Member of North Carolina House of Commons, 1787; representing Hawkins County (then North Carolina, now Tennessee). Born in Hanover County, Virginia, on December 1, 1736; son of Samuel and Elizabeth (Williams) Henderson. Removed with his parents to Granville, North Carolina, in 1740. Removed to Spencer County (now Hawkins); colonel in Spencer County militia; was with his brother, Colonel Richard Henderson, at the founding of Boonesborough, Kentucky; saw service against the Indians there during the Revolution; received a land grant of 640 acres in Hawkins County. Entry taker for the lands of the Transylvania Company and a signer of the Cumberland Compact, 1780. Married (1st) to Mrs. Shugan Jones (her maiden name is unknown; her first husband was a brother-in-law of Gideon Macon, of Warren County, North Carolina); one son Nathaniel Henderson. Married (2nd) to a Mrs. Morgan, maiden name unknown; children — Samuel and Elizabeth Young Henderson. Died in Hawkins County in 1789; interred there in family burial ground. Brother of Colonel Richard Henderson, author of the Cumberland Compact and president of the Transylvania Company, and of Thomas Henderson, member Constitutional Convention of 1796 and of the Tennessee General Assembly.

Sources: Williams, Tennessee During the Revolutionary War, 169; Horton, Family History, 218-19, 229-31; Acklen, Tombstone Inscriptions, 212.

From Biographical Directory: Tennessee General Assembly, 1796-1967, Issue 3