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William HENSHAW, Lt.

William HENSHAW, Lt.[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Male 1742 - 1796  (54 years)

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  • Name William HENSHAW 
    Suffix Lt. 
    Born 1742  Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Gender Male 
    FamilySearch ID LHWQ-2DG 
    MilitaryService 1 Sep 1778  United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [6] 
    Military Service 
    _UID 216C50F551DB49488646B85170E490B5FD0C 
    Died 4 Jul 1796  Milton, Onondaga County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Buried Milton Cemetery, Onandaga County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Person ID I17515  Carney Wehofer Feb 2024 Genealogy
    Last Modified 12 Dec 2022 

    Father Joshua HENSHAW,   b. 2 Aug 1703, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Aug 1777, Dedham, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 74 years) 
    Mother Elizabeth BILL,   b. 1712,   d. 28 Sep 1782, Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 70 years) 
    Married 27 Dec 1733  Brattle St. Ch., Boston, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Family ID F8654  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Elizabeth GILBERT,   b. 13 Dec 1746, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 7 Mar 1826, Aurora, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 79 years) 
    Married 14 May 1767  Hartford County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 3, 4] 
    Children 
     1. William , Jr. HENSHAW,   b. 10 Sep 1767, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Aug 1822, Townsend, Upper Canada Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 54 years)
     2. Nathaniel HENSHAW,   b. 19 Jun 1769, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 22 Aug 1838, Prob. Aurora Twp., Erie County, New York. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 69 years)
     3. Elizabeth HENSHAW,   b. 24 Aug 1771, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. Yes, date unknown
     4. Polly HENSHAW,   b. 1774,   d. Yes, date unknown
     5. Joshua HENSHAW,   b. 7 May 1775, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 12 Aug 1847, Eckford Twp., Calhoun County, Michigan Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 72 years)
     6. James Steuben HENSHAW,   b. 20 Aug 1778, Middlebury, Vermont. Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 25 Jan 1872, Aurora, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 93 years)
     7. Samuel HENSHAW,   b. 18 Aug 1780, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 23 Aug 1819, Aurora Twp., Erie County, (Then Niagara County) New York.. Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 39 years)
     8. John HENSHAW,   b. 1781,   d. Yes, date unknown
     9. Andrew HENSHAW,   b. Bef 14 Sep 1783,   d. Yes, date unknown
     10. Benjamin HENSHAW,   b. Bef 2 Oct 1785, New Hartford, Litchfield, Connecticut Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 2 Feb 1854, Aurora, Erie County, New York Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age ~ 68 years)
    Last Modified 29 Aug 2016 
    Family ID F8656  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • William grew up at the same time that changes were sweeping
      Massachusetts and rebellion was in the air. He moved fro
      m Boston to
      Hartford, where he married.
      When open hostilities broke out, he was commissioned an ensign Jan. 1.
      1777, and served under Capt. Jos. A. Wright's County Connecticut Regimentof
      Foot commanded by Philip B. Bradley. On Jan. 4, 1778, he was promoted to
      2nd Lt.. He is listed, on June 1, 1779, as an officer in the 5th
      Connecticut Battalion, under Capt. Thaddeus Weed; promoted lieutenant,
      1780. He was at Germantown, Valley Forge, Monmouth and Stony Point.
      General George Washington granted him leave in July, 1779. At this time
      William was serving as paymaster for his unit. In July, 1780, he received
      a promotion to 1st Lt. After war's end, he and his family settled in
      New York state.
      He is buried in Milton Cemetery, Onandaga County, New York

      Note:
      The following information was extracted from his Military Record.

      Commission Ensign January 1, 1777, Served in Capt. Joseph A. WrightCounty, in a Connecticut Reg't of Foot Commanded by Col. Phillip B.Bradley.

      Promoted to 2nd Lt. January 4, 1778, Served in Capt Solomon Strong'sCounty, in a Connecticut Reg't of Foot Commanded by Col. Phillip B.Bradley


      Listed as Lt. June 1, 1779 Served in Capt. Thaddeus Weed's County, 5thConnecticut Batt'n, Commanded by Phillip B. Bradley.

