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| In 1757 according to the report of the French authorities in Canada, there were two dwellings below Fall Hill. Warner Dygert, a brother-in-law of General Herkimer, and a leader among the patriots kept a hotel at Fall Hill prior to the revolution. According to Simm’s book “The Frontiersmen”, four Indians ambushed Dygert and his son Sylvanus during one of Johnson’s 1780 raids. Warner Dygert was killed and scalped. His son, aged twelve years, named according to family tradition Sylvanus, was taken to Canada where he spent the remainder of the war. He returned to his surviving friends, at the end of his captivity, in company with Mr. Dunckel and Mrs. Pletts, and other captives from the Canajoharie district. The widow of Warner Dygert married a Snell, and at his death she married John Roorback, who outlived her. Sufferenas Dygert went to live in Canada after the war, and some years after came back and made a unsuccessful attempt to get a pension from our government; went back to Canada and remained there.
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