Born about 1760 in Pennsylvania [uncertain]

Descendants

Died after 18 Mar 1817 after about age 57 in White, Tennessee, United States

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Biography

George Henry was born around 1760. About the time George Henry was 20 years old he moved to what was Greene County in the State of North Carolina but which today is East Tennessee in the vicinity of present day Cocke County just south of present day Greene County.

In 1783 George Henry was involved in a battle with the Cherokee Indians at the Cherokee Town of Cowee in historic Haywood County, North Carolina, which is now the present day Cowee Mound located by the Little Tennessee River, Lieutenant Vinet Fine, was killed. George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry, named one of their children after Vinet Fine. (In 2007 ownership of the Cowee Mound and the area of the historic Cherokee Town of Cowee was returned to the Eastern Band of the Cherokee Indians. This was reported in the Macon County News on April 26, 2007. The staff writer was Jessica Richardson.)

Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine who was born in 1760 in North Carolina. After getting married George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry set up residence in Greene County, which is now Cocke County in the present day State of Tennessee where they had two children: 1) John Henry born in 1788 and 2) Joseph Henry born in 1790. Sometime between 1790 and 1793 the family of George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry moved to Roane County , which established from lands taken from Knox County in 1801. Today the historic city of Southwest Point is the present day City of Kingston in the present day County of Roane in the State of Tennessee.

George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry had three more children: 1) Vinet Henry born on March 10, 1793, named after Annie's brother, Lieutenant Vinet Fine, who was killed by the Cherokee Indians during the aftermath of the battle at Cowee, 2) Thomas Henry born in 1795, and 3) George Washington Henry born in 1798. From Southwest Point George Henry, his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry, and their five children migrated to near the headwaters of the Calf Killer River .When George Henry, his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry, and their five children first moved to the Calf Killer area it was a wilderness that was sparsely populated. This area originally was known as Standing Stone, but later became known as the Town of Monterey.

George Henry died on March 4, 1817 in White County in the State of Tennessee. George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine are reported to be buried in the Henry Cemetery in the Calfkiller River Community in Putnam County in the State of Tennessee. The exact location of the burial sites of George Henry and his wife Cynthia Anne "Annie" Fine Henry are in question.

1820 Census, White County, Tennessee:

Henry, George Henry, John Henry, Joseph Henry, Vinet

Research Notes

Taken from post on Find a Grave:
George Henry (c.1760 – 4 March 1817) was not the son of William Henry (19 May 1729 -15 December 1786) and Anne Wood (24 January 1734 – 8 March 1799) of Lancaster, PA.

Documentary and DNA evidence disproves the theory that George was their son. The burial entry for Anne (Wood) Henry in the Lancaster Moravian Church record states she had 13 children, of whom six died in infancy.

It identifies six children surviving at the time of her death as: (1) William Henry, b. 12 March 1757, (2) John Joseph, b. 4 November 1758, (3) Abraham, b. 14 March 1768, (4) James, b. 13 March 1771, (5) Matthaeus (Matthew), b. 6 June 1773, and (6) Benjamin, b. 18 January 1777. The seventh child who survived infancy, Elizabeth, b. 27 March 1765, died 1 June 1798, after her father’s death and before her mother’s.

Records indicate George Henry, b. c.1760, the third child and third son of William and Anne Henry, died as an infant. The Henry Surname DNA Project, a Y-chromosome based effort, includes direct male descendants of both George Henry and William Henry. Y-chromosome DNA test results indicate George Henry and his descendants are haplogroup J2a4b, and that William Henry and his descendants are haplogroup R1b1a2. This definitively establishes the fact that the two lines are not related within genealogical time.

Sources

• United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783", https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG2M-B5BL

• Record of Commissions of Officers in the Tennessee Militia

Note: Greene Co., TN 1780's & Cooke Co., TN Militia 1798. George served in the Cocke Co Militia. Also listed in TN militia was Major Peter Fine and his son, Lt. Lidgard Fine.

• Will: 18 MAR 1817 White County, Tennessee Book A, proved Apr., 1817 by Thomas Horne & Lewis Bohannon. Reference Number: 301

• WikiTree profile Henry-1222 created through the import of nash.ged on Nov 7, 2011 by Kim Baltz. See the Changes page for the details of edits by Kim and others.

Will: 18 MAR 1817 White County, Tennessee Book A, proved Apr., 1817 by Thomas Horne & Lewis Bohannon. Reference Number: 301, Will book pg 45

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/28504662/george-henry