Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,801, for Samuel Knapp, Connecticut
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(3-1776)

SERVICE
Conn.
Continental

Knapp, Samuel

NUMBER
S. 42.801

Enlisted in Conn.

CONTENTS
Hannah, widow of this soldier, was
pensioned as former widow of
John Burger, Mass. W.16319.
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New York Roll. 

1,303

V 
Samuel Knapp, 
Capt Hoyt Private
Connecticut Line
'76 - 3 years at war

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In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War. [typed]

Inscribed on the Roll of [typed] New York [handwritten]
at the rate of [typed] 8 [written] Dollars per month, to commence on 
the [typed] 8th [written] of April 1818 [written].

Certificate of Pension issued the 30 of June 1818, 
and sent to Stephen Phelps, Esq. 
Canandaigua, N. York. 

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1818.

4 months 27/100 
$39.20

{Revolutionary Claim, Act 18th March 1818}
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New York Roll. 
1,303

V Samuel Knapp
Capt Hoyt Private
Connecticut line
'76 - 3 years and war
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.

Inscribed on the Roll of New York
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence
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In the matter of Samuel Knapp a Pensioner
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State of New York  
County of Ontario } ss  On this 23d day of May 1823 personally appeared in open Court being a Court of Common Pleas in and for said County and constituted a Court of record by proceeding according to the course of the Common law with a jurisdiction unlimited in point of amount and keeping a record of its proceedings  and recognized as such court by the laws and judicial decisions of said State,  Samuel Knapp of Canandaigua resident in said county aged sixty seven years who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820 he the said Samuel Knapp enlisted for the term of during the War on the - day of June in the year 1775 in the State of Connecticut in the Company commanded by Captain Stevens in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Lambs in the line of the State of Connecticut on the continental establishment,  that he continued to serve in the said Corps until June 1783 when he was discharged from the said service in West point in the State of New York that his name has been placed on the pension list and dropt therefrom on account of his property.   And in pursuance of the act of the 1st May 1820 I do solemnly swear that I was a resident Citizen in the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress entitled “An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War" passed on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities contracts or debts due to me nor have any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed viz 
2 Cows 24. 1 yoke of steers 26   50
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11 Sheep 11
Sundry Small articles of household furniture 6
$ 64
That I am by occupation a Farmer but and not able to do but little work that my wife resides with me aged sixty nine year in tolerable health.  That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property viz One horse and several sheep sold to buy Grain &c to support my family,  one cow since dead.  
Witness O Seymour 
Samuel Knapp x his mark
Sworn in Open Court Ralph Lester Dep Clk 
State of New York 
Ontario County }  SS 
I Ralph Lester Deputy Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County  do hereby certify that it appears to the satisfaction of the Court that the said Samuel Knapp did serve in the Revolutionary War as stated in the preceding declaration against the common enemy for the term of nine months under one engagement on the Continental establishment.  I also certify that the foregoing oath and schedule thereto annexed are truly copied from the records of the said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of the said Court that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid Schedule is Sixty seven dollars.   In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court this 28th day of May 1823. 
Ralph Lester Dep Clk
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State of New York 
Ontario County } ss  Samuel Knapp of the town of Canandaigua in the County of Ontario and State aforesaid being duly sworn deposeth and saith that at the Commencing of the revolutionary war he enlisted for one year in the Continental service in the Connecticut line in Colonel Charles Webbs Regiment of Stanford in Captain Hoyt Company and at the Expiration of said year he enlisted for three years and served the aforesaid three years in Col Webbs Regiment aforesaid and at the Expiration of said of time he enlisted during the war in Colonel James Regiment of Artillery in Captain William Stevens Company in said Regiment and the deponent further saith that at the close of the war he received an honourable discharge which is now in the hands of Silas Lyon (in Consequence of an article herewith inclosed accompanying this representation) who now if living resides in the State of Connecticut and it is not in his power to obtain said discharge and the deponent further saith that he is over sixty years of age and that he is in indigent Circumstances being unable to preform but little bodily Labor and the deponant further saith that he is now and has ever been a citizen of the United States and prays that his name may be placed on the pension List pursuant to an act of Congress passed the 18th day of March 1818 entitled an act to provide for certain persons Engaged in the land and naval services of the United States in the revolutionary war and further the deponant saith not.  
