Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 29,279, for John Knox, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Mass
Knox, John
S. 29,279
CONTENTS

3753
New York
John Snox
of Russell in the State of New York who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain Ferguson of the Regt commanded by Col Davidson in the Massachusetts line for 14 Months
Inscribed on the Roll of New York at the rate of 46 Dollars 66 Cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 31 day of Decem- ber 1832 and sent to J. S. Russell Canton, St Lawrence Co, NY
  Arrears to 4th of Sept 1832  $69.99    Semi-ant. allowance ending Mar 33  23.33         $93.32  
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by Jno Cromwell Clerk Book D Vol. 5 Page 105

No. 11910
John Sturges
admitted
John Leslie Russell
Banton
St Lawrence by
New York

No 11910
BRIEF in the case of  John Knapp of Rouses Point  County of St. Lawrence in the State of New York  (Act 7th June, 1832.)
 1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Before a Court  2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity?  3. How old is he? Seventy three years, 75  4. State his service, as directed in the form annexed. 
   Period. Duration of Service. Rank. Names of General and Field Officers under whom he served.   Years, Months, Days.     En. or about 14 July 1775. 6 private Gen. Col. Davidson's regt Mass. & N. Hampshire troops, Capt. John Farnsworth, Lieut. David Hamilton.   Enlisted in July 1776. 4 private Col. Saml. Breyer 109th, 1st Col. Col. Batten.   Home part of Aug. 1778 4 private Maj. Taylor, Capt. Peter Ferguson, Capt. Nathan Rowley's compy. Lander's Penna. & Colburn's Orig. Bty.  
 5. In what battles was he engaged? Not any.  6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Reading, Massachusetts and Blandford Mass.  7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls? By a living witness, by traditional evidence.  8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect? No, sir. 
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
Chas. G. Wilson Examining Clerk.

In the matter of John Knapp
Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress, passed June 7, 1832.
11910
admitted the mo P. 46 66

Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
State of New York.
County of St Lawrence ss; On this twenty fourth day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Judges of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the said County of St Lawrence now sitting John Knox a resident of the Town of Russell, in the County of St Lawrence, and State of New York, aged seventy three years, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7, 1832.
That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, and served as herein stated. He was born in the Town of Blandford, in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts on the 13 th day of January 1759. There is a record of his age on the Town Books in the said Town of Blandford.
On or about the 12 th day of July 1775 (a few days after the battle of Bunker Hill) he enlisted at the Town of Roxbury 3 miles from Boston, for six months in service at Ticonderoga in Col. David's Regiment of Massachusetts Troops. Lieut. Col. Shepard and Major David Leonard belonged to the same Regiment. His company officers were Captain John Ferguson and Lieut. David Hamilton - no Ensign. Gen. Thomas commanded the Brigade. The last of June 1775 he went to Roxbury to offer himself as a substitute for his brother Samuel Knox who had before enlisted and had come home on a furlough and was sick and unable to return. When he reached the Regiment he enlisted under Capt. Ferguson for six months - that being the remainder of his brother's term and passed muster before Gen. Thomas. His Regiment was stationed at Roxbury the whole time until about the 1 st day of July  January 1776 when they were all discharged but received no written discharge. There were Massachusetts Regiments under Col. Putnam, Col. Read and Col. Starnes.

and an Connecticut Regiment under Col. Willis lay near his regiment. The Connecticut regiment was discharged about a month before he was. —
In July 1776 he again enlisted at Blandford and said for four months in a body of State Troops raising to recruit the Northern Army at Saratoga. His company mustered at Blandford on the first day of August 1776. Their company officers were Capt. John Ferguson, 1st Lieut. Robert (or David) Hamilton, 2nd Lieut. Winchell, and Ensign James Smith. They marched immediately through Vermont, met Genl. Carlton, joined the regiment to which they were to be attached at Bennington, to Saratoga, taking ballance at Shesboro. At Saratoga his company was attached to Col. Samuel Buel's Regiment. Lieut. Col. Buel and Major Taylor were the officers of the Regiment. He served his term of four months in this Regiment and was discharged at Saratoga on the 18th day of December 1776. Genl. Gates had the Command of all the forces at Saratoga. There was a large body of Troops there stationed, several Regiments. His Regiment and another Massachusetts Regiment under Col. Willard were stationed at Mount Hope, two miles from the Fort at Saratoga, where they built fortifications. The last of November 30th day before his service expired, he sailed with his regiment in bateaux up Lake George to Fort Ticonderoga and from there marched to Saratoga where he was discharged as aforesaid after serving four months.
In the month of August 1778, in the latter part of the month, but cannot state the day, he again enlisted for four months at Blandford as a part of the Massachusetts Troops in the expedition against Rhode Island. He joined his company marched immediately to Rhode Island most of the Regiment having gone before him, and joined the Regiment at the lower part of the Island.

