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Male William Henry Click to view William Henry in the family tree

William was born in 1763 in Hanover Co., VA.  William's father was Patrick Henry and his mother was Sarah Shelton.  His paternal grandparents were John Henry and Sarah Dabney Winston; his maternal grandfather was John Armistead Shelton and his maternal grandmother is Eleanor Parks. He had two brothers and three sisters, named John, Edward, Martha, Anne and Elizabeth.  He is the third oldest of the six children. He had six half-brothers and six half-sisters, named Patrick, Alexander Spotswood, Nathaniel West, Richard, Edward Winston, John, Dorothea Spotswood, Kitty, Sarah Butler, Martha Catherine, Fayette and Jane Robertson.


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