Joshua Henshaw

1672 - 1747  (75 years)

• Name	Joshua Henshaw
  Birth	1672	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1, 2, 3]
  Gender	Male
  Alternate birth	of Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4]
  Death	27 Apr 1747  [1, 2]
  Alternate death	Bef 19 Jun 1749  [4]
  Burial	Old Granary Burying Ground, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [1]
  Person ID	I47727	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

  Father	Joshua Henshaw,   b. Abt Apr 1643, Liverpool, Lancashire, England d. 1719 (Age 75 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth Sumner,   b. Abt Jun 1652   d. 1728, Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1670	Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2]
  Family ID	F27690	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Webster,   b. 9 Dec 1672, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 15 Dec 1747 (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1700	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [2, 5]
  Children	+ 1. Daniel Henshaw,   b. 3 Dec 1701, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 18 Nov 1781, Leicester, Worcester, Massachusetts (Age 79 years)
  Family ID	F27686	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	30 Jun 2026

  
  

• Notes

  He was a merchant and a distiller.

  
  

• Sources

  [S9213] Leo H. Garman, "Some Descendants of James Webster, Brewer, of Boston MA." The American Genealogist 60:41, 1984. [S9214] Albert Harrison Hoyt (credited as "The Editor"), "A Sketch of the Life of Hon. Joshua Henshaw, with Brief Notices of Other Members of the Henshaw Family." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 22:105, April 1868. [S9215] The Hinshaw and Henshaw Families by William Hinshaw. Bloomington, Illinois, 1911., year only. [S637] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume 16, Part 1, Family of John Alden by Esther Littleford Woodworth-Barnes. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1999. [S9213] Leo H. Garman, "Some Descendants of James Webster, Brewer, of Boston MA." The American Genealogist 60:41, 1984., year only.