Pension: SAMUEL SHANNON 

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Pennsylvania Archives

                      fifth series - volume iv

                  harrisburg publish co., state printer


                                 1906


                               page 593


Elizabeth Shannon states that her husband, SAMUEL SHANNON , was Capt. in Regt. 
commanded by Archibald Lochry. While on and expedition carried out August 24, 1781 
against the Indians he was taken prisoner on the west bank of the Ohio River, tomahawked 
and killed by an Indian about the middle of October of same year. He was thirty-five years 
of age at the time of death. Was survived by said widow and seven children. Capt. 
SAMUEL SHANNON was Capt. in Col. Pumroy's Battalion of Westmoreland County 
Militia. Pension granted to said widow.