Research Notes:
1737 Samuel Hinson [Henson], perhaps the son of Benjamin Henson, was born. [1]
1767 Samuel Henson was taxed for three persons, naming slaves Daffe and Jack, and 268 acres in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. Benjamin Henson, taxed for 50 acres, was also listed. [2]
1768 Samuel Henson was taxed for three persons, naming slaves Daffe and Jack, and 200 acres in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. Benjamin Henson, taxed for 50 acres, was also listed. [3]
1769 Samuel Henson was taxed for two persons and 200 acres in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. [4]
1770 Samuel Henson was taxed for three persons in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. [5]
1771 Samuel Henson and Francis Fidler were taxed for three persons (with slave Jack) in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. [6]
1773 Samuel Henson was taxed for one person in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. [7]
1778 On 13 April, Samuel Hinson [Henson] was commissioned as second lieutenant.
1785 Samuel Henson, Benjmin Henson, and Clifton Johnson Jr were taxed for three persons (with slave Jack) in Trinity parish, Louisa County, Virginia. [8]
1796 Benjamin Henson, Clifton Rice Henson, and Bartlet Henson witnessed deeds for land sold by John Tisdale to Robert Bell adjoining Symes, Old Mountain Road, David Morris, Mills, Andrew Hunter, and John Tisdale in Louisa County, Virginia. [9] [10]
1833 Samuel Henson died and left the Green tract to son Benjamin, who was childless, and the land was purchased by a son of Samuel's son Clifton.
"Samuel Henson was born in 1737, died in 1833 at the great age of ninety six years. He married the widow of Ensign Green, who held a patent of land adjoining the Henson land. By this marriage he into possession of a part of the Green patent, the former owner having sold some of the original grant. Samuel Henson had six children: Benjamin (2), Clifton, Bartlett, Lucy, Sallie, Mary. He was in the revolutionary army, being commissioned second lieutenant by recommendation of the county court, April 14, 1778. He was a successful farmer and owned many slaves, the latter going to his children at his death. In the division land after his death the Green tract fell to Benjamin (2). The latter dying this land was sold for a division among his brothers and sisters and was purchased his nephew, Benjamin (3) a son of Clifton Henson." Follows descendants. [11]
[1] Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Richard Lee Morton, History of Virginia, Vol. 4 (American Historical Society, 1924), 99, [GoogleBooks].
[2] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 11.
[3] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 17.
[4] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 22, left column.
[5] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 27, left column.
[6] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 29, left column.
[7] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 39, right column.
[8] Rosalie_Edith_Davis, Louisa County, Virginia, Tithables and Census, 1743-1785 (Manchester, Missouri: Heritage Trails, 1981), 93, right column.
[9] Deed books, 1742-1865; general indexes to deeds, 1742-1872, 1969-1978, I-180, [FamilySearchImage].
[10] Genweb, Louisa County Virginia Deeds, deed I-180, [Genweb_VA_Louisa_Deed_Index].
[11] Philip Alexander Bruce, Lyon Gardiner Tyler, Richard Lee Morton, History of Virginia, Vol. 4 (American Historical Society, 1924), 99-100, [GoogleBooks].