Blair County PA Archives Biographies.....Henshey, John July 1, 1776 - January 1856
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Source: Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair Co, PA: Philadelphia, 1892.
Author: Samuel T. Wiley

JOHN HENSHEY 
(father of Deacon David Henshey, of Davidsburg) was born in Lancaster county,
Pennsylvania, July 1, 1776.  After residing there and in Franklin county,
Pennsylvania, for some years, he removed to Sinking valley in the spring of
1813, where, on the 2d of August of the same year, his son David was born. 
In all, his family consisted of four sons and four daughters.  In 1824 he
sold his interests in Sinking valley, and purchased of Thomas Ricketts three
hundred and fifteen acres of land in Antis township, or the premises now
occupied by the village of Davidsburg and the farm of David Henshey.  He died
in January, 1856.

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Originally submitted 2001. Transcribed by Debbie Robinson Stearns.

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