Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 18,923, for Samuel Knapp, Pennsylvania
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(8 - 1776)
SERVICE
Penn.
Knapp, Samuel
NUMBER
S. 18,923
Carded
CONTENTS
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Knapp, Samuel
Pen. S18923
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[bifold page]
1.040
Albany NY [underlined]

Samuel Knapp
[illegible] in the State of NY [illegible] 
as a Corporal in the [blank] 
Captain [blank] of the [blank] 
[blank] in the Penn.
for the [illegible] 

on the Roll of Albany
at [illegible: the rate?] of 88 Dollars - Ce. [Cents] 
to commence on the [4 crossed out] ^3th day of March, 1836
Certificate of Pension issued the 15. day of
1831 [and crossed out] 

[Round stamp reading: (illegible) NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES]

[illegible] to the 4th of
c-ant. allowance ending
 27
{R
corded [beginning of word illegible: Recorded] by
Book [blank] Vol. [blank]
Cat [illegible]
of $7.60
[illegible initials] 

[Right side of Bifold page]
Let to Albany [illegible] Jan 26.18
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[in bold, decorative print: Revolutionary Claims.] [faint, illegible word]
[ C. ]
Form of a Power of Attorney.

Know all men by these presents, that I, Samuel Knapp
of the town of Dryden in the County of Tompkins
in the State of New York
do hereby constitute and appoint
Aaron [illegible] my true and lawful
attorney, with a power of substitution, for me, and in my name, to receive from the United States
the amount of pay now due to me, under the act, entitled "An act for the relief of
certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828,
as a corporal in Captain (^Thomas Robinson Company) in the regiment of the Pennsylvania
line of the army of the Revolution.

Witness my hand and seal, this ninth day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & Twenty Eight

Sealed and delivered }
in the presence of } [outline of a small, diamond-shaped stamp]
James McElheny Jr   Samuel Knapp

Before me, James McElheny Jr a Justice of the Peace in the county of
Tompkins in the State of New York personally
appeared, this day, Samuel Knapp whose name is subscribed
to the foregoing power of attorney, and acknowledged the same to be his act and deed,
and also declared that the same was not given by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, 
levy, or seizure, by any legal process whatever, of the pay therein authorized
to be received, but that the said pay is intended to enure wholly to his personal benefit.

Witness my hand, this ninth day of August in the year
of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred & twenty eight
James McElheny Jr [illegible]

I, John Johnson -- Clerk of the Court of the county of
Tompkins in the State of New York do hereby certify that
[illegible] McElheny Junr -- before whom the foregoing power of attorney
acknowledged, is a Justice of the Peace.

In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the
said Court, this Eleventh day of August in the year
hteen [word eighteen partly illegible] hundred & twenty eight
John Johnson

[printed section with no blanks filled in]
[D.]
Form of Affidavit to be taken by Attorneys.
before me, [blank] a Justice of the Peace in the county of
[blank] in the [blank] of [blank] 
personally appeared this day, [blank] the attorney
named in the foregoing power of attorney, and made oath that the same was not
given to him by reason of any transfer, or of any attachment, levy or seizure, by any legal 
process whatever, of the pay therein authorized to be received, but that the said pay
is intended to enure wholly to the personal benefit of the person by whom the said power
was executed.
Witness my hand, this [blank] day of [blank] in the year

[blank] Clerk of the Court of the County of
[blank] in the State of [blank] do hereby certify, that
[blank] before whom the foregoing affidavits were
sworn, was, at the time, a Justice of the Peace, and duly empowered to administer oaths.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the
[L. S.] said Court, this [blank] day of [blank]
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Revolutionary Claiming
For the purpose of obtaining the benefit of the act, entitled "an act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the army of the Revolution" [next word crossed out] approved on the 15th of May, 1828 a I Samuel Knapp of the town of Dryden in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York, do hereby declare that I enlisted in the Continental Line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war and continued in its service until its termination at which period, I was a Corporal in Captain Thomas Robinson Company in the Regiment of the Pennsylvania Line__And I also declare that I do not remember of receiving any Certificate for the reward of Eighty dollars, under a resolve of Congress passed the 15th of May 1778---
And I further declare that I was not on the fifteenth day of May, 1828, on the Pension List of the United States--
Witness my hand this ninth day of August in the year of Lord one thousand Eight hundred and twenty Eight--- 
Samuel Knapp

Before me James McElheney one of the Justices of the peace in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York.  Personally appeared this day John Skilling and John Ellis of the said County who did severally make oath that Samuel Knapp by whom the foregoing declaration was Subscribed is generally respected and believe to have been a soldier in the army of the Revolution in manner as therein Stated. __ Witness my hand this 9th day of August 1828 --
[signed on right] James McElhaney Jr Justice Peace
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837
[heading in bold, decorative print] Revolutionary Claims.
Under the act entitled" An act for the relief of certain surviving Officers and Soldiers 
of the Army of the Revolution," approved 15th May, 1828.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
3Dec 1828.

