U.S. Deputy surveyor. Brother of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. (History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas M. Owen, vol. IV p. 1365; Notable Men of Alabama (1904) by J.C. Dubose, p. 127.)
Owen (op. cit) vol. IV p. 1676 says "Andrew Henshaw, a native of Massachussetts, came to Alabama after the War of 1812, in which he was a soldier."
He was christened March 14, 1783, at Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of David Henshaw and Mary Sargent Henshaw. (Genealogy of the Denny Family, 1886, p. 96, gives this birth date.)
A letter from his brother James Henshaw dated January 1855 at Boston to James W. Henshaw of Berkely, Virginia, gives a great deal of family history but of his brother Andrew, says simply, "Andrew married a lady by the Name of Isabelle in Cumberland Co., Virginia, and settled in Clark Co., Alabama and died there in Nov. 1853 aged 70."
Andrew Henshaw married first Frances Stedman, according to some family accounts, and after her death he married Elizabeth Isbell, daughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah Anderson Isbell (ref. Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton, 1940, p. 32).
According to The Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register (1892), by Theodore C. Bates, Andrew Henshaw's "first wife" was Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of Nathaniel Thurston. Stedman may have been her middle name or the surname of an unknown second husband after Nathaniel Thurston's death, unless Frances Stedman actually was a second wife of Andrew Henshaw. Page 54 of the Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register gives several dates which conflict with dates given elsewhere**, and while some of these are known to be in error, yet some others may be indeed accurate:
"Frances Fletcher, the oldest child of Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, was born in Acton, Mass., February 20, 1784. She was married in Boston, Mass., on July 4, 1810, to the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, of Bradford, Mass., (she being his seventh wife). He was born in Bradford, on January 17, 1755, and died in Laingsburg, N. Y., October 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford.
"The Hon. Nathaniel Thurston was a member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1795, 1797, l799, and 1805, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1806, 1807, 1808 and 1809.
"Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, married as her second husband, on June 20**, 1820, at the home of her sister, Susan Fletcher Rouse Whiting, in Mobile, Ala., Andrew Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass., a brother of the Hon. David Henshaw, who was Secretary of Navy under John Tyler, President of the United States in 1843-4. Andrew Henshaw was born in Leicester, Mass., on March 24**, 1783. She died in Clairbourne (sic), Ala., September 20, 1824. She had no children by either marriage.
"Andrew Henshaw married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Isbell Carson, a widow, her maiden name being Elizabeth Isbell. She was born in Powhattan County, Virginia, in 1787. He died in Clairbourne, Ala., November 19, 1853.
She died in Clairbourne, October 8**, 1878."
The same information is given in Personal Memoirs of Worcester County (1907) by Ellery Bicknell Crane, vol. I (of IV), pp. 117-119; also Fletcher Genealogy by Edward H. Fletcher, p. 201: "Fanny (Francis) Fletcher m. (1) in Boston 4 July 1810, as his 7th wife, Nathaniel Thurston of Bradford; m. (2) Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, MA. No children."
Thurston Genealogies (1st edition, 1880) by Brown Thurston, p. 73 says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married... seventh, FRANCES FLETCHER of Boston, Mass. This last marriage we found recorded in the Williamsburgh (sic), Va., Gazette of 1809, with the following quotation in connection, "counsel our counselors and give our senators wisdom," (Virginia State Library). He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for many years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburgh, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1811, aged 56, after which his widow married an ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to the South.
The 2nd edition (1892), pp. 68-69, says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married...seventh, July 4, 1809, FRANCES FLETCHER, born Feb. 20, 1784, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Emerson) Fletcher of Boston, Mass. This marriage was printed in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston; Benj. Russell, the editor, being in the senate with Mr. Thurston, added to the notice, "counsel our councilors, and give our senators wisdom." She was a relative of Catherine Emerson, who married Dea. Moses Thurston of Hollis, N. H., p. 44. He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for eighteen years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence, and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburg, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford. After this his widow married, June 20, 1820, Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to Claiborne, Ala. She had no children; died Sept. 20, 1824."
