Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29956, for Joseph Knowlton, Massachusetts
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(S177)

SERVICE                                 NUMBER

?             Knowlton, Joseph    S.2995
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I Paul Dodge of Newcastle in the County of Lincoln & State of Massachusetts do testify & say, that Joseph Knowlton as a sergeant of Nobleborough in the County & State aforesaid did serve in the Revolutionary War in the Continental arrangement One year & Eight months in Capt Richard Dodgers Company wherein I was Lieutenant of the Company the whole term of time in Col. Baldwin Regiment enlisted the first of May 1775. and honorable dismissed the last day of December 1776 to his pension and in my opinion is entitled Attest Paul this being a true statement of facts 
Attest, Paul Dodge
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State of Maine 
Know where I
In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress of the seventh of June, 1832 On this seventh day of July 1832 personally appeared before Nathan Weston Sen, a Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court for said State of Maine, Joseph Knowlton aged eighty two years and upwards, born in Ipswich Massachusetts, on the 27th of July 1749, old state now on record in his bible, now resident in Nobleborough in the State of Maine, being first duly sworn according to law testifies and declared, in order to obtain to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832, that he enlisted in the army of the United States immediately after the battle of Lexington as a Sergeant for the period of eight months in Capt Richard Dodge's company and Col. Loammi Baldwin’s regiment of Massachusetts troops, that he served out this period and was paid off on the last day of December of that year That the next day (January first 1776) as a Sergeant for the period of one year in Capt Richard Dodge's company and the same Col. Baldwin's regiment. that he served out this period and was in the battle of Trenton on Christmas night of that year, and on the last of December of that year was duly discharged as a sergeant at Newtown in Pennsylvania In my former declaration, my service as a sergeant was not --- put down or inquired, as equal provision was made for privates 
He further testifies and declares that the last of July or first of August he again enlisted as a sergeant in the army of the United States in Capt Flint's company and Col Johnson's regiment of the Massachusetts troops, in which he was that at the battle of Stillwater his captain and first Lieut St.
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He further testifies and declares that the last of July or first of August 1777 he again enlisted as a sergeant in the army of the United States in Capt Flint's company and Col Johnson's regiment of the Massachusetts troops, that at the battle of Still water his captain and first Lieut. were killed, whereupon the second lieut Porter was awarded to be capt. Orderly Sergt Wyatt was to be first Lieut and and the said Joseph Knowlton second sergeant was promoted to be second lieutenant, and as such served and did duty, followed the enemy and assisted at the taking of Burgoyne, marched from Saratoga to Albany, thence to Fish Kill, thence to the neighborhood of King's Bridge and was there some time in November 1777 about a month after the taking of Burgoyne duly discharged about two months as second Lieutenant. He further states, that in consequence of his leaving the army, he never received his commission as
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February 17, 1932 
Mrs. Samuel G. Babcock 100 Beacon Street Boston, Massachusetts.
 Dear Madam: Reference is made to your letter relative to Joseph Knowlton, a Revolutionary War pensioner. The data furnished herein are obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 29956, based upon his service in that war. Joseph Knowlton was born July 27, 1749 (old style), in Ipswich, Massachusetts. He enlisted May 1, 1775, served as sergeant in Captain Richard Dodge's Company, Colonels Gerrish's and Lost Baldwin's Massachusetts Regiment, was in the battle of Trenton and was discharged December 31, 1777. He enlisted August 23, 1777, served as sergeant and second lieutenant three months and nineteen days in Captain Samuel Flint's Company, Colonel Samuel Johnson's Massachusetts Regiment, and was in the battle of Stillwater and at the taking of Burgoyne. He was allowed pension on his application executed April 11, 1818, while a resident of Nobleboro, Lincoln County, Maine. In 1820, the soldier referred to his wife, Martha, aged sixty- five years, his son, Benjamin, aged thirty-eight years, and his granddaughter , aged eight years, her name and the names of her parents not given. In 1832, one Jacob Knowlton was a resident of Nobleboro, Lincoln County, Maine, no relationship to the soldier stated. Very truly yours, A. D. HILLER, Assistant to Administrator.