Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2712, for Adam Knittle, Pennsylvania

SERVICE
NUMBER
Penn.
Konittle, Adam
S. 2712
CONTENTS
carded

1153
Pennsylvania
Adam Knittle
of Schuylkill Co. in the State of Pennsylvania who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Mosser of the Reg't commanded by Col. Haller in the Penna. line for 10 months.
Inscribed on the Roll of Pennsylvania at the rate of 33 Dollars 33 Cents per annum to commence on the 14th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 27 th day of October 1832 and sent to Pensioner Owingsburg Pa.
  Arrears to 14th of Sept. 1832  49.99     Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 th Mch 1833  16.66      $66.65   
{ Revolutionary Claim, } { Act June 7, 1832. }
Recorded by McDuffie Clerk Book D Vol. 6 Page 65

Nov 20/08
Adam Knittle
Pennsylvania
admitted
Pirate, 10. months.
$33:33
Send to Pmt. at
Armstrong
Schuylkill Co Pa.

BRIEF in the case of Adam Knittle . Manawick Town  County of Schuylkill in the State of Pennsylvania (Act 7 June, 1832.)
1. Was the declaration made before a Court or a Judge? Court 2. If before a Judge, does it appear that the applicant is disabled by bodily infirmity? 3. How old is he? 73 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.     In 1776 6 Private Gen. Washington Col. Bal   " 2 Militia do Col. Barry   1777 2 Indians do Col. Schuylkill   10 months.  
5. In what battles was he engaged? Long Island White Plains 6. Where did he reside when he entered the service? Richmond Berks County 7. Is his statement supported by living witnesses, by documentary proof, by traditional evidence, by incidental evidence, or by the rolls?  Living Witness 8. Are the papers defective as to form or authentication? and if so, in what respect?
Correct
I Certify that the foregoing statement and the answers agree with the evidence in the case above mentioned.
James Wilson Examining Clerk.

No 1708
Adam Knittle
Pennsylvania
No 1708.
Adam Knittle
Revolutionary Pensioner

State of Pennsylvania Schuylkill County } ss
On this first day of August In the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two, Personally appeared In open court before Calvin Blythe president and George Hough and Daniel Host, judges of the Court of Common in and for the said County of Schuylkill, Adam Knittle a resident of Brunswick township in the said County and State of Pennsylvania - aforesaid, 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 the 7 th 1832, (to wit) That he entered the service under the following named officers, and served as herein stated - (to wit) enlisted under Captain Jacob Mauser, First Luten was first Lieut. and Stephen Baldy second Lieutenant, and Jacob Drubblis was the ensign, belonged to Coln Hallers Regiment, served as an enlisted private soldier in the flying Camp, Marched to Amboy from thence to New York, to Long Island, to Kings Bridge White Plains was at the battle of Long Island and White Plains, enlisted in the harvest in the year Seventeen hundred & eighty six, and served from that time until the month of January following about the period of six months, residence at the time of his enlistment, in Richmond township Berks County and State of Pennsylvania

On his return from the flying Camp to Berks County in the month of January, as aforesaid - He again entered the service as a Militia man a private in Captain Muhlens Company - Marched to New town one of the Commanding Officers was Lieut. Coln Jacob Bager - Remained at New town in the state of Pennsylvania for the space of two months, and returned to Berks County, After which he served a tour of two months in the year seventeen hundred & twenty seven against the Indians as a private in the Militia. Marched twenty Miles above Lumberg to Bosler Mill at Chilisquaca under Coln Lundermuth marched from Berks County under Captain Sader - After the Revolutionary war He continued to reside in the said township of Richmond in the County of Berks aforesaid for about twenty years, he then moved to Schuylkill County where He has since resided. He believes that he obtained discharges on leaving the service, but has lost them. dont recollect by whom the discharges were given - He was born in Richmond township Berks County aforesaid in the month of April in the year seventeen hundred and fifty nine dont know of any record of his age, when he marched in the Militia he went as a volunteer was not drafted - Henry Hoffmeyer of Schuylkill County is acquainted with the fact of his service in the flying Camp. None of no person living who can testify to his service in the Militia - He names the Reverend Frederick Charles Orell and Isaac Arning who can testify to his character for veracity and their belief of his services as a soldier of the

Revolution.
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 or (if any) only on that of the agency of the state of Pennsylvania
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid —
Isaac Smith Briffel
Jac. Hammer Broth.
Henry Hoffman of Brumley township Schuylkill county of the age of seventy two years, a disinterested witness being produced and sworn according to Law, doth say that he is well acquainted with Adam Knuth the above applicant for a pension. That he viewed him in the revolutionary war that the said Adam Knuth was an enlisted soldier in the revolutionary army in the year fourteen hundred & twenty six. and that he served six months in the flying corps in Col. Haller's Regiment. That he was at the battle of Long Island & the White Plains — Sworn & subscribed in open court August 2 d 1832 { Henry Hoffman
Jac. Hammer Broth.

We Frederick Charles Galt a clergyman residing in the County of Schuylkill, and Jacob Huntzinger residing in Dauphin County both in the neighborhood of the above named applicant. Hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Adam Knettle who has subscribed & sworn to the foregoing declarations that we believe him to be of the age of seventy three years. That he is reputed and believed in the neighborhood where he resides, to have been a soldier of the revolutionary and that we concur in that opinion
Sworn & subscribed the day & year last aforesaid
CHRL Galt Rev. P. S.
Jacob Huntzinger
Jac. Hammer Reckly

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interrog- atories prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary soldier & served as he states: And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that Frederick Charles Crute who has signed the preceding Certificate is a clergyman residing in Shenkin township in the 10th County of Pennsylvania, and that Jacob Hartzler who has also signed the same is a resident in Strasburg in the same County and is a credible person and that their Statement is entitled to credit —
C. Blythe J. Crute

Pennsylvania Schuylkill County S.S.
I Jacob Hammer Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas of the County of Schuylkill aforesaid do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Adam Strittle for a pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of said Office this third day of August AD one thousand eight hundred and thirty two.
Jac. Hammer

Rev War
27/12 INVALID.
File No. 27/12
Adam Smith
Privot Rev War
Act: June 7.  1832
Index:—Vol. A , Page 210
[Arrangement of 1870.]