Andrew Henshaw was never governor of Massachusetts, nor did Massachusetts have a governor by the name of Henshaw or Stedman.
Andrew Henshaw was a descendant of John Alden, Treasurer of Plymouth Colony and Assistant to Gov. William Bradford of Massachusetts. Alden was also the first of the Pilgrims to step off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock.
Lineage:
John Alden
+ Priscilla Mullins; daughter:
Ruth Alden
+ Samuel Bass; son:
Joseph Bass
+ Mary Belcher; daughter:
Elizabeth Allen Bass
+ Daniel Henshaw; son:
David Henshaw
+ Mary Sargent; son:
Andrew Henshaw
+1 Frances (Stedman?) Fletcher Thurston
+2 Elizabeth Isbell
No marriage record for Andrew Henshaw in Mobile has been found but may be found yet in church records or Rouse-Whiting family records. It is believed the name "Frances Stedman Henshaw" is recorded in a Henshaw family Bible. Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston Henshaw, who died in Claiborne in 1824, is probably buried there in the Old Claiborne Cemetery or in Connico Cemetery.
Andrew Henshaw and family lived in Clarke County in 1850 but he is buried at Claiborne in Monroe County where his daughter Mrs. Torrey lived. The Pillans family said his widow moved to Claiborne after his death to live with the Torreys but perhaps they moved back there between 1850-1853 or he died there while visiting his daughter.
Andrew Henshaw was mentioned in an 1882 history, A Glance into the Great South-East: Clarke County, Alabama, and its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877, by Rev. T.H. Ball (Grove Hill, Alabama, 1882).
Andrew Henshaw was a deputy surveyor who ran the first lines of the government survey setting the boundaries of Clarke County. On January 21, 1825, Andrew Henshaw petitioned the second session of the 18th Congress for compensation for services as deputy surveyor. He again petitioned the first session of the 23rd Congress for compensation for surveying public lands (U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2).
A Working History of Hal's Lake (Clarke County, Alabama) by David Bagwell says: "Andrew Henshaw was the original owner of the Northeast quarter and of the eastern half of the Northeast quarter, of Section 27 and of the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 23. Henshaw was born at Henshaw Place, Lister, Worchester County, Massachusetts, in 1783. His mother was Ann Sargent, a relative of the painter John Singer Sargent. Henshaw's first wife was Francis Fletcher, who died in 1822. They had no children. His second (married August of 1824) wife was his first cousin, named Elizabeth Isbell Carson, born in Virginia in 1787."
Andrew Henshaw and family were shown in the 1850 census (Nov 29 1850), Clarke County, Alabama (Census roll M432-3, page 259, line #7, dwelling #806, family #806):
Andrew Henshaw, age 67, born in Massachusetts; farmer; $1500 real estate.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 63, born in Virginia.
Andrew Henshaw, age 25, born in Alabama; lawyer; $100 real estate.
H. Singletery, age 24; overseer.
Widow Elizabeth Henshaw and family were shown in the 1860 census (Sept. 17, 1860), Monroe County, Alabama (Burnt Corn P.O., Monroe County, Alabama; roll M653-18, page 880, line #30, dwelling #879, family #779):
Rufus Torry, age 47, born in Mississippi.
Charles Torry, age 10, born in Alabama; attended school.
Elizabeth Torry, age 5, born in Alabama.
Andrew Torry, age 3, born in Alabama.
Andrew Henshaw, age 35, born in Alabama; farmer; $20,000 real estate; $90,000 personal property.
Mary Henshaw, age 30, born in Virginia.
Mary Henshaw, age 10, born in Virginia; attended school.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 73, born in Virginia; $10,000 personal property.
Owen (op. cit) vol. IV p. 1676 says "Andrew Henshaw, a native of Massachussetts, came to Alabama after the War of 1812, in which he was a soldier."
