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34-937: Willie , Billy , Bill , Will or William Henry may refer to: Politicians [ edit ] William Henry (gunsmith) (1729–1786), American gunsmith and Pennsylvania delegate to Continental Congress William Henry (brother of Patrick Henry) (1734–1785), American member of Colonial Virginia House of Burgesses William Henry (congressman) (1788–1861), American legislator from Vermont William Alexander Henry (1816–1888), Canadian Supreme Court justice William Wirt Henry (1831–1900), American lawyer, politician and historian in Virginia William H. Henry , Socialist Party of America Executive Secretary during late 1920s William Thomas Henry (1872–1952), Canadian politician; Legislative Assembly of Alberta member William Henry, Libertarian nominee for Lieutenant Governor of Indiana in

68-603: A "Description of a Self-Moving or Sentinel Register" to regulate the flue of a furnace. Henry invented a screw auger, manufactured and sold exclusively at his Lancaster store, and some credit him with inventing the steamboat: the twelve-year-old Robert Fulton , a Lancaster neighbor, visited Henry in 1777, who had been experimenting since 1763 on boats with steam engines on the Conestoga River (Fulton's own experiments began only in 1786 in England). Henry and his family were members of

102-565: A Saviour's love. On 24 October 1843 James Shepherd "being desirous of making some provision" for his daughter, Ann Henry, gave her one acre of land, part of James Squire's 30 acre grant, bounded on the east by James Stewart's grant and on the south by the public road to Parramatta. Shepherd appointed Joseph Smith, a coffee planter in Tahiti and her son-in-law, as Ann's trustee. Smith, his wife Elizabeth and her sister Ann, settled in Hawaii , where Smith held

136-442: A government position. "The Retreat" homestead was probably built in 1843. The deed of gift specified "in consideration of the premises and of ten shillings" and transferred the land and "the message thereon erected". William Henry, though trained as a carpenter, was an elderly man but one of his (stepsons ) sons, James Shepherd Henry (born 1820), was a builder. Ann's brother Isaac Shepherd was apparently also its builder. Isaac owned

170-407: A grant of A£200 for building. The Society refused, indicating that a retirement allowance would be made for him and if this was insufficient for his "indispensable wants" they would then consider another request. The Society's letter concluded: We rejoice to perceive that in the retreat you have selected for your declining years, you will not be without opportunities for making known the preciousness of

204-514: A missionary in Tahiti and nearby islands for 50 years. When he retired in 1847, he was the longest serving and only survivor of the first band of missionaries to the Pacific. Henry had helped baptise King Pōmare II , resulting in great influence for the missionaries within Tahitian society. As a teacher, he compiled a Tahitian grammar and observed Polynesian customs and culture. As pastor, he participated in

238-573: A rebellion in late 1808 and the destruction of their homes, seven missionaries and their families again went back to Sydney, where they arrived in the Hibernia in February 1810. Among them was Henry with his wife and three children. He returned to the Kissing Point district where he preached and taught. After a year Henry returned to Tahiti, this time bearing Lachlan Macquarie 's appointment as "magistrate for

272-515: A second wife. He chose Ann Shepherd, the 16-year-old daughter of his friend, James Shepherd of Kissing Point. William and Ann were married by the Reverend Samuel Marsden at Parramatta on 1 June 1813. Henry's conduct shocked some. The first of their ten children was born on the island of Mo'orea (Eimeo) in August 1814. Both of Ann'a brothers visited her in Tahiti. James Shepherd joined them on

306-516: A successful ironmonger and merchant in Lancaster. Henry later served in many positions of public responsibility, including Assistant Commissary General to the Continental Army for the district of Lancaster and, in 1779, Commissary of Hides for Pennsylvania, Delaware , and Maryland . In these positions, Henry managed vast sums of money and acquired and transferred enormous amounts of material. (He

340-638: A year of arrival, the missionaries became concerned for their safety and left with their families for Sydney where they arrived in May 1798. With James Fleet Cover , William Henry established an itinerant mission based in Parramatta and in 1798-99 preached in the north-western districts of Sydney; Henry's congregation at Kissing Point developed into the congregation of St Anne's. Henry and his family returned to Tahiti in October 1799 to continue his missionary work. Following

374-777: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages William Henry (gunsmith) William Henry was born near Downingtown, Pennsylvania to a family of Scots-Irish extraction. Prior to his service in the Continental Congress, Henry was a gunsmith and provided rifles to the British during the French and Indian War : Henry himself, serving as armorer , accompanied troops on John Forbes 's successful mission to retake Fort Duquesne in 1758. By 1760, according to Scott Paul Gordon, Henry had largely abandoned his occupation of gunsmith and had become

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408-439: The 2020 Indiana gubernatorial election Royalty [ edit ] William Henry, Prince of Orange (1650–1702), future King William III of England William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1684–1718), member of German royalty William Henry, Prince of Nassau-Saarbrücken (1718–1768), member of German royalty Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743–1805), younger brother of King George III of

