Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 31802, for Samuel Knox, North Carolina
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Service                                                Number
  NC                      Knox, Samuel         S31802


Born in Penn
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Georgia 8/43
Samuel Knox
of Jackson in the State of Georgia
who was a Private in the Comp commanded by Captain Cowan of the Regt commanded by Col. Davy [Davie] in the N. Carolina for 8 months
Inscribed on the Roll of Georgia
at the rate of 26 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, commence on the 4th day of March, 1831
Certificate of Pension issued the 13th day of March 1833 and sent to Hon M Clayton, Athens Ga
Arrears to the 4th of Mar 33 $53.33
[Illegible] allowance ending 4 Sep 3   $13.33 =  $66.66
Revolutionary Claim, Act June 7, 1832
Recorded by Geo C Stiles
Book L Vol. 8 Page 136
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Samuel Knox

aomd
5 8 mo By
Specifa Legd
Coment of Hon AS Clayton




Hon M. Clayton of Georgia
Feb. 11. 1833
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Brief in the case of Samuel Knox of Jackson County in the State of Georgia (Act 7th June, 1832)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? a court
2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?
3. How old is he? 86 years
4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed.
  [column headings: Period. Duration of service 
  Rank. Names of Generals & Field Officers 
  under whom he served.]
 
  1. In 17 not recollected. near 3 months. private. Capt. Thos Cowan, Col. Davy [Davie]
  2. In 17 not recollected. 14 days. do. Capt. Joseph Dixon. Col. Lock [Locke]
  3. In 17 not recollected. 5 months or more. do. Capt. Thomas Cowan.
   4. In 17 not recollected. (or more) 14 days. do. Gen. Davidson
Stated that he served nine months in all

5. In what battles was he engaged? Ramsours Mills
6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Rowan County, North Carolina
7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditionary evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? Traditionary evidence
8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? no
Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
B. F. Pleasants Examining Clerk
Note: a commission is appended to the declaration but I do not perceive for what reason- no claim is made for service under it
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State of Georgia
County Jackson
On the 3rd day of October personally appeared before me. One of the judges of the Superior Court of said county [added] Samuel

Samuel Knox of the County of Jackson and State of Georgia aged eighty six years, tho being first duly sworn according to law doth on his death make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed 7th June 1832.
    That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers and served as herein stated. That he was drafted in Rowan County North Carolina year not recollected, under Col. Davy [Davie] and under the immediate command of Cap. Thomas Cowan and was marched below Charlotte in North Carolina and was there stationed near three months. This expedition was immediately after Gates was defeated at Camden in South Carolina and during which time the British army under Cornwallis was at Charlotte. That he was in the service at this time near three months. That he again volunteered under Cap Joseph Dixon in Rowan County and joined the regiment commanded by Col Lock [Locke] and was engaged in watching the movements of the British army while in Charlotte, and keeping in the scouting and foraging parties of the British army- in this service he was engaged two weeks- That he again volunteered in the same county under Capt Thomas Cowan and joined companies commanded by Captains Armstrong. and Fall, and fought a battle with Tories at Ramsours Mill where Capt Armstrong was killed and where the Tories were defeated. [ ] afterwards he was employed in attempting to prevent the British under
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Lord Cornwallis from crossing the Catawba some time before the Battle at Guilford. That General Davidson was killed on the bank of the Catawba when the British crossed, and that after the British crossed the Catawba he was with the army in pursuit of Cornwallis as far the  Haw fields in Orange County North Carolina and was at that place- sent as an express to General Green [Greene] who was marching to the south and met with Genl Greenes army at a undiscernible distance on the other or east side of Dan river and then returned to the  Haw fields with an express from Genl Greene to Coln Dickson, which express Genl Greene had enclosed in his saddle pack. That he was out in this last service five months or more, The declarant states that he had omitted a tour of duty he had performed before the battle at Ramsours Mills under Genl Davidson, that he volunteered and went under him to count a party of Tories that had collected at Colestons [Colson's Mill] near the Yadkin river North Carolina, had an engagement with the tories at that place and routed them, does not recollect the name of the Tory commander. In this service he was engaged two weeks or more. The above and foregoing are all the services that he recollects of performing in the Revolutionary War. and that he rendered the whole as a mounted militia furnishing his own horse and arms viz
   To the following interrogations propounded to him he answers as follows viz
1st Where & in what year were you born?
ans. I was born in Hanover County Pennsylvania in 1747
2nd Qst Have you any record of your age and if so where is it?
ans. I have a record of my age in my family Bible
3rd Qst Where were you living when you entered into service. Where have lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live?
ans. I lived in Rowan County North Carolina.
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I removed to Georgia in the year 1786 and settled in Wilkes County, and afterwards moved into Jackson County where I now live.
4th. Qst How were you called into service
ans. The first tour of duty for three months I was called by a draft, in all the other tours I volunteered.
5th. State the names of some of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served such continental & militia regiments as you recollect and the general circumstances of your service
ans. Genl Green [Greene] was the only continental officer that I knew. I understood that Col. Davy [Davie] also was but did not know. I have mentioned the regiments that I was acquainted and the Gen circumstances of my service in my General declaration
6th. Qst Did you ever receive a discharge and if so by whom was it given. and what has become of it.
ans. I have no recollection of receiving any discharge, if I did I know not what has become of it About the close of the war I received the commission attached to this declaration
7th Qst State the names of persons to whom you are known in your neighborhood and who can testify as to character for veracity + good behavior, your service as a revolutionary soldier
ans. Joseph T Cunningham, James Liddell Edward Story Middleton Brooks Andrew Cunningham
I served nine months in the several tours and have no documentary evidence by which to establish my claim nor do I know any person whose testimony can procure who can testify to that service. I have no claim whatever except the present to any pension & annuity and my name is not upon the pension role of any state agency
Sworn to & Subscribed the day & year aforesaid      Samuel Knox
Robt Smithwick JIC LS
Joseph Hampton JIC LS
[missing] JIC LS
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We Robert McAlpin a clergyman residing in the county aforesaid & Joseph T Cunningham residing in the same do certify that we believe Samuel Knox [illegible ] who has sworn to and subscribed the foregoing declaration is of the age he represents himself to be and that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to be a soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn to & subscribers the day and year aforesaid
                                   Robert McAlpin
                    Joseph T Cunningham

