REVOLUTIONARY WAR PENSION APPLICATION
Microfilm Series M-804, Roll 347
JESSE BROCK

State of Kentucky
Harlan Circuit Court October Term 1833

On this 16th day of October 1833 personally appeared in open court before the Honorable Joseph Eve Judge of the 15 Judicial District and Judge of the Harlan Circuit Court JESSE BROCK a resident citizen of Harlan County and State of Kentucky aged Eighty-Two years the 18th day of December next, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath make the following DECLARATION in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress passed June 7th 1832, 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 three months, and served in the Regiment of the North Carolina State line the whole of Said Time, He can not recollect the number of the regiment, But he Served under the following named officers, General Alexander Martin, Colonel James Martin, his Capt. was by the name of Roylston. He states that he entered the service at Guilford Court House in the State aforesaid, and marched to Cross Creeke 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 State of North Carolina for the term of three months, the name of the officers he has forgot, But he belonged to the North Carolina State line, and he marched with some waggons Laden with provisions for the United States Army which was stationed in South Carolina, and he guarded said waggon to Chartell Court House. He was again marched Back to Guilford Court House, and after Serving out his Term of Service was Discharged.

He states that he again enlisted in the Army of the United States in Surry County, State of North Carolina ~ in the month of February 1781 ~ under Capt. William Underwood, Lieutenant Joseph Porter and Ensign Richard Talifarro, for the term of three months and marched to the Catawba. and arrived there a few days after the Battle. I was there 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 Court House and the Adkins River, Where he joined Colonel Thompson Regiment, which belonged to the North Carolina State line, and I was there in the Skirmish with a party of British and Torys at the Albemarle Creek and Ensign Tallifarro was killed, we then marched toward Guilford Court House and was in a nother Skirmish with the British on the __dy fork of Hair River at a placed called Whils 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 his term of service he was Discharged near Guilford Court House 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 dose he remember the number of the Regiments to which he belonged. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension, or any an misty except the present, and he declares that his name is not on the pension Roll of Any Agency in any state, or if any only on that of the Agency of the State of Kentucky.

Sworn to and Subscribed the day and year aforesaid.
JESSE BROCK

The Court pronounced the following interrogatory to the applicant
1. When and what year were you born. Answer: I was born in Cumberland County in the State of Virginia on the 8th day of December 1751 - as my father has told me.

2. Have you any record of your age. Answer: I don't know that there is any record of my age, my father always told me that I was four years old the year of Bradies (?) Defeat.

3. Where was you living when called into the service; where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live. Answer: I lived in Guilford County, State of North Carolina, the first and second time. And I lived in Surry County in the State of North Carolina when I was called into service 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 can not 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, But I can't say how many. I then moved to Russell County in the State of Virginia where I lived four years, I then moved to Knox County State of Kentucky, which was afterwards stricken off to Harlan County Kentucky Where I now live, I have been here thirty four or five years.

4. How were you called into Service Were you drafted, or did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute for whom. Answer: The first and second time I was drafted and the last time I volunteered.

5. State the name of some of the regular officers who were with the Troops when you surved such Continental and Militia Regiments as you can recolllect, and the General circumstances of your survice. Answer: General Green commanded at Guilford ~ But I belonged to a scouting party And I don't remember the name of any more of the officers except what I have . . . .
to be continued . . .

An affidavit by men who knew Jesse was filed 16 October 1833 by James Hall clergyman, John N. Howard, and John Coldiron.

JESSE BROCK was granted a pension of $30 per annum from 16 December 1833 to 4 March 1842. Agent notified 27 September 1844 "Date of death not on A.B."

No widow or family information was given in his pension file.