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 ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS 
 
 OF 
 
 Lieut John lienderson, 
 
 Of Greenbrier County, Virginia. 
 
 1650—1900. 
 

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1 IKUT. JOHN HENDERSON. 
 I739-I787. 
 
ANCESTRY AND DESCENDANTS 
 
 or 
 
 Lieut. John Henderson, 
 
 Of Greenbrier County, Virginia. 
 
 1650 1900. 
 
 From Data Collected and Arr.\ngeu bv 
 
 His Great-GreattGrandson, 
 / 
 JOSEPH LYON MILLER, M. D., 
 
 Member of Virginia Society, Sons of the Revolution, the West Virginia 
 
 Historical Society, and Author of Historic Homes of Old 
 
 I 'irginia anJ other Virginia Sketches. 
 
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 RICHMOND. VA. : 
 Whittet & Shepperson, General Printers 
 1902. 
 
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INTRODUCTION. 
 
 It has been well said that "the present is founded upon the 
 past, and the past is our only guide to the future. If we wish 
 to see before us we must turn and look into the mirror behind 
 us." 
 
 Until recently the American people, except Virginians, have 
 looked upon genealogy as foolishness, gpd any one who tried to 
 know something of his great-grandfather as a snob. In later 
 years there has been a decided change, but even yet there is a 
 host of otherwise sensible people, who still hold to this opinion. 
 They will say that it is "sheer nonsense" if yoa try to interest 
 them in their own ancestry, and then perhaps will talk for hours 
 about the grand ten or twelve generation pedigree of some fav- 
 orite horse. And why is this pedigree of interest ? Because they 
 know that a horse may inherit certain qualities, and they pro- 
 duce his pedigree as a guarantee that he has, or ought to have 
 them. If a horse is the better for having his ancestry known, why 
 not so with a man ? A horse does not, because he cannot realize 
 the advantage of his genealogy; a man can, but as a rule does 
 not do so. A nation composed of an aggregation of men is what 
 its people make it, and not to know the composition of the people 
 is an obstacle to the clear and true understanding of national 
 history. So that the genealogies of the different families of a 
 country have a high value to the student of history. 
 
 Eecognizing the many deficiencies of this little book, I send it 
 forth with many misgivings as to how it may be received. But 
 also knowing that it contains practically all of the facts relative 
 to our family of Hendersons that are obtainable from the records 
 preserved in this country, I think that it has sufficient value to 
 warrant its existence. I feel that I am rendering a service to 
 some future historian of the family by gathering together these 
 records and verified traditions of our forefathers ere they are 
 misplaced and perhaps lost in the passing of the older genera- 
 tions. I have tried to exclude all statements of important facts 
 
4 Introduction. 
 
 that could not be verified ; and the data set forth here has been 
 gleaned from family records, letters, papers, etc., the records of 
 the counties of Augusta, Greenbrier, Mason and Monroe, Saffell's 
 Revolution, Hardesty's History of Mason County, Hening's 
 Statutes at Lar^e, Waddell's Annals of Augusta County, Peyton's 
 History of Augusta County, Burke's Baronetage (1834 edition), 
 Patronymica Britannica, Scottish Antiquary, etc. 
 
 Undue prominence has not been given some branches of the 
 family over that of others because of any partiality, but because 
 of the more abundant material. Several members of the family 
 did not even acknowledge my letters of inquiry. 
 
 It has been a labor of love to gather here and there the records 
 and floating traditions wiiich illustrate a history rich in the story 
 of brave men and noble women, thus saving from impending 
 oblivion ever so little of their memory. Like "Old Mortality," 
 I have wandered among the graves of the past, and humbly at- 
 tempted to retouch the fading gravestones of virtue and worth. 
 
THE HENDERSONS. 
 
 Patronymica Britannica says that the name of Henderson is 
 derived from Hendrick's son, or Henry's son. According to the 
 science of Scottish surnames, the Hendersons are of Danish 
 origin, it being claimed that all Scotch people whose names end 
 in "son" are of Danish ancestors ; therefore, go back to the days 
 when the eastern shores of Scotland were overrun by the Danes. 
 Burke in 1834 says that the surname of Henderson is one of 
 considerable antiquity in Scotland, the Hendersons having been 
 settled in the western part of County of Fife, near Inverkeithing 
 for over four centuries. The representative families of that 
 name in Scotland to-day are those of St. Laurence, Fordell, 
 Stemster, and Edinburgh. For several hundred years the name 
 has appeared on the college and military rolls of that country. 
 
 The family of interest here is supposed to be descended from 
 James Henderson, first Knight of Fordell; the reason for this 
 assumption will .appear later. 
 
 James Henderson was born about 1450, and was killed Sep- 
 tember 9, 1513. He was appointed King's Advocate in 1494, 
 and a few years later Lord Justice Clerk. He fell with his eldest 
 son, John, as did their royal master. King James IV. of Scotland, 
 at Floddenfield on that fatal 9th of September, 1513. 
 
 " To tell red Flodden's dismal tale 
 
 Tradition, legend, tune and song 
 
 Shall many an age that wail prolong ; 
 Still from sire the son shall hear 
 Of that stern strife and carnage drear, 
 
 Of Flodden's fatal field 
 Where shivered was fair Scotland's spear, 
 
 And broken was her shield. 
 
 There, Scotland ! lay thy bravest pride. 
 
 Chiefs, knights, and nobles many a one!" 
 
 About 1680 we are told that William, John and James Hen- 
 derson crossed to Ireland from near Dalmannie, Scotland; but 
 
6 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 whether one of them was the ancestor of the Virginia family, 
 the sabject of this sketch, we are unable to tell. The oldest 
 family record accessible to the writer carries the family back to 
 the middle of the seventeenth century, or more than two hundred 
 years. This record is written in an old book, whose title page 
 reads as follows: 
 
 Chronicum Preciosum 
 
 OR, AN 
 
 ACCOUNT 
 
 OP 
 
 ENGLISH MONEY, 
 
 THE 
 
 PRICE OF CORN, 
 
 AND 
 
 OTHER COMMODITIES, 
 
 For the Last 600 Years. 
 
 LETTER TO A STUDENT 
 
 University of Oxford. 
 
 LONDON : 
 
 Printed for Charles Harper, at the Flouer-de- 
 luce, over against St. Dunstan's Church, in 
 fleetstreei, mdccvii. 
 
 In this old book, printed in 1707, and now owned by the writer 
 of this sketch, is written iu quaint, faded characters the following 
 family record : 
 
 W"" Henderson Gent & Marg^ Bruce 
 Mar'd Feb^ 7 1705 
 
 John Son to W" born'd Feb^'^ 9 1706 
 Ja" Son to W" born'd Jan'^' 17 1708 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 7 >, 
 
 J 
 
 Bruce Son to W" born'd May 10 1710 ^ 
 
 Dyed Sep"*'^ 1719 
 
 Sam' Son to W" born'd Novem"" 28 1713 ! 
 
 Grandsons to John Henderson Gent i 
 
 Fifshyre Scotland. ' 
 
 W" Henderson Dyed Aug' 1 1737 Act 61 '■ 
 
 Born'd Apr' 30 1676 I 
 
 Marg' Henderson Dyed Decern*-" 15 1739 '; 
 
 Born'd March 1 1680/1 Aet 59 j 
 
 Jean Henderson Stuart Dyed in Child 
 Bedd March 1730 Aet 19 
 
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 John Henderson Dyed May 1 1766 Aet 60 I 
 
 Sam' Henderson Dyed Jan^^ 19 1782 1 
 
 This Eecord Set doun from the Memory of 
 
 Jas Henderson now Aet 75. ,j 
 
 And on the next page is this record : l 
 
 Jas Henderson & Martha Hamilton 
 Mar'd June 23. 1738 
 
 Martha Henderson Dau. to Audley 
 Harrison Hamilton Gent & Elenor Adams 
 his wife. 
 
 Jas Hendersons living Children — 
 David, W™, John, Jas. Sarah Jos. & Jean, 
 Sam' & Arch**'^ & Marg*^ passed away. 
 
 On the fly leaf is written : 
 
 Jas Henderson His Booke 
 Virginia 1740. 
 
 And now as to the connection with Fordell. The record men- 
 tions "John Henderson, Gent., of Fifeshire, Scotland," and it is 
 known that all the Fifeshire Hendersons are originally those of 
 Fordell ]\Ianor. Judging from the birth of William Henderson, 
 Gentleman, in 1676 his father, John Henderson, was probaoly 
 bom about 1650, this would place him about right to be a son of 
 one of the four younger sons of Sir John Henderson, owner of 
 Fordell during the reign of Charles I. According to Burke, 
 Sir John had a distinguished command in the army of King 
 
8 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 Charles, and was a lineal descendant of James Henderson, first, 
 of Fordell. There is one other thread of connection that may be 
 given. On the back of a family paper, which is undated, but was 
 probably written before the Revolution, as there is a reference 
 made to £60 and all the "s's" are the old long "s's" ; on the back 
 of this letter is'a crudely drawn shield bearing devices that have 
 been identified as idcntieSI-^mftthose of the Hendersons of For- 
 dell, as also the motto "Sola Virtus Nobilitat." But from the 
 records obtainable in this country there is no possible way to 
 establish unquestionably the kinship. However, there are many 
 genealogists who do make positive statements concerning the 
 kinship of certain new world families to those of similar name in 
 the old countries, who have no more foundation for their assump- 
 tion. 
 
