Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 22865, for Lemuel Knapp, Connecticut
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SERVICE   Conn.
Knapp, Lemuel
NUMBER  S. 22865
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33.243
New York Albany
Lemuel Knapp, Dec’d 
of Washington Co. in the State of N. Y. who was a private in the – commanded by Captain Stanton in the – commanded by – in the Revolution for 9 months Conn Line
Inscribed on the Roll of Albany at the rate of 30 Dollars 00 Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of march 1831 & ending 3d April 1841
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of May 1854 and sent to F. F. C. Triplett Present
Arrears to the 4th of
Semi-annual allowance ending – 
{Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832.}
Recorded by H. K. Weightman Clerk
Book E 2 Vol 4 Page 39
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20381
Lemuel Knapp
Washington County New York
John C. Parker
North Granville N. York
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WAR DEPARTMENT 
Pension Office, 
May 27 1833
Sir. 
The evidence in support of your claim, under the act of June 7, 1832, has been examined, and the papers are herewith returned. The following is a statement of your case in a tabular form. On comparing these papers with the following rules and the subjoined notes, you will readily perceive that objections exist, which must be removed before a pension can be allowed. the notes and the regulations will shew what is necessary to be done. Those points to which your attention is more particularly directed, you will find marked in the margin with a brace, (thus: }). You will, when you return your papers to this Department, send this printed letter with them; and you will, by compling with this request greatly facilitate the investigation of your claim. 
A Statement, showing the Service of   Lemuel Knapp, Washington Co. New York
Period when the service was rendered.  Volunteer 1779    Duration of Claimant’s Service.  9 Months  Rank of the claimant.  Private   Names and rank of the Company Officers under whom he served.   Captain Stanton    Names and Rank of the General and Field officers.  Colonel Mead  Battles in which the applicant was engaged.   Country through which he marched.  Quaker Hill,  Danbury, Horseneck, Kings Bridge   Place of abode when he entered the service, and age at the present period.   70 Canaan Conn.   Evidence by which the declaration is supported. Tradition
I am respectfully 
Your obedient servant 
JAMES L. EDWARDS, 
Commissioner of Pensions.
Service in the State Troops of Connecticut is susceptible of proof and claimants are required by the Regulations to produce the best evidence in their power.
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REGULATIONS UNDER THE ACT OF JUNE 7, 1832.            
The following regulations have been adopted:                  
This law has been construed to extend, as well to the line, as to every branch of the Staff of the Army, and to include under the terms "Continental Line," "State troops," "militia," and "volunteers," all persons enlisted, drafted, or who volunteered and who were bound to military service, but not those who were occasionally employed with the army upon civil contracts, such as Clerks to Commissaries and to Store Keepers, &c. Teamsters, Boatmen, &c. Persons who served on board of Private Armed Vessels are also excluded from the benefits of the law, as well as persons who turned out as patrols, or were engaged in guarding particular places at night, and were not recognized as being in actual military service.              
Four general classes of cases are embraced in this law:  
1. The Regular Troops.  
2. The State Troops, Militia, and Volunteers.    
3. Persons employed in the Naval service.             
4. Indian Spies.                 
As rolls of the regular troops in the Revolutionary War exist in this Department, all persons, claiming the benefit of this law as officers, non-commissioned officers, musicians or privates, will in the first in stance, make application by transmitting the following declaration, which will be made before a Court of Record of the County where such applicant resides. And every Court having by law a seal and Clerk is considered a Court of Record.             
DECLARATION.                        
In order to obtain the benefit of the Act of Congress of the 7th of June, 1832.           
State, Territory, or District of 
County of } ss.
On this day of A.B. a resident (b) of personally appeared (a) before in the county of and State, Territory or District years, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the in the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832. That he enlisted in the Army of the United States in the year (d) served in the (e) regiment of the line, under the following named officers:    
[Here set forth the names and rank of the Field and Company Officers; the time he left the service; (and if he served under more than one term of enlistment, he must specify the particular period, and rank and names of his officers;) the town or county and State in which he resided when he entered the service; the battles, if any, in which he was engaged, and the country through which he marched. This form is to be varied so as to apply to the cases of officers and persons who belonged to the militia, volunteers, navy, &c.]            
