An American Family History

John Hagerman, Sr. was born about 1747 in Dutchess County, New York.

He married Phoebe Ferguson in  Dutchess County, New York. Phoebe was born about 1756 at Rombout, Dutchess County, New York. Her prents were Richard and Rachel Ferguson.

John and Phoebe's children included:

Sarah Hagerman(1767),
John Hagerman, Jr. (1770, married Mary (Polly) LaRue daughter of Henry LaRue),
Margaret Hagerman (1771, married John Whitley),
Richard Hagerman (1772, married Eliza Dwyer),
Abigail Hagerman (1775, married William LaRue),
Zachariah Hagerman (1778 married Hannah Griffin), and
Mary Hagerman (1784 , married Joseph Buck).

In 1783 Reuben Sherwood said

John Hagerman served as a Private soldier in the Loyal Rangers. He served in the Royal Standard previous to 1783 and discharged in 1783 and removed from the Province of Lower Canada to the Township of Elizabethtown.

In 1791, Zachariah signed a petition in Thurlow, Hastings County, Ontario requesting that the township be laid out in lots.

1797 Census of Elizabethtown:
John, Phebe, Jane, Richard, Mary, and Sarah.

Phoebe died about 1798 in Leeds County, Ontario.

According to Douglas McCalla in Consumers in the Bush: Shopping in Rural Upper Canada, Zachariah Hagerman

on 13 October (1808-09) bought 200 nails for 67 cents, 25 more expensive nails (at 50 cents per hundred), and a hammer (for 35 cents).

Zachariah Hagerman was with the 1st Regiment Leeds Militia during the War of 1812.

John died about 1813 in Leeds County, Ontario.

from Hagerman: Hageman, Haggerman, Hegeman

John Hagerman Sr. (1725-1813) married Phoebe Ferguson and lived near Poughkeepsie, New York. He and at least one of his sons served with the British army during the Revolutionary War, and in 1784 the family immigrated to Canada as United Empire Loyalists. They settled on land grants in Elizabethtown Township, Leeds County, Ontario.

A sawmill was an important developmental step in a community. Before sawmills, boards could only be sawn by two men with a whipsaw. In a sawmill, the circular motion of a water wheel was changed to the back-and-forth motion of the saw blade with a pitman arm.