Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 37136, for David Knox, Massachusetts

SERVICE
NUMBER
Knox, David
S 37/36
CONTENTS

No 2 @ the Dile
7,738
Maine.
David Knox II
of Dist: Litchfield in the State of Maine who was a priv. in the regiment commanded by Colonel Dist: Rose of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years.
Inscribed on the Roll of Dist: of Maine at the rate of -8- Dollars per month, to commence on the 7 th of April 1818.
Certificate of Pension issued the 16 th of March 1819 and sent to Ben m Greene Esq. Judge, South Berwick p st
  Arrears to 4th of Mar 1819  87. 4 3/4    semi-ann. all ce ending 6 Sept 1819  48 —     $ 135. 4 3/4  
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
W. Eastman

affirmed
May 13, 1822 that he could not be induced sent to John Holmes Alfred Maine
The Nation's work Feb. 26th 1825 and the same day
15

David Knox.
Lebanon
1778
Notenbach
Sept 1849

STATE OF MAINE.
York ss....At a Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, begun and holden at York within and for the County of York on the first Tuesday of July being the fourth day of said month and by adjournment  from day to day, on the day of in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, before the Honorable Benjamin Greene, chief Justice, Judge of said Court.
ON this fourth day of July in the year 1820, personally appeared in open Court
the same proceeding according to the course of the common law, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, keeping a record of their proceedings, and having "the power of fine and imprisonment," and being a Court of Record for said Circuit , county, David Knox aged fifty-eight years, resident in Sebago in said Circuit , county who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath declare that he served in the Revolutionary War as follows, viz. as a private in the company commanded by Capt. John Allen in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Vose in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental Establishment, as is more particularly mentioned and described in his original declaration, made on the seventh day of April A. D. 1818, and on which said declaration his Certificate of Pension, numbered 9,938 was granted. And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of 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 I any income other than what is contained in the schedule hereunto annexed, and by me subscribed; that my occupation and ability to pursue the same, together with the number and other particulars of my family, are in fact and in truth as is herein particularly described, also subscribed by me.
David Knox.
Sworn to and declared, on the 4 th day of July A. D. 1820. }
BEFORE
Benjamin Greene
Ch. Justice One of the Judges of the said Court.
Attest Daniel Seavell, Clerk.

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz: 25 acres of land, \frac{1}{2} of which is waste land — 1 cow — 3 sheep — 1 yoke yearlings — 1 swine — no furniture of value — I owe to Seaver & Norton & others about 160 dollars.
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me David Knox who, by occupation am a labourer — which I am unable to pursue by reason of rheumatism & general debility.
   NAMES. AGES. Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     Molly my wife 58 — consumptive & sickly.   Jemima 21 never was able to work.   Molly 18 able to work.   Lydia 16 do   Leonard 12 do   Mary 10 sick most of the time.   David Knox.  
STATE OF MAINE.
I, York ss. Daniel Sewall Clerk of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for said Circuit , within the county of York do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedules thereto annexed, are truly copied from the Record 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 two hundred eighty dollars and thirty seven cents.  And that the applicant owns one hundred & sixty dollars. IN TESTIMONY WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Court, on this eleventh day of July , A. D. one thousand eight hundred and twenty.
Daniel Sewall, { Clerk of the said Circuit Court for the County of York

BY THE HONOURABLE MAJOR-GENERAL KNOX,
Commanding the AMERICAN FORCES on Hudson's River.
David Knowlson in the 1 st Massachusetts Regiment, being inlisted for Three Years, is hereby honourably DISCHARGED from the Service of the United States.
Given in the State of New-York,
the 24 Day of Dec r
1783
By the General's Command,
Wm. M c Kin
REGISTERED in the Books of the Regiment,
Sealys H. Bowes Capt. & Adj. D o

David Broy (Private) Vose's Mass t Regiment 1781 to 24 th Dec r . 1783.
7 th April 1818-
Admitted

COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.
YORK, ss. }
ON this Seventh day of April
A. D. 1818,
before me the subscriber, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit in said Commonwealth, personally appears David Knox  aged fifty six years resident in Lebanon in said county of York, who being by me first duly sworn 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 the said David Knox in the fall of the year one thousand seven hundred and eighty one enlisted as a private soldier in the Continental Army under Capt John Allen of the Regiment commanded by Col Nason first Regiment of the Massachusetts line, for the term of three years and continued to do duty in said company and Regiment until the close of the war. When on the twenty fourth day of Decr 1783 he was honorably discharged at West Point in New York, his discharge is hereunto annexed.
And the said David Knox further states and proves by the Certificate of the Selectmen and overseers of the Poor of the Town in which he resides.
That he is reduced in his circumstances and needs the assistance of his country for support, and that he has no other evidence now in his power of his said services.
Sworn to and declared before me the day and year above said.
Benj. Greene
I, BENJAMIN GREENE, Chief Justice of the Circuit Court of Common Pleas for the first Eastern Circuit, in the Commonwealth aforesaid, do certify, that it appears to my satisfaction that the said David Knox did serve in the revolutionary war against the common enemy, as he has stated in his declaration aforesaid—and that he is reduced in his circumstances, and needs the assistance of his country for his support.—And I do 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 before mentioned act of Congress.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court this
twenty fifth day of June
Anno Domini, 1818.
Benj. Greene

State of Munie County of York
I David Legro of Lebanon in the county aforesaid being duly sworn doth depose and say that he well knows David Knox of Lebanon aforesaid aged about sixty years of age that I believe he was a soldier in the re- -volutionary war that since that time he has mostly re- -sided in Lebanon and at the commencement of the late war he was I believe a soldier & served in the same for a considerable time, that afterwards when he left the service I believe he drew a pension which I have since been informed has ceased, that since he has so ceased to draw a pension I believe all his property has been taken from him for debt, & I do not believe that he is at this time worth five dollars, that he is now destitute of the articles of the first necessity for upholding life that he has been imprisoned for debt that I believe that he is unable to labor for his own or family's support, and that I should not credit him with a small amount with the expectation of his ever repaying me by the effects of his labor or any otherwise than he can command means  for any other that he is in such indigent reduced circumstances that he stands in need of his executor's relief, and that he has no relation able to support him
David Legro
County of York
March the first in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty two, Then personally appeared the above named David Legro Esq r , and made so- -lemn oath to the truth of the foregoing deposition by him subscribed
Before me Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace

Yorks ss. March 1. 1823 I certify that David Lugo Esq: the within named deponent is a creditable Witness Attest Daniel Woodfus of Fulham
David Lugo Esq's Affidavit

State of Maine County of York
I Giles W. Burrows of Lebanon in the County of York aforesaid Gentleman aged thirtyfive. Being duly sworn doth depose & says that he well knows David Knox of said Lebanon who is aged about sixty of age that I have heard of his being active in the cause of the revolution in the late war, and I know that he draws a Pension of the United States. That since he has been stricken from the Pension list, all his real property has been levied on by execution of his creditors for debts that I was one selected to appraise his property and that the appraisers did not find estate sufficient to satisfy their executions; that since as a civil officer I held an execution against said Knox that I could not find property of his wherewith to levy the same and was obliged to return the same to the office from which the same was issued in no part satisfied. That he has since been imprisoned for debt and availed himself of the poor debtors law for relief that to my knowledge he has not any property real or personal owned by him or in his possession that he cannot command the sum of one dollar from any resource that he has. That his state of health is such as to render him unable to labor that I would would not credit him with fifty cents worth of goods ex- pecting in his present circumstances that his property would therefor. And that he has no relations able to main- tain him
Giles W. Burrows
Yorke, March the first in the year one thousand eight hundred & twentytwo. Then personally appeared the above named Giles W. Burrows and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
Before me Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace

York ss, March 1st. 1822. I certify that Capt. Gideon H. Burrows the deponent within named is a creditable witness
Attest Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace
Capt. G. H. Burrows Affidavit

