Elizabeth "Betsy" Aylett Henley (Dandridge)

The Dandridges of Virginia https://archive.org/details/jstor-1921234/page/n3
Her birth date can be found in the Henley Family Bible (which was hers), quoted in the 1896 publication "The Dandridges of Virginia" by Wilson Miles Cary. She also recorded birth and death dates for her siblings and parents, with birth and death dates of her children with William Aylett and Leonard Henley.

Extract of a letter from Burwell Bassett, Jr., to President George Washington, dated 2 Dec 1799:
"To communicate to our friends agreable incidents we are readily prompted by the pleasure it gives but it is duty alone which can lead us to be the communicators of uncomefortable tidings. Tis this that impels me to inform my friends at Mount Vernon that Mrs Henley was attacked about ten days since with a severe bilious pleurisy her weak constitution was unequal to the shock and in five days she yielded to the force of her disorder. As it relates to herself perhaps the change cannot be much regretted as she had seen the best days this life could afford her but to her children the loss will be great."

Married first to John Aylett, having married Henley as "the widow Aylett".

"Thomas Meekins Henley, another son [of young Leonard], wrote of visiting his family and relatives in James City County (Virginia) in 1845; and of visiting the graves of his father and mother, at the Henley estate, in James City County, Virginia, then belonging to Dr. Hubbard, and noting that by the dates on the tombstones that he, Thomas, had lived (62) at least 5 years longer than any preceding Henley (Millennial Harbinger, page 515, 1845).* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Aug 29 2023, 19:31:06 UTC