EIGHTH GENERATION

224. Patrick HENLEY was born before 1642 in England (or Ireland).⁽²³⁾ He died on 28 Feb 1697/98 in Friends Burying Ground, Philadelphia, PA.^{(20) (84) (85)(23)}
[1702788MiriamHenley.ged] - Taken from Ancestry.com -- Gary Williams' Database

North Carolina Hist. Society, The Quarterly, June 1968, says Patrick came to America 1642 and settled in Philadelphia. His tombstone bears the date of his death, 2-28-1698. For more, read on ...
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Just to demonstrate that research isn't necesssarily correct just because someone has collected a large mass of data:
Cranford Collection, Forsyth Co. Public Library, Winston-Salem, NC, says Patrick came from England 1682 to Pennsylvania with wife, Sarah
According to Goodwell, his first wife was Mary Scott, who gave birth to a daughter in 1686 (see below). Cranford also says Patrick and Sarah came to Philadelphia with William Penn Oct 20, 1682, on the Welcome. The Welcome Society does not list him. Says Patrick's brother, Robert Henley, was Lord Chancellor of England in 1682. This too seems to be lacking proof.
A Peter Henley came from London by authority of British Government and was made Chief Justice of North Carolina. He died April 25, 1738 and was buried Edenton, NC.
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From Asheboro, NC, Public Library, a letter written March 27, 1974 to Barbara Grigg (another researcher), then from "Our Henley Grandfathers," both by Marian Henley Goodwel (Mrs. Kenneth A. Goodwelll, 206 Henley Road South, Richmond, Indiana 47374, Oct 1988.

Goodwell writes in her letter to Grigg: "Most of the established dates are from Quaker Records. A 'headright claim' made by Patrick in 1693/94 names his deceased wife as Mary, and lists but one daughter, Mary. Therefore Elizabeth and John were probably children of Sarah, to whom Patrick was married by 1693/94. Anne's birthdate is from a Quaker Record and all the children are associated with Sarah, widow of Patrick, in later records. The earliest record which could refer to Patrick is found in Hathaway -- the death of a 'Mr. Henley,' 9.4.1691. This could logically refer to his first wife and be a mistake in copying or recording. 'North Carolina Higher Court REcord' shows a debt Patrick owed 'to your wife's funeral, to the trouble of you and our wife's sickness, to paling your wife's grave.' The debt was to Francis Heartly whose will was probated 5.2.1692, so the debt had to be incurred before thant while he was still living.

"The two volumes of North Carolina High Court Records give us a wealth of references to Patrick. On 7.10.1692 he was sued by Henry Jenkins, and in 1693 by Joseph Hallett. He served as a juror 3 times in 1693, 3 times in 1694, 3 times in 1695, and once in 1696. Beginning 2.6.1694 Sarah is mentioned as his wife, and many times thereafter, usually in connection with suits brought against them concerning her former husband, John Culpepper. In 1694 Patrick petitioned for ownership of the plantation on which he lived. In 1695 he was appointed auditor of the estate of Adam Gamball, mariner. Other suits in 1693 and also in 1697-98 would seem to indicate his knowledge of ships and sailing. One document mentions him as Master of the 'Jane & Sarah,' a vessel sailing from North Carolina in 1698. On 7.24.1696 Patrick gave Daniel Akehurst, a prominent resident, his power of attorney, and appears then to have removed with his family 'from this Government' to Philadelphia.

"Patrick's will was made the same day in July, 1696, in Albemarle, N.C., leaving his estateto his wife unless she 'die before her return from this voyage,' then naming his children including 'to child wife now goes with'. Since Anne was not born until 1698, Sarah probably lost the baby mentioned in the will. Or if Anne's birth date is New Style, 1.1.1698 could have been Old Style 1697 and be this child carried in July, 1696.

"A Philadelphia record shows Patrick paid rent (tax) there in 1697 or 1698. Also in Philadelphia his wife, Sarah, settled three debts after his deather, for 100 Pds., 12 Pds. adn 85 Pds. A Quaker record in Philadelphia establishes Patrick's death - a record of his burial copied into 'an account of the Burialls of such as are not friends witin this Town of Philadelphia - the record of friends being distrinctly taken in another place of this Book.' Date 2.28.1698.

