Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 2776, for Robert Mc Cumsey, Pennsylvania
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near Harrisburgh, Penn’a and served a two months tour of duty & was discharged at Amboy in the State of New Jersey. He joined this Company some time before harvest. In the fall of the same year he served another two month tour of duty in a company commanded by Capt James Collier. He joined this company at Harrisburgh in the neighborhood of which he resided, and marched from Harrisburgh to Carlisle, where the company was quartered untill the expiration of the tour of duty at which place he was discharged. On the second tour he went as a substitute for John Elder In the ensuing summer he entered as a volunteer in a company commanded by Captain James Alexander on an expedition of the Susquehanna river in boats as far to Tioga & Channing the Indian towns at the two latter places were destroyed also their corn growing &c. In this expedition he was employed nearly two months and was discharged on the Susquehanna a little below Harrisburgh. In the year following about the first of May he again volunteered in a company commanded by Capt. William Smith, he joined the company
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BRIEF objections to the admission of Pension Claims, of which those answered in the negative, in red ink, will apply to the claim of Robert Cumsie   Mercer Co    Ohio which require further proof or explanation,      
I. Does the declaration show where the applicant resides? yes    
II. Did the declarant make the declaration in the county where he resides? yes                    
III. If the applicant did not make the declaration in the county where he resides, is there any reason assigned for his not doing so?                     IV. Has the declarant mentioned the period or periods of the war when he served? Yes              
V. *Has he mentioned with precision the length of his service, and the different grades in which he served, in language so definite as to enable the department to determine to what amout of pension he is entitled?  yes            
VI. Has he given the names of the officers under whom he served, in conformity with the regulations? No                           
VII. Has he made a relinquishment of every claim to any other pension than the one under the Act of June 7, 1832?   yes                
VIII. Has the Court given their opinion? yes              
IX. Has the Clerk given his certificate? Yes   
X. Is the Clerk's seal affixed? And if so, has it a device or inscription by which it can be distinguished from any other seal?   Yes