Samuel Knapp
Sworn to & Subscribed this Eighth day of April one thousand Eight hundred & Eighteen before me
Stephen Phelps  
Judge of the Court of Common pleas for County of Ontario
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Claim of Samuel Knapp
April 8th 1818
Conn’t
To the Honorable Secty of War
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This Indenture made and entered into by & between Samuel Knapp of Canandaigua in the County of Ontario and State of New York of the first part and Silas Lyon of Boston in the County of Suffolk Commonwealth of Massachusetts of the second part.   
Witnesseth that the said party of the first part and in consideration of the following covenant of the part of the said party of the second part hath covenanted and agreed and doth line himself his Heirs Executors Administrators and assigns firmly by these presents to execute a good and sufficient quitting to one equal and undivided half part of all such moneys lands tenements or hereditaments as shall be obtained by said party of the one part in consideration services rendered the said party of the States during the said war by the said party of the first part now however no however [unreadable] requested after a final decision in premises and the said party of the second part in consideration of the foregoing agrees to present the said claim and do all things necessary to be done in and about the premises until a final division be obtained provided the same shall to him appear practicable at his own risk and expense.   
In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands and seal any and year above written.   
In presence of              Silas Lyon 
Samuel Knapp
The words by the party of the other part  were interlined before signing – 
Samuel Knapp 
Chandler Burgen
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State of New York 
Ontario County } ss  Be it Remembered that on the Eighth day of April one thousand Eight hundred and eighteen before me Stephen Phelps one of the Judges of the Court of Common pleas in and for the County of Ontario Came Samuel Knapp whom I know and whom I have before [unreadable] under oath touching the several facts set forth in his Deposition attached to this and am satisfied of the truth of the same I have been personally acquainted acquainted with the said Samuel Knapp for more than twenty years who has always sustained reputable Character as to truth & Veracity and have no doubt of his service against the Common Enemy through the whole Revolutionary war and that he lost his discharge in the manner set forth in said Deposition further substantiated by the article herewith transmitted and that he is justly entitled to the provisions of the said [unreadable]  Referred to in the said deposition.   
Given under my hand at Canandage the day and year above witten 
Stephen Phelps
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State of New York 
Ontario County 
Clerk’s Office} ss  In Testimony that Stephen Philps whose name is subscribed to the foregoing certificates was on the day of the date of the same one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Ontario acting under the authority of said State and that the same is his signature.   I hereunto subscribe my name & affix the County Seal at Canandaigua this 13th day of April A.D. 1818.  
 Hu McNaes 
Claim of Samuel Knapp 
April 8th 1818 
Conn’t 
To the Honorable Secty of War
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Know all men by these presents that I Samuel Knapp of Canandaigua in the County of Ontario and State of New York here made ordained constituted and appointed my good friend Silas Lyon of Boston in the County of Suffolk in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts my true and lawful Attorney for me and in my name to ask for and demand all the bounty lands allowed for serving the United States as a soldier in the 2d New York Artillery Regiment from the second day of January in the year of our Lord seventeen hundred and seventy seven to the ninth day of June AD seventeen hundred Eighty three.  My said Attorney to ask for demand and  [unreadable] final judgement be obtained as fully and [unreadable] as I might or would have done was I in person present at the doing thereof,  always notifying and confirming [unreadable] official attorney shall [unreadable] about the premises and I do by this present my said lawful attorney to make [unreadable] all things lawful to be [unreadable] the premises by virtue of the presents. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal this tenth day of August in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred ten.