He was christened March 14, 1783, at Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of David Henshaw and Mary Sargent Henshaw. (Genealogy of the Denny Family, 1886, p. 96, gives this birth date.)
A letter from his brother James Henshaw dated January 1855 at Boston to James W. Henshaw of Berkely, Virginia, gives a great deal of family history but of his brother Andrew, says simply, "Andrew married a lady by the Name of Isabelle in Cumberland Co., Virginia, and settled in Clark Co., Alabama and died there in Nov. 1853 aged 70."
Andrew Henshaw married first Frances Stedman, according to some family accounts, and after her death he married Elizabeth Isbell, daughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah Anderson Isbell (ref. Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton, 1940, p. 32).
According to The Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register (1892), by Theodore C. Bates, Andrew Henshaw's "first wife" was Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of Nathaniel Thurston. Stedman may have been her middle name or the surname of an unknown second husband after Nathaniel Thurston's death, unless Frances Stedman actually was a second wife of Andrew Henshaw. Page 54 of the Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register gives several dates which conflict with dates given elsewhere**, and while some of these are known to be in error, yet some others may be indeed accurate:
"Frances Fletcher, the oldest child of Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, was born in Acton, Mass., February 20, 1784. She was married in Boston, Mass., on July 4, 1810, to the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, of Bradford, Mass., (she being his seventh wife). He was born in Bradford, on January 17, 1755, and died in Laingsburg, N. Y., October 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford.
"The Hon. Nathaniel Thurston was a member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1795, 1797, l799, and 1805, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1806, 1807, 1808 and 1809.
"Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, married as her second husband, on June 20**, 1820, at the home of her sister, Susan Fletcher Rouse Whiting, in Mobile, Ala., Andrew Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass., a brother of the Hon. David Henshaw, who was Secretary of Navy under John Tyler, President of the United States in 1843-4. Andrew Henshaw was born in Leicester, Mass., on March 24**, 1783. She died in Clairbourne (sic), Ala., September 20, 1824. She had no children by either marriage.
"Andrew Henshaw married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Isbell Carson, a widow, her maiden name being Elizabeth Isbell. She was born in Powhattan County, Virginia, in 1787. He died in Clairbourne, Ala., November 19, 1853.
She died in Clairbourne, October 8**, 1878."
The same information is given in Personal Memoirs of Worcester County (1907) by Ellery Bicknell Crane, vol. I (of IV), pp. 117-119; also Fletcher Genealogy by Edward H. Fletcher, p. 201: "Fanny (Francis) Fletcher m. (1) in Boston 4 July 1810, as his 7th wife, Nathaniel Thurston of Bradford; m. (2) Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, MA. No children."
Thurston Genealogies (1st edition, 1880) by Brown Thurston, p. 73 says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married... seventh, FRANCES FLETCHER of Boston, Mass. This last marriage we found recorded in the Williamsburgh (sic), Va., Gazette of 1809, with the following quotation in connection, "counsel our counselors and give our senators wisdom," (Virginia State Library). He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for many years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburgh, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1811, aged 56, after which his widow married an ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to the South.
The 2nd edition (1892), pp. 68-69, says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married...seventh, July 4, 1809, FRANCES FLETCHER, born Feb. 20, 1784, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Emerson) Fletcher of Boston, Mass. This marriage was printed in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston; Benj. Russell, the editor, being in the senate with Mr. Thurston, added to the notice, "counsel our councilors, and give our senators wisdom." She was a relative of Catherine Emerson, who married Dea. Moses Thurston of Hollis, N. H., p. 44. He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for eighteen years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence, and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburg, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford. After this his widow married, June 20, 1820, Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to Claiborne, Ala. She had no children; died Sept. 20, 1824."
Andrew Henshaw was never governor of Massachusetts, nor did Massachusetts have a governor by the name of Henshaw or Stedman.
Andrew Henshaw was a descendant of John Alden, Treasurer of Plymouth Colony and Assistant to Gov. William Bradford of Massachusetts. Alden was also the first of the Pilgrims to step off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock.