State of Maine County of York
I George Gerrish of Lebanon in the county aforesaid Gentleman aged forty six doth depose and say that he well knows David Knox of said Lebanon labourer whose age is upward of sixty years. That he once for a short space of time drew a pension as a soldier of the War of the Revolution which has since ceased, That he was a soldier in the late War between this country & Great Britain for about two years that when he returned from the Army & frequently saw him and he was so sick as required the attention of his friends unable to perform labor that his wife was then in a low state of health and has ever since remained sickly & must soon according to her present situation leave this world, that he has three small children dependent for their maintenance upon his labor but more upon the charity of their friends one of which children is about twelve years old the others considerably younger that within one or two years all his property has been taken from him by his creditors for debt that he has been imprisoned for debt: that he is not now neither has he been for some time past in the possession of any property of any kind whatever. That he is now in the extreme that himself & family is in suffering circumstances. That I believe he is so reduced in health that he cannot perform but very little labor, and that it is not now in his power to pay one dollar.
And the deponent further says that he the said Knox has no relatives able to afford him or his family a necessary maintenance.
George Gerrish
County of York March the first in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty two. Then personally appeared the above named George Gerrish and made solemn Oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed.
Before me Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace

York ss. March 1st. 1822 I hereby certify that George Garrison the within named deponent is a respectable man & credible witness Attest, Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace
Capt. George Garrison Affidavit

State of Maine County of York
I Daniel Hanson jr of Lebanon in the county aforesaid aged forty four, being duly sworn doth depose & say that he well knows Daniel Knox of Lebanon aforesaid laborer who is upwards of sixty years of age. That he once drew a pension of the United States as a Revolutionary soldier that for some cause he of late has ceased to draw a pension, that he was also a soldier in the late war and came home sick and his wife was sickly at that time and has since remained in a weak situation that after he had been at home two or three years I was selected to appraise his real property to satisfy executions against him for debt. That we could not find property sufficient to satisfy said executions; and that when no property could be found to discharge other executions he was committed to goal for debt he has three small children one about twelve years of age the other two considerably younger which three and his sickly wife are more dependent upon the charity of friends for maintenance than from any means in his power to provide for them, that he is totally destitute of property of any kind real or personal & that what labor he performs at best would afford a very scanty supply for himself; that no person who knows his circumstances will hazard to credit him
And the deponent further says that he the said Knox has no relatives able to afford him or his family a maintenance
Daniel Hanson jr
County of York
Lebanon March 11 the first in the year one thousand eight hundred & twenty-two. Then personally appeared the above named Daniel Hanson jr. and made solemn oath to the truth of the foregoing Deposition by him subscribed
Before me Daniel Wood Justice of the Peace

York ss. March 1st. 1872 I hereby certify that Daniel Shannon the within named Deponent is a Credible Witness Pitts Daniel Hood Justice of the Peace
Daniel Shannon Jr affidavit

Copy. Execution levy- David Knox, jun. vs. David Knox of Lebanon.
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STATE OF MAINE.
YORK, ss. } To the Sheriff of our County of YORK, _____ or his deputy, _____
GREETING.
WHEREAS
David Vock, junr. of Lebanon in said county of York, yeoman, _____
by the consideration of our Justices of our Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden at Alfred, for and within our county of York aforesaid, on the first Monday of January, 1820, recovered Judgment against David Knox of said Lebanon in said county, yeoman, _____
for the sum of four hundred & fifty five Dollars and three Cents, damage, and eight Dollars and forty nine Cents, costs of suit; as to us appears of record, whereof execution remains to be done: 455.03 8.49 463.52 .25
WE command you, therefore, that of the goods, chattels, or lands of the said Knox within your precinct, you cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said Vock, junior, at the value thereof in money, the aforesaid sums being four hundred & sixty three Dollars and fifty two Cents in the whole, with twenty five Cents more for this writ; and thereof also to satisfy yourself for your own fees. And for want of goods, chattels, or lands of the said Knox to be by him shewn unto you, or found within your precinct, to the acceptance of the said Vock, junr. to satisfy the sums aforesaid, WE command you to take the body of the said Knox, and him commit unto our gaol in York or Alfred, in our county of York, aforesaid, and detain in your custody within our said gaol, until he pay the full sums above mentioned, with your fees, or that he be discharged by the said Vock, junr. the creditor, or otherwise by order of law. Hereof fail not. And make return of this writ, with your doings therein, into the clerk's office of our said Circuit Court of Common Pleas, within three months from the date hereof.
WITNESS, Benjamin Gage, Esquire, at Alfred, the twelfth day of January, in the year our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
Jeremiah Bradbury, CLERK.