"Patrick's will was administered by Sarah in Philadelphia 5.20.1698. Since she was living, his property would have all gone to her, including his 'estate eiher in Europe or America.' There also exists in Philadelphia a partial inventory of his possessions taken after his death, dated 4.20.1698 ...

"A 1698 or 1699 land survey petition in North Carolina indicates Patrick's heirs did own land in North Carolina. If Sarah made a trip to England concerning property there, no record it it has been found.

"Two 1694 court records in N.C. indentify him 'Patrick Henley of Precinct of Pasquotank.' In 1696 the power of attorney action is from 'Patrick Henley of Roanoke.' (Roanoke was a contemporary name for Edenton in Chowan County.)

"From the above facts we might assume that Patrick Henley was a man of some resources - an estate in Europe as well as America, land owned in Pasquotank and Chowan Counties, debts incurred, and debts paid, Master of a sailing vessel. Most of our information about him is after he was married to Sarah and there is always the possibility that the money and property were hers. John Culpepper was the son of an established family and no doubt left his wife some property. We also know Patrick was not a Friend at his death, though his wife, Sarah, was from a Quaker family, and all his children were Friends later. He sailed at least one ship and other records show further knowledge of and traffic with mariners and shipping. He was living in North Carolina in the Albemarle region by 1692, removed to Philadelphia in 1696 and died there in 1698.

"The Albemarle region of North Carolina was sparsely settled at that time. There were no villages or settlements - just 'landings,' swamps and some cleared 'plantations'. Transportation would have been principally by boat so knowledge of the sea and ships would have been normal. It was a barter society with tobacco the most valuable currency, and corn and potatoes also being important crops. One debt Patrick was to pay in 'wheat at the next ensueing crop'. Marriages were early and remarriages quick, for it was unsafe for single women. It is likely that to serve as juror in the Court, as Patrick did, one had to be a freeholder - own a certain amount of land. Although the Court records of him are over just a few years, that is perhaps because none, or very few, have survived from earlier years. Since dates are before 1752 when 'Old Style' changed to 'New Style', slight discrepancies may be due to this ..."

Untrue "Family traditions" mentioned in Goodwell's letter:
That Patrick sailed from England to America on the Welcome in 1682.
His brother Rober Henley was Lord Chancellor of England.
Patrick arrived in America in 1642.

Another tradition she mentions without comment as to accuracy:
Patrick was Irish because of the red hair prominent in the family.

"For Quakers, a forefather who arrived on the Welcome with William Penn is analogous to another's pride in being a Mayflower descendant. The Welcome Society, founded in 1906, has researched some 300 claimants and found only 60 likely to have actually come on the Welcome. Patrick is ot even among the claimants and there seems to exist no evidence so far to support the family tradition.
"There is nothing in in early Philadelphia records to point to Patrick's presence there until 1697 or 1698, when he would have come from North Carolina.
"Since many Albemarle families came first to Virginia and then travelled to North Carolina to settle where more land was being opened up and was available, one could consider that possibility with Patrick. Perhaps -and probably - by coincidence there are the following interesting facts:
A Reynolds Henley settled in James City County, VA (the Williamsburg area) in 1661. There are records of just one son, Leonard, who remained there. He married an Elizabeth Richardson, and one of their grandsons was named Patrick. Our Patrick's will, 1696, was witnessed by a Stephen Richardson, and a Stephen Richardson the same day witnessed the court request Patrick made to give Daniel Akehurst power of attorney for him.
"There was also a Peter Henley who was Chief Justice of the Province of North Carolina in Edenton in 1757 (his death). His son John claimed land in England at 'Abbot's Wooton, Dorset.' An Esajah Henley was a legatee in a Chowan Precinct court case earlier.
"'Trueblood Family in America' says Patrick's sister, Ellinor, married Stephen Scott in Pennsylvania. They moved to Pasquotank Co., NC circa 1700 with Patrick's widow and children where Stephen m/2 Elizabeth Jordan, and d. 1710. This seems to support the theory that Patrick came to Philadelphia first since he had a sister there.
"'History of Perquimans County' says Elizabeth Jordan, daughter of James and Elizabeth (Ratcliff) Jordan (who were m.1688), m. Stephen Scott of Pasquotank County, NC. This Elizabeth Jordan couldn't have been born before c1690, but could have been 15 by 1705 to marry Stephen Scott who first married Ellinor and who d. 1710.
"Mayo family records say Elizabeth, daughter of Edward Mayo and sister of Sarah, m/1 c1698 Stephen Scott who died in 1710. This could be Stephen Scott who m/1 Ellinor Henley, if the dates are somewhat wrong.
"Patrick's will, written in 1696, mentions brother-in-law Stephen Scott. Either Ellinor Henley or Elizabeth Mayo as Stephen's wife could make him brother-in-law to Patrick.
"To further complicate the situation, Patrick's 1696 will was witnessed by both Ellinor Scott and Elizabeth Scott in Albemarle, NC, and Ellinor Scott was present in 1698 when the will was administered in Philadelphia.
"This is a progress report written for the purpose of giving general information. It is not meant to include all the facts or to be specific in detail ... my purpose has been to summarize Patrick's story in narrative style, using sources generously shared with me by others ..."