The annexed paper, relating to the claim of Samuel Knapp
under the abovementioned act, is respectfully referred to the Secretary of War, with a
request that he will be pleased to cause me to be informed whether it appears, by any
records in the War Department, that the claimant has received, or is entitled to receive,
the bounty in land granted by Congress for service in the Continental Line of the Army
of the Revolution.
R. Ruth.
The Hon. the SECRETARY OF WAR.

War Departmt. [Department]
Bounty land Office
The records of this Office do not shew that Samuel
Knapp as a soldier of the Penna. line has ever
received or is entitled to bounty land of the United States.

Robert Taylor
9 Dec 1828
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oK

[Circular seal: OFFICE OF THGE AUDITOR FOR INTERIOR DEPARTMENT, emblem in the center of the seal]

TREASURY DEPARTMENT
Washington, March 17, 1911.

The Commissioner of Pensions,
Sir:
In reply to your letter of 14th instant [of the current month] (Record Division),
you are informed that according to the latest account rendered
the records of this office show ^last payment to have been made [to crossed out] in care of Samuel Knapp, War of the Revolution, certificate No. 1040.
at $7.33 1/3 per month, to July 16, 1847, the date of his death, to
Evans Humphrey, attorney for Samuel Knapp, administrator for seven surviving
children, whose names are not shown.

Letter herewith returned.
Respectfully,
H. C. Shober
Auditor.

[on the left: very faint circular date stamp, U. S. MAR 18 1911]

By 
James B Bell
Deputy Auditor
6 R

Form [number illegible]
Ed. Nov. 25 [illegible]
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S.T. 18.923.

Samuel Knapp

The discharge signed by Gen Wayne to which soldier refers in his statement of Jan 25, 1829 was not found in the case when opened by me, on April 25, 1910

L. Husner
A Wilson
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[bifold page]
Act 1828
Settlement
Treasury
Contd with
Invalid file
#
18923

[on right side of bifold page}
Samuel Knapp
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State of New York
Alleghany County
Clerks Office ss
[a seal that is blank appears affixed below]
I J W Sherman Deputy Clerk of the county of Allegany do hereby certify that Samuel S Ahight before whom the annexed affadavit was sworn, was at the time the said affadavit was sworn to, a commissioner to perform certain duties of a Justice of the Supreme Court duly commissioned and sworn  And that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Samuel S Haight and verily believe the signature of the said Samuel S Haight subscribed to the said affadavit to be his own proper hand writing
In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the seal of the County this ninth day of July in the year of our Lourd one thousand Eight hundred and twenty none
[signed on right] JW Sherman Dept Clk
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820
Samuel Knapps
[illegible] &
[checkmark]
S. Knap.
recd. Aug. 18. 1838
ackd. [acknowledged] 28.
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Thompkins County
State of New York
Ss
I John Skilling of the town of Dryden in said County, being duly sworn according to Law, testifieth and saith, that he is personally acquainted with Samuel Knapp named in the annexed declaration and knows that the said Samuel Knapp entitled for, and served during the revolutionary war, in Captain Thomas Robinsons Company in the   Regiment in the Pennsylvania Line, and that he the said John Skilling, belonged to the same company with [name cut off, probably S Knapp]
Sworn to and subscribed [signed] John Skilling

[picture copied on paper of the Seal of the State of New York, with eagle, two women, sunrise and the word EXELSIOR] 
STATE OF NEW YORK,
TOMPKINS COUNTY
CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS.
I CERTIFY that the within named Justice of the Peace before whom the annexed affidavits and preceedings were made __ was, on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to act in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature of "James McElheney Jr" subscribed to the annexed [illegible] such affaidavits to be his proper hand writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this Eleventh day of August 1828 [signed John Johnson Clerk]

D. D. Spencer, Printer Ithaca
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[bottom half of a round seal]
Tompkins County } [on the right: 2]
State of New York } ss

