An American Family History

Joseph Hensley

also spelled Hansley, Hensly, Heansley

The Holston River flows from Kingsport to Knoxville.

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map by Kmusser

Joseph Hensley was born about 1750.

His wife was named Jane.

Elizabeth Hensley (married John Fleenor).

Joseph Hensley served as an orderly sergeant in Captain White's Company under Colonel William Davis, in the second regiment of Virginia.

On April 17, 1780, Joseph was at the estate sale of Christopher Dicken in Culpeper County.

On November 28, 1781 a treasury warrant was issued to William Hensley, assignee of Joseph Hensley, for 274 acres in Washington County, Virginia. The land was surveyed on March 25, 1791. The land was on Cove Creek a branch of North Fork of the Holston River.

Joseph was listed on the tax lists in Washington County from 1782 through 1790.

The Great Wagon Road was the most important Colonial American route for settlers of the mountainous backcountry. It went from Philadelphia to the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. One fork went to the Tennessee Valley and Knoxville and the other to the Piedmont Region of North Carolina.

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