Sarah Henry

Sarah Winston and John Henry Family (Henry Genealogy) It shows 2 son's and 7 daughters.

The widow of "Studley," Sarah Winston Syme, was the daughter of Isaac Winston and Sarah.

• the True Patrick Henry

The mother of Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

Sarah Winston was born in 1710 in Hanover County, Virginia and died in November 1784, in Clifford, Amherst County, Virginia, United States of America. She was buried in the graveyard on the Winton Plantation, Amherst County, Virginia, United States of America.

Parents: daughter of Isaac Winston (1681-1760) and his wife Sarah Dabney Winston of Hanover County.

Married:

1. first Col. John Syme (1710-1731), one son.
2. after the death of Colonel Syme she then married John Henry (1704-1773) and they had eleven children.

Child of John Syme and Sarah Winston:

1. John Syme, Jr. (1729-1775)

11 children of Sarah Syme and John Henry include:

1. Patrick Henry (1736 - 1799)
2. Mary Jane Henry Meredith (1738 - 1819)
3. Anne Henry Christian (1738 - 1790)
4. Lucy Henry Wood (1743 - 1826)
5. Elizabeth Henry Campbell Russell (1749 - 1825)

Notes

Her son Patrick Henry was born at Studley on May 29, 1736 (the house is no longer standing), in Hanover County, he was the second son of the Henrys. Two of the Henry children died at young ages leaving two sons and seven daughters in the family.

GEDCOM Note

She was described as Sarah Winston Syme, a wealthy widow from a prominent family of English ancestry.

The mother of Patrick Henry (1736-1799)

Sarah was the daughter of Isaac Winston and his wife Mary Dabney of Hanover County.

She married first Col. John Syme and had a son by him, John Syme, Jr. After the death of Colonel Syme she then married John Henry and they had eleven children.

Her son Patrick Henry was born at Studley on May 29, 1736 (the house is no longer standing), in Hanover County, he was the second son of the Henrys. Two of the Henry children died at young ages leaving two sons and seven daughters in the family.

• Reference: Find A Grave Memorial - SmartCopy: Jan 16 2020, 21:16:31 UTC

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Biography

From < “Dabney: Early Virginia Info >

Sarah Winston was born to Isaac and Sarah (Dabney) Winston about 1710 in Hanover County, Virginia.

She married Col. John Syme of Hanover in 1728 at the age of 18. Her husband was a widower and probably considerably older. He died about 3 years later, leaving her with one son. John Syme, Jr, born 1728/29.

She remarried in 1734 to her first husband’s overseer, John Henry, a well-educated young man. He was born in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and educated at King’s College, Aberdeen, before emigrating to Virginia. They had at least nine children who survived to adulthood: William, who had one child; Patrick, born 29 May, 1736, who married first Sarah Shelton and had six children and second Dorothea Dandridge and had eleven children; Jane, who married Samuel Garland Meredith and had four children; Susanna, who married Thomas Madison and had three children; Sarah, who married Thomas Thomas of Bristol, England, whose children are unknown; Mary, who married Luke Boyer/Bowyer and had no children; Ann, who married William Christian and had six children; Elizabeth, born circa 1749, who married first William Campbell and had two children and second William Russell and had one child; Lucy, born 1750, who married Valentine Wood and had six children.

After Sarah’s remarriage, she and John Henry continued to live on the Syme farm, Studley, in Hanover County. John was a promiinent figure in the county, colonel of the militia, county surveyor, sheriff, Justice of the Peace, and vestry man in St. Paul’s Parish. The income from the Syme estate was limited because of its geograpy and poorly chosen overseers. He attempted to supplement his income by conducting a boarding school in his home. He made a map of Virginia that was published in London in 1770 by Thomas Jefferys, a prominent engraver. However, the map was not a commercial success. After his stepson, John Syme Jr., reached majority in 1749, he moved his family to Mount Brilliant farm, which he purchased by selliing a number of patents in western Virginia that he had a acquired early in his marriage. Despite his limited financial success, he was able to give his two sons pieces of land before his death.

