The Quaker Henderson family of Dunglady, Londonderry

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The Quaker Henderson family of Dunglady, county Londonderry

This space lists the facts known about the Quaker Henderson family from Dunglady (usually written 'Dunclady' in the Quaker records) in the parish of Maghera, county Londonderry and uses them to clarify the family tree. Unfortunately very few of the birth, marriage and death records for early Quakers in Ulster survive, and none of the records of the Quaker meetings in county Londonderry do. Details of this and similar Quaker families in county Londonderry are therefore sparse and many mistakes appear to have been made in family trees featuring members of the family, including those on Wikitree.

Note as at 13 March 2024. I have now amended the various profiles as required by the analysis in this page; the description of the relationships shown before these changes is therefore a historical one.

Katherine and William Henderson

The matriarch of the Quaker Henderson famly was Katherine Henderson, a Quaker minister for about 45 years. The Ulster Quakers wrote an undated tesimony ^[1] to her life, repeated in the national meeting's book of testimonies to deceased ministers.

The Testimony of the Ulster Province Meeting concerning our Dear Friend Cathrine Henderson Deceased

Cathrine Henderson of Dunclady was convinced about the year 1693 and alittle after received a gift in the Ministry, in which she appeared tender & often Concerned to Exhort friends to faith, fullness & humility, She was an honest faithful woman and kept up agood Testimony to the End and died in good unity with Friends, aged about 85 years, a Minister about 45 years.

A minute relating to this testimony, referring to her as 'Katherine Henderson deceased' was recorded by the National Half-Yearly meeting on 3 3m (May) 1741. ^[2]

Katherine Henderson appeared regularly in the Quaker sufferings from 1697 - 1704. In 1697 ^[3]

Katherene Henderson widdow had taken from her for tithe ... ninety stooks of oats ten stooks of barly and one stook of hay all worth three pounds three shillings

and in 1704 ^[4]

Kathren Henderson widdow for five shillings demanded for repairing the worship house of Maghera had taken from her ... one fowling peece [?] worth fifteen shillings, more for Easter Offering so called Sixty Pounds of cheese worth one shilling four pence. More ... for repairing the said worship house One Spindle of yarn and fourteen pounds of Cheese worth two shillings ninepence. And ... for one shilling demanded for marriage money, twelve pounds of cheese worth one shilling

She also appeared in other minutes, for example as one of the signatories of the epistle from the national women's meeting in 1714. ^[5]

The name Henderson appears in several other entries in the Quaker books of sufferings, sometimes for tithe mongers and occasionally for Quaker sufferers. The most interesting of these names is William Henderson, who appears in the entries for 1694, ^[6] 1695 ^[7] and 1696, ^[8] each time in the parish of Maghera.

So we have Katherine Henderson, convinced about 1693, who first appeared in the sufferings as a widow in 1697, and William Henderson who appeared in the sufferings in the same parish from 1694 to 1696. Plainly he was her husband and he died in 1696 or 1697. Working from these facts, if we assume that Katherine Henderson became a minister say two years after her convincement in 1693, then we can calculate that she died 45 years after that in c 1740 and was born 85 years earlier in c 1655. If she had followed the median pattern, she would have married aged 22 in c 1677 to a man born c 1650 and have had children from her marriage in 1677 until reaching the age of about 43 in c 1698 or in this case when her husband died in c 1697.

There is some confirmation for this in Wight's History of the Rise and Progress of the People Called Quakers in Ireland', ^[9]

It is perhaps worth noting that the other Quakers appearing in the sufferings for county Londonderry in these years included those in the Wyly family, Widdow Wylly and her sons Allen Wyly and William Wylly and the Miller family Robert Miller and his children Gawen/Gayen Miller and James Miller.

Children of Katherine and William Henderson

Some children of Katherine and William Henderson are easily identified from their own family lists.

• Sarah Henderson married Henry Greer in 1704. Her family list^[10] identifies her as 'daughter of William Henderson of Dunclady'.
• Similarly Ann Henderson married Thomas Greer in 1714. The minute describing their application to the Quaker meeting for approval of their marriage^[11] describes her as 'daughter of Katherine Henderson of Dunclady'.
• And Patrick Henderson who married Rachel Sharp in 1714^[12] and then Hannah Softlaw in 1718^[13] is described as 'son of William Henderson of Dunclady in the county of Londonderry deceased' in both marriage certificates

Clearly these children of the couple described above. We currently show them as daughters of William Henderson who married Elizabeth Thorpe in 1713 and was disowned in 1718, but since Katherine Henderson was a widow in 1697, and Patrick Henderson's father was 'deceased' in 1714, this cannot be correct.