 The Henderson Arms, 
 
 In heraldic language are : "Gu. three piles issuing out of the sin- 
 ister side arg. On a chief of the last, a crescent az. betwn. two 
 ermine spots. CREST. A hand ppr. holding a star or. sur- 
 mounted by a crescent arg. MOTTO. Sola Virtus Nobilitat." 
 
 Main Line of Fordell. 
 
 As the similarity of given names between the main line of 
 Fordell and the Virginia Hendersons may be of interest, I here 
 give from Burke the generations from 1625 to 1850: 
 
 "Sir John Henderson mar. Margaret Monteith, heiress of 
 Randiford; by whom he had five sons and five daughters, and 
 was succeeded by his eldest son John Henderson, Esq., who was 
 created a baronet of Nova Scotia 15 July 1664, Sir John mar. 
 Margaret dau. of Sir John Hamilton of Obieston, Lord Chief 
 Justice clerk ; by whom he had two sons and two daughters and 
 dying in 1683 was succeeded by his second and only surviving son 
 Sir William, who mar. Miss Hamilton dau. of Sir John Hamil- 
 ton of Mountain Hall, by whom he had four sons and a daughter. 
 He died in 1709 and was succeeded by his eldest son Sir John 
 who itiar. Christian dau. of Sir Robert Anstruther bart of Bal- 
 kaskie ; by whom he had three sons and five daughters, succeeded 
 by second and eldest surviving son Sir Robert d. Oct. 1781. 
 Mar. Oct. 3, 1748, Isabella dau. of George McKenzie, Esq., of 
 Firnie; by whom he had issue John his successor and Sir Bruce 
 present Baronet (1834)." Sir Bruce died childless, and the 
 
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 c i. 
 
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 Lieut. John Henderson. 9 
 
 estate descended to his first cousin, George Mercer, who assumed 
 the name of Mercer-Henderson. 
 
 The Virginia Hendersons. 
 
 James, Jolin and Samuel Henderson mentioned in the record 
 already given, all came to Virginia, but it is with the descendants ^J 
 of a son of James that we shall mostly concern ourselves. The ^ 
 date of their arrival in America is not known unless that of 1740 I^Y 
 is the right year. They all settled in Augusta county, where they ^ 
 married and brought up families. We will first notice a few 
 facts concerning John and Samuel Henderson before proceeding 
 with James Henderson and his descendants. 
 
 John Henderson, according to Vol. VII. of Hening, was an 
 Ensign in the Augusta Militia in the French and Indian War, 
 and in 1758 received fourteen shillings' pay. His will was re- 
 corded in Augusta county August 20, 1766, and mentions a son 
 William, two daughters unnamed in the will, his wife Rose 
 I^'inley, sister of John Finley, one of the first Justices of the 
 county. His brother James was one of the executors. 
 
 Samuel Henderson was also in the Augusta Militia, and in 
 1758 received fourteen shillings too. His will is recorded in 
 1782 in Augusta, and mentions his wife, Jane, and the following C; 
 children: James,^ Andrew, Alexander and Florence. His son ^ 
 James died in 1801, and his will mentions wife Isabella, and 
 children, John, Joseph, Jones, Alexander, Becky, Sarah, Mar- 
 garet, and Jean. Samuel Henderson had a grant of 160 acres 
 of land "on both sides of Dry Eiver," in Augusta, July 10^ 1766. 
 
 James Henderson. 
 
 James, second son of William and Margaret Bruce Henderson, 
 was born in 1708 in Scotland, and died in 1784 in Virginja, He 
 served in the Augusta Militia in the French and Indian War, 
 first as an Ensign, later as a Lieutenant. By act of the House of 
 Burgesses in 1758 to pay the Militia, he received for services as 
 Ensign £1 18s., and later as Lieutenant £1. The sword which he 
 carried in this war, which is named in the inventory of his son 
 John's estate, was preserved by his descendants till stolen in the 
 Civil War. 
 
 June 23, 1738, he was married to Martha, daughter of Audley 
 Harrison Hamilton, Gentleman, and his wife Elenor Adams 
 
 O^ 
 
 'X 
 
10 Ancestkt and Descendants of 
 
 Hamilton. Nothing more is known of Audley Hamilton than 
 that Hening in his list of the Augusta Militia in 1758 mentions 
 an "Audly Hamilton," who may have been a brother or cousin 
 instead of the father of Martha Henderson. They were the 
 parents of the following children : David, John, James, William, 
 Sarah, Joseph, Jean, Samuel Archibald, and Margaret. In his 
 will in 1784 James Henderson does not mention either John or 
 Jean. The reason for this is not known, but in the case of the 
 former is supposed to be because John had married in 1765 and 
 gone "west" and settled on New River, in Greenbrier county, 
 where he prospered till in 1787 his estate consisted of about two 
 thousand acres of land, four negroes and over five hundred 
 pounds of personalty, amounting to more than his father's estate. 
 At least, there was no estrangement with his brothers, for in an 
 old letter written by William Henderson, John is mentioned as 
 having sold five hundred acres of land to David, and in 1784 
 David collected some money from the State of Virginia for 
 John. In his will John makes his brother "Col. James Hender- 
 son" one of his executors. James H. had moved to Greenbrier 
 after his father's death, where he received in 1785-i6-'7 grants 
 for 1,609 acres of land. 
 
 John Henderson. 
 John, second son of James and Martha Henderson, was born 
 about 1740, and died Sunday, March 34, 1787. In 1765 he mar- 
 ried Anne Givens, youngest sister of Elizabeth Givens, wife of 
 Gen. Andrew Lewis. She was born about the same year as her 
 husband, and died May 28, 1819. Soon after their marriage 
 they removed to New Eiver, near Fort Savannah, or Fort Union, 
 later, the present town of Lewisburg, Greenbrier county. Here 
 he purchased a small tract of land, and in 1786 Governor Ran- 
 dolph granted him 350 acres, the original parchment grant ia 
 now owned by his great-granddaughter, Mrs. Kate Hannan Long. 
 In this year he was granted two tracts containing 1,400 acres 
 lying at the confluence of the Great Kanawha and Oliio Rivers; 
 beginning about a mile above the mouth of the former at the 
 boundary of the George Washington grant of 10,990 acres, and 
 extending down that river to the mouth, and thence do\^Ti the 
 Ohio to the grant of Gen. Hugh Mercer. The original 1786 
 grants for this land have been lost, but on a resurvey in 1800 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 11 
 
 Governor James Monroe made new grants "to Samuel, John, 
 James, and William Henderson Heirs at law of John Henderson, 
 Dec'd," and these parchments are still preserved by the descend- 
 ants of John Henderson : one for one thousand acres by his great- 
 granddaughter, Mrs. Ella Henderson Hutchinson, and one for 
 four hundred acres by the writer of this sketch. He also had a 
 grant for fortj'-five acres in Montgomery county, which was 
 regranted to his heirs Nov. 24, 1788. 
 
 In the beginning of Dunmore's War he enlisted as a Lieu- 
 tenant in the New Eiver Company under Captain Herbert, and 
 took part in the battle of Point Pleasant fought on the 10th of 
 October, 1774. On the breaking out of the Revolution he enlisted 
 in Col. Daniel Morgan's Scotch-Irish Regiment from the Valley 
 of Virginia, in which he served until 1780, with the rank of 
 Corporal, in Capt. Jolm Gregory's Company. His powder horn 
 was preserved by the descendants of his son Samuel, and ^ 
 sword carried by his father in the French and Indian War by the 
 Monroe county descepdants. 
 
 John Henderson was one of the Justices of Greenbrier county, 
 and was present at the November court in 1780. His personal 
 estate included four negroes, and amounted to over 536 pounds. 
 He was the father of the following children :' Samuel, born Sep- 
 tember 7, 1766; John, born August 30, 1768; Margaret, born 
 
 February 12, 1771 > James, born ; Jean, born ; William, 
 
 horn . Of the last three children I have been able to learn 
 
 but little. Jean married Kirkpatrick, and died August 22, 
 
 1805. James married in 1800 Elizabeth Maddy, of Monroe 
 county, and William tells something of his family in the follow- 
 ing letter to his sister, Margaret Vawter: 
 
 "Cabell County, Va., March 22, 1828. 
 
 "Dear Sister: I again sit down to write a line to you which 
 will inform you that myself and family are all in common 
 health except Nancy. She has been very unwell ever since some 
 time last fall, but is able to go about part of every day almost, 
 
 "Our old Brother Samuel is now at my house, and is unwell 
 only a Bad Cold, he left his family and Betsey's all well only 
 James who is afflicted with some thing in his throat or neck per- 
 haps what is Called the King's evil — I intended to go to see 
 yovL last fall (but the bad health of my wife and Other things 
 
13 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 prevented me) and take you money I Borrowed from you But, 
 finding it inconvenient to go Mr.. Buhring the man who had the 
 use of it last Summer undertook to Send it for me by Some per- 
 son from Logan Courthouse and informs me that he sent it by 
 Joseph Gore. I have never heard whether you have got it — I 
 was only able to Send you 120 Dollars When I can I will send or 
 take you the Interest. If I can I want to go next fall Betsey 
 talks of going with me. 
 
 "Write me whether you have got your money and everything 
 else that you think I may be Interested in hearing. 
 
 "I have in the former part of my letter been talking of things 
 of a Temporal nature. I want now to Say a few words about 
 things which are of more weight my prospects as it respects this 
 world has not been nor is not at present very flatering but I am 
 inclined to think that it will all come out right in the end, hav- 
 ing little of the world and being Generally disappointed in my 
 Calculations to wean my affections from things below and teaches 
 me not to seek hapiness in anything Less than God. I think That 
 I can with propriety say I am bound for the good Country — 
 my Dear friend I greatly desire the pleasure of your Company 
 but this cannot be — Therefore let us make heaven and Glory 
 the Leading motives in all our pursuits and It will not be long 
 Till we Shall all meet in that happy region where we shall forever 
 enjoy the Society of each Other never again to be interupted by 
 Separation. 
 
