Ezra
WAGER
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1748
- after 1810
Father: Andrew WAGER
Mother: Elizabeth DICKERSON
Family 1 : Mary SWAYZE
1. Nathan WAGER
3. Daniel Dickerson WAGER
4. Ezra Swayze WAGER
5. Elias WAGER
6. Electra WAGER
Family 2 : Sarah "Sally" SWAYZE
___
Andrew WAGER___
| (.... - 1705-17) m 1689
____Charles WAGER____|
| (1693 - ....) m 1713
| ____Hope ALLEN___________
| |__ Elizabeth ALLEN____| (ca1625 - 1677)
m
| (1672 -
1705) m 1689 |_____Hannah TOWNSEND____+
__ Andrew WAGER_____|
(1641 - 1721) m
| (1720 - 1788) m 1743 |
|
| ____John EADES______
|
| | (.... - 1692) m 1674
|
|_____Sarah EADES_____|
| (1691 - 1736) m 1713
|
____Peter TUFTS___________
|
|____Mary TUFTS______| (1617 - 1700) m 1646/7
|
(1655 - 1707) m 1674 |______Mary
PIERCE________+
|
(1627/8 - 1702/3) m 1646/7
|-
- Ezra WAGER
| (1748 - after1810) m
___Philemon DICKERSON___+
| __Peter DICKERSON______| (1597/8 - 1672) m
|
| (1648 - 1721/2) m 1681 |______Mary PAINE________+
|
_Thomas DICKERSON___| (1611
- 1697/8) m
|
| (1686(98) - 1725) m 1715
| ___Thomas MAPES________+
|
| |__Naomi MAPES_________| (1628 - 1686/7) m
1653
|
| (1667 -
1725) m 1681 |___Sarah PURRIER_________+
|_
Elizabeth DICKERSON_|
(1630 - 1697) m 1653
(.... - ....) m
|
____Thomas REEVE_________+
| ____John REEVE________| (1624 - 1682)
m 1653
| | (1650-60 - 1712) m |_____Mary
?????____________
|____Abigail REEVE______| (1628 -
before 1696) m 1653
(before 1686 - 1750) m1715 | ___Richard BROWNE________+
|__Hannah BROWNE______| (ca1625 - 1688) m
1650
(1658 - 1708) m |____Hannah
KING___________+
(ca1629 - after 1688) m 1650
TIMELINE
1748
1749
1750
1751
1752
1753
1754
1755
1756
1757
1758
1759
1760
1761
1762
1763
1764
1765
1766
1767
1768
1769
1770
1771
1772
1773
1774
1775
1776
1777
1778
1779
1780
1781
1782
1783
1784
1785
1786
1787
1788
1789
1790
1791
1792
1793 - Nathan is born
1794 - Benjamin is born
1795
1796
1797
1798
1799
1800
1801
1802
1803
1804
1805
1806
1807
1808 - moved to New York
1809
1810
????
INDEX
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Mary Wheeler has made the following notes in her research:
Ezra served as a private in Morris
Co., NJ militia, serving in the Revolutionary War and lived in Roxbury Township
("Men from Morris Co., NJ who Served in the American Revolution,"
Barbara Hoskins). Ezra was later a member of the Morris Co. Militia from
Roxbury in 1793 (Morris Co. (NJ) Militia list - 1793)
Ezra Wager appears on the tax rolls of Chester, Morris Co., NJ 1802-03, 1805,
& 1807 (from "The American Tax List Indices"). Vol. Q., page 83, 18
Feb. 1808, Morris Co., NJ Deeds: Ezra Wager and Sally his wife, Chester Twp.,
sold property to David Brown, Chester Twp. (This deed was not read.)
Ezra Wager and brothers Joseph and Andrew left NJ and removed to the Finger
Lakes region of New York state. Based on the above tax and deed records, this
move likely occurred in about 1808 when Ezra sold his land in Chester Twp., NJ.
.
There is no will listed for Ezra Wager in the Cayuga Co. Will index.
The conclusion that Nathan and Benjamin were sons of Ezra is based on the process of elimination, i.e., information about the children of the other Wager brothers who moved to New York (Joseph and Andrew) doesn't include Nathan or Benjamin. It's possible that another Wager brother moved to New York with Ezra, Joseph and Andrew (in fact there is even evidence of a Wager brother named Benjamin in New Jersey) and his name doesn't appear on census records because he lived in the household of one of his other brothers, but this is unlikely. Record of Benjamin I. Wager's first three sons (Peter, William and John, born in 1810, 1815 and 1818 respectively) in the town of Lyons, New York, is reliable information from the family Bible. Ezra lived in Genoa, New York, which is located about 40 miles SE of Lyons (Joseph and Andrew lived in towns further away). A deed from 1817 in Nathan Wager's name (purchasing land on "Butternutt Street," Lyons, New York) certainly suggests that Benjamin and Nathan Wager might have even lived together in Lyons, New York, but it is still unknown where they might have been living in 1810 when Benjamin was only 16 years old and his first son Peter was born. Nathan's obituary in the magazine Jerseymen suggests he was born in New Jersey while Benjamin's listing in the 1855 New York State Census also proves he was born in New Jersey (not at all part of the German "Wager" clan from Dutchess County).
Ezra Wager's sons David Dickerson Wager, Ezra Swayze Wager and Elias Wager appear in church records in St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana, listing their parents as "Ezra Wager and Mary Swesey." Elias also appears on the tax records in Brookville, Indiana, where Benjamin I. Wager's fourth son, Lewis Wager, was born.
I've also received information that there was a sister among the Wager men who traveled to Brookville, Franklin County, Indiana, in the 1820s. She was born about 1803. A researcher gave this information to me about Electa's four marriages: "To John W. Riggs (10 Jan 1822) in Franklin County, Indiana. and had at least two children. William L. Riggs b. abt 1822 and Daniel Dickerson Riggs b. 2 Apr 1823. Her second marriage was to a man with surname of "Row". She had three children with him. Sarah . John and Eliza. Her third marriage was to Jonathan Gillis. marriage 3 Mar 1842, in Edgar County, Illinois and had one child Melissa Ann. And her final marriage was to Washington McQuiod marriage 27 May 1850 in Edgar County, Illinois. Her last know residence was in Coles County, Illinois in the 1860 census."
A writ written in 1800 by High Sheriff Jacob Arnold describes how Ezra's brother Joseph and his wife administered the property of father Andrew Wager upon his death in 1788, and how Ezra stepped in to bid on the property in question.
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