 1762 - 1849 (87 years)
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| Name |
Sylvanus Dygert [1] |
| Born |
1762 [1] |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
06 Nov 1849 |
Oxford County, Upper Canada  |
| Person ID |
I1590 |
Brick Street Cemetery |
| Last Modified |
5 Apr 2020 |
| Family 1 |
Magdalena Herkimer |
| Children |
| + | 1. Warner Sylvanus Dygert, b. 1791, d. 20 Jul 1826 (Age 35 years) [natural] |
| + | 2. Eleanor Dygert, b. 1792, USA [natural] |
| | 3. Anna Dygert, b. 1793 [natural] |
| | 4. Catherine Jane Dygert, b. 21 Feb 1794, Herkimer, Herkimer, New York, USA , d. 17 Feb 1872, Oakland, Ontario (Age 77 years) [natural] |
| | 5. Henrich Dygert, b. 1795 [natural] |
| | 6. Lena Dygert, b. 1799 [natural] |
| + | 7. Gertrude Dygert, b. Abt 1801, USA , d. 1868, London, Middlesex, Ontario, Canada (Age 67 years) [natural] |
| | 8. Joseph Dygert, b. 1805 [natural] |
| | 9. Isaac Dygert, b. 1806 [natural] |
| | 10. Archibald Herkimer Dygert, b. 1808, d. 1889 (Age 81 years) [natural] |
| | 11. Nancy Dygert, b. Abt 1822, Canada [natural] |
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| Last Modified |
5 Apr 2020 |
| Family ID |
F581 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- [http://www.nancylanni.com/?p=1102]
Warner Dygert of Fall Hill (Little Falls) was killed and his 10-year-old son Suffrenes was taken prisoner. Warner Dygert/Tygert was a brother-in-law to General Herkimer. He had been an active patriot since the beginning of the war, the first meeting of the Tryon County Committee of Safety having been held at his house. It had made him a target. Dygert had gone to build a corn crib. He stopped his work to light his pipe when Indians shot him down, tomahawked and scalped him. [Beers. History of Montgomery & Fulton Counties 1878].
[Pension Application for Soverinus (Safrinus) Dygert File # S.10598 found online at http://morrisonspensions.org/dygert.htm]
(Born September15, 1766, Resided at entering - Herkimer Co., N.Y.
1845 Resides London District, Upper Canada
Died Nov. 6, 1849.)
State of New York
County of Fulton
Court of Common Pleas
Declaration, Act 1832 SS
On this third day of August one thousand eight hundred and forty six, personally appeared in open court the same being a court of record before the Judges thereof now sitting at Johnstown in said County Soverinus Dygert Aged about eighty 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 provision made in Act o Congress passed June 7 th 1832. That he is a son of Capt. Warner Dygert deceased & Magdalena his wife also deceased. That he was born in the Year One Thousand Seven hundred and sixty six and as appears by the record of declarants babtism, [baptism] recorded by the Rev'd Mr. Rosencrants & now in the possession of his grandson Abm G. Rosencrants, he was babtised on the fifteenth day of September one thousand seven hundred and sixty six.-
Declarant further saith that he was a private soldier in the War of the Revolution and served as a volunteer in guarding a fort at a place called Fall Hill on in Herkimer County and State of New York, that the said service was performed under declarants father the said Warner Dygert in Col. Clyde's Regiment.
Declarant further saith that when thus engaged as a volunteer as aforesaid fully equipped for the service, and in the service as aforesaid declarant was taken prisoner & his father killed by the enemy at the same time. That declarant was taken prisoner on or about the fourth day of October one thousand seven hundred and eighty was taken to Canada & there kept a prisoner by the enemy one year and ten months at which time viz on or about the fourth day of August one thousand seven hundred and eighty tow, this declarant in company with a large number of other prisoners were exchanged and permitted to return to their homes, and this declarant among others did return home from Canada by way of Lake Champlain and the City of Albany. Declarant also saith that he now resides in London District Upper Canada and having been recently informed that he was entitled to a pension by virtue of the Laws of the United States during the time soldiers were imprisoned as so much service & have been informed that it was required by the pension Department that his declaration for a pension must be made before a court of record in the United States he accordingly this declarant has come explicitly from Canada as aforesaid to attend the court in the county and state aforesaid.
Declarant further saith that the reason he had not heretofore made application for a pension are first that he did not know until recently that persons residing out of the United States, were entitled to a pension under any circumstances and service. That he did not know that time of imprisonment was counted as in such service, & having removed so far from his old Associates had no means of knowing (even if he had known he was entitled) whether or not he could prove his services & thus he has never made any effort until within the last few months & that declarant rec'd information as to time of imprisonment being counted as so much service, some few months since through the medium of Wm. Valentine of Albany, N.Y. Declarant further saith that at the time he was engaged in the service as aforesaid he resided in what is now known as the County of Herkimer & State of New York with his father who then owned & occupied a farm in that place and that Declarant resided in said County and State until about thirty five years ago, from whence he removed to Canada, as aforesaid where he now resides. Declarant further saith that the names of the persons who he recollects were, David Schuyler, Nicholas Schuyler, John Casler, Nicholas Forbush, but at present can not recollect any others. (Signed) Safrinus Dygert.
Subscribed & sworn to before me this third day of August 1846. The words
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