When Maj. Edmund Henshaw was born on 10 October 1767, in Essex, Virginia, British Colonial America, his father, Capt. John Henshaw Sr., was 40 and his mother, Rachel Lee Boulware, was 38. He married Mary Newman on 22 September 1785, in Orange, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 6 daughters. He died on 26 April 1841, in Orange, Virginia, United States, at the age of 73, and was buried in Virginia, United States.
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"Patrick Henry made his ""Give me Liberty or Give me Death"" speech in Richmond Virginia."
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
The Philadelphia Convention was intended to be the first meeting to establish the first system of government under the Articles of Confederation. From this Convention, the Constitution of the United States was made and then put into place making it one of the major events in all American History.
English (Lancashire):
habitational name from Henshaw in Prestbury (Cheshire), from Old English henn ‘hen’ + sceaga ‘copse, small wood’.
habitational name from Henshaw (Northumberland), possibly from the Old Norse personal name Hethinn (genitive Hethinns) + Old English halh ‘nook, corner of land’. See Hensell , of which Henshaw is sometimes a variant.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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