York ss. January 31, 1821. Then personally appeared David Jones, Giles W. Burrows, & Daniel Hanson, jr. all freeholders in said county, and made solemn oath, that in appraising such real estate as should be shewn them to satisfy this execution and all fees, they would act faithfully & impartially, & according to their best skill & judgment.
Before me, Charles N. Cogswell, Justice of the Peace.
York ss. January 31, 1821. We the subscribers, being all freeholders within the said county of York, and having all this day been duly chosen, appointed, and sworn to the faithful & impartial appraisement of such real estate of the within named David Knox as should be shewn to us to satisfy this execution & all fees, have this day viewed a tract of land lying in Lebanon, in said county, shewn to us by Hayes Cogswell, the attorney of the Plff. as the property of the said David Knox, which said tract of land is bounded as follows, to wit, beginning at the easterly corner of John Nock's land, on the road, and running a check line course, easterly eighty four rods to the range road, & then running a range line course northerly fifty four rods and seven links, thence running westerly parallel to the first line, eighty four rods to John Nock's land, thence by said John's land fifty four rods & seven links to the beginning; containing twenty eight acres and sixty square rods, which we have appraised on our oaths aforesaid, at four hundred and eighty four dollars and ninety six cents; and we have set off the same by metes and bounds, to the creditor within named, to satisfy this execution & all fees. In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands.
Giles W. Burrows,
David Jones,
Daniel Hanson jr.

hereunto set our hands.
Gyles W. Burrows,
Daniel Jones,
Daniel Hanson jr.
York ss: January 31, 1821. The within named David Knox not satisfying the judgment mentioned in this execution by money or other specie, and the within named David Knox jr finding no personal property to his acceptance, wherewith to satisfy said execution, and he thinking proper to levy the same on the real estate of the said David Knox, which was attached by virtue of the original writ; I have caused three disinterested & discreet men, being freeholders on said county, one, to wit, Gyles W. Burrows, chosen by the creditor, another, to wit, Daniel Hanson jr. chosen by the debtor, and a third, to wit, Daniel Jones chosen by myself, to be sworn as the law directs, who have set out by metes and bounds, the real estate described in the certificate afore said, by them subscribed, and have appraised the same at four hundred & eighty four dollars and ninety six cents to satisfy this execution and all fees, and I have delivered seizure thereof to Charles N. Cogswell, one of the attorneys of the creditor, and return this execution satisfied in full. Benj a Lord, Deputy Sheriff.
Fees & expenses of levy, $21, 19 3/4. York ss. Lebanon, January 31, 1821. Received of the above named Benjamin Lord possession of the above described real estate in full satisfaction of this execution and all fees. Charles N. Cogswell, Attorney to David Knox junr.

Recorded according to the original, received March 29, 1821.
Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register,
York, ss. Alfred, December 5, 1823. The foregoing is a true copy of Record, book 105, pages 236 & 237.
Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register of Deeds.

