Judge Richard Henderson

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Richard Henderson (1734–1785) was an American pioneer and merchant who attempted to create a colony called Transylvania just as the American Revolutionary War was starting.

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Richard Henderson, founder of the Transylvania Company and of Nashville, Tennessee, was born in Hanover County, Virginia, on April 20, 1735. Raised on the frontier in Granville County, North Carolina, far from any school, he was educated by private tutors. Under his father Samuel Henderson, the sheriff of the county, he served as a constable and deputy sheriff. After studying law in the office of John Williams he was admitted to the bar. On March 1, 1768, he was appointed associate justice of the colony’s Superior Court. Henderson served on the bench during the height of Regulator violence in the backcountry. He managed to escape out a back door of the courthouse in Hillsborough when Regulators attacked it in September 1770. In November 1770, Regulators burned his home near Williamsborough.

Through his work, Richard Henderson came to know Daniel Boone. As early as 1764, Boone acted as an agent for Henderson’s land company, Richard Henderson & Company, securing land in parts of Kentucky and Tennessee. To devote his attention to the development of western lands, Henderson retired from the bench in 1773 and organized the Louisa Company, later known as the Transylvania Company. In a March 1775 treaty signing at Sycamore Shoals on the Watauga River, the Transylvania Company purchased from the Cherokee the land lying between the Kentucky and Cumberland rivers. Henderson then traveled into Kentucky through the Cumberland Gap and established the colony of Transylvania with the settlement of Boonesborough on the Kentucky River. Neither Virginia nor North Carolina nor the Continental Congress would recognize Transylvania’s attempts to become the fourteenth colony. Without federal recognition, the Transylvania Company eventually lost control of the land. Henderson continued to engage in land speculation and, in 1779-1780, he led a group of settlers into the Cumberland Valley in Tennessee and founded French Lick, better known today as Nashville.

When he was not busy settling land in the west, back east Richard Henderson was a supporter of the American cause in the Revolution. He returned to the bench for a brief time in 1778, served on the state’s Board of War, and was a militia colonel. In 1781 he was elected as Granville County’s representative to the state legislature. Henderson died at age of forty-nine on January 30, 1785, and was buried on his farm at “Ashland” near Williamsboro in present-day Vance County.

References: Dumas Malone, ed., Dictionary of American Biography, VIII, 530 William S. Powell, ed., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, III, 105—sketch by Mark F. Miller

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<p>Colonel Judge Richard Henderson was born April 15, 1735, Hanover county, Va. pied 1785» Was Colonial Judge of N« C. under British Rule* Was Colonel of Militia in the American Revolution. MarriedElizabeth Keiling of Grandville County, N. C. Organized and was President of the Transylvania Company and Daniel Boone was his agent.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>The Transylvania Company bought from the Indians the whole region of country which is included between the Ohio, Kentucky and Cumberland Rivers.</p><p><p>At the Synamore Sholes Treaty, held on the Wataugh River in March 1775, the Indians received from Colonel Richard Henderson about $ 50,000 worth of rifles, blankets, beads and other supplies for a region of country that was larger than the State of Tennessee.</p><p><p>Colonel Henderson founded Nashville, Tennessee with the assistance of Robertson and Donelson.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Both Virginia and North Carolina confiscated the land of the Transylvania Company but Virginia grantedthe company 2CO,CCO acres in Kentucky and North Carolina granted the company 19CCCC^ acres in Tennessee and Nashville is on the Tennessee grant.</p><p><p></p></p><p><p>Eight days before the Mecklenburg Declaration of Independence and 6 days before</p><p>the battle of Lexington Col. Henderson said "All power is originally in the people." OBJE: _PHOTO_RIN MH:P500448 OBJE: _FILESIZE 14653 OBJE: _PHOTO_RIN MH:P500449 OBJE: _FILESIZE 14650 OBJE: _PARENTRIN @P500448@

Jurist, Pioneer, Colonizer Founder of Boonesboro, Kentucky and Nashville, Tennessee, President and Founder of Transylvania Company, Author Cumberland Compact, Judge.* Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Dec 6 2020, 5:49:10 UTC

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Category: Granville County, North Carolina
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Biography

Birth: 20 Apr 1735, Hanover, Virginia, <ref>#S-2091927930</ref>
Death: 30 JAN 1785, near Hendersonville, now called Henderson, Granville County, now Vance County, NC, at home on Nutbush Creek<ref>Source:#S-2091927930 </ref>

Residence

: Residence: :: Place: United States<ref>Source: #S-2091927930 Note: http://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?db=sarmemberapps&h=60148... Note: Data: Text: Birth date: 20 Apr 1735 Birth place: Hanover, Virginia Death date: 30 Jan 1785 Death place: Granville, North Carolina Residence date: Residence place: United States APID: 1,2204::601485</ref>