He hereby relinquishes every claim (f) whatever to a pension or an annuity, except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any Agency in any State, or (if any) only that of Agency in the State of    
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. A. B. 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]            
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion (g) that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier, and served as he states. 
I of the Court of hereby certify (h) that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of for a pension.               
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office (i) this day of & c.            
If, on examination of the proper record the names of applicants, making such declaration, cannot be found, they will produce such proof as the rule given in note (j) points out.          
Every applicant who claims a pension by virtue of service in the State Troops, Volunteers or Militia, except those who belonged to the New Hampshire Militia and State Troops of Virginia, will make and subscribe a declaration similar to the foregoing, with the following additions, viz: (k) We, A. B., a Clergyman, residing in the hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be and C.D. residing in (the same) who has years of age; that he is reputed and believed, in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.                 
Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid.                 
[And then will follow the certificate of the Court.]     
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion, after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier, and served as he states. And the Court further certifies, that it appears to them that A. B. who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman, resident in the and that C.D., who has also signed the same is a resident in the and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.               
I, Clerk of the Court of contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension. do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court, in the matter of the application of for a pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office, this day of & c.         
Every applicant will produce the best proof in his power. This is the original discharge or commission ; but if neither of these can be obtained, the party will so state under oath, and will then procure, if possible, the testimony of at least one credible witness, stating in detail his personal knowledge of the services of the applicant, and such circumstances connected therewith, as may have a tendency to throw light upon the transaction.            
If such surviving witness cannot be found, the applicant will so state in his declaration (l) and he will also, whether he produce such evidence or not, proceed to relate all the material facts, which can be useful in the investigation of his claim, and in the comparison of his narrative with the events of the period of his  alleged service, as they are known at the Department. A very full account of the services of each person
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will be indispensable to a favorable action upon his case. The facts stated will afford one of the principal means of corroborating the declaration of the applicant, if true, or of detecting the imposition, if one be attempted ; and unless, therefore, these are amply and clearly set forth, no favorable decision can be expected. All applicants will appear before some Court of Record in the County, in which they reside, and there subscribe and be sworn to, one of the declarations above provided, according to the nature of his case.            
The Court will propound the following (m) interrogatories to all applicants for a pension, on account of service in the Militia, State troops, or Volunteers, except the Militia of New Hampshire and the State troops of Virginia.    
1. Where and in what year were you born?                
2. Have you any record of your age, and if so, where is it?          
3. Where were you living when called into service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary war , and where do you now live?               
4. How were you called into service; were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute? And if a substitute, for whom?              
5. State the names of some of the Regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served; such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your services.           
6. To a Soldier. { Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given and what has become of it? 
To an Officer. {Did you ever receive a commission, and if so, by whom was it signed, and what Town officer has become of it?              
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a soldier of the Revolution.                 
The Court will see that he answers to these questions are embodied in the declaration, and they are requested to annex their opinions of the truth of the statement of the applicant.         
The applicant will further produce in Court, if the same can be done, in the opinion of the Court, without too much expense and inconvenience to him, two respectable persons -one of whom should be the nearest clergyman, if one lives in the immediate vicinity of such applicant, who can testify, from their acquaintance with him, that they believe he is of the age he represents, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood to have been a Revolutionary soldier, and that they concur in that opinion. one of these persons is a Clergyman, the Court will so certify, and they will also certify, to the character and standing of other persons, giving such certificates. 
The traditionary evidence of service is deemed very important, in the absence of any direct proof, except the declaration of the party. And the Courts are requested to be very particular in the enquiry whether the belief is general, and whether any doubts have ever existed upon the subject     
Applicants unable to appear in Court by reason of bodily infirmity, may make the declaration before required, and submit to the examination, before a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record of the proper county, and the Judge or Justice will execute the duties, which the Court is herein requested to perform, and will also certify that the applicant cannot, from bodily infirmity, attend the Court.        
