York County PA Archives Military Records.....Kroan, John October 29, 1832
Revwar - Pension 
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Pension Application Of John Kroan, National Archives Microseries M804, Roll __, Application #S22348
York County, Pennsylvania
	On this 29th day of October, 1832, personally appeared…John Kroan…a 
resident in the County of York, Pennsylvania, aged 75 years…:

	That he enlisted on the 1st of July, 1776 in said County in Captain 
Dritt’s company and Colonel Swopes’ Battalion for six months and marched 
through Lancaster and Chester Counties to Philadelphia, from thence to Trenton 
in the state of New Jersey, and from thence to Princeton, Brunswick, and 
Elizabethtown and Amboy; from thence to Fort Lee, where he was stationed to 
work on the fort until Fort Washington was taken, at which time and place his 
captain with several of his company were taken prisoners, leaving Lieutenant ?
Tome and the remainder of the company at Fort Lee, who remained there until 
after the battle of Fort Washington. The company was then commanded by 
Lieutenant Tome and marched to immediately to Elizabethtown, and from thence to 
Trenton, through the state of New Jersey, and passed over the River Delaware 
into the state of Pennsylvania, and remained in the state of Pennsylvania until 
the battles of Trenton and Princeton, at which time he was in Philadelphia, 
where he remained until the 15th of  January 1777, when the time for which he 
had enlisted expired, and that he was honorably discharged by Lieutenant Tome 
in Philadelphia. 

	That  he is now 75 years of age and was born in the County of York in 
the state of Pennsylvania and has resided in York County ever since the 
Revolutionary War, and I further ____ that I have no documentary evidence in my 
possession, nor do I know of any person living whose testimony I can procure to 
prove my service except John Stable, and that I served at least six months in 
the army of the Revolution…

Interrogatories
1.	I was born in Helm Township, in the county of York.
2.	I have no record of my age.
3.	I lived in Helm Township in the County of York when I was called into 
service and have lived in said county since the Revolutionary War. I now live 
in York County. 
4.	I enlisted for six months.
5.	I was well acquainted with Colonel Swope and Captain Ch. Donato, 
Captain Spangler, Captain Long and a number of officers of the Revolution whose 
names I have forgot.
6.	I received a discharge from Lieutenant Tome, which discharge I have 
lost. My captain was a prisoner.

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