Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File W. 20,767, John Brocke, Conn. Continental
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[left upper corner] [form number] (3 -- 1776)
[right upper corner] [handwritten] C
[left upper corner] [column 1] SERVICE
[right upper corner] [column 3] NUMBER
[column 1, row 1] Conn. [Connecticut]
[column 2, row 1] Brocke, John
[column 3, row 1] W. 20,767
[column 1, row 2] Continental
[column 2, row 2] or Brock,
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[column 2, row 3] Hannah
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not entitled
notif. sent Rob Temple Esq
Rutland, Vt. 13 July 1820
let to Neman Allen Esq
April 15, 1833

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lh.85 3106, re-instate
d. 1830
Vermont. [initials, illegible, appears to be LL]
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John Brock, private,
Connecticut line --
Col. Cha. Webb's regt [Colonel Cha. Webb's regiment]
In the army of the United States during the Revolutionary war.
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Inscribed on the Roll of Vermont,
at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on
the 13. of April, 1818,
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Certificate of Pension issued the 28. of Sept: 1818.
and sent to Thomas Hammond,
Esq; Rutland, Vermont.
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Arrears to 4th of Sept: 1818.        $: 37.87.
Semi-anl. all'ce ending 4. March, 1819
48-
4 p/mo: 22/30..                                $:85.87.
{Revolutionary claim,
Act 18th March, 1818,}
3 years 1777--

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[handwritten, faded] United States, Rutland
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Examnd. with Orig. Rolls [Examined with Original Rolls]
Aug. 1883 M.S.

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2088
Vermont   Burlington
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Hannah Brock
Conn. [Connecticut]
widow of John Brock
who was a Fifer and Private
in the Con. line for 2 mo + 25dy Fifer
                               3 .. & 5 .. pri.
Inscribed on the Roll at the rate of
87 Dollars & 27
Cents per annum, to commence on
the 4th day of March, 1843.
Certificate of Pension issued the
25th day of Sept. 1843
and sent to S. Swift, [could also be S. Singh] Manchester Vt.
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[Act of March 3, 1843.]
Recorded in Book A
Vol. 1.  Page 25.
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V  2263
Hannah Brock
Wid of John
Vt.
Act July 7 1838

aomd
21: 25 dy fifer
2.    5. [underlined]       pri

no deduction
on roll Cl Webb
2yr... fifer June 1. '78
dect 25 Mar. '80
fifer 21 mo 25 dy
pri.   3.         5..

S. Swift
Manchester
Vt.
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[handwritten]

States of Vermont
Bennington County.} On this 20th day of September 1838, personally appeared before the Hon. Darius Moore one of the Justices of the County Court in & for the said County of Bennington: Hannah Brock a resident of the Town of Dorset in said County, aged 73 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her oath make the following Declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed July 7, 1838, entitled "An act granting half pay and pensions to certain widows." -- That she is the widow of John Brock late of said Dorset deceased, who was a soldier in the army of the United States - Army of the revolutionary war as she is informed & verily believes, he enlisted & served as a Fifer, amongst the first of the three years men, so called, who was raised during said war, & in the early part thereof, but at what precise time she is unable to state, at Woodstock in the State of Connecticut & for the said term of three years into the Regiment as she has understood agreeably to her best present recollection commanded by Col. Sherburn in the Connecticut continental line & that he faithfully served throughout the whole of said term, & that for a very considerable, if not the greater part of said time, he held the rank & role of the duty of Fifer Major in said Regiment. That after the expiration of the said term he the said John Brock, by various other enlistments & terms of service which she is not now able particularly to detail, ad of which at least as she is informed & fully believes was for the term of one year, but in what company or companies, Regiment or Regiments, she cannot positively & fully now state, served in the whole those years 