Robt Smithwick J.I.C LS
Joseph Hampton JI.C LS
Aug J Brons J.I.C LS
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrogations prescribed by the war department that the above applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the court further certifies that it appears to them that Robt McAlpin who has signed the proceeding certificate is a clergyman resident in the County of Jackson and that Joseph T Cunningham who has also signed the above is a resident in the County of Jackson and is a credible person and their statement is entitled  to credit
Robt Smithwick J.I.C LS          admd
Joseph Hampton JIC LS         8 mo. 
Auy J Brons JJC LS                  $26.66
I Sylvanis Ripley clerk of the Superior of Jackson County do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceeding of the said court in the matter of the application of Samuel Knox for a pension
  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and [illegible] officer this 6th day of November 1832
Sylvanis Ripley
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COPIED FROM MMHF
May 17, 1935 
SAMUEL KNOX
 S. 31802
BA-J/MLB
                                    
Mrs. H.A. Godby
College Park
Georgia

Dear Madam:
Reference is made to your request of recent date for the records of Samuel Knox, of Jackson County, Georgia and of Benjamin Shipp, of North Carolina, soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
The Revolutionary War records of this office have been searched and no claim for pension or bounty land was found based upon service in that war of a Benjamin Shipp, under any spelling of the surname; such claims are the source of Revolutionary War data furnished by this office.
   The record of Samuel Knox was found and is given herein as obtained from the papers on file in pension claim, S. 31802, based upon his service in that war.
   Samuel Knox was born in 1747, in Hanover County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not given.
    While residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted, date not stated, served two weeks or more under General Davidson and was in an engagement at Colestons [Colsons Mill] near the Yadkin River. He again enlisted, served five months or more in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina company and was in the battle of Ramsour's Mill. He enlisted in August, 1780, and served three months in Captain Thomas Cowan's company, Colonel Davie's North Carolina regiment. He enlisted, date not given, and served two weeks in Captain Joseph Dixon's [Dickson] company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina regiment. He was commissioned May 15, 1782, lieutenant in Captain Cowan's company in the Second Battalion of Rowan County; no statement as to service rendered under this commission.
   In 1786, Samuel Knox moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, and from there to Jackson County, same state, where he was allowed pension on
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his application executed October 3, 1832.
   There are no data on file as to soldier's family.
    In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of soldier's death, you should address the Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, and cite the following data:
Samuel Knox
Certificate 8143
Issued March 13, 1833
Rate $26.66 per annum
Commenced March 4, 1831
Act June 7, 1832
Georgia Agency.