Whenever any official act is required to be done by a Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or by a Justice of the peace, the certificate of the Secretary of State or Territory, or of the proper Clerk of the Court or County, under his seal of office, will be annexed, stating that such person Judge or Justice of a Court of Record, or a Justice of the Peace, and that the signature annexed his genuine signature.          
No payments can be made on account of the services of any person, who may have died before the taking effect of the act of June 7, 1832; and in case of death subsequent thereto, and before declaration herein required is made, the parties interested will transmit such evidence as they can cure, taken and authenticated before a Court of Record, showing the services of the deceased, the person of his death, the opinion of the neighborhood respecting such services, the title of the claimant, and the opinion of the Court upon the whole matter.        
[a] The declarant must appear in open Court, unless prevented from doing so by reason of bodily infirmity; in which case the declarant will follow the rule laid down for his guidance.    
[b]   The declarant must make his declaration in the county where he resides. If he should fail to do so, he must assign a sufficient reason for not conforming to the rule.     
[c] The age of the claimant must invariably be mentioned.    
[d]  The declarant must mention the period or periods of the war when he served. 
[e]  Every continental officer or soldier must give the name of the Colonel under whom he served; otherwise a satisfactory examination of the claim cannot be had.        
Every claimant must state, with precision, the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the Department to determine to what amount of pension he is entitled. In a case where the applicant cannot, by reason of the loss of memory, state precisely how long he served, he should amend his declaration by making an affidavit in the following words: 
"Personally appeared before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace, &c. A. B. who, being duly sworn, deposeth and saith, that, by reason of old age, and the consequent loss of memory, he cannot swear positively as to the precise length of his service; but, according to the best of his recollection, he served not less than the periods mentioned below, and in the following grades:--For---year - months , and days , I served as a - months and --- days, I served as and for such service I claim a pension."   
It is important, in all cases, to determine with precision the period for which each applicant served, and the particular rank he held the law directs the pension to be paid according to the grade of the pensioner and the length of his service. The use of the phrase about three or four months, is too indefinite, and all such qualifying expressions are objectionable. Some persons who apply for pensions merely state that they served two in the militia, &c. without specifying the tours, the names of the officers, and other particulars respecting their service. This form of a declaration is highly objectionable. It must, in every case, be clearly shown under what officers the applicant served; the duration of each term of engagement; the particular place or places where the service was performed; that the applicant served with an embodied corps called into service by competent authority ; that he was either in the field or in garrison; and for the time during which the service was performed, he was not employed in any civil pursuit.    
[f]  The law makes the relinquishment indispensable. 
[g]  The opinion of the Court is always required.  
[h]  The Clerk must give his certificate in every case. 
[i]  The Clerk must affix his seal, and if it has no device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal, or if he has no public seal of office, the certificate of a Member of Congress, proving the official character and signature of the certifying officer, should accompany the papers.               
Mode of authenticating papers.              
In every instance where the certificate of the certifying officer who authenticates the papers is not written on the same sheet of paper which contains the affidavit, or other papers authenticated, the certificate must be attached thereto by a piece of tape or narrow ribbon, the ends of which must pass under the seal of office of the certifying officer, so as to prevent any paper from being improperly attached to the certificate.         
Proof of Service.         
[j]  In a case where the name of the applicant is not found on the records of the Department, he must prove his service by two credible witnesses, who are required to set forth in their affidavits the time of the claimant's entering the service, and the time and manner of his leaving the same, as well as the regiment, company, and line to which he belonged. The magistrate who may administer the oaths must certify to the credibility of the witnesses, and the official character and signature of the magistrate must be certified by the proper officer, under his seal of office. 
The notes from [a] to [i] are all equally applicable to the cases of Militia men, Volunteers and State Troops, The proof required by rule in note [j]  applies to continental troops only.     
[k]  This traditionary evidence is indispensable in militia cases. 
[l] If a witness cannot be found, the declarant must state the fact. 
[m] The answers to the interrogatories must all be written, and sent to the War Department, with the declaration.  