State of Maine
York ss I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for the county of York, hereby certify that Jeremiah Goodwin above named is and for a long time has been Register of Deeds for said county of York, duly chosen qualified and sworn, that the above are the true and proper signatures of the said Jeremiah Goodwin and that full faith and confidence are due to the doings of the said Jeremiah Goodwin as such Register of Deeds. In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Courts this sixth day of December A.D. 1823
Jere. Bradbury

To the Honorable the Senate, and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, Respectfully submit.
Daniel Root of Lebanon in the county of York and State of Maine likewise, That I was a Soldier in the War of the Revolution between the United States and Great Britain, as such I served my country faithfully, and obtained an honorable discharge. Also when the same enemy invaded my country a second time, I enlisted as a private in the late War, in sup- port of the Independence which myself & others had been instru- mental in achieving, in this as in the former War, I served my country and was alike honorably discharged (with the loss of my hand) That by the Act of Congress of March 18th, 1818, I considered my- self as well as my former brethren in arms, justly entitled to a Pension, and actually did with them for a short time par- take of my country's bounties, as ordered for my many suf- ferings, with a heart filled with gratitude to my generous ben- efactors, which my indigent circumstances did then partially require, but now more than in an hundred fold proportion. I stand in need of such relief. That by a subsequent Act of May, 1820, requiring Schedules of the property of such Pensioners to be made & forwarded to the Office of the War Department of the U. S. I then did as I perceived what every honest man ought to do, and made my schedule agreeably to the provisions of the law, contain- ing every species of property owned, possessed improved or oc- cupied by me, notwithstanding the amount of debts which I then owed, far exceeded the amount contained in the sche- dule aforesaid, and when my creditors found that my name was stricken from the Pension Roll of the U. S. which thenceby the prospect for the collection of their whole debts be- foreed, they immediately one after another seized upon all my property personal & real & sacrificed the same for the payment of my debts & accumulated costs, but not having property to satisfy all I have been subjected to imprison- ment for some debts, and was obliged to avail myself of the salutary provisions of the poor debtors law of this State, and have since been compelled by a meritorious Creditor to yield up the small pittance exempted from attachment for the use of myself & poor family in preference to again suffering imprisonment. I am now left without a house of my own to shelter myself and family from the winds & storms with a sickly Wife & Three small children dependent upon my small earnings (but more on the charity of friends) for support, and am totally de- stitute of the means necessary for maintaining myself & them Helpless

hapless innocents committed to my charge, and that my health is such as renders me unable to perform very little labor, all of which combine to dishearten discourage in this way, apparently doomed to wear out a miserable existence. —
When your body Honorable shall take my situation under due consideration you will doubtless perceive that my case with the greatest propriety deserves to be classed with those who are introduced in indigent circumstances, and will extend to me such relief as has been uniformly bestowed upon others, in similar circumstances.
Unto whom shall I appeal, but unto the guardians of my country's rights & liberties governed with the genuine feelings of humanity, which will expand itself as I am fully persuaded to an old Soldier, who served his country in his best days, and again when too far advanced in life prompted with a zeal for my country's welfare I endured the fatigues & hardships incident to War, but too late found them more than my declining years was able to endure, and has eventuated in loss of health & generated distress which I forbear to repeat. —
All that I ask of your Honors is to be reinstated as a Revolutionary Pensioner that while I am made partakers of my country's bounty, I may devote the residue of my few declining days to the service of my G.O.D. request my Dismissal as an exemplary citizen discharge my parental obligations and all the social duties in society so as to merit the approbation of the kind & good. —
And is in duty bound will ever pray.
Lebanon Feb. 7. 26th, 1822.
David Root

