Robert Henley
(1783-1828)
BIRTH
January 5, 1783
PLACE
Williamsburg, Virginia
DEATH
October 7, 1828
PLACE
Charleston, South Carolina
FAMILY
FATHER
Leonard Henley
(c. 1748-1798)
MOTHER
Elizabeth Dandridge Henley
(1749–c. 1800)
SISTER
Frances Dandridge Henley Lear
(1779-1856)
BROTHER
John Dandridge Henley
(1781-1835)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
NOT YET RESEARCHED
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MEMBERSHIPS
AWARDS
CONGRESSIONAL GOLD MEDAL RECIPIENT
Robert Henley (1783–1828) was an American naval officer and a nephew of Martha Washington. Appointed a midshipman in 1799, he served against France and in the Mediterranean before commanding gunboats during the War of 1812. As captain of the brig Eagle, he helped Thomas Macdonough defeat the British on Lake Champlain in September 1814. Congress awarded him a gold medal. He later held naval commands and died at Charleston in October 1828.
EARLY LIFE
Robert Henley was born on Jan 5, 1783 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 Robert 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. Robert Henley died on Oct 7, 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Robert Henley was an American naval officer and a nephew of Martha Washington. Appointed a midshipman in 1799, he served against France and in the Mediterranean before commanding gunboats during the War of 1812. As captain of the brig Eagle, he helped Thomas Macdonough defeat the British on Lake Champlain in September 1814. He captured the pirate schooner Moscow off Santo Domingo October 29, 1821. Robert Henley later held naval commands and died at Charleston in October 1828. Robert Henley died on Oct 7, 1828 in Charleston, South Carolina. 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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