Lineage:
John Alden
+ Priscilla Mullins; daughter:
Ruth Alden
+ Samuel Bass; son:
Joseph Bass
+ Mary Belcher; daughter:
Elizabeth Allen Bass
+ Daniel Henshaw; son:
David Henshaw
+ Mary Sargent; son:
Andrew Henshaw
+1 Frances (Stedman?) Fletcher Thurston
+2 Elizabeth Isbell
No marriage record for Andrew Henshaw in Mobile has been found but may be found yet in church records or Rouse-Whiting family records. It is believed the name "Frances Stedman Henshaw" is recorded in a Henshaw family Bible. Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston Henshaw, who died in Claiborne in 1824, is probably buried there in the Old Claiborne Cemetery or in Connico Cemetery.
Andrew Henshaw and family lived in Clarke County in 1850 but he is buried at Claiborne in Monroe County where his daughter Mrs. Torrey lived. The Pillans family said his widow moved to Claiborne after his death to live with the Torreys but perhaps they moved back there between 1850-1853 or he died there while visiting his daughter.
Andrew Henshaw was mentioned in an 1882 history, A Glance into the Great South-East: Clarke County, Alabama, and its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877, by Rev. T.H. Ball (Grove Hill, Alabama, 1882).
Andrew Henshaw was a deputy surveyor who ran the first lines of the government survey setting the boundaries of Clarke County. On January 21, 1825, Andrew Henshaw petitioned the second session of the 18th Congress for compensation for services as deputy surveyor. He again petitioned the first session of the 23rd Congress for compensation for surveying public lands (U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2).
A Working History of Hal's Lake (Clarke County, Alabama) by David Bagwell says: "Andrew Henshaw was the original owner of the Northeast quarter and of the eastern half of the Northeast quarter, of Section 27 and of the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 23. Henshaw was born at Henshaw Place, Lister, Worchester County, Massachusetts, in 1783. His mother was Ann Sargent, a relative of the painter John Singer Sargent. Henshaw's first wife was Francis Fletcher, who died in 1822. They had no children. His second (married August of 1824) wife was his first cousin, named Elizabeth Isbell Carson, born in Virginia in 1787."
Andrew Henshaw and family were shown in the 1850 census (Nov 29 1850), Clarke County, Alabama (Census roll M432-3, page 259, line #7, dwelling #806, family #806):
Andrew Henshaw, age 67, born in Massachusetts; farmer; $1500 real estate.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 63, born in Virginia.
Andrew Henshaw, age 25, born in Alabama; lawyer; $100 real estate.
H. Singletery, age 24; overseer.
Widow Elizabeth Henshaw and family were shown in the 1860 census (Sept. 17, 1860), Monroe County, Alabama (Burnt Corn P.O., Monroe County, Alabama; roll M653-18, page 880, line #30, dwelling #879, family #779):
Rufus Torry, age 47, born in Mississippi.
Charles Torry, age 10, born in Alabama; attended school.
Elizabeth Torry, age 5, born in Alabama.
Andrew Torry, age 3, born in Alabama.
Andrew Henshaw, age 35, born in Alabama; farmer; $20,000 real estate; $90,000 personal property.
Mary Henshaw, age 30, born in Virginia.
Mary Henshaw, age 10, born in Virginia; attended school.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 73, born in Virginia; $10,000 personal property.
U.S. Deputy surveyor. Brother of David Henshaw, U.S. Secretary of the Navy. (History of Alabama and Dictionary of Alabama Biography by Thomas M. Owen, vol. IV p. 1365; Notable Men of Alabama (1904) by J.C. Dubose, p. 127.)
Owen (op. cit) vol. IV p. 1676 says "Andrew Henshaw, a native of Massachussetts, came to Alabama after the War of 1812, in which he was a soldier."
He was christened March 14, 1783, at Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of David Henshaw and Mary Sargent Henshaw. (Genealogy of the Denny Family, 1886, p. 96, gives this birth date.)