F. E. Bradford
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State of Connecticut 
Comptroller's office 
Hartford 
26th Septr 1834 
On examination of the Books of this office, it appears that in May 1779, there were two regiments ordered to be raised by voluntary inlistment for the defence of the sea coast and frontiers of this State, and not to be subject to join the contimental Army, or to be called to serve out of the State except in case of great necessity and then only in an adjoining state; to be holden in service untill the first day of March next, and every able bodied man that enlisted and equips himself by the 15th July to the satisfaction of his captain, to have a premium of twenty four pounds Lawfull money.  That Mathew Mead was Colonel of one of said Regiments. That Joshua Stanton was captain in Col Mead’s Regiment 
That said Regiment served, on the Western frontiers & vicinity. 
That on the 3rd day of June 1780 Captain Joshua Stanton exhibited, the abstract of wages &c for his company in said service amounting to £37,387.12.6 which was paid by this State and charged to the United States.  No pay rolls in this office of said service.  
Certified by Roger Huntington 
Comptroller of Public Accounts
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State of New York 
Washington County } ss. I Lemuel Haynes of the Town of Smith in the County & State aforesaid being Clergyman do hereby certify that I am acquainted with Samuel Knapp of the Town County and State aforesaid who lives in my neighborhood and do also certify that he is reputed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that such reputation is general and I believe him to be of the age of Seventy years and I do cheerfully in the opinion of his having been a soldier of the Revolution and state that he is esteemed a man of truth in which I also concur and that it is not convenient for me to attend Court.  
Sworn & subscribed this 20th day of November 1832 before me 
Lemuel Haynes 
John C. Parker Just Peace in & for the County of Washington
State of New York 
Washington County } ss  Luke Hitchcock of the Town of Granville in said County being duly sworn saith he is well acquainted with Lemuel Knapp named in the annexed Declaration and believes him to be Seventy years of age has been acquainted with him for fifteen or twenty years now last past, and that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the Revolution and that such reputation is general and I hereby concur in that opinion, and he further saith the said Lemuel Knapp lives in the neighborhood of this deponent and has done so near twenty years, this Deponent is aged forty four years & upwards, and saith his business is such he cannot conveniently attend to make this affidavit, in open Court and that said Knapp is a man of truth.     
Sworn & Subscribed this 24th day of November 1832. 
Luke Hitchcock 
J. C. Parker Just. Peace and I certify that I have long known the deponent Luke Hitchcock and can and do hereby certify that he is a credible witness and is so reputed wherever known 
J. C. Parker Just Peace
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I Jesse S Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington & State of New York that John C. Parker before the within certificate of Samuel Haynes and affidavit of Luke Hitchcock purport to have been sworn was at the several dates thereof a Justice of the Peace in and for the County aforesaid duly authorised to administer oaths and that the signature that is his proper hand writing well known to me as such.   
In Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand & seal of Office this fourth day of December in the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty two 
J. S. Leigh Clk 
State of New York 
Washington County SS  Noah Day of Granville in the County of Washington and State of New York being duly sworn saith he has been acquainted with Lemuel Knapp the Declarant in the annexed Declaration between thirty and forty years last past and that during the period of his acquaintance with him he has heard the said Lemuel Knapp State before the passing of the law of June 7th 1832 in Relation to pensions several years before that he had served under Col Mead in Captain Stantons Company according to his best recollection & belief at horse neck as stated in his declaration which he has just heard read and that it is generally believed in the neighborhood where he resides, that the said Lemuel Knapp was a revolutionary soldier and this deponent saith that the said Lemuel Knapp is deemed a man of truth and veracity in the neighborhood where he resides and wherever known and this Deponent believes the Declaration of the said Lemuel true from having known him as a man of truth and of his former declarations to him but he knows nothing of his actual service otherwise,  that he resides in the same neighborhood with said Knapp 
Noah Day
Sworn  & subscribed this 23rd June 1834 before me 
John C. Parker J. Peace and I certify that this deponent is a credible witness as I know of him many years acquaintance with him and that he is a deacon in Congregational Church in Granville. 
