For over thirty years we have been engaged in various research projects attempting to expand our knowledge of our family history and heritage. This web site has been created to facilitate the collection and dissemination of our ever-expanding data. It contains information concerning our organization, genealogical data to about 1930, news, and other items available to the general public through the menu on the left. More complete genealogies and other family specific information is accessible to family members only through password entry.

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Who was Henry Hendricks?

Henry or Hendrick Hendricks(on) was born 20 JUN 1730 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey, a descendant of early Dutch pioneers to New Amsterdam. Little is know of his life, except that he was christened 20 JAN 1731 in Middletown and that he married Sarah Thompson, the daughter of an English settler, on 3 APR 1751, also in Middletown.

Henry and Sarah lived at Middletown Point (north of Middletown) until 1761 or later when the sixth of the their twelve children was born. In 1761 Henry Hendrickson advertised 500 acres of land for sale "near Middletown". The family does not appear in local church records after that year, so apparently they were successful in disposing of their land. Despite diligent searching, no further record has been found for Henry and Sarah until they appear in the Rockingham Co., North Carolina 1790 census with 3 males between ages 16 and 60 and four white females. Where the family was between 1761 and 1779 remains a mystery, except for clues which come from the pension application records of two of their sons, Albert and William. Both sons stated they joined the Maryland Flying Camp unit on their first enlistment in the Revolutionary War in Fredericktown, Frederick, Maryland in 1776 and 1777, and both stated they were residents of Fredericktown at the time of their enlistment. Henry and Sarah were not found in the records of Frederick or surrounding counties. Albert does state his third and fourth enlistment (1779 and 1781) were from North Carolina, indicating the family had moved south by then. In the 1800 census of Rockingham County, Henry is listed with persons in the household consisting of 1 male and 1 female over age 45. Neither Henry nor Sarah appear as head of a household in the 1810 census, and as Henry would have been 70 and Sarah about 68, it would be reasonable to assume that both probably died between 1800 and 1810. Early in the 1800's their sons began disposing of land in North Carolina and moving west. The demise of their parents may have precipitated their willingness to move on. No disposition of land, cemetery records, or probate court records have been found for Henry. He apparently used the Hendrickson form of the name earlier in his life and dropped the at some point in North Carolina. Nothing is known of the four daughters except for the christenings of the first two in Middletown. It is a good possibility they married into some of the same families their brothers married into, and that their identities were lost. Perhaps some or all of them went west with their brothers.

The Henry Hendricks Family Organization is anxiously seeking anyone with further information concerning this family and their descendants. If your search for family connections has brought you to our website and you think you may have such information, or if you seek to make some connection with us, please contact us.

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