Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 3055, Dudley Brooke, Va.
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(8-1776) SERVICE NUMBER Va. Brooke, Dudley S 3055 Contents Carded
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13957 13597 West Tennessee Dudley Brooke of Robertson in the State of Tennessee who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Casey of the regiment commanded by Col Holborn in the Virginia line for 7 months inscribed on the Roll of West Tennessee at the rate of 23 dollars and 33 cents per annum, to commence on the 4th day of March 1834 Certificate  of Pension issued on the 18 day of July 1833 and [Illegible illegible] Seal Robert Herringfield Arrears to the 4th of March 46.66 Remain allowance ending September 11.66. $58.32 Revolutionary Claim as of June 7, 1832 Recorded by Dan Boyd Clerk, Book 6 Vol. 7 Page 72
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[Declaration page 1]

Robertson County Tenesee [Tennessee] State

This 15th day of may 1833 personally apeared [appeared] Before the County Court of Robertson In the State of Tenesee
aforesaid now sitting in the town of Springfield in Robertson County Dudley Brooke a resident in the County and State aforesaid aged Seventy one or two years the 22 of July 1833 Who being first duly sworn according to law doth on oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the Benefit of the act of Congress past [passed] June the 7 1832 

States that he was born in Chesterfield County in the State of Virginia on the 22 day of July 1761 or 1762 as he was Informed and after four years moved to Buckingham County [Va] in the said State and there lived in sd [said] Buckingham ten or Twelve years then was drafted to go in the service for six months tower [tour] as a mullitaman [Militia man] 

Some time in the Spring of 1781 and was under Robert Carey Captain in sd [said] cty [county] and James Burney lutenant, Robert Blanks first Sargent and was placed in a regiment I believe commanded by Col Holburn and and Major Walkins of princeedward County [Prince Edward County, Virginia] in a brigade comanded I think by General [Edward] Stephens and was marched to Ritchmond [Richmond] in Virginia, then to a place Cald [called] the mobinhills [Malvern Hills, Virginia] there stade [stayed] some time then started to the north and mooved [moved] from place to place 

Then received an express to go to york [Yorktown, VA] went by Cabbin pint [Cabin Point on James River] then to Williamsburg on our way to little yorke [Yorktown, Va] to atack [attack] Cornwallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] and whilst in the town of Williamsburg [VA] was taken sick and put in a horspittle [hospital] in the sd [said] town where I remained sick near two months Confined in the horspittle [hostipal]

Some time after Wallis [General Charles Lord Cornwallis] was taken and the men all discharged some time after I was taken by a friend from there and kep [kept] untill was able to git [get] home never got a discharge from no one States he served in all about seven months Including the time he was in the horstille [hospital]
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No. 25354 Dudley Brooke Robertson County Tennessee From 1781 January 7 months $23.33/100 [illegible] Seal [illegible] Robertson County Tennessee
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Commissioner of Pensions Washington D.C. Please send war record of Dudley Brooke Virginia for the purpose of using in the D.A.R. To  Miss Francis Walton Route No 10 Springfield Tennessee Oct. 28, 1926