Henry Hendley

1770 - 1807  (36 years)

• Name	Henry Hendley  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	18 Jan 1770	Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts   [4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1807	At sea   [4]
  Person ID	I14454	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2018

  
  

  Family	Esther Miller,   b. Bef 29 Aug 1775
  Marriage	27 Dec 1795  [4]
  Children	+ 1. Esther Southmayd Hendley
  Family ID	F9011	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "[C]ame to Middletown in 1791. He was a tanner by trade and worked for Samuel Frothingham during the summer and followed the sea in the winter. He was lost at sea in 1807. He formed one of the crew of the brig Marlboro, of Glastonbury, Wadsworth, master. On her passage from St. Croix to Middletown, she foundered at sea and all on board perished." [History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, citation details below.] Said by some to have been a son of William Hendley of the Boston Tea Party.

  
  

• Sources

  [S1439] Sayre Family: Lineage of Thomas Sayre, a Founder of Southampton by Theodore Melvin Banta. New York, 1901. [S2095] The Descendants of Richard Sares (Sears) of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1638-1888 by Samuel P. May. Albany, New York: Joel Munsell's Sons, 1890. [S2105] A History of the Starr Family of New England, From the Ancestor, Dr. Comfort Starr, of Ashford, County of Kent, England, Who Emigrated to Boston, Mass., in 1635 by Burgis Pratt Starr. Hartford, Connecticut: The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co., 1879. [S2096] History of Middlesex County, Connecticut, with Biographical Sketches of Its Prominent Men. New York: J. B. Beers & Co., 1884.