HUGH HENRY

The son of John Henry and Ann Hamilton, who were Scotch Presbyterians, Hugh was born in the year 1740 at Coleraine, Londonderry, Ireland. Hugh left Londonderry on October 22, 1765, arriving on the packet ship "Jupiter" at Philadelphia, Pa., on December 9, 1765, where he settled. He was a vestryman of the first Presbyterian church in Philadelphia in 1767, in which he was married on May 4, 1769 to Phoebe Morris, sister of Robert Morris, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and financier of the Revolutionary War. At the outbreak of the Revolution, Hugh incurred the hostility of the British by his moral and material support of the American Army, and was forced to flee to Lancaster, Pa., where on September 21, 1777 he took the oath of allegiance to the United States and hostility to the crown. Hugh died at Philadelphia in the year 1825.

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