or about that length of time further, until the final close or about the close & termination of said war, amounting in the whole to six years or about six years, which he served during that war, for which service or some portion there of he received & enjoyed until the time of his death a Pension of eight Dollars per month under the act of Congress of the United States of the 18th of March 1818.
Hannah Brock
She further declares that she was married to the said John Brock at Danby in the County of Rutland on the 10th day of February in the year seventeen hundred & eighty five, that her husband the aforesaid John Brock died in the 26th day of March 1820. That she was not married to him prior to his leaving this service, but the marriage took place previous to the
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first of January seventeen hundred & ninety four (viz) at the time about stated, that since the time of his death, she has remained & still is his widow, single & unmarried, that she knows of no existing Record of their marriage, nor has she in her possession any documentary evidence in support of her said claim.
Hannah Brock
Sworn to & subscribed on the day & year written before me
Davius Moore Judge of County Court
And I do hereby certify that the above applicant is unable by reason of bodily infirmity to appear personally in Court. attest
Davius Moore Judge of County Court
I Benjamin Sexton aged 26 years & Hannah Sexton his wife aged 33 years, both residents of the Town of Dorset aforesaid, do testify depose & say that the said Hannah is the reputed daughter of the said John Brock & Hannah Brock his wife, that we are well knowing that the said John & Hannah was since our first remembrance lived together & was generally reputed as husband & wife until the time of his death, which took place on the 26 day of March 1832, & that as such they reared a family of eleven children, that we have understood from them, that they were married on or about the 10th day of February 1785, that her maiden names was Tabor, that since the time of his death, she has remained & still is his widow & unmarried & that she now resides in the house with us in a very infirm state of health, & decrepit. We are also knowing that the said John in his life time received a Pension from the United States, of eight Dollars per month for his services during the revolutionary war.
Benjamin Sexton
Hannah Sexton
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me. And I do further certify that it hath been fully made to appear to me that all the above Affiants [unk]. Attest
Davius Moore Judge of Co Court
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[handwritten]
State of Vermont
Bennington County} I Henry Robinson Clerk of Bennington County Court hereby 
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certify that Hon. Darius Moore, whose signature appears to the foregoing, was at the date thereof & still is and Assistant Judge of the County Court afores, duly qualified by law & that I am well acquainted with his hand writing, & believe his signature above to be genuine.
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In testimony whereof I have hereto affixed the seal of our said County Court & subscribed my name at Bennington this second day of October AD 1838.
Henry Robinson
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[handwritten]
John Brock
$52.
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STATE OF VERMONT,
Rutland County, ss.}
On this 26th day of June 1820
personally appeared before the County Court for said County of Rutland in open court,
(said Court being a Court of record, agreeably to the laws of this state, having the power of fine and
imprisonment, &c.) John Brock aged 65 years, resident in
W Tabor in said county of Rutland who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth,
on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war, as follows: in Capt. Henry
Co. Col. Webb's, Regt. of Connecticut 3 years
from Jany 1777
that he made his original declaration on the 13th day of April 1818
has received a Pension Certificate, No. 3106 And I do solemnly swear, that 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 manner, disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish
it, as to bring myself within the provisions of an act of Congress, entitled "An act to provide for cer-
tain persons engaged in the land and naval service of the United States, in the Revolutionary War,"
passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;--and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any
property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income other than what is contain-
ed in the schedule hereto annexed, and by me subscribed. 1 old log house the land
on which it stands is not mine, 1 cow, 1 yearling
1 calf, 2 hogs, 2 old wheels, 1 reel, 1 old chest of drawers,
1 small chest, 1 table, 8 old chairs, 1 pot, 1 dish 
kettle, 1 pewter kettle, 1 bake kettle, 1 tea kettle, 1 frying
pan, 1 iron bason, 1 small crap kettle, 1 broken
iron kettle, 1 shovel flowers, 1 cream + hooks, 2
clothing iron, 2 candle sticks, 2 old hoes, 2 axe, 2
old scythes, 4 pail, 3 milk pans 3 barrells & a tub of old
dry corks, 1 looking glass, 6 bottles, 1 pr shears, 1 earthen
1 pewter platter, 6 pewter plates, 1 earthen platter, 10 earthen plates, 1 tin pail, 1 bread dish, 1 tunnel, 2 pr
persons, 1 differ, 1 [unk], 6 iron spoons, 6 tea spoons, 4 knives & forks, 1 old auger, 2 [unk]. 1 plain, 4 bowls, 1 set cups & saucers, 1 tea pot, 1 milk cup, 1 tin cup, 1 churn, 23 soap buckets, 1 sieve, 2 mesh bags, my occupation is that of a shoe maker but from ill health I have been unable to work but little for the last 7 years & have not been above to do a days work for the last 6 months. I have a wife named Hannah aged 55 years in very poor health unable to labour but little. I have two children residing with me to wit Calvin aged 17 years & Hannah aged 14 both.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Rutland this 30th day of June 1820.
R. Pierpoint
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in poor health have nothing due me but are in debt about 50 dollars.
John Brock

[text on the same sheet as the following is covered up by the sheet of paper containing the above text]
before said court.
R. Pierpoint Clerk

