Samuel HENDRY

Birth: 14 Apr 1779, Harpersfield,Del,N.Y.
Death: 12 Apr 1861, Angola,Steuben,IN

Father: James HENDRY
Mother: Mehitabel HALL

Family 1: Eunice FOOTE

Marriage: Feb 1803, Harpersfield,Del,N.Y.

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Line in Record @I0016@ (RIN 16) from GEDCOM file not recognized: _FA2 Note: All family lore and history has Samuel, Son of James, born in April of 1779 or 1780. However, when digging around in the several branches of family history, it was discovered Samuel died and was buried in Angola, Indiana having gone there to live with his with his oldest son, George. The problem is that the Angola cemetery date for Samuel's birth, inscribed on the Hendry family mausoleum, indicates Samuel was born in 1773 not 1779. You would think that with three of his sons present at his death George, James and Alonson, and presumably some daughters too, they would know when he was born. The book we did on the Hendry genealogy lists the birthdate as 1779 but now I am not sure. Samuel was probably born in Harpersfield, New York or the Schoharie forts where the settler s went for protection against border raids. Probably, he went with his mother, Mehitabel Hall Hendry to Blandford, Mass. after his father, James, was killed by Joseph Brant and his Torries and Indians on April 8, 1780. His mother remarried a Mr. Morrison (Decenber 18, 1783 in Blandford, MA) and moved west to Worthi ngton, Ohio around 1800. By this time, it seems Samuel was back in Harpersfield, New York . He may have been living with David Hendry, the oldest son of Thomas Hendry and Ann Mille r to survive the Revolutionary war. In 1803 he married Euice Foote in Harpersfield. Sometime before 1813 he moved west to Eden, Erie County, New York and about 1824 moved Hamburg, Erie County, New York. At least six of his nine childre n were born in Eden. Samuel was a Minute Man in the War of 1812. He was an old time Whig a nd a strong anti-slavery man. In 1827 or 1828, he moved to Ashtabula County, Ohio and in 183 2 to Wellington, Lorain County. In 1860 he was living with his eldest son George in Angola I ndiana, George and his family having moved to Steuben County, Indiana in 1842. It is not cle ar just when Samuel moved to Angola. It is clear though that his wife, Eunice Foote Hendry, died in Sandusky, Erie County, Ohio on September 3rd, 1853. Samuel and Eunice may will have been living wth Alonzo and Jane Ann Penfield Hendry at that time. Eunice was buried in Oakland Cemetery in Sandusky. The gravest one says simply "Eunice 1853." Samuel was a blacksmith but when living in Eden, Erie County, NY, he is listed in the early census as a "Pathmaster" and later as a "Superintendent of Highways." The Angola Indiana histories always refer to him as a blacksmith. There is als o evidence that Samuel operated a distillery in Eden and Hamburgh NY as Alonzo talks of the d istillery in his notes on a 1877 visit and a doctor's day book in Eden records that Samuel pa id some fee in whisky. Andrew Hendry (1993) From Alonzo W. Hendry's "Traditional History of the Hendry Family." Alonzo W. Hendry (a twin), seventh child of Samuel Hendry and Eunice Foote Hendry, revisite d the Eden, Erie County, New York homestead in 1877 and recorded this visit in his "Tradition al History of the Hendry Family," a sort of journal/notebook. What follows is his account o f his visit to Eden and Hamburgh in 1877: Eden New York "I left Buffalo Jan. 9, 1877 on the Buffalo and JamesTown Railroad went to Eden Center and 's taid' all night at hotel. A Railroad Station here and small village. Next morning Jan 10 w alked to Eden Valley 2 miles toward Buffalo. There is the name of Railroad Station. no buil dings here except a few frame houses. Gardening for the Buffalo market is the business of ve ry many . On going down into the valley a little east from the station there are mills on th e stream. Then went up the stream about 1/2 a mile to the place early known as Tubbs Hollow . Here was the old Homestead farm said to have all been in this famous valley. The house i s gone in which most of our family were born. I saw an old gentelemen, Mr. Beck.... he had k nown all the Stebbins and other old settlers. Saw Mr. Webster. Lives with his sister on lan d that belonged to the homestead farm. He went to school with George and Elmina. Had seen G eorge and Alonson in Indiana. He lives across from our old homestead house in Eden and say s our old house had been torn down a couple of years before. He showed me where the old Cell ar and well was. The old orchard that Father set out is still growing and set full of smal l apples. The house stood a short distance from the bridge on the north side of the road. T he old log house and shop stood just across the road on the south side and quite close to th e bridge. The creek is known as the 18 Mile Creek and is from 25 to 40 feet wide. This place was purchased by father of Ben Tubbs after whom it was called Tubbs Hollow . The creek flows over a rock bed of Blue Slate. A short distance below it is Bordered wit h willows. There seem to be no school house, church or other public building here at present. Onl y a German grocery store. As many as 10 or 15 buildings. The orchard trees are from two t o three feet in diameter. The soil of the upland was mostly gravelly. Hamburgh New York Home of Railroad Station Water Valley. I came from Eden Valley here by wagon road over which I had been with my mother when I w as four years old. There is a large covered Bridge over the Stream. A small manufactory with a Sign Hamburgh Agricultural Works now stands where we once lived i n a building on the Stream. No trace of the old distillery is left where it stood a little further down and back fro m the stream. The Hill remains but not quite so high as I had pictured it in my recollection . The running pump (?) is not by the roadside and nothing is left of the board acqueduct an d pu.. logs that brought the water along the side hill. The House we occupied on the Hill i s gone or torn down. Two other buildings are now on the place where it stood. A Brick Schoo lhouse, small and looking old, stands down fronting on the main road. The house on the east side of the Street where Rudd lived is gone also the Barn. Mr. Northrup still lives just as you go down the Creek Road on the north side. He has live d there since we left there 50 years ago. He told me his brother moved to Ohio whith his tea m. He showed me apple trees on his place set sixty years ago. I went down this road wher e I went as a child to a funeral. A child was drowned who ventured to far down the Bank. I t was a child of Mr. Laterc. I went still further down where I went with my Brother James to Mill but the Mill has be en removed to the other side of the Stream and further down the Stream. Mr. Northrup says it was always there. I stated to him my recollection was that it wa s on this side. An old lady told me I was right, the old mill was on this side of the stream . Mr. Northrup does not make much improvement on his farm. Orchard is grown to sprouts wi th no triming or pruning. His fences, barn and house look old and dilapidated. The road side from the creek up to Whites Corners, about a mile, is fenced with pine stu mps on both sides, the roots turned outward toward the road. These stumps lasted in the grou nd after being cut 30 or 40 years and more in a fence are good for 30 or 40 more. The Rudds as we knew them are entirely gone. There is only one left. Merritt Rudd onl y known as a tramp. Samuel Clark married for his second wife a Rudd of another family, daughter of Increas e Rudd who probably came there since we left. One Ele Hubbard has a large vegetable garden just south of the bridge on the west side o f the Road and Raises vergetables and seeds for the Buffalo Market. A large new flouring Mill has just been erected on the South side of the Steam. Mr. Fish was here from New Jersey a year or two ago. He kept the first school I ever we nt to. He said just fifty years ago. This school house stood up toward Whites Corners a li ttle east of the Main Road on what is now simply a lane. Whites Corners is now known as Hamburgh or Hamburgh Centre.


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