 "0 my sister let us go on and hold fast the beginning of 
 our Confidence Stedfast to the end and in due time we shall reap 
 if we faint not. If you have any accounts from Brother James I 
 want you to write me. Bro. Sam'l Tells me that my Dear 
 Nephew John H. V. is married to a Miss Dunlap — My Son 
 Johi^ was married on the 21st of Feb.y to Elvira McComas 
 Daughter to Genl E. McComas. I have nothing more worth 
 Communicating But remain your affectionate Brother and Sin- 
 cere friend W°» Henderson." 
 
 The above letter is written in a beautiful hand, and is directed 
 to Mr. John H. Vawter, Union, Monroe Co., Va. It was mailed 
 at Logan Court-house, Va., April 14, 1828. Nancy was his wife, 
 and the first Betsey the widow of his brother John Henderson. 
 The second Betsey is presumably the writer's daughter. John 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 1 
 
 H. V. ■wat? John Henderson Vawter. Original letter is now 
 owned by J*ohn H. V.'s son, Capt. Charles Vawter, of Albemarle 
 Co., Va., 
 
 Samuel Henderson, 
 
 Oldest son of John and Anne Givens Henderson, was born Sept. 
 7, 1766, and died December 24; 1836, in Mason county, where he 
 had settled on the Henderson lands in 1795. In 1794 he was 
 married to Sallie Donally, daughter of Col. Andrew Donally, 
 who built "Donnally's Fort,'^ in the Greenbrier country, in 
 1771. In 1790 Col. Donnally and George Clendenin became the 
 first representatives of Kanawha county in the Virginia Assem- 
 bly, and later he was re-elected for the year of 1803. Sally Don- 
 nally Henderson was born January 25, 1775, and died June 3, 
 1821. Samuel Henderson was the father of three children: 
 I. John Givens, born Feb. 5, 1795; died March 23, 1888. 
 II. Andrew, born December 25, 1797; died unmarried. 
 
 III. Charles, born January 16, 1803; died unmarried. 
 
 Charles was considered one of the brightest lawyers and great- 
 est orators in Mason county in the first half of the last century. 
 Several of his speeches and letters are still preserved, showing 
 him to have been particularly clever and witty. 
 
 I. John G. Henderson, the eldest son, inherited the farm where 
 he lived all of his life. He volunteered in the war of 1812, and 
 was Deputy Sheriff of Mason county in 1822-'3 ; he was also one 
 of her early Justices. February 2, 1826, he was married to 
 Anna E. Stephens, bom June 5, 1806, died August 17, 1839. 
 She was the daughter of Capt. John B. and Sallie Ogden 
 Stephens, who came to the county in 1819. He was a grandson 
 of a member of the company organized in 1772 to locate lands in 
 the "west" ; the following being some of those who surveyed and 
 got grants of land for themselves in Mason county on the Great 
 Kanawha and Ohio Rivers, in 1774 : George Washington, 10,990 
 acres; Hugh Mercer, 13,532A; Andrew Lewis, 9,876; Peter Hog, 
 8,000A ; and Andrew Stephens, 8,000A, Stephens sold his patent 
 later to Daniel Euffner. 
 
 John Givens Henderson was the father of the following chil- 
 dren: 
 
 1. Samuel Bruce, born ISTovember 15, 1826 ; died October 21,. 
 1900. 
 
4 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 2. Sallie A., born November 7, 1828. 
 
 3. Mary Ella, born May 12, 1832. 
 
 1. Samuel Bruce' Henderson, married January 16, 1853, Lydia 
 S. George, daughter of William and Nancy Eastham George, of 
 Fauquier county. They were the parents of five children: 
 Charles, married Margaret Dameron, of Kentucky/; John W. ; 
 Ann Eliza, married James Wilson ; Nannie Lee ; James S., mar- 
 ried Hattie Poffenbarger. 
 
 2. Sallie A. Henderson, married Joseph George, one of the 
 large Kanawha Valley farmers. No children. 
 
 3. Mary Ella Henderson, married May 29, 1855, John L. 
 Hutchinson, son of Isaac and Margaret Hutchinson, of Monroe 
 county. His grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, and 
 about 1796 a member of the Assembly of Virginia. They were 
 the parents of six children: Charles Andrew, married a Miss 
 Charles; Robert Bruce; Isaac Sterling; Margaret; Mary, and 
 John Henderson. Mrs. Hutchinson lives in the large, old brick 
 house built in 1811 by her grandfather, Samrel Henderson, at 
 the mouth of the Kanawha River, opposite Point Pleasant. She 
 has a good many Henderson relics in the way of antique furni- 
 ture, oil portrait of Andrew Henderson, old parchment land 
 grant for a thousand. acres, etc. 
 
 Col. John Henderson, 
 Second son of John and Anne Henderson, was born in Green- 
 brier county, Va., Tuesday, August 30, 1768, and died at Hen- 
 derson, Mason county, Thursday, August 19, 1824. In 1792 he 
 married Elizabeth Stodghill, daughter of John and Elizabeth 
 Harvey Stodghill, of Greenbrier. She was born August 3, 1776, 
 and died Friday, February 20, 1846. The family was of English 
 descent. Her father owned a considerable quantity of land, four 
 hundred acres of which was granted to him in 1787, a portion of 
 which is still o^vned by the descendants of his son James. Eliza- 
 heth Henderson's grandfather, John Harvey, owned for a long 
 time the now famous Red Sulphur Springs, in Greenbrier county. 
 Her sister Nancy married John Arbuckle, and her sister Ehoda 
 married Hugh Caperton of Monroe county. 
 
 According to the following order John Henderson was a 
 Lieutenant in the Seventy-ninth Virginia Regiment, or Green- 
 hrier Militia : / 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 15 
 
 'Tiieutenant John Henderson, 5th. May 1795 
 
 "Sir, you are to attend at the plantation of John Byrnsid in 
 the Sinkes on friday 22nd. Instent to hold a Court-Marshal on 
 the Busness of the Betalion. also your Ensign and the Commis- 
 sions of the Company. 
 
 "I am Sr. your Humbel Sert. 
 
 "James Graham Majr." 
 
 In 1796 and 1797 he was Commissioner of Revenues for the 
 county of Greenbrier, as shown by the following original papers : 
 
 "Auditor's Office, 23 Nov., 1796. 
 'Tleeeived of John Henderson, Commissioner of Greenbrier 
 -, A List of the Land and Property Tax within his District, 
 
 for the Year One Thousand Seven Hundred and Ninety-six. 
 
 "S. Shepard.'' 
 "Greenbrier February Court, 1797. 
 
 "John Hunderson Gent, is continued in his office of Commis- 
 sioner of public Tax this present Year. 
 
 "Co John Stuart C." 
 
 In 1797 he removed to the mouth of the Great Kanawha River, 
 to a farm inherited from his father. Here he soon began to take 
 an important part in public affairs. July 3, 1804, he and nine 
 other gentlemen sat as the first court held for Mason county; 
 each of them had been previously commissioned a Justice by 
 Gov. John Page. Five years later he became a member of the 
 Virginia Assembly, which position he held in the years of 1809, 
 1810, 1813, 1814, 1817, 1818, 1819 and 1820, as shown by the 
 lists of the Assembly in some odd numbers of an old almanac 
 preserved at the Capitol, and by family letters and receipts still 
 preserved; and family tradition says that he was also there in 
 the years 1821, 1822 and 1823. In 1814 he was Commissioner 
 of Revenue for Mason county, as shown by this original certificate 
 in the possession of the writer : 
 
 "I, John Henderson Commissioner of the Revenue for Mason 
 county for the year 1814 do hereby certify that Peter Menager 
 produced to me the Rect. of Mann Reynolds Sheriff of said 
 County for the payment of Nineteen Dollars & Eight cents, the 
 
16 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 f/X-C, *^^ d^6 0^ ^ Retail Store License from the 12th day of Sept. 
 
 1814, to the first day of May 1815. 
 \A^uvc^ "Given under My hand and seal this 19th day of September 
 lJ'^4'^1^^ 1814. John Henderson." 
 
 t^u^ 
 
 September 30, 1815, he was commissioned High SheriflE of 
 Mason county, as shown by an old bond given for his deputies, 
 Samuel McCulloch and John McCulloch, Jr., by Samuel McCul- 
 loch, John McCulloch, Jr., John McCulloch, Sr., and Edward 
 McDonough, for the sum of ten thousand dollars. He con- 
 tinued in this office, as shown by the following paper dated in 
 1816: 
 
 "Be it Known to all to whom these presents shall come that I 
 John Henderson, Sheriff of Mason County in full county (elec- 
 tion) held at . . . court-house thereof on the 16 day of April 
 in the Year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred & sixteen 
 by the el . . . said County Qualified According to Law, 
 Caused to . . . two delegates for my said County namely 
 Enos Thomas and Charles Clendenin to represent the same in 
 the General Assembly. Given under my hand the day & year 
 aforesaid. John Henderson." 
 