Similarly, we have Elizabeth Henderson who married James Bullough in 1708. She is described as 'of the Dunclady meeting.' ^[14] Her parents are not explicitly mentioned, but she must surely have been another child of this family.

Then there were Joseph Moore of Ballymoney and Mary Henderson of Dunclady who were married at Katherine Henderson's 3 3m (May) 1721. ^[15]

Then there is the final reference to Katherine Henderson in the Ulster Province meeting minutes, which was in 1724 ^[16]

Wm Robinson jnr, a comer to the Dunclady meeting, having lately committed very disorderly & violent practices (contrary to our principles & ye laws of ye Nation) at ye house of Katherin Henderson, supposed with intent to take away Mary Henderson daughter of Wm Henderson, contrary to his or her parents' consent & there being a necessity for a speedy judgm't to be placed against his wickedness, one is drawn, read and approved in this meeting, which is to be fairly drawn over, agait ye risering [?] of ye meet to morrow, yt the signing of it may be ordered, .... desired to draw a suitable testimony against ye said Mary's behaviour ...

These two Mary Hendersons (one married in 1721 and one almost taken away in 1724) can hardly have been the same person, although both were perhaps still just of an age to have been children of William Henderson who died in 1696 or 1697.

There is also William Henderson to consider. We have seen that William Henderson married Elizabeth Thorpe in 1713. Unfortunately his marriage certificate ^[17] does not mention his parents and describes him as 'of Lurgan, county Armagh'.

There was also the marriage of William Henderson and Susanna Courtney in Ulster in 1706. ^[18] Unfortunately, the minute relating to this marriage also does not mention his residence or parents.

These two William Henderson marriages probably featured the same person, because a later testimony of disownment ^[19] notes that the William Henderson who married in 1713 was already a widower. (It also confirms that his parents were Quakers in the province of Ulster.) It is perhaps worth noting that Elizabeth Thorpe who married William Henderson in 1713 was herself a Widow called Smallman. She had married her first husband in county Londonderry in 1708. After marrying Susanna Courtney in 1706 he might have had a daughter Mary whom William Robinson might have attempted to carry away aged c 17 in 1724. And this Mary might have been staying with her grandmother Katherine Henderson in Dunclady. However, there is a large element of speculation in this. It is unclear why this Mary Henderson would have been living with her grandmother in county Londonderry in 1724 when William Henderson was described as 'of Lurgan county Armagh' when he married in Dublin in 1713. Perhaps either the death of his first wife or his his financial difficulties offer some explanation, but this too is speculation.

William Henderson also features in Myers' Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania ^[20] in which Myers tells us that he was received in Philadelphia in 1729 carrying not the usual removal certificiate but a testimony of disownment dated 11m 21 1717 against William Henderson, formerly a minister.

Consistent with the statement that he was formerly a minister, William Henderson appears in the book of ministers visiting county Cork in 1708 ^[21] and 1712. ^[22]

So in summary, we can see three people very clearly identified as children of William and Katherine Henderson, Sarah, Ann and Patrick. We then have Elizabeth who is likely to have been a fourth and two Marys, one of which is likely to have been a fifth. William Henderson may have been a sixth child, and the second Mary might have been his daughter, but this is speculation.

Patrick Henderson

We also have a profile for another Patrick Henderson stated to have been the author of a work called Truth and Innocence, The Armour and Defense of the People called Quakers and a prominent minister among the friends in the North of Ireland. Unfortunately, there are lots of problems with this profile. Not least, it cites sources for his travels in Pennsylvania in 1707 and 1708 and states that he died there in 1702.

This Patrick Henderson features in the journal of Quaker minister Jonathan Burnyeat dated 26th 10m (December) 1705,^[23] in the context of his visit to Katherine Henderson of Dunclady, whom he describes as Patrick's mother. Patrick also features in the journal for 1706, when he was in Dublin.

Patrick Henderson also features in the Irish Quaker records of ministers visiting county Cork in 1701, 1704, 1706 and 1710. ^[24]

His visit to Pennsylvania is described in Bowden's History of the Quakers in America ^[25]

In the year 1707, Patrick Henderson and Samuel Wilkinson, both from the north of Ireland, travelled on a gospel mission throughout the limits of Pennsylvania Yearly Meeting. They also were but young in years, yet eminent ministers, and their labours were appreciated by their brethren. "Patrick Henderson," writes James Logan to William Penn, "is I think Scotch by birth, as is a most extraordinary man as ever visited these parts. Of such as these" alluding also to his companion "the more always the better."

and later

Eleventhly.-Samuel Wilkinson, and Patrick Henderson, whereof Samuel was a plain man, had a fine testimony for truth, and an excellent gift to open the Revelations and other parts of scripture for the edification and comfort of Friends. And his companion was a wise man, or learned: large in his testimony, and of singular parts: may he keep to the Roots that bore him.

