5/7/2023 0 Comments Dorothea trebs1785 who married Anne Elcan Alexander Spotswood b. 1783 who married Elvira Cabell Fayette b. 1781 who married Edward Henry Patrick Jr. 1780 who married Alexander Scott Martha Catherina b. She married on, Patrick Henry (buried at this cem.) they had 11 children: Sarah Butler b. Cousin of Martha Dandridge Washington, wife of George Washington. Memorial #: 8320.īio: Wife of Patrick Henry, orator & US Patriot.∼The very first First Lady of VA. Įvent: Buried at "Red Hill" with her first husband, Patrick Henry.įrom Dorothea Dandridge Henry Birth: 1755 Hanover County, Virginia Death: (aged 75–76) Halifax County, Virginia, USA Burial: Henry Cemetery, Aspen, Charlotte County, Virginia, USA. Miscellaneous Events Event: First met future husband at "Gold Mine".Įvent: Romantically involved with John Paul her father ended it.Įvent: Per court clerk, marriage date is. Marriage Place of parents: Hanover, Virginia, United States Parents and Siblings Husband: Capt Nathaniel West Dandridge (1729 - 1786) Because of inclement weather, she was initially buried at “Seven Islands” she was subsequently re-interred at “Red Hill” beside Patrick Henry, in Henry Cemetery. She died at age 73 at “Seven Islands” in Halifax County, Virginia. She may have married the executor since Patrick Henry's will stated that if Dorothea remarried, all the land and slaves would be inherited by his surviving children. In 1794, they retired to Red Hill Plantation, comprising 520 acres (2.1 km2) in Charlotte County, which was also a functioning tobacco plantation.Īfter Patrick Henry's death (6 June 1799), twenty-two years after they were married, Dorothea, with 17 children (6 from Patrick's first marriage to Sarah Shelton), married Judge Edmund Winston who was Patrick Henry's executor and first cousin they lived in "Huntingtour" in Nelson County, Virginia. After completing his second term as governor in 1779 he and Dorothea moved there. Henry had already purchased Leatherwood plantation, where he grew tobacco and practiced law in what was to become Henry County. 1796 who married Elvira McClelland (both buried at this cem.) and She and Henry had eleven children together: Dorothea appears to have been accepted and well-liked as a stepmother. Also, she took over the role of mother of the children by Henry's first marriage, some of whom were almost as old as she. After he was elected to his second term as first governor of the newly independent commonwealth of Virginia, Young Dorothea Spotswood Dandridge Henry played her role as the first FIRST LADY of the Commonwealth of Virginia with tact and grace. On, soon after her twentieth birthday, she married Patrick Henry, whose first wife had died in 1775. Indeed, she and George Washington’s wife, Martha Dandridge Custis were cousins. Spending her early life on a thriving plantation, she had frequent contact with “movers and shakers” of the growing rebellion against English tyranny. issue of Mon., Feb 28, In her obituary, DOROTHEA SPOTSWOOD DANDRIDGE HENRY WINSTON was acclaimed to be “of the ancient Dandridge family.” Yes, she was of this “ancient family,” but more than that, she lived in one of the most important eras of United States history and was “up to the task” as the expression goes!ĭorothea “Dolly” was born, 25 September 1755 (or 1757) to Nathaniel West Dandridge (b 7 Sept 1729) and his wife, Dorothea Spotswood (b1733) in Hanover County, Virginia, and the grand-daughter of colonial Virginia Governor Alexander Spotswood (c. She was descended from the Dandridge family of Hanover Co. Dorothea Winston, widow of Judge Edmund Winston & of Patrick Henry. 10th, in Halifax Co., at her daughter's (Mrs. Lynchburg Virginian (Lynchburg, Va.) Died- On Feb. 15, 1831 She was formerly the wife of the celebrated Patrick HENRY. WINSON, Dorothea, wife of the late Edmund WINSTON, died in Halifax Co., Va., Feb. Biography The very first First Lady of VA.
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