John Brockman Jr
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John Brockman Jr. was born in King and Queen County, Virginia, John Brockman moved with his parents, John Brockman, Sr. and Mary, to Orange County, Virginia about 1734. His mother was Mary Collins, the daughter of Captain Joseph Collins and Susannah Robertson. John Brockman Jr. married Amelia Martin, the daughter of Robert and Ann (Eason) Martin. They lived at "Thornhill" in Orange County, Virginia. John Jr. was the grandson of Samuel Brockman and the great-grandson of Henry Brockman who was a primary founder of the English Brockman family in the US. John Brockman was a Virginia Cavalier and thus his service as a patriot is likely to have been predicated on from that perspective. He died in 1831.
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[edit] Orphaned
John Jr. had both a brother and a son named Major. At the death of John Brockman Sr., John Brockman Jr. was orphaned but over the age of 14. His siblings came into Court and chose Kelly Jennings their Guardian. It was ordered that said Jennings give bond and security in the Clerk s Office in the sum of thirty pounds for securing the Estate and indemniying the Court. Kelly Jennings was by the Court appointed Guardian to Elizabeth, Hannah, Mary, Joseph, Rachel and Major Brockman.
[edit] Service in the American Revolution
John Brockman Jr. was the colonel and leader of "John Brockman's Regiment" in the Revolutionary war. His son, named Major Brockman, also fought with him as a private.
There is also a record of John furnishing the Patriots as certified by the secretary of the North Carolina Historical Commission R. I. W. Connor. "For sundries furnished and cash paid the Militia of North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina as allowed by the Auditor of Hillsborough District in December, 1781, as per report No. 81) Entry number 1400, John Brockman, 2500.00 currency."
[edit] After the Revolution
John and Major both moved to the Carolinas after the revolution. John settled in Laurens County, and had mostly girls, who married men named Parks, Dean, Owens and Mullins. This is why the South Carolina Brockmans are related to most people in SC. Major inherited his father's tools and established a mill on the Abner Creek in Spartanburg Conty, about 10 miles from today's city of Greer. The old mill ruins are still visible and a BMW plant is currently located in the area off 'Brockman Road'. Many South Carolina Brockman ancestors are buried in the cemetery at the Abner Creek Baptist Church, including other notable Revolutionary War soldiers, such as Newman Wilson. Other revolutionary war notables closely associated or inter-married with the family are Rev. Henry Wood, a chaplin, and early Methodist in South Carolina. The Woods, Wilsons, and Brockmans were patriots at that time and intermarried several times over the generations since.
[edit] Other Patriots of the Brockman family
- William Brockman (Supplied Lafayette's army on its way to Yorktown in 1781)
- Thomas Brockman, Continental Army
[edit] Sources
- The Brockman Family Cemetery, Pinckney District Chapter, Cherokee, Spartainburg, Union Counties, South Carolina Genealogical Society, Summer, 1993, Vol 17, No 2.
- Greenville Co South Carolina Cemetery Survey, Vol II, Greenville Chapter of South Carolina Genealogical Society.
- Clark, Parks, Brockman and Dean, Davis and Goss Families in Five Parts by Henry William Clark, Montgomery, Al, 1905, Printed by the author.
- Early American History, Volume II, William Everett Brockman, Compiler and Publisher, 1926, Poucher-Printers, Minneapolis, 1926. Family History Library, Salt Lake, UT
- The Brockman Scrapbook, 1952, William Everett Brockman, Midland National Bank, Minneapolis 1, Minnesota. - Research of Leonardo Andrea.
- Will of Henry Brockman, Recorded in Will Book B. Pages 135-136. The original will is in the SC State Archives.
- Will of John Brockman, Jr. 1801, Laurens Co, SC, Box 9, pkg 6.
- Will of John Brockman, Sr., Orange Co., VA Order Book 6, page 233.
- Will of Robert Martin, Orange Co., VA Will Book 3, page 49-50.