A letter from his brother James Henshaw dated January 1855 at Boston to James W. Henshaw of Berkely, Virginia, gives a great deal of family history but of his brother Andrew, says simply, "Andrew married a lady by the Name of Isabelle in Cumberland Co., Virginia, and settled in Clark Co., Alabama and died there in Nov. 1853 aged 70."
Andrew Henshaw married first Frances Stedman, according to some family accounts, and after her death he married Elizabeth Isbell, daughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah Anderson Isbell (ref. Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton, 1940, p. 32).
According to The Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register (1892), by Theodore C. Bates, Andrew Henshaw's "first wife" was Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of Nathaniel Thurston. Stedman may have been her middle name or the surname of an unknown second husband after Nathaniel Thurston's death, unless Frances Stedman actually was a second wife of Andrew Henshaw. Page 54 of the Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register gives several dates which conflict with dates given elsewhere**, and while some of these are known to be in error, yet some others may be indeed accurate:
"Frances Fletcher, the oldest child of Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, was born in Acton, Mass., February 20, 1784. She was married in Boston, Mass., on July 4, 1810, to the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, of Bradford, Mass., (she being his seventh wife). He was born in Bradford, on January 17, 1755, and died in Laingsburg, N. Y., October 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford.
"The Hon. Nathaniel Thurston was a member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1795, 1797, l799, and 1805, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1806, 1807, 1808 and 1809.
"Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, married as her second husband, on June 20**, 1820, at the home of her sister, Susan Fletcher Rouse Whiting, in Mobile, Ala., Andrew Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass., a brother of the Hon. David Henshaw, who was Secretary of Navy under John Tyler, President of the United States in 1843-4. Andrew Henshaw was born in Leicester, Mass., on March 24**, 1783. She died in Clairbourne (sic), Ala., September 20, 1824. She had no children by either marriage.
"Andrew Henshaw married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Isbell Carson, a widow, her maiden name being Elizabeth Isbell. She was born in Powhattan County, Virginia, in 1787. He died in Clairbourne, Ala., November 19, 1853.
She died in Clairbourne, October 8**, 1878."
The same information is given in Personal Memoirs of Worcester County (1907) by Ellery Bicknell Crane, vol. I (of IV), pp. 117-119; also Fletcher Genealogy by Edward H. Fletcher, p. 201: "Fanny (Francis) Fletcher m. (1) in Boston 4 July 1810, as his 7th wife, Nathaniel Thurston of Bradford; m. (2) Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, MA. No children."
Thurston Genealogies (1st edition, 1880) by Brown Thurston, p. 73 says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married... seventh, FRANCES FLETCHER of Boston, Mass. This last marriage we found recorded in the Williamsburgh (sic), Va., Gazette of 1809, with the following quotation in connection, "counsel our counselors and give our senators wisdom," (Virginia State Library). He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for many years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburgh, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1811, aged 56, after which his widow married an ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to the South.
The 2nd edition (1892), pp. 68-69, says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married...seventh, July 4, 1809, FRANCES FLETCHER, born Feb. 20, 1784, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Emerson) Fletcher of Boston, Mass. This marriage was printed in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston; Benj. Russell, the editor, being in the senate with Mr. Thurston, added to the notice, "counsel our councilors, and give our senators wisdom." She was a relative of Catherine Emerson, who married Dea. Moses Thurston of Hollis, N. H., p. 44. He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for eighteen years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence, and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburg, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford. After this his widow married, June 20, 1820, Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to Claiborne, Ala. She had no children; died Sept. 20, 1824."
Andrew Henshaw was never governor of Massachusetts, nor did Massachusetts have a governor by the name of Henshaw or Stedman.
Andrew Henshaw was a descendant of John Alden, Treasurer of Plymouth Colony and Assistant to Gov. William Bradford of Massachusetts. Alden was also the first of the Pilgrims to step off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock.
