Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File R. 6026, for John Knight, South Carolina
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
S.C.

Knight, John

NUMBER
R.6026

CONTENTS
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State of South Carolina, Laurens District: In the Common Pleas
On this the seventeenth day of April personally appeared in open Court before his Honor B. J. Earle one of the Justices of the Court of Common Pleas now sitting John Knight aged
ninety years a resident of Laurens District South Carolina who being first sworn in due form of Law doth on his oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th day June 1832 viz., That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as by him stated. That he entered first for six months under Captain [John] Weathers  as a draughtsman in Kershaw District South Carolina who was under the command of General [Thomas] Sumter  and rendezvoused near Camden South Carolina marched thence to the Four Holes thence to Orangeburg where they joined Colonel [Thomas] Taylor and from thence to Edisto where he was stationed the balance of the six months and was discharged by General Sumter in writing which discharge has been lost or mislaid.
Second tour he enlisted for 18 months at Camden under General Blewford [Colonel Abraham Buford] he thinks, marched thence to Stono and was stationed there for the remainder of the eighteen months and was there discharged which was in writing and has been lost. Third tour he enlisted at Stono for eighteen months, was stationed there the
whole term lacking three months when he was carried from thence to Charleston across an arm of the sea and was thence marched to Camden under the same command thence we marched to the Waxhaw Settlements in South Carolina where they met the British and were defeated [Battle of Waxhaw] and immediately
afterwards they were disbanded and he went home without a discharge of any sort further than mere agreement amongst themselves to go home. Fourth tour he enlisted under General Sumter in the Waxhaw Settlement South Carolina in what year he does not know, for eighteen months,
rendezvoused at Camden, was marched to Eutaw Springs where he fought the British and was wounded in the breast with a bayonet, the British first left the Battleground
but returned and the Americans retreated and deponent was carried off in a wagon to Hillsborough North Carolina to the hospital, where he remained six months when his term of service expired and he was discharged in writing by General Sumter or by Captain Weathers by
Sumter's orders but his discharge has been lost. Fifth tour he enlisted under General Francis Marion in Kershaw District South Carolina and rendezvoused in said district & was thence marched to the lower part of the State, the term of his enlistment was eighteen months and served
out the whole tour under Marion and was discharged by Marion at the Waxhaw Settlements, his discharge was in writing but has been lost.
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Sixth tour, he enlisted under Colonel [William] Washington  at Kershaw District South Carolina for eighteen months and was thence marched down to Rugeley's Fort and took said Fort [Battle of Rugeley's Mills], with 
two pine logs put on wheels in imitation of cannon, consisting of five hundred prisoners amongst whom were several British officers whose names he has forgotten but that he and his party took the prisoners to Hillsborough North Carolina where they were left under guard and deponent and his party returned to South Carolina and was discharged by Colonel Washington in Kershaw
District South Carolina, but the discharge has been lost. Seventh tour he enlisted under General Green [Nathanael Greene] in Kershaw District South Carolina for eighteen months was thence marched to Camden and the British evacuated that place and went to Charleston and
General Greene and his army among whom was the deponent pursued the British to Charleston and their remained at what was called the Governor's Gate until peace was made and was there discharged which has been lost.
I do hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declare that my name is not on the pension roll of any agency of any state. 
John Knight, X his mark
Sworn to and subscribed the day aforesaid in the year of our Lord 1837. Sworn to in Open Court 18 April 1837 S/ John Garlington, Clerk

We, Hendrick Arnold a clergyman, residing in the State and District of Laurens & A. C. Jones residing in the same hereby certify that we are well acquainted with John Knight, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be ninety 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.
s/ H. T. Arnold
A.C. Jones
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid. Sworn to in Open Court 18 April 1837 
s/ John Garlington Clk

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 H.T. Arnold -- who has signed the preceding certificate, is a clergyman, resident in the District of Laurens and that A. C. Jones who has signed the same, is a resident in the District of Laurens, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit s/ B. J. Earle

John Garlington Clerk of the Court of Common pleas do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of John Knight for a pension. In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of office this 18th day of April 1837
s/ John Garlington Clk Laurens Dist
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Rev. War Section.

August 21, 1916.

Mr. Lucian Lamar Knight,
State Capitol,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Sir:

In response to your letter dated August 13, 1916, you are advised that in the claim of John Knight, Rej. File No. 6026, he alleges that he enlisted in Kershaw District, South Carolina, and performed various tours of service during the Revolutionary War under Captains John Weathers and Benjamin Hale and Colonels
Taylor and Washington and Generals Sumter, Marion and Greene; that he was at the battles of Waxhaws, Hanging Rock, Camden, King's Mountain, Rugley's Mills and Eutaw Springs, at which last battle he was wounded in the breast by a bayonet.

It is also shown that he was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina, but his pension from said State ceased under an Act of the Legislature passed in December 1834 which dropped all Revolutionary pensioners from the roll of that State.