and joined their Regiment at the Lower end of the Island before New Port about a week before the battle with the enemy. The officers of this company were Captain Nathan Hinckley, 1 st Lieut - Leonard, 2 nd Lieut. Colburn, and Ensign Blood. At the Battle and retreat of Gen. Sullivan he with a part of his company formed a flanking party on the left of the army and were not in the engagement - The rest of the company were in the battle. After the Army cross- ed the channel to the mainland he and his com- pany were stationed as a guard at Fogland Ferry in Tiverton, and the rest of the Regiment three miles down the river at Scituate. His company was stationed as a guard at Fogland Ferry until sometime in December when they were relieved by a Continental Company under a Capt. Carr. When they marched up the river about seven miles to Tiverton and were there stationed until their four months service expired in the first part of December 1778 when he with the whole company were dischar- ged and received their discharges and returned home. During this service he did not become acquainted with any of his fellow men. His company was with the regiment only a few days on their first joining the army. Gen. Sullivan and Gen. Greene were with the army, and he recalled a Massachusetts Regi- ment under Col. Shepard, also a 1 st Lieut. Colonel at Kennebec in 1775 and when he knew personally. but he did not see him at the time in his regiment. None of his company officers in this service are now living and he does not know of a single private living. He has no witnesses to prove his services aforesaid except David Nunn his cousin, also served with him at Kennebec six months and also intended to have gone with him to Ticonderoga but was pre- vented by the sickness of his father. He has no documentary or written evidence whatever. He served in these three campaigns fourteen months

and regularly performed his duty.
From the close of the revolutionary war until about twenty six years ago, he resided in the said Town of Blandford; since then he has resided in the said Town of Russell where he now resides; he and the said David Knox having removed from Blandford at the last place about twenty six years ago.
He is acquainted with Calvin Hill by his Father of the Peace and Royal States, Nathan Johnson, and Nathan Knox all of Russell aforesaid to whom he attests to his character & the belief of his neighbors respecting his services. There is no clergyman residing in his vicinity.
He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present, and declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of the agency of any State.
Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
John Knox
A. S. Clarke
We Calvin Hill and Nathan Knox - residing in the Town of Russell in the County of St Lawrence aforesaid hereby certify, that we are well acquainted with John Knox, who has subscribed and sworn to the above declaration; that we believe him to be seventy three years of age; that he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier of the revolution, and that we concur in that opinion.
Given to and subscribed the day and year aforesaid
A. S. Clarke
Calvin Hill
Nathan Knox
And the said court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter, and after putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a revolutionary soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that Calvin Hill and Nathan Knox who have signed the preceding certificate are residents of the aforesaid Town of Russell in the said

county of St Lawrence and are personally known to the Judges of the said Court, the last named person being now a justice of the Peace of the Peace of the said Town of Russell, and that their statement is in little to wit: And further it appears to the Court that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of of the said applicant.
J. H. C. Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the Assessor County of St Lawrence do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the appli- cation of John Knox for a Pension.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 26 th day of September One thousand Eight Hundred and thirty two. J. H. C. Clerk

