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).
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