I John Skilling, of the town of Dryden
in said County, being duly sworn according to
Law, testifieth and saith that he is personally
acquainted with Samuel Knapp named in the
annexed declaration, and knows that the said
Samuel Knapp, enlisted for, and served during the
revolutionary war, in Captain Thomas Robinsons 
company in the [blank space] Regiment in the Pennsylvania 
Line and that he the said John Shilling belonged 
to the same company [illegible, probably Knapp]
John Skilling

Sworn to and subscribed
this 9th day of August
AD. 1828
Before me

James McElheney Jr Justice [illegible]
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State of New York
Seneca County  Ss
Peter Smith of Ovid in the County of Seneca and State of New York being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel C Knap formerly of Northumberland County in the State of Pennsylvania that he was personally & well acquainted with him for several years before the late Revolutionary War and during the war and for many years after the war. and that the said Samuel Knap [Knapp] and this deponent listed into Captain Thomas Robinsons Company of Northumberland and Pennsylvania the Continental services for during the war, and that the said Samuel Knap and this deponent served as soldiers in the said Company ^{two years and about six months] to the close of the war and that this deponent understood at the Close of the war the said Samuel Knap was regularly discharged & honorably from the service & which this deponent verily believes to be true but that this deponent did not see him discharged and further that this deponent was discharged at Old Wyoming and this deponent understood & believes that the said Samuel Knap was discharged at Northumberland --Dated March 10th 1829.
[signed on right] Peter Smith his mark

Subscribed and sworn this 10th
day of March 1829 before
one James DeMott Justice of the Peace

Note _ the word for in the 12th Line from the top and the words two years and about six months, in the 14th Line were interlined before sworn to
[signed on right] James DeMott J.P.
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I certify that I have been acquainted with Peter Smith the within witness more that thirty years and that he is a man of respectability and truth and veracity - Dated March 10th 1820
[signed on right] James DeMott - J Peace

I Cert
I Mather Marvin Clerk of the County of Seneca Certify that James DeMott before whom the within affidavit was taken was on the day of the date thereof a Justice of the Peace legally authorized to take the same and that I am acquainted with his hand-writing and verily believe the signature to the within affidavit to be his proper hand-writing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of the County of Seneca at Waterloo this 27th day of March 1824.
[seal affixed on left, no writing seen]
[signed on right] Mather Marvin
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State of New York
Tompkins County Ss
John Skilling of the Town of Dryden in said County having duly sworn and according to Law deposeth and saith that he is well acquainted with Samuel Knapp of the same place (who is now before him) and that this deponent knows that the said Samuel Knopp was a corporal in Cap.t Thomas Robinson Company of Northumberland rangers in the state of Pennsylvania in the year 1781 and that he this deponent always understood and verily believes that he the said Kanpp inlisted [enlisted] into said Company in the Spring of said year for and during the Revolutionary war also this deponent served in said Company with said Knapp for more than one year when this deponent was made a prisoner by the Indians and taken to Canada and was absent from said company almost one year and on his return to said company he found said Knapp doing his duty in it and that he always has understood and verily believes that the said Knapp did serve in said company until the close of said war it being the terms of his inlistments and was honorably discharged from the service -- 
sworn to and subscribed before me
this 28th day of March AD 1829. John Skilling

[signed] James McElheney Jr Justice of
the peace --

I certify that I am well acquainted with the above man and John Skilling and know him to be a credible witness --
[signed on right] James McElthaney Jr Justice
of the peace
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Moses Van Campe was Lieutenant in the within name
Captain Thomas Robinson Company and Thomas Chambers
was ensign in said Company

[bottom half of the text is upside down]


[picture copied on paper of the Seal of the State of New York, with eagle, two women, sunrise and the word EXELSIOR]
STATE OF NEW YORK,
TOMPKINS COUNTY
CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS.
I CERTIFY that the within named Justice of the Peace before whom the annexed affidavits and certificate were taken __ was, on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to act in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature of "James McElheney Jr"
subscribed to the annexed affadavit & certificate to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this 3d day of April 1829 
Samuel Love Clerk

D. D. Spencer, Printer Ithaca
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[printed form with blanks to be handwritten in]