 After the organization of Mason county in 1804, John Hender- 
 son became one of the officers in the One Hundred and Sixth 
 Virginia Regiment, In an old muster roll, bearing date of 1812, 
 he is named as "1st Major," and all his letters in 1811, 1812 and 
 1813 are addressed to Major John Henderson. In 1813-'14 he 
 was commissioned Lieut. Colonel, as shown by several of his 
 orders written early in 1814 ; and soon afterward he received his 
 commission as Colonel, which title is used in the following order 
 early in 1815 : 
 
 "Mason County February the 17th, 1815. 
 "Detailed for service from this command Captain Michael 
 Lee, Lieut. Matthew Brown, Lieut. Charles Bryan, Ensign 
 Leander Munsell, Ensign John McCulloch, 4 Sergeants, 3 Cor- 
 porals, 2 fifers and 58 Privates — total 72 in persuance to Brigade 
 orders of the 23 Ult. John Henderson, 
 
 "Colo Comdg 106 Regt." 
 
 In 1812 and 1813 he received the following appointments: 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 17 
 
 **Dear Sir "Richmond 9^^ October 1812. 
 
 "As chairman of the Committee of the 'Society for promoting 
 the Success of the War against Great Britain' I am directed to 
 request that you will have the Goodness to Act as Our Agent at 
 Point Pleasant in receiving 700 pair of Shoes, 300 Flannel 
 Under-Jackets and 69 pair of Woolen Stockings, intended as a 
 Donation to General Leftwich's Brigade; and that in the Event 
 of the Troops having Marched from Point Pleasant, you will be 
 pleased to make a Contract on the best Terms you can, for their 
 Transportation to the point of the destination of the Brigade: 
 Your Drafts on Me for the Sums Necessary for defraying the 
 expense will be paid on Sight. I have the honor to be 
 "Very Eespectfully Dr. Sir 
 
 "Your Most Ob'd Serv. 
 
 "Major John Henderson/' "James Wood." 
 
 "It is advised "^^^ Council, May 31, 1813. 
 
 "That Major John Henderson of Mason County, be requested 
 to take charge of the Arms & other property belonging to the 
 Commonwealth, left at Point Pleasant by the Detachment of 
 Militia under the Command of Brigadier General Joel Leftwiche 
 for the purpose of having them taken proper care of — that he 
 be also requested to have an Inventory taken, and Eeport the 
 same to the Executive. 
 
 "Copy Teste Wm. Richardson C. C. 
 
 «gj.g '^Richmond, Council Chamber, May 31, 1813. 
 
 "I am instructed by his Excellency the Governor to transmit 
 you the above Copy of an Advice of Council of this date, and to 
 request your particular attention to the object thereof. I am 
 "Sir Very Respectfully 
 
 "Your H'ble Ser't 
 
 "Wm. Robertson C. C." 
 
 In 1830 he received the following commission: 
 
 "To John Cantril, John Henderson & John McCulloch KNOW 
 
 YE, THAT OUR Lieutenant GOVERNOR, persuant to the act 
 
 of General Assembly, passed on the 2nd day of March, 1819, 
 
 entitled, 'An Act to reduce into one act, the acts now in force 
 
 / 
 
18 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 providing for the appointment of Electors to chose a President 
 and Vice President of the United States' hath with the advice of 
 the Council of State, constituted and appointed you the said 
 John Cantrell, John Henderson & John McCulloch, COMMIS- 
 SIONERS for the County of Mason — to superintend the elec- 
 tion of Electors for a President and Vice President of the 
 United States to be held in and for the said county according to 
 the Constitution of the United States and the laws of the Com- 
 monwealth. 
 
 In Testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed 
 
 my name, as Lieutenant Governor, and caused the 
 
 SEAL OF Seal of the Commonwealth to be hereunto affixed 
 
 VA. at Richmond, this 2d day of August — in the year 
 
 of our Lord 1820. .p^^^^^ y Daniel.^ 
 
 In those days Col. Henderson frequently made the journey to 
 Richmond on horseback, taking from a week to ten days to make 
 the trip each way. In 1811 he almost lost his life in the famous 
 Richmond Theatre fire, in which Governor Smith and over sixty 
 of the best people of Virginia were burned to death. 
 
 Col. Henderson has bqen described as "a quiet, courteous, old 
 gentleman given to much reading and thinking, and shrinking 
 from publicity," though he spent most of his life in the public 
 service. He possessed a good library for those days, and for 
 several years, so it has been said he was the only man in the 
 county who took a newspaper; this was the Richmond Enquirer, 
 whose subscription price was five dollars a year. It came weekly 
 from Richmond, and then passed from hand to hand over the 
 county till it was literally read to pieces. But one number has 
 been preserved among the Henderson papers, and that contains 
 President Monroe's Inaugural Address in 1816. 
 
 Colonel Henderson was not a wealthy man, but was comfort- 
 ably well off. He owned two plantations as named in his will ; 
 the home place of 350 acres and the "Five Mile place" of 225 
 acres. On these places he kept from twelve to fifteen horses and 
 about twice as many cattle. His slaves consisted of : 
 
 One man named London. 
 
 One women named Hannah. 
 
 One young woman named Phylis, and five children under 
 twelve years old. 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 19 
 
 In March, 1835, the year after his death, his widow and son 
 purchased a black girl from Mr. William George for two hundred 
 and fifty dollars; her name was Milia; in May of same year a 
 negro man, Barber, from Dr. Shaw for five hundred dollars; 
 and a negro boy from a Mr. Harrison — name and price not 
 known to the writer. The man London is the same fellow that 
 is named in the will of Col. Henderson's grandfather, Jaraea 
 Henderson, of Augusta county. 
 
 John and Elizabeth Henderson were the parents of the follow- 
 ing children: 
 
 I. Margaret, born August 11, 1793; died Nov. 6, 1793. 
 11. Jane, born Nov. 12, 1794; died August 13, 1835. 
 III. Sarah, born January 6, 1797 ; died January 26, 1872. ■ 
 IV. Rhoda, born March 26, 1800; died April 1, 1879. 
 V. Angelina, born Jan. 4, 1802 ; died Dec. 26, 1843. 
 VI. James Madison, born Nov. 22, 1807; died Sept. 14, 1829. 
 
 VII. Elizabeth, born April 8, . 
 
 VIII. Nancy, born Nov. 21, 1811; died Feb. 1, 1886. ]^ 
 IX. Emily, born September 10, 1817. 
 
 II. Jane Henderson, married, March 29, 1831, Charles Hoy, 
 of Mason county, and died without heirs in 1835. 
 
 III. Sarah Henderson was considered one of the prettiest girls 
 in western Virginia in the first quarter of the nineteenth century. 
 Years afterward her daughter, Mrs. Nannie Vaught, met Judge 
 Harrison at Clarksburg, and upon finding out that she was from 
 Mason county he asked if she had ever known Sallie Henderson 
 of that county ; that when he was a young man she was consid- 
 ered one of the belles of that section of Virginia, and that he was 
 one of her rejected suitors. He seemed much surprised and 
 pleased when Mrs. Vaught told him that Sallie Henderson was 
 her mother, and still living. In 1819 Sallie's mother writing to 
 Col. Henderson at Richmond, in answer to some inquiry of the 
 anxious father, says: "You ask what prospects for matrimony. 
 Sallie seems to out-pole the rest;" she then names three young 
 
 men, "Have proposed already, and Mr. is shying around, 
 
 and I think will propose the next time he comes." This was 
 five years before she became the second wife of John Miller, on 
 the 16th of October, 1823. His first wife was daughter of Major 
 William Clendenin, who was an Indian fighter, Virginia militia- 
 
'20 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 man, member of the Virginia Assembly, and otherwise promi- 
 nent in the affairs of his county. John Miller was a son of Chris- 
 tian Miller, a sergeant in Capt. Jacob Rinker's Virginia Company 
 in the Eevolution, and grandson of Jacob Miller, a large land- 
 owner in the Shenandoah Valley and founder of Woodstock in 
 1761. John Miller owned about two thousand acres of land, and 
 over twenty negroes. 
 
 The order for Sallie Henderson's wedding dresses, carried from 
 Eichmond over the mountains on horseback, calls for one white 
 satin Tress pattern with white shoes; seven white dresses of 
 India lawn and book muslin; five silk dress patterns, plain and 
 fancy; four crepe dresses, with the various accessories to com- 
 plete the toilets. The gowns were made in the prevailing empire 
 style of low neck, short sleeves and short waists. One of the 
 crepe dresses was of purple embroidered elaborately down the 
 front and around the bottom of the skirt in white. 
 
 John and Sallie Henderson Miller were the parents of the 
 following children: 
 
 1. Elizabeth, bom August 30, 1824; died 1844. 
 
 2. Nancy L., born October 26, 1827. 
 
 3. James Henderson, born June 6, 1829; died Feb. 19, 1898. 
 
 4. Anne Eliza, born Nov. 8, 1831 ; died July 16, 1854. 
 
 5. Mary Caroline, born Feb. 20, 1834; died Dec. 23, 1899. 
 
 6. Rhoda James, born Oct. 13, 1836. 
 
 7. Sarah Emily, born Nov. 20, 1839. 
 
 1. Elizabeth Miller, married in 1843 Rev. John Van Pelt, and 
 died the following year. 
 
 2. Nanc} L. Miller, married Sept. 16, 1852, Rev. Stephen 
 Kisling Vaught, of Kentucky. They were the parents of four 
 children; Anne Eliza, Andrew Carr, Robert Lee, M. D. (all 
 dead), and William Henderson, who married Ora Hogg, a great- 
 great-granddaughter of the famous Major Peter Hogg, of Au- 
 gusta county. 
 