Hon. J. Holmes
Lekonon 8th. March 1822
Dear Sir
Enclosed is a Petition of David Knox and inhabitant of this town, praying to be restored as a Revolutionary Pensioner: Also four affidavits subscribed and sworn to by as respectable men as are in town, to prove his indigency & need of relief from his country, (and fifteen more might have been had to prove the same fact) he and his family are unquestionably objects of charity, & from the benevolence of their friends & neighbors for a year past have derived the most of their living. he has repeatedly for more than ten months past solicited my assistance for his restoration as a Pensioner. on considering my incompetency I have ever declined, and should not now have attempted but for his increased distress, and importunity of friends, whether the course I have taken is the most proper I am not able to determine, however it is the one which suggests itself to my mind the most probable of success. This I submit to your superior knowledge, and if the steps already taken are not the correct ones, Sir will you be so good as to point out the pathway in which Mr. Knox with confidence of success can walk up to the War Office of the U. S. - From sources of the most respectable information I am fully persuaded that not a poorer man exists in Lekonon than Mr. Knox really is on this ground not a soldier of the Revolutionary War is more justly entitled to a Pension than Mr. Knox.
Sir if the rules of propriety require that the Petition be first presented in the House of Representatives you will be so obliging as to hand the papers over to Mr. Dure who doubtless will manage the business with the utmost fidelity. I desire both yours & his attendance before the Committee when this subject shall come under their consideration.
If the enclosed are not properly made out or any other paper is wanting please to give me the earliest information, so that they may be prepared and laid before Congress prior to an adjournment of that Honorable body.
I am Sir respectfully your obedient servant
Daniel Wood

P.S. Sir should any difficulty arise respecting the spelling of Mr Knox name, his family connections in Lebanon & himself have lately substituted the K in place of N, formerly they used to spell their names (Kocks) and I presume it shall stand this at the War Office, be assured it is the same name and that David Knox the man mentioned in all these papers, was the only soldier in the War of the Revolution of that name from this vicinity.
Daniel Muzzey

APPLICATION FOR A NEW CERTIFICATE.
County of York
88.
On this fourth day of November 1820, before me, the subscriber, a Justice of the Peace for the said county of York personally appeared Isaac Brown
who, on his oath, declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Captain Isaac Allen in the regiment commanded by Colonel Isaac Phillips in the service of the United States; that his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Maine that he received a certificate of that fact, under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War: which certificate, on or about the fourth day of March ,
1821, at or near South Berwick in said County of York was lost or mislaid so that he has not been able to produce it since since regularly drawing his pension, by proving himself to be the same person known to Isaac Allen who was dropped from the list of pensioners under the Act of 1814  claiming that his name was not on the pension roll at the time
Sworn and subscribed to, before me, } the day and year aforesaid.
David D. Root
Bryant Green Justice of the Peace
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.
If the pensioner has never received a formal certificate, but has drawn his pension on a mere notification, as was the case in a few instances many years ago, he should leave out the above words in italics, and insert, in lieu thereof, "but has never received a formal certificate, and now wishes to obtain one."
The pensioner's oath must be supported by the evidence of another person as to identity. The person must swear that he well knows him to be the same person described in the above affidavit. The magistrate must certify that the deponent is a person of veracity. This oath must also be authenticated by the certificate of the proper officer, under his seal of office, setting forth that the officer before whom the affidavit may be made is a Justice of the Peace, Judge, or Notary Public, as the case may be.
When a person acting as an Agent or Attorney for a Pensioner, loses the certificate, the affidavit of that person is also required, which must be authenticated as above.

York Pa December 4 th 1822-
I Samuel Parks of South Berwick in said County of law- ful age, testify and say that I am well acquainted with David Knapp within named, and I do know that he is the same person described in the within affidavit by him submitted - -
Samuel Parks
Subscribed and sworn to before me the day & year aforesaid And I do hereby certify that the above named Samuel Parks is a person of veracity
Benj 9 Greene Justice

County of York ss.
State of Maine,
I Jeremiah Bradbury Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said County do hereby certify that Benjamin Greene Esquire who has certified the annexed affidavits of David Knox and Samuel Parks, is a Justice of the Peace for said County duly appointed and qualified and that the signatures purporting to be his are genuine -
In witness whereof I hereunto set my name & affix the seal of the Court of Common Pleas for said State this sixth day of November A.D. 1825
Jer. Bradbury Clerk