Children#Leonard Henderson b.6-Oct-1772, Granville, NC, d.1833, Williamsboro NC; married to FRANCES FARRAR

1. Archibald Henderson married to SARAH ALEXANDER
2. Elizabeth Henderson married to WILLIAM LEE ALEXANDER Richard Henderson (1734–1785) was an American pioneer and merchant who attempted to create a colony called Transylvania just as the American Revolutionary War was starting. In 1775, Henderson gathered chiefs of the Cherokee Indians and negotiated the Treaty of Watauga at Sycamore Shoals at present day Elizabethton, Tennessee, during which time he purchased all the land lying between the Cumberland River, the Cumberland Mountains, and the Kentucky River, and situated south of the Ohio River. The land thus delineated encompassed an area half as large as the present state of Kentucky. In order to facilitate settlement, Henderson hired Daniel Boone, who had hunted extensively in Kentucky, to blaze the Wilderness Road through the Cumberland Gap and into the Transylvania land purchase. To appease other prominent early explorers, Henderson held out other rewards. He offered Joseph Martin, founder of Martin's Station on Martin's Creek inpresent-day Rose Hill, Lee County, Virginia, a spot as an agent and entry taker for the company, in charge of keeping tabs on settlers moving westward; Henderson offered Martin's brother Bryce a tract of 500 acres (2.0 km2) adjacent to the Cumberland Gap.

Note ===Henderson was born in Hanover County, Virginia. In 1762, he moved to Granville County, North Carolina, studied law, was admitted to the bar,practiced law, and in 1769 was appointed judge of the Superior Court.He was the presiding judge who condemned captured tax resistors to death during the War of the Regulation.[1] Viewed as a member of the gentry, he had been a target of Regulator violence.[1] He was a member ofa Church of England parish in Williamsboro during this time.[1]

:: :: After the Declaration of Independence (1776) and the organization of the state government in North Carolina, he was re-elected judge, butwas prevented from accepting that position by his participation in a scheme organized under the name of the Transylvania Land Company. :: :: IN THE COMPANY OF WILDERNESS EXPLORERS:: In 1772, surveyors placed the land officially within the domain of the Cherokee tribe, who required negotiation of a lease with the settlers. Tragedy struck as the lease was being celebrated, when a Cherokeewarrior was murdered by a white man. Robertson's skillful diplomacy made peace with the irate Native Americans, who threatened to expel thesettlers by force if necessary. :: :: In 1775, a treaty was held between the Cherokee and a delegation ofthe Transylvania Company, headed by Richard Henderson. Under the Treaty of Sycamore Shoals (or the Treaty of Watauga) the Transylvania Company purchased a vast amount of land from the Cherokees, including mostof present-day Kentucky and part of Tennessee. The treaty was technically illegal since the purchase of land from Native Americans was reserved by the government (the British, the governments of Virginia and North Carolina, and, later, the United States, all forbade private purchase of land from Indians). :: :: During the treaty, Dragging Canoe, son of the Cherokee chief Attacullaculla, made a speech condemning the sale of Cherokee land and brokefrom the general Cherokee tribal government to form the sub-tribe known as the Chickamauga. After Henderson's Transylvania Company had bought Kentucky (although other tribes claimed it, such as the Shawnee), Daniel Boone was hired to widen the Indian path over Cumberland Gap to facilitate migration. This road became known as the Wilderness Road. :: :: THE TRANSYLVANIA PURCHASE AT SYCAMORE SHOALS:: In 1775, Henderson gathered chiefs of the Cherokee Indians and negotiated the Treaty of Watauga at Sycamore Shoals at present day Elizabethton, Tennessee, during which time he purchased all the land lying between the Cumberland River, the Cumberland Mountains, and the KentuckyRiver, and situated south of the Ohio River. The land thus delineatedencompassed an area half as large as the present state of Kentucky. In order to facilitate settlement, Henderson hired Daniel Boone, who had hunted extensively in Kentucky, to blaze the Wilderness Road throughthe Cumberland Gap and into the Transylvania land purchase. :: :: THE TRANSYLVANIA COMPACT:: Henderson followed Boone to a site that came to be called Boonesborough, located on the southern bank of the Kentucky river, Henderson encouraged the few settlers there to hold a constitutional convention. In May of 1775, under the shade of a huge elm tree, a compact organizing a frame of government was drafted. The intended government entailed executive, legislative, and judicial branches. After concluding the Transylvania Compact, Henderson returned to North Carolina and on behalfof his fellow investors in the land scheme petitioned Congress seeking to make Transylvania America?s fourteenth colony. Despite those efforts, Congress was unwilling to act without the consent of Virginia andNorth Carolina, both of whom claimed jurisdiction over the region in question. In June 1776 the Virginia General Assembly prohibited the Transylvania Land Company from making demands on settlers in the region and in December 1778 declared the Transylvania claim void. [2] :: :: Henderson and his partners instead received a grant of 12 square miles (31 km²), on the Ohio River below the mouth of Green River. In 1779, Judge Henderson was appointed one of six commissioners to run the line between Virginia and North Carolina into Powell's valley. He settled in North Carolina, where he practiced farming on a large scale. Heserved as a militia colonel in the Revolutionary War and was elected to the North Carolina General Assembly from Granville County. One of his sons was Leonard Henderson.

