Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 4421, Henry Hagaman, New Jersey

SERVICE
NUMBER
New Jersey
Hagaman, Henry Hagaman, Lydia
R 4421
or
Hagerman
B.L.Wt. 13198-160-55-
CONTENTS

47342 } Act Mar 3/55 Rec Apr 7/55
let to H.6. Walker Sept 12/55
Lydia Hagerman mid of
Henry Hagerman private.
beat Gordon } April
N. J. Spil.
Jan Revolution
10:168 acres Dec 21/55 10 29 9 49 998'
20 Bayton
H. Walker Munda Sionle N.J.
Vol. Her 14.

in the year 1761 Henry Chapman was born July the first in the year 1771 Lydia Chapman was born March the 22 and 16 was Martha in the year 1794 March the 21 in the year 1795 Mary Mary was born October in the year 1798 Peter ... was born April the 22 Sally ... Born ... 1800 ... first ...

988 Declaration, &c. of Sydia Hageman, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress, of July 29, 1848.
Mason G. Smith, Agent,
Perry, Wyoming Co. N. Y.

State of New York, } County of Livingston, }
Barney Hagaman, of the town of Hunda, in said county, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is a son of Henry Hagaman, who was the husband of Lydia Haga- man, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of July 29 th , 1848; That the said Henry Hagaman died in the town of Mount Morris in said county, on the 4 th day of January, 1838, that this deponent was present, and saw him after his decease, and attended his funeral. That this deponent is well acquainted with the family record referred to in the declaration of the said Lydia Hagaman, that the same is in the hand writing of the said Henry Haga- man, and is a genuine, original family record,
Sworn to, and subscribed, before me, this 21 st day of January, 1851; - And I certify the deponent to be a person of credibility.
Barney Hagaman
W. T. H. Hammond Justice of the Peace

State of New York, ss. County of Livingston, ss.
Barney Hageman, of the town of Nunda, in said County, being duly sworn, deposes and says, that he is a son of Henry Hageman, who was the husband of Lydia Hageman, who is an applicant for a pension under the act of Congress of July 29th, 1848; That the said Henry Hageman died in the town of Mount Morris in said County, on the 4th day of January, 1838, that this deponent was present, and saw him after his decease, and attended his funeral. That this deponent is well acquainted with the family record referred to in the declaration of the said Lydia Hageman, that the same is in the hand writing of the said Henry Hageman, and is a genuine, original family record,
Sworn to, and subscribed, before me, this 21 st day of January, 1851; - And I certify the deponent to be a person of credibility.
Barney Hageman
STATE OF NEW-YORK, } ss.
LIVINGSTON COUNTY CLERK'S OFFICE, } ss.
I CERTIFY, That
William G. Hammond
Esquire, was, at the date of the foregoing or annexed affidavit, a
Justice of the Peace
In and for said County, duly qualified and authorized to take the same: that I am well acquainted with his hand-writing, and verily believe that the signature of said Justice to the jurat thereto is genuine.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal of said County, this 21 st day of Jany A. D. 1851
J. D. Root Clerk. of said
County & the Courts thereof.

Declaration of Lydia Ha- gaman, for the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act of Congress, of July 29th, 1848.
Mason G. Smith, Agent,
Perry, Wyoming Co. N. York.

State of New York, County of Livingston, ss.
On this 21st day of January, A.D. 1851, before the Supreme Court of said state, holden at Geneseo, in and for the county aforesaid, personally appeared Lydia Haganan, a resident of the town of Nunda, in the county and state aforesaid, aged Seventy-eight years, who being duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress, passed July 29, 1848, entitled, "An act for the relief of certain surviving widows of officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army." - That she is the widow of Henry Haganan, who was a private in the revolutionary army, and served in the Company commanded by Captain John Burrowes, in the 4th Regiment of New Jersey troops commanded by Colonel Oliver Spencer; - in the company commanded by Captain Gordan Gordan, and in a company commanded by another Captain, whose name is not recollected, in the before mentioned Regiment, or under Regimental officers, whose names are not known to this declarant, in the New Jersey line of the Continental Army. That the said Henry Haganan resided at Monmouth, in the state of New Jersey, when he entered the service; and, according to the best of her recollection, he engaged for two terms of six months each; that after he had served the said two terms, he engaged for one year, and was stationed at Woodbridge, in said state of New Jersey; - and then engaged for two years, during which

