John Dandridge Henley
(1781-1835)
BIRTH
February 25, 1781
PLACE
Williamsburg, Virginia
DEATH
May 23, 1835
PLACE
Havana, Cuba
FAMILY
FATHER
Leonard Henley
(c. 1748-1798)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
SISTER
Frances Dandridge Henley Lear
(1779-1856)
BROTHER
Robert Henley
(1783-1828)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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AWARDS
John Dandridge Henley (1781–1835) was a United States naval officer born in Williamsburg. Appointed a midshipman in 1799, he fought at Tripoli in 1804 and commanded the schooner Carolina during the defense of New Orleans in the War of 1812. He became a captain in 1817 and later took the frigate Congress to China. A nephew of Martha Washington and brother of naval officer Robert Henley, he died aboard Vandalia at Havana. A Navy destroyer carried his name.
EARLY LIFE
John Dandridge Henley was born on Feb 25, 1781 in Williamsburg, Virginia. 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 John Dandridge Henley with work or public activity as a sailor. 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. John Dandridge Henley died on May 23, 1835 in Havana, Cuba. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Appointed a midshipman in 1799, he fought at Tripoli in 1804 and commanded the schooner Carolina during the defense of New Orleans in the War of 1812. John Dandridge Henley died on May 23, 1835 in Havana, Cuba. The available biographical account does not describe a continuous final medical course. It gives no dependable sequence of treatment and last symptoms from which to reconstruct a more detailed bedside narrative.
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