State of New York

County of Albany

On this 27^th day of February in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty one, personally appeared before the Justice Court of the City of Albany, Catherine Seger a resident of the Town of New Scotland in said County and State, aged eighty years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth, on her oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress passed July 4, 1836 and the joined resolution of July 7, 1838.

That she is the Widow of Garret I. Seger who was a private in the service of the United States in the War of the Revolution, and at the time of his death a Pensioner under the Act of Congress of June 7, 1832.

She further declares that she was married to the said Garret I. Seger, the first day of December in the year one thousand seven hundred and seventy nine. That he Husband the aforesaid Garret I. Seger died on the first day of September in the year one thousand eight hundred and forty, and that she has remained a Widow ever since that period as will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto annexed.

She further declares that he surname prior to her marriage was Shaver – she was the daughter of John Shaver – she was married in the City of Albany and the ceremony was performed by the Rev. W. Westerlo, then Pastor of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church in that City – She is informed and believes that there is no record of said marriage and this Books of said Church – She further declares that this Family Record hereto annexed, was this day cut from her Family Bible, and that the Record of her marriage with the said Garret I. Seger, and also the Record of the birth of their children therein contained and within the hand writing of her son Francis Seger formerly a Senator of this State, and was written by his said hand more than twenty years ago – that she has known this said Record in its present condition for twenty years past – She never learned write.

Sworn to and subscribed on this day

And year first when written in Catherine Seger (her mark)

Open court

27^th day of February 1841

W. Hamilton – Clerk

DECLARATION

In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress passed June 7, 1832

State of New York

County of Albany

On the Eighteenth day of September 1832, personally appeared in open court, before the Justice Court of the City of Albany now sitting Gerrit I. Seger a resident of the Town of Guilderland in the county of Albany and state of New York aged Seventy nine 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 act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832. That he entered the service of the United States, under the following named officers, and served as herein stated.

That he enlisted at the City of Albany, in Continental Service, under Captain John Hun, in the month of January 1777 and served in the said service for the term of nine months faithfully, and was engaged in the transportation of Continental Stores, ammunition and provisions from Albany to Fort Edward and continued in that Service until Burgoyne and his army surrendered, after which he performed militia duty as a private soldier in every campaign for the remainder of the War of the Revolution, until peace was proclaimed – That he this Declarer is unable at this time to particularize the duration of each tour or expedition, or the precise times and places at and to which he was ordered out, but he can confidently say and doth declare that the whole period of his service as a Revolutionary Soldier was not less than twenty four month, and he hereby refers to the proof hereon endorsed, in support of this his declaration.

He hereby relinquishes 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.

Sworn and subscribed, the day and year aforesaid

J.G. Wasson – Clerk Garret I. Seger

Albany County

Before the Justice Court of the City of Albany

In open Court, personally appeared John Seger, of the Town of Guilderland in the County of Albany to this court well known as a person of truth and veracity who being duly sworn according to law, deposeth and saith, that he is intimately acquainted with the said Gerrit Seger who hath subscribed and sworn to the written declaration, that the said Gerrit Seger is a brother of the Deponent and that the fact set forth in said declaration are substantially true as therein detailed.

Subscribed and Sworn to

The 18^th Sept. 1832 John Seger

J. G. Wasson – Clerk

Albany County

John Browner of the City of Albany, being duly sworn saith, that in the month of February 1777, he enlisted in the City of Albany, under Capt. John Hun of the said City, to serve in the Boat Service of the United States, and that he doth well member that the within named Garret Seger, and his brother John Seger named in the declaration sworn to and subscribed by him on the 18^th Sept. last, were two of the same Company who also enlisted at the same time to serve for nine or twelve months, and that the Company commanded by Capt. Hun paraded in front of Genl. Schuyler’s mansion, and were marched by the late John Lansing Junr., who was then an Aid de camp or military secretary to that General and marched from there to Saratoga where and between Fort Edward and Albany they were employed in the transportation of stores, ammunition and provisions for the Army and so continued until the terms of their enlistment were expired – That they were afterward dismissed and as this deponent believes, served in the military but that this deponent doth positively aver, that he did serve according to his enlistment in the said Boat Service for the term of one full year.

