Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 36,431, Henry Brock, Va.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Va.
Brock, Henry
S. 36,431
CONTENTS

Henry Brock 2 M.S. £ 26. 9. 11 Wm Croghan. Major. John Clark. Capt Jonathan Clark Lt Col.

18,486.
Kentucky
Moony Brock
of Laurens Co. in the State of Kentucky , who was a Private in the Regiment commanded by Colonel Hughesburg of the Virginia line, for the term of 3 years .
Inscribed on the Roll of Kentucky at the rate of $ Dollars per month, to commence on the 10 th of November 1821 .
Certificate of Pension issued the 30 th of Jan y 1822 . and sent to Hon. J. D. Breckenridge House of Reps.
Amount to 4th of portion of Semi-ann. all'ce ending 1 st Mar. 1822 . $ 30.63
30.63
{ Revolutionary claim, Act 18th March, 1818. }
1 st May 1822

  30     9     21  5-60    30     3 m o  24.00    4  1.03    31  30.63  

5119 George J. D. Breckinridge No. Rep.
Henry Brock New Ark J. case
James L. Edwards
Washington

State of Kentucky Fifth Judicial District & Sc.
On this 10 th day of November One thousand
eight hundred and twenty five 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 where proceedings are entered and signed, Henry Brock a resident of Jefferson County about twelve miles from the Town of Louisville in said District aged about seventy four years, who being first sworn according to law and on his oath declare that his service in the Revolution was 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, some time 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 military operations in that part of the State and was in 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 Muhlenberg, marched to Charleston, South Carolina in the spring of the year 1776, to which his Company was attached he remained in Virginia and upon his recovery was transferred or ordered to join Captain William Brogham's Company of the same Regiment, which had not joined the Regiment when it marched to Charleston. That he the said declarant marched with the said Brogham's Company to the Northward which found 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 as aforesaid he continued with the Army in 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 that he continued with the Army during the military operations of that Campaign, and was in the action of Brandywine. And declarant farther 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 furlough to return to his friends.

friends in Shenandoah County in the State of Virginia where he first engaged as a soldier, and that about the close of war the war he obtained a regular discharge from the service which is lost or mislaid.
And I do solemnly swear I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18 th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, lease or any other manner, disposed of any property or any part thereof or in intent thereby to diminish it so as to be myself without 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 th day of March 1818, and that I have not now 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 Cretures, one of them blind - 20.00 One pair of harness or gear, old & worn - 2.00 One Hog $2 - One third part of an old Wagon $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 Brooks
State of Kentucky
At a Circuit Court held for the Jefferson Circuit in the State of Kentucky, 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

were signed and sworn to by the said Henry Brock the deponent, and the same were ordered to be recorded which is done accordingly and the Court valued the property mentioned 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 the seal of the said Croghan, and that he the said Croghan is a resident of this County and Circuit which was ordered to be Certified. In testimony whereof
I Mordan Pope clerk of the said Court have hereto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said Circuit this 12 th day of November 1821 and in the 30 th year of the Commonwealth
Mordan Pope
I William Croghan formerly a Major of the 4 th Virginia Regiment in the Service of the United States, do certify that Henry Brock served as a Soldier in the 8 th Virginia Regiment in the Service of the United States upwards of One year during the years 1776 & 1777. - W Croghan

36431
INVALID.
Revg
File No.
36431
Henry Brock Rev Rev 1840
Act:
18 th March 18 th
Index:—Vol.
2
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439
[Arrangement of 1870.]