Inspeaded see letter to Sec. Bradbury Sep 23 1823

State of Maine.
County of York, ss.
ON this 28th day of May 1823 in open Court, being the Court of Common Pleas held at York within and for the county of York on the last Tuesday of May A. D. 1823 Present the Hon. Ezekiel Whitman Chief Justice of said Court; said Court keep- ing a record of their proceedings, having jurisdiction unlimited in amount, proceeding according to the course of the common law, having the power to fine and imprison, and being a Court of Record in said county, personally appeared David Knox resident in said county, aged Sixty three 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 Acts of Congress of the 18th March 1818 and the 1st May 1820, that he the said Knox enlisted for the term of three years in the first part of day of in the year 1781 in the State of Massachusetts in the company commanded by captain None in the regiment command- ed by Colonel Joseph Vose in the line of the State of Massachusetts on the Continental establishment; that he continued to serve in said corps un- til December A. D. 1783 when he was discharged from the said ser- vice, 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 of 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 I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
Attest. Ezekiel Whitman Chief Justice of said Court
David Knox

SCHEDULE of the real and personal estate, (necessary clothing and bedding excepted) belonging to me the subscriber, viz :
None
SCHEDULE of the family residing with me David Knox who, by occupation am a farmer which I am unable to pursue by reason of bodily infirmities
   NAMES AGES Capacity of each to contribute to their support.     My wife Mary 57 yrs not capable to do but little being sick of consumptive complaints   Marzille my son 13 able to do as much as children of their age usually are   Leonard 10   Mercy daughter 8  
That since the exhibition of my first schedule the following changes have been made in my property.
   Name of the person to whom sold, or by whom now owned. Time of sale or transfer and for what purpose. Amount of money, or description of property received in return.     25 acres of land levied upon by execution by Benjamin Ford Deputy Sheriff taken from me.   1 Cow & 3 sheep & one yearling I have disposed of toward payment of my debts toward my support, but don't remember how or to whom    David Knox
Sworn to and declared on the 28th day of May 1823 before Ezekiel Whitman Chief Justice of said Court
I Jeremiah Brattle Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas do hereby certify that it appears, to the satisfaction of the Court, that the said David Knox 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 the schedules thereto 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 Nothing dollars and cents.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of the said Court on this twenty fourth day of June 1823
Jere Brattle CLERK of the Judicial Courts County of York

copy; Execution levy— Levi Nock vs. David Knox of Lebanon.
Search copy —0.87½

STATE OF MAINE.
YORK, ss. } To the Sheriff of our County of YORK, or his deputy,
GREETING.
WHEREAS
Levi Nock of Lebanon in the said county of York, yeoman,
by the consideration of our Justices of our Circuit Court of Common Pleas, holden at Alfred, for and within our county of York aforesaid, on the first Monday of January, 1821, recovered Judgment against
David Knox of said Lebanon, yeoman,
for the sum of two hundred twenty four Dollars and fifty five Cents, damage, and eight Dollars and forty three Cents, costs of suit; as to us appears of record, whereof execution remains to be done:
224:55
8.49
233.04
:25
WE command you, therefore, that of the goods, chattels, or lands of the said David, within your precinct, you cause to be paid and satisfied unto the said Levi at the value thereof in money, the aforesaid sums, being two hundred and thirty three Dollars and four Cents in the whole, with twenty five Cents more for this writ; and thereof also to satisfy yourself for your own fees. And for want of goods, chattels, or lands of the said David to be by him shewn unto you, or found within your precinct, to the acceptance of the said Levi, to satisfy the sums aforesaid, WE command you to take the body of the said David, and him commit unto our gaol in York or Alfred, in our county of York, aforesaid, and detain in your custody within our said gaol, until he pay the full sums above mentioned, with your fees, or that he be discharged by the said Levi, the creditor, or otherwise by order of law. Hereof fail not. And make return of this writ, with your doings therein, into the clerk's office of our said Circuit Court of Common Pleas, within three months from the date hereof.
WITNESS, Benjamin Gage, Esquire, at Alfred, the twelfth day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty one.
Jere. Bradbury, CLERK.
Received thirteen dollars & seventy eight cents, in part. Jan. 31, 1821. Levi Knox.
York Jan. 31 1821

