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- [S264] History of Herkimer County, New York, George A. Hardin and Frank H. Willard, (D. Mason & Co., Publishers, 1893) (Reliability: 3), 11 Jan 2005.
HOOVER, John P., Fairfield, was born in Manheim in 1828 and has followed farming all his life. His great-grandfather came from Switzerland. His grandfather was Jacob Hoover and his father William Hoover. In 1861 Mr. Hoover married Catherine Ryan, a daughter of Joseph Ryan, and they have a family of eleven children, five sons and six daughters. Mr. Hoover is a Democrat. His father was at Sackett's Harbor in 1812 and was given a grant of government land. Mr. Hoover has 132 acres of land and a herd of twenty-four cows.
- [S546] Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files, 1800-1900, NARA, (Primary source: Footnote.com; http://www.footnote.com
Original source:
National Archives and Records Administration
Wasington, D.C.
Series M804, rolls 461-1710), Pension No. W23,355 - Huber, Henry (Reliability: 3), 13 Oct 2007.
The transcription of each page [59 in all] in Pension file W23,355 follows.
Source: Footnote.com
Page 1:
SERVICE:
New York
Huber, Henry
Elizabeth
Number
W 23,355
Page 2:
further proof of
Elizabeth Huber
apptn for pension affdt
of Geo. Rosencrantz
Hn A. Loomis
AR
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In the matter of the application of Elizabeth Huber for a pension as the widow of Henry Huber late of the Town of Little Falls deceased
Herkimer County Ls George Rosencrantz of the town of Little Falls, County of Herkimer and State of New York being duly sworn saith that he is seventy years of age and upwards, and that his father was the Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz the minister of the Reformed protestant Dutch Church in the German Flats in the now county of Herkimer from the anchist revolution of deponent previous to the Revolutionary War & during that war & long afterwards until his death - that a short time since Peter Huber of the county of Jefferson a son of old Captain Henry Huber called upon this deponent to search the records kept by this deponents father of marriages where the ceremony was perfomed by him & alledged that his mother stated that she was married to said Henry Huber by deponents father. This deponent saith he searched the only book of records in deponents posesion of his fathers record of marriages & could not find the marriage of said Henry Huber and in fact no record of marriages going so far back in date as the widow of said Henry Huber alledges they were married, and deponent saith that said Peter also searched said book of records & which book deponent states is the only book of records of baptisms and marriages or letters extant and that when his father died about the year 1796 all his books & papers extant were left in the care and posesion of this deponent. This deponent saith that on Saturday the second of December instant he was looking over some papers which he supposed useless in an old chest of drawers and that
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in looking them over he came across a half sheet, or leaf, of paper in his said fathers hand writing and on which he found the record of marriages commencing with the 15th day of February 1774 and ending the first day of November of the same year, on which half sheet or leaf of a book is the record of the marriage of said Henry Huber in the record spelled in the German Henrich Huber to Elizabeth Frank on the 27th M
This Pension record contains several pages [59 in all] each of which are transcribed in their entirety (see Detail Text tab) :
*There are many more pages contained in the original NARA file folder than I received when ordering the information from NARA back in 2004. Upon going to Footnote.com and checking their collections, I found the same Pension No. W23,355 which contained 59 pages, not 26 as originally thought. I include all 59 images from Footnote.com (Oct. 2007, greyscale) and the images I received from NARA (2004, black and white).
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Side note:
Adam Loux (now Loucks), whose house, about three-fourths of a mile north of Stone Arabia, on the farm now occupied by J. Ervin Graff, was a meeting place of the Tryon county Committee of Safety, was born in Schoharie, N. Y., Dec. 15th, 1715; was married Oct. 16th, 1739, and died Feb. 14th, 1789. His son, Peter Loucks, was first lieutenant of the 3d company of the Palatine battalion, under Capt. Christopher W. Fox, at the battle of Oriskany.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymontgo/palatine/palexcerpts2.html
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Side note:
Another transcription of the same pension record appears on this web page:
http://morrisonspensions.org/huber.html
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