Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W 2866, for Henry Shrum, Pennsylvania
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State of Pennsylvania
Allegheny County
On this the 25th day of March in the year
1834 appear in open Court personally before the Hon
Court of Common pleas for the county of Allegheny state of Pennsylvania now held in Pittsburgh -Henry Shrom resident of Allegheny County State of Pennsylvania aged 72 years who being first duly
Sworn according to law doth make the following
declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act
Congress pased 7th June 1832. 
That he entered the service of the United States in the summer of 1777 as a volunteer under Capt David Marchand in Westmoreland County State aforesaid -
that we marched from where Greensburgh now stands
up the Alleghany river in pursuit of the Indians
who at that time were very troublesome committing
great depredations on the frontier settlements, -
that he does not recollect the names of his other of officers - that he served two months this tour [illegible]
private and was regularly discharged by
his captain. - In the next year to wit 1778 he was
drafted late in the fall under Capt Marchand
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the Lieutenant's name not certainly recollected but
he thinks it was James Ireland - That he marched
from Hempfield township near when Greensburgh now
stands to fort Crawford on the Allegheny River, - that
he served under this draft two months as a private and was regularly discharged by his captain, - during the time he was
out he was in no battle - that he volunteered under
Captain Marchand and Michael Fritzman Lieutenant the next year and marched from Hempfield township Westmoreland County to Quittie Creek and up said Creek and up
and then across to the Allegheny River - that he was
in no battle, but frequently seen the enemy
two of whom were killed by his company and they
were frequently pursued, - at this time - they were
committing great depredation on the frontier settlers -
that he served six months this tour as a private and was regularly discharged by his Captain. 
The next year to wit 1780 he volunteered as a private
under Captain Michael Fritzman as a scout and
spy and to gain [illegible] the frontiers.-   be spied from
Quillie Creek to Kiskiminetas and to Harmar's town -
This tour I served six months and was regularly
by discharged by my captain - In 1781 I again volunteered
under Capt Fritzman as a scout and spy and to
[illegible] the frontiers - we spied from Brush Creek
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to Quillie creek to Hiskemin,[Hileman?] to Puckkety and round with Allegheny River and from thence to Hannah's town - 
this tour he served six months as a private and was regularly discharged by his captain. The next year to wit in 1782 he again volunteered as a private under Capt Painter[?] - the names of the other officers not recollected and marched as a spy round the frontiers and [illegible] and forted at the same place he did the year before-- this tour he served four months and was regularly discharged by his Captain - that his discharges were not in writing nor has he any documentary
evidence of his services- That in the five campaigns he served twenty four months
That Lawrence Konkle during the Revolution
lived in the same neighborhood with him can
testify as to his services - and that David Eakin
can testify as to his character for truth and
as to the opinion of his neighbors as regards his being a Revolutionary soldier
He herby relinquishes every claim whatever to
pension or annuity except the present and
declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State
The applicant further states that he cannot recollect the names of any other of the officers of the several companies to