+-- Benjamin Henshaw
                                             |    1730-1793 
                        +-- Joshua Henshaw --+
                        |    1765-1840       |
                        |                    +-- Mrs. Huldah (Stillman) Sumner
                        |                                   
John Leavitt Henshaw ---+
B: 1792                 |                    +-- Ashbel Burnham
D: 1832                 |                    |
                        +-- Esther Burnham --+
                             1768-1853       |
                                             +-- Hannah Sage
M: Ann Maria Corey
   +-- Caroline Henrietta Cox Henshaw,     ?-<1894
   +-- Anne Henshaw,     ?-1891 
   +-- Frederick William Henshaw,            
   +-- John Cory Henshaw,  1815-1877 
   +-- Edward Carrington Henshaw, c1821-1872 
   +-- George Holt Henshaw,  1833-1890 

John Leavitt Henshaw     [ID 00426]

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    (John Leavitt Henshaw)^173,170    (John Leverett Henshaw)^9,a

of Montreal, Canada⁹ Born 1792, Middlebury/Middleburg, Vermont.^9,170,173

He married Ann Maria Corey, Jun 16 1814, Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island.^b,9    (Jun 21 1814).^a