Author: William Theodore Kinker
Pension Application of Peter Scrum (Shroum, Srum) S7456 NC
Transcribed and annotated by C. Leon Harris. Revised 23 Jan 2015.
State of North Carolina } Court of Pleas & Quarter Session
Lincoln County } October Term 1832

On this thirtyeth day of October personally appeared in open court before the Justices of said court now sitting Peter Shroum aged seventy years a resident of said county who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress
passed June 7th 1832 That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers & served as herein stated

That he volunteered under Captain Armstrong [William Armstrong, pension application S30831] in the county then called Tryon on the 25th June 1780 that he was attached to Gen’l Rutherfords [Griffith Rutherford’s] Army being still under said Captain, that he next marched under said Officers down to Cheraw hills [in South Carolina] from which place he was marched to near Camden where he with four hundred men were detached from Rutherford army & sent to reinforce General Sumpter [sic: Thomas Sumter] under the command of Colonel Isaacks [sic: Elijah Isaacs], as well as remembers that he was in Sumpters defeat which took place on the 18th August 1780 at Fishing Creek [in present Chester County SC] that he was taken to Charleston from Fishing Creek after the defeat as a prisoner of War. that at Charleston he was put on board of a prison ship where he remained from the first of September until near Christmas when he was taken from the port on ship and placed in the Barracks at Charleston where he remained until the 6 of April 1781, from which time he was again put on board a prison ship where he remained until the 9 July, when the ship sailed from Charleston, he still being on board, to the mouth of James River in Virginia. that he was landed at JamesTown in Virginia on the 20th July and exchanged by the British for the prisoners that were in the hands of the Americans that after the Exchange he was discharged & returned home. he further states that during the time he was a prisoner he suffered a great deal from the ill usage of the British, that he never received any written discharge, but was as stated before dismissed & allowed to return home. That the time he was in actual service & a prisoner amounts to fourteen months, lacking 4 days. he also states that he knew Genl Rutherford & Genl Sumpter He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any other state

Sworn to & subscribed the day & the year aforesaid Peter hisPSmark Shroum

Interrogatories asked by the court
Q 1st Where & in what year were you born
A I was born in York County Pennsylvania I am now seventy years old

2d Have you any record of your age & where is it
A I have none

3d Where were you living when called into service where have you lived ever since. Answer I was
living in Lincoln County N Carolina & have been living in the same County ever since I Returned from
the Service Peter hisPSmark Shroum
State of North Carolina }
Lincoln County } April Sessions 1833

Peter Scrum of said County appeared in Court and after being duly sworn says that when he Volunteered in Captain Armstrongs Company on the 25th June 1780 James Hill [W3815] an applicant for pension was commanding in said Company as Lieutenant of said Company that he continued in command in said Company at the time I was transfered to the detachment under General Sumpter and during all said time he was commanding Lieutenant in said Company

Peter hisPSmark Scrum