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John G Weaver served in the 1st Division Infantry, Utica NY under Commander in Chief Enos T. Throop. In the years between 1815-1818, he was colonel of the 134th regiment in the 13th brigade of infantry. Sometime before 1823 he became general, and in 1824 he served as supervisor of Deerfield, Oneida County. With his wife, Sarah Clause, he had five children: Fredrick, John, Henry, Jacob, and Sarah. He was born in German Flats Herkimer, New York in 1756 to George J Weaver and Anna Elisabeth Dubois. His father was among the first to settle the town of Deerfield in 1773 along with Captain Mark Damoth and Christian Reall. "They built log houses and remained until 1776, when being informed by a friendly Indian of an intended raid upon their settlement by Tories and Indians, they secreted their furniture in the woods and fled to “Little Stone Arabia,” a small fort in the present town of Schuyler. Mr. Damoth received a Captain’s commission in a company of rangers, and at an attack upon Herkimer received a wound in the arm from which he never entirely recovered. Mr. Weaver was taken prisoner, carried to Quebec where he was kept in close confinement for nine months, “seeing neither sun, moon or stars during all that time.” From Quebec he was taken to England, and after two years was exchanged and returned to his native valley. In the summer of 1784, after all the casualties of war, these three first settlers returned to their farms, to cultivate the land they had cleared years before."
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Enos Thompson Throop. Papers, #1157. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
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