Col. Jeremiah Pieterse Hogeboom

The American Revolution, though not actively fought on Claverack soil, brought great hardships and divisions to the residents. A year after the battles at Lexington and Concord, Claverack district was represented as part of a committee, meeting in Albany, to determine the attitude of Albany County toward the Revolution. This was regarded as a temporary form of government, until a solution was found to heal the wounds between England and America. How ever, “The Convention of the Representatives of the State of New York” declared the State free from British rule, retroactive from the day following the battle of Lexington. Andries Lape did have a military history, although it is not known to what extent he served. He does show up on the list of members of the Eighth Regiment, Albany County Militia, along with his sons, George and Thomas Lape (as Andries Laap). Andries Lew was noted in Capt. Jeremiah Hogeboom's Company in 1767, Report of the State Historian, Vol. II, p. 863. (Even More Palatine Families, Volume 1, p 412, Henry Z. Jones, Jr.)

Benjamin was a revolutionary patriot and was a member of an organized regi­ ment of foot which consisted of nine companies, and it belonged to that portion of Albany county which now comprises the county of Columbia. The Colonel was Jeremiah Hogeboom. The muster rolls of this regiment arc still in existence and a few years ago were the property of Tobias Esselstyn of Claverack. He belonged to the company of James Spencer in the regiment. Just what service this regiment performed in the war is not known but that it saw much service is conceded.

from page 24 from:

A History of the Origin, and First Appearance of The Kellog-Family, in The American Plantations.

By Abraham Lincoln Kellogg

Col. of the pre colonial and Colonial Militia of Claverlack New York

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