Very truly yours
A.D. HILLER
Executive Assistant to the Administrator
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31802
Revy INVALID.
File No. S1,802
Samuel Knox
Pvt  Rev War
Act: June 7th 32
Index: -Vol. 2 Page 226
[Arrangement of 1870]
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June 2, 1904. Hist. to
Miss Hattie S. Goodman
Statesville NC
1924 Nov 17- Hist to Mrs Isaiah Hancock MMIH

1934- Feb 27- Hist to Mrs C.C.L. Rudicil EEay
1934 May 21. Hist. again furn. Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil.

1935 May 17- Hist. to Mrs. HA. Godby MLB

1940- Feb. 9 Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil advised no further data regarding this kinsman ILL
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OWN [stamped]May 26 1904 
FILES

Statesville, N.C.
May 21st, 1904.

H. Clay Evans
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington, D.C.

Kind Sir:
   I write in search of information with regard to service of our Knox men in the Revolution. Thought probably their names are on the Pension Roll at the Bureau of Pensions, Washington.
  I am at work on the genealogy of a Knox Family, the emigrant progenitor came from Scotland about 1740. Settled in Rowan Co. N.C.
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May 26 1904
FILES

He had 7 sons who were Revolutionary soldiers as we learn from the descendants on the several branches. Their names were: William, James, Absalom, Samuel, Benjamin. John + Joseph.
  James was the grand father of James Knox Polk, the 11th President of the U.S.
  Some of the descendants of these Knox men are desirous to join the D.A.R. and wish to obtain historical proof of the Rev. service of their ancestors.
  Would you please ascertain whether any of these Knox names appear on the Pension Roll, & if so what
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May 26 1904
   FILES

official information can be gotten concerning them.
By so doing you will confer a great favor from one of the Knox descendants.
   Thanking you in advance for an early reply, I am
Most Respectfully,
(Miss) Hattie S. Goodman 
Statesville, N.C.

(Your address was given me by Mrs. Annie Hilfong Goodman of Mooresville, N.C.)

(James Knox, the gr. father of Jas. K. Polk. was a Capt. in the Revolution.)
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Thomaston, Ga
Oct 29- 1924

Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Sir,
   Please send me any data the revolutionary records in your office may contain relative to the service of Samuel
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Knox who enlisted while a resident of Rowan Co. N.C. and applied for a pension while a resident of Jackson County Georgia.
Respectfully,
Mrs Isaiah Hancock
Thomaston,
Upson Co.
Georgia
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31802

3-068.
(Old No. 3-649.)
Bureau of Pensions
Samuel Knox

[illegible 3, 1832 - 86
Jackson Co. Ga

Rowan Co. NC
Capt Thos Cowan
Col Davy [Davie]
3 mons

Capt Jos Dixon [Dickson]
Col Locke
1-2 wks

Col Cowan
Col-
5 m
Bat Ramsours Mill

Born 1747
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Chickamauga, Ga.
Feb. 28 '34.
Department of the Interior.
Bureau of Pensions.
Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:
    Will you please send me a copy of the Rev. service of Samuel Knox (Sr.) The original copy sent from this department has been misplaced: application for pension & record in full please.
  Thanking you for your courtesies & promptness,
I remain
Yours very truly,
Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Chickamauga,
Ga.
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C.L. Rudicil
Justice of the Peace
General Insurance
Chickamauga, Georgia

Feb 14- '34
Department of the Interior
Bureau of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.

Dear Herman:
   A few years ago you kindly sent me records of the Revolutionary service of Samuel Knox (Sr.) also date of application of pension (which was Oct. 1832, I believe.)
   Will you please send me a copy in full, 
Yours 
Very truly, 
Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Chickamauga, Ga
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One Cent Stamp: College Park GA.
             Mar 4
             1935
              6 PM
Postcard: Pension Bureau
                Washington, D.C.
Seal: RECEIVED
        Mar 6 1935
        MAT SUB. DIV.
        VET. ADM.
        [illegible]
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Dear Sir,
     I would like to know the contents of the petition of Sam'l Knox, Rev. Soldier, of Jackson Co. in 1835-. Will you kindly send it to me. Probably he mentioned some of his children?
Thank you for an early reply.

