Brockenbrough, Colonel Austin, born November 3, 1738, son of William Brockenbrough, of Richmond county, was a lieutenant in Washington's First Virginia Regiment during the French and Indian war. At the beginning of the revolution he was a Tory, and went to England, where he remained till the end of the war. He was a man of large means. He married in 1761, Lucy, daughter of Colonel John Champe, of Lamb's Creek, King George county. He was a brother of Dr. John Brockenbrough of Tappahannock.
