Knox, Samuel - 1832 - Rowan County, NC - Pension Note: The origional spelling and puctuation has been retained as best as I can decipher from the photocopy in my possesion which is a copy of the microfilm in the National Archives, Washington D.C. Susan Troutman, submitter . Revulutionary War Pension Application of Samuel Knox State of Georgia County of Jackson On the 3rd day of October personally appeared before me one of the judges of the Inferior Court of said county of Jackson Samuel Knox of the county of Jackson and State of Georgia aged Eighty six years. His 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 7th June 1832. That he entered the Service of the United States under the following named officers and served a herein stated---- That he was drafted in Rowan County North Carolina year not recollected, under Coln Davy and under the immediate command of Capt Thomas Cowan and was marched below Charlotte in North Carolina and was there Stationed near three months. This expedition was immediatly after Gates was defeated at Camden in South Carolina and during which time the British army Under Cornwallis was at Chatlotte that he was in the Service at this time near three months. That he again volunteered under Capt Joseph Dixon in Rowan County and joined the regiment commanded by Coln Lock and was engaged in watching the movements of the British Army while in Charlotte, and keeping in the Scouting and foraging parties of the British Army in the service he was engaged two weeks That he again volunteered in Rowan County under Capt Thoma Cowan joined companies commanded by Captains Armstrong and Fall, and fought a Battle with the Tories at Ramsours Mills where Capt Armstrong was killed and where the Tories were defeated and afterwards was employed in attepting to protect the British under Lord Cornwallis from crossing the Catawba sometime before the Battle at Guilford. That General Davidson was killed on the bank of the Catawba when the British crossed, and that after the British crossed the Catawba he was with the army in persuit of Cornwallis as far as the (t?) h---- fields in Orange County, North Carolina and was at that place sent as an express to General Green who was marching to the South and met with Genl Greens Army a considerable distand on the other of east side of Dan river and then returned to the (t)h----- fields with an express from Genl Green to Coln Dixon, which express Genl Green had enclosed in his saddle pad. That he was out in this last service Five months or more. The Declarant states that he omitted a tour of duty he had preformed before the Battle at Ramsours Mills Under Genl Davidson, that he volunteered and went under him to scout a party of Tories that had collected at Colstons near the Yadkin river North Carolina, had an engagement at that place and routed them, does not recollect the Tory commander. In this service he was engaged two weeks or more. The above and the forgoing are all the services that he recollects of performing in the revolutionary war, and that he rendered the whole as a mounted militia furnishing his own Horse and saddle. To the following Interogatives propounded to him he answeres as follows viz 1st Where and in what year were you borln? I was born in Hanover County, Pensylvania in 1747 2nd Int. Have you record of your age and where is it? ans. I have a record of my age in my family bible 3rd Int. Where were you living when you entered into service. Where have lived since the revolutionary war and where do you now live. Ans.--- I lived in Rowan County North Carolina I removed to Georgia in the year 1886 and in Wilkes County and afterwards moved to Jackson County where I now live. 4th Int. How were you called into service ans. The first tour of duty of three months I was called by a draft, in all the other tours I volunteered. 5th State the names of some of the regulear officers who were with the troops where you served such continential and militia regiments as you recollect and the general circumstances of your service. Ans. Genl Green was the only continential officer that I knew. I understood that Coln Davey also was but did not know. I have mentioned the regiments that I was aquainted and the Genl circumstances of my service in my General declaration 6th Int. Did you ever recieve a discharge and if so by whom was it given, and what has become of it? Ans. I have no recollection of recieving any discharge, if I did I know not what has become of it. about the close of the war I recieved a commission attached to this declaration. 7th Int. State the names of persons whom you are known in your neighborhood and who can testify to the character for voracity & good behavior, your service as a revolutionalry soldier. Ans. Joseph T. Cunningham, James Liddill, Edward Story, Middleton Brooks, Andrew Cunninghams. I served nine month in several tours and have no documentary evidence by which to establish my claim, nor do I know any person whom testamony I --------- who can testify to that service. I have no claim whatever except the present to any pension or amnisty(?) and my name is not upon the pension roll of any State agency. Sworn to & subscribe the day & year aforsaid Robt Smithwick J.J.C Joseph Hampton J.J.C Samuel Knox Atty J. Broom J.J.C (his signature) We Robert Mc Alpine a clergyman residing in the County aforsaid & Joseph T. Cunningham residing in the same do retify that we believe Samuel Knox And who has sworn to and described the foregoing declaration is of the age he represents himself to be and that he is respected in the neighborhood in which he resides to be a Soldier of the revolution and that we concur in that opinion Sworn to & subscribes the day and year aforsaid Robrt Smithwick J.J.C. Robert Mc Alpine Joseph Hampton J.J.C. Joseph T. Cunningham Atty J. Broom J.J.C. (their signatures) And the Said Court do hereby declare their opinion after the investigation of the matter and after putting the interogatives prescribed by the War department that the above applicant was a revolutionary Soldier and Served as he states. And the Court further Certifies that apperences to them that Robt Mc Alpine who has signed the preceeding certificate is a clergyman resides to in the County of Jackson and that Joseph T Cunningham who has also singed the -----(smudged) is a resident in the County of Jackson and is a -anditable person and their statement is entilled(?) and -ndit Robt. Smithwick J.J.C. Joseph Hampton J.J.C. Atty J. Broom J.J.C. I Sylanus Ripley Clerk of the Inferion of Jackson County do hereby certify that the foregoing containes the origional proceeding of the said Court in the matter of the application of Samuel Knox for a pension In testimonty where of I have here---- set my hand and (torn off corner) officer this 6th day of November 1832 Sylanus Ripley Note: The origional spelling and puctuation has been retained as best as I can decipher from the photocopy in my possesion which is a copy of the microfilm in the National Archives, Washington D.C. 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