Pvt.  JOSEPH  CONGER

 

In 1776 Joseph Conger [1758-1842] served as a Private in Captain William Hubbell's Company of Col. David Waterbury's 5th Regiment of Connecticut Volunteers (mid 1775 to 1776), and may have served in other Connecticut forces. Joseph Conger was in the 12th Regiment of Connecticut Militia from New Jersey 1757 Revolutionary War Volunteer's of 1776, Captain WG Hubbell, Colonel David Waterbury Jr.

 

At Utica, Oneida County, New York July 20th, 1832, Joseph Conger [1758] aged 74, a resident Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York stated that he was born in 1758 in Fairfield, Connecticut.  In the fall of 1775 while resident of New Fairfield, Connecticut, enlisted in Captain Gaylor Hubbell's Company, William Phelps, Lieutenant, and spent the winter in New York where he was discharged.  In April 1776 he again enlisted at New Fairfield for 6 months but was in a hospital in New York and being unable for duty was discharged.

           

Joseph Conger, a resident of New Fairfield Connecticut, was a private, enlisted in the fall 1775 in Captain Gaylor Hubbell's Company and spent the winter in New York. April 1776 he again enlisted at New Fairfield for 6 months, but was in the hospital and discharged.  In 1777 he was drafted in Connecticut State Militia, Lieutenant Amos Hubbell's Regiment and went to the Philippine Patent on the Hudson River under Captain Hubbell and Lieutenant William Phelps.  Pension certificate was issued May 29, 1833 at Sangerfield, NY $70.50 paid 8 months, 14 days were allowed and 28.20 per annum

 

He lived in New Fairfield until after the war and then moved to Columbia county, New York, now the town of Ancram and resided there 12 years and then to Paris, Oneida county New York.  For the last 14 years he resided at Sangerfield, Oneida County, New York.

 

After his marriage to Phoebe Eggleston he apparently remained in that vicinity for some time.  When the first U.S. census was taken in 1790 he is shown as being head of a family in the Columbia, New York, at which time the family consisted of one male over 16, himself, three males under sixteen (Jesse, Abel, Parley ), one female over sixteen, his wife.  He moved later to Stockwell, Oneida county New York, where he died and is buried.                                     

 

Conger Family of America 1 p336-7

 

Found in Chas L Conger in LDS lib microfilm SLC #0000000403 and #000000404 1942 for Lib of Congress 2/2004

 

CONNECTICUT REVOLUTIONARY Pensioners complied by the Daughters of the American Revolution.  Baltimore Publishing Co. Inc.  1982 Lib of Congress Cat Card No 82-81255 Abstract of pension S 9223