[picture copied on paper of the Seal of the State of New York, with eagle, two women, sunrise and the word EXELSIOR]
STATE OF NEW YORK,
TOMPKINS COUNTY
CLERK'S OFFICE,
SS.
I CERTIFY that the within named Justice of the Peace before whom the annexed affidavits and certificate were taken __ was, on the day of the date thereof, a Justice of the Peace in and for said county, duly commissioned and sworn, and by law authorized to act in that capacity; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice, and verily believe the signature of "James McElheney Jr"
subscribed to the annexed affadavit & certificate to be his proper hand writing.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name, and affixed the seal of said County, this 3d day of April 1829 
Samuel Love Clerk

D. D. Spencer, Printer Ithaca

[bottom half of the text is upside down]

Moses Van Campe was Lieutenant in the within name
Captain Thomas Robinson Company and Thomas Chambers
was ensign in said Company
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Revolutionary Claim
[illegible]
Hon Richard Rush Esqr
Secretary of the United 
States Treasury -
Ithaca N.Y. Washington City
Dec 26'
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Dryden Tompkins Co. State of New York
January 24th 1829

Sir
I would inform you that I have not received any answer of any decision on my application for a pension, except, the receipt of said application. I feel anxious to know whether I am entitled to a pension or not.  Enclosed, you will receive my discharge given me by Genl Wayne, and an other writing given me by mr Quinn by order of Capt Robinson - I enlisted in December 1776 into Capt Brady Company in the 12th Pennsylvania Regt. and was transferred into the 3rd regt in the same line commanded by Col Thos Craig and at the time I was discharged [illegible] Capt McBullocks comy - my enlistment was for three years but I was held in service from Dec 1776 to the time of the aforesaid discharge - In April 1781 I enlisted again into Capt Robinsons Company for and during the war and continued in service untill the close of the war and was discharged from the service which said discharge I have lost - It will appear by the paper signed by Mr Quinn I think satisfactory to you that I served to the end of the war - My service as I stated [^the tim of]  application was guarding the frontiers of Pennsylvania against the Indians ~

Be pleased to let me know as soon as convenient after the receipt of this whether I am entitled to a pension or not.  Please to Direct your communication to Etna park off Dryden aforesaid -
I am very respectfully
your obedient & Humble
servt
John Ellis. for
Saml Knapp
[signed on left]
Hon Richard Rush Esq
JC JC
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1084
Corp
Penn
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***
the
L. Edwards in
Commiss of Pensions
S
Much & Fannis Bank
Albany Pension Agency
11.16
on the last of to
in purporting the monthly allowance
Samuel Knapp a pensioner and the act of May 18 1844
In your reply of the 1st with you state that he is entitle
to 87 per month and is
I am requested by the Hon. Mack of the County
of this State to send you the certificate by
which it appears that Knapp is entitled to $7th
on the grant to give in your special instruction
in the case
am with great property
then often
The W. Curley
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Aug. 28. 1828

Samuel Knapp, of Dryden in the County of Tompkins in the State of New York has applied to the Secretary of the Treasury for the benefits of the act, entitled "An Act for the relief of certain surviving officers and soldiers of the Revolution," approved the 15th of May, 1828.  He states that he enlisted in the Continental line of the army of the Revolution, for and during the war, and continued until its termination, at which period he was a Corporal in captain Robinson's company, in the regiment of the Pennsylvania line; and that he received a certificate for the reward of eighty dollars, provided by the resolve of the 15th of May, 1778; and further, that he was not on the 15th day of May, 1828, on the pension list of the United States, and that he has received as a pensioner since the 3d of March, 1825, nothing

The Third Auditor is requested to report how far the several statements are corroborated by the records in his office.
By order of the Secretary,
[signed on right] A. Dickens.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
THIRD AUDITOR'S OFFICE
2nd September 1828
It further appears that Samuel Knapp is not now on the pension list of any agency, and has not been so since the 3. March 1826

The name of Samuel Knapp, cannot be found among those of the Pennsylvania line to whom Certificates for the gratuity of Eighty Dollars were issued
[signed on right side] Peter Hagner Ani
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[bifold page]
[printed form with information handwritten in]

18923
INVALID.
File No. 198 [illegible numbers]
[illegible] Knapp
[illegible] Rev War
Penn line

No 1084
Act: May 15 1828
on Albany roll
Index: -- Vol. 1, Page 211
[Arrangement of 1870.]

[on the right side of the bifold page] 
Mch. [March] 14, 1911.
To Aud. Int. Dept. for date of
death &c.
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3 - 871.
RECORD DIVISION.
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.