His claim for pension based on an application executed April 17, 1837, at which date he resided in Laurens District, South Carolina, and was ninety years of age was never established owin to his failure to furnish the facts and documents on
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which was based the pension he received from South Carolina.
Very respectfully,
[signed] G M Salzgaber
Commissioner.
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John Knight
Revolutionary service
Supplemental evidence
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(Copy)
State of South Carolina
Greenville District
to the Honorable Speaker and the other members of the House of Representatives The petition of John Knight humbly showeth that he was a regular soldier in the Revolutionary war and that he served in the said War under General Sumter and General Green [Greene] and he was at the battle of [Camden] Gates defeat and at the Battle of Kings Mountain and at the Battle of the Hanging Rock in the said State and at the close of the said War Received a regular Discharge and now is Eighty three years of age and a very poor man and very infirm and is not able to make a living for himself and his old lady. Please your Honorable Body to take his case into consideration and grant him such relief as your wisdom thinks fit and in duty bound your petitioner will ever pray
John X Knight his mark
s/ James Alexander JP

South Carolina  Greenville District
Personally came before me John Rodgers being duly sworn and saith on said oath that he knew John Knight to serve in the Revolutionary war as a regular solder under Capt John Wathers [Weathers] and under Capt Benjamin Hale [Haile] and that he served as a faithful solder in that war and that the said John Knight Received a regular discharge at the close of said war. Sworn to and subscribed the 18th day of November 1831. John R Rodgers his mark
s/ James Alexander JP

I do hereby certify John Rodgers to be a man of Respectability s/J.A.  J.P.
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(then follows a schedule of John Knights property which it is not necessary to copy here)

South Carolina
Greenville District ⎬
 Personally Came John Rodgers being duly sworn and saith on said oath that he is well acquainted with John Knight in the Revolutionary war and that he served for State a regular solder under General Sumter and General Green [Greene] for a number of years and that he knew him to get a regular discharge at the close of the said war. Sworn to and subscribed before me the 3rd day of November 1830. John M Rodgers his mark
s/ James Alexander JP

(Another statement as to his property not Copied here for same reason)

State of South Carolina
Greenville District 
Personally came before me John Knight being duly sworn and saith on oath that he knew John Rodgers to serve as a regular solder in the Revolutionary War with Capt. Benjamin Hale [Haile] and also under Capt John Bell and that he served as a faithful soldier in that war and that the said Rodger Received a regular discharge at the close of the said war. Sworn to and subscribed the 18th day of November 1831.
s/ James Alexander JP 
John X Knight his mark

said John Knight is a man of good credit (signed) J.A. J.P.

The Committee on Pensions to whom was referred the petition of John Knight praying for a pension recommend that the prayer of the petition be granted and that the
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Petitioner be placed On the Pension Roll
(Signed) J H Holmes Chairman

In the House of Representatives Dec'r 1 1832
Resolved that the House do agree to the Report ordered that it be sent to the Senate for concurrence
By order of the House
Signed R. Anderson

In senate & Decr 1832
Res'd that Senate do concur and order to be ret'd to House of Repts
By order of Senate
(Signed ) Jacob Marley C.S.

Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Columbia SC
April  1st 1851
I do hereby certify the foregoing to be a true copy as taken from the papers on file in this
Office & that the remarks in parentheses are mine and are true
For Clerk of House
Benjamin Hart
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34036
John  Knight
So Cal

6026
Act 7 June 1832
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Laurens Court house April 20th 1837.
Mr J. L. Edwards
Dear Sir,
I send you enclosed the Declaration of John Knight for a pension. - The applicant has been a State pensioner for a number of years but has been stricken from the Pension Roll of the State under  the following clause of an act of the Legislature of South Carolina. "Be it enacted by the Senate and house of Representatives, now met and sitting in General assembly, That the names of all the Revolutionary Pensioners of this state, be stricken from the Pension Roll, from and after the first day of March, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand Eight hundred and thirty six which act was passed in Decr 1834. The petitioner is a man in necessitous circumstances and has no contemporaries living who could testify of their personal knowledge to his services and is also an illiterate man who has to depend altogether on his memory as to dates, names and periods It is to be hoped that his application will receive immediate attention and a prompt answer forwarded to me at Laurens C.H. S. Ca.
Yours Respectfully
C. P. Sullivan
Attorney pro petitioner
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[envelope]
Laurens SC
April 23   Free

J. L. Edwards Commissioner Pensions
Washington City
District Columbia

[sideways]
May 1
SC Act 1832
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Jno Knight
SC Act '32
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Jno Knight
So Car
See let C.P. Sullivan
May 26 1837
Hon D. Wallace 7 Sep 1850
Let Hon Jas L Orr June 20 1832 [line thru]

Act 7 Jun 1832
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United States Senate
Washington, D.C.
March 3, 1906

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir:

There was a Virginian in Washington's army during the Revolutionary War by the name of John Knight and it is thought that he drew a pension from the Government. I would thank you to have the records in your office examined and give me what information you can about this gentleman.
You will probably find that he moved from Virginia to either North or South Carolina.

