Henry York is the eighth child of ten children born to Jeremiah York I and his wife Sarah Ann Wilson. He was born on 6 Aug 1732 in the Pipe Creek area south of Keymar, Carroll (Prince George's) County, Maryland. This area between the Big and Little Pipe Creek was west of the Pipe Creek Settlement created at Union Bridge in about 1795. He moved as an infant with his parents into the beautiful Terrapin Neck, Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia) by 1734, where he grew up and married.

Note: Many genealogical data indicate a middle initial "B" or "Brantley" for Henry York which is in error. There is no known evidence that supports a middle name or initial. The autobiography of Brantley York does not support a middle initial or middle name. None of the items in the historic archives of Duke University where photographs, correspondence, books, and artifacts of Henry York, the first president of Duke University reflect a middle name.

Furthermore, the Autobiography of Brantley York was contaminated by professor E C Brooks who added erroneous information. The three granddaughters (daughters of Davidson Victor York) did not believe the father of Henry York came from Yorkshire England because that was never told to them. Furthermore, the autobiography left out the existence of their immigrant father Jeremiah YORK I of Henry YORK. Lucy York Long granddaughter of Henry YORK and her sisters highly objected to the erroneous omissions, additions, and misinformation inserted by professor E C Brooks. In 1969 I visited them in their homes in Ada, Oklahoma. These sisters had typed the drafts for the original 1910 autobiography from the handwritten notes of their father, Rev Davidson Victor York, DDS. They showed me a chapter that had been typed but not included in the 1910 publication. Their father had sat with his aged blind father, Brantley York to listen to and write down his story as he then remembered it. The family had an edited and revised version of the 1910 autobiography prepared by relative Charles Mathis and printed in 1977. Lucy York died in 1970 without editing the new draft and before it was published they did not make the necessary corrections. Lucy's husband Rev Charles Long-lived to age 104 with whom I visited and corresponded with until his death in 1986.

Henry YORK age twenty-one first married Eve Dorothy WEIR age https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=editor&editThis=bio&editThisIntId=148628901 fifteen in 1751 at Terrapin Neck, Colonial Frederick County, Virginia (now Jefferson County, West Virginia). The twelve children of Henry YORK and Eve Dorothy WEIR are:

1. Martha "Mollie" York, b. 1752 VA; d. 1823 NC
2. Susanna York, b. 1753 VA; d. 1833 NC
3. Sarah Rachel York, b. Dec. 3, 1755, NC; d. 1816 NC
4. Charity York, b. 1757 NC; d. 1805 NC
5. Edmond York, b. 1758 NC; d. 1822 IL
6. William York, b. 1761 NC; d. 1832 TN
7. Jemima "Gemmie" York, b. 1762 NC; d. 1812 NC
8. Mary Ruth "Polly" York, b. 1762 NC; d. 1814 NC
9. Barbara York, b. 1763 NC; d. 1830 NC
10. Agnes York, b. 1764 NC; d. 1820 NC
11. Samuel York, Sr., b. 1766; d. 1866 IN
12. Eli York, b. 1771 NC; d. 1853 NC

Henry York and his wife Eve Dorothy Weir with two new children migrated in 1755 in a wagon train with the Jeremiah York I family and others into colonial North Carolina to start a new community. Jeremiah York I and his family along with their minister Rev Shubal Stearns migrated in a wagon train down the Great Wagon Road through the Shenandoah Valley. They broke through the Appalachian Mountains at Roanoke, Virginia then continued into Colonial Orange County, North Carolina by the fall of 1755 to the Sandy Creek Settlement. This was following the great unrest that was caused by Indians after the French and Indian War in July 1755.

Eve Dorthy Weir died in 1788 at age 52 leaving Henry York with twelve young children without a mother. Soon after on 15 Jan 1789 Henry York age 57 married his neighbor Margaret LINDERMAN age 15, daughter of John William LENDERMAN, and his wife Catherine HUTT of Colonial Guilford (now Randolph) County, North Carolina. By 1800 Henry York with his new young wife Margaret LENDERMAN, and his children by both wives left Randolph County. The Henry YORK family along with the LENDERMAN families loaded all their goods into wagons in Randolph County. They migrated west to Wilkesboro, Wilkes County, North Carolina where he died in 1817 at age 85.

The seven children of Henry York and Margaret Lenderman are:

1. William York, b. 1791; d. 1870
2. Eve Dorthy York; 1792; d. 1858
3. Sarah York, b. 1794; d. 1835
4. Henry York, b. 1796; d. 187
5. Elizabeth York, b. 1798; d. 1858
6. Zipha York, b. 1802; d. 1852
7. Leonard York, b. 1804; d. 1882

Was Bartholomew York another son of Jeremiah YORK I that was alleged to be at the Rev War Battle of Brandywine with Henry YORK? It is a possibility Bartholomew YORK was a half-brother to Henry YORK.