Brock, Hezekiah

Brock, Hezekiah a Free-will Baptist minister, was born in 1820 in Barrington, N.H. He became a Christian in early life, and, removing to Dover, joined the First Free-will Baptist Church of that place. In a year or two after he began to preach in Raymond, Maine, and subsequently in Kennebunk, where he was ordained. In the spring of 1846 he became a student in the Biblical school at Whitestown, N.Y. Finding his lungs in a weak state, he turned his attention to the study of medicine. He lived for a short time in Utica, and then came to Dover, N. H., where he died, December 30, 1851. He is said to have been very lovely arid amiable in his disposition, and very pathetic and winning as. a preacher. See Free-will Baptist Register, 1853, pages 85, 36. (J.C.S.)