State of Vermont
Rutland County ss} I, Robert Pierpoint, clerk of the County court for the county of Rutland do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath, and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said court:- And I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited in the aforesaid schedule is fifty two dollars.
In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand, and affixed the seal of said court, at Rutland this 30 day of June 1820.
R. Pierpoint
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To the Secretary of the Department of War of the United States
John Brick of Mount Tabor in the County of Rutland respectfully applies to be placed on the Pension List of the United States agreeable to the provisions of the Act of Congress passed March 18, 1818. Rutland April 13, 1818
John Brock
I John Brock of Mount Tabor in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont aged sixty three years do depose declare & say that I served the United States in the War of the Revolution against the common enemy on the continental establishment as a private soldier & as a mucician for more than nine months during the said war, & until the and thereof as follows he was on the 21st day of April 1776 I entered into Capt Ephraine Hannery company in the Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col, Durgee or Durkee for eight months. At the expiration of that term I entered into the same Regiment & same Company for one year & served out the year was disbanded & did not receive a written discharge, that in the year 1777 March 15 I enlisted into Capt. William [unk] company in the Second Connecticut Regiment commanded by Col Charles Webb for the term of three years & served therein until the expiration of the term for which I enlisted & on the 15th day of March AD 1780 I was regularly & honorably discharged, that within three months after I lost my discharge. I afterwards enlisted for seven months in Col Wyllys Regiment & served my time out & was discharged but had no written discharge. I further swear that I am a citizen of the United States actually resident therein
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I have been since the War that I have never received any pension from the United States, that I am feeble in health to labour much & by reason of my reduced circumstances in life am in need of assistance from my Country for support.
John Brack
Subscribed and sworn to this 13 day of April 1818 before me
Thos Hammond, Asst Judge of the County Court 
Court for the County of Rutland

I Jared Lobdell of Danby in the County of Rutland of lawful age do testify & say that I am and I have been for some time past a Minister of the Gospel & officiate as well such that I am acquainted with John Brock who had subscribed the foregoing affidavits that he supports a good character is a man of truth & veracity & is a credible witness.
Jared Lobdell
Subscribed and sworn to this 13th day of April 1818 before me
Thos Hammond, Asst Judge of the County Court for the County of Rutland

I Thomas Hammond do hereby certify that I am satisfied she and John Brock is in indigent circumstances & by warm thought is in need of assistance rom his country for support.
Rutland July 27, 1818
Thos Hammond
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Brock
Pettibone
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Town Clerks Office, Peru, August 31 1839
David Brock born Sept 7th 1785
Betsey Brock born March 18th 1787
Lydia Brock born May 7th 1790
Alanson Brock born May 20th, 1792
Mary Brock born June 12th 1794
Sarah Brock born July 11th 1796
Alanson brock deceased August 16th 1796
Alanson Taber Brock born August 12th 1798
John Southwick Brock born June 18th 1801
Official copy of record. Attest Thomas Baldwin Jr Town Clerk


In the above record of births taken from the Town Book Vol. 1st (Page 89th) of the town records of Bromley (now Peru) there is no record of the parents of these children, neither the name of the person who recorded them. But these are some things which show much of clearly that they are the children of John Brock and that their births were recorded by him. The evidence which leads to this conclusion is the following: John Brock was the first Town Clerk of Bromley (now Peru) chosen March 1st 1802, which office he held one year. The hand writing of the record of these births appears to be the same of those attested by his name.
Furthermore they were the first births found on record in the Town Books.
attest Thomas Baldwin Jr. Town Clerk

Peru September 12, 1839
Personally appeared Thomas Bawldwin Jr Town Clerk of Peru and made oath to the above copy of record. Before me Freeman Lyon Justice Peace
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In reply to
Rev. War Section

3-1864
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF PENSIONS
WASHINGTON
December 24, 1919

