In 1903 an interview of Lewis Jarvis (b. 1829) he described the first white hunters and settlers across the Blue Ridge into the Hancock Co., TN, and Harlan Co., KY, areas. He mentioned Russell Co., VA, where Jesse, James, and George Brock were on the 1798 tax list (meaning they were there in 1797).
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. ....
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.
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January 1856, a Harlan Co. court document stated, "Ordered by the Court that Satisfactory proof has been made that JESSE BROCK Decet on the 13th day of Oct 1843 and left no living widow but he has 6 heirs living AARON BROCK, AMON BROCK, SALLY COLDIRON, POLLY HELTON, SUSANNAH BLANTON, THENY STONE."
Not listed, but mentioned in Elijah Brock testimony to Annie Walker Burns were JAMES and JESSE BROCK, JR., who apparently predeceased their father (Harlan Co. Court Orders, 1840-60, p. 358).
Not mentioned in either was GEORGE BROCK, who is believed by descendants to be Jesse's son, and had land dealings with him in Harlan Co. DNA of his descendants does not match the other descendants of Jesse, so his relationship is uncertain. George outlived Jesse about twenty years, dying ca 1865 in Scioto Co., OH, where he moved in 1819. Nevertheless, he and his descendants are included below in a 3-generation register.
JESSE BROCK was, by family tradition and a Strong family history by his descendants, the son of Aaron Brock and his Cherokee wife, who it is said lived in a tree when first coming to what is now Harlan Co., KY, when it was part of Lee Co., VA. Today's Blanton Forest State Nature Preserve along Pine Mountain in Harlan Co. is the largest old-growth forest in Kentucky, and one of the largest in the United States; the trees are enormous.
JESSE BROCK was said by his grandson Elijah Brock to be about 3/4 Indian. Aaron Brock is believed to be Chief Red Bird, the Cherokee, a treaty signer.
DNA test results of Brock great-gr-gr-gr-gr-gr-grandsons of Jesse shows their Y-chromosome patrilineal ancestor to be Melungeon, that is, Jewish, which can describe many part-Cherokee and many of the neighboring families related to the Brocks by blood or marriage.
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