Lineage:
John Alden
+ Priscilla Mullins; daughter:
Ruth Alden
+ Samuel Bass; son:
Joseph Bass
+ Mary Belcher; daughter:
Elizabeth Allen Bass
+ Daniel Henshaw; son:
David Henshaw
+ Mary Sargent; son:
Andrew Henshaw
+1 Frances (Stedman?) Fletcher Thurston
+2 Elizabeth Isbell
No marriage record for Andrew Henshaw in Mobile has been found but may be found yet in church records or Rouse-Whiting family records. It is believed the name "Frances Stedman Henshaw" is recorded in a Henshaw family Bible. Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston Henshaw, who died in Claiborne in 1824, is probably buried there in the Old Claiborne Cemetery or in Connico Cemetery.
Andrew Henshaw and family lived in Clarke County in 1850 but he is buried at Claiborne in Monroe County where his daughter Mrs. Torrey lived. The Pillans family said his widow moved to Claiborne after his death to live with the Torreys but perhaps they moved back there between 1850-1853 or he died there while visiting his daughter.
Andrew Henshaw was mentioned in an 1882 history, A Glance into the Great South-East: Clarke County, Alabama, and its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877, by Rev. T.H. Ball (Grove Hill, Alabama, 1882).
Andrew Henshaw was a deputy surveyor who ran the first lines of the government survey setting the boundaries of Clarke County. On January 21, 1825, Andrew Henshaw petitioned the second session of the 18th Congress for compensation for services as deputy surveyor. He again petitioned the first session of the 23rd Congress for compensation for surveying public lands (U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2).
A Working History of Hal's Lake (Clarke County, Alabama) by David Bagwell says: "Andrew Henshaw was the original owner of the Northeast quarter and of the eastern half of the Northeast quarter, of Section 27 and of the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 23. Henshaw was born at Henshaw Place, Lister, Worchester County, Massachusetts, in 1783. His mother was Ann Sargent, a relative of the painter John Singer Sargent. Henshaw's first wife was Francis Fletcher, who died in 1822. They had no children. His second (married August of 1824) wife was his first cousin, named Elizabeth Isbell Carson, born in Virginia in 1787."
Andrew Henshaw and family were shown in the 1850 census (Nov 29 1850), Clarke County, Alabama (Census roll M432-3, page 259, line #7, dwelling #806, family #806):
Andrew Henshaw, age 67, born in Massachusetts; farmer; $1500 real estate.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 63, born in Virginia.
Andrew Henshaw, age 25, born in Alabama; lawyer; $100 real estate.
H. Singletery, age 24; overseer.
Widow Elizabeth Henshaw and family were shown in the 1860 census (Sept. 17, 1860), Monroe County, Alabama (Burnt Corn P.O., Monroe County, Alabama; roll M653-18, page 880, line #30, dwelling #879, family #779):
Rufus Torry, age 47, born in Mississippi.
Charles Torry, age 10, born in Alabama; attended school.
Elizabeth Torry, age 5, born in Alabama.
Andrew Torry, age 3, born in Alabama.
Andrew Henshaw, age 35, born in Alabama; farmer; $20,000 real estate; $90,000 personal property.
Mary Henshaw, age 30, born in Virginia.
Mary Henshaw, age 10, born in Virginia; attended school.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 73, born in Virginia; $10,000 personal property.
Owen (op. cit) vol. IV p. 1676 says "Andrew Henshaw, a native of Massachussetts, came to Alabama after the War of 1812, in which he was a soldier."
He was christened March 14, 1783, at Leicester, Massachusetts, the son of David Henshaw and Mary Sargent Henshaw. (Genealogy of the Denny Family, 1886, p. 96, gives this birth date.)
A letter from his brother James Henshaw dated January 1855 at Boston to James W. Henshaw of Berkely, Virginia, gives a great deal of family history but of his brother Andrew, says simply, "Andrew married a lady by the Name of Isabelle in Cumberland Co., Virginia, and settled in Clark Co., Alabama and died there in Nov. 1853 aged 70."