Thanking you in advance for your kindness, I am
Very truly yours,
B.R. Tillman

P. S.
Mr. Knight was wounded in the stomach by a bayonet during one of the battles in which he took part and was probably pensioned on that ground.

[2 stamps]
OW&N DIV FILES
MAR 6 1906

FIRST DEPUTY COMMISSIONER
MAR 6 1906
US PENSION OFFICE
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3-080.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Ry File 6026
NAME OF CLAIMANT: _____
P. O. ______
NAME OF SOLDIER:
John Knight
Co. _____ Regt. _____
Revolutionary War

B R Tillman U.S.S.
-_____ 190

These slips are exclusively for the use of Senators in Congress, and when used by any other person will not receive consideration.
Senators will greatly aid the Bureau of Pensions in giving them an early answer, if they will fill and use these slips in making calls in pension cases.
.
V. Warner
Commissioner
6-758
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See Calix Letter  L. M. H.

March 9, 1906.
Hon. B. D. Tillman,
United States Senate,
Washington, D. C.

My dear Senator:
In response to your letter dated March 3, 1906 and received March 6, 1906, I have the honor to advise you that in the claim of John Knight, Rej. File No. 6026, he alleges that he enlisted from Kershaw District, South Carolina, and performed various tours of service during the Revolutionary War, under Captains John Weathers and Benjamin Hale, Colonels Taylor and Washington, and Generals Sumter, Marion and Greene; and that he was at the battles of Waxhaws, Hanging Rock, Camden, Kings Mountain, Rugeley's Mills and Eutaw Springs, at which last battle he was wounded in the breast by a bayonet. He does not make any reference in regard to having lived in Virginia.

It is also shown that he was a pensioner of the State of South Carolina, but his pension ceased under an act of the Legislature passed in December 1834, which dropped all Rev soldiers from the roll of that state

His claim for pension based on an application executed April 17, 1837, at which date he resided in Laurens District, S.C.

Received by AW Aug 21 1916
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Hon. B. F. Tillman.  -2-

Carolina, and was ninety years of age, was never established owing to his failure to furnish the facts and documents on which was based the pension he received from South Carolina.

Very respectfully,
Commissioner.
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Rev. War Section.
April 3, 1917.

Mr. Lucian Lamar Knight,
Compiler of Records,
Atlanta, Georgia.

Sir:

In reply to your letter of the 20"" ultimo, you are advised that you were furnished the records of the Revolutionary War soldiers, Richard Lock of Greenville Co. S. C. S. 21, 351, and John Knight of Laurens Co. S. C. R. 6,028, on August 21, 1916, and it is not the practice of the Bureau to furnish the same record twice to any person or organization, owing to the large number of similar
inquiries and the lack of a clerical force available for such a purpose.

Anybody designated by you may examine and collect data from a reasonable number of Revolutionary War claims by calling at the Bureau.

Very respectfully,
G M Saltzgaber
Commissioner.

See Mr Knights letter
in Richard Lock S21357
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I had to omit Gen. Blewford as there is no such person soldier probably means Col Abraham Buford but could not state that he alleges it.

The office letter dated May 26, 1837 cannot be found by Mr. Quigley - cause of rejection from book
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L.M.H.   (copy)
Pension Office,
June 3d 1852.


Sir:
I herewith enclose the letter of A. G. Wallace Esq. and have the honor to state that the services of John Knight must be proved by the certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina. The widow must prove by reputable witnesses that she and her husband lived together as man and wife and were so reputed. She must also furnish proof of his death, and the day of his death of such a character as to satisfy the Judge of the court.

Hon. James L. Orr.
House of Representatives.
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1906 Mch 9. History to Senator Tillman  M. B. H.
1916 Aug 21 History to Mr. Lucian Lamar Knight M.B.H.
written in S.F. 21.552 Richard Lock
1917 Apr 3. Mr L.L. Knight advised same record not furnished twice to one person (see her letters in Richard Lock, Va. 821351) AW

6026
John Knight
REJECTED
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House of Reps US
Washington Sept 2 1830
Sir
I am requested to ask you report the claim to a Revolutionary pension of John Knight, who was a soldier of the Revolution & resided in Laurens District South Carolina

Have the Report made to me that I may know the Condition of the Claim. I am not informed
When the case was first presented

I have the honor to be
Your obt svt
D Wallace

Hon. J L Edwards
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Hon. James L (Edwards?)
June 3 1852
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Pension Office
June 3d 1832
Sir,
I herewith enclose the letter of A.L. Wallace Esq. and have the honor to state that the services of of John Knight must be proved by the certificate of the Comptroller of South Carolina. The widow must prove by reputable witnesses that she and her husband lived together as man and wife and were so reputed. She must also furnish proof of his death, and the day of his death, of such a character as to satisfy the Judge of the court

Hon James L. Orr
H of Reps