John C. Parker J. Peace  
State of New York
Washington County } ss 
Ezra Duel of Granville in said County being duly sworn saith he has been acquainted with Lemuel Knapp in the annexed Declaration between thirty & forty years and such acquaintance he believes the said Lemuel Knapp has [unreadable] statement in said Declaration and that he is Deemed a man of truth where he resides.  
Ezra Duel
Sworn & subscribed this 23rd June 1834 before me 
John C. Parker J Peace and I certify the said Ezra Duel is a credible person and respectable man.  
J. C. Parker J. Peace.
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State of New York. 
Washington County } ss On this 4th day of December in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & thirty two, personally appeared in open Court before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Washington aforesaid now sitting Lemuel Knapp a resident of the Town of Granville in the County of Washington State of New York aged Seventy years on the sixteenth day of September last past who being first duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.   
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named Officers and served as herein stated to wit.  That he was living at Canaan in the State of Connecticut and there came orders for drafting and the militia Companies were called together at Canaan aforesaid on the first of June 1779 and it was proclaimed that those who would volunteer and find their own arms and equipments should receive twelve Dollars bounty in Continental money that he this Declarant volunteered and received his bounty, Equipt himself in Captain Joshua Stanton's Company of Militia,  Lieutenant Benjamin Seeley,  Ensign Ambrose Redfield, Captain Stanton was from Salisbury, Lieutenant Seeley from New Milford, Ensign Redfield from Killingworth,  all in the State of Connecticut and this Declarant so volunteered for the Term of Nine months in Col. Matthew Mead's Regiment of Militia that the Company rendezvoused at Sharon in the State of Connecticut about sixteen miles from this Declarants residence, immediately after he volunteered and was marched from thence to Quaker hill in the State of New York from thence to Danbury and from thence to Stamford and to Horseneck in the State of Connecticut, where he was stationed at Horse neck for the term of his engagement about and until the first of March 1780 with said Regiment and served in said Company and Regiment the Term of nine months faithfully from the first of June to the first of March aforesaid when the Regiment was marched out as far as Norwalk about twelve miles from Horse neck and Dismissed, having been stationed all the said Term at Horse neck aforesaid in Connecticut adjoining New York.   
That during the campaign he knew the officers of his Company aforesaid named, his Colonel Mead and Major Tyler of said Regiment that there was no other Regiment stationed there at the time aforesaid, there was a Company of Light horse stationed near by but he does not remember the names of any of its officers having had but little connection with them.   
That during the time he was stationed at Horse neck aforesaid one hundred and fifty of this Regiment and this Declarant marched to Kingsbridge
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where they took Eleven British as prisoners and a number of herd of Cattle and marched back for Horse neck but were pursued by the British Light horse who came up with the rear guard killed and took forty of our men, this Declarant being in the main body safely reached Horse neck.   That he was never in any Battle.  
And he further saith he has no documentary evidence, and he knows of no person whose testimony he can procure who can testify to his service. He hereby relinquishes every claim what ever to a pension or annuity Except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State or territory whatever.   
And this Declarant in answer to the Interrogatories required by the war Department answers as follows 
1st That he was born on the 16th day of September 1762 at Danbury in Connecticut. 
2nd That he has no record of his age 3 That he was living when called into the service in Canaan in the State of Connecticut and after the Revolution removed from thence and lived in New Lebanon in the State of New York three years, from thence he removed to Poultney in the State of Vermont where he lived about three years, from thence he went to Orwell in Vermont where he lived two years from thence he came to Granville in the County of Washington State of New York where he lived about Eight years from thence he went Schoon in Essex County New York where lived Seven years from thence he removed back to Granville aforesaid at the commencement of the last war and has remained at Granville ever since being twenty years last June where he now resides 
4th That he volunteered where he entered the service was never drafted and never served as a substitute 
5th that he cannot state the names of his officers further than he has in the body of his Declaration 
6th That he never received a discharge from the service being only dismissed 
7 That in his present neighborhood he is known by Luke Hitchcock,  Revd Lemuel Haynes,  Joseph Brown,  Nehemiah Hulett,  Noah Day and others who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his service as a Soldier of the Revolution.   
