Adolphus Hendrick

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GEDCOM Note

(Research):«i»Note:«/i» Adolphus Hendrick would appear to be the eldest son just reaching the age of maturity by the date of the deed of gift on 20 February 1705/6. The language of the deed of gift makes it clear that Adolphus had no male children as of that date. Carooline Co., VA deed: # VPB 11 p2-3 20 Feb 1719/20 Alexander Spotswood Adolphus Hendrick 490a N Side of Pamunkey River in St 12 Jan 1747 (O.S.) -- Thomas Harvey patented 400 a. in Goochland County on both sides of Tear Wallet Run and bounded as followeth, "to wit, beginning at a pine on Robert Poak's corner . . . crossing Tear Wallet Run five times to a white oak . . . Wm. Kent's line . . . Adolphus Hendrick . . . Wm. Daniel . . ." (Va. Land Patent Book #28, pp. 308 - 309) http://home.nc.rr.com/rwbaird/hendrick/hendrickhans.html (see footnotes and citations at this site) He is the only son who can be proven, by the 1706 deed .... Given the timing and wording of this deed of gift, it is reasonable to speculate that Adolphus was the eldest son and had attained maturity (or was married) at about that time. He remained in King William County through at least 1740. He patented an additional 490 acres in King William in 1720 and, as a resident of King William, entered a patent for 1,000 acres in Spottsylvania County on the same day as his brother and father in 1728. He sold this 1,000 acres in 1740. He patented 400 acres in Goochland County on 1 February 1740 and purchased an additional 400 acres in Goochland a few months later, on both occasions still a resident of King William County. He had moved onto this land by 1746, when he appeared on the Goochland tithables list with two slaves and son-in-law Phillemon Childers. This part of Goochland County became Cumberland County in 1749. Adolphus Hendrick's will is dated 25 January 1758, and was recorded on 4 October 1763 in Cumberland County. He left the 400 acres he patented to his son Benjamin, and the 400 acres he purchased to his son Moses. Benjamin also received slaves and half the household goods, additional slaves and the other half of the household goods going to son John. Benjamin and John were named executors. John and a fourth son named William received minor bequests. Several married daughters received slaves or money: Christina Evans, Rachel Guillintine, Alice Hubbard, Mary Childress, Betty Bostick, Jane Robinson, and Jemima Bradshaw. There are also several deeds of gift to some of these children. Oddly, after he wrote the will he deeded the land son Moses was to receive to somebody else, and formalized some of the other bequests in deeds of gift.

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hendricks-1161

Trespass suit against his son after sale of property:

• The Virginia Genealogist. Washington, DC: J. F. Dorman, 1957 - 2006. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Name: William TRIGG; Record: 1993; Volume Name: 37; Page: 277. Quote: The Hendrick Family of Virginia; By Alberta Marjorie Dennstedt, San Diego, California; (Continued from V. 37, p. 217) A. Benjamin Hendrick; On 28 May 1754 he [Benjamin Hendrick] was in court [Cumberland] being sued by William Trigg for trespass.3 Fretwell, op. cit., pp. 146–47.
• 1750–1759 Hendrick Chronology; On 28 May 1754 Sued: Benjamin Hendrick was sued for Trespass by William Trigg in Cumberland County Court. [Abstracts of the Cumberland County, Virginia, Court Order Books. May 1756 to June 1762, Shela S. Fretwell (Privately published, 1988), p146-147] This was also Benjamin of Adolphus. Defendants had to be sued in their county of residence, and trespass cases were usually about infringements on land (sometimes about infringements on other types of property). William Trigg had bought a patent to Samuel Atkinson just south of Adolphus Hendrick’s patent of 1738.

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References

• Chapter II. The Line of Adolphus Hendrick son of Hance Hendrick. < PDF >