 3. James Henderson Miller, married March 27, 1851, Harriet 
 E. Craig, great-granddaughter of Rev. John Craig, the father 
 of Presbyterianism in the Shenandoah Valley; great-grand- 
 daughter of John Madison, first clerk of Augusta county; and 
 granddaughter of Capt. William Arbuckle, of Point Pleasant 
 fame. They were the parents of the following children : Willie 
 Anna, married Henry Hannan Eastham, a descendant of the 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 21 
 
 Fauquier family of that name; Minnie, married Virgil V. 
 Bishop, of Kockingham county; James Henderson, Jr., mar- 
 ried Beatrice Brockmeycr; George Kennerly, married Anna 
 Moore ; Sarah Yaught, married Samuel Couch, of "Holmewood," 
 Mason county. Mrs. Miller died in 1872, and September 29, 
 1874, J. H. M., married Finetta Anne Lyon, of Woodford county, 
 Kentucky. She is a lineal descendant of the John Davis who set- 
 tled in York county, Ya., in 1623, from Gloucestershire, Eng- 
 land. Her great-great-grandfather, Thomas Davis, married in 
 1718-'20 Sarah Fielding, daughter of Edward Fielding, a North- 
 umberland county planter, supposed to be the son of Ambrose 
 Fielding, a Bristol, England, merchant. Her Lyon ancestors 
 came to Marj^land from Perthshire, Scotland before the French 
 and Indian War. James Henderson Miller and his second wife 
 were the parents of two children: Joseph Lyon, M. D., and 
 Stephen Kisling. 
 
 4. Anne Eliza Miller, married November 13, 1850, Capt. 
 James Eobert Buffington, of Mobile, Ala., formerly of Cabell 
 county, Ya. She died of Cholera in St. Louis in 1854, leaving 
 one son. Llanos, who now lives in California. 
 
 5. Mary C. Miller, married May 24, 1859, Absolom P. Chap- 
 man, of Cabell county. They were the parents of Sarah F. and 
 Emma Evelyn, who married Charles E, McCulloch, a descendant 
 of the McCuUochs of Maryland, and the Clendenins and Bryans 
 of Yirginia. 
 
 6. Ehoda James Miller, married July 25, 1855, Edmund Pen- 
 dleton Chancellor, a great-great-grandson of Capt. Richard 
 Chancellor, a soldier of Charles II., who came to Westmoreland 
 county, Ya., in 1G82. Here he married Catharine Fitzgerald 
 Cooper, a granddaughter of Richard Cooper, one of the Yirginia 
 Charter Members, who later came to Yirginia in the year 1634. 
 E. P. Chancellor's grandfather, Thomas Chancellor, was a pri- 
 Tate in the Yirginia Line in the Revolution. His wife was 
 Judith Gaines, a niece of Edmund Pendleton. E. P. and R. J. 
 M. Chancellor are the parents of Edmund Pendleton, Jr., mar- 
 ried Belle Carnahan ; Eugenia, married Castella Rathbone ; Rose 
 Carroll, and Nan Preston. 
 
 7. Sarah Emily Miller, married September 18, 1870, Hunter 
 Ben Jenkins, of St. Louis. They have two sons, William Hen- 
 derson, and George. 
 
22 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 IV. Ehoda Henderson was considered one of the cleverest 
 members of the family, and all her life was known for her wit 
 and fine intellect. June 7, 1838, she married Henry Hannan, 
 one of the leading farmers of the Ohio Valley, and a descendant 
 of an old Scotch family. They had two children: 1. Franklin; 
 2. Catharine. 
 
 1. Frank Hannan, married Sarah Jane Arbuckle, a member 
 of the famous Arbuckle family of Greenbrier county, and was 
 the father of the following children : Maud, Eose, John, James,, 
 and Katharine, who married George C. Pollock, a banker at 
 Boulder, Col. 
 
 2. Catharine Hannan, married James W. Long, of "Elm 
 Grove," Mason county, one of the largest farmers of the Ka- 
 nawha Valley. The Longs are one of the oldest families of Page 
 county, Va., the first of the family having settled there from 
 Germany early in the eighteenth century. Their children are: 
 Rhoda, James Hannan, Mary, Annette, married William Strib- 
 ling, a member of one of Mason county's oldest families ; George,. 
 Frances Elizabeth, Sarah, married Gilbert Mille: Harnsberger, 
 of Page county, Va., and Evaline, who is considered one of the 
 finest amateur musicians in southern West Virginia. Mrs. Long 
 has many interesting papers and relics of her Henderson ances- 
 tors, over a hundred years old, among them is a quaint china tea- 
 pot that belonged to her great-great-great -grandmother, Marga- 
 ret Bruce Henderson, over two centuries ago in Scotland. 
 
 V. Angelina Henderson, married March 26, 1828, William A. 
 McMullin, of Mason county. She was considered the beauty of 
 the Henderson family, and had a great many admirers. They 
 had six children, who grew to maturity. James, the eldest son, 
 was drowned in the Kanawha River several years ago. The other 
 sons were William and Charles, both dead now, and Major John 
 McMullen, a very genial old gentleman, formerly of Louisville, 
 Ky., but now living in New Albany, Ind. There were two girls, 
 Rhoda and Mary. Rhoda married, first, a Mr. Harshbarger; 
 second, a Mr. Cooke. Mary married, first, a Mr. Judge, and,^ 
 second, a Mr. Hudson, of St. Albans, W. Va. They had one 
 daughter. Rose, who married in 1895 Henry H. Barnes, of Mt. 
 Sterling, Ky., where Mrs. Hudson now resides. 
 
 VI. Elizabeth Henderson, married Rev. David Quinn Guthrie, 
 October 1, 1846, and died without heirs. 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 23 
 
 VII. Nancy Henderson, married October 18, 1833, Thomas 
 Jefferson Bronaugh, of the fine old family in Fauquier county, 
 Va. Concerning them and their descendants I take the follow- 
 ing extract from a number of the Henry county, Mo., Democrat: 
 
 "Died at her residence, near Calhoun, Henry county. Mo., 
 February 1, 1886, Mrs. ISTancy Bronaugh, wife of Thomas J. 
 Bronaugh, in her seventy-sixth year. Mrs. Bronaugh, who was 
 the daughter of Col. John Henderson, was born in Mason county, 
 Va., November 21, 1811, and was married to Thomas J. Bro- 
 naugh on the 18th of October, 1832. She removed from Virginia 
 more than thirty-five years since to a farm two miles north of 
 Calhoun, where she continued to reside until her death. Mrs. 
 Bronaugh was the mother of seven children, who survived to man 
 and womanhood, but two of them, Emma and Thomas, preceded 
 her to the grave. Her surviving children are Dr. John W., 
 James H., Mrs. Mary Eedford, Christopher C, and David H., 
 all of whom reside in Henry county. . . . With unremitting 
 perseverance she exerted her energy for the well-being of her 
 family and friends. As a devoted mother, loving wife and kind 
 and affable friend and neighbor, she had few equals. None knew 
 her but to esteem her." 
 
 VIII. Emily Harvey Henderson, married April 13, 1843, Dr. 
 Joseph Shallcross, son of Dr. Joseph Shallcross, of Philadelphia. 
 Dr. Shallcross was connected with the Cadwallader family and 
 other prominent families of Philadelphia. Dr. Shallcross was 
 born in 1797, served in the war of 1812, and later graduated 
 from the Philadelphia Medical College. He came of a family 
 of physicians, his brother, father and both grandfathers being 
 members of that profession. Joseph and Emily Shallcross were 
 the parents of seven children : 1. Harriette, d. s. ; 2. Joseph, d. s. ; 
 3. Catharine, married Miron Hard, superintendent public 
 schools at Sidney, Ohio. They have three children, Ansel S., 
 Nora E., Minnie A.. 4. Annie C, married Capt. John L. New- 
 some. They have two children, Bizette and Joseph. 5. Morris 
 Cadwallader, married Mary Fowler, and has one child, Celestine. 
 6. Maria H., married Dr. Charles Davenport Kerr, wholesale 
 and retail druggist at Gallipolis, Ohio. No children. 7. John 
 Henderson, still single. 
 
24 Ancestey and Descendants of 
 
 Margaret Henderson Vawter. 
 
 Margaret, daughter of John and Anne Givens Henderson, was 
 bom February 12, 1771, in Greenbrier county, Va., and died 
 September 8, 1853, in Madison county, Ind. February 12, 1795, 
 she married William Vawter, Jr., born May 26, 1765, died 
 November 15, 1822. He was the son of William Vawter (born 
 May 6, 1735; died March 6, 1815) and Anne Ballard Vawter 
 (born October 23, 1733; died May 24, 1814). His father was 
 one of the large land-owners in the Greenbrier country, and came 
 from one of the oldest families in Essex county. Bishop Meade 
 mentions "Vawter Church" in that county, a venerable old brick 
 church built in 1731, and still in use in 1857. Concerning the 
 position of the family of William and "Peggy" Henderson Vaw- 
 ter in the first half of last century, I take this extract from a 
 letter written by a lady living in Monroe county before the war : 
 "The Vawters are not the wealthiest, but in point of honor the 
 first in the county." 
 
 William and Margaret Vawter were the parents of the follow- 
 ing children : 
 
 I. Elizabeth, bom January 28, 1798. 
 II. John Henderson, born Jan. 23, 1800 ; died June 8, 1877. 
 III. Anne, born March 18, 1802. 
 IV. Jean, or Jennie, born June 14, 1805, 
 
 V. Mary, or Polly, bom Sept. 8, 1808; died Nov. 23, 1887. 
 VI. Elliot, born March 9, 1812. 
 VII. James, born August 11, 1814. 
 
