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Author: William Harrison Palmer
HENRICH (HENRY) SEEBER
Henry was born March 15,1741 in Stone Arabia, Tryon County, New York. Henry's father Johann Wilhelm Seeber was born in 1721 in Salzberg, Bayern, Germany. Due to Religious persecution of the Palatine Germans, he immigrated to Stone Arabia where he met and married Henry's mother Maria Catherine.
As a young boy, Henry lived in Stone Arabia, and German Flats. His father Wilhem was named the head of the Tryon County Safety Committee.
In 1767, Henry married Feronica (Fanny) Bartlett. They had four children named Margeretta, Wilhemus, Maria, and Suffreness.
Upon joining the militia, Henry was assigned to Captain Ryner Van Everen's Company, and 1st Battalion led by Colonel Ebenezer Cox. Henry's father, an uncle, and two other brothers were also assigned to this same unit.
Early summer 1777, British General St. Leger left Canada with around 875 British, Torey, and Jager troops. Their mission was to take Fort Stanwix, and meet British General Borgoyne in Albany cutting off New England. Along the way General St. Leger was joined by 800-1000 Native Americans.
When General St. Leger's Army reached For Stanwix, the call went out for the Tryon County militia to form under General Herkimer. On August 6, 1777 as they marched to relieve the seige at Fort Stanwix, St. Leger's Indians, Tories, and Jager's laid an ambush. As noted in “The Battle of Oriskany and General Nicholas Herkimer” by Paul Boehlert, and “Bloody Mohawk” by Richard Berleth, the 1st Battalion of Ebenezer Cox was first to enter the ambush.
During the battle Wilhem, Adolphus, and Suffreness Seeber were killed. Henry was wounded three times, but survived. Brother Jacob survived with no wounds. Henry later told a great grandson that what saved them was rain. Yes, a thunder storm struck and fighting stopped. This allowed General Herkimer to reform his lines of defense.
Henry lived for many more years. He saw what was once Tryon County divided into six counties. He spent his post war years in Herkimer, and Montgomery counties both of which were part of Tryon.
Henrich (Henry) Seeber died May 15, 1845. He lived to be 104 years old, and was buried with a musket ball in his leg. Henry was interred next to his wife Fanny at the Lotridge Cemetery in Little Falls, Herkimer County, New York. His grave is marked as a Revolutionary War Veteran. A monument was placed at the gravesite, and bears the inscription “A Soldier of the Revolution, He received three balls in his body at the Battle of Oriskany, one of which he carried to his grave.”
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