Patrick Henderson also features in Myers, ^[26] or more precisely one of his sons does. Myers cites a letter from John Barclay of Dublin dated June 17, 1743 which reads:

I send this by Thos ; Henderson 3d Son to our late Friend Pattk Henderson who left a great Family of Children behind & this Young Man inclined to go to your Country, he has been of a Sober Conversation, so far as I know of, the ship going away Sooner than his Mother & he expected, they did not ask for a certificate from Mountmellick Meeting in time ...

What to make of this? We have profiles of Patrick Henderson who married Rachel Sharp in 1714 and Hannah Softwlaw in 1718 and died in Mountmellick in about 1741. This Patrick Henderson was described as the son of William Henderson of Dunclady on his two marriage certificates. Then we have the profile of Patrick Henderson described as a Quaker minister who visited Pennsylvania and as the author of a Quaker tract. The journal of Jonathan Burnyeat described the minister as the son of Katherine Henderson of Dunclady, and a letter to Friends in Pennsylvania about a child of Patrick Henderson described him as our late Friend in 1743 and mentioned a removal certificate from Mountmellick. It certainly appears that these two were the same person.

Unfortunately, neither of the family lists for Patrick Henderson's two marriages have been indexed by FindmyPast. The first was plainly available to the Quakers in 1859 who included Anthony and Benjamin Henderson in their registers. This family list is in fact available and can be seen here. ^[27] The second family list, however, seems to have disappeared entirely. Even so, we know, from other records that he had at least two other children, Warren Henderson ^[28] and Samuel Henderson (reasoning for his parentage described in his profile). It is also clear that he must have had a daughter Catherine who was disowned by the Mountmellick meeting in 1755. ^[29]

We can now add from the letter cited by Myers that he left a great Family of Children behind including a third son Thomas who emigrated to Pennsylvania in 1743.

As to his date of birth, his parents might have had children between their marriage in about 1677 and William Henderson's death in 1696 or 1697. Patrick Henderson first appeared as a minister in 1701, which does not imply that he was of age - one of my Watson relatives was a minister at about 14. He was still young in years in 1707, but old enough for his mother to have allowed him to have travelled to America. He didn't marry until 1714, but he must have been born before 1692, perhaps between say 1682 and 1687, meaning that he would have been aged 20-25 when he arrived in Pennsylvania.

Clearly, the wife Katherine shown to Patrick Henderson is wrong and clearly he did not have a child Margaret Henderson who had married by 1694.

As to the statement attributed by Bowden to James Logan that he was I think Scotch by birth. Perhaps one of these people made a mistake, or perhaps Patrick's father, William Henderson, was himself from Scotland. A lot of settlers in Ulster were, and Henderson is a common Scots name.

Margaret the wife of Gawen/Gayen Miller

Our profile for Margaret Henderson shows her as the wife of Gawen or Gayen Miller. His wife's name is know to have been Margaret, for example from his will.

The Miller family features prominently in the well respected Our Family Ancestors by Thomas Potts. ^[30] Potts relates that his wife Margaret was said to have been the daughter of Dr Patrick Henderson of Scotland and that they married in about 1693 before they removed to Pennsylvania. Doubtless it is this mention of a Scots Patrick Henderson, combined with the statement that the minister Patrick Henderson was Scotch by birth, which has led people to think that one was the father of the other.

Potts doesn't tell us who said that of Margaret, or why we might believe it. Albert Myers cites Potts for his account of Gayen Miller's family in his Immigration of the Irish Quakers, but notably does not repeat Potts' hearsay about Margaret's parents. ^[31] Perhaps he thought the source cited by Potts ('said to have been') too unreliable.

Certainly, there is no trace of Gayen and Margaret's marriage or children in the surviving Irish Quaker records, but also note that Gawen and his father were near neighbours of Katherine Henderson's in Londonderry. In fact the two families' farms were both in the same parish of Maghera. There was therefore certainly lots of opportunity for Gawen to have met members of the Quaker family who lived next door. It is certainly quite possible that he may have married one of the Henderson daughters - no other Margaret Henderson from this family has been found to rule it out. If so, her parents were William and Katherine Henderson, not Patrick. However, if she really married in 1693 as Potts states (again with no source), then her mother, born c 1655, was only 38 at the time, so both women must have married rather young.