Hon. W. D. Boies,
House of Representatives

My dear Mr Boies:
In reply to your letter of the fifteenth instant requesting information for Dr. W. R. Brock, of Sheldon, Iowa, I have the honor to advise you that from the papers in the Revolutionary War pension claim, Widow File No. 20767, it appears that John Brock, pensioned Brock, enlisted at Woodstock, Connecticut, April 21, 1775, served as a Private for 8 months in Captain Ephraim Manning's Company, Colonel Durkee's Connecticut Regiment and upon the expiration of that time he immediately re-enlisted in the same company and regiment and served one year. He enlisted in January or March 1777 and served as musician in Captain William Manning's Company, Colonel Charles Webb's Connecticut Regiment for three years. He afterwards served for seven months as a musician in Colonel Wyllis' Connecticut Regiment, dates of this service are not stated.
He allowed pension on his application executed April 13, 1818, while residing at Mount Tabor, Rutland County, Vermont, aged sixty-three years and he died at Dorset, Bennington
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County, Vermont March 26, 1830.
He married February 10, 1785, at Danby, Rutland County, Vermont, Hannah Tabor or Taber, both of them were then residents of said Danby. She was allowed pension on her application executed September 20, 1838, while living at Dorset, Vermont, aged seventy-three years.
They had eleven children;
David     born September 7, 1785
Betsey     "      March 13, 1787
Lydia       "       May 7, 1790
Alanson   "      May 26, 1792, died August 16, 1796
Mary       "      June 12, 1794
Sarah      "       July 11, 1796
Alanson Tucker " August 12, 1798
John Southwick "June 13, 1801
Calvin                                 1803
Hannah                            1805, or 1806 (married Benjamin Sexton)
The name of he eleventh child is not stated.

Very truly yours,

J C Heman
Acting Commissioner 


I accepted the family record 
it corresponded with son David's statement
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[stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. DEC 5. 18968[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY DEC 1896 FILES
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Lovell Dec. 3. '96.
Dear Sir
Will you please kindly send me the military records of Jonas Coburn b. Pelham N. H. afterward moved to Lewiston Maine. Also of David Brock or John Brock both of whom we are quite sure were Revolutionary Soldiers.
Respectfully Yours,
Mrs. G. C. Brock
118 First St.
Lovell,
Mass.
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Hannah Brock
widow of John
Vt.
Act 7 July 1838
Let to S Swift 17th
Apl 1839
Clerk of the town of Danby
Vermont. 30 July 1839
to S. Swift, Aug. 23 1839
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Rev WIDOW, &c.
File No. 20767
Hannah Brock
wife of
John Brock
Fifer Rev. War
Act: March 3d '43
Index:- Vol. A,  Page 90
[Arrangement of 1870]


Jany 2 97 Hist
to Mrs G C Brock
Lowell Mass.
LWB

Aug 9 '99
G E Congdon
Waterman, Ills.

July 1 1902
Mess May L. Congdon
Wallingford, Vt.

Dec 3 1904 History to
W. R. Brock, Sheldon [unk]

1919 Dec 04, Hist to Hon W D Boies
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Vermont  4173
Hannah Brock
widow of John Brock
who was a pensioner under the Act of 1818
and who died on the 26th March 1830
of Bennington in the State of Vt.
who was a Fifer & priv. in the compy commanded by Captain            of the Regt commanded by Col. Webb in the Connt.
line for 2 mos & 25 days Fifer & 3 mos & 5 days Private
Inscribed on the Roll of Vt.
at the rate of 87 Dollars 27 Cents per annum
to commence on the 4th day of March, 1836.
Certificate of Pension issued the 11th day of Sept. 1839 and sent to S. Swift, Manchester Vt.
Arrears to the 4th of Sept 1839  $305.44
Semi-annual allowance ending 4 March '40  43.63
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                                                     $349.07
{Act July 7, 1838}
Recorded by D D Addison Clerk
Book A  Vol. 2  Page 35



