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The Descendants of Captain Thomas Carter Page 192

A tax receipt in 1815 shows that he owned 550 acres of land and 12 servants. In 1792 he married
Elizabeth, daughter of John and Elizabeth Harvey Stodgill of Greenbrier, born Aug. 3, 1776,
died Feb. 20, 1846. Two of her sisters married Hugh Caperton and John Arbuckle of prominent
Greenbrier families. Col. John and Elizabeth Henderson had issue: Jane, married Charles Hoy;
Sarah, married John Miller, after refusing four other eligible men; Rhoda married Henry
Hannan; Angelina married Wm. A. MacMullen; Elizabeth married Rev. David Quinn Guthrie;
Nancy married Thomas J. Bronaugh -- see elsewhere in this work; Emily married Dr .Joseph
Cadwallader Shallcross of Philadelphia; James Madison Henderson, only son, died unmarried.
John Henderson, Sr., born in 1740, died March 24, 1787 in Greenbrier, married in 1765 Anne
Givens, sister of Elizabeth Givens, wife of General Andrew Lewis of Pt. Pleasant fame (tradition
in both families). At this time John Henderson lived in Bottetourt, and in 1774 served after his
brother-in-law as a lieutenant in the company of Capt .John Lewis, at the battle of Point
Pleasant, Oct. 10, 1774 (see Thwait's "History of Dunmore's War"). About this time he settled in
Greenbrier County, and was a captain in the militia in 1776 when he enlisted for three years'
service in the Revolution under General Daniel Morgan; and served until April, 1779, as
Corporal -- see records of the Revolution at Washington. In Nov., 1780, he was a justice of the
Greenbrier court. He left 2,100 acres of land and ce536 of personal property, including four
Negroes, to wife and following children: Samuel, married Sallie, daughter of Col. Andrew
Donnally; John married Elizabeth Stodghill; Margaret married Wm. Vawter of a fine old Essex
County family; James married Elizabeth Maddy; Tean married Wm. Kirkpatrick; William.
Captain John Henderson, Sr., was the 2nd son of Lieut. Tames Henderson, born Jan. 17, 1708,
died in 1784 in Augusta County, Va., and his wife, Martha Hamilton (married June 23, 173S),
daughter of Audley Harrison Hamilton, "gent.," and his wife Eleanor Adams. Tames Henderson
came to Virginia, circa, 1740, and served as a lieutenant in the French and Indian War -- see
Henning, Vol. VII. He was the 2nd son of William Henderson, Gent., born April 30, 1676, died
Aug. 1, 1757, son of John Henderson, Gent., of Fifeshire, Scotland. Wm. Henderson married
Feb. 5, 1705, Margaret Bruce, born March 1, 1680, died Dec. 15, 1789. See West Virginia
Historical Magazine for April, 1908, and "Ancestry and Descendants of Lieutenant John
Henderson. The order for same Henderson's wedding outfit, which was carried on horseback
over the mountains from Richmond calls for a white satin dress, seven India lawn and book
muslin dresses, five silk dresses, and four crepe dresses had issue: Elizabeth, married Rev. John
Van Pelt