Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 41733, for Jacob Knight, Maryland
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([unintelligble]-1776)

SERVICE
Md.

Knight, Jacob

NUMBER
S. 41733

CONTENTS
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15 . 921
Ohio. R

Jacob Knight of Belmont Bay in the state of Ohio who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Paige of the Maryland line, for the term of five years

Inscribed on the Roll of Ohio [at] the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence the 13 of August 1819

[C]ertificate of Pension issue the 27 of Nov 1819 and sent to E[unintelligible]er Ellis Esq Sr. Clairsville Ohio.

Arrears to 4th of Sept 1819                   $ 5.93
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 March 1860   48.
                                                                 $ 53.93
19/31 & 4 30 anl [ handwritten ]

{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }

Chapter [faint handwritten]

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Notification sent November 9, 1820 to David Jennings, Sr Clairsville Ohio
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Jacob Knight

Sent to Thos Karney Esq for proof of service.

Pen. Off 7 Nov 1819

Admitted
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State of Ohio
Belmont County

On the 13th day of August anno domini 1819 before me John Wiley one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas of Belmont County State of Ohio personally appeared Jacob Knight aged sixty-seven or sixty-eight years resident in the county aforesaid who being duly sworn by me according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provision made by the late 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 that he then said Jacob Knight was [illegible] in Frederick Town in the state of Maryland sometime in the month of June or July in the year 1776 or 1777 for and during the war, that he belonged to the company commanded by Captain Benjamin Price, in the second Maryland Regiment commanded by Colonel Thomas Price as he supposes but does not definitively remember; being very infirm both in body and mind - that he continued to serve in the service of the United States during the war when he was honorably discharged when an by whom he does not now remember as he is infected with what is called the fits. That he thinks he was in one battle but what battle he does not remember. That he is in reduced circumstances in life and [illegible] in need of assistance from his country for support and that he has no other evidence in his power (at present) for the further support of this claim - that he has never received any pension from his government
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and hereby relinquishes the same if any may have been granted as [illegible] for my land

Jacob Knight
His X Mark

Test
Edwin Booth 

sworn to before me and subscribed in my presence this 13 day of August 1819.

John Wiley

Associate Judge of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county of Belmont.

To the Honorable Secretary at War

I do herby certify that the aforenamed Jocob Knight was (in my belief) a soldier of the Revolution on the Continental establishment and that in the character of a private soldier he served as [illegible] more than nine months. I do further certify that from my knowledge the is in reduced circumstances and in need of assistance for support and I do accordingly certify him to you as a continental soldier entitle to a pension under the Act of Congress dated March 18, 1818

John Wiley
Associate Judge of Belmont County
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The state of Ohio Belmont County p3
SEAL

I Ezer Ellis clerk of the court of Common Pleas in and for said county do hereby certify that John Wiley Esquire before whom the within affidavit appears to have been taken and whose certificate is thereto annexed in his name to each subscriber was at the time of taking said affidavit and giving said certificate one of the acting associate judges of the court of Common Pleas in and for the county aforesaid, duly commissioned and qualified to where official acts as such full faith and credit is due and ought to be given as well in courts of record as thereout.

In testimony where of I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county at St. Clairsville the 6th day of September AD 1819

Ezer Ellis Clerk
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Jacob Knight
15.921
27 November 1819

[illegible handwriting]

David Jennings
St Clairsville, Ohio
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The State of Ohio Belmont County

At a court of Common Please begun and held at St Clairsville in and for the County of Belmont on the twenty-fourth day of July AD 1820 before the Honorable Benjamin Tappan Esquire President of the Fifth Circuit of the Courts of Common Pleas and Edward Bryson John Wiley and Joseph Anderson Esquires associate judges of the said court on this twenty-eighth day of July AD 1820 personally appeared in open court a court of Record for said county in said circuit Jacob Knight aged sixty-seven years resident in Belmont County in said circuit being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows; That he enlisted for and during the war sometime in the year 1777 or 1778 at Fredericks town in the State of Maryland in the company commanded by Benjamin Price in the Regiment commanded by Thomas Price in the Maryland line in the continental establishment. that he continued to serve in said corps until he was discharged from the said service but where he doth not remember as he was affected with the fits - that he doth no remember the place where he was in one battle. that he hath no other evidence now in his power of his said service. That the date of his declaration he believes was the 13th of August 1818 upon which a certificate[illegible] numbered 1592
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And I do solemnly swear
That I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and I have not since that time by gift, sale or in any manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with interest thereby so to diminish it as to being myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitle "An act to provide for certain persons engaged in the Land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary Was' passed on the 18th da 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 I any income more than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed and by me subscribed.

That he hath no property of any kind. That he hath no family but his wife who is near seventy years of age unable to work. That he has had the fits near thirty years and now totally unable to do any kind of labor.

Jacob Knight
His X Marck

Sworn to and declared on the twenty eighth day of July 1829 before the court of common pleas of Belmont County State of ohio.

Attest Ezer Ellis Clerk
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I Ezer Ellis clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Belmont do certify that the foregoing affidavit and the schedule there to annexed are truly copied from the record of this said Court and I do further certify that it is the opinion of this said court that the total amount in the value of property exhibition in the before said schedule is BLANK Dollars and BLANK Cents.

SEAL

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court at St Clairsville on this first day of August Anna Domini One Thousand Eight Hundred and twenty.

Ezer Ellis Clerk of the court of Common Pleas for Belmont County, Ohio
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Auditor's Office, Annapolis, No 17th 1819

I hereby certify that it appears from the muster rolls remaining in the Auditor's Office that Jacob Knight enlisted as a privatein the 2nd Maryland Regiment on the 19th day of May 1778 and was on the 1st of Nov 1780 present.

Thos. Karney - Aud. S.M.
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41733
INVALID.
Rev War

File NO. 41733
Jacob Knight
Pri Rev War

Act 18th March 1818
Index: - Vol [illegible] Page 281

[Arrangement of 1870.]