reptd Sept 17th
Letter to S. Swift 28 June 1843
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OFFICIAL SIGNATURE OF THE MAGISTRATE,
STATE OF NEW YORK
County of Clinton,} ss.
I, Smith Mead, Clerk of the County of Clinton, do hereby certify that George Moore is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County, duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission is dated in the 8th day of March 1837 and that his signature to the annexed Instrument is genuine.
Given under my hand and official seal of said County, the 28th day of February 1839.
Smith Mead CLERK.
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J.L. Edwards Esq
Principal Clerk
Pension Office
City of Washington
In reexamination
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Rutland, Vt. 1 Aug. 1820
Sir
Enclosed you have the schedule of David Enos who wishes to be transfered from N. York to Vermont; together with the original application of Jona Ornes whose evidence was not complete until now.
permit me to make a few new actions on two or three cases which you have decided on. I presume when you shall be convinced that you have done injustice to a pensioner, you will be ready to retrace your steps. I should judge from the decisions that have been made & returned to the Clerk's Office, that where a pensioner has any, the least quantity of real estate, he is to be stricken from the roll. No regard seems to be paid to the valuation of the court. If this is, as it seems to be, a rule established in your office, it is certainly a very fallacious one. It must be Oberois to every one, that in all parts of the country, there are large tracts of land not worth a cent, and truly when a pensioner, from a provident disposition is induced to contract for a tract, with an acre or two leased, to shelter himself & family from the weather, & agrees to pay for it by instalments of fifteen or twenty dollars a year  out of
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his pension, it furnishes no evidence that he has the means of support; least in my humble opinion the cautionary.
With these [unk] I request you will be pleased to reconsider the cases of Thomas Williams March 1817 & John Brock. The former is very old & wholly unable to labor, has a cancer on his face which will soon [unk] with old age for his life, he has been one of the town poor of his town for several years, & until placed on the pension list, almost wholly [unk] on charity. Recently, being desirous of having a shelter for his old age, he has bargained for at least with a little piece of land & has paid $10 towards it, & mortgaged the place for the remainder. I am informed that since it was known that he is stricken from the roll, the person of whom be purchased has compeled him to give up his place, as it is wholly out of his power to pay a dollar without his pension. His whole property, you will see, is appraised by the court (including the $10 pd towards his land) at least $42.
I am unable to conjecture why John Brock March 1818 was stricken from the roll, unless because he says he owns an old log house standing on another man's land. This same log house, you will readily perceive, although he calls it his own, really does not belong to him. His whole property is appraised at $52 and he owed $50. I have [unk] recd a letter from him, [unk] in terms indicating great distress, informing me that
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have his name appeared in the news paper among those stricken off, his creditors have seized every article they could of his personal property & his debts are not yet half paid.
Sep 1818 Nathan Osgood I perceive is suspended for the present. He has no real estate & but little pension, the appraisal being but $84. He was formerly a merchant in good circumstances, but is now [unk] from. He was afterwards admitted to the bar & is a Justice of the Peace, but has little to no business in either capacity. i do not believe the whole amt of his businesses is worth 25 dolls for acc. It is a fact within my own knowledge that before he was placed on the pension list, he & his family almost wholly subsisted on charity, and even now his daughters, one of whom is in a low state of health, are principally supported by their Uncle. There is no possible doubt but there three persons [unk] wholly on charity for sustenance of [unk] are deprived of their pensions.
I am induced to the belief that there must have been some mistake in there cases, as you will find from reexamining them that many of those who are continued on the lost are in much better circumstances, and I canot suppose but you with your decisions consistent with each other, should you be indisposed to alter you decisions, I request that these cases, together with this letter, be also laid before the Secy of War.
I am sir, respectfully you obt servt
R. Temple

J. L. Edwards Esq
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Brock
Pettibone
Aug 14th FREE
Hon James L Edwards,
Commissioner of Pensions
Washington
D.C.

Aug 19 hr at
Vt
[stamp] MANCHESTER
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Manchester Augt 14th 1839
The Hon. J. L. Edwards,
Hond Sir, I beg leave once more to call your attention to the case of the widow Hannah Brock, presented nearly a year since, she is very necessitous , & I believe, as meritorious, as any other applicant, for a like pension; as her deceased husband *as she, as well as several of hearing [unk], have informed me) served nearly throughout the whole period of the revolutionary war, & thereby lost his health & [unk] his constitution, & for several years previous to his death, he was so infirm, as to enable to labour, or exercise any productive employment, but little, if any, & was dependent almost entirely upon the pension which he enjoyed from the U. States, for the means of supporting himself & a numerous family. She also was then & still is an invalid & at his death, she was left almost entirely destitute, & still is in a great measure dependent upon charity, & the kindness of her children for her maintenance  & support. At the time she made her Declaration, she was so unfortunate as to be deficient in proof as to her marriage, no record of it, of any kind, being to be found, & at that time she was unable to recollect any person, then alive, who was present at the performance of the ceremony, except a sister who was very young, at that time, neither was she able to state with precision, the different corps in which her husband served, at his different terms of enlistment (not having known him until after the war) nor did she know of any one who was then alive, who could give that information, except an old fellow soldier, who had frequently called upon them, & who as she then supposed, resided in the town of Brandon in this State, about 50 miles distant. This person I wrote & sent to, in her behalf, at several different times, but recd no return, & was at last informed, that he had died, but a short time previous. The proof of her marriage, which she transmitted with her Declaration was found not satisfactory, & she subsequently
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at two different times forwarded other testimony to corroborate the same_ other detached & separate manner in which this proof has been sent on probably may be the principal reason why his case has been postponed to several others, which were transmitted much later_ But since that, no reply had been rec'd & it is not known whether the evidence be satisfactory or not ) Y the principal object of this letter, is to inquire whether any further proof to that point be required, & if so, whether any further proof to that point be required, & if so, whether this copy of the Record of the Births of their children & made by him, as Town Clerk of the Town of Bromley & (which can be procured, if required) will avail & as to his service if his mane cannot be found on the Rolls, so as to lengthen it beyond the time proved by him, when he was formerly placed upon the Pension List, she will be obliged to accept of the allowance according to that rate, whatever it may be, as she knows of no reference for further proof, by which it may be enlarged.
The case of Mrs. Deborah Pattiborne is also lying behind_ & a requisition has [unknown word] before been made for further proof as to [two illegible words] of her husband service, but she was ignorant as to where it might be obtained_ & that is therefore left in the same state, as the other _ but the exigencies of her case are not so great as the other, as she is not so needy.
Very Respectfully I am Hon Sir
Yours
S Swoft
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Town Clerks Office Danby Oct 3d 1839

J L Edwards Esq

Your favor of July 30th came to hand in my abscence and was mislaid which is the cause of its not long since been answered

In Complyance with your request I have searched the records and cannot find any record of any such marriage between John Brock and Hannah Tabor nor does there appear any thing from the record of births show their relation as husband & wife
Their is but a very imperfect record of births or marriages at so early a period as 1785 and of recorded at all was done in such a manner as to render it very bad to find
I am by old residents of this town that Joan Brock did Mary Hannah Tabor and formerly resided in this town and presume persons can be found who could give the time

Respectfully You Obt Servt
Edwd Vail Town Clerk
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John Brock
Connt. line
13 April 1818
14 June 78
decd 25 Ma 80
Hobb's Cont. Reg.
Connect
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We David Young and Hosea Williams, both of Danby in the County of Rutland State of Vermont of Lawfull age testify and say that we are well acquainted with John Brock of Mt. Tabor in said County in Rutland and do know that the said John Brock is in Indigent circumstances and stands in need of assistance from his Country for support--
Witness our hand this 13th of April 1818
David Young
Hosea Williams

State of Vermont
Rutland County}  Danby 13th day of April 1818 personally appeared David Young and Hosea William signers of the foregoing affidavit and made solemn oath that the facts wherein set forth are true
Rufus Buckler  In Justice of the Peace
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I Thomas Hammond Adjutant Judge of the County Court for the County of Rutland in the state of Vermont do hereby certify that it appears to my satisfaction that John Brock the applicant for a pension, under the act of Congress passed March 18, 1818 served in the Revolutionary War against the Common Enemy agreeable to his declaration. I therefore certify the testimony in the case being his own declaration & the affidavit of Jared Loball & David Young & Horace Williams & the proceeding had thereon to the Secretary of the Department of the agreeable to the provisions of the said Act of Congress. In testimony whereof I have caused the seal of the said county court to be hereto affixed. Given under my hand at Rutland this 13 day of April AD 1818.
Thos Hammond

State of Vermont
I Robert Temple Clerk of Rutland County Court do certify, that the Hon. Thomas Hammond who subscribed the above certificate, is one of the Judges of said Court. And that I have affixed the seal of said Court to these presents by order of said Judge at Rutland this 13 April 1818.
R. Temple
I further certify that Rufus Bucklin Jr. is a Justice of the Peace for said county & that the above is his signature.
R. Temple
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I Mary Sherman of the Town of Danby County of Rutland and State of Vermont being of lawful age do depose testify & say that in or about the year seventeen Hundred and Eighty five some  - time in the winter of said year I was present and saw the marriage solemnized between John Brock  & Hannah Tabor both of Danby in the County & State aforesaid and have known them to live together as husband & wife until the death of said John Brock and also that the said Hannah has remained a widow since that time and also I Mary Sherman am fifty six years of age - Danby September thirteenth one thousand eight hundred & thirty eight
Mary Sherman

The above on foregoing Affidavit of Mary Sherman was subscribed and Sworn to before me at Danby in the County of Rutland and State of Vermont this 13th day of September AD 1838
Kohn Vail Justice of Peace

State of Vermont
Rutland County } I John Vail one of the Justices of the Peace within and for the County of Rutland Say that I am acquainted with Mary Sherman who Subscribed to the above affidavit and consider her to be a Woman Credible and Respectable  Person Danby 13th Sept 1838
John Vail Justice Peace
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State of Vermont}
Rutland County Ss}

