Bezzant Brock (Duplin Co. NC)

 

Revolutionary War Pension Declaration, S 6722

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On the 21 day of September 1832, personally appeared in open Court, before the Honorable Robert Strange a Judge of the Duplin Court of the County of Duplin now sitting, Bezzant Brock of said County, who will be Seventy five years of age on the 14th day of January and who being duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the act of congress passed June 7th, 1832 Viz. that he volunteered in the County of Duplin is a company of militia commanded by John Whitehead; They then marched to Wilmington N.C. where he was discharged after having served in said company three months. He then volunteered - in the militia a second time in the County of Duplin in a company commanded by Captain James Butler and marched again to Wilmington ?? then he marched to Col. James ??? Duplin where he was discharged after in served three months in this Capt service. He then volunteered in the Calvary in a company in Duplin commanded by Captain William Kenan but how long he served in this company he does not know. He then was discharged after having served in all not less than nine months at the whole of the aforesaid times -

??? was a three months tour, having served in all nine months as a private; that there is no clergyman residing in the vicinity of said applicant that he has no documentary evidence whatever that he thinks he can prove his service under Capt John Whitehead by Samuel Goff of said county of Duplin; but cannot prove his other services.

Answers of said Bezzant Brock to the questions not before satisfactorily answered

1 I was born in Dobbs now Green County NC 14th January 1758

2 I have no record of my age

5. No regular officers with the troops aforesd served I recollect to have seen continental troops from the North under Gen. Do Coats or Burcoats, the militia regiments I remember were Col James Kenan's and Col Brown's and Gen Lillington's Brigade, while I was in service under Capt John Whitehead there was a skirmish at the Big Bridge in New Hanover County on the East side of the North East River in  ?? where I was stationed being on the West where Col Brown was wounded and I was in a skirmish with the enemy at Lochwood's folly in Brunswick County while in a detachment under Major Battle during the tour I served under Capt Whitehead

7. William Allen, Samuel Goff, Jonathan Keatly, George Rournegay, Jonathan Taylor, and many others I could mention, Edward Outlaw, William Roberts, Daniel Keatly &C &C Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid

Bezzant X Brock

Test: Jas Pearsall Clk

 

Affidavit of Samuel Goff

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served with said applicant three months in the militia service under Captain John Whitehead that during this tour of duty there was a skirmish near the Beg Bridge in New Hanover County between the British and Americans in which the latter was defeated and Col Brown wounded in the arm; that this deponent was stationed on the opposite of the River from where the skirmish was, that he was marched from Duplin County to the Beg Bridge thence down to Wilmington and in the Vicinity there of and on the sound, thence back to the Big Bridge, thence after the skirmish there to Kingston and was discharged in May 1781 having entered this service in February 1781

Sworn and subscribed the day and year aforesaid

Samuel X Goff

Test: P. Murphy