statements may be relied on as correct - Dated this 24 day of April 1840.
Egbert Judge

STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss. JEFFERSON COUNTY, }
I, Daniel Lee , Clerk of the County of Jefferson, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Oldridge G. Merrick whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Judge  in and for said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Judge and verily believe that the signature to the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 2 nd day of March 1841
Daniel Lee Clerk.

Eastern District } Before me Alexander McKenzie Esq. Upper Canada } one of Her Majesty's Justices of the peace in said District personally appeared Sophia Dugval who being duly sworn on the Holy Evangelist of Almighty God deposed and saith that Stephen Cumming died at the house of John Dugval of the Township of Charlottenburg her father on the sixth day of October 1810 Sworn before me at Glangary Sophia Mc Bain this sixth day of July 1840 Alex d McKenzie Esq.
I know Sophia Mc Bain to be respectable And the above affidavit is to be relied upon Alexander Fraser S.P. and Col. Commanding 1 st Regt Glengary Militia
I do hereby certify that the above affidavit was taken by Sophia Mc Bain before Alexander McKenzie residing at Williamstown in the County of Glengary in the Eastern District of the Province of Upper Canada who has been for many years a Justice of Peace for the said County and Eastern District and may be relied on as valid. Given under my hand at Coomall this 9 th day of February 1841
James Pringle Clerk of the Peace Eastern District of Upper Canada

Mr John B Egelstine
18
Millinsbay.
N.Y.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
2579.
RECEIVED
P. O.
Rachel Cummings
Service: Former widow of (wife) Emanuel Waggerman
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract
_____ Cert. of Dis. Searched for _____, 18

No. 7742. Let. to O. Hoxingerford. Apl. 30. 1841. Bond. Sep. 22. 1842. V
2579
Act 7 July. 1838.

Emanuel Waggoner '98
Rachel M. 1784
Lafayette 1802.

Sept 22. 1842
My Dear
Hon. J. L. Edwards Comm. of Pensions Washington
Sumner H.

Watertown N.Y. Sept. 17 1842
Sir
I believe the law of Aug. 2 3 embraces the case of Rachel Cummings I sent you March 2 1841 and replied to by you April 20 '41. Be pleased to give your attention to her application.
Respectfully yours (Hunsford)
J L Edwards Esq Comr. of Pensions

7742 Rachel Cummings Mtd of Em. Waggman NY Ad July 7 1838

Watertown N.Y. March 2 1841
Sir I enclose the application of Rachael Cummings for a pension. — I notice the clerk of Eastern dist. U.S. has omitted to affix a seal to his C.f. but as Mrs Cummings has been nearly as successful in obtaining this part of her evidence I hope it may prove satisfactory, especially as there is no possible doubt about his death.
Yours respectfully O. Hungerford
Hon. S. L. Edwards Comm. Pensions

Brownville Village of Dexter March 18 1840
Personally appeared before me Mrs Mary Wood who being duly sworn deposes and says that she the deponent well knew Rachel Herron before she was married and that she the deponent was present at her marriage with Emanuel Daggerman that she the said Rachel Herron and the said Emanuel Daggerman were married in the City of Philadelphia State of New York on the 20 th day of December An Thousand Eight Hundred and Eighty Four
and that she the deponent is in her seventy  seventy  third  fourth year
Subscribed & sworn to the 18 th day March 1840 before me J. D. Beall, Justice of the Peace for the Town of Brownville Co. of Jefferson St. of New York.
Mary Wood
I do hereby certify that from the knowledge I have been able to obtain as to the character of the above Deponent as to truth & veracity & from the facts of her having a strong memory & of being able to state the place & date of things that have transpired I have no doubt of her statement as above
Joseph D. Beall Justice of the Peace
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STATE OF NEW-YORK, JEFFERSON COUNTY, } ss.
I, Daniel Lee , Clerk of the County of Jefferson, and also Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for said County, DO HEREBY CERTIFY, That Joseph D. Bealls whose name is subscribed to the certificate of the proof or acknowledgment of the annexed instrument, and thereon written, was, at the time of taking such proof or acknowledgment, a Justice of the Peace for said County, commissioned and sworn, and duly authorised to take the same. And further, that I am well acquainted with the hand writing of such Justice and verily believe that the signature of the said certificate of proof or acknowledgment is genuine.
IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court and County, the 2 nd day of March 1841
Daniel Lee Clerk.

183 John B. Gosselstyn Esq Town of Lyme Jefferson Co. Millers Bay P.O. N. Y.
John

State of New York Secretary's office
I certify that it appears by the Military Register in this office that Emanuel Waggerman Enlisted as a Soldier in the 3 d New York Regiment on the 18 th of April 1777 to serve during the War of the Revolution and that he was mustered to the end of the War. And I further certify that it appears by the balloting book of the Commissioners of the Land office in this office that Emanuel Waggerman was in the first New York Regiment at the close of the said War and that a Lot of Land in the Military Tract in this State was granted to him as bounty land (See printed Balloting book page 34) He was in Capt Blocher's Company at the close of the War.
Albany Feb. 7. 1840
Arch d Campbell Dep. Secretary
(The name is Waggerman & not Waggonman)

BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD*
NAME Waggerman, George GRADE Private LINE New York
WARRANT NUMBER 7999 ACREAGE 100 ISSUED July 10, 1790 to John Quackenboss, assignee
*The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800. Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives.