From: KyArchives [archives@genrecords.org] Sent: Saturday, July 14, 2007 1:57 PM To: Ky-Footsteps Subject: Brock.Henry.Revwar.1821.Jefferson.MILITARY-Pension Revwar 8th Virginia Regiment Jefferson County KyArchives Military Pension File Jacket Private in Regiment commanded by Colonel Muhlenberg 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 c ommence on the 10th of November 1821. Certificate of Pension issued the 30th of Jan 1825 and sent to Hon. J. D. Breckinridge House of Representatives. Page 1 State of Kentucky Fifth Judicial District On this 10th day of November One thousand eight hundred 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 but when proceedings are _____ 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 when ______ first sworn according to law making 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 govt 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 Norfolk where he reissued? during the ________ operations in that part of the State and was in the section of the Long Bridge near the ____ _____ that by subsequent engagements the limitation of his service was for three years __ during the war that in consequence of sickness at the time the eighth Virginia Regiment Commanded by Colonel John? Muhlenberg marched to Charlestown South Carolina & in the spring of the year 1776? to where his company was attached he remained in Virginia and upon his recovery was transferred or ordered to ____ Captain William Croghan company the same Regiment, which had not joined the siege _____ when it marched to Charlestown. that he the said declarant marched with the said Croghans Company to the North ward which 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 Wash- inton ____ ___ he continued with the army on its retreat through the State of new Jersey - was in the ______ of Trenton and Prince Town and was with the army at Middlebrook in the State of New Jersey in the Sprin of the year 1777 where he joined his Company commanded by Col. Clark who had returned from the Southward with the eighth Virginia Regiment _ The de- clarant further states that that he continued with the Army during the military operations of that Company and when in the action of Brandywine. - And declarant further states that during his military service as aforesaid he was in _______ 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 Captain of Lord Cornwallis when from bad health he obtained a furlow to return to his Page 2 friends in Shenandoah County in the State of Virginia where he first engaged as a soldier and that about the close of the War he obtained a register discharge from the service which is lossed or misplaced. And I do solemnly swear I was a resident Citizen of the United States on the 18th day of march 1818 and that Have not since that time by gift sale upon any other manner disposed ____ ____ or any part thereof with intent thereby to demand? ____ being myself with __ the provisions of an act of Congress "An Act to provide for Certain Services engaged in the land and Naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War p____ed in the 18th day of march 1919 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 mentioned by the subsribed To wit, One Cow of the value of - - - - - - - - - - - - $10.00 Two horse creatures ___ _____ & One of them blind - - - $20.00 Two pair of harness or gear old & worn - - - - - - - - $2.00 One hog $2_ One third part of and old wagon $5 - - - - - $7.00 The declarant further states that he has no debts due him - owes debts to the amount of fifteen dollars - has a wife very in- firm and unable to ____ & having ____ three daughters living with him above the age of twenty one years, one of whom is Sub- ject 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 ___ ___ ____ are such as to render him incapable of procuring a living by labor - and he is by profession a farmer. his Henry X Brock 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 twenty one and in the thirteenth year of the Commonwealth Being a Superior Court of law and of record with Power to fine and imprison and whose proceedings are _____ and signed, The forgoing declaration and Schedule Page 3 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 proven to be in the hand writing and _____ written by the said Groghan, and that he the said Groghan is a resident of this County and Circuit which was ordered to be Certified - In witness whereof I Mordsn. Pope clerk of the said Court has hereto set my hand and afixed the seal of the said Circuit this 12th day of November 1821 and in the 30th year of the Commonwealth Mordsn Pope I William Croghan formerly a 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 Submitted by: Jerry Taylor http://www.genrecords.net/emailregistry/vols/00011.html#0002716 Additional Comments: The pension application for Henry Brock is extremely hard to read. This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/kyfiles/