Henley, Leonard
(c. 1748-1798)
Leonard Henley was a Virginia planter and member of the extended Dandridge family network. Through marriage and kinship he was connected with Martha Washington’s relatives and the Williamsburg and James City County society surrounding the Revolutionary generation.
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The exact date and place of Leonard Henley’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 Leonard Henley with work or public activity as a planter. 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. Leonard Henley died on Nov 19, 1798 in James City, Virginia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.

