   I also wish to know the record of Benj. Shipp, of N.C. Rev. Sol.

Yours truly,
Mrs. H.A. Godby
College Park, Ga.
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Summerville, Ga.
June 14 - '40
Veterans Administration
Washington, D.C.
My dear Mr. Willee:
    Please inform me as to the Rev. service of Samuel Knox, (Sr.) I think he was a resident of Jackson Co- Ga -There is a fort in south Ga- called Knox Fort. He is buried near that place.
   I will appreciate information concerning him
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as early as possible.
   Thanking you for your interest & curtesy.
I remain
Yours Very Truly
(Mrs. C.C.L.) Lydie R. Rudicil
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State of North-Carolina.
To Samuel Knox Esqr

We, reposing especial Trust and Confidence in your Patriotism, Valour, Conduct, and Fidelity, do by these Presents constitute and appoint you to be Lieutenant in the Second Battalion of Rowan under Captain Cowan
You are therefore carefully and diligently to discharge the Duty of a Lieutenant by exercising and well disciplining the officers and Soldiers under your Command, and by doing and performing all Manner of Things thereunto belonging. And we do strictly charge and require all Officers and Soldiers under your Command to be obedient to your Orders as Lieutenant. And you are to observe and follow such Orders and Directions, from Time to Time, as you shall receive from your Superior Officers, according to the Rules and directions of military Discipline, and the Laws of this State.
   Witness ALEXANDER MARTIN, Esq; our Governor, Captain-General, and Commander in Chief, under his Hand, and Seal at Arms, at 
Bellemont fifthenth Day of May Anno Dom. 1782 and in the seventh Year of our Independence.
Alex Martin

By his Excellency's
Command
Henderson PSec.
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February 7, 1940.
RA-J/ILL

Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Summerville
Georgia.

Dear Madam:
  Reference is made to your letters in which you request the Revolutionary War records of Samuel and Thomas J. Dillard, of Virginia, or South Carolina, and Samuel Knox, Senior, who was a resident of Jackson County, Georgia, also, the War of 1812 record of Hugh Montgomery, whose name appears in the Georgia records as early as 1786, who represented Jackson County in the Legislature in 1807 and in the State Senate from 1812 until 1825, and is buried in Menlo, Chattooga County, Georgia. 
   A search of the Revolutionary War records of this office has been made and no claim for pension or bounty land found which was made to the United States based upon service of any Thomas Dillard or of a Samuel Dillard, under any spelling of that surname. The War of 1812 records have been searched and no claim for pension found based upon service of a Hugh Montgomery who served from Georgia or applied for pension while a resident of that state, nor issuance of a warrant for bounty land on account of his service. 
   The record of Samuel Knox, who resided in Jackson County, Georgia, at the time he received his pension was furnished you February 27, 1934 and May 21, 1834-pension claim, S. 31802. This office has no further data in regard to that pensioner.
Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER,
Executive Assistant
to the Administrator.

3 letters- 2 with other carbon in misc files under Rudicil
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copied from Feb. 27-1934 hist.

May 21, 1934.
BA-J/ady
Samuel Knox
S. 31802

Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Chickamauga
Georgia

Dear Madam: 
   The data contained herein are obtained from the papers on file in the Revolutionary War claim, S. 31802, based upon the military service of Samuel Knox in that war.
   Samuel Knox was born in 1747 in Hanover County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not shown in the papers in the pension claim. 
   While residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted, the date not stated, served two weeks or more under General Davidson and was in an engagement at Colestons near the Yadkin River: he again enlisted, served five months or more in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina Company and was in the battle of Ramsour's Mill: he enlisted in August,1780, and served three months in Captain Thomas Cowan's Company, Colonel Davie's North Carolina Regiment: he enlisted , the date not given, and served two weeks in Captain Joseph Dixon's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina Regiment: he was commissioned May 15, 1782, lieutenant in Captain Cowan's Company in the Second Battalion of Rowan County; no statement as to service rendered under this commission. 
   In 1786, Samuel Knox moved to Wilkes County, Georgia, and from there to Jackson County, Georgia, where he was allowed pension on his application executed October 3. 1832.
   There are no data as to soldier's family.
   In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension, the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Samuel Knox (S. 31802), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:  Samuel Knox, Certificate No. 8143, issued March 13, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Georgia Agency.
Very truly yours.

