Reuben Brock (Anderson Co. NC)
Revolutionary War Pension Declaration S.9285
State of South Carolina
Anderson District
On this 27th day of September 1832. Personally appeared before the Howard C. Garett presiding Judge in the Court of General Sessions & Common Pleas in the District of Anderson and State aforesaid aged 78 years who being first duly sworn according to law, doth his Oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the pension made by the Act of Congress 7th June 1832. That he entered in the Army of the United States in the year 1776. about the first of June with Capt. John Atkinson of the Cavalry, this deponent doth not recollect the Regiment if he was attached to any of the North Carolina State Troops does not now know which; company Officers were Leut William Payne Ensign John Rogers, he Enlisted in Orange County North Carolina and served out the term of his Enlistment Six months, and was discharged at Cross Creek. he was in no battle or was he employed in a regular company but mostly engaged in scouting or patrolling against the Tories - He was born in Orange County North Carolina - was afterwards drafted to serve a tour of three months in the Militia under the command of Capt. Leuken and oweing to the situation of his family he gave a horse, saddle & bridles to get a substitute to do his duty which was to be done in the low country of South Carolina and for which he paid about Seventy five or eighty dollars in the said property rather than let his family suffer hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or an annuity except the present and he declares that his name is not on the Pension roll of any agency of any State.
Reuben Brock
Van A. Kawhan CCP
And the said Court do hereby declare this opinion that the above
named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served in the
States
I Vann A. Lawhor clerk of the Court of Sessions and Common Pleas for Anderson District of State aforesaid, do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Brock for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and Seal of Office day of September Anno Domini 1832 -
We Lanford Vandever a clergyman residing in the District of Anderson and Hezakiah Rice residing in the same District Hereby certifiy that we are well acquainted with Reuben Brock who has subscribed & Sworn to this written declaration, that we believe him to be 78 years of age; that he is respected and believed in the neighborhood in which he resides to have been a Soldier of the Revolution, and that we concur in that opinion
Landford Vandiver
Sworn & Subscribed the day and year aforesaid
Van A. Lawhorn
And the said court do hereby declare their opinions after the
interrogation of the matter and after putting the interrogative,
prescribed by the War Department that the above named applicant
was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states; And the
Court further certifies that it appears to them that the said
Layman Vandiver who has signed the proceeding certifies is a
clergyman resided in the said District, and that the said
Hezekiah Rice who has also signed the same is a resident in
the said District, and is a credible person; and that their
statement is entitled to credit as represented to me by them in
whom I repose implicit precedence
Richard Garet
I Vann A. Lawhorn Clerk of the Court of Sessions & Common Pleas for Anderson District do herby Certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Reuben Brock for a Pension.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal of Office this 27th day of September Anno Domini 1832
Van A. Lawhorn CCP