I Robert Pierpoint clerk of the County Court for the County of Rutland certify that John Vail is a Justice of the Peace for said county and that his signature to the within certificate is genuine

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said Court at Rutland this 17th day of September AD 1838
R Pierpoint
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Town Clerk office Danby Sept the 12th 1838
I Hereby Certify that I have Examined the Town Records and Cannot find any Record of the Marriage of John Brock to Hannah Tabor.
attest Edward Vail Town Clerk
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State of New York
County of Clinton SS
I Phebe Stafford of Plattsburg in said County being duly sworn say that I was sixty two years old last July. I am a sister of Hannah Brock now a resident of East Dorset Vermont. That she was married to John Brock in my presence at my fathers house in Darby Vermont by Esquire Bromley in the winter of 1785. I well recollect Y was eight years old the July previous to the marriage - I was well acquainted with said John Brock at the time & have known them both ever since. said Brock was a U S Pensioner and have been informed said believe & died in 1830 at Dorset Vermont leaving said Hannah a widow & she is still a widow. my said sisters maiden name was Hannah Taber_ Deponent does not know that there is any record of said marriage she has never seen one
David Brock now a resident of Plattsburg a son of said John & Hannah Brock with whom deponent is well acquainted was born in September 1785 the same year of the marriage He was their first child the word a court erased & word within
Phebe Stafford

Sworn & subscribed to before me
this 28th day of February 1839& I
certify that deponent is a credible 
witness
George Moote
Justice of the Peace
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I Hannah Tabor resident of the Town of Mt. Tabor in the county of Rutland and state of Vermont aged seventy three years testify depose and say that I was well acquainted with John Brocke late of Dorset in the county of Bennington deceased and Hannah his wife formerly Hannah Tabor and have been ever since the summer of 1785 and then understood that they were married some time in the month of Febr preceding and they ever after lived together in the same neighborhood and were reputed as man and wife until the time of his death according to my best recollection and belief which took place in the month of March in 1830 and they had a large family of children the number of eleven according to the best of my recollection and belief. Ever since his death she has remained and still lives his widow, and unmarried and I further say that I understood and fully believe that the said John during his lifetime received a pension from the United States for his services during the Revolutionary War.
Hannah Tabor X her mark

Rutlin Ss. April 26th 1839
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned before me Gidn S. Tabor Justice Peace.
I George Griffith of Danby in the County of Rutland aged seventy one years testify depose and say that I was well acquainted with the above mentioned John Brocke previous to his marriage with the above named Hannah Tabor and well recollect their marriage but was not present at the time, and fully believe that it took place as stated above in the month of Feb. 1785 and that I have ever since lived in the same neighborhood and within a few miles
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of them until his death and of her ever since that time and that I fully concur in all the facts as was stated in the above affidavit of Mrs. Tabor and believe them to be correct.
George Griffith
Rutland April 25th 1839
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned 
Before me Gidn S. Tabor, Justice Peace

I Elisha Fish resident of Danby in the county of Rutland aged seventy six years, testify depose and say that I was also well acquainted with the above named john Brocke and Hannah Tabor previous to their marriage and that they conducted part of their courtship at my house and whether I was present at their marriage or not, cannot fully recollect but I do recollect the time of their marriage and fully believe that it took place as above stated in the month of Febr 1785 and ever after they lived together and were reputed as man and wife until his death and till which time I have lived in the same neighborhood with them and with her since that time and I fully concur in the facts as above stated by Mrs. Tabor and Mr. Griffitt and believe them to be true.
Elisha Fish X his mark

Rutland Ss. April 25th 1839
Sworn to and subscribed the day and year above mentioned.
Before me G. S. Tabor Justice Peace

And I do hereby further certify that I am well acquainted with each of the above affiants and that they are all credible and respectable people.
Attest Gidn. S. Tabor Justice of the Peace

State of Vermont Rutland County Mt. Tabor and Danby 25th day of April 1839 then Hannah Tabor of Mt. Tabor and George Griffitt and Elisha Fish of Danby in the county and state aforesaid personally appearing and after being carefully examined and duly cautioned made oath that the foregoing declaration by them subscribed contain the truth and nothing but the truth.
Before me G. S. Tabor Justice
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State of Vermont
Rutland County Ss.