442-583: The Moravian Congregation at Lancaster. Henry was the earliest patron of painter Benjamin West , who lodged in Henry's home in Lancaster in 1756 and painted portraits of William and Ann Henry, probably shortly after their marriage. More significantly, Henry encouraged West to paint The Death of Socrates (1756), perhaps the first history painting produced in the colonies; West credited Henry with having initiated

476-993: The Brave Others [ edit ] William Henry (missionary) (1770-1859), Irish missionary, active in Tahiti and New South Wales, Australia William Henry (chemist) (1774–1836), English chemist who formulated Henry's law William Henry (pastor) (1783-1839), Scottish Congregationalist pastor William "Jerry" Henry (1811–after 1851), American fugitive slave who was freed in New York event known as Jerry Rescue William W. Henry (1831–1915), American Civil War Medal of Honor recipient William Henry (actor) (1914–1982), American performer; also billed as Bill Henry  E. William Henry (1929–2022), American public official; chairman of FCC See also [ edit ] Fort William Henry , British fort built in upper New York during 1754–63 French and Indian War; referenced in Last of

510-645: The Henry boys turned to trade running guns, liquor, sandalwood and supplies around the islands. The exploits of Captain Samuel Pinder Henry, a son of Henry's first marriage, and Captain George Henry, eldest son of Ann's ten children, became part of the Pacific sea-farers' folklore. [REDACTED] This Misplaced Pages article was originally based on Retreat, The , entry number 00506 in the New South Wales State Heritage Register published by

544-536: The Henry home and Isaac and Daniel Henry were charged with defamation following another clash with him. These personal conflicts were further confused by the political situation and William and Ann Henry's friendship with the French who had declared Tahiti a French protectorate in 1842. The directors of the London Missionary Society, as well as the resident missionaries, were anxious to remove the Henry family from

578-670: The Mohicans William-Henry , name of Canadian city Sorel-Tracy from 1787 to 1845 Bill Henry (film) , 1919 American comedy directed by Jerome Storm [REDACTED] Topics referred to by the same term This disambiguation page lists articles about people with the same name. If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=William_Henry&oldid=1238521414 " Category : Human name disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description

612-631: The Pacific Islands". His wife, Sarah, died at Tahiti in July 1812. Henry went back to Australia. He returned to Tahiti with a new bride, Ann, who retained close contact with her family at Kissing Point. Henry reported regularly to London and maintained contacts with Samuel Marsden at Parramatta who was from 1812 a foreign director of the London Missionary Society. He corresponded with former missionaries including Rowland Hassall , and other colonial clergymen such as John Dunmore Lang . William Henry served as

646-1503: The United Kingdom William Henry, Duke of Clarence (1765–1837), future King William IV of the United Kingdom Sportspeople [ edit ] William Henry (swimmer) (1859–1928), English Olympic competitor Billy Henry (1884–after 1960), Scottish footballer Bill Henry (footballer) (1904–1974), Australian rules forward Bill Henry (basketball) (1924–1985), American center Bill Henry (baseball, born 1927) (1927–2014), American pitcher for six MLB teams Bill Henry (baseball, born 1942) , American pitcher for New York Yankees Will Henry (footballer) (born 1998), English goalkeeper Writers [ edit ] William Henry (priest) (before 1728–1768), Anglo-Irish Dean of Killaloe William Arnon Henry (1850–1932), American academic and agriculturist from Ohio William J. Henry (1867–1955), American hymn writer Bill Henry (journalist) (1890–1970), American newspaper reporter Bill Fitz Henry (1903–1957), Australian journalist with The Bulletin William E. Henry (1918–1994), American psychologist William A. Henry III (1950–1994), American author and cultural critic Will Henry, pen name of American screenwriter Henry Wilson Allen (1912–1991) Will Henry, pen name of William Henry Wilson, cartoonist and writer of Wallace

680-502: The adjoining one acre portion which was given to him by his father in 1833. Isaac probably provided the stone for "The Retreat" from his quarry. Stone from James Shepherd Sr.'s nearby quarry had been used to build St Anne's Church in 1826, Addington in the 1830s and Hellenie in 1840. Henry and his family did not settle down at Kissing Point. In late 1844 he returned to Tahiti "with his family of three idle sons and as many daughters." The resident missionary refused to let his daughters visit

714-520: The behaviour of the children of both his marriages. Brought up as Tahitian, speaking Tahitian as their first language, they mixed freely with native children, adopting their sexual and social habits, such as tattooing. The Henry children were regarded as social outcasts, the despair of missionary families in the islands and in Sydney where they were sent to learn European ways, accusations of drunkenness, idolatry and promiscuity filled reports to London. Several of

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748-478: The boys to serve apprenticeships and the girls to improve their "education, needlework and house keeping". Some of the children lived with other missionary families in Sydney. Five year old Josiah, their fifth child, was sent to live with his grandfather Shepherd at Kissing Point in 1827. Joseph Smith the coffee planter in 1835 married Elizabeth Henry (born 1816). In the eyes of his colleagues in Tahiti and in Sydney, Henry's missionary achievements were overshadowed by