Subscribed and Sworn to the

Day of Dec. 1832 John Browner

I hereby certify that the above named John Browner is a credible witness

By the court J. G. Wasson – Clerk

State of New York

Albany County

Nicholas Bleecker of the City of Albany being duly sworn, deposeth – That he is seventy nine years old – That in the early part of the Revolutionary War he was employed in the office of the Commissary of Provisions as an issuing clerk – The Commissary at that time was Elijah Avery or Every – and that the store was situated in Albany, nearly opposite where the Eagle Tavern now stands – on the dock formerly or anciently called the King’s dock – The manner of transporting provisions and military stores to the north was at that time to put them on board a bateau at Albany transport them to Half Moon Point – and from there partly by land and partly by water to Fort Edward and to Lake George.

This Deponent well recollects John Hun, called Capt. Hun – and frequently saw him at the Commissary’s office in the early part of the Revolutionary War – Deponent thinks in the year 1776 – That Capt. Hun then had this command of a Bateau Company, or Company of Bateaumen – and went under the name of Capt. Hun – If he had a commission or not, and whether his men were enlisted or not, this Deponent cannot state.

Capt. Hun resided in the City of Albany some years after the War, and has bee dead about twenty years –

Sworn and Subscribed the 18^th

Day of April 1837 before me

S. Jenkins Court of Deeds

State of New York

County of Albany

Henry Shafer of the County of Albany, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith that during a part of the time whilst he was an Ensign in Capt. Philip Luke’s Company of militia in the year 1778, he this Deponent saw Gerrit I. Seger the person mentioned in the annexed declaration in actual service with the militia, and in the same company to which this Deponent belonged that the said Gerrit I Seger served as a private soldier faithfully, but this deponent cannot now recollect for what period of time he had served, but he doth verily believe, that the facts by him set forth in his annexed declaration, respecting his service in the militia, which declaration this deponent hath heard and read, are true.

Henry Shafer

And I the subscribing Justice do certify, that the above named Henry Shafer is a person of respectable character and of strict truth and veracity.

H. Thear – Justice of the

Justice Court of the City of Albany

State of New York

Albany County John Seger of the city of Albany in the county aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that this deponent is the brother of Gerrit I. Seger – lately deceased, and that the said Gerrit is the person named in the pension certificate of the war department for revolutionary claims, which said certificate is dated the 8^th day of May 1837 and by the endorsement therein is recorded in the pension office in Book E.2. Vol. 4 page 67 by D. Brown, Clerk: that this deponent has been intimately and familiarly acquainted with the said Gerrit from his infancy to the period of the decease of the said Gerrit ; that the said Gerrit was never married but once, and that said marriage took place on or about the month of December on thousand seven hundred and seventy nine by and before Rev. Mr. Westerlo, there are officiating clergyman of the city of Albany and since deceased - that this deponent does not recollect of any person being present at said marriage excepting himself and Mariah Bradt, afterwards the wife of Jacob Houck, but since deceased: that on or about the said month of December 1779 the said Gerrit I Sager was married to Catherine Shaver by the clergyman aforesaid in the presence of this deponent and the said Mariah Bradt, and that the said Gerrit and the said Catherine have lived together as husband and wife from the time of their marriage aforesaid until the first day of September 1840 and that their place of residence for nearly the whole of said period has been in the county of Albany aforesaid where this deponent has also resided during the same time: That the said Gerrit I Seger died at his residence in Albany County aforesaid on Tuesday the 1^st day of September instantly leaving the said Catherine his wife him surviving: and this deponent further saith that he is in the eighty sixth year of his age, and further saith not.

John Seger

I do certify that on the 3^rd day of Sept. 1840 the

Preceding affidavit was duly made before me, and that

The said John Seger is a person of fair character and

His statements entitled to full credit

Frederick Markle – Justice of the Peace

Transcribed by Charles F. Luke

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