Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 27,050, for Abiel Knapp, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Knapp, Abiel or Knap
S 27050
CONTENTS

New York.
Atty H Mungen Mar 30 '47 ... Scam Aug 20 '47
Abiel Knapp Private Co Capt Ellis in the Mass regt Army of the Revolution Col Scammell
Inscribed on the roll of the New York Agency, at $5 33 1/3 100 per month.
Formal certificate issued & sent to R. H. Bayley, at Geneva, N.Y. on the 22 nd June 1821.

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of Ontario
ss.
On this 25 th day of May 1821; before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of Ontario personally appeared Abiel Knapp who, on his oath, declares that he is the
same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain William Ellis in the regiment commanded by Colonel Seammuel in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the state of New York that
he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Commissioner, of the Secretary of War; which certificate, on or about the first
day of May 1818 182 , at or
near General Ontario County State of New York he sent his certificate to Washington for the purpose of having his pension raised which has not since been heard of —
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, the day and year aforesaid. §
W. Haggath J.P.
his Abiel Knapp mark
NOTES. The last four blanks are left for the applicant to set forth the time, place, and manner of the loss or destruction of the original certificate.
The oath to be taken before a duly qualified magistrate, whose official character and signature must be properly authenticated.

State of New York Putnam County Clerk's office p 3
In testimony that Richard Stegarth whose name appears within and which I verily believe to be his proper hand writing was on the 25 th day of May instant a Justice of the peace in and for said County duly commissioned and sworn I have hereunto affixed the seal of said County and subscribed my name this twenty eighth day of May A.D. 1821
Heuman Norton Dep: Clk

Mar 29 47
Abial Knapp
My. Wh
abt 1818 or hwd
10
Hon J. L. Dec 20 47 Edwards
Commissioner Justins
Washington
D.C.

Leicester Onondaga Co NY March 22 nd 1877.
Sir
Will you please to give me information showing the time up to which Abial Knapp drew his pension under the act of 1818, and also an invalid pension. His children have requested me to write for this information as he has been dead about 20 years and they say he did not draw his pension for some time previous to his death. He had resided most of the time for some years previous to his death at Williamstown Oneida Co N.Y. but I believe died in Yates Co N.Y.
His children who called on me did not know much about act he drew his pension but I suppose it worked under the act of 1818. He was from the State of New Hampshire & lived there in the Revolution.
It is ascertained by his heirs that

That Abial Knapp was in several campaigns of the old French war between England & France before the Revolution - and then served in the Revolution - and that for his service in the French war he was and is entitled to land from the Grant of Great Britain to the New England or Provincial troops - Will you further inform me whether the govt records in Washington show any thing of the kind I have a writing executed to him that goes to show he was entitled to lands for services in such French war But we do not know who to apply to.
It is thought to by the heirs that he may probably be entitled to bounty land for services in the Revolution Do the records at the land office show any such right?
Very Respectfully
Your Obedient Servant J. H. Munger
Hon J. L. Edwards Comm Pensions Washington
Cumming Mede Co N.Y.

27050 Revy  INVALID.
File No. 27050 * Abiel _____ _____ _____ _____
Act: _____
Index:—Vol. 9 , Page 223
[Arrangement of 1870.]
* W.H.E.

Abiel Knapp, N.York Invalid
Vol. - Be pleased to say to what time he was last paid. It is said that he died in the year 1824.
Pension Office } Prior to 4 th Sept. 1824 Aug 20. 1847 } B.L.B.

to
McAnes Aug 7 '47
about knapp FREE
Eliz Biski
Hon J. S. Edwards
Correspondence Division Washington D.C.
m
Engraving Alice Knapp Am. E. Biski
August 7 '47

Gloucester July 31 1877
Sir
Your letter of the 30th March last informing me that Abiel Knapp's name does not appear on the pension roll since the act of 1818, was duly received.
But one of his children who resides within a few miles of this place desires me to write to the pension office again and enquire as to the time up to which he drew his invalid pension and the amount of pension that he was entitled to annually in 1824 the year of his death. His daughter claims that there was due him at the time of his death some two or three years pension which had remained undrawn, at the time of his death either as invalid or regular pension or both. He died in the latter part of the year 1824 - he having omitted to draw his pension for some time previous to his death.
Will you also be pleased to inform me how his application for a formal pension certificate made by him in 1821 was disposed of; and if not granted, the reason why?
J. L. Edwards Esq Committee on Pensions
Very Respectfully Yours Obedient Servant J. H. Munger Canal Commissioners

Canada July 30 1847
Sir -
Will you be pleased to inform me whether Amy Elizabeth Bicki widow Peter Bicki who was a Noncommissioned Soldier & Pensioner has received a Pension Certificate or Pension under the act of 1838, or 1843 or 1844 granting Pension to widows who were married previous to 1st January 1794, and if not whether any steps have been received at the Pension Office for an application Very Respectfully
Your obedient Servant J. H. Mungin
J. H. Edwards Comrs Pensions

1863 J. L. Edwards
for formal certificate
Nov. 11th 1863
J. L. Edwards Esq.
War Department
Washington

Geneva 2 June 1871
Sir
Enclosed is the affidavit of Abel Snapp acknowledged before a Justice of the peace, whose char- acter is authenticated by the county clerk -
Should this not be sufficient to obtain a pension for Mr Snapp of the same amount as those who have been placed on the pension roll by the Act of 1818, I hope you will not consider me obtrusive by requesting of you the ja- vour to point out the necessary course for him to pursue as he is most unfortu- nately poor and helpless
Respectfully
Your Obedt Servt.
R. M. Bayly
J. L. D. Edwards Esqf