782-510: The family achieved a quiet respectability denied them in their pioneering years in the Pacific. Financial difficulties did not disappear. Ann and her two youngest daughters, Sophia and Henrietta, had inherited from James Shepherd a block of land in George Street, Sydney . Regular mortgages on this land, the first for A£700 in June 1857, provided capital until Sophia died unmarried in 1904. "The Retreat"

816-537: The island of Mo'orea, in 1816, then joined the Church Missionary Society and became a missionary, in New Zealand. Isaac Shepherd came to Tahiti in 1818 with John Gyles , a missionary who had been sent to establish sugar cultivation and a mill on the island. They worked on the project for a year without success and Isaac returned to Sydney in late 1819. The Henry children were sent to Sydney for brief periods,

850-500: The islands but recognised that they were only "punishing a parent for the errors of his child. Mr Henry...has pained his mind. He declines removing, in consequence of his health." In 1847 Henry, aged 77, celebrated his jubilee as a missionary. In April 1847 James Shepherd died at Kissing Point, leaving property for his daughter, Ann, and her children. William and Ann Henry, with four of their ten children, returned to Sydney in February 1848 and settled at their "Retreat". Here, at last,

884-589: The moral, social and civic life of the Tahitian people. Alarmed by the behaviour of the children of several of the first missionaries, the London Missionary Society decided in 1839 to retire the older men, including William Henry. In October 1842 Henry, his wife and his younger children sailed to Sydney on the Sarah Ann , arriving in December 1842. In January 1843 Henry wrote to the London Missionary Society about his plans to retire and settle at Kissing Point. He asked for

918-612: The painter's interest in history painting, the genre for which the painter became famous. Henry's sons carried on his gun business, in Lancaster, in Philadelphia , in Nazareth, Pennsylvania , and then in Boulton, PA. One of his sons, John Joseph Henry , served as a sixteen-year-old rifleman on Benedict Arnold 's march on Quebec in the fall and winter of 1775 (he was captured and imprisoned for much of 1776), and later served as president judge of

952-653: The second District in Pennsylvania from 1795–1811. William Henry (missionary) William Henry (1770–1859) was an Irish missionary for the London Missionary Society . William Henry was born in Sligo , Ireland in 1770, the son of George and Sarah Henry. He trained as a carpenter and joiner and worked in the Sligo shipyards. As a young man, he joined in the persecution of itinerant Methodist preachers but in 1791

986-458: The trials of his long public life. The children of the southern islands ... will pay their homage to the memory of one who devoted his life to their welfare." He was buried in St Anne's cemetery, not far from where he had preached the first service in the district 61 years earlier. Henry's family life affected his reputation. He married, firstly, Sarah, in Sligo in October 1794. Their child, Sarah,

1020-777: Was converted and joined the Calvinistic Methodist group known as the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion . They arranged for Henry's tuition under John Walker , Fellow of Trinity College, Dublin . The Connexion supported the London Missionary Society , founded in 1795 by Thomas Haweis , chaplain to the Countess. The Society purchased the ship Duff and dispatched 30 missionaries to the South Seas in August 1796. All were tradesmen. There were six married missionaries with their families, among them William Henry and his wife Sarah. Within

1054-632: Was mortgaged in December 1858 for A£200 and repaid in full two years later. William Henry continued to preach at St. Anne's and acted as school master until his death at Ryde aged 89 in April 1859, his body erect, his voice strong and his conversation animated to the last. His obituary in The Sydney Morning Herald declared him "a pioneer of civilisation and commerce as a teacher of the Christian faith, he maintained an unblemished reputation through all

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1088-570: Was no longer producing guns, but he did acquire them—along with shoes, hats, flour—to supply them to state and continental troops.) In 1780 Henry informed Joseph Reed that he had "laid out…between Sixty & Seventy Thousand Pound" just to "purchase Leather and Paying Workmens Wages at the Shoe-Factory[s]" he had established "at Philadelphia, Allentown and Lancaster." His correspondence is filled with letters from Army leaders, including George Washington , begging for arms and other materials. Henry

1122-628: Was the Treasurer of Lancaster Country for many years, a position filled by his wife, Ann Wood Henry , after Henry's death in 1786. Henry was an intellectual who helped found Lancaster's Juliana Library-Company in 1759, which during the Revolution and after was housed in his residence, and he held membership in the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia , whose first Transactions (1771) printed Henry's account of his invention of

1156-504: Was the first child born after the missionaries arrived at Tahiti in May 1797. The fourth child, William Ebenezer, was born in Australia, in December 1810 in "the house appointed for a school and chapel in the district called Eastern Farms or Kissing Point". Sarah the daughter married William Bland in 1817, but the marriage was not happy. After Sarah's death in 1812, and leaving his children in Tahiti, Henry returned to Sydney in 1813 seeking

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