Morrison's Pensions
Pension Application for Joseph Waggoner
W.2499
State of New York
Montgomery County
On the twentieth
day of September 1832 personally appeared in open court before me Joseph Waggoner
a resident of the Town of Minden county and state aforesaid formerly the County
of Tryon, aged seventy-three years the 6th day of March last past and 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 passed by Congress June 7th 1832.
That he
entered the service of the United States under the following officers hereafter
mentioned and served as herein after stated. (viz)
That in
1776 he did duty in guarding Snell’s Fort for some length of time and
went in 1777 to Unadilla with General Herkimer [June] and that he was a private
in Captain John Hess Company who belonged to Col. Jacob Klock’s Regiment
of Militia and that in the same year they had a touer [tour] to Dutchtown also
in behalf of the United Sates and that in the year 1778, he was drafted under
the said Capt. Hess to go and did go to Fort Dayton for some considerable time
and from thence they went to Ticonderoga with a team fourteen days and from
there to Windackers near the Indian Castle in (as now called) Herkimer County
and formerly called Tryon County.
And that
he afterwards was drafted under Capt. Hess and was stationed at Fort OX and
from there was commanded to go and did go to Otsego where he remained but about
twelve days after which time he was detached to Capt. Samuel Gray, who had
the command of a company of militia and went to and was stationed at Frankfort
in Tryon County now Herkimer County for nearly weeks and that he was an express
[dispatch rider] for Col. Klock’s Regiment during the war to Oriskany,
Herkimer, Albany and numerous other places as well as teaming from Albany to
Fort Stanwix, Fort Herkimer and other places. And that he went one trip
with Capt. Hess to Herkimer, one trip to Richard Failings, one trip to the
Royal Grant on a scouting and tour [tour] and one trip under Col. Willett to
the Royal Grant in pursuit of the enemy and in the year 1780 he went to Fort
Schuyler under General Renalins? [Van Rensselaer] [?] and from thence was detached
to Capt. Samuel Gray’s company of Boatmen and went up the Mohawk River
to Fort Stanwix to guard the American boats.
And in the
year 1781 he was one of those who went in the month of July (he thinks) in
pursuit of the enemy who massacred and destroyed the Americans at Timmerman’s
Fort [August 9, 1781]. And that in the year 1780 he was engaged in the
battle when the enemy retreated from Stonerabia after Brown’s Battle
and that in 1781 he was engaged under Colonel Willett in Johnstown in Montgomery
County (then Tryon County) during the battle until the defeat of the enemy
at what was called the Hall Battle otherwise called Willett’s and Major
Ross Battle.
And that
from the year 1776 to the close of the revolution he has in each and every
year done duty and armed and equipped himself and kept himself equipped in
conformity to the Law of Congress passed the 27th day of May 1775.
And that
the said claimant doth hereby relinquish 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.
Joseph Waggoner
Sworn to
and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Geo. D. Ferbuson, Clerk
(Added by James F. Morrison, transcriber) Peter Wagner Jr. was promoted to
captain in place of John Hess sometime in 1780. Joseph Waggoner is
listed as a sergeant in Wagner’s Co. Also as a sergeant in Capt. John
Keyser’s Co. Private in Hess’s Co.
1st Col-1775
Capt. Wm. Fox, Jr.
1st Lieut, John Hess
2nd Lieut Peter Waggoner, Jr.
Ensign, Matthew Wormwood
Received their commissions dated June 25, 1778
Capt. John Hess
1st Lieut. Peter Waggoner, Jr.
2nd Lieut, Matthew Wormwood
Ensign Peter Sitts
Received new commission March 4, 1780
Peter Sitte 2nd Lieut.
George Waggoner Ensign
(Peter Waggoner’s Co. George Waggoner. Lieut.
2nd Lieut. Matthew Wormwood killed near Cherry Valley June 2, 1778 by Capt.
Joseph Brant
Ensign Peter Sitts was captured at same time. Released from captivity
Nov. 9, 1780.