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
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in open Court 
J. S. Leigh Clk   Lemuel Knapp 
And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after investigating the matter and after putting the Interrogatories prescribed by the war Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Lemuel Haynes who has signed the annexed certificate is a Clergyman resident in the Town of Granville of in the County of Washington State of New York and that Luke Hitchcock who has signed the affidavit on the same half sheet hereto annexed is a resident in the Town of Granville County of Washington & State of New York and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit. And that in the opinion of the court the Declarant could not conveniently and with out to much expense produce the said Lemuel Haynes & Luke Hitchcock in open Court.  
I J S Leigh Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas aforesaid Do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Lemuel Knapp for a pension.   And I further certify that John C. Parker before whom the annexed certificate of Rev Lemuel Haynes and annexed affidavit of Luke Hitchcock purport to have been subscribed & sworn was at the several dates thereof a Justice of the Peace of the County of Washington aforesaid and authorised to administer oaths, and that the signature thereto is the proper hand writing of the said Justice.   
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this fourth day of December in the year one thousand Eight hundred and thirty two on the top of first page
J. S. Leigh
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British [unreadable]
Lemuel Knapp
To be sent from War Department to John C. Parker agent North Granville Wash Co. N. York
23381
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Lemuel Knapp
Ser’d Act 1832. N.Y.
A. H. Markland
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State of New York 
County of Washington }  
Be it Known that on this twentieth day of January A. D. 1853, before me, the under signed, a Justice of the Peace, in and for the County and State aforesaid personally appeared Ira Knapp  resident of Miel Granville in said County, and made oath according to law that he is the  Legal Heir of Lemuel Knapp who was a Soldier in the war of the Revolution, and who has heretofore made application for the benefit of the Pension Act of  - 
That he is directly interested as a claimant in said Pension, and makes this affidavit to be filed with such additional evidence or arguments as his Agent may use in prosecuting said claim.  
Countermanding and revoking all Powers of Attorney and authority heretofore given, I hereby constitute and appoint C. W. BENNETT, of Washington City, my true and lawful Attorney to prosecute the claim of Lemuel Knapp for any amount of Revolutionary Pension, or increase of Pension that may be due; and I hereby authorize my said Attorney to examine all papers or documents to said claim, on file in the Department at Washington City or elsewhere, to file additional evidence or arguments to receive for my exclusive benefit, the certificate which may be issued for said claim, which certificate I wish made payable at the Washington City D. C. Agency; to appoint one or more substitutes under him for the purposes herein expressed, and to do all things that I might or could do were  I personally present.  
Hereby ratifying and confirming all that my said Attorney and Agent shall lawfully do in the premises.  
Ira Knapp 
Sworn to, subscribed and Acknowledged before me the day and year above written, and I hereby certify that I believe the said Ira Knapp to be directly interested in said claim as set forth, and to be the identical party herein alleged.  
Raymond Hotchkiss Justice of Peace 
State of New York 
County of Washington }  
It is Hereby Certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before me, Clerk of County and Supreme that Ira Knapp the party who has sworn to, and acknowledged the foregoing Declaration and Power of Attorney is the Legal Heir of the soldier aforesaid.  I further certify that Raymond Hotchkiss Esq. before whom the preceeding affidavit and Power of Attorney were made and acknowledged, was, at the time of so doing a Justice of the Peace, in and for said County, and that the signature purporting to be his is genuine. 
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of Office, this  this Twenty first day of January 1853.  
P. C. Hitchcock Dep Clerk 
1. Claimant's name or names in full. 2. Post Office address. 
3. “That he is the identical man” or “that she is the widow of the identical man” or “that he is the legal heir of the identical man” &c, &c.  