Sources

1. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Testimonies to Deceased Ministers," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMF-1%2F0115&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMF-1%2F0115 : accessed 08 March 2024), testimony to Cathrine Henderson, citing YM Sufferings Testimonies to Deceased Ministers 1661-1933, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
2. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FHYMA-3%2F0168&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F14810 : accessed 08 March 2024), minutes dated 3d 3mo (May) 1741, Minute concerning short account from the Ulster meeting concerning our Friend Katherine Henderson deceased; citing Half-yearly Meeting Minutes and queries 1708-1757, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
3. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0051&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1199829 : accessed 08 March 2024), sufferings of Katherene Henderson county of Londonderry for the year of 1697, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
4. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0237&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1208176 : accessed 08 March 2024), sufferings of Kathren Henderson county of Londonderry for the year of 1704, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
5. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record/browse?id=ire%2fquaker%2fymb-2%2f0101 : accessed 08 March 2024), minutes dated 10d 3mo (May) 1714, Epistle from the national women's meeting held in Dublin the 8th, 9th and 10th days of the 3rd month 1714; citing YM Women’s Sundry records 1676-1776, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
6. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0002&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1196297 : accessed 08 March 2024), sufferings of William Henderson of the parish of Maghera county of Londonderry for the year of 1694, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
7. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0018&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1197377 : accessed 08 March 2024), sufferings of William Henderson of the parish of Maghera county of Londonderry for the year of 1695, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
8. ↑ "Ireland, Society of Friends (Quaker) Yearly Meeting Sufferings," image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMG-2%2F0034&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1198620 : accessed 08 March 2024), sufferings of William Henderson of the parish of Maghera county of Londonderry for the year of 1696, citing YM Sufferings 1694-1705, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives ref YM G2.
9. ↑ Wight T., A history of the rise and progress of the people called Quakers in Ireland : from 1653 to 1700. To which is added a continuation ... to ...1751. With an introduction ... and a Treatise of the Christion discipline exercised among the said people by J. Rutty, I. Jackson, Dublin, 1751, p 343 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=njp.32101067676641&seq=349&q1=Ballymoney : accessed 15 March 2024)
10. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FQUAKERS%2FL-G-M-5-1%2F0132&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FBIR%2F007765 : accessed 30 August 2019), marriage of Sarah Henderson daughter of William Henderson of Dunclady, Co Derry and Henry son of James Greer in Lurgan, Armagh, Ireland (no date specified); citing Archive Reference LGM5.1, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd.
11. ↑ “Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages,” database with images, FindMyPast (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/transcript?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FMAR%2F002091%2FG : accessed 01 February 2021), marriage of Thomas Greer and Ann Henderson daughter of Katherine Henderson of Dunclady on 26d 3mo (May) 1714; citing citing Archive Reference LGM5.1, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd.
12. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FQM1M-3%2F0033&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMARR%2F6681G : accessed 08 March 2024), marriage of Patrick Henderson, son of William Henderson, of Dunclady, in the county of Londonderry, Deceased and Hannah Softlaw, daughter of John Softlaw of Mountmellick, Queens, deceased in Dublin on 5d 3mo (May) 1718; citing Dublin MM Family Lists, also some burials 1617, 1669-1774, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
13. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM11M-11%2F0347&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMARR%2F1180G : accessed 08 March 2024), marriage of Patrick Henderson, son of William Henderson, of Dunclady, in the county of Londonderry, Deceased and Rachel Sharp daughter of Anthony Sharp of Dublin deceased in Dublin on 26d 11mo (Jan) 1713 (1714); citing Dublin MM Family Lists, also some burials 1617, 1669-1774, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
14. ↑ “Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages,” database with images, FindMyPast (https://www.findmypast.ie/transcript?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FMAR%2F003512%2FG : accessed 06 March 2020), marriage of James Bullow and Elizabeth Henderson of Dunclady on 24d 12mo (Feb) 1707 (1708); citing Ulster Quarterly Meeting minutes, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd, archive ref Q.1.1.B.
15. ↑ “Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages,” database with images, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FQUAKERS%2FQ-1-2%2F0206&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FMAR%2F003687%2FB : accessed 06 March 2020), Joseph Moore of Ballymoney and Mary Henderson of Dunclady were married at Katherine Henderson's in Dunclady on 3 3m (May) 1721; citing Ulster Quarterly Meeting minutes, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd, archive ref Q.1.2.
16. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FQUAKERS%2FQ-1-2%2F0226&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FCON%2F136363 : accessed 08 March 2024), minutes dated 5d 1mo (March) 1724 (1725), Epistle from the national women's meeting held in Dublin the 8th, 9th and 10th days of the 3rd month 1714; citing Ulster Province meeting minutes 1717-1750, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd, archive ref Q.1.2
17. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM11M-11%2F0339&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMARR%2F1172G : accessed 08 March 2024), marriage of William Henderson of Lurgan co Armagh and Elizabeth Smallman of the City of Dublin in Dublin on 5d 3mo (May) 1713; citing Mountmellick MM family list 1641-1798, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
18. ↑ “Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Marriages,” database with images, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=S2%2FIRE%2FQUAKERS%2FL-B-M-1-1%2F0047&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FULSTER%2FMAR%2F001142%2FG : accessed 06 March 2020), marriage intentions of William Henderson and Susanna Courtney on 6 5m (July) 1706; citing Lisburn Monthly Meeting minutes, Ulster Friends Trustees Ltd, archive ref LBM1.1
19. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://www.findmypast.ie/transcript?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F345030 : accessed 16 February 2020), Minutes dated 21d 11mo (Jan) 1717 (1718), Disownment of William Henderson for getting into debt after moving to Dublin, in which city he had recently remarried and set up in business; citing Dublin disownments.1662-1756, Archive reference MM II F1, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
20. ↑ Myers, A C, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, the author, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902 p 292 (https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/292/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Henderson : accessed 8 March 2024).
21. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMC-3%2F0014&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1137008 : accessed 09 March 2024), minutes dated 8d 7mo (Sep) 1708, Alexander Seaton and William Henderson of the north visiting Cork and Bandon.; citing Names of Friends in Ministry 1655-1781, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives archive ref YM C3.
22. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FYMC-3%2F0021&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F1137078 : accessed 09 March 2024), minutes dated 1d 8mo (Oct) 1712, William Henderson of the north came a week before the Prov Meeting, in which time he visited Bandon and Castlesalem and after the Pro Meeting had a meeting in Mallow; citing Names of Friends in Ministry 1655-1781, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives archive ref YM C3.
23. ↑ Burnyeat, J. Some Account of the Gospel Labours of Jonathan Burnyeat..., William & Frederick G . Cash, 1857, pages 41, 54 (https://archive.org/details/someaccountgosp00burgoog/page/n48/mode/1up?q=Henderson&view=theater : accessed 8 March 2024)
24. ↑ FindmyPast search on archive ref YM C3 for 'Patrick Henderson' (https://www.findmypast.co.uk/search/results?datasetname=ireland%2c%20society%20of%20friends%20(quaker)%20congregational%20records&volume=ym%20c3&firstname=patrick&firstname_variants=true&lastname=henderson&sid=999 : accessed 8 March 2024)
25. ↑ Bowden, J, The History of the Society of Friends In America, London, Charles Gilpin, 1850-1854, vol 2 pp 226, 227 (https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.32044021090428&seq=238&q1=Henderson : accessed 8 March 2024)
26. ↑ Myers, A C, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, the author, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902 pp 97, 98 (https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/97/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Henderson : accessed 8 March 2024).
27. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM11M-2%2F0213&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMM11M-2%2F0213 : accessed 04 March 2024), Family list of Patrick Henderson and Rachel Sharp; citing Dublin MM Family lists 1701-1726 and a few later, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
28. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Family Lists, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMMVM-1%2F0201&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FBIRTH%2F17745 : accessed 08 March 2024), Family list of Warren Henderson son of Patrick Henderson and Anne Russell; citing Mountmellick MM family list 1641-1798, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
29. ↑ Ireland, Society Of Friends (Quaker) Congregational Records, image, FindMyPast (https://search.findmypast.co.uk/record?id=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FMMVO-1%2F0118&parentid=IRE%2FQUAKER%2FCONG%2F717279 : accessed 08 March 2024), minutes dated 6d 7mo (Jul) 1755, Testimony of denial against Catherine Henderson daughter of Patrick Henderson deceased for 'want of regard to fear of god which preserves from sin'; citing Mountmellick MM disownments 1681-1789, Religious Society Of Friends In Ireland Archives.
30. ↑ Potts, TM, Our Family Ancestors, the author, Cannonsburg, PA, 1895, ff p 250 (https://archive.org/details/ourfamilyancesto00pott/page/250/mode/1up?q=Miller&view=theater : accessed 8 March 2024)
31. ↑ Myers, A C, Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750, the author, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 1902 ff p 325 (https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/325/mode/1up?view=theater&q=Miller : accessed 8 March 2024).