Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 42,803, for David Knox, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
No 100
Knox, David
S. 42,803
CONTENTS

6739
New York
David Knapp
of Louisville in the state of New York who was a Private in the regiment commanded by Colonel Stearns of the Malone line, for the term of 4 years 1779 th
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of eight Dollars per month, to commence on the 1 st of March 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 9 th of Feb y 1819 and sent to Member Mr. Ogden Danz. of Representatives
Arrears to 4th of Sept r 1818 4 mo 22 d $37.86 Semi-ann. all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48.
$85.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
Collected and paid to David Knapp by Samuel  Knapp his son

St Lawrence County ss State of New York ss On this thirteenth day of April 1818 came before me the Subscriber one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of St Lawrence and State of New York personally appears David Know formerly of the Town of Blandford State of Massachusetts, now of the Town of Circleville in said County being 39 years of age and personally known to me, who being by me first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the provisions 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 the said David Know enlisted on or about the first day of July 1779 for nine Months in a Company commanded by Captain Abel Holden (a Blandford State of Massachusetts) of the 6 th Regiment in the Massachusetts line of the continental Establishment soon after joining the army he enlisted to serve during the war, that he continued to serve in said Company in Colonel Thomas Dixon's Regiment until on or about the first day of February 1781, when Captain Peter Bloys took the command of said Company and about the same time Colonel Joseph Vose of the said Regiment and that he served in said Com- pany until on or about the first day of June 1783 when he was duly discharged from Service at Snickersville in State of New York That he was in the several battles at the taking of General Burgoyne's army and at Yorktown at the taking of General Cornwallis's army having been in the light Infantry commanded by the Marquis de la Fayette all the Summer preceding as also at the Storming of a Redoubt at Yorktown and that he is in reduced circum- stances and stands in need of the assistance of his country

for support, and that he has no other evidence of his said Services having given his discharge to Colonel Oliver for the purpose of obtaining his Lands.
• would Subscribed and declared before me the day & year aforesaid Russell Atwater
David Knox
Russell Atwater one of the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of St. Lawrence & State of New York, do certify that it appears to my Satisfaction that the said David Knox did serve in the revolutionary war, as stated in the preceding Declaration, against the common enemy; and I now transmit the proceedings and testimony taken and had before me, to the Secretary for the Department of War pursuant to the directions of the aforesaid act of Congress. Louisville July 3 rd 1818 Russell Atwater
I hereby certify that I have been personally acquainted with the above named David Knox, since the year 1785 - he was then residing in Blandford, Massachusetts, and had then his uniform with the three badges of honor, on his arm, also his arm, and often heard him converse with revolutionary Officers & Soldiers on the incidents of the War, particularly Genl W m Shepard who was then Mass Genl of the Militia, and had been an officer during the whole of the war, used frequently recognize this David Knox as having been a good and faithful Soldier during the War, and personally known to him as such. He often at Genl Shepard request appeared on parade day in his Continental Uniform, and always much

accoutrements, and performed as a fugleman, before the Regiment he soon after married and had a family, of children, and became very poor, his wife has since died and his children dispersed he has lived by charity, mostly not being able to labour but little, from those circumstances and many others which has come to my knowledge I have no doubt but that he has served in the revolutionary Army as he has set forth in his declaration, and that his situation is such that he requires the assistance of his country to make him comfortable, and perhaps few instances where the apportionment of the United States could be more properly applied than in his support — his oath I think is entitled to full credit
Mabel Atwater

The reason is to be stated by the Court why it is a Court of record. [opinion of All y gin.]
ADM o
book continued by regulations are complex with

State of New York St Lawrence County ss: On this seventh day of June 1820 personally appeared before the Court of Common Pleas in and for said County, in open court being a court of Record, David Knox aged Sixty two years resident in the Town of Russell in said County, of St Lawrence who being first duly sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolu- tionary war on the Continental Establishment from the month of November 1779 till the conclusion of the war - That he served in Captain Peter Clois Company in Colonel Nixons Regiment in the line of the State of Massachusetts as sta- ted in his original Declaration made on the Thirteenth day of April 1818 - for which Service he received a Pension Certificate Numbered 6789 and dated the 9 th February 1819 And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18 th 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 there- by 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 18 th 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 I any income other than what

is contained in the Schedule here to annexed, and by me subscribed: —————
Schedule of Property & Real Estate none - nor has he any personal property of any description excepting his wearing apparel that is very scanty - And this declarant doth further state that he is by occupation a farmer, but has been unable to labour for twelve or fourteen years past being afflicted with a burst or breach in his body which incapacitates him from manual labour - that he had two sons and two daughters when he last knew any thing about them, has not seen them for six years past, and does not know where they now reside and believes they are unable to afford him any assistance: -
Sworn to and declared in open Court on the 7 th day of June 1870 before me one of the Judges thereof Thos J Davis -
David his X Knox mark
I Joseph York Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of St Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing oath and the schedule there to annexed, are truly copied from the records of 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 - 00 Dollars and cents - In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this 7 th day of June 1820. -
Joseph York clk. by "W m Strachan Dep y clk

42803
INVALID.
Rev y
File No. 42,808
David Knox
His Heirs
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 8 , Page 281
[Arrangement of 1870.]

David Knox Robert Lawrence 0739 9 Feb 1816
Honble John B. Cushing Esq. Attorney. Washington City.
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