John BROCKMAN

1. The DAR Patriot Index, page 87 lists:

"Brockman, John b - d 9-25:1823 m Eliz (Burris) PS VA." This notation

implies patriotic service in Orange county, VA.

"I hereby certify I have received for publick use of John Brockman

three hundred and fifty pounds of Beef for which he is entitled to

receive payment given under my hand this 9th of September 1781.

Ben Winslow, D.C.O.C. Orange Co. 350 Beef L4..7..6

Va."

(Brockman Scrapbook, page 178, see also Brockman Scrapbook, page 189).

2. In Feb 1777 he was appointed to the rank of Lieutenant in the Virginia

state militia; Orange County Military Commissions from the Order Book,

p. 61 (Orange county, VA)....Scrapbook 177 and OCVF IV:138. He also

furnished supplies for the army during the Revolutionary War. (source

also seen as: Orange County Minute Book, Feb. 1777, page 61).

3. The land of John and Elizabeth (Burris) Brockman.....

---John Brockman lived in the "White House" until 1774. In 1793,

however, he and his sisters signed over to their brother, William, any

interest they had in this land that had been settled by their father.

---his father, Samuel II, gave him a homestead in 1774 for 50 pounds--

this was the 176 acres in lower Orange, VA bought from Samuel Mayfield

and Benj. Cave. This homestead in Orange was known as "Mount Airy" and

was about 10 miles SE of the courthouse and was on the Pamunkey River

adjoining the lands of Thomas Woolfolk and John Henderson. The John

Brockman family was living on this property as of 1805, a date when John

Brockman purchased fire insurance and he give Mt. Airy, Orange county as

his address.

---On 22 Dec 1794 John bought 21 3/4 acres (Orange Deed Bk 20:245) and

130 3/4 acres (from Andrew Shepherd). He sold these acres to Isaac

Graves on 9 Apr 1812.

---In 1813 he acquired 161 acres of the old home place of Samuel II,

known as Woolfolk's, near Monrovia, from Wm. and Rebecca Thompson who

had acquired it from John's brother, William and his wife, Mary Lindsay.

In 1819 John sold this land to John Graves.

---From the Brockman Scrapbook, p. 46A, the old home of John Brockman

(wide chimney, homemade locks, graveyard with no markers) is called the

"Isaac Graves" home on the Monrovia-Holliday Mills Road, County Road 612

4. Owned about 4,000 acres of land in KY. Before his death he gave some of

his Kentucky land to his children. (Scrapbook, p. 177).

5. Copied from page 244, Brockman Scrapbook:

"Data obtained from the original court records of Green County,

Kentucky, by Hattie Scott, Frankfort, Kentucky (Nov.-Dec. 1944)

Stephen Brockman of Clark County, Kentucky, deeds to Wm. Bradshaw

of Green County, Kentucky, 400 acres, beginning at two poplars at

Brockman's corner. Oct. 13, 1804 (Deed 4, page 130).

John Brockman appoints son Stephen Brockman attorney to manage and

transact business for myself and wife in Kentucky. Dec. 20, 1802.

Wts. Wm. Brockman, in Orange County, Va., came John Brockman, and etc.,

wts. (6-316)

Stephen Brockman of Christian County, Kentucky, and Thos. Pitman of

Mercer County, Ky. Whereas on Aug. 5, 1783, John Brockman, father of

Stephen, executed to Wm. Pitman, then of Lincoln County, Ky. 3,795

acres located by Pitman for Brockman, etc. (Green County taken from

Lincoln County in 1795 ..... H. Scott)."

6. The state of VA reserved all land south of the Green River in KY for

soldiers who served from VA during the Revolutionary War and "Jno Brock"

did obtain a land grant of 3,795 acres on Brush Creek in Green co., KY

on 24 Sep 1797.

7. Will dated 25 Sep 1823 and recorded 27 Dec 1824 in Orange county, VA.

(see the Brockman Scrapbook, pages 178-179 for this will).

SOURCES INCLUDE:

Brockman Scrapbook 8, 9, 12, 46A & B, 47, 55, 58, 116,

120, 131, 135, 143, 177-180, 189-190, 244, 307.

Orange County Virginia Families, III:60, 107, 108, 119.

Orange County Virginia Families, IV:8, 28, 29, 42, 138.

Orange County, VA Marriage Records.

DAR Patriot Index, Vol. 1, page 87.

Ancestral File M5HZ-LM.

Correspondence (1997) with G. Kenneth Brockman of Louisville, KY.

WFT 10:2273, information from Christine C. Sanders, 4329

Edmondson Ave., Dallas, TX 75205.

WFT 42:288, WFT 47:211, WFT 86:112, WFT 123:91, WFT 135:530

WFT 145:99, information from Kathy R. Cox, 405 Cochise, Independence,

MO 64056.

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