State of New York
County of St Lawrence; On this thirteenth day of September 1832 personally appeared before me Elazer Ray Esquire one of the Justices of the Peace of the Town of Russell in and for the said County of St Lawrence David Kurn a resident of the Town of Russell in the County of St Lawrence and State of New York aged seventy four years to me well known also being by me duly sworn according to Law doth on his oath depose and say that he is well acquainted with John Kurn formerly of the Town of Blankspire in the County of Hampshire and State of Massachusetts and now a resident of the said Town of Russell in the State of New York and has known him from a child. The deponent and the said John Kurn are Cousins and were both born and live in the said Town of Blankspire when the Revolutionary war commenced. About the 1 st day of July 1775, a few days after the battle at Bunker Hill the said John Kurn and the deponent entered the service of the United States at Roxbury near Boston, and served there together in the same company under Capt. Fergusson, and Lieut. David Hamilton, for six months ending the first days of January 1776, when they were both discharged together at Roxbury, but received no written discharge. Col. David Dorr Lieut. Col. Shepard (who was afterwards a General) and Major Leona informed the officers of the said regt. that the said John Kurn went down to Roxbury to take his brother's place, as a substitute his brother having got a furlough & gone home. When he reached the company, insisted for six months, that being the remainder of his brother's

Service, which time he fully served as above States.
The deponent further says that he knew that in July 1776 at Blankford aforesaid the said John Knapp again enlisted, in Captain Pagen's company for four months to march to Tienderoga, and that he marched away from Blankford with his company, for the North about the 1 st day of August 1776, and that he was absent from home until December when he and about 20 other soldiers returned home to Blankford, having as the deponent has no doubt, as usual, known in the neighborhood served their term of enlistment. The deponent intended to have enlisted and served in this campaign but his father was taken sick which kept him at home. The deponent does not personally know of any other services of the said John Knapp in the Revolutionary war, but he knows that it was always understood in the family of the said John Knapp, and among his neighbors that in the year 1778 the said John Knapp served as a soldier at Rhode Island. The deponent has not at home then, but was in the Continental Service at White Plains & the neighborhood of New York. The deponent served upwards of six years in the Revolutionary war and his name is now on the Pension Roll.
Subscribed and sworn to the day and year aforesaid
his David X Knapp mark
before me. (The word "four" interlined) before taken.
Elison Ray Justice of the Peace
State of New York Washington County ss. The before named Justice of the Peace before whom the said foregoing deposition was taken do certify that the said David Knapp is unable to write his name and

that he has made his mark above for his signature, further that I am well acquainted with him and that he sustains a char- acter of integrity and veracity and I don't hesitate to certify that his foregoing dispo- sition is entitled to full credit. Given under my hand the day and year first above said.
Elanson Ray Justice of the Peace
State of New York S. S. I. James County ss. J. S. Hemen Osborn Clerk of the said County do hereby certify that Elanson Ray before whom the foregoing affidavit was and whose name is subscribed thereto and to the foregoing Certificate was at the time of taking the said affidavit a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly elected and sworn; and that I am acquainted with the hand writing of the said Justice of the Peace and verily believe that his signature to the foregoing affidavit and Certificate is his free act and deed.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said County this 26 th day of September 1832 J. S. Hemen Clerk

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., Sept 2, 1920.
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of John Kenoy a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pension on file in this Bureau. 829279-
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT. LENGTH OF SERVICE. RANK. OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     July 1, 1775 6 mos. Pvt. Jno. Ferguson Danielson Mass.   July 1776 4 mos. " Sam'l Brewer   Aug. 1778 4 mos. Nathan Rowley ✓  
Battles engaged in, None stated
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Blandford, Hampshire Co., Mass.
Date of application for pension, Sept 24 1832 H. L. et
Residence at date of application, Russell St. Lawrence Co., NY
Age at date of application, b. Jan 13, 1759 in Blandford, Mass.
Remarks: It is not stated whether he was married.
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

29279 INVALID. Rev
1920, Sept 2 Hist to Mrs. Wm H. Fowler, Ed.
File No. 29979
John Knox P. O. Box 100
Act: Jan 1 1904
Index:—Vol. 9, Page 293
[Arrangement of 1870.]

Stamped Env.
M.H.
Rev. Sec clw
171, Madison St. Brooklyn, N. Y.
Com. of Pensions Washington, D.C.
Dear Sir: -
Being desirous of becoming a member of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution I would very much like to know if the name of John Knox of Blandford, Mass.

appears on the Pension Roll of the Revolutionary War.
Also that of White- Osborne of Wallingford Conn.
I will deem it a great favor if you will send me any informa- tion you may have regarding the two above named soldiers of the Rev. War.
Yours Very Truly Alice Q. Fowler (Mrs) Wm H. Fowler