Person:Elijah Knight (20)

MILITARY: Transcribed by William Custer Knight Heritagequestonline.com January 15, 1924

Mrs. B. A. Crane, 517 West Tenth St., Erie. Pa,

Madam;

    I have to advice you that from the papers in the 

Revolutionary War pension claim, B. 41732, it appears that Elijah Knight enlisted at Norwich, Connecticut in April 1777 and served as private in Captains Nathaniel Webb's and Fell's Companies, Colonel John Durkee's Connecticut Regiment, was in the battles of Danbury, Brandywine, Germantown, Mud Fort, White Church, where he was wounded and taken prisoner, held two weeks and exchanged, he at once returned to the same regiment, was in the battles of Monmouth and Yorktown and served to end of war.

    He was allowed pension on his application executed

June 22, 1818, while a resident of Gallia County, Ohio, aged sixty years.

    In 1820, soldier was living in Pickaway County, Ohio,

and referred to his wife and three children, the eldest being about sixteen years, names not stated. He died in 1826.

    Owing to a lack of clerical force available for such a

purpose, only two reports are furnished each inquirer.

Respectfully, Commissioner.