Sarah and John continued to live on the Mt. Brilliant farm until John’s death February 3, 1773. Because Sarah felt unable to manage the farm by herself, she moved to the home of her daughter, Jane (Henry) Meredith and her husband, Col. Samuel Meredith, in Hanover County. In 1779, Meredith purchased the Winton farm in Amherst County and Sarah moved there with the Merediths. She died at Winton in 1784. [6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]

Will

Amherst Co., Va. Will Book 2, pg. 229

• In the name of God, amen...I Sarah Henry of Amherst, widow...
• To sons, John Syme, William Henry & Patrick Henry - each a mourning ring. *My son Patrick Henry's daughter, Elizabeth Henry - my negro man Rueben now in the possession of my daughter Elizabeth Russell & her husband William Russell.
• My son-in-law, Samuel Meredith's daughter Jane Henry Meredith - my negro boy Simon.
• My daughter Lucy Wood - a mourning ring
• My daughter Annie Christian a mourning ring & her daughter Sarah Winston Christian a negro boy Charles.
• My daughter Susanna Madison a mourning ring & my negro woman Fanny.
• Her son John Henry Madison 20 pounds, & her daughter Sarah Madison - 20 pounds.
• Lend my daughter Elizabeth Russell negroes Simon, Aggy, Kiah, Delphia, James Allen to be divided at her death between her children with James Allen to descend to my grandson, Charles Henry Campbell.
• In case debts of my deceased husband, John Henry should cause my negroes to be sold, then my children to pay proportionally according to the number of the mortgaged negroes.
• I give to my grandchildren, Charles Henry Campbell & Sarah Buchanan Campbell - 8000 pounds of tobacco, out of the reserve of Peter Roppto for a tract of land which I sold the said Rippoto lying in this county..to be put out to Interest until my two grandchildren are of age or marry.
• The remainder of the tobacco I give to my son-in-law, Samuel Meredith on his paying John Lankester his charges for his employment which he made on the land after Lankester went to live on it.
• My wearing apparel to be divided among my daughters.
• My son-in-law, Samuel Meredith & son Patrick Henry, son-in-law William Christian & son-in-law Thomas Madison & friend Edmund Winston to be my exors.
• This 12th day of Mar 1784.
• signed Sarah Henry
• Wit: James Franklin, James Higginbotham, Jos. Barnett
• Produced in court for Amherst Co on 2nd day of May 1785.

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Origins

Mother disputed

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Dabney-207

The 1st wife of Isaac Winston & mother of his children was Sarah _____. His last wife was Mary ___ , who had a tumultuous relationship with her step-children. There were a number of Chancery cases between Mary and her step-children.

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Named in her father’s Will, along with daughters

Will of Isaac Winston 1760 St. Paul's Parish, Hanover, Virginia; transcription available at Winston of Virginia, and allied families, by Torrence, Clayton, 1884-1953 pp. 22-24. < Archive.Org >

WILL OF ISAAC WINSTON (1760) In the name of God amen. I, Isaac Winston of the County of Hanover, being in good health and perfect memory, do make and ordain this my last will and testament, and do hereby dispose of all such worldly goods as it hath pleased Almighty God to bestow on me in manner and form the following:

• … Item: I give until my daughter Sarah Henry five pounds current money. …
• … I give until my granddaughter Lucy Henry, forty pounds current money when she comes of age or marries.
• I give unto my granddaughter Mary Henry forty pounds current money when she comes of age or marries.
• I give unto my granddaughter Ann Henry forty pounds current money when she comes of age or marries.
• I give unto my granddaughter Eliza Henry forty pounds current money when she comes of age or marries.
• I give unto my granddaughter Susanna Henry forty pounds current money when she comes of age or marries,
• and my will and desire is that in case either of my granddaughters, namely Lucy, Ann, Mary, Elizabeth and Susanna Henry, or either of them should die before they arrive at full age or marry then it is my desire that the money left to her be equally divided between the survivors.

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References

1. WeRelate cites
   1. William Henry Dabney. Sketch of the Dabneys of Virginia: with Some of Their Records, 1888. < GoogleBooks >
   2. Winston of Virginia, and allied families, by Torrence, Clayton, 1884-1953. Page 20, 22-24. < Archive.Org >
2. Patrick Henry, life, correspondence and speeches. by Henry, William Wirt (1891). Appendix l. DESCENDANTS TO THE FOURTH GENERATION OF SARAH WINSTON, DAUGHTER OF ISAAC WINSTON (A WELSH EMIGRANT) AND MARY DABNEY. Page 634-645. < Archive.Org >
3. Dabney family of Early Virginia cites
   1. The Winstons of Hanover County, Virginia, and Related Families, Alfred Sumner Winston III (Baltimore, MD: Gateway Press, 1992), p 344, p 346
4. Find-A-Grave
5. FamilySearch
6. Wikitree
7. Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia’s Northern Neck Counties cites
   1. 1732-1735 Cavaliers and Pioneers, Patent Book No. 15; [Nell Marion Nugent]; Page 4 “SARAH SYME widow, 1544 acs. NL in Hanover Co. on both sides of round about Creek adj. Mr William Robertson; 20 Jun 1733, p.15. £5.S10. [included in John Henry's PB 17 p.213]
   2. Magazine of Virginia Genealogy Vol 15 1977, 147.
8. “The Life and Times of Patrick Henry” (Patrick Henry National Memorial) < link >