a part of which last mentioned term, he was placed in a mill at Monmouth, by order of his commanding officers, to grind for the army. That he was in the battle at Monmouth, and in a battle or skirmish at Woodbridge, or Blazing Star, in said State of New Jersey. That she has no documentary evidence in support of her claim, and is unable to state the precise periods when her husband, entered and left the service, in the several tours before mentioned. That her knowledge is also imperfect, in regard to the officers, particularly the regimental officers, under whom her husband served; but she knows that he entered the service in the State of New Jersey; and served under officers of that state, and at the places before mentioned.
She further declares, that she was married to the said Henry Hagaman, on the 21st day of March, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four, at Millstone, in said State of New Jersey, by Reverend John Vanhalor, a minister of the gospel. That she knows of no town, county, parish or church record of said marriage; but that she has a family record of the same, in her said husband's hand writing, made on a blank leaf of the family bible, many years ago, which has been in her possession since the decease of her said husband, and which is herewith presented. That her said husband, the aforesaid Henry Hagaman, died on the fourth day of January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. —

January, in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-eight. —
That she was not married to him prior to his leaving the service, but the marriage took place previous to the second day of January, eighteen hundred, viz. on the twenty-first day of March, seventeen hundred ninety-four, the time before stated. She further swears that she is now a widow, and that she has never before made any application for a pension.
Sworn to and subscribed Lydia Hagaman before me this 21 st day 1851 James S. O'Con Dep. clk. of Livingston County
State of New York, County of Livingston, } ss.
I, James S. O'Con Deputy Clerk of the said County of Livingston, and of the Courts of record held in and for the same, do hereby certify, that the before named Lydia Hagaman, this day appeared in open Court, before the Supreme Court of said State, now in session at Geneseo, in and for said County, and made, subscribed and swore to, the foregoing declaration, in presence of said Court.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my official seal, at Geneseo aforesaid, this 21 st day of January, 1851. James S. O'Con Dep. clk. of said County

47/342
Application of Henry Hagerman's Widow Leydia Hagerman for bounty, Land under Act of March 3. 1855
H. Chalker, Atty. Newark N.J.

State of New York Livingston County ss. }
On this 29 th day of March A.D. 1855 personally appeared before me a Justice of the peace within & for the County & State aforesaid Lydia Hagerman, aged 84 years a resident of Nunda in the said County & State who being duly sworn according to law declares that she is the Widow of Henry (Hank) Hagerman deceased who was a private in the New Jersey Militia in the Revolutionary War & was in the Battle at Monmouth in New Jersey, was in a company commanded by several Captains at different times one of whom was Capt. Gordon - that proof of the particular company & Regiment he was in, as also of the marriage of the applicant to him & of his decease & of his service is on file at the Pension Office in Washington under an application made by the said Lydia for a Pension about 3 years ago last January & under the application for the same made through James Street as attorney for the application two years ago last Fall, but which failed of procuring a pension - that proof of the length of said Henry's service is contained in the certificate of the Secretary of the State of New Jersey filed at Washington as aforesaid in the amount of pay to which said Henry was entitled, among other things - & this applicant refers to the said proof on file for

Substantiating the proper allegations in this behalf - that said Henry Hagerman died at Mt. Morris in said Livingston county 17 years ago the 25 th day of January last past - that the said Henry was honorably discharged from service, but at what time or place the applicant cannot now state - & she declares also that she is now a Widow - that she never made any application for bounty land previous to this & has never received a Warrant for bounty land under this or any other act of congress -
She makes this declaration & prays a reference may be had to the said proof on file for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which she may be entitled under the act approved March 3. 1855, & she hereby appoints H. Chaffin of said Munda her attorney to prosecute said claim & receive her Warrant therefor & she revokes any & every power of attorney heretofore given for or in reference to the same -
her Sydia Hagerman Mark Wm D. Hammond

We William Baylor & Barney Hagerman residents of Skane in the State of New York upon our oaths declare that the foregoing declaration was signed & acknowledged by Seydiah Hagerman in our presence & that We believe from the appearance & statements of the applicant that she is the identical person she represents herself to be —
Wm Baylor & Barney Hagerman
The foregoing declaration & affidavit were sworn to & subscribed before me on the day & year above written & I certify that I know the affiants to be credible persons, that the claimant is the person she represents herself to be & that I have no interest in this claim —
Wm D. Hammond Justice of the Peace

State of New York Livingston County ss
I James S. Orton Clerk of said County & ex-officio Clerk of the Courts of Record in said County do hereby certify that William D. Harnett whose name appears subscribed to the within instrument, was at the time thereof a Justice of the peace within for said County duly authorized to admin- ister oaths & to take acknowledgments of instruments for record, that I am well acquainted with his handwriting & firmly believe that his said signature to the within is genuine
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed my Official Seal at Geneseo in said County this 31 day of March 1855
James S. Orton
147 342
Application of Henry Hagerman to Widow Lydia Hagerman for bounty fund under Act of March 3. 1855
H. Cha. May atty. N.Y. Newark N.J.