This from the book later produced by Marian Goodwell:

Patrick spelled his name "Henly." Most after him used the "e."
"The earliest as yet discovered information about Patrick Henly places him in Barbados in 1686 when he and his wife, Mary, had their daughter, Mary, baptized in the Parish of St. Michael. The following year, on May 30th 1687, Patrick Henly and Thomas Henly witnessed the will of a Henry Leeland of the town of St. Michaels. The Island of Barbados had been occupied by the British since 1605 and was a prosperous sugar-growing colony. It ws a popular stop over for vessels sailing from England before they proceeded to the American coastal ports. As early as 1680 the Council and Assembly of Barbados petitioned the Lords of Trade and Plantations in England: 'People no longer come to Barbados, many having departed to Carolina, Jamaica, and the Leeward Islands in hope of settling the land which they cannot obtain here.' Patrick and Mary his wife were in Carolina by 1691, perhaps for this reason.

Mary died in the Albemarle area of Carolina in what is now Pasquotank Co, NC. The date of September, 1691, is found in Hathaway, and it is confirmed by a debtor bill against Patrick filed later in the North Carolina courts:
- to your wife's funerall
- to the rouble of you and your wife's sickness
- to paling your wife's grave.

Mary, wife of Patrick, is named in his headright claim. These claims were made for colonization purposes. A settler was entitled to fifty acres of land not only for himself but for each person whom he imported to Carolina. Patrick's list also included a second Mary Henley, his mother. This was not his daughter for children could not be named. Both Mary Henlys were also listed by a neighbor as 'Mr. Henly' wife and his mother,' confirming this explanation.

With the use of the above record, we can assume that Patrick arrived in Carolina sometime between 1687 and 1691, with his wife, Mary, his small daughter, Mary, and his mother, Mary. Some family stories mention a sister, Ellinor Henly, who married Stephen Scott, but this is unlikely. The story persisted because Stephen Scott was named Patrick's brother-in-law in his will -- not because he was married to a mythical sister of Patrick, but because Patrick's second wife and Stephen's wife were sisters. Stephen had a sister, Ellinor Scott, who appears to have lived for a time in Patrick's household. Of such are the makings of "traditions."

Family legends usually say that Patrick Henly came from England. "Henley" is a common name in England. There is a city named "Henley on thames" and in Stratfor on Avon Shakespeare's birthplace is on "Henley Street." Although Patrick was probably from England, the occasional legend that he came from Ireland is credible with such a given name.

The far northeastern section of today's North Carolina where Patrick Henly lived was settled by trappers, traders and adventurers coming from Virginia beginning in the 1650's and 1660's. It was known first as Virginia's "Southern Plantation" and then as the "Albemarle." The government was in the hands of eight Lords Proprietors - absentee feudal landlords living in London. The settlers suffered under unfair laws and taxes as well as self-seeking appointed rulers and the early years of the colony were marked with disorders, confusion and violence. This area was referred to as North Carolina as distinguished from Charles Towne which was in South Carolina.