4.  Leave this line blank 5.  “He” or “she” or “they are”  6. Revolutionary Soldier’s full name 7. Claimants signature.  8.  Claimant’s name  9. Magistrate's signature.  10. “Identical”, “Widow of”, or “child of”.  11. Magistrate’s name.  12. Clerk's signature. –
N. B.  Should two or more heirs join in the foregoing, the plural should be substituted for the singular number
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State of New York 
County of Washington. } ss It is hereby certified that satisfactory evidence has been exhibited before the County Court of the County of Washington, being a Court of record, by the evidence of Dexter Hitchcock & Stutely H Cowan their depositions being hereto annexed, that Lemuel Knapp a reputed Revolutionary soldier of the United States died on the third in of April 1841 leaving him surviving, the following named Widow, viz; Thankful Knapp who also died on the 20 day of July 1851 & that Almira Knapp, Ira Knapp, Lemuel  Knapp & Asa Knapp are the only surviving children of the aforesaid Lemuel Knapp Deceased,  
And it is further certified that said witnesses are known to said Court & are credible & disinterested.   
In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed my name & the seal of said Court this first day of August 1853 
N. B. Miliman Clk
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Lemuel Knapp 
N 732 
A. H. Markland Present
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State of N York 
County of Washington } ss Depositions of Dexter Hitchcock & Stutely H. Cowan  taken before the County Court of the County of Washington, in open Court held at the town of Halem the first day of August in the year 1853 before Seamus Gibson sole Judge of said Court. 
The said Dexter Hitchcock being duly sworn says that he well knew Lemuel Knapp in his life time now deceased that he was a reputed Revolutionary soldier of the United States that he departed this life on or about the third day of April in the year 1841 leaving him surviving a widow named Thankful, who has also since deceased. That she died on or about the 20 day of July 1851. That said Lemuel Knapp also left Children as Follows: Almira Knapp, Ira Knapp, Lemuel Knapp & Asa Knapp who are all now living who are all the children of said deceased now living or who survived the said Deceased.   
And the said Stutely H Cowan being also duly sworn deposes that he is familiar with the fact, above detailed by Mr. Hitchcock & Concurs therein.   
And the said witnesses in ct. further deposed that they had no pecuniary
over
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interest in the application of the Children of said deceased for pension.
Dexter Hitchcock
Stutely H. Cowan
Sworn, examined & subscribed in open Court Aug 1 1853
N. B. Milliman
Clk [unreadable] court
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Add ev case of Lemuel Knapp
NY 1832 Susp’d 
A. H. Markland
Recd March 25th 1854
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Washington City February 11th 1854 
Hon L. P. Waldo
Sir
I enclose herewith, an order of Court in the case Lemuel Knapp of New York, Suspended under act 7th June 1832.  I insist that the evidence which was filed in 1834 is amply sufficient to establish the claim. Mr Knapp in December 1832 asserted his claim in which he claimed to have served in Capt Joshua Stantons Company, Col Matthew Meads Regt of Connt Militia for 9 months commencing in June 1779 & ending in March 1780, he was required to produce Evidence of his service. He succeeded in 1834, two years after his declaration, in getting a certificate from the Comptroller of Connecticut, which corroborated fully his statements respecting the time of his enlistment & the duration thereof as well as the names of the officers under whom he served, he also stated in his declaration that his Captain was from Salisbury, which statement is sustained by the records of your office. I hope the case will now be allowed.   
I am Sir Very Respectfully yr obt svt 
A. H. Markland
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Hon L. P. Waldo
Commr Pensions
[unreadable]
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Washington, Apl 11 1854 
Sir
In response to the letter of Mr. Markland relating to the claim of Lemuel Knapp, of N. Y., Act ‘32, your office says that no evidence has been filed since the date of the previous letter suspending it.  As it was never intended that any such evidence have [unreadable] filed, this is no reply, for in any of the [unreadable] that the evidence then filed was insufficient.  Mr. Knapp alleged service under Capt. Stanton & Col Mead be proved,  that he was a man of unblemished character and respected [unreadable], that he had a [unreadable] from the reputation of having been a  Revolutionary soldier, and that for many years before the passage of the Act of June  June 1832, when he could have no interest in perverting the truth, he had made the same statement which he then made for his services. It would be a strange kind of construction which would argue that a man whose word was implicitly  relied on by his neighbors had been in the habit of always misrepresenting the fact in a matter for which
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he could hope to claim no advantage, and this way [unreadable] him. In addition to this, we were by a Record from VT that precisely the service he claimed was performed and that his name is not present herein the name of no private is preserved, or there if he idd not have the faculty of telling the truth as to the fact, he had that of divining evidence not then known to exist and it must be evidenced either that his statement was bound upon the truth or upon such aa marvellous power of injection as it more improbably.
