Robert Alex Hendry

1752-1830 · Isle of Arran, Scotland

Born 1752, Isle of Arran, Scotland

Died 1830

Children include John

Robert Hendry was born on 17 March 1752 on the Isle of Arran, in the Firth of Clyde off the west coast of Scotland. He was a son of John Hendry. On Arran the Hendrys lived mainly in the north and west of the island. The Book of Arran lists a Robt. Hendry as tenant of Glenrosie farm in 1766, and Hendrys in Little Laggan, Penrioch, Algollach and Glenrosie when the farms were redivided in 1773. A John Hendry "in Altgolach" who died in February 1738 is buried in the churchyard at Lochranza.

About 1770 Robert crossed to North Carolina and settled in New Hanover County, in the part that is now Pender County. In February 1778 he married Ann Lee, who had been born in the Black River Settlement of New Hanover on 26 December 1752.

He served in the Revolutionary War. A muster roll shows him enlisting on 20 September 1776 as a Continental private in the 5th South Carolina Regiment. His service took him into North Carolina and Virginia under Light-Horse Harry Lee, and he was present at the surrender of the British army at Yorktown on 19 October 1781, where he was mustered out. The Sons of the American Revolution list him as a private of North Carolina troops.

In the 1790 census his household in New Hanover County held one man over sixteen, six boys under sixteen and three females. Robert and Ann had nine children, all born in New Hanover: John in 1778, Neal in 1780, William in 1783, James in 1784, Robert in 1787, George in 1789, Archibald in 1791, Elizabeth Ann in 1793 and Mary in 1795.

About 1796 the family moved to Georgia and lived in Burke County. In 1801 they settled at Taylors Creek, in the western part of Liberty County, where Robert bought land four miles northwest of the village. For some years after about 1807 most of the family lived in Morgan County, Georgia, where Neal and Archibald died, and then returned to Taylors Creek. In 1816 the state granted Robert 450 acres in Liberty County. He was a Scotch Presbyterian, listed as a member of Midway Congregational Church in 1807. In 1827 he became tax collector of Liberty County, and he drew a lot in Lee County in that year's land lottery as a Revolutionary soldier.

Robert Hendry died at Taylors Creek on 31 August 1830, aged seventy-eight, while still tax collector. His son Robert Jr. finished his term. He was buried in the Hendry Cemetery on his own land, and Ann was buried beside him four years later. Their sons John and William went south to Lowndes County in 1825, and their descendants became cattlemen in South Florida.

Children

John Hendry Sr. 1778-1858

Sources

James F. Smith, The Cherokee Land Lottery (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1838), p. 362; archive.org cherokeelandlott00smit.

The Book of Arran, ed. J. A. Balfour and W. M. Mackenzie, vol. II (Glasgow: Arran Society of Glasgow), Appendix B, p. 358; archive.org cu31924091786255.

The Book of Arran, ed. J. A. Balfour and W. M. Mackenzie, vol. II (Glasgow: Arran Society of Glasgow), Appendix B, p. 359; archive.org cu31924091786255.

Milton D. Wilson, Pioneer Families of Polk County and South Florida: The Wilson Family, with data on the Alderman, Carlton, Hendry, McFail, Hurst, Knight and Varn families (typescript, Bartow, Florida, 1944), archive.org pioneerfamilieso00wils_0, pp. 240-242; Sons of the American Revolution, Patriot Research System, patriot P-179738 (DAR ancestor A055013), with supplemental applications 14810 (approved 2002) and 83542 (2018); Spessard Stone, "Robert Hendry, R.S." (2001), footnoted to the National Archives muster roll, Folks Huxford's Pioneers of Wiregrass Georgia vol. 1 (1951) pp. 120-121 and the will of Ann Hendry; Find a Grave memorials 41683478, 37017171, 32522760 and 30390556.

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