Patrick Henly, since he brought his family with him, certainly came to Carolina seeking land and opportunity. He lived in Pasquotank County along the broad Pasquotank River in the Newbegun Creek area south of the present day Elizabeth City. This was a sparsely settled area having no towns, no public buildings, no churches and only paths communicating and traveling almost entgirely by water. The colony was remote from the rest of America, the route to the outside beign through the dense and hazardous Great Dismal Swamp to the north or by sea to the east. Ships faced a difficult passage through a no longer existing inlet in the shifting sands of the Outer Banks into the Atlantic Ocean.

Sometime near the end of the year 1692 or early in 1693 Patrick Henly "Entermarried with" Sarah Mayo, widow of John Culpeper, a man whose name survives in history notorious for his participation in Carolina's Culpeper Rebellion in 1678 and "never in his element but whilst fishing in troubled waters." Sarah was the daughter of Edward Mayo, a Justice and long-time Clerk of the Court and a prominent member of the Society of Friends (Quaker) in Pasquotank County, North Carolina.

From the time of his marriage to the widow Culpeper, Patrick was involved in dozens of Court actions concerning his affairs. Most if not all of them were in defense of or as a result of his wife Sarah's inheritance from her late husband, John Culpeper. Patrick was named administrator for Thomas Clancy's estate because John Culpeper had been his "greatest credittor." He was issued a warrant for 1100 acres of land in Pasquotank County for which he used the "headrights" of twenty-two persons all but four of whom may be traced to Sarah's inheritance from her first husband. ...to page 6

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From the Web, using Netcom, 2-21-99, Clarice H. Mitchell, clarice@@mail.tima.com or www.v11.com/ ~ jensenet/henley/clarice.htm

Patrick Henley was a Quaker. Probably born in Ireland. He was a red-headed Irishman. He sailed a ship, "The Jane and Sarah" between Philadelphia and Elizabeth City, NC. He died Feb 28, 1698. in Philadelphia and left a will dated 24 July 1696 in Albemarle Co, NC, but filed in Philadelphia. He had a brother and a sister: Robert Henley who was Lord Chancellor of England and Ellinor Henley who married Stephen Scott.
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Cranford Collection has a letter from "Mrs. Duncan," a genealogist and author, which quotes Patrick's will as stating: "I give unto the child that my wife now goes with al, if it be a boy two negroes, if it be a girl one negro, either boy or girl ..." so Sarah was pregnant in 1696.
Mrs. Duncan says English records do not "uphold" the tradition that Robert was Lord Chancellor of England.
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A Patrick Henley shown in census Albemarle Co, NC, 1696
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THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE HENLEY FAMILY IN VIRGINIA IN THE EARLY DAYS

It is impossible to give an accurate and detailed account of the earlier development of the HENLEY FAMILY in the Colony of Virginia, as it gradually established itself through the three original ancestors who appear on these early land records. Of the three HENLEYS mentioned in the early land records, evidence points to the THOMAS HENLEY as the ancestor of the family here being discussed.

THOMAS DODSON, who patented a tract of land in NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY in 1650, claimed the headrights of 24 persons whom he was supposed to have brought into the colony. Among them were THOMAS HENLEY, and MARY LINTON, RICE JONES and RICHARD NEIMS. The location of his patent did not nacessarily indicate or determine the location of the emigrants whose names were attached thereto. We know that Rice Jones and Richard Nelms located in Lencaster and Northumberland County where they are found long afterwards. We also KNOW that the LINTONS settled in Lower Norfelk, with MOSES LINTON, the head of the tribe; and since, also long afterwards. The Lower Norfolk records show plenty of HENLEYS there, we think it almost conclusive proof that since THOMAS HENLEY and MARY LINTON were on the same Dodson patent, the HENLEYS and LINTONS both settled in Lower Norfolk. This conclusion is bourne out by later entries on the records.