 I. Elizabeth Vawter, married February 22, 1821, Eobert 
 Young, a Monroe county farmer. I have not been able to get any 
 information about this family, but understand that there are 
 two sons living, William and George Young. 
 
 II. John Henderson Vawter was a civil engineer of consid- 
 erable ability, and located nearly all of the Middle Tennessee 
 Eailroad. For a long time he was County Surveyor of Monroe 
 county, and before the war he represented that county in the Vir- 
 ginia Assembly for nearly twenty years. From the summer of 
 1862 till the close of the war he was a Captain on the staff of Gen. 
 John Echols, C. S. A. He had four sons in the Confederate 
 army. They were Dr. Lewis A., Captain of Company C, Sharp- 
 shooters, Thirtieth Virginia. William, entered Company D, 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 25 
 
 Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall Brigade, in August, 1862; 
 wounded at battle of the Wilderness, and promoted to the Com- 
 missary Department, with rank of Captain. James E., entered 
 Twelfth Mississippi Regiment in 1861, elected Captain of Com- 
 pany I in May, 1862; shot five times at Frazier's Farm, and died 
 July 2, 1862. Charles E., entered Monroe Guards in May 1861, 
 then into the Twenty-seventh Regiment, Stonewall Brigade ; ap- 
 pointed Captain of a company of sharp-shooters in 1862; cap- 
 tured and imprisoned in Fort Delaware in March, 1865 ; released 
 in June, 1865. 
 
 John Henderson Vawter married, first, Adaline Dunlap, Jan- 
 uary 22, 1838; she died November 8, 1828, at the birth of her 
 first child, who also died a year later. June 17, 1833, he mar- ""^^'^ 
 ried, second, Clara S. Peck, of Giles county, and to them were^ , 
 born the following children : '' 
 
 1. John William, born September 30, 1834. 
 
 2. Elizabeth Mary, born January 2, 1836. 
 
 3. Margaret Anne, born July 1, 1836 ; d. s. 1885. 
 
 4. Lewis Addison, M. D., born Oct. 22, 1838; died Jan. 4,. 
 1900. 
 
 5. James Elliot, born March 1, 1840; d. s. 1862. 
 
 6. Charles E., born June 9, 1841. 
 
 7. Allen Henderson, born January 8, 1843 ; d. s. 
 
 8. Matilda Ellen, born March 16, 1844. 
 
 9. Sarah Josephine, born July 10, 1847. 
 
 10. Joseph Snyder, bom July 17, 1849; d. s. 1863. 
 
 11. Clara Virginia, born August 23, 1853. 
 
 12. Henry Alexander, born April 23, 1853. 
 
 13. George W., born April 5, 1855. 
 
 1. John William Vawter, married September 25, 1866, Eliza- 
 beth Dew Kean, of Virginia, and to them were born : John Alex- 
 ander, d. s. ; Nelson Carlyle, Ci\dl Engineer, married Sarah 
 Elizabeth Paxton ; Clara McDonald, d. s. ; William Alfred, Con- 
 ductor on Norfolk & Western Railroad, married Mabel Clare 
 Shorter; Charles Kean, Conductor on Mississippi Central Rail- 
 road ; Andrew Eliot, d. s. ; James Samuel, Telegrapher, married 
 Mary S. Pyle; Henry Alexander, Telegrapher. 
 
 4. Dr. Lewis A. Vawter, married April 24, 1862, Mary Adair, 
 of Red Sulphur Springs. She died, and January 16, 1867, he 
 married Emily M. Dameron, who bore him four children : Mary 
 
•26 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 Allen, d. s.; John William, Illustrator for James Whitcomb 
 Kiley and others ; Clara Peck, author of Of Such is the Kingdom 
 of Heaven, a child's book beautifully illustrated by her brother; 
 d. 6. Charles Elliot. 
 
 6. Charles Erastus Vawter, at the close of the war, returned 
 to Emory and Henry, from which he was graduated in 1866. He 
 then taught in Chattanooga till 1868, when he entered the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia for a special course in mathematics. In the 
 same year he was elected professor of Mathematics at his alma 
 mater, where he taught till he was made President of the famous 
 Miller Training School in Albemarle county, in 1878. He mar- 
 ried July 34, 1866, Virginia Longley, of Tennessee, and to them 
 were born : Mary Longley, married Harrison Robertson, of Dan- 
 ville ; Josephine, married Stonewall Tompkins, a member of the 
 Miller School faculty; Charles E., Jr., a graduate of the Uni- 
 versity of Virginia, and Professor of Mathematics a^d Physics 
 at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute; Leonora Leigh, James 
 Elliot, Virginia Longley, and Edmund Longley. 
 
 8. Matilda Ellen Vawter, married May 29, 1873, William 
 Farnier, a Craig county planter. They have two daughters: 
 Mamie and Clara, who married Rev. 0. W. Lusky. 
 
 9. Sarah Josephine Vawter, married, 1867, Frank Peck 
 
 Sweeny. They are both dead, leaving two daughters and three 
 sons. 
 
 II. Clara Virginia Vawter, married, 1870, Lewis Peck. 
 
 Both dead, leaving seven boys and two girls. 
 
 13. Henry Alexander Vawter, married February 4, 1885, Net- 
 tie Baber, of Alderson, W. Va. They have three children : James 
 Henry, George Elliot, Clara Elizabeth. 
 
 13. George W. Vawter, lives at the old Vawter home in Monroe 
 county that has been in the Vawter Family for four generations. 
 October 39, 1879, he married Eliza L. Gwinn, who bore him two 
 children, Joseph and Robert. 
 
 III. Anne Vawter, married July 19, 1831, Lorenza Dow Cook, 
 and moved to Indiana, where they have one son, William Vawter 
 Cook, a farmer living near Anderson, Madison county. 
 
 IV. Jane Vawter, married August 31, 1836, Andrew Shanklin, 
 and moved to Madison county, Ind., several years before the war. 
 They left one son, William Vawter Shanklin and other children. 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 37 
 
 V. Polly Vawter, married August 4, 1840, Moses D. Kerr, and 
 moved to Madison county, Ind., where they owned a large farm, 
 and where their descendants still live. They were the parents of : 
 
 1. Margaret Anne, born August 23, 1841 ; died Oct. 9, 18G5. 
 
 2. James Vawter, born June 19, 1843. 
 
 3. Elizabeth Jane, born March 22, 1845; died August 16, 1877. 
 
 4. William Elliot, born May 3, 1848; d. s. February 12, 1868. 
 
 5. Clara Isabell, born Oct. 30, 1850; died August 16, 1887. 
 
 1. Margaret A. Kerr, married March 16, 1865, Ira D. Coty. 
 No heirs. 
 
 2. James Vawter Kerr, married, first, November 26, 1874, 
 Sarah A. Baker. She died, and December 31, 1876, he married 
 Rosa B. Powell, who bore him four children : Vida Anne, Clara 
 Margaret, Merritt Vawter and Ramond Powell. 
 
 3. Elizabeth J. Kerr, married August 30, 1876, John G. Haas. 
 Left one son, Herbert Haas, who married Leah Guilkey. 
 
 5. Clara D. Kerr, married August 30, 1876, Milton Hars- 
 berger. Left one son, Ramond Harsberger. 
 
 VI. Elliot Vawter was educated at Atherns, Ohio, and was a 
 pioneer merchant having stores in several of the back counties. 
 He was also a surveyor, and did a great deal of that work in 
 Mercer, Raleigh, Wyoming and McDowell counties. In 1872 he 
 was elected to the West Virginia Senate. Before the war he was 
 a Colonel of Militia, and in the war was in the Confederate Quar- 
 termaster Service. November 20, 1839, he married Julia Pack, 
 and to them were born : 
 
 1. Mary Jane. 
 
 2. Rebecca Anne. 
 
 3. Margaret Elizabeth. 
 
 4. Julia Ellen. 
 
 5. Cynthia Pack. 
 
 6. John Elliot. 
 
 7. William Robert. 
 
 8. Martha Jenny McLean. 
 
 2. Rebecca A, Vawter, married March, 1867, Rev. J. R. Van 
 Home. Five children: Maud, married a lawyer at Woodstock; 
 Rhesel, Guy, Taylor and Sadie. 
 
 . 4. Julia Ellen Vawter, married October 31, 1867, J. M. John- 
 son, a large farmer of Monroe county and breeder of thorough- 
 
28 Lieut. John Henderson. 
 
 bred Galloway cattle. For four years he was Sheriff of his 
 comity. They have six children: Ashby W., Cashier of the 
 Greenbrier Valley Bank, married Miss Pence; Elliot B., married 
 Miss Morton; Eugenia R., married James E. Morton, Cashier 
 of the Graham Bank, and a descendant of the fine old families 
 of Morton, Micheau, and Eochette, of Tazewell county; Julia S., 
 Stella and Emily. 
 
 6. John Elliot Vawter, married October, 1881, Miss Rudisil, 
 of Virginia. They have six children: Elliot, John, Eugene, 
 Charles, Emily and Julia. 
 
 7. William E. Vawter, married March, 1894, Miss Miller, of 
 Eichmond. No children. 
 
 VII. James Vawter, merchant, married February 6, 1845, 
 Jane Peck, who died at birth of first child, a daughter who died 
 in 1864. In 1848 he married Eliza Lybreck, of Giles county, by 
 whom he had two daughters. After the war they moved to Illi- 
 nois, where one girl died and the other one married. 
 
WILLS AND INVENTORIES. 
 
 Will of James Henderson {born 1708; died 1784). 
 
