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grandfather Charles Hutchins (?-1700); half first
cousin Henry Travers (?-1765); and step-first
cousin Henry Hooper, Jr. (ca. 1727-1790). CHIL-
DREN. SONS: Charles Rider; Rider; Francis Jenkins
Henry (?-1796); John Henry, Jr. (ca. 1750-1798);
and Robert. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: brothers
Charles Rider and Rider may possibly be the same
person. DAUGHTERS: Charlotte, who married Wil-
liam Winder, Jr. (?-1808); Niturah; Dorothy
(Dolly), who married Isaac Henry (?-ca. 1802);
Nancy; and Sarah. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION:
literate; his father's will requested that his guard-
ian provide him with a "genteel education." RELI-
GIOUS AFFILIATION: his father and stepfather were
both Presbyterian ministers; his wife's family and
his son are buried at Christ Church graveyard
(Anglican), Cambridge, Dorchester County. OCCU-
PATIONAL PROFILE: merchant, in partnership with
Henry Steele (ca. 1718-1782). PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Worcester
County, 1744, 1745 (Bills of Credit), 1745/46-
1748 (Bills of Credit Cv 1, 1-3, 4), 1749-1751
(Bills of Credit Cv-3), 1754 (elected to the 6th
session of the 1751-1754 Assembly to fill va-
cancy), 1754-1757 (Bills of Credit 1-6; Accounts
6), 1757-1758 (Bills of Credit 1, Cv, 2), Dorches-
ter County, 1766 (elected to the 3rd session to fill
vacancy; Laws to Expire 3). LOCAL OFFICE: jus-
tice, Worcester County, in office 1742. MILITARY
SERVICE colonel, by 1749. WEALTH DURING LIFE-
TIME. PERSONAL PROPERTY: inherited one-third of
his father's personal estate, including one-half of
his historical books, 1717; his wife inherited
£700.5.3 current money and 6,091 pounds of to-
bacco, 1750. LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: at least
1,893 acres in Worcester County, plus a moiety of
a storehouse and a lot in Snow Hill, Worcester
County (997 acres, plus the storehouse and lot,
inherited from his father; 897 acres purchased
from his brother). His mother retained the use and
occupation of the inherited lands and paid the
quitrents on them until her death in 1744. SIGNIFI-
CANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELEC-
TION AND DEATH obtained an additional 2,670
acres in Dorchester County through his wife's in-
heritance, by 1750. WEALTH AT DEATH. DIED: will
probated on September 13, 1781, in Somerset
County. PERSONAL PROPERTY: requested no ap-
praisal of his estate. LAND: ca. 5,700 acres in Dor-
chester, Somerset, and Worcester counties, and
Delaware, plus a moiety of 2 lots in Vienna, Dor-
chester County.
HENRY, JOHN, JR. (ca. 1750-1798). BORN: ca
1750 in Dorchester County, probably at his fa-
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ther's estate, "Weston" ; third son. NATIVE: third
generation. RESIDED: at "Weston," near Vienna,
Dorchester County. FAMILY BACKGROUND. FA-
THER: John Henry (ca. 1714-1781). MOTHER: Do-
rothy (1725-?), daughter of John Rider (1686-
1739/40) and wife Ann Hicks (ca. 1684-ca. 1733);
stepdaughter of Mary Hooper Hicks Rider (?-ca.
1757). UNCLE: Robert Jenkins Henry (ca. 1712-
1766). BROTHERS: Charles Rider; Francis Jenkins
Henry (?-1796); Robert; and possibly also Rider
(?-by 1787), but he and Charles Rider are proba-
bly the same person. SISTERS: Charlotte, who mar-
ried William Winder, Jr. (?-1808); Niturah; Dolly,
who married Isaac Henry (?-ca. 1 802); Nancy; and
Sarah. FIRST COUSIN: Ann Billings, who married
Henry Steele (ca. 1718-1782). OTHER KINSHIP: his
stepaunt was Ann Hicks, who married Henry
Travers (?-1765); his great-grandfather was
Thomas Hicks (1659-1722); and his great-
stepgrandfather was Henry Hooper (ca. 1643-
1720). MARRIED on March 6, 1787, Margaret (ca.
1766-1789), daughter of John Campbell (?-ca.
1766), of Dorchester County, a merchant, and
wife Elizabeth Goldsborough (ca. 1735-ca. 1786);
stepdaughter of both Benson Stainton (?-ca. 1781)
and Richard Kinnard (?-1796); granddaughter of
John Goldsborough (1711-1778); niece of Mary
Goldsborough (1755-1796), who married Benedict
Brice (1749-1786). Her sister was Ann (?-died
young). CHILDREN. SONS: John Campbell (1787-
1857), of Hambrooks, Dorchester County, who
married in 1808 Mary Nevett (1789-1873), daugh-
ter of James Steele (ca. 1760-1816); Francis Jen-
kins (1789-?), who never married. After John
Henry died in 1798, the boys' guardian, Levin H.
Campbell, sent them to the College of New Jersey
(later became Princeton University) to be edu-
cated. PRIVATE CAREER. EDUCATION: Sent tO West
Nottingham Academy, Cecil County, under the
tutelage of Rev. Samuel Finley, D.D.; graduated
from the College of New Jersey (later became
Princeton University) ca. 1769; studied law at
Middle Temple, London, England, ca. 1769-ca.
1775. RELIGIOUS AFFILIATION: Anglican; his fa-
ther's family was Presbyterian. SOCIAL STATUS
AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., by 1776; Esq. and Hon.,
by 1789; member of the Robin Hood Club, Lon-
don, England, which debated the issues of the sep-
aration of America and Great Britain, ca. 1769-
1775. ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: The Henry estate
in Dorchester County, "Weston," was burned by
the British in 1780, but it was probably still in the
possession of his father, John Henry (ca. 1714-
1781) at that time. OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: law-
yer, practiced law in Dorchester County and was
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