And the Oh, Welcome back everyone to

the one thousand one heroes legends histories and mysteries podcast this is your

host John Haggadorn and it's an honor to be sharing this history of a true

American hero with you today.

Many of my stories begin with some kind of personal or family connection to persons and

places in history, and this story is no exception.

I have always been interested in discovering the early history of my Hagadorn family in America.

Their first arrival in this country goes back to 1656 with the arrival of two German immigrants to the To be more specific, it was the tiny village of Alplats, which is Dutch for Eel Creek, just outside of Albany.

The British, ever the nation builders, were doing their best to inter-marry immigrants with Iroquois maidens.

Try to picture the language barriers there,

in order to strengthen the British Iroquois Alliance.

More Hagadors arrived in the 1709 Palatine immigration, which settled east of Albany on the Hudson River.

So within a hundred years, there were Hagadorn scattered all over upstate New York.

In tracing my family, I've only been able to document as far back as the birth of my great

grandfather James Haggadorn in 1812, somewhere in the Cherry Valley New York area. I cannot connect with documents who his parents were and

that's where my search ends. There was a close family connection with Johannes

Becker's family. It was Becker's residence that formed the Middle Fort, one of the three

forts located in the fertile Scohari Valley, which will come up later in this story.

James Hagadorn's son David's middle name was Becker. There's a very good

chance his baptism records are located in the annals at the stone fort in

Scowari, which as of yet I have not been able to visit.

Having studied the history of that area, I know that during the French and Indian wars, the British,

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