York ss. January 31, 1821. Then personally appeared David Jones, Giles W. Burrows, and Daniel Hanson, jr. and made oath, that in appraising such real estate of David Knox, as should be shewn to them to satisfy this execution & all fees, they would act faithfully & impartially, & according to their best skill & judgment. Before me, Charles N. Cogswell, Justice of the Peace.
York ss January 31, 1821. We the subscribers, being all freeholders within said county of York and having all this day been duly chosen, appointed and sworn to the faithful and impartial appraisement of such real estate of the within named David Knox, as should be shewn to us to satisfy this execution and all fees, have this day viewed a tract of land lying in Lebanon, in said county, shewn to us by Hayes & Cogswell, the attorneys of the Plff. as the estate of the said David Knox, which said tract of land is bounded as follows, to wit; beginning at the corner of land this day set off to David Knox, jr. which is on the range road, & running by said road fifty seven rods to land of Daniel Hanson, jr. thence by said Hanson's land eighty four rods to land of John Knox, jr. thence by said John Knox's land, thence by said John Knox's land, fifty seven rods to said David Knox's land, thence by said David, jr's land, eighty four rods to the beginning; containing twenty nine acres & one hundred & forty eight rods, which we have appraised on our oaths aforesaid, at two hundred & thirty nine dollars & forty cents. And we have set off the same tract of land by metes and bounds to the creditor within named, to satisfy this execution & all fees. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.
Giles W. Burrows,
David Jones,
Daniel Hanson, Jr.

and bounds to the creditor within named, to satisfy this execution & all fees. In witness whereof, we have hereunto set our hands.
Giles W. Burrows, David Jones, Daniel Hanson, Jr.
York ss. January 31, 1821. The within named David Knox not satisfying the judgment mentioned in this execution, by money or other specie, and the within named Levi Nock finding no personal estate to his acceptance, - whereunto to satisfy said execution, and he thinking proper to levy the same on the real estate of the said David Knox which was attached by virtue of the original writ, I have caused three disinterested & discreet men, being freeholders in said county, one to wit, Giles W. Burrows, chosen by the creditor, another to wit, Daniel Hanson, jr. chosen by the debtor, & a third, to wit, David Jones, chosen by myself, to be sworn as the law directs, who have set out by metes and bounds, the real estate described in the certificate aforesaid, by them subscribed and have appraised the same at the sum of two hundred and thirty nine dollars & forty cents, to satisfy this execution & all fees. And I have delivered possession & seizure thereof to Charles N. Cogswell, one of the attorneys of the creditor, & return this execution satisfied in full.
Fees, & expenses of levy, $18.89. Benj a Lord Deputy Sheriff.
York ss. Jan'y. 31, 1821. Received of the above named Benj a Lord, possession of the real estate above named, in full satisfaction of this execution & all fees. Charles N. Cogswell, attorney to Levi Nock.

Recorded according to the original, received March 29 1820.
Attest,
Jeremiah Goodwin, Register.
York, ss. Alfred, December 5, 1823. The foregoing is a true copy of Record, book 105, pages 225 & 226. Attest, Jeremiah Goodwin, Register of Deeds.
State of Maine
York ss I Jeremiah Bradbury, Clerk of the Judicial Courts for said county of York, hereby certify that Jeremiah Goodwin above named is and for a long time has been Register of Deeds for said county of York, duly chosen qualified and sworn, that the above are the true and proper signatures of the said Jeremiah Goodwin and that full faith and credit are due to the doings of the said Jeremiah Goodwin as such Register of Deeds.
In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and the seal of said Courts this sixth day of December A.D. 1823.
Jere. Bradbury

37136 Revg  INVALID.
File No. 37136
David Knox
Sci Rev War
Act: 18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol. 2 , Page 226
[Arrangement of 1870.]