      In the roll dated July 1779 was absent by leave of his Excellancy GeneralGeaorge Washington.

      Listed as Paymaster July 1779

      Promoted to 1st Lt. July 1780

      The family chart states that the Fifth Regiment was raised in 1777 andwas in Battles of Germantown, Monmouth, Stoney Point and wintered atValley Forge 1777-78.

      copies of William Henshaw military records are from the original held byTrescott Henshaw who got them from his son in law who got them from thenational archive during World War 2.

      His two oldest sons served in the Revolutionary War as boys. Nathainelwas a prisoner in Bermuda for 14 month

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      The following was excerpted from the book "Millard Fillmore Biography ofa President by By Robert J. Rayback"

      Only a few years before his birth, his father and mother, Nathaniel andPhoebe Fillmore, had been in the vanguard of a great westward migration.They had been only two among the hopeful-thousands who had crossed theAppalachian Mountains, east of which the nation had huddled for nearlytwo centuries. They had added their day-to-day activities to those ofothers to make the great central plateau and valley of the continentburgeon with homemaking, lumbering, farming, road and canal building,cotton growing, and moral and political reform.

      Later generations were to look with awe and wonder at their ancestors'tremendous re-creation of civilization. Yet the Fiflmores, like otherpioneers, had not sought heroism. Rather a combination of slicksalesmanship and personal frustration had tricked them into abandoningtheir native New England for a fresh start in a region only recentlyfreed of bloody Indian wars. The Fillmores were more prone to curse thancelebrate the events that had pushed them into this wilderness.

      During the Revolution, New York had set aside nearly one and one-halfmillion acres of land in central New York to pay bonuses promised its warveterans. Few qualified veterans ever settled in the reserved area. Likethe remainder of New York's vast twelve-million-acre public domain, thisMilitary Tract, too, had passed quickly into the hands of real estatepromoters. The process was common throughout the nation, and the salesmenof these land promoters traveled the globe for customers. FarmerNathaniel Fillmore, whose stone-strewn lands near Bennington, Vermont,gave little hope for the future, fell easy prey to a land agent's glowingpicture of the fertility of central New York's Military Tract. In 1799 heand his brother Calvin purchased sight unseen, a farm in Locke township,Cayuga County.

      Expectations of a better life had warmed them to the back-breaking tasksof clearing fields and raising a cabin while their wives filled thechinks between the logs. Yet their anticipations were ill-founded.Instead of fertile loam, the Fillmore brothers found unyielding clay.Instead of prosperity, they found poverty.

      For Nathaniel the birth of Millard was a brief distraction from mountingmisfortunes. To his woes of poor crops, poor weather, and a crowded cabinwas added a defective land title a common frontier ailment that waspeculiarly vicious in the Military Tract. Faulty surveys, claim-jumping,ignorance, and downright chicanery had so confused the region's legaltitles that the state sent a team of commissioners to review and settleall land titles in the area. The Fillmore brothers, unable to defendtheir ownership against the commissioners' findings, packed theirfamilies and few belongings on the farm wagon and moved a few miliesnorth to Sempronius.

      William Henshaw and his family took up land in Milton Township, Cayuga Cojust a few miles from the Fillmore's prior to 1796. James and Joshuamarried in that area in 1801 and moved to Aurora Township, Erie County afew years later. The Fillmore Family also moved to Aurora Township, ErieCounty about 1822.

  • Sources 
    1. [S758] James Sergent, James Sergent.

    2. [S282] mtunnell.ged.

    3. [S152] Sergent.ged.

    4. [S154] Sergent2.ged.

    5. [SAuth] Jim Carney, compiled by James H Carney [(E-ADDRESS), & MAILING ADDRESS FOR PRIVATE USE], Buderim, Queensland 4556 AUSTRALIA.

    6. [S1160] FamilySearch Family Tree (http://www.familysearch.org), The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, ((http://www.familysearch.org)), accessed 12 Dec 2022), entry for William HENSHAW, person ID LHWQ-2DG. (Reliability: 3).


  

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