47342
Lydia Hagerman
FREE
[Signature]
Buxton
Hon. Commissioner of Pensions Washington — D. C. —

Rev: Appl. Sur. Act 29 July 48, N.Y.
B.D.H.

Acts of July 14, 1862, and March 3, 1873.
REJECTED
P. O. _____
Service: _____
Enlisted: _____, 18
Discharged: _____, 18
Application filed: _____, 18
Alleges: _____
Re-enlisted: _____
Attorney: _____
P. O. _____
_____ Recognized. _____ Contract.
Lydia Hagan

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Official Business
FREE
E. Heath, Esq. Commissioner of Pensions, Washington, D.C.
Henry Hageman magazine com V.M. (Ed)
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Nunda N. Y. Dec. 17 th
Hon. Sir - Enclosed is further testimony in a Suspended Claim No. 47.342 taken before the same Justice as the testimony on file - For this reason I take it that no new county Clerks certificate is necessary -
Respectfully -
H. Cha s W h er

Greentown Dec 19 1851
Sir
Your letter of 15 th inst. was duly received. — I cannot give you a certificate showing when Henry Hageman entered the army of the revolution, and when he was discharged, for no such rolls are in existence. The regular militia rolls were never filed, and have been therefore lost — It appears from my records however, that Henry Hageman was in service and that he received a note for money due him in 1784. — This is taken as good evidence at the Pension Office. — The amount of the note was of course, only for the balance then due to him.
very respectfully
Thos S. Allison
Henry Hageman

Perry, Wyoming Co. N.Y. January 22, 1851.
Sir,
I forward, herewith, the declaration and other papers, of Mrs. Lydia Hagaman, who claims the benefit of the provisions made for revolutionary widows, by the act of Congress of July 27, 1848, as the widow of Henry Hagaman, who was a private in the New Jersey line of the revolutionary army.
In consequence of the imperfect state of Mrs. Hagaman's knowledge of her husband's service, it is respectfully desired, that the New Jersey rolls, generally, may be examined, in case those of the officers indicated in her declaration, do not furnish evidence sufficient to substantiate her claim.
It may also be proper to add, that in early life her husband's first name was often called "Hendrick", the Dutch synonym of "Henry", and may have been so entered on the rolls.
I am, very respectfully, Your obt. Servt.
Mason G. Smith,
James E. Heath, Esqf. Commissioner of Pensions.

Notes given by the Commissioners of the several Counties of the State of New Jersey for Militia service during the Revolutionary War.
   NO. OF CERTIF. DATE. SIGNED BY. PAYABLE TO. AMOUNT.     1211 10 th June 1784 Thomson Steele Henry Hagerman £1. 12. 1  
STATE OF NEW JERSEY:
Thomas S. Allison I, Charles G. McChesney , Secretary of state of the State of New Jersey, do hereby certify, that the foregoing is a true abstract from a Book, headed as above, as taken from, and compared with the original, now remaining in my office.—And I do further certify, that Thomson Steele was, by an Act, passed by the Legislature of this State, December 20, 1783, entitled, "An Act to procure an estimate of the sums due to the Militia and Troops who have been raised for the defence of the frontiers of the State, and to provide for the settlement of the same," appointed a Commissioner for the County of Middlesex for the purpose of settling and adjusting the Pay-rolls of the Militia and Troops of this State, as aforesaid, and also for signing and delivering out to each and every person a note for the payment of what may be justly due.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed my seal of office, at Trenton, in said State, this Nineteenth day of December A. D. one thousand eight hundred and fifty one
Thos S Allison
Secretary of State.