Andrew Henshaw married first Frances Stedman, according to some family accounts, and after her death he married Elizabeth Isbell, daughter of John Lewis Isbell and Ann Hannah Anderson Isbell (ref. Descendants of Deacon Samuel & Ann Bass by Charissa Taylor Bass & Emma Lee Walton, 1940, p. 32).
According to The Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register (1892), by Theodore C. Bates, Andrew Henshaw's "first wife" was Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of Nathaniel Thurston. Stedman may have been her middle name or the surname of an unknown second husband after Nathaniel Thurston's death, unless Frances Stedman actually was a second wife of Andrew Henshaw. Page 54 of the Bates and Fletcher Genealogical Register gives several dates which conflict with dates given elsewhere**, and while some of these are known to be in error, yet some others may be indeed accurate:
"Frances Fletcher, the oldest child of Captain Jonathan and Lucretia Emerson Fletcher, was born in Acton, Mass., February 20, 1784. She was married in Boston, Mass., on July 4, 1810, to the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, of Bradford, Mass., (she being his seventh wife). He was born in Bradford, on January 17, 1755, and died in Laingsburg, N. Y., October 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford.
"The Hon. Nathaniel Thurston was a member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1795, 1797, l799, and 1805, and was a member of the Massachusetts Senate in 1806, 1807, 1808 and 1809.
"Frances Fletcher Thurston, widow of the Hon. Nathaniel Thurston, married as her second husband, on June 20**, 1820, at the home of her sister, Susan Fletcher Rouse Whiting, in Mobile, Ala., Andrew Henshaw, of Leicester, Mass., a brother of the Hon. David Henshaw, who was Secretary of Navy under John Tyler, President of the United States in 1843-4. Andrew Henshaw was born in Leicester, Mass., on March 24**, 1783. She died in Clairbourne (sic), Ala., September 20, 1824. She had no children by either marriage.
"Andrew Henshaw married, as his second wife, Elizabeth Isbell Carson, a widow, her maiden name being Elizabeth Isbell. She was born in Powhattan County, Virginia, in 1787. He died in Clairbourne, Ala., November 19, 1853.
She died in Clairbourne, October 8**, 1878."
The same information is given in Personal Memoirs of Worcester County (1907) by Ellery Bicknell Crane, vol. I (of IV), pp. 117-119; also Fletcher Genealogy by Edward H. Fletcher, p. 201: "Fanny (Francis) Fletcher m. (1) in Boston 4 July 1810, as his 7th wife, Nathaniel Thurston of Bradford; m. (2) Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, MA. No children."
Thurston Genealogies (1st edition, 1880) by Brown Thurston, p. 73 says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married... seventh, FRANCES FLETCHER of Boston, Mass. This last marriage we found recorded in the Williamsburgh (sic), Va., Gazette of 1809, with the following quotation in connection, "counsel our counselors and give our senators wisdom," (Virginia State Library). He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for many years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburgh, N.Y., Oct. 21, 1811, aged 56, after which his widow married an ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to the South.
The 2nd edition (1892), pp. 68-69, says: HON. NATHANIEL THURSTON...married...seventh, July 4, 1809, FRANCES FLETCHER, born Feb. 20, 1784, daughter of Jonathan and Lucretia (Emerson) Fletcher of Boston, Mass. This marriage was printed in the Columbian Sentinel of Boston; Benj. Russell, the editor, being in the senate with Mr. Thurston, added to the notice, "counsel our councilors, and give our senators wisdom." She was a relative of Catherine Emerson, who married Dea. Moses Thurston of Hollis, N. H., p. 44. He was a farmer in Bradford, and exporter of beef; for eighteen years a member of the legislature of Massachusetts; was distinguished for his benevolence, and greatly lamented by his friends. He died in Lansingburg, N. Y., Oct. 21, 1811, and was buried in Bradford. After this his widow married, June 20, 1820, Andrew Henshaw of Leicester, ex-governor of Massachusetts, and went to Claiborne, Ala. She had no children; died Sept. 20, 1824."
