Individual Details

Samuel Henderson

(6 Feb 1746 - 1816)



Samuel married Elizabeth Calloway. Went with his brother Richard and Richard Calloway and the Transylvania contingent to Boonsboro, KY in Jun 1776. Elizabeth Calloway and Jemima Boone were captured by Indians and rescued by Daniel Boone and Samuel.
The birth and death dates of Samuel are said to have been based on markers in the old Riverside Cemetery in McMinnville - this marker can no longer be found.

Events

Birth6 Feb 1746Granville County, North Carolina
Marriage7 Aug 1776Elizabeth Calloway
Death1816McMinnville County, Tennessee

Families

SpouseElizabeth Calloway (1760 - )
ChildFrances Henderson (1777 - )
FatherSamuel Henderson (1700 - )
MotherElizabeth WILLIAMS (1714 - 1790)
SiblingMary Henderson (1733 - )
SiblingJudge Richard Henderson (1735 - 1785)
SiblingNathaniel Henderson (1736 - )
SiblingElizabeth Henderson (1736 - )
SiblingAnn Henderson (1738 - )
SiblingSusanna Henderson (1742 - )
SiblingJohn Henderson (1744 - )
SiblingGen. William Henderson (1747 - 1788)
SiblingMaj. Pleasant Henderson (1750 - 1843)
SiblingThomas Henderson (1752 - 1821)

Endnotes

1. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. [This is the same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.] .

2. Worth Stickley Ray, Colonial Granville and Its People, Loose Leaves from "The Lost Tribes of North Carolina" (Austin, TX: Self-published, 1945], p.228.

3. WorldConnect database at Rootsweb. [This is the same file available from Ancestry.com Family Trees.] .