 In the Name of God Amen, 
 
 I, James Henderson of the Parish of County of Augusta, 
 Being but in a low State of health at present but of perfect mind 
 and memory thanks to Almighty God who gave it and calling to 
 mind the uncertainty of life and the certainty of death it being 
 apointed for all men once to die and after death the judgment, 
 I do hereby make this to be my last Will and Testament in man- 
 ner and form as follows and first I recommend my soul to God 
 who gave it and my body to the Earth from whence it was taken 
 •to be buried in a christian and decent manner at the direction 
 of my Executor hereafter named not doubting but I shall re- 
 ceive the same again at the Eesurrection and as for what worldly 
 goods it hath pleased God to bless me with it is my will and 
 desire that they be disposed of as follows and first it is my will & 
 desier that all my just debts and funeral charges be duly paid 
 within convenient time after my decease by my Executors and 
 the remainder of my Estate to be disposed of as follows. And 
 First. I bequeath to my beloved wife Martha the one third of 
 my whole estate and for her to dispose of as she may think proper 
 after my lawful (debts) is duly paid and it is my desire that the 
 negro wench Elsey shall be my wife's during her life likewise it 
 is my desire son William and David Henderson receive each of 
 them to the value of fifteen pounds of my Estate each one fifteen 
 pounds apiece and my negro boy named London to be divided 
 between as they can agree between themselves and likewise it is 
 my desier that my daughter Sarah Stuart have a horse worth ten 
 pounds and two cows or the value of them and likewise I be- 
 queath unto m}'- other two sons James and Joseph Henderson the 
 remainder of my Estate to be equally divided between them pro- 
 vided that James divide his interests of land rites Caintucky with 
 his brother Joseph and if not then my son James is to receive 
 but the fourth part and if my wife Martha should be incapable 
 
30 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 of her part at her descease then I allow her share to be equally 
 divided among the whole of my children and I desire that James 
 and Joseph pay out of their part the sum of Twenty Shillings 
 to James Dickey and Twenty Shillings unto John Dickey and 
 my leave to young James Dickey further it is my desier that the 
 tract of land Containing One hundred Acres of land surveyed to 
 my son Archibald Henderson now deceased be sold as soon as 
 possable and the money to be put to interest untill such time as 
 My son Archibald daughter named Elener Henderson comes to 
 age only this I allow Elizabeth Henderson her mother my sons 
 widow to receive twenty pounds of the price of said lands when 
 received and I do hereby nominate constitute and appoint Wil- 
 liam Dunlap and my wife Martha to be joynt Executors of this 
 my last Will and Testament and I do hereby revoke and make 
 void all other and former Wills by me any time heretofore made 
 and do ratifi and confirm this only to bee my last Will and Testa- 
 ment in Witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand and seal 
 this Seventh day of February 1784 signed sealed published and 
 
 declared by the Testator in the presence of 
 
 James Young. James Henderson. (Seal). 
 
 William Alexander. 
 Michael Dickey, 
 
 At a Court Continued and held for Augusta County, May 19th. 
 1784. 
 
 This Last Will and Testament of James Henderson deceased 
 was proved by the oaths of James Young William Alexander and 
 Michael Dickey the witnesses thereto and ordered to be recorded. 
 And on the motion of Martha Henderson one of the Executors 
 therein named, Certificate is hereby granted her for obtaining a 
 probate in due form she having complied with the Law. 
 
 Notes on the Above Will. — There is no Inventory of the 
 personal estate of James Henderson on record in Augusta county, 
 but from the property disposed of by the will he must have been 
 possessed of considerable property. He owned at least two 
 negroes ; the boy London was later sold by David Henderson to 
 his nephew, Col. John Henderson, of Greenbrier county. Michael 
 Dickey was probably a son-in-law of James Henderson, husband 
 of either his daughter Margaret or Jean; and the James and 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 31 
 
 John Dickey, therefore, grandsons of his, and "young James 
 Dickey" a great-grandson and namesake. 
 
 Will of John Henderson (born 1739; died 1787). 
 
 (son of JAMES.) 
 
 In the name of God, Amen, the eighth day of February in the 
 year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty one, I 
 John Henderson of the County of Greenbrier & STATE of Vir- 
 ginia, Being in perfect health, mind and memory Thanks be 
 given unto God therefore : and Calling to mind the mortality of 
 my Body and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to 
 Die, do make and ordain this my last Will and Testament : That 
 is to say principally and first of all, I give and recommend my 
 Soul unto the hands of God that gave it as for my body I recom- 
 mend it to the earth to be buried in a Christian like and decent 
 manner at the Direction of my executors. Nothing doubting that 
 ■at the general resurrection I shall receive the same again by the 
 mighty power of God : and as touching my worldly Estate, as it 
 hath pleased God to bless me with in this world, I give and Be- 
 queath in the following manner and form. I Bequeath 
 
 unto Ann my Dearly beloved Wife, one Negro "Woman named 
 Hannah during the state of her widowhood, and afterwards to 
 Descend to my children and one large Grey mare I had Late of 
 Capt. Wright (exclusive of her offspring) together with her bed 
 and furniture I give to her without exception to be hers forever 
 and the plantation I now live upon with all the working tools and 
 two horses to work the same, to be for her support during her 
 widowhood to enable her to raise & school my children, and all 
 my Stock and personal Estate I now possess, I allow to be con- 
 tinued (as above during her Widowhood for the purposes above 
 mentioned, and that if by increase they should become more than 
 necessary, I allow them to be disposed of at the discretion of my 
 Executors for the purposes afforesaid — and my covering Horse 
 .for that purpose untill this Ensuing Season Expires and after 
 that to be sold at the discretion of my Executors, as above men- 
 tioned and all my Estate in Land I bequeathe to my Four sons. 
 Viz: Samuel, John, James, and William, to be equally devided 
 to each, his proportion: to them and their Heirs forever and 
 when any of my children comes to maturity, I allow their part to 
 be given them by my Executors. And I do hereby revoke and 
 
33 Ancestry and Descendants op 
 
 disannul all former Wills and Testaments by me in any wise be- 
 fore this named. Eatifying and confirming this, and no other, 
 to be my Last Will and Testament, In Witness whereof I have 
 hereunto set my hand and seal the day and year first above writ- 
 ten. 
 
 John Henderson. (Seal.) 
 Sign.d seal.d and deliver.d 
 
 by the said John Henderson to be his last will and Testament in 
 the presence of us 
 
 Thos. Wright, 
 
 John Hutcheson, 
 
 Wm. Hutcheson. 
 
 N. B. I continue and appoint Wm. Hutchison and Colo. James 
 Henderson to be my Executors of this my Last Will and Testa- 
 ment. 
 
 Witness my hand. John Henderson. 
 
 At a Court holden for Greenbrier County the 26th. June 1787. 
 This Instrument of Writing was presented in Court as & for the 
 Last Will & Testament of Jno Henderson Dec'd & proved by the 
 oath of Jno Hutchison one of the Witnesses thereto & the Execu- 
 tors therein named refusing to take upon them the Execution 
 thereof on the motion of John Hutchison & Samuel Henderson, 
 Administration of said Estate is granted them with the Will an- 
 nexed. 
 
 Teste John Stuart. 
 
 Greenbrier June Court 1787. 
 
 This Will was proved by the oath of John Hutchison & or- 
 dered to rec'd. 
 
 John Stuart Clk. 
 
 John Henderson died March 24, 1787, and his eiiate consisted 
 of near two thousand acres of land in the New Eiver and Ka- 
 nawha Valleys, with the following personal property, which in- 
 cludes four negro servants : 
 
 A list of the Apraisement of Slaves and personal Estate of John 
 Henderson Dec'd. 
 
