1842
In December 1842 in Christian County, Kentucky, Sarah Knight, aged 79 years, stated:
"that her late husband Capt. John Knight did in addition to the services set forth . . . in her former declaration . . . a full tour of five years in the regular army prior to his services as captain . . . a part of the time he acted as lieutenant as she always understood from him whether he had a commission in the regular army she does not now recollect but she well recollect that he had a discharge or discharges . . . but as stated in her former declaration were all consumed by fire as well as his commission. She would further state she well recollects seeing what her late husband called his commission and discharge, but not being a scholar, or any part of one, she did not read them, though she distinctly recollects the papers . . . that being very old and infirm her recollection is very much impaired . . . that she was married to the said John Knight on the __ day of ____ 1781. She is at a loss to know how it happened to be stated in her former declaration that she was married in 1773, but if so set forth, that it was a mistake in drawing the declaration. She cannot recollect dates, so as to state the precise day but well knows and recollects that it was . . . during his service and a very short time after the battle at Guilford & as she verily believes during that year . . . She would again state that she is the widow of the late Capt. John Knight and has remained a widow ever since his decease . . .
signed: Sarah (X) Knight, 8 Dec. 1842."

1847
"18 Feb. 1847
State of Kentucky, Christian County. Personally appeared Sarah Knight, a resident of said county, aged 84 years . . . say . . . that she is the widow of the late Capt. John Knight, who was a soldier in the Revolutionary war, from Randolph County, North Carolina. That when the war first begun in the South (she is informed in the year 1779) that said John Knight had some little dispute and difficulty with his family relations and he run off from home and entered said service at headquarters, she does not know where headquarters were, being quite young and paying no attention to such things, neither does she know the names of his officers; and continued in said service until the fall of the year before the battle of Guilford, when he returned home. And she further saith that said Knight often told her that he was in the States of South Carolina and Georgia--that he was sometimes at Charleston and sometimes at Savannah that he was marched about nearly all over those states and continued in that service until his return home as above mentioned . . . she knows of his long absence from the neighborhood and that reports said he was with the Army in the South. She further saith that soon after his return from the Army of the South that he was elected or made Captain of a Militia Company in Randolph County and that he commanded said company at the battle of Guilford. That after said battle he continued in command of said company and was engaged in operating against and keeping in check the Tories in the counties of Randolph, Guilford, Montgomery, and down about Fayetteville and among the Sand Hills, that he had three skirmishes with the Tories to wit at Caraway River, when he was wounded in the head at a man's house named Kneedham and at a man's called Solley's, both of whom lived down toward s the Sand Hills; she further saith that she recollects the names of Captains Edward Williams, William Searcy, William York and John Hill, who were also militia officers against the Tories from the same section of country and who commanded separate companies and cooperated with Capt. John Knight in waging war against the Tories under the command of Fanning and Walker and Sanders all of the latter of whom were Tory Captains. She further states that said Knight was commanded by Major Thomas Dugan and Cols. Andrew Belfour and James Collyer. She states further that said John Knight was engaged as above stated in defending the people from the Tories, from early in the year prior to the battle of Guilford, until the war ended in the year 1782, and that she remembers distinctly that he was out actively engaged in said service for seven different and distinct tours of three months each, making in the aggregate twenty one months . . . She can only say that he had command of a company some time before the battle of Guilford and he continued in said command for seven distinct periods of three months each. She further saith that she has frequently heard him say that while he was with the Southern Army in South Carolina and Georgia that he was promoted from a private to a sergant and then a Lieutenant. She states that said John Knight and herself were raised in the same neighborhood and that he was seven years older than herself--that she was married to the said John Knight in the county of Randolph, North Carolina, in the month of June subsequent to the battle of Guilford, to wit, in June 1781. There was "cider" made out of early June apples at the marriage makes her think it was June. She was married at the age of eighteen making her present age 84 years, by Capt. Edward Williams, who was a magistrate in said county, as well as Captain, and that she was married by the publication upon three separate days of the "Banns" by a minister of the name of Richard Shackleford at a meeting house within a mile and a half of her home. That John Knight was then commanding a company and that he had a number of his men with him at the wedding among whom were William Crabtree and Joseph Newton and that the house was well guarded during the festival which continued two days and then said Knight rejoined his main company again. That said Knight, when his company was near, would sometimes stealthily visit her and when he did so, at the approach of night he had to take a bed and lie in some concealed place until morning and thus it continued until the end of the war.

"She further saith that some years after the war they moved to the State of Tennessee on Red River and whilst living there their house was burnt down and all their papers destroyed--that his commission as captain and the Bible record of the marriage and his other discharges were all burnt with the house. She states that she has seen his Commission as Captain and his other discharges frequently--that previous to their destruction her husband frequently exhibited them to the people. She saith that said Knight left this state some twenty four years ago to go to North Carolina and Georgia in order to hunt up evidence to establish his claim to a pension and that he died while absent and further that she has been informed that there are contradictions in the several declarations now on file . . . touching the date of her marriage and her age. She would respectfully state that if there are such contradictions in her former declaration that the fault is with the persons who wrote them out . . . now that she is very old and infirm she can only remember when a thing happened by some remarkable event that transpired near the same time . . .
Signed: Sarah (X) Knight

1847
On 18 Feb. 1847, Jacob Oglesby, Elizabeth Fox, and John Knight made deposition in Christian County, Kentucky. "that they have been well acquainted with old man John Knight and his present widow Sarah Knight for many years. That they have the fullest and most implicit faith and confidence in the strict truth of old Mrs. Sarah Knight that she would not vary from the truth for any consideration that they have heard her statement of the present day for a pension read and they believe her statement is true and entitled to full faith and credit. They further say they believe that old man John Knight was a soldier and a Captain in the War of the Revolution in North Carolina--they have heard said John Knight tell about his service in that war and they have seen the wound upon his head which he stated he received at the battle of Caraway River. They further say that old man Knight lived in this neighbourhood for many years previous to his death and that he was the first magistrate that ever was in this neighborhood and was always looked upon by his acquaintances as a Soldier and and officer . . ." One W. B. Clark (or M. B.) Clark, justice of the peace, made statement that these three people were persons of respectability and truth.

1847
Jeremiah Wyatt, on 17 Aug. 1847, in Vanderburg Co., Indiana, made deposition that he was 86 years old and "that he was a soldier in the war of the Revolution in the State of North Carolina from Mecklinburg County and that in the years 1780 and 1781 he performed seven months and 14 days service and that while in said service he frequently saw a man of the name of John Knight who commanded a company from Randolph County, N.C. He states that said Capt. John Knight was at the Battle of Guilford and was also at Hillsboro . . ."

In the Revolutionary pension application of John Reed, File No. 8674 in N.C. Archives, John Reed, living in Bedford County, Tennessee, formerly of Randolph Co., N.C., wrote that he served under Capt. John Knight during the Revolution.

John Crabtree was born in Randolph County, North Carolina, May 3, 1763. He entered the service in 1780 under Captain Edward Williams; he again enlisted under Captain John Knight. Coming to Illinois, he settled in Montgomery County in what was known as the "Street Settlement," about four miles from Hillsboro. He was among the early settlers, and lies buried in
the family grave-yard not far from the old homestead.