Individual Details

Came to Granville Co when it was Edgecombe, about 1740. He was sheriff of Hanover Co VA before coming to NC and became one of the early sheriffs of Granville Co, 1754-55.

Evelyn Wallace states that this Samuel Henderson was likely the son of Richard Henderson and his wife Henrietta. Richard died testate in Louisa Co. Henrietta of Cumberland Co. deeded land to her three sons - James, Nathaniel & Samuel; later Samuel of Granville Co sold his share of this land. [Evelyn did not give dates, etc. which I would like to see. Richard's will is recorded in Goochland DB 5 - he died in 1748 - when he wrote the will in 1745, HIS son Samuel was not yet 21 so dates seem to rule out this connection. Perhaps Samuel had a brother named Richard who gave his children similar names.. This Samuel had a son named Richard - he is the Richard Henderson of the Transylvania property and Richard was born ca 1735.]

The Williams webpage states that Samuel was the son of Richard Henderson & Mary Washer of Ashland, Granville Co, NC.

Others have tried to make him a sibling of Ursula Henderson.

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=dgwill&id=I08895
Samuel, one of several children (b 1700), married a little Welsh girl, Elizabeth Williams, aged about thirteen. He settled in Granville Co., N. C., and founded a very large and prominent branch of the family. His son, bearing the same name, removed to Kentucky at an early day where he assisted in the rescue of Jemima Boone and Elizabeth Callaway from the Indians and on the following day (7,. Aug. 1776) he and Elizitbeth Callaway were married. Their daughter, Fanny, b 29, May 1777, was the first white child born in the State of Kentucky, of parents married in that State. Another son of Samuel Henderson, Sr., was Judge Richard, who was appointed one of the two Associate Judges of North Carolina in 1768 by Gov. Tryon. Judge Henderson was President of the Transylvania Company, which, with Daniel Boone, Messrs. Hart and others, he organized. It was one of the greatest land companies ever in operation and comprised nearly the whole of Kentucky. Judge Henderson married Elizabeth Keeling, stepdaughter of his kinsman, Judge Williams, and among his children were: Judge Leonard Henderson, Chief Justice of the Supreme of N. C.; John Lawson Henderson, Clerk of Supreme Court; Richard, and Archibald, great-grand father of Prof. Archibald Henderson, Ph. D., of the University of North Carolina. Gov. Alexander Martin of N. C. was of this family. Thomas Henderson was also the ancestor of the several generations of Nathaniel Hendersons, who removed to Alabama in 1818. A descendant, Hon. Charles Henderson, is now the chief executive of that State.

Birth	Ca 1700	New Kent County, Virginia
Marriage	14 Nov 1732	Hanover County, Virginia - Elizabeth WILLIAMS

Spouse	Elizabeth WILLIAMS (1714 - 1790)
Child	Mary Henderson (1733 - )
Child	Judge Richard Henderson (1735 - 1785)
Child	Nathaniel Henderson (1736 - )
Child	Elizabeth Henderson (1736 - )
Child	Ann Henderson (1738 - )
Child	Susanna Henderson (1742 - )
Child	John Henderson (1744 - )
Child	Samuel Henderson (1746 - 1816)
Child	Gen. William Henderson (1747 - 1788)
Child	Maj. Pleasant Henderson (1750 - 1843)
Child	Thomas Henderson (1752 - 1821)

Father	Richard Henderson (1679 - )
Mother	Mary ?Washer ( - )
Sibling	Richard Henderson Jr (1696 - 1748)