NEIGHBORS of the HENLEYS and LINTONS in Norfolk were THOMAS BULLOCK and Ensign THOMAS KERLING (Wm. & Mary 25; page 36). KEKLING was 24 years old in 1637 and BULLOCK was 28 in 1640. Both were heads of families and had children. JOHN RICHARDSON, another of their neighbors was 20 years old 1640, RICHARD FLEMING settled on LITTLE ORK. in Lower Norfolk in 1643. (Nugent - p. 147.) By the end of the century, around 1700. We find the FLEMINGS, KEELINGS, RICHARDSONS and BULLOCKS all residing within the bounds of St. Peter's Parish in King & Queen County, showing an ??dus of all these families to that section of the colony, where they had taken up lands and established plantations. Meantime there had been intermarriages in these families, and in a generation or two we find them related. As for the HENLEYS, they multiplied and replenished, and the "LOWER NORFOLK ANTIQUARY" by James, shows numerous members of the HENLEY family still living in LOWER NORFOLK COUNTY for many generations, and among names bourne by the family which appear on these records were CHARLES, JAMES, THOMAS, JOHN, JESSE and MOSES HENLEY. January 28, 1792, JAMES HEATH was married to SARAH HENLEY. The Heaths were related to CHRISTOPHER GARLINGTON, mentioned in the Dodson patent in 1650 with THOMAS HENLEY. The "Lower Norfolk Antiquary" shows the interesting item that one "URSULA HENLEY, was a witness in the famous "witch trial" of GRACE SHERWOOD, in PRINCES ANNE County (once a part of Lower Norfolk)in March, 1705-6."

GEORGE KEELING, called "Captain" on the New Kent Records, married URSULA FLEMING, and had a daughter URSULA KEELING. URSULA FLEMING, the daughter of CHARLES FLEMING, a generation later, married to TARLETON WOODSON, etc. LEONARD KEELING who appears in James City County in 1651/2 as a land owner, is believed by some to have been a brother of URSULA FLEMING and GEORGE KEELING. The KEELINGS picked up the name LEONARD, from their kinfolks and Lower Norfolk and Princess Anne neighbors, the HENLEYS - into which some of them had married - though we are unable to find the record of such a marriage. That it actually occurred is self-evident, in the light of the history of the several families thereafter. And so we conclude;

THOMAS HENLEY, who came to Lower Norfolk (or Princess Anne, which was once the same) married, possibly a REyNOLDS, daughter of KLIZA REYnOLDS (b. 1619) who was a widow and 41 years old in 1658. They had a son REYNOLDS HENLEY to whom a patent was issued in JAMES CITY COUNTY, which had been due by on assignment from THOMAS HOLLIDAY, who had come to NORTHUMBERLAND COUNTY with the HENLEY emigrants, as heretofore related.

Thereafter, on October 26, 1694, this Reynolds Honley lands was patented to his son LEONARD HENLEY. And that is where our present HENLEY FAMILY of Virginia, begins.

This LEONARD HENLEY, who obtained his James City lands by patent in 1694, and/or his descondants shortly thereafter, probably removed to NEW KENT COUNTY, where they joined their relatives and former associates, the KEELINGS, BULLOCKS, FLEMINGS and RICHARDSONS, and there took on more kin -the DANDRIDGES.
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Was browsing the Ships list under Ref. Penn.archives 2:17 ships to Penn & Oaths of Alleg. l727-1775 and found Patrick Henly sailed the Hope Sept. 23, 1734 , master was Daniel Reid or Reed. from Rotterdam to Philadelphia. Says he was 21. That would make him born in 1713. Have not found anything like this before. Did you find the papers I ask about. Lillie Swartz Henley He was married to Sarah MAYO about 1692.⁽²³⁾

225. Sarah MAYO was born about 1668. ⁽²³⁾ She died before 1729. ^(50)(23) Children were:

112 i. John I HENLEY.
ii. Elizabeth HENLEY was born on 12 Jun 1695.^{(98) (23)} She died on 10 Mar 1718/19. ⁽²³⁾
[1702788MiriamHenley.ged] - Taken from Ancestry.com -- Gary Williams' Database

Goodwell says Elizabeth died 10-3-1720.
iii. Anne HENLEY was born on 1 Jan 1697/98 in Philadelphia, PA. ^(85)(23) She died about 1726. ^(85)(23) She Name2 in Or Anne.⁽²³⁾ She Born2 in Madeleine says born 1698.⁽²³⁾
[1702788MiriamHenley.ged] - Taken from Ancestry.com -- Gary Williams' Database

Married first John Hollowell.

In the Marian Henley Goodwell book, it says an Anne Henley was born "posthumously 1-1-1698 to Patrick and Sarah. By this we take it to mean that Anne was born after her father's death, but her father died in February of that year.