Edgecombe County North Carolina Court Minutes 1757-1784 On the information of the Honorable Richard HENDERSON, Esq. that a mulattoservant girl named MORGAN who was bound to John FORT was byhimtransferred and conveyed away out of this County to the County of Granville inorder to sell her. It is therefore ordered that a summons issued to the saidJohn FORT to appear at the next court to be held in this County and bring herthe said MORGAN to the said Court in order that the said may be done therein as the Law and Justices require. (1758 - Ordered Lucy MORGAN, amulatto girl be bound to Wm. LANE. Indentures ack'd.)

Revolutionary War Service

:Service: NORTH CAROLINA :Rank(s): COLONEL, CIVIL SERVICE, PATRIOTIC SERVICE :Birth: 4-20-1735, HANOVER CO, VIRGINIA :Death: 1-30-1785, GRANVILLE CO, NORTH CAROLINA :Service Description: :1) MEM OF PROV CONGRESS, MEM OF GEN ASSEMBLY :2) JUDGE,SUPREME COURT, MIL;MEM BOARD OF WAR :Spouse: ELIZABETH KEELING, married 1763

Note: List of Fort Boonesborough Settlers<ref>Link</ref> Note: Col Richard Henderson marker<ref> Link</ref> Col. Richard Henderson is buried at Ashland-Richardson Family Estate Cemetery in Williamsboro, Vance County, North Carolina.<ref>7033037</ref>

Will ==="Richard Henderson of North Carolina, 18 September 1784<ref>#Will</ref>

To my wife Elizabeth during her life the land and plantation whereon Inow live with other plantations adjoining. Also all my household and kitchen furniture with my stock of every kind including all my plantation utensils, all the Negroes I am now in possession of and their increase. I am possessed of various tracts of land lying on the Western side of the Blude Ridge and jointly interested with the Transylvania Company, these land be disposed of by my Executors in following manner: The lands on the Eastern side of Cumberland Mountain except the land belonging to the Transylvania Company be sold and the profits educating my children. Any surplus be divided among my living children or their representatives. The lands on the Western waters or the branches of the River Ohio be sold at the discretion of my Executors or a majority of them and the profits be equally divided between my said wife Elizabeth and my children. At the death of my said wife, I give my son John the lands and plantations whereon I now live and the adjacent lands on condition he is in rite at at his mother's death and have living issue. Executors to sell and in South Carolina and money be disposed as directed by wife. My wife Elizabeth Executrix, John Williams, Leonard Henley Bullock, Robert Burton, Bromfield Ridley, Pleasant Henderson, and my two sons Richard and Archibald my Executors. Richd Henderson Wit: Nathl Henderson, John Henderson, Fanny Henderson, Elizabeth Henderson, John Henderson, Reuben Searcy Codicil 27 January 1785 Executors have full power to sell as much landas necessary to pay debts except my manor plantation and lands adjacent. To my daughter Faney Henderson all my lands on East side of Nutbush Creek & Anderson's Swamp except the flowable lands on said Creek andSwamp, including the land whereon John Vandyke lives and land whereonNathaniel Henderson lives and where Reuben Searcy formerly lived. To my daughter Elizabeth Henderson all land southwardly and eastwardly atthe line beginning at the West corner of Pleasant Henderson's land tothe Northeast of Thomas Person's land. To my son John Henderson afterthe death of my wife, all remainder of land on Nutbush disregarding the clause concerning same in my will. If John precedes his mother in death or if he die in nonage or without issue, then the land be sold and money divided to my surviving children or their legal representatives. Wit: Elizabeth Henderson, Mary (X) Burke, P. Henderson Richd Henderson May Court 1788 Richd Henderson qualified as Executor

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<references />* MARRIAGES OF GRANVILLE COUNTY 1753-1868 (Ancestry.com), Note: RICHARD HENDERSON/ELIZABETH KEELING, 28 December 1763, Bondsmen: JOHN WILLIAMS, REUBEN SEARCY, Witness: John WILLIAMS.* Source: Timothy W. Rackley, GRANVILLE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA ORIGINAL WILLS, VOLUME 1, 1749-1810, Kernersville, NC: Published by author, 2002, p. 43), Will of RICHARD HENDERSON- Dated Sept. 18, 1784, Granville County Will Book 1, Pages 471-473

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