He was a pensioner of the American Revolutionary War (RWPA #S12772).
He was born in the Canajoharie District of Montgomery County, New York on May 14, 1747. He married on November 30, 1771 Catherine Windecker. Catherine was born on April 5, 1755. He died on March 27, 1839. He first served at Fort Plank in the summer of 1776, doing duties as a private in Captain Henry Diefendorf’s Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Militia. In 1778 and 1779 he served at Fort Plank as an orderly sergeant in Captain Jacob Diefendorf’s Company. In the summer of 1780, he was among those who were ordered out to Fort Stanwix when Captain Samuel Gray’s Boatmen were waylaid. He also assisted in the building of Fort Dieffendorf in the summer of 1780 and served therein until the end of the war. He fought in the Battle of Johnstown, but did not fight in the Battle of Oriskany. Nicholas Dunkle states he remembers seeing John Jacob serving within Fort Plank. His pension application file also contains depositions by John Yordan, Adam Garlock, Cornelius Van Camp, John Diefendorf and Jacob Snell. During the Revolutionary War he possessed a 100 acre farm in Lot 8 of the First Allotment of the Abraham Van Horne (Canajoharie) Patent of Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York (The Gerrit Y. Lansing Papers in New York State Library, Box 9 Folder 4). This farm was located several miles north of his burial site.
He was born in the Canajoharie District of Montgomery County, New York on May 14, 1747. He married on November 30, 1771 Catherine Windecker. Catherine was born on April 5, 1755. He died on March 27, 1839. He first served at Fort Plank in the summer of 1776, doing duties as a private in Captain Henry Diefendorf’s Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Militia. In 1778 and 1779 he served at Fort Plank as an orderly sergeant in Captain Jacob Diefendorf’s Company. In the summer of 1780, he was among those who were ordered out to Fort Stanwix when Captain Samuel Gray’s Boatmen were waylaid. He also assisted in the building of Fort Dieffendorf in the summer of 1780 and served therein until the end of the war. He fought in the Battle of Johnstown, but did not fight in the Battle of Oriskany. Nicholas Dunkle states he remembers seeing John Jacob serving within Fort Plank. His pension application file also contains depositions by John Yordan, Adam Garlock, Cornelius Van Camp, John Diefendorf and Jacob Snell. During the Revolutionary War he possessed a 100 acre farm in Lot 8 of the First Allotment of the Abraham Van Horne (Canajoharie) Patent of Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York (The Gerrit Y. Lansing Papers in New York State Library, Box 9 Folder 4). This farm was located several miles north of his burial site.
He was a pensioner of the American Revolutionary War (RWPA #S12772).
He was born in the Canajoharie District of Montgomery County, New York on May 14, 1747. He married on November 30, 1771 Catherine Windecker. Catherine was born on April 5, 1755. He died on March 27, 1839. He first served at Fort Plank in the summer of 1776, doing duties as a private in Captain Henry Diefendorf’s Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Militia. In 1778 and 1779 he served at Fort Plank as an orderly sergeant in Captain Jacob Diefendorf’s Company. In the summer of 1780, he was among those who were ordered out to Fort Stanwix when Captain Samuel Gray’s Boatmen were waylaid. He also assisted in the building of Fort Dieffendorf in the summer of 1780 and served therein until the end of the war. He fought in the Battle of Johnstown, but did not fight in the Battle of Oriskany. Nicholas Dunkle states he remembers seeing John Jacob serving within Fort Plank. His pension application file also contains depositions by John Yordan, Adam Garlock, Cornelius Van Camp, John Diefendorf and Jacob Snell. During the Revolutionary War he possessed a 100 acre farm in Lot 8 of the First Allotment of the Abraham Van Horne (Canajoharie) Patent of Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York (The Gerrit Y. Lansing Papers in New York State Library, Box 9 Folder 4). This farm was located several miles north of his burial site.
He was born in the Canajoharie District of Montgomery County, New York on May 14, 1747. He married on November 30, 1771 Catherine Windecker. Catherine was born on April 5, 1755. He died on March 27, 1839. He first served at Fort Plank in the summer of 1776, doing duties as a private in Captain Henry Diefendorf’s Company of the Canajoharie District Regiment of Militia. In 1778 and 1779 he served at Fort Plank as an orderly sergeant in Captain Jacob Diefendorf’s Company. In the summer of 1780, he was among those who were ordered out to Fort Stanwix when Captain Samuel Gray’s Boatmen were waylaid. He also assisted in the building of Fort Dieffendorf in the summer of 1780 and served therein until the end of the war. He fought in the Battle of Johnstown, but did not fight in the Battle of Oriskany. Nicholas Dunkle states he remembers seeing John Jacob serving within Fort Plank. His pension application file also contains depositions by John Yordan, Adam Garlock, Cornelius Van Camp, John Diefendorf and Jacob Snell. During the Revolutionary War he possessed a 100 acre farm in Lot 8 of the First Allotment of the Abraham Van Horne (Canajoharie) Patent of Minden Township, Montgomery County, New York (The Gerrit Y. Lansing Papers in New York State Library, Box 9 Folder 4). This farm was located several miles north of his burial site.
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"In memory of John J. Diefendorf who departed this life March 27, 1839, aged 91 years, 10 months and 15 days."
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