Nunda Livingston County New York Jan. 3 d 1852.
To the Commission of Pensions,
Inclosed is some additional evidence in the case Lydia Hagarmon's Application for a pension for services rendered by her husband Henry Hagarmon in the Revolutionary War. The former papers in this application were sent to your office by one Mr. Erickson about one year ago. He having neglected to prosecute the claim any further she has retained me to do so.
As a reason why this application was not sooner made I am informed by the widow (and so she will depose if necessary) that Henry Hagarmon immediately after the passage of the Act giving pensions to soldiers in the Revolutionary War, became disabled by an injury to his thigh and continued so until the day of his death, and at the time of said injury he resided in Cayuga Co., N.Y. and neglected applying for his pension on the ground that he did not get any letter from his injury, or not sufficiently well to go to New Jersey his former place of Residence to procure sufficient evidence.
As I am not much acquainted with the facts & papers now on file in this case, if there should be any thing lacking I wish you to inform me do
Yours Respectfully
Geo. Bishop

State of New York Livingston County ss. }
Benjamin Hoaglan being duly sworn says, that he resides in the town of Mt. Morris in the county & state aforesaid and is 58 years old - that he became acquainted with Henry Hagerman a revolutionary soldier now deceased & with Lydia Hagerman his wife over 50 years ago & that such acquaintance with the said Henry continued until his death which took place in the said town of Mt. Morris 18 years ago next January, & that such acquaintance with the said Lydia has continued ever since that deponent about 30 years ago married a daughter of the said Henry & Lydia Hagerman with whom he still lives as his wife & that the said Henry & Lydia always lived together as, & were reputed & treated as husband & wife - that the said Lydia has never married again since the death of the said Henry -
And deponent further says, that at the time Barney Hagerman the affiant in the annexed affidavit had the possession of the certificate of the Secretary of the State of New Jersey mentioned in the annexed affidavit, he saw the same & heard the said Barney read said certificate, & deponent knows that the said Henry Hagerman husband of the said Lydia is the same person mentioned & intended in the said certificate, & further this deponent says that he has no interest whatever in the claim of the said Lydia Hagerman for bounty land under any act of Congress -

Subscribed & sworn to before me this 20 th day November 1855, & I also certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person
Wm H Hammond S.P.
Benjamin Hoggan
State of New York Livingston County ss
Harvey Hagerman being duly sworn deposes & says that he resides in the Town of Nunda in the county of State aforesaid & is 55 years old. That he is a son of Henry Hagerman deceased a revolutionary soldier & of Lydia Hagerman his widow whose ap- plication for county land was first sent to the Pension Office by Geo. Bishop Esq. of said Nunda under the act of Sept. 28. 1850 & the subsequent acts amend- tory of the same, & more recently by McChalk Esq. of said Nunda under the act of March 3. 1855. which last application is numbered No. 47.342. That from deponent's earliest recollection until he had arrived to the age of 37 years he lived with the said Henry

to Lydia Hagerman as to was recognized to be their son, to from such earliest recollection until the death of the said Henry which took place in the town of Mt. Morris in the aforesaid county 18 years ago next January the said Henry & Lydia Hagerman lived together & were reputed & treated as husband & wife - that the said Lydia Hager- man has never married again since the death of her said husband -
And deponent further says that sometime after the passage of the act of Congress of Sept. 28. 1850 granting bounty land, he, for & in behalf of his said mother procured from the Secretary of the State of New Jersey the certificate relative to the services of the said Henry in the Revolutionary War which is now on file in the Department of the Interior in connection with the aforesaid application made by the said Geo. Kishop Esq. & that made by the said H. Chatterton Esq. & numbered as aforesaid - that while deponent was in possession of said certificate he showed & read the same to Benjamin Hadgdon the affiant in the annexed affidavit - & that deponent knows that the said Henry husband of the said Lydia Hagerman & father of this deponent is the same person named & intended in & by the aforesaid certificate - that at deponent's earliest recollection the said Henry, Lydia, & this deponent lived at near Brunswick in the said State of New Jersey - that the said Henry was in his life-time much in the habit of recounting his services in the revolutionary War -

his personal acquaintance with Gen. Barkington, the incidents of his service, & giving the names of his officers & the places where those incidents transpired, & from those relations deponent is able fully to identify the services of the said Army with those mentioned & intended in the aforesaid certificate. — & further that said services were continued for a greater period than is therein indicated.
And deponent further says that the said claim of the said Syquia is suspended as appears by a letter directed to said Whipple dated Sept. 12. 1855
Subscribed & sworn to before me
This 13 th day of December 1855
Barney Hageman
And I also certify that I know the affiant to be a credible person.
Wm H Lawrence Justice of the Peace, in & for said County —
Further testimony in the application of Mrs. Syquia Hageman for bounty land under act of March 3. 1855, application No. 47.342 & suspended
F. Whipple Atty. Purdia N.Y.