SAR John Hancock Chapter Member - Henry Stobbs
Hugh Henry, Junior was born on 25 June, 1751 in Lunenburg (Pittsylvania) County, Virginia. He served the Revolution in 1777 as a lieutenant and sergeant in Captain John Donelson's Company of Colonel Evan Shelby's Virginia Regiment in the Continental Line of North Carolina, and participated in the Cherokee campaign. In 1778, he served as a private in Colonel George R. Clark's Illinois Regiment in the Kaskaskia campaign, along with his brothers David and Isaac. In 1779, the Henry family accompanied Colonel John Donelson aboard the flatboat "Adventure" on the arduous expedition led by Donelson and Captain James Robertson that would result in the settlement of French Lick, site of the present day city of Nashville, Tennessee. Hugh married Elizabeth Tamnasson on 17 December, 1800 and established residence in Robertson County, Tennessee, where in 1782 he, his father and brothers had been granted land for their military service. He was commissioned Justice of the Peace in 1796, became the first Sheriff of Robertson County in August of that year, and on July 30, 1800, was commissioned by Governor John Sevier as Second Major in the county militia. He applied for and was granted a Revolutionary War pension in 1832, and died on 17 April, 1834. The site of Hugh's grave, which is believed to have been destroyed in a calamitous flood, is unknown.
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