Andrew Henshaw was never governor of Massachusetts, nor did Massachusetts have a governor by the name of Henshaw or Stedman.
Andrew Henshaw was a descendant of John Alden, Treasurer of Plymouth Colony and Assistant to Gov. William Bradford of Massachusetts. Alden was also the first of the Pilgrims to step off the Mayflower onto Plymouth Rock.
Lineage:
John Alden
+ Priscilla Mullins; daughter:
Ruth Alden
+ Samuel Bass; son:
Joseph Bass
+ Mary Belcher; daughter:
Elizabeth Allen Bass
+ Daniel Henshaw; son:
David Henshaw
+ Mary Sargent; son:
Andrew Henshaw
+1 Frances (Stedman?) Fletcher Thurston
+2 Elizabeth Isbell
No marriage record for Andrew Henshaw in Mobile has been found but may be found yet in church records or Rouse-Whiting family records. It is believed the name "Frances Stedman Henshaw" is recorded in a Henshaw family Bible. Mrs. Frances Fletcher Thurston Henshaw, who died in Claiborne in 1824, is probably buried there in the Old Claiborne Cemetery or in Connico Cemetery.
Andrew Henshaw and family lived in Clarke County in 1850 but he is buried at Claiborne in Monroe County where his daughter Mrs. Torrey lived. The Pillans family said his widow moved to Claiborne after his death to live with the Torreys but perhaps they moved back there between 1850-1853 or he died there while visiting his daughter.
Andrew Henshaw was mentioned in an 1882 history, A Glance into the Great South-East: Clarke County, Alabama, and its Surroundings, from 1540 to 1877, by Rev. T.H. Ball (Grove Hill, Alabama, 1882).
Andrew Henshaw was a deputy surveyor who ran the first lines of the government survey setting the boundaries of Clarke County. On January 21, 1825, Andrew Henshaw petitioned the second session of the 18th Congress for compensation for services as deputy surveyor. He again petitioned the first session of the 23rd Congress for compensation for surveying public lands (U.S. House of Representative Private Claims, Vol. 2).
A Working History of Hal's Lake (Clarke County, Alabama) by David Bagwell says: "Andrew Henshaw was the original owner of the Northeast quarter and of the eastern half of the Northeast quarter, of Section 27 and of the Northwest quarter of the Northwest quarter of Section 23. Henshaw was born at Henshaw Place, Lister, Worchester County, Massachusetts, in 1783. His mother was Ann Sargent, a relative of the painter John Singer Sargent. Henshaw's first wife was Francis Fletcher, who died in 1822. They had no children. His second (married August of 1824) wife was his first cousin, named Elizabeth Isbell Carson, born in Virginia in 1787."
Andrew Henshaw and family were shown in the 1850 census (Nov 29 1850), Clarke County, Alabama (Census roll M432-3, page 259, line #7, dwelling #806, family #806):
Andrew Henshaw, age 67, born in Massachusetts; farmer; $1500 real estate.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 63, born in Virginia.
Andrew Henshaw, age 25, born in Alabama; lawyer; $100 real estate.
H. Singletery, age 24; overseer.
Widow Elizabeth Henshaw and family were shown in the 1860 census (Sept. 17, 1860), Monroe County, Alabama (Burnt Corn P.O., Monroe County, Alabama; roll M653-18, page 880, line #30, dwelling #879, family #779):
Rufus Torry, age 47, born in Mississippi.
Charles Torry, age 10, born in Alabama; attended school.
Elizabeth Torry, age 5, born in Alabama.
Andrew Torry, age 3, born in Alabama.
Andrew Henshaw, age 35, born in Alabama; farmer; $20,000 real estate; $90,000 personal property.
Mary Henshaw, age 30, born in Virginia.
Mary Henshaw, age 10, born in Virginia; attended school.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 73, born in Virginia; $10,000 personal property.
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