Prompted by the various biological and pharmaceutical importance of hydrazone derivatives, herein are reported the synthesis and antibacterial activity of some new benzohydrazide derivatives 6a-n from commercially available 4hydroxybenzoic acid and 2-chloromethyl-4-methanesulfonyl-3-methylpyridine as starting materials. These compounds have been sufficiently characterized by H NMR, mass and IR spectroscopic techniques and evaluated for antibacterial activity. The compounds 6e (R=4-SO2CH3), 6f (R=4-F), 6g (R=4-OCF3), 6h (R=4-CF3), 6i (R=3,4-difluoro) and 6j (R=2,4 difluoro) have shown good activity (ZI: 19-25 mm) against the tested bacterial pathogens viz., Escheria coli, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococus pyogenes.