Very Respt.
F. F. C. Triplett
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Washington July 6th 1853
Hon L. P. Waldo
I respectfully ask an examination of the case of Lemuel Knapp of New York under act June 7th 1832 Suspended, the evidence of which was filed in 1834 is amply sufficient to pass the claim.
I am very Respectfully
A. H. Markland
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Brief in the case of Lemuel Knapp, deceased 
Washington County and State of New York 
act June 7, 1832 
Claim, (“original," ) 
Proof exhibited, (if original.) 
Is it documentary, traditionary, or supported by rolls? If either, state the substance. 
Service shows by Certificate of Comptroller of Connecticut 
Date of death of Lemuel and heirship of claimant shown by certificate of Court accompanied by affidavits 
Claim admitted by order of Commissioner 
(If for increase.) Has additional evidence been filed since the admission of the claim? If so, what? 
F.F.C. Triplett Esqr Present 
Name and residence of Agent 
R. Geddes Examining Clerk.
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Lemuel Knapp
N Y Act ‘32
Hon L. P. Waldo
Commr of Pensions
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Washington Apl 14 1854 
In your communication of the 14th [unreadable], that the name of Lemuel Knapp is not sufficiently established—As I think it is, there is a [unreadable] difference of opinion between us, and I could like to know in where the disparity exists.
Very Respect
F. F. C. Triplett
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Rec’d
Free 
James L. Edwards Esq 
Commissioner of Pensions 
War Office 
Washington City
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North Granville Wash. Co. N.Y. Sept 17th 1834 
I have recd from Connecticut a certificate which I have annexed to the Declaration of Mr Knapp, and have added the afft [affidavits] of Noah Day and Ezra Duel, Mr Knapps neighbors which is all the proof in his power to obtain that he now knows of, and as he is very poor he hopes the additional proof now sent will be sufficient as the Certificate of the Comptrotter corroborates his Declaration in relation to the officers, there being no pay rolls.   
Your obedt Servant 
J. C. Parker 
J. L. Edwards Esq 
Commr of Pensions
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Lemuel Knapp
NY
Suspended
Letter to J. C. Parker 10 Oct ‘34
A. H. Markland Sept 8 1853
F. F. C. Triplett April 14 / 54
To same April 24 / 54
Same April 26 / 54
Act 7 June ‘32
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No. 20381
Lemuel Knapp, deceased, Washington County New York
Admitted – Act June 7, 1832
9 months private Infantry at rate of $30 per annum Commencing 4th March 1831 and ending 3d April 1841 when he died
Pay to 
Almira Knapp
Ira Knapp
Lemuel Knapp
& Asa Knapp only surviving children of said Lemuel dec’d
Certificate to 
F. F. C. Triplett Esqr
Washington D. C.
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Revolution
22865
INVALID
File No. 22,865
Lemuel Knapp
Pri Rev War
Act June 7” 32”
Index:- Vol 2, Page 235
[Arrangement of 1870.]
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THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES 
Form VAM-51 
12-5-41 
BOUNTY LAND WARRANT RECORD CARD* 
Division of Veterans' Administration Archives 
NAME  Knapp, Lothrop    GRADE  Private    LINE  Massachusetts
WARRANT NUMBER   4516  ACREAGE  100   ISSUED  Nov 29, 1792 to Terrell Tufts
The information concerning the issuance of warrants carded on this form is found in volumes 2 to 4 of "Land Warrants Issued Prior to 1800" which are Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in The National Archives. registers of bounty land warrants issued to non-commissioned officers and privates under congressional resolutions of September 16, 1776, and subsequent dates. Other records relative to the applications for warrants appear to have been destroyed in the War Department fire of November 9, 1800.  Information concerning warrants surrendered to the Federal Government is to be found in General Land Office records in the National Archives.