 £ 
 
 One Negro woman @ 70 
 
 One Negro boy six years old @ 45 
 
 One do. three years old @ 38 
 
 One do. girl child @ 12 
 
 8 
 
 d 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 10 
 
 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 33 
 
 X a d 
 
 One Stone Horse three years old @ 40 
 
 One Bay Mare three years old @ 25 
 
 One Dappled Gray Mare four years old @ 22 
 
 One light gray Mare five years old @ 20 
 
 One blue gray Mare five years old @ 18 
 
 One Gray Mare ten years old @ 15 
 
 One bay Horse six years old (5) 15 
 
 One do. five years old @ 12 
 
 One black Mare ten years old @ 11 
 
 One sorrel Mare three years old @ 12 
 
 One Black mare four years old @ 3 
 
 One bald faced mare brown eight years old @ . . . . 6 
 
 One chestnut Sorrel horse three years old @ 10 
 
 One old Brown Mare @ 5 
 
 One year old Horse Colt dark greay @ 15 
 
 One year old dark gray mare Colt @ 10 
 
 One year old Strawberry gray horse colt @ 6 
 
 One year old mare colt black @ 5 10 
 
 One Eed brindled Cow @ 3 10 
 
 One red Cow and Calf @ 3 
 
 One red Cow @ 2 15 
 
 One py Cow @ 2 10 
 
 One white do. @ 2 15 
 
 One brown do. and a calf @ 3 
 
 One py do. @ 2 15 o 
 
 One brindled pyd heifer @ 2 5 
 
 Three heifers @ 1.10 each 4 10 
 
 One year old Bull @ 1 5 
 
 Two yeares old 1 heifer 1 Steer at 20/ each 2 
 
 Ten sheep @ 3/ each 4 
 
 Five breeding sows @ 20/ each 5 
 
 Fifteen Small Hoggs @ 6/ each 3 
 
 Three hoggs 3 years old @ 20/ each 3 
 
 One Sow and five shoats @ 1 10 
 
 One bar share plow and tacklen @ 1 5 Q 
 
 One Shovell plow and Clivishs @ 10 
 
 One Do. and clivish @ 8 
 
 One Trone 4/6 ; 1 drawing knife 2/ : 1 iron wedge 
 
 1/6 8 
 
.34 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 £ 8 d 
 
 3 Augers 2/6 each; 1 Chisel and gough 1/3 each . . 10 
 
 2 Do. @ 1/ each; 1 pitching ax @ 10/ 12 
 
 1 flat Iron 2/; 1 Mattock 7/6 9 6 
 
 1 hand saw 6/; 1 pitching ax 5/ 11 
 
 3 pitching axes @ 7/6 each 15 
 
 1 Set of Maul rings 5/; 1 spring lock 8/ 13 
 
 1 lamp & snuffers 2/; 1 coze nogen & flems ( ?) . . 3 
 
 1 Set tug traces 6/ 6 
 
 Ilronkettle48/;lpot30/; 1 do. 7/6 4 5 6 
 
 1 Iron kettle lid and hooks 4/2 ; pair pot hooks and 
 
 rack 12/ 16 
 
 1 frying pan 7/6 ; 1 Curry Comb 2/6 10 
 
 3 sickles 6d each ; 1 pair nippers 1/6 3 
 
 1 Sword and belt @ 3 
 
 7 pewter plate 1/3 each; 3 do. 1/6 each 13 
 
 1 pewter dish 7/6 ; 3 do. @ 3/ each 16 6 
 
 1 pewter basson 10/; 1 small do. 5/ 15 
 
 4 small do. 2/6 each; 1 soup spoon 2/6 12 
 
 19 pewter Spoons 3/; 6 tea do. 2/6 5 6 
 
 7 tins 2/ ; 4 knives & forks 3/ ; 1 tin tumbler 2/ . . . 7 
 
 1 Do. Coffee Pot 2/6 2 6 
 
 1 funnel and pepper box 1 6 
 
 6 stone plates 7/6; 4 delph do. 4/; 2 do. bowls 1/6 14 6 
 1 Delph pitcher 2/; 1 do. teapot 1/3; 1 do. bowl 1/043 
 
 6 tea cups and saucers 5/ ; 3 do. and Cream jugg 2/6 7 6 
 
 1 Glas tumbler 2/6 ; 1 gilted tumbler 6/ 8 6 
 
 1 Rifle gun @ 1 16 
 
 1 Case bottle, 1 wine do. 1/6 each 3 
 
 A Number of old Books, 18 
 
 1 Rule 2/6 Compases 1/6 4 
 
 1 powder horn and shot bagg 6 
 
 Wooden Vessels, 16 
 
 6 Chairs 1/ each 6 
 
 3 Spinning wheels 15 
 
 1 Chacle Reel 5 
 
 1 Loom and Quil wheel 1 13 
 
 2 Bedstead and cords 7/6 each 
 
 1 do. & cord 4/; 1 cord 2/ 1 1 
 
 1 Womans Saddle 1 10 
 
 4 baggs 5/ each ; 1 grind stone 3/ 1 3 
 
LiKL'T. .loll.V TfKVDEUBOX. 35 
 
 £ n rl 
 
 20 lb wool 2/ per lb; 15 lb of backl.-d (lax 1/ i>r Ih. 2 1.') 
 
 1 Kcather bed and furnitiirt' KIT 
 
 I Do. and do 11 H 1) 
 
 1 Do. and do 7 U 
 
 1 Do. and do 7 10 
 
 1 Do. and do 7 10 
 
 45 bushels of coru @ 2/ pr bushel ^ 10 
 
 £536 19 03 
 
 Appraised by us this Hth. July 1787 being first duly Qualified. 
 Hugh Caperton 
 Henry McDaniel 
 Nichles Henry 
 John Thonipason. 
 
 Presented at a Court lield 31st. July 1787. 
 
 Henderson Relics. 
 
 ^Irs. Kate Hannan Long owns a little old chest that came 
 from Scotland, a quaint old teapot that belonged to Margaret 
 Bruce Henderson more than two centuries ago, as also a piece 
 of a brocade dress that she wore, an old snuff box, an invitation 
 to the governor's ball at Richmond a century ago, an old parch- 
 ment land grant from Governor Randolph, and several hundred 
 letters and papers of her grandfather. Col. John Henderson, 
 written between 179U and 1830. 
 
 Mrs. Ella Henderson has a portrait of Andrew Henderson a 
 dropleaf table, some chairs, a parchment land grant, and several 
 other family papers. 
 
 Mrs. Nannie Miller Vaught owns a massive black walnut side- 
 board, a very fine library table, a great roomy sofa, an old settee, 
 and a gold broach that belonged to Sallie Henderson Miller. 
 
 Mrs. Hunter Ben Jenkins has Sallie Henderson's silver and 
 some pieces of jewelry. There are twelve teaspoons, twelve table- 
 spoons, and a massive silver ladle. 
 
 The writer of these sketches has the following relics of his 
 Henderson ancestors: An original silhouette miniature of Lieut. 
 John Henderson, made in 1784 ; original miniatures of Col. John 
 Henderson and Elizabeth Stodghill Henderson, made in 1799 ; 
 the old book mentioned before, printed in 1707; Vol. I. of 
 
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36 Ancestry and Descendants of 
 
 Proud's History of Pennsylvania, 1797 ; British Album of Verse, 
 1793; Map of Virginia printed in 1787; The American Primer, 
 first edition, printed at iSTorfolk, in 1803, and used by Sallie 
 Henderson when six years old; parchment land grant in 1800, 
 being a regrant of 400 acres granted in 1786; several old letters, 
 papers, etc. 
 
 A partial list of colleges attended by the descendants of — 
 
 Samuel Henderson. 
 
 Greenville Boys' School, Virginia; Point Pleasant High 
 School, Private Schools, etc. 
 
 Col. John Henderson. 
 
 Virginia Schools: Washington and Lee University, Wash- 
 ington Female Seminary, Hollins Institute, Greenville 
 Boys' School, Mrs. Stuart's School, University College 
 of Medicine. 
 
 West Virginia Schools: University of West Virginia, Mar- 
 shall College, Maurice Harvey College, Lewisburg Fe- 
 male Institute, Parkersburg and Point Pleasant High 
 Schools, etc. 
 
 Kerttucky: Millersbui'g Female Institute. 
 
 Tennessee: Vanderbilt University, and the University of 
 Nashville. / 
 
 Ohio: Conservatory of Music, Gallipolis High School, etc. 
 
 JIargaret Henderson Vawter. 
 
 Vii-ginia: University of Virginia, Emory and Henry, Miller 
 Training School, Randolph-Macon Woman's College, 
 Wesleyan Female Institute, Valley Female Seminary, etc., 
 and various Western High Schools and Colleges. 
 
 ADDENDUM. 
 
 Since the MS. of this sketch v^^as sent to the printer, it has 
 been learned that Audley Harrison Hamilton, Gent., father-in- 
 law of James Henderson, never came to America. He is sup- 
 posed to have been a brother of Archibald Hamilton, who settled 
 in Augusta county, and whose son, Audly, is mentioned by 
 Hening in 1758. And it was for him that James Henderson 
 named his son Archibald — an unusual name among the Hen- 
 
Lieut. John Henderson. 87 
 
 dersons. Concerning the Augusta Hamiitons, Waddell's Annals 
 says: "Major Andrew Hamilton was born in Augusta county in 
 1741. His parents were Archibald and Frances Calhoun Ham- 
 ilton, who came to this country from Ireland. Archibald is said 
 to have been a descendant of James Hamilton, Earl of Arran, 
 who was regent of Scotland during the infancy of Mary Stuart. 
 The date of Archibald Hamilton's settlement in Augusta is 
 not known. He was probably one of the first to come, and, like 
 other early settlers, located on the public domain, without legal 
 title to his homestead. In 174:7, however, he received from 
 William Beverly, the patentee, a deed for three hundred and 
 two acres of land on Christian's creek, in Beverley Manor, for 
 the nominal sum of five shillings. He also acquired lands by 
 patent from the government. He survived until about the year 
 1794. His children were five sons — Audly, John, Andrew (born 
 in Augusta in 1741), William and Archibald— and a daughter 
 named Lettice." This sketch says that one of these sons "went 
 to Kentucky, and was the founder of a wealthy and distin- 
 guished family"; and that Andrew removed to South Carolina ( 
 in 1765, where he was a neighbor and friend of General Pickens; ' 
 that he served in the Eevolution as a major under General j 
 Pickens; and after the war was a long time member of the 
 South Carolina Legislature; that among his descendants are 
 the well-known families of "Simonds and Eavenels of Charles- 
 ton, Parkers and Waites of Columbia, Calhouns of South Caro- 
 lina and Georgia, and Alstons and Cabells of Virginia." 
 According to an old work on British crests, there are over forty 
 different crests borne by more than that many families of Hamii- 
 tons in Scotland; that there are eighteen by Bruce, and four 
 by Audley, in Scotland. As will be seen by the record given in 
 the beginning, JIargaret Bruce and Audley Hamilton were of 
 gentle hlood, so must have belonged to some one of these families 
 of Bruce and Hamilton; but it is impossible to say which ones 
 without further records. There are no Harrisons in Scotland, 
 but a family of English descent in Ireland by that name, so 
 that the name Harrison probably came into the family through 
 an intermarriage with it. The given name Audley will likely 
 be the surest means of identification should the family research 
 ever be carried back to Ireland and Scotland. 
 
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