Briefed by L. Heisner
Claim No. [blank] 
Certificate No. [blank] 
Claimant [blank] 
Soldier Samuel Knapp
Service in 1776: 12" Pa regt
Addition Service Rev. War.
[blank] 
No [blank] claim, State records [blank], 190[blank] 
No claim, combination records [blank], 190[blank] 

REMARKS:
No Old War. Inv. Wid.
or Rej claim except
Rej [illegible character] : #6,014. which is 
not identical; service in
1776. Col. Coopers N. Y. regt.
[blank] 
0-8  Chief Division
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It appears Upon Settlement that there was Sixteen pounds seventeen Shillings and Two Penice [Pence] Unpaid to Samuel Knap [Knapp] of his Pay [^for Services in Capt Robinsons Company] upto the 4 July 1783
[signed on right side] 
Saml Quinn
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Samuel Knapp
S F 189  [illegible numbers]
Pa.
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J L Edwan
H [crossed out: Commr. of Pensions]
E [a circle crossed out]
E. Ames, Esqr.
Pension Agent
Albany, n y [illegible]
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Jan 16
James L. Edwards Esquire
Commissr. of Pensions
War Department
City of Washington

[written sideways on the left side of the page...]
Jan 16
Saml Knapp
[illegible]
[illegible] 1828
[illegible]
$80 [illegible]
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Rei 16 July 1829         837

State of new Yrk
Allegany County Ss  Moses Van Campen of the Town of Angelica County and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that he was a Said [illegible] in Capt Thomas Robinson Company of the Rangers Raised in the month of March 1780 for the protection of the frontiers of the State of Pennsylvania - And this deponent further says that Samuel Knapp enlisted as a corporal in the said company to serve during the war, and that he enlisted in the Month of April 1781 and served faithfully untill the close of the Revolutionary war & was honorably discharged after the conclusion of Peace
And this deponent further says that at the time the said company was raised the officers of the said company in order to encourage enlistments were instructed to hold out as inducements that the officers and soldiers were to have the same pay and anoluments as the Troops of the continental line - And this deponent further says that he supposed at the truce he served his country in the said company that he was on the service [illegible] as the continental Troops altho paid by the State of Pennsylvania and further this deponent saith not
[signed on right] Moses Van Campen
Sworn to subscribed
this 9th day of July 1829
before me
Saml J Haight
[illegible] for Supreme
Court
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See letter from
War Dept 6 May 1829
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3 -- 397.
(Old No. 3 - 399. )

[text on the left]
Record Division.
Ser. File No. 18,923
Samuel Knapp.
Rev. War.

[text on the right]
AW [initials]
F. W. , Ex'r.

[centered text]
Department of the Interior,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS,
Washington, D. C., Mch. [March]14, 1911. [the 0 in 190_ had a line through it]

SIR:

For use in the above-entitled claim for pension, you are requested to
furnish this Bureau with a report in the case of
Samuel Knapp,
pensioned under the Act of May 15, 1828 by certificate
No. 1040, issued May 15, 1831, New York Agency,
showing date of death, date of last payment,
and name of person to whom last
payment was made
Very respectfully,
J L Davenport
Commissioner.

THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.
Treasury Department.
O - 2

[rectangular stamp: OFFICE OF AUDITOR FOR
INTERIOR DEPT.
MAR 15 1911
Pension Division]
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[on the left: image of Great Seal of the United States , with bald eagle, shield, and E PLURIBUS UNUM banner]
Revolutionary Claims.
[on the right: oval shape with illegible characters inside]

Under the Act entitled to and for the relief of certain surviving
Officers and Soldiers of the Army of the Revolution approved 15 May 1828

I certify that Samuel Knapp of Dryden in the County
of Tompkins in the State of New York is entitled to receive pay
under the above mentioned Act as a surviving Corporal of Infantry
in the Pennsylvania line of the Army of the Revolution at the rate of
Seven - dollars and sixty six 2/3 cents a month payable during his life
on the third day of March and third day of September in each year.
It is provided by him that the said pay shall not in any way be transferable, 
or liable to attachment, levy, or seizure by any legal process whatever.

Given under my hand and the Seal of the Treasury
of the United States this fifteenth day of
March in the year one thousand eight hundred and 
Thirty one and of Independence the fifty fifth.
VD Ingham
Secretary of the Treasury

[printed on the left, vertically: Pay-Certificate of]
[handwritten vertically, in the center of the page, over the printed text: Cancelled]