Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,431, Henry Brock, Va.
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SERVICE NUMBER
Va. Brock, Henry S. 36,431
CONTENTS
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Henry Brock Q M.G. L26,,9,,11
Wm Crogham Major.
John Clark. Captn
Jonathan Clark Lt Col.
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18,486.
Kentucky
Henry Brock,
of Jefferson Co. in the State of Kentucky,
who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Mughlenburg of the Virginia
line, for the term of 3 years.

Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 10th of November 1821.

Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Jany. 1822 and sent to Hon: J. D. Breckenridge
House of Reps

$
Portion of
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4 Mar: 1822 $30.63
30.63
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818.}
& 1st May 1820
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30
9
21
5-60
30
3 mos - 24.00
4 1.03
31 30.63
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549
Hon: J D: Breckinridge
Hos Reps.

Henry Brock
New Revy. case -

Hon J D Breckenridge
James L. Edwards Esquire
Washington City
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State of Kentucky
Fifth Judicial District} Sct.
On this 10th day of November One thousand eight hundred and twenty one personally appeared in open Court, to wit the Jefferson Circuit Court in and for the District aforesaid being a superior Court of Law and of record with power to fine and imprison and whose proceedings are enacted and signed Henry
Brock a resident of Jefferson County about twelve miles from the Town of Louisville in dsaid District aged about seventy four years who being first sworn according to law doth on his oath declare that he served in the revolutionary war as follows that he enlisted or engaged to serve as a Soldier in a company of foot commanded by Captain Jonathan Clark for the period of (as well as he recollects) eighteen months sometime in the year 1775 - that after his engagement as aforesaid he marched with the said Company to Williamsburg in Virginia and from thence to Norfolk where he remained during the action of the long Bridge near the latter place - that by subsequent engagements the limitation of his service was for three years or during the war - That in consequence of sickness at the time the eighth Virginia Regiment, commanded by Colonel Peter Muhlenburg marched to Charlestown (South Carolina) in the spring of the year 1779, to which his Company was attached he remained in Virginia and upon his recovery was transferred or ordered to join Captain William Croghams Company, of the same Regiment, which had not Joined the Regiment when it was marched to Charlestown - that he the said declarant marched with the said Croghams Company to the Northward which Joined the Army under the Command of General Washington in the state of New York, was in the action of the White Plains and after the fall of Fort Washington on Lee he continued with the army on its retreat through the State of New Jersey was in the actions of Trenton and Prince Town and was with the Army at Middlebrook in the State of New Jersey in the spring of the year 1777 where he Joined his Company commanded by Capt. Clark who had returned from the Southward with the eighth Virginia Regiment - The declarant further states that tat he continued with the Army during the military opperations of that Campaign and was in the action of Brandywine - And declarant further states that during his military service as aforesaid he was in sundry skirmishes with the enemy, and upon one occasion captured two of them himself and that he continued in the service till some short time before the Capture of Lord Cornwallis, when, from bad health he obtained a furlow to return to his
friends
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friends in Shenandoah County in the State of Virginia where he first engaged as a soldier, and that about the close of war he obtained a regular discharge from the service which is lossed or mislaid.
And I do solemnly swear I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818 and that I have not since that time by gift sale or in any other manner disposed of my property or any part thereof with the intent thereby to diminish it as to bring myself within the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled "An Act to provide for Certain persons engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the revolutionary War" passed on the 18 day of March 1818, and that I have not nor has any person in trust for me any property or securities, or debts due to me nor have I any income other than what is contained in the Schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed
to wit One Cow of the value of .....$10,,00
Two horse creatures quite Old & one of them blind .........20,,00
Two pair of harness or gear old & worn....2,,00
One hog $2 - One third part of an Old Waggon $5......... 7,,00

The declarant farther states that he has no debts due to him - Owes debts to the Amount of fifteen Dollars - has a wife very infirm and unable to procure a living has three daughters living with him above the age of twenty one years, one of whom is subject to fits & therefore requires care and attention - has three sons living with him, the youngest of which is about eighteen years old, and the eldest about twenty four years old - and the declarant age and bodily infirmities are such as to render him incapable of procuring a living by labor.-
and he is by profession a farmer.
Henry Brock x his mark

State of Kentucky
At a Circuit Court held for the Jefferson Circuit in the state aforesaid, at the Court house in Louisville on the tenth day of November eighteen hundred and twenty one and in the thirtieth year of the Commonwealth Being a Superior Court of law and of record with Power to fine and imprison and whose proceedings are enrolled and signed, The foregoing declaration and Schedule
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were signed and sworn to by the said Henry Brock the declarant and the same were ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly and the Court valued the property contained in the Said Schedule to thirty nine dollars and the Certificate hereto attached signed by William Croghan was proved to be in the hand writing and written by the said Croghan, and that he the said Croghan is a resident of this County and Circuit Cout was ordered to be Certified. In testimony whereof 
I Worden Pope Clerk of the said Court
have hereto set my hand and affixed
the seal of the said Circuit this
12th day of November 1821 and in
the 30th year of the Commonwealth
Worden Pope CC

William Croghan formerly Major of the 4th Virginia Regiment in the Service of the United States, do Certify that Henry Brock Served as a Soldier in the 8th Virginia Regiment in the Service of the United States upwards of One year during the years 1776 & 1777 - W Croghan
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36431
Revy INVALID.

File No. 36,431
Henry Brock
Pri Rev War

Act: 18" March 18"
Index:-Vol. 2, Page 479
[Arrangement of 1870.]