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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May 21, 1934
BA-J/ady

Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Chickamauga
Georgia

Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letters relative to soldiers of the Revolutionary War and War of 1812.
   Revolutionary War data furnished by this office are obtained from claims made to the United States for pension and bounty land based upon military service of soldiers in that war.
   A careful search of the records fails to show such a claim on file on account of the services of James Montgomery as described by you or of George Rudicil or George Dillard, all spellings of the names searched. The War of 1812 records fail to show that pension was ever claimed on account of the services of John Dillard as described by you. 
   This office has no record of services rendered in the colonies prior to the Revolution. 
   The land grant which you state was granted on account of the services of James Montgomery may have been made by the state of Georgia and not by the United States.
   For information in regard to the military service of soldiers of the Revolution and the War of 1812 it is suggested that you apply to The Adjutant General, War Department, this city.
   The records of Samuel Knox and Peter Brickey are furnished you herewith on separate pages, as found in the respective claims based upon service in the Revolutionary War.

Very truly yours,

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator.
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[illegible]
BA-J/MMHP/eel
Samuel Knox- S.31802

Mrs. C.C.L. Rudicil
Chickamauga
Georgia

Dear Madam:
   Reference is made to your letter in which you request information in regard to Samuel Knox, a Revolutionary War soldier and a pensioner: also in regard to James Montgomery, who served from Georgia.
   A careful search of the records has been made and no record found of a claim for pension or bounty land having been made to the United States based upon the military service in that war of a James Montgomery, who served in the Georgia Troops or who applied for pension while residing in that state.  The grant or pension to which you refer may have been granted by the state of Georgia and not by the United States. The record of Samuel Knox is given below as obtained from the data on file in his claim for pension, S. 31802, based upon his military service in the Revolutionary War. (Searched made by EEL.)
   Samuel Knox was born in 1747 in Hanover County, Pennsylvania. The names of his parents are not in the papers in the pension claim.
   While residing in Rowan County, North Carolina, he enlisted, the date not stated, served two weeks or more under General Davidson and was in an engagement at Colestons near the Yadkin River: he again enlisted, served five months or more in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina Company and was in the battle of Ramsour's Mill: he enlisted in August, 1780, and served three months in Captain Thomas Cowan's Company, Colonel Davie's North Carolina Regiment: he enlisted, the date not given, and served two weeks in Captain Joseph Dixon's Company, Colonel Locke's North Carolina Regiment: he was commissioned May 15, 1782, lieutenant in Captain Cowan's Company in the Second Battalion of Rowan County: no statement as to service rendered under this commission.
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   In 1786, Samuel Knox moved to Wilkes 
County, Georgia, and from there to Jackson County, Georgia, where he was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832.
   There are no data as to soldier's family.
   In order to obtain the date of last payment of pension the name and address of person paid and possibly the date of death of the Revolutionary War pensioner, Samuel Knox (S. 31802), you should address The Comptroller General, General Accounting Office, Records Division, this city, citing the following data:
   Samuel Knox, Certificate No. 8143, issued March 13, 1833, rate $26.66 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1832, Georgia Agency.

Very truly yours

A.D. HILLER
Assistant to Administrator
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Rev. and 1812 Wars Section     [illegible]

November 17, 1924

Mrs. Isaiah Hancock
Thomaston, Ga.

Madam:
   I have to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim S. 31802 it appears that Samuel Knox was born in 1747 in Hanover County, Pennsylvania.
   While living in Rowan County, North Carolina he enlisted, the date not stated, served two weeks or more under General Davidson and was in an engagement at Colestons near the Yadkin River.
   He again enlisted, served five months or more in Captain Thomas Cowan's North Carolina Company and was at the battle of Ramsour's Mill.
   He enlisted in August 1780 and served three months in Captain Thomas Cowan's Company, Colonel Davie's North Carolina Regiment. 
   He enlisted, the date not given, and served two weeks in Captain Joseph Dixon's Company, Colonel Locke's
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North Carolina Regiment.
   He was commissioned May 15, 1782 Lieutenant in Captain Cowan's Company in the Second Battalion of Rowan County, no statement as to services rendered under this commission.
    In 1786 he moved to Wilkes County, Georgia and from there to Jackson County, Georgia where he was allowed pension on his application executed October 3, 1832.
   There is no data on file as to his family.

Respectfully,

Commissioner

I had to [illegible] his service according to dates of battles etc
Death not [illegible] AB