I, Frederic W. Hopkins, Clerk of the County Court in and for said County do hereby certify that Gideon S. Tabor is a Justice of the Peace in and for said County duly commissioned and qualified; that his commission was dated the 30th day of October, 1838, and will expire on the 30th day of November, 1839; and that his several signatures above written, are genuine. Given under my hand and the seal of said County this 3rd day of May, 1839.

F.W. Hopkins
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I Zachariah Hart of Wittinton, Vermont being sworn testify and say that I shall be eighty one years of age in October next, that I was married in Danby, Vermont, when I was twenty seven years of age, and I further testify that I was well acquainted with Hannah Tabor, and that I was present at her marriage with John Brock. I do not recollect the particular time of her marriage but I know it was near little time before I was married. She was married by Esquire Bromley, his Christian name was William as I think, but of that I am not sure, at all merits it was the same Justice that afterwards married me to my wife.
Dated at Burlington this thirteenth day of June 1839
Zachariah Hart
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State of Vermont
Chittenden County
Burlington 
June 13. 1839
I, Charles Adams, Justice of the Peace for Chittenden County, do certify that this written deposition was drawn up by me and signed in my presence and sworn to by [illegible]
Zachariah Hart, that I am well acquainted with [illegible] Hart and that he is a man of perfect integrity.

Charles Adams
[Illegible]

State of Vermont
Chittenden County
I, William Noble, Clerk of Chittenden County Court do hereby certify that Charles Adams, before whom the foregoing deposition was taken & made of Zachariah Hart, was & still is a Justice of the Peace in & aforesaid County
of Chittenden, duly commissioned & sworn,
and that his name thereto subscribed is his
own proper & genuine signature.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand & affixed the seal of said Court at Burlington in said county this 13th day of June 1839.

William Noble
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274 
Mrs. Hannah Brock
$87:27 per an
L. Swift
Manchester
Vt.
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State of Vermont
Bennington County ⎬

On this 27th day of March 1843 personally appeared before the Subscriber one of the Justices of the peace within & for the said
County of Bennington, Hannah Brock, a resident of the town of Dorset
in the County of Bennington aforesaid, aged 78 years, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on her Oath make the following
Declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed on the 3d March 1843 granting Pensions to Widows of Persons who served during the revolutionary war, that she is the
Widow of John Brock, late of said Dorset, deceased, who was a Musician
in the army of the United States during that was, & who enjoyed [illegible] for a Pension during his lifetime & for whose said service [illegible] since his decease, has received a pension of eighty seven 00/100 Dollars per
annum, under the act of July 7, 1838. She further declares that she is still a widow

Hannah Brock
Sworn to & subscribed the day & year above written before me
Abiel Blanchard, Justice of the peace
And I do hereby further certify that the above named Declarant Hannah Brock is personally well known to me
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Abiel Blanchard Justice of the peace

State of Vermont
Bennington County
the I Saml H. Blackmer, Clerk of the
County Court in & for said County, do hereby
certify that Abiel Blanchard is a Justice of the
peace in & for said County, duly commissioned
& qualified, that his Commission bears date
from the 1st day of Dec 1842, & will expire on
the 30th day of Nov 1843, & that his signature
above written is genuine.
In witness whereof I have hereunto affixed my hand & the seal of the said Court of
Bennington this 6th day of April AD.
& of the independence of the U.S.
Saml H. Blackmer
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LANDS BOUGHT AND SOLD
MONEY LOANED
OFFICE OF
JOS. SHINSKI
DEALER IN
REAL ESTATE
COMMERICAL PAPER
BOUGHT AND SOLD

[stamp] OLD WAR & NAVY NOV 28 1904 FILES C.S.P.B.

Sheldon, Iowa Nov. 22d 1904
Department of Pensions
Washington D.C.
Dear Sirs. I am desirous of becoming a member of the order of the Sons of the Revolution and respectfully ask the Dept. to send me the war record of John Brock who served in the war of 1776 from the state of Vermont or New York.
Very Respy
W.R. Brock M.D.U.S.P. Ex.,
[stamp] PENSION OFFICE U.S. K NOV 25 1904
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MES
11th DIST. IOWA
House of Representatives U.S.
Washington, D.C.
December 15 1919.
Commissioner of Pensions,
Washington, D.C.
Sir:
Dr. W. R. Brock, Sheldon, Iowa, desires information relative to Hannah Brock, widow of John Brock, who received a pension on account of her husband in the Revolutionary War. The information required is as follows"
Hannah Brock's residence and the names of her childre.
If this can be furnished it will be appreciated.
Respectfully
W D Boies

[stamp] PENSION C DEC 2 [illegible]