John and Milly Hensley, my new 5-gr-grandparents

I received help from George Swann today.  After we had chatted only a small amount, he sent me a copy of the register in which Solomon Hensley's death was recorded.  It is quite hard to read on this site, so I have enlarged it to show the part about Solomon and the very important part that it is Elizabeth, his wife, who submitted the information.  And Elizabeth was kind enough to give parents for Solomon:  John and Milly Hensley!  And she says clearly that Solomon was born in Pittsylvania County.  Solomon died in Wayne County, Virginia in 1859.  The register says he is 83 which makes his date of birth c. 1776.  I had guessed before c.1779 as he is reported 71 in the census of 1850.










I had suspected that John Hensley was a likely suspect for father for Solomon as I had collected the following information in the notes of the blank place in my data base reserved for Father of Solomon:

there seems to be a Samuel Hensley in Pittsylvania in 1765.  Magazine of Virginia genealogy, Volume 50 (2012).No. 2 has article by Barbara Vines Little of Pittsylvania County Judgements 1767-1770.  In the article she has transcribed what seems to be a loan to Daniel McCinsay that has Samuel Henslee as a witness along with Sarah Beard.  This is on page 98 and is among my magazines.

There is a John Hensley in the 1782 Pittsylvania Land Taxes list:

http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapittsy/1782LandTaxes.htm

John is the Only Hensley in Pittsylvania County in 1782.

There is also a John Hensley in the 1767 Titheables (and that is the only Hensley that I see)

http://adkinsmetcalffamily.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/the-history-of-pittsylvania-county-virginia/

Others of interest listed here are William, Daniel, and John Witcher, John Good, William and Owen Atkinson, Abner Cochran, Mack Foster (I think this is probably misspelling of Mark Foster), William Webb.

And from another blog written in the past:

 The following is taken from Marty Grant's (Hensley expert) timeline for John Hensley who was born before 1724 and is said to be "of Louisa and Albemarle Co. Va.  I believe that this may be the right man!  But the below is my own first sighting of relationships between a Henslee and Foster family:

On 25 Feb 1752 Benjamin Henslee of Fredericksville Parish, Louisa Co., VA sold 300 acres to David Watts. The land was on Wolf Trap Branch. Witnesses were John Foster, John Henslee, and John Hammack. Benjamin Henslee signed, and "Elizabeth his wife" relinquished her dower rights to the land.

There is an article on these people on Marty Grant's site.  The person who wrote the article thinks i might be possible that the John Hensley from Wolf Trap Branch was the same John Hensley in Pittsylvania County....but does not have proof.

http://www.martygrant.com/genealogy/hensley/hensley-john-louisa-va.htm