┌── Nicholas Hancher
                                            │    1705-1777 
                   ┌── William Henshaw ─────┤
                   │    1736-1799           │
                   │                        └── Rebecca Smith
                   │                            c1707-?    
Rebecca Henshaw ───┤
B: 1790            │                        ┌──  William Anderson
D: 1799            │                        │
                   └── Agnes Ann Anderson ──┤
                       c1745-<1806          │
                                            └── Mary Lauren
M: Lewis Moore

Rebecca Henshaw     [ID 01687]

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Rebecca Henshaw^1,2 [Rebeccah Henshaw³, Rebekah Henshaw^4,5,6, Elizabeth Henshaw⁷].

Born 1790.³  

She married Lewis Moore^{1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9} [Louis Moore⁹].  Lewis was born about 1750, probably Virginia.⁹  

Lewis was a private in the Virginia Continental Army during the Revolution.  He is listed as a Patriot in the DAR Patriot Index.⁹  

Rebekah and Lewis initially moved to Kentucky.^1,3  In 1803 Lewis & Rebecca moved to Louisiana.¹⁰  

Children:

Rebecca Henshaw died Apr 9 1799¹¹ [Apr 9 1831⁹], Berkeley County, Virginia¹¹ [Louisiana⁹].  

Lewis died 1831, Louisiana.⁹  

A biographical sketch of grandson Joseph Murtaugh Moore was published in "Louisiana Biographical and Historical Memoirs" - "Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Louisiana", Vol. 2, 1892:¹²

The late Judge Joseph Murtaugh Moore, of Opelousas, La., was born in Opelousas, September 28, 1824.  The Moores were an old Virginia family, and the ancestral residence still stands in Berkeley county, of that state.  Judge Lewis Moore was a major in the Revolutionary war.  He married a Virginia lady by the name of Henshaw.  There were born to the marriage four sons, one of whom, J. Andrew, was the father of our subject.  Judge Lewis Moore settled near Berwick's Bay, and there became a wealthy planter and property owner.  J. Andrew Moore, father of our subject, was educated at the Transylvania school of medicine in Pennsylvania, but never practiced his profession.  He became the father of fourteen children, twelve of whom grew to maturity.  The late Judge Joseph Murtaugh Moore was the oldest of the family.   ...

Sources

1. "The Hinshaw and Henshaw Families", by William Hinshaw; edited by Milo Custer; private printing, Bloomington, Illinois, 1911; Frank I. Miller Co., printers. LDS microfilm number 1402822.
2. "Family Tree Maker, Family Archives, World Family Tree", Vol. 3, by Broderbund Software, a collection of individual family group submissions.
3. "History of Henshaws in Scotland, in England and in America to the Present Time", Edith Henshaw Kuntz, 1956; contributed by Don Henshaw.
4. "The West Virginia Historical Magazine Quarterly", Vol. 4, No. 2, April 1904. The West Virginia Historical and Antiquarian Society, Charleston, W.VA. Article "The Henshaw Family" by Valley Virginia Henshaw. Contributed by David H. Henshaw ().
5. "Genealogical and Personal History of Fayette County Pennsylvania", Volume II. John W. Jordan & James Hadden, editors. Lewis Historical Publishing Company, New York, 1912. Contributed by David H. Henshaw ().
6. Lineage Books of the Charter Members of the National Society of the
   Daughters of the American Revolution (www.ancestry.com).
7. Henshaw history and genealogy manuscript, original by Holmes Hart Henshaw, 1930; updated in 1995 by Donald Craig Henshaw and others.
8. Family group sheets created by Frances G. Brumley, citing Henshaw family bible records, Greene County, TN court & cemetery records, and several secondary sources. Contributed by Ruth Jenkins ().
9. Contribution from Dee Becker ().
10. Contribution from Dee Becker () citing:
    "The Daily World", Nov 3 1955, St. Landry Parish, LA.
11. The Church Of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints (LDS) computerized Ancestral File.
12. "Louisiana Biographical and Historical Memoirs"; http://www.ancestry.com.

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