Robert Henry (1675)

Robert Henry
Born	1675 Scotland
Died	1735 West Caln, Chester, Pennsylvania
Spouse	Mary Ann Henry (m. 1722) «Did not recognize date. Try slightly modifying the date in the first parameter.»"Marriage: Mary Ann Henry to Robert Henry (1675)" Location: (linkback:http://jimlindstrom.com/mediawiki/index.php/Robert_Henry_(1675))
Children	John Henry (1700)

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The Henrys are of Scotch ancestry. Robert and Mary A. Henry, with their sons John, Robert and James, came to Pennsylvania in 1722, and settled on a tract of land watered by Doe Run, in West Caln township, Chester county. Robert and Mary A. died in 1735. The son John married Elizabeth, a daughter of Hugh and Mary (Jenkins) de Vinney, who settled in Chester county, in 1723, not far from the Henry plantation. He died in Chester county, 1744, and his wife at Lancaster, in 1778, aged seventy-seven years.

William Henry, the eldest of their eight children, was born in Chester county, May 19, 1729. Shortly after the death of his father he removed to Lancaster, where he engaged in the manufacture of fire-arms, and furnished supplies to the Indian traders. As armourer of the troops of Generals Braddock and Forbes, he accompanied the expeditions against Fort Duquesne. He took an active part in the public affairs of his county and the State, and throughout the Revolution ardently espoused the cause of the colonists, and filled many offices of honor and trust. He was commissioned justice of the peace, in 1758, 1770 and 1777, and associate justice of the common pleas, quarter sessions and orphans' court, November 18, 1780. In 1776 he was elected a member of the Assembly, and from October 17 to December 4, 1777, served in the Council of Safety of Pennsylvania; and as county treasurer from 1777 to his death. His appointment as armourer of the State is dated September 4, 1778, and he was selected one of the commissioners to limit prices of merchandise, in the convention called by meeting at Hartford, Connecticut, October 29, 1779, to assemble at Philadelphia, January 5, 1780. He was also appointed dedimus potestatem in 1778, and 1781. As assistant commissary general in 1778 he was of great service to the army in the field. He served two terms in the old Congress, 1784-1785. In 1767 he was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society; was one of the first members of the Society for Promoting Agriculture, and a founder of the Juliana Library of Lancaster. As an ingenious inventor he enjoyed a high reputation, particularly in the application of steam for motive power, and in 1771 he invented the screw-auger. William Henry, in January of 1756, married Ann, daughter of Abraham and Ursula (Taylor) Wood, who was born January 24, 1734. Ann Wood was a great-granddaughter of John and Barbara Bevan, of Treverigg, Glamorganshire, Wales, who with their children in 1683 came to Pennsylvania, where he took up a large tract of land in the Welsh Tract, in what was then Philadelphia county. He was elected a member of the Assembly for the years 1687, 1695, 1699 and 1700, and commissioned a justice of the peace in 1685 and 1689. After making several visits to his native country he finally resumed his residence there, and died at the ripe age of eighty years. His daughter Jane married, December 1, 1678, George Wood, of Darby, Chester county, who was commissioned a justice of the peace in 1724 and 1726, and served in the Assembly 1704, 1710, 1712 and 1717. Their son Abraham, born March 2, 1702, and died 1753, was the father of Mrs. Henry. William Henry died at Lancaster, December 15, 1786, and Ann his wife, March 8, 1799. They had issue thirteen children, of whom William Henry (2d) was the eldest.

William Henry (2d), was born in Lancaster, March 12, 1757. From 1788-1814 he served as a justice of courts of Northampton county, and in 1792 was a presidential elector for Washington's last term. He married Sabina, daughter of Matthew and Anna Maria Schropp, November 21, 1781, who was born November 5, 1759, and died May 8, 1848. He died April 21, 1821. They had issue four sons and five daughters, of whom Elizabeth, born October 15, 1782, married John Jordan in 1804. She died in Philadelphia, December 15, 1844, and her husband February 17, 1845. John and Elizabeth (Henry) Jordan had issue four sons and one daughter, of whom Francis Jordan was the youngest. Francis Jordan, born in Philadelphia, June 26, 1815, was a prominent merchant of the city, and connected with a number of its financial institutions. He married, December 10, 1839, Emily, daughter of John L. and Margaret (Ewing) Woolf, born in Philadelphia, November 12, 1821, died September 4, 1889. He died August 13, 1885.