Marlboro County ScArchives Military Records.....Knight Or Sharper Or McIntosh, Moses February 26, 1831
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of Moses Knight, Natl Archives Microseries M804, Roll 1503, Application #W10182 (an African By Birth)
Daviess County, Indiana, March 26, 1831, Moses Knight, aged 76:
	“That he, the said Moses Knight enlisted for the term of five years…in 
the year 1779 in the state of South Carolina in the company commanded by 
Captain James Fontleroy in the regiment commanded by Colonel Jack McIntosh in 
the line of the state of South Carolina on the continental establishment. That 
he continued in the service until the year 1782 when he was discharged from the 
service in Windsor in the state of South Carolina…”

May 13th, 1833:
	“That he enlisted in the army of the United States in the year 1779 
with Colonel Jack McIntosh, served in the __ regiment of the South Carolina 
line under the following named officers:

	“Colonel Jack McIntosh, other field officers not recollected. Captain 
James Fontleroy, Lt. Maryweathers. That at the time of his enlistment, he 
resided at General Alexander McIntosh’s on Big Peedee River, about three miles 
below the Long Bluffs and four miles below Kolb’s Ferry in ____ County, South 
Carolina. That Colonel McIntosh was the commandant of a troop of Light Horse 
and was called a regular officer, and that at the time he (the said Moses 
Knight) enlisted, two other individuals by the names of John O'Neal and James 
O'Neal, brothers, and one other by the name of ___ McClary, enlisted under said 
McIntosh. That they were marched to Camden, where they were placed under 
Captain Fontleroy and Lt. Maryweathers and where they joined the army. That he 
continued to serve in said troop of horse under the officers aforesaid until 
the year 1782, when he was discharged from the service at Windsor in South 
Carolina.”

	“That during his service he was marched into North Carolina; was at the 
Shallow Ford on Yadkin River; was guarding horses in hearing of the guns at the 
time of the Battle at Guilford Courthouse; that he was at Princess Ann 
Courthouse, Virginia; and that he was near Savannah, in Georgia. That his 
service was principally against the Tories; and that he was engaged against the 
Tories and rode by the side of one George Storms at the time the Tories killed 
Colonel Kolb and burned his house at Kolb’s Ferry on Peedee.”

	“That sometime in the year 1782, he was appointed and commissioned a 
press-master to take a boatload of corn from Kolb’s Ferry to Windsor, and that 
he did press hands and take 800 bushels of corn from said ferry to Windsor for 
the support of General Greene’s Light Horse, where he received his discharge as 
aforesaid…”

	“That the said Moses Knight further states that in March 1831, he filed 
a declaration in order to be placed on the Pension list…and that sometime in 
May following, he was informed by the War Department that ‘No officer of that 
name (alluding to Colonel McIntosh) commanded a South Carolina regiment on the 
continental establishment. There was a colonel of that name in the continental 
army, but it does not appear that the claimant belonged to his regiment. As the 
terms providing for Revolutionary soldiers extend to none but those who served 
on the continental establishment and as the regiment to which the claimant was 
attached did not belong that that establishment, a pension cannot be granted.’”

	“He states positively that Colonel Jack McIntosh was called a regular 
officer, and that he understood from Colonel McIntosh himself that he was a 
regular officer with full powers to enlist men and as such he (the said Moses) 
did as he was informed and verily believes, enlist under. That he does not know 
whether Colonel McIntosh was a resident of South Carolina or not, but believes 
he was a resident of Georgia.”

	“He also states that he was sometimes called Moses Sharper and 
sometimes called Moses McIntosh (he having been raised by General Alexander 
McIntosh) and sometimes Moses Knight, and that if Colonel McIntosh was not a 
regular officer, he was deceived by him and others; but that he did serve as 
above stated, which services he proved by living witnesses in the filing of his 
former declaration.”

	“…The said Moses Knight further states for the satisfaction of the War 
Department that during the whole period of his service, he served as a private 
soldier except the period of his service as a press master as aforesaid, which 
he believes could not have been more than thirty or thirty-five days. That 
Colonel McIntosh was generally called ‘Jack McIntosh’, but that his proper name 
was John McIntosh…”

	August 3rd, 1833, personally appeared, Moses Knight…That when he filed 
his declaration in March 1831 as stated in the foregoing declaration) he proved 
his service by the only living witnesses he then knew of, or now knows of, who 
could testify to his services. That Joseph Warner, Esq. who attended to his 
business kept the affidavits of John H. ?Saymount? and Philip Jones (the 
witnesses above stated) proving his service, with the intention of forwarding 
the same with his declaration to the Secretary of War. That he does not know 
whether Mr. Warner did send said affidavits or not, but supposes he did. That 
since the summer of 1832, the said John H. Saymount, the most material witness 
to this affiant in the investigation of this claim, has died, which will appear 
by the accompanying affidavit of Luther C. Cochran, leaving no living witness 
except Philip Jones.”


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