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- [S1421] Genealogy: A Journal of American Ancestry - Volumes One and Two, M. L. Kellogg, "Cemetery inscriptions, LeRay, Jefferson County, New Yoirk," September 1912, 303; several formats, \i http://www.archive.org\i0 (Reliability: 3), 23 Jun 2016.
Peter Hoover, died February 19, 1879, age 92 years.
Magdalena, wife of Peter Hoover, died June 26, 1847, age 59 years.
- [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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- [S1420] Compendium of Early Mohawk Families, Maryly B. Penrose, (Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1990.), 1: 388. (Reliability: 3), 23 Jun 2016.
Vol. 1, Page 388
HOOVER
Marriage
Huber, Johannes Hen: m. Gertraud Jac:
Grimm, 3/6/1787 (DRGF:204)
Birth/Baptism
Hover, Henderick & Elizabeth (Frank): John, b. 3/10/1783; bapt. 4/21/1783 (DRC:66). Sponsors: John Kelder & Barber Kelder.
Huber, Hans & [?]: Johannis, bapt. 10/26/1742
(FH:19). Sponsors: Johannis Kets, Adam
Dakstede[r], Catharina Dakstede[r].
Huber, Henrich & Elisabeth [?]: Jacobus, b.
2/14/1779, bapt. 3/6/1779 (DRGF:34); Anna,
b. 3/16/1781, bapt. 4/1/1781 (DRGF:44);
Adam, b. 1/1/1785, bapt. 1/13/1785
(DRGF:92). Sponsors: Joh: Friedr: Franck &
Susanna (re:1); Johannes Huber & Anna
Bellinger (re:2); Adam Staring & Elisabeth
(re:3).
Huber, Henrich (Sclmeidersbusch) & Elisabeth
Vol. 1, Page 389
[?]: Johann Dieterich, b. 7/20/1791; bapt. 10/9/1791 (SJC:48). Sponsors: Jacob Keller & Magretha [?].
Hluber, Johannes & Elisabeth [?]: Sarah, b.
3/1/1768. bapt. 4/17/1768 (RDSA:85);
Sussanna, b. 9/7/1770, bapt. 10/10/1770
(RDSA:16). Sponsors: Elisabeth Foltz &
Johann Georg Helmer (re:1); Johannes Miller
& Elisabeth Franck (re:2).
Huber, John (of Schneidersbusch) & Gertrud
[?]: Anna, bapt. 1/24/1790(SJC:22). Sponsors:
Adam Staring & Elisabeth Staring.
Tryon County Militia
Hoover, Jacob
Huber, Henry
Huber, John
[Appendix A]
Pension Abstract
Hoover, John, b. ca. 1745; (brother: Jacob Hoover, b. ca. 1760, living in Little Falls, Herkimer Co. in 1838); resident of
Manheim, Herkimer Co., N.Y. on 9/29/1838. John served two to three month tours every year from 1775 to 1782 inclusive; he
was a private in the regts. of Cols. Bellinger, Klock and Willett; John was in the battles of Oriskany and another near the
stone church in Palatine under the command of Van Rensselaer. (John Hoover and Daniel Hadcock grew up as neighbors at the
Royal Grant and attended school together; during the Revolution both left their residences and moved near the Palatine
Church, John Hoover living at "Old Helmer's" and Daniel Hadcock at "Daniel Mcflugle's".) (RWPA: #R5203)
Huber, Henry, b. [not stated; eldest son] & lived on a farm in present day Herkimer Co. with his father [not named] during
the Revolution; (brothers: John Huber/Hoover, b. 1744/5 [RWPA: #R203]; Jacob Huber, b. 1761/2 [youngest brother], resident
of Little Falls, N.Y., 1837; sister: [not named], wife of John Miller in 1837); m. Elizabeth Frank, 3/27/1774 in German
Flatts by Rev. Abraham Rosencrantz; d. 9/30/1823, Little Falls, N.Y. (Elizabeth Huber, b. 1751/2; residentof Leroy,
Jefferson Co., N.Y. on 4/7/1837.) Children: Henry, b. 1/15/1775 (living in Leroy, N.Y., 1837); Elizabeth, b. fall of 1777
(m. Robert Sixbury & living in 1837); Jacobus, b. 2/14/1779 (dead for many years in 1837); Anna, b. 3/16/1781; Peter, b.
2/12/1788 (m. ca. 1811 & living in Leroy, N.Y., 1837); Adam, and David. Henry, resident near Little Falls, was commissioned
5/18/1776 a 1st. lieutenant in Capt. Severinus Casselman's Co., Col. Peter Bellinger's 4th. Regt., Tryon Co. Militia; he
was in the battle of Oriskany at which time he was a captain and he was taken prisoner, carried to Canada and held for five
months; Henry returned home and continued to serve at various times as lieutenant and captain until the close of the war.
(RWPA: #W23355)
1790 Census
Houver, Jacob
Hover, Jacob
Huver, Henry
Huver, John
[Appendix B]
Vol. 2, pages 1144, 1145, 1146
(DRGF) = "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of German Flatts", ed. by R.W. Vosburgh. Collections of the New
York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 1 (1918).
(DRC) = "Records of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church of Caughnawaga", ed. by R.W. Vosburgh. Collections of the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 1 (1917).
(SJC) = "Records of the Dutch Reformed St. John's Church, St. Johnsville", ed. by R.W. Vosburgh. Collections of the New
York Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 1 (1914).
(RDSA) = "Records of the Reformed Dutch Church of Stone Arabia", ed. by R.W. Vosburgh. Collections of the New York
Genealogical and Biographical Society, Vol. 1 (1916).
(RWPA) = Penrose, Maryly B. Mohawk Valley Revolutionary War Pension Abstracts. Bowie, MD.: Heritage Books, 1989.
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