Henry Fisher
BIRTH
1758
Lancaster, Pennsylvania
DEATH
February 3, 1839
Hawkins County, Tennessee
FAMILY
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Fisher, Henry
(1758-1839)
Henry Fisher was a Delaware Bay pilot and Patriot intelligence source during the American Revolution. From Lewes he reported British naval movements to American authorities and helped organize coastal warning and defense efforts in the strategically important entrance to the Delaware River.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Home of Major Henry Fisher Marker | 618 Pilottown Rd, Lewes, DE 19958 | MARKER |
DIED:
Hawkins County, Tennessee
Feb 3, 1839
The exact date and place of Henry Fisher’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Henry Fisher with work or public activity as a spy. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Henry Fisher died on Feb 3, 1839 in Hawkins County, Tennessee. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.