Henshaw-MA and WV-1743 etc. Slaveowers Name: Joshua Henshaw Name of Slave: not specified by name Source Document: Will of Joshua Henshaw of Boston State: Massachusetts County: Suffolk Year of Source Document: 1743 Slaveowners Name: William Henshaw Name of Slave: EASTER & PATRICK Source Document: Will of William Henshaw of Berkeley Co. WV State: West Virginia County: Berkeley County Year of Source Document: 1799 (proved 1800) Slaveowners Name: Hiram Henshaw Name of Slave: not specified by name Source Document: Will of Hiram Henshaw of Berkeley Co. WV State: West Virginia County: Berkeley County Year of Source Document: 1845 Slaveowners Name: Samuel Preston Henshaw Name of Slave: not specified by name Source Document: Henshaw family history manuscript State: West Virginia County: Berkeley County Year of Source Document: 1830 Slaveowners Name: Washington Henshaw Name of Slave: TOM Source Document: Will of Washington Henshaw State: Tennessee County: Greene Year of Source Document: 1853 Slaveowners Name: Samuel Henshaw Name of Slave: ESSEX, TOM, NANNY, JUDE, NELL, BINDER/BENDER, JIMMEY, CHARLES,OLD CHARLES, NAN HARRY, YOUNG HARRY, JEANY Source Document: Will of Samuel Henshaw, Essex Co. VA State: Virginia County: Essex Year of Source Document: 1758 Slaveowners Name: Samuel & Mary Henshaw Name of Slave: HANNAH, BOSTON Source Document: Will of Mary Henshaw of New York State: New York County: unknown Year of Source Document: 1795 Joshua Henshaw-MA-(1672-1747) Boston, Suffolk County-Will-1st April 1743 ...to his wife Mary all my negroes William Henshaw-(1736-1799) Berkeley County, West Virginia ...my negroes except obliged to be Sold to pay my Debts, EASTER & PATRICK to Serve no person by their Mistress. Hiram Henshaw-(1771-1845) Berkeley County, West Virginia In his will of 1845 Hiram states that his slaves are to be given their freedom if they wished. They were to be given money to go to a free state, preferably Ohio (they could not stay free in Virginia). Those who chose to decline freedom were to be provided ways of making their own living. Samuel Preston Henshaw (1812-1884) Berkeley County, West Virginia The war took practically all their wealth and freed their slaves, although some of the slaves remained with them and worked for years as they had no other home to which they could go. Two of the SLAVES, a MAN and a WOMAN, worked for them for the remainder of their lives. Contributed by: http://www.blueneptune.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/1689 Washington Henshaw-(1779-1853) Berkeley County, West Virginia (later Greene County, Tennessee) 16th January 1853-Will ...To my son Levi, to have slave TOM who is to be set free when 25 years old. Contributed by: http://www.blueneptune.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/3708 Samuel Henshaw (c1685-1758) Essex County, Virginia 10th March 1758 For her own use I also lend my said wife during time affordsaid six of my negroes to wit ESSEX, TOM, NANNY, JUDE, NELL, and BINDER. I Lend to my daughter during her life my negroe JIMMEY and after her death to be divided among her children. I also lend to my said daughter Elizabeth after the marriage or decease of my wife three negroes named NANNY,NELLl and BENDER with their future increase the said negroes to continue in the possession of my said daugther Elizabeth during her life and thereafter to be equally divided among her children. I also give my said son Samuel my three negroes YOUNG CHARLES, OLD CHARLES and NAN. and after my wife's marriage or decease I leave him my negroe fellow ESSEX. I leave to my grandson Samuel Henshaw my negroe JUDE immediatelly after the decease or marriage of my wife. I leave to my son John the land I purchased of Richard Riply also three negroes named HARRY, YOUNG HARRY and JEANY and after the decease or marriage of my wife I leave him my negroe TOM, the said land and negroes to him and the heirs of his body lawfully begotten forever and failing of such heirs then it is my will that the land and negroes so left to my said son John be equally divided between the children of my son Samuel and my daughter Elizabeth and their heirs. Contributed by: http://www.blueneptune.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/5905 Samuel Henshaw-NY-1795 Will of Mary Henshaw (wife) ...to my daughter, Cornelia Buxton, my black servant girl named HANNAH, about twenty years of age to be retained as a servant or sold as my daughter Cornelia shall judge convenient. ...to my son, Samuel Henshaw the remaining lease of a house in John Street known by Number 50, for his own residence or to rent also my black servant man named BOSTON. Contributed: by Jan Hinshaw and The Hinshaw Family Association http://www.blueneptune.com/~hinshaw http://www.blueneptune.com/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/2291