The Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia borders Maryland and Virginia. The first European settlers started arriving about 1730.
also spelled Hendrix, Hendrick
York County is in south central Pennsylvania and was created on August 19, 1749 from part of Lancaster County.
West Virginia is located in the Appalachians and was originally part of Virginia. The capital and largest city is Charleston. It became a state during the Civil War and was admitted to the Union on June 20, 1863.
James Hendricks was born on August 5, 1722 in York County, Pennsylvania.
James married Priscilla Pettit. Her parents were James Pettit and Priscilla Darling.
James and Priscilla's children may have included:
Abigail Hendricks (1743)
Daniel Hendricks (1744, married Jane Buckles),
Lydia Hendricks (1748),
Thomas Hendricks (1749),
Priscilla Hendricks (1749, married William Buckles),
Rebecca Hendricks (1754),
Mary Hendricks (1756),
Caleb Hendricks (1758),
James Hendricks, Jr. ( 1760, married Jane Melvin),
John Hendricks (1762),
Olive Hendricks (1764), and
Elizabeth Hendricks (1766).
The Hendrixs were early settlers in, what is now, the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. They probably arrived about 1760.
From Frederick County Road Orders
1 August 1769, Frederick County Order Book 14 Part 2, p. 509
Godwin Swift Henry Lloyd and Thomas Hart having been appointed to veiw the ground from Semples Furnace to the Warm Spring Road made their Report. Ordered that a Road be opened as Laid off by them and that the Tithables Three Miles on Each side work thereon under James Hendricks who is appointed overseer thereof
6 March 1770, Frederick County Order Book 14 Part 2, p. 590
Upon the Petition of Samuel Beall praying that a Road may be opened out of the main Road Leading from Jacob Hites to Mecklenburg through Fosters Land to the Ferrying Water & also to the Ford of Potomack. Ordered that John Taylor John Wright James Hendricks & William Dark or any Three of them being first sworne do veiw the same & report the Conveniences & Inconveniences that may attend the same.
Berkeley County was created from Frederick County in 1772.
Jams Hendrick was on the rent roll of Berkeley County, Virginia in 1772 and Jas. Hendrick in 1777. He had 360 acres.
In 1790, a James Hendricks was in Jefferson County, Virginia. the household consisted of:
a man and a woman over 45
3 boys and one girl between 10 and 15
an enslaved person
This was probably James, Jr. because the children were too young to be James, Sr's.
Berkeley Countywas created from the northern third of Frederick County, Virginia in 1772. Jefferson County was formed from the county's eastern section. In 1863 Berkeley County became part of the new state of West Virginia.
Rent rolls were lists of landowners showing whether they had paid their annual quit-rents to the Crown. A quick-rent was a feudal remnant and was paid by a freeholder in lieu of services that might otherwise have been required.
Heir Book 1768 Redding township York County in the province of Pennsylvania on the 20 day of May 1760 about 3 o'clock in the afternoon James was born.
James son of Jas Hendricks and Priscilla his wife was born in fradick county in the Collonay of Verginia on Sunday 8 day of April 1762 about one o'clock in the afternoon.
The American Flag was adopted in 1777.
Daniel Hendricks was born on February 20, 1745 at York County, Pennsylvania. He was the son of James Pettit and Priscilla Hendricks.
He was a sergeant in Captain William Drake's and Captain Isaac Israel's companies from May, 1776 to April, 1777.
William Hendricks (1763, married Susannah Taylor),
Nancy Hendricks (1766, married William McCormack),
Kersey Hendricks married Unknown Jones)
Priscilla Hendricks (married Unknown Kezar)
Milly Hendricks (married Unknown Hewit)
Elizabeth (married Unknown Long)
Daniel Hendriks (1775, married Margaret Duke).
They lived in an area that is now in West Virginia.
The New River flows through North Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia .In 1755, Mary Draper Ingles (1732-1815) was captured by Shawnee warriors near Blacksburg and taken to Ohio. She escaped and made her way home by following the Ohio, Kanawha, and New Rivers.
Daniel Hendricks was born on December 10, 1775.
He married Margaret Duke. Margaret was born on August 18, 1778
Daniel Hendricks (1797, married Polly Osborne)
James Hendricks (1812)
Eliza Hendricks (1814, married Edward Lucas)
Daniel Hendricks was born on August 25, 1797.
He married Polly Osborn. Polly was born on December 6, 1795.
Margaret Hendricks (1817, married Daniel Nichols),
Sarah Taylor Hendricks (1824, married Adam Link, Jr.)
Blanche Ann Hendricks (1830,; married George M. Branter),
Tobias Hendricks (1835; died, married Sarah Coffenberger)
