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Can You Count? Part 2
by Frank Mimms
July 30, 2002
Patrick Henry (1736-1799) married Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge (1757-1831) in 1776. Dorothea was a Granddaughter of The Governor of Virginia. Patrick was 21 years old when Dorethea was born. They had 15 children:
1) 1778--Dorothy Spotswood Henry (Dorothea started child bearing several years later than many of her contemporaries but she did OK).
2) 1780--Sarah Butler Henry
3) 1780--Kitty Henry
4) 1781--Martha Catherine Henry
5) 1783 Patrick Henry
6) 1784--Henry
7) 1785--Nathaniel Henry
8) 1785--Fayette Henry
9) 1788--Alexander Spotswood Henry
10) 1788--Henry
11) 1790--Henry
12) 1792--Richard Henry
13) 1794--Edward Winston Henry
14) 1796--John Henry
15) 1798 (one year before Patrick Henry's death)--Jane Robertson Henry
Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge was Patrick Henry's second wife. Patrick Henry and his first wife Sarah Shelton had 6 children:
1) 1755--Martha (Patsey) Henry (Patrick sired his first child at age 18).
2) 1757--John Henry
3) 1763--William Henry
4) 1767--Anne Henry
5) 1769--Betsey Henry.
6) 1771--Edward (Neddy) Henry.
Let's see. 15 plus 6 equals 21. Four died early. That leaves 17.
Can you count?
The blood of Patrick Henry and Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge flow in the veins of 10,000,000 living Americans today. Do the numbers.
Well, can you count?
FRANK MIMMS
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