William Henderson Jr (1618 - bef. 1704)

Born 1618 in Leuchars, Fife, Scotland

Husband of Florence Evans — married 21 Mar 1656 in Clackmannanshire, Scotland

Descendants

Died before 1704 before age 86 in King and Queen County, Virginia

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Biography

Name

Name: William /Henderson/ Jr^[1][2][3]

Event

Event:

Type: Arrival

Date: BET 1657 AND 1661

Place: Mattaponi River in present King and Queen County, Virginia.^[4][5]

Baptism

Baptism:

Date: 09 SEP 1622

Place: Alloa, Ayrshire, Scotland^[6]

Marriage

Husband: @I3212@

Wife: Elizabeth (Henderson) Duthill

Child: William Henderson

Relationship to Father: Natural

Relationship to Mother: Natural

Marriage:

Date: NOV 1620

Place: Alloa, Ayrshire, Scotland^[7][8]

• Research Notes: William immigrated between 1660-1666.(Source: "Tennessee Cousins", by worth S. Ray, p. 418). He was a member of the company Forster & Henderson, sometimes called Henderson & Co. (IBID, p. 419). They lived in the area by the Rappahannock and Mattaponi Rivers. Their neighbors were FORSTERS and MASSEYS. (Source: IBID, p. 425).

The HENDERSON and FORSTER lands ran parallel to MASSEYS, but probably in the present King & Queen Co., which was then New Kent. So when King & Queen Co. was cut off from New Kent in 1691, some 26 years or more after William's family had settled there, they then lived in the new county of King & Queen.

At the time of his death, Williams's family was probably living near the old William's Ferry on the Pamunky River, pretty close to the Pamunky Indian Reservation. He died sometime before 1704, because at that time, "Widow Henderson " and her two sons appear as owners of their land in King & Queen County. (Source: IBID, pp 419 -. 427).

Posted 20 Mar 2010 by gresham970 Note: more on William Henderson: William Henderson considered the Immigrant of this line. Arrived in York County Virginia. and settled in New Kent County Virginia. about 1660. New Kent then became King and Queen County Virginia. where this William Henderson resided on the North side of the Pamunkey River which later became King William County Virginia in 1702.

• Mr. Ray in Tennessee Cousins states that he believes the wife of this William was named Florence. William was already a resident of New Kent County Virginia. when Ralph Massie settled beside him in Sept. 1665. When Hanover County was cut from New Ken tCounty,Virginia in 1691, the Hendersons then resided in that county. This William Henderson was of the firm of Henderson and Forster [Nugent p.530]. The records show that the Hendersons were long lived, and was evidently elderly in 1666. He probably died in King and Queen County about 1704 not far from "Williams Ferry" run by members of the family on the Pamunky River, near the Indian reservation of that name. The only Hendersons to remain in this area were the descendants of Thomas Henderson, who appears to have been the "carpenter," before making up his mind to become a lawyer, according to Wheeler's History of North Carolina

.Research notes of James Henderson of 727 Westover Ave., Norfolk,Virginia.23507-1622 from 1991: "William Claiborne, who first settled in Maryland but got run out, and resettled in what is now New Kent County --which he named. He and a fellow named John West were the folks who initially broke the hold on the Pamunkey Neck land, with large tracts where the Mattaponi and Pamunkey rivers meet to form the York River. That helped to stir the last Indian uprising in the east part of Virginia in 1644, which Claiborne got to put down. His son, also William was the one who settled Michael Waldrop in Virginia in 1682. And one of his neighbors on the Mattaponi for about 30 years was one William Henderson [whose connections I have not yet made]... Lord Baltimore got a grant for the whole state including New Kent Island across the Chesapeake Bay from Annapolis in Maryland] and ran William Claiborne [Sr.] off... and the Hendersons may have gone with him to Virginia when he had to scoot."

Sources: Media: Letter/e-mail Abbrev: E-mail, March 21, 2006 Title: Changes Author: Richard Henderson Publication: Date: 21 Mar 2006

Posted 24 jul 2019 by gresham970 A number of family trees on Ancestry show William Andrew Henderson to be the son of James Henderson (1630-1675) and the grandson of Sir John Henderson, 5th of Fordell (c. 1650). However, according to The Peerage, James Henderson and his wife Margaret Scott had only one child, John Henderson of Inverkeithing (d. 1746).

See: http://www.thepeerage.com/p43749.htm#i437486

Henderson Chronicles do not show a William Andrew Henderson as a member of this family either.

See: https://archive.org/stream/hendersonchronic00mccu/hendersonchronic00mccu_djvu.txt

It is possible that William Andrew Henderson was from Fife, as that was certainly Henderson territory, but the identity of his parents remains unclear.

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S337 Page: Place: Virginia; Year: 1607-1743; Page Number: 69
2. ↑ Source: #S89
3. ↑ Source: #S8 Page: Ancestry Family Tree
4. ↑ Source: #S337 Page: Place: Virginia; Year: 1607-1743; Page Number: 69
5. ↑ "An Canach" Clan Henderson Society of the United States and Canada, August, 1990, p.6, "The True Thomas Henderson" by Horace Loftin URL: http://laurahenderson.com/genealogy/henderson/dna/fordell/LOFTIN-TrueTom.pdf on 24 November 2019.
6. ↑ Source: #S89
7. ↑ Source: #S89
8. ↑ Source: #S89

• Source: S337 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2010; Repository: #R1
• Repository: R1 Name: Ancestry.com Address: E-Mail Address: Phone Number:
• Source: S8 Title: Ancestry Family Trees Publication: Name: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.; Repository: #R1
• Source: S89 Author: Heritage Consulting Title: Millennium File Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc; Location: Provo, UT, USA; Date: 2003; Repository: #R1
• Information obtained from: Ancestry Family Trees (Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.), Ancestry.com, Database online. Record for William Henderson.