Samuel Knapp
Ontario County SS
Personally appeared Saml Knapp signer & sealer of the above instrument who is personally known to me & [unreadable] signed & sealed [unreadable] a voluntary act before me 
Dated at Canandaigua this 11 day of August 1810 
Jas Smedley 
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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State of New York 
Ontario County 
Clerks Office } ss I do hereby certify that the within  named James Smedley was on the 11th August 1810 a Justice of the peace in and for the said County duly appointed commissioned and sworn and that all his official acts at that time done are entitled full faith and credit as such.  IN  testimony whereof I have hereunto set my name and affixed the seal of the said County this eighteenth day of August 1818 
Myron Holley Clk of the said County
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[seal] OFFICE OF THE AUDITOR OF THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT
TREASURY DEPARTMENT 
Washington, March 17, 1911, 
The Commissioner of Pensions.
Sir
In reply to your letter of 14th instant (Record Division, you are informed that according to the latest account by the U. S. Pension Agent, at  New York, N. Y., the records of this office show last payment to have been made in care of  Samuel Knapp, War of the Revolution, Certificate  No. 1303, at $ 8.00 per month, to July 16, 1825, the date of his death, to James Boyd, Jr., attorney for Hannah Knapp, widow, administratrix of the estate. 
Letter herewith returned  
Respectfully,  
H. C. Shober, 
Auditor 
James B Bett Deputy Auditor
[stamp] U.S. PENSION OFFICE MAR 18 1911
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Let to Ben Isaacs 24th 
Act 1843
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Litchfield May 10. 1800
We do hereby Certify that the bearer Jared Knapp of Litchfield in the County of Litchfield is the  same Jared Knapp whose affidavits in support of his Claim to [unreadable] Pension were taken [unreadable] said Commissioners [unreadable] for the purpose and [unreadable] on the previous [unreadable] United States and [unreadable] to drawn previous at [unreadable]
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Knapp, Samuel
Conn – Cont
S. 42801
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THE above Samuel Knapp has been honored with the BADGE of MERIT for Six Years faithful service   - John Lamb Colo.
[stamp] THE NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES
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BY HIS EXCELLENCY GEORGE WASHINGTON, Esq, General and Commander in Chief of the Forces of the United States of America. 
THESE are to CERTIFY that the Bearer hereof 
Samuel Knapp Corporal
in the New York Artillery Regiment, having faithfully served the United States from Jany 7th 1777 until the present period and being inlisted for the War only, is hereby DISCHARGED from the American Army, 
GIVEN at HEAD-QUARTERS the Ninth day of June 1783 
G. Washington 
By HIS EXCELL ENCY’s Command, 
Jno Trumbull Secty 
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment, 
James Bradford Adjutant
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HEAD QUARTERS, June 1, 1783. 
THE within CERTIFICATE shall not avail the Bearer as a Discharge, until the Ratification of the definitive Treaty of Peace; previous to which Time, and until Proclamation thereof shall be made, He is to be considered as being on Furlough. 
GEORGE WASHINGTON.
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Case of Samuel Knapp
(1303)
$151.75
Sept 1818
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To the Hon. The Court of Common Pleas of the county of Ontario, holden at the Court House in Canandaigua, in and for said county of the term of May in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty. 
I, Samuel Knapp being an actual resident of the town of Canandaigua in said county, having been placed on the Pension List of the United States, by virtue of the act, entitled "An act to provide for certian persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed the 18th day of March, 1818, do hereby, pursuant to the act in addition to the act above mentioned, passed May 1st, 1820, exhibit to said Court the following as a Schedule containing my whole estate and income, (my apparel and bedding excepted) that is to say: - 
1 Horse                             $40
2 two year old Heifers        26 
2 Hogs                                   8 
5 Hogs                                 12
8 Sheep                                10
1 Waggon                             25
1 Sleigh                                12 
1 Plough                                 3
1 Pot & 4 Kettles                   4.25
Some Articles of Kitchen furniture 12
151.75
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto subscribed my name this 20 day of May 1820.
Samuel Knapp 
The above sworn to in open Court May 20th 1820
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I Samuel Knapp do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner whatever, disposed of my property or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the 18th day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts due to me, nor have I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed. 
Samuel Knapp
Sworn this 20" day of May 1820 before 
Moses Atwater a Judge of Ont. Com. Pleas, in open Court 
AT a Court of Common Pleas, held at the Court-House in Canandaigua, in and for the County of Ontario, before the Judges of said Court, on the 20 get May of the term of May in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty.  
PRESENT- 
Nathaniel W. Howell 
Moses Atwater 
Stephen Bates 
JUDGES, 
EX PARTE- 
In the matter of  Samuel Knapp a Pensioner residing in the town of Canandaigua in said County.}  
The said Samuel Knapp as a person placed on the Pension List of the United States, having exhibited a schedule subscribed by him, containing his whole estate and income, (his necessary wearing apparel and beds and bedding excepted) in pursuance of an act of Congress of the United States, entitled "An act in addition to an act, entitled "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War,” passed on the eighteenth day of March, one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, passed May 1st, 1820; and having taken, subscribed and produced to this Court the oath or affirmation by said act required, and said Court having heard evidence of the nature and value of the property mentioned in said schedule and duly considered the premises, are of the opinion that the property contained in the said schedule is of the value of One Hundred Fifty one dollars and Seventy Five cents, and they hereby order their clerk to certify the same in due form.
Ontario County, Clerk's Office, ss.} I John Van Fossen Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of Ontario county do hereby certify the foregoing schedule and copy of the oath or affirmation of Samuel Knopp are true copies of the original schedule and oath or affirmation now on file in my said office, and also that the above opinion and order of said court touching the value of the property set forth, is a true copy of the minutes of said court in the case of said Samuel Knapp a United States' Pensioner.  In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said County, this 25th day of May 1820 
John Van Fossen Clk
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Commissioner of Pensions 
Samuel Tryon (sometimes spelled Trion) was in the Rev. War.   His grandaughter, who is now living at the age of ninety, says he received a pension. If so will you send a certificate of service to Mrs James R. Ellis 
19 River St 
Stamford Conn 
March 27th 1900
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42801 
Revy  INVALID. 
File No. 42.801 
Samuel Knopp 
Pri Rev War 
Act: 18th March 18 
Index: -- Vol. 3  Page 281 
[Arrangement of 1870.] 
Mch. 28 1900  Mrs. J. R. Ellis Stamford Conn. 
Mch. 14, 1911. To Aud Int. Dept. for date of death &c.
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Rec’d 28 Sept 1818
Left by Byrne Esqr of N York
Secty of War says government must give him more clerks
Hon J. C. Calhoun Esquire
Secretary of War
Washington City D. C.
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New York 14 August 1818 
Sir, enclosed is Samuel Knapps Discharge as also a power of attorney to receive his land for Services in the Revolutionary Army.   
Please to transmit the same to me by Edward Byrnes Esqr.   
I have the honor to be very respectfully your obedient humble servent 
Silas Lyon 
Hon Calhoune Secretary of War Washington City
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New York 
Saml Knapp, pri 
served from ‘76 until close of war  
1st Sched Dated 20th May 1820. Personal property $151.75 
no debts 
Sched under Act Mar. 1823 
[dated 23 May 1823] 
Personal property $67. 
no debts
accounts for the decrease of property  
horse & several sheep sold to purchase grain for the support of family 
1 Cow died    
claimant aged 67 years Farmer - wife 69 years in tolerable health  
children 
Sept 1818
O Seymour of Canandaigua NY 
$27.38 
Restored  21 June 1823
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42801
Samuel Knapp
Apr 18 1818
[unreadable]  Ct.
75 
Capt Hoyt
Col Chas Webb
1 yr
Capt Wm Stevens NY
Col. Lamb
June 75 to June 83
No [unreadable]
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Abijah Seymour of North Willow 
Thomas Seymour of Ridgefield 
Henry Whitney of Ridgefield 
Samuel Knapp of Stamford  
If any of these men have records will you send Me certificates of same 
Mrs James R. Ellis of River St. Stamford Conn
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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, Samuel    GRADE   Private   LINE  New York
WARRANT NUMBER   7371    ACREAGE  100   ISSUED  April 2, 1792
To David Hubby, Jr. Assignee
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