Name: Hendrick_82019

Updated: 08-21-2019 14:08:12.


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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Jerusha Hendrick: Birth: ABT 1790 in Virginia. Death: AFT 1820

  2. Gustavus Hendrick: Birth: 18 Feb 1793 in Virginia. Death: 20 Mar 1883 in Brundidge,Pike County,Alabama

  3. Sarah Hendrick: Birth: 1796 in Georgia.

  4. Frances Hendrick: Birth: ABT 1800 in Wilkes County,Georgia. Death: AFT 1880 in DeSoto Parish,Louisiana

  5. John Hendrick: Birth: 12 Jun 1802 in Wilkes County,Georgia. Death: 26 Apr 1873 in Caddo Parish,Louisana

  6. Lucy Ellington Hendrick: Birth: ABT 1805 in Georgia.

  7. Obediah Hendrick: Birth: 1805. Death: 1820

  8. Mary D. Hendrick: Birth: ABT 1806. Death: 1880 in Talladega County,Alabama

  9. William Hendrick: Death: BEF 8 Oct 1811 in Jones County,Georgia

  10. Benjamin Hendrick: Death: BEF 1821


Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. Elizabeth W. Hendrick: Birth: 20 May 1813. Death: 22 Jul 1831 in Butts County,Georgia

  2. Mastin Duke Hendrick: Birth: 1817 in Warren County,Kentucky. Death: 29 May 1857 in Cuthbert,Randolph County,Georgia


Notes
a. Note:   He was a Revolutionary War soldier. He was living in Lunenburg County, Virginia when he met and married Lucy Ellington.
  He moved to Wilkes County, Georgia by 1796 and in Jones County by 1812.
  In 1812 he received a contract from the Federal Government to open Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to mine saltpeter for gunpowder. He carried seventy of his slaves from Georgia with him. They pipes by boring holes lengthwise through sections of trees. Some are still seen in the cave. The gunpowder that was produced was used by Kentucky and Tennesee troops in the War of 1812.
  He resided at Chamelion Springs plantation in present day Edmonson County, Kentucky eight miles from Smith's Grove, Kentucky. He rented it from first cousin Byrd Duke Hendrick
  Will filed Jones County, Georgia after death in 1818 by son-in-law John Thomas
  John Hendrick, Sr. 1758-1820 of Lincoln County, North Carolina. Member of Capt. Robert Porter's Co. of North Carolina Tryon County Troop from Oct. 21 - Dec 30, 1777. Moved to Oglethorpe and served as a drummer in the Fourteenth Georgia Battalion from June 1 to July 1, 1779. In 1812 he carried some Negroes to Mammoth Cave in Kentucky to Mine Salt Peter to make gunpowder. He was a member of Capt. Henry James Co. 2nd Kentucky Volunteers from Sept 1, 1812 to Nov 13, 1813.
  He's buried in an unknown location in Warren County, Kentucky

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