Guilford County NcArchives Military Records.....Brock, Jesse October 16, 1833 Revwar - Pension ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/nc/ncfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Nancy Poquette npoq@hotmail.com January 27, 2007, 10:10 pm Pension Application Of Jesse Brock, Nat’l Archives Series M804, Roll __, Application #S30887 State of Kentucky, Harlan Circuit Court, October Term, 1833} On this 16th day of October, 1833, personally appeared in open court… Jesse Brock, a resident citizen of Harlan County…aged 82 years, the 8th day of December next: “Who states that he enlisted in the army of the United States [the year he cannot now recollect, being an illiterate man, he can neither read or write] in Guilford County, state of North Carolina for the term of 3 months, and served in the regiment of the North Carolina state line the whole of said time. He cannot recollect the number of the said regiment, but her served under the following named officers: General Alexander Martin, Colonel James Martin, his captain was by the name of Ralston [or Rolston]. He states that he entered the service at Guilford Courthouse in the state aforesaid and marched to Cross Creek in the state of North Carolina, where it was supposed that the British intended to land an army. And after serving out his term of service, he was discharged in the lower part of North Carolina.” “He further states that he again entered the service of the army of the United States In Guilford County, in the state of North Carolina for the term of three months, the names of the officers, he has forgot, but he belonged to the North Carolina state line, and he marched with some wagons laden with provisions for the United States Army which was stationed in South Carolina and he guarded said wagons to Charlotte Courthouse. He was again marched back to Guilford Courthouse, and after serving out his term of service, was discharged.” “He states that he again entered in the army of the United States in Surry County, North Carolina in the month of February, 1781 under Captain William Underwood, Lieutenant Joseph Porter, and Ensign Richard Taliaferro, for the term of three months, and marched to the Catawba, and arrived there a few days after the Battle, and was then marched back to Surry County in the state aforesaid, and from there I was marched to Guilford County in the state of North Carolina, between Guilford Courthouse and the Yadkin River, where I joined Colonel Thompson’s regiment, which belonged to the North Carolina state line, and I was there in a skirmish with a party of the British and Tories at the Alamance Church and Ensign Taliaferro was killed. We then marched toward Guilford Courthouse and was in another skirmish with the British on the Reedy Fork of the Haw River at Whit’s Mills [Weitzel or Whitesell’s Mills] where we were defeated by the British a few days before the Battle of Guilford, and after the Battle of Guilford, and after he had served out the term of his service, he was discharged near Guilford Courthouse in the state of North Carolina.” “He further states that he knows of no person living by which he can prove his service in the army, or any part thereof, nor neither does he remember the number of the regiment to which he belonged…” The court pronounced the following interrogatories to the applicant: Where, and in what year were you born? “I was born in Cumberland county, in the state of Virginia, on the 8th day of December in the year ?1757? as my father has told me.” Have you any record of your age? “I don’t know that there is any record of my age. My father has always told me that I was four years old the year of Bradley’s Defeat.” Where were you living when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live? “I lived in Guilford County, State of North Carolina when I was called into the service the first and second times; and I lived in Surry County, State of North Carolina the last time, and the same spring after the close of the War, I moved back to Guilford County in the state of North Carolina, where I lived a few years, but I cannot remember the precise time. I then moved to Franklin County in the state of Virginia, where I lived several years. I then moved back to Guilford County, state of North Carolina, where I lived several years, but I can’t say how many. I then moved to Knox County, state of Kentucky, which was afterwards stricken off to Harlan county, KY, where I now live. I have been here thirty-four or five years.” How were you called into the service, were you drafted, did you volunteer or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom? “The first and second time I was drafted, and the last time I volunteered.” State the names of the regular officers who were with the troops where you served… “General Greene commanded at Guilford, but I belonged to a scouting party, and I don’t remember the names of any more of the officers…’ File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/nc/guilford/military/revwar/pensions/brock444gmt.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/ncfiles/ File size: 5.4 Kb