Leonard Henley
(c. 1748-1798)
BIRTH
1748
PLACE
Williamsburg, Virginia
DEATH
November 19, 1798
PLACE
James City, Virginia
FAMILY
SISTER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
WIFE
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
CHILDREN
Frances Dandridge Henley Lear
(1779-1856)
CHILDREN
John Dandridge Henley
(1781-1835)
CHILDREN
Robert Henley
(1783-1828)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
NOT YET RESEARCHED
MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
Leonard Henley was a Virginian who married the widowed Elizabeth Dandridge Aylett in 1779, connecting him to Martha Washington’s extended family. Their children included Frances, later Tobias Lear’s wife, and naval officer John Dandridge Henley. A Revolutionary burial register credits Leonard with military and supply service, while family histories document his death in November 1798. His birth year and the precise marriage day vary in published records and remain qualified.
EARLY LIFE
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.
CAREER
DEATH
Their children included Frances, later Tobias Lear’s wife, and naval officer John Dandridge Henley. A Revolutionary burial register credits Leonard with military and supply service, while family histories document his death in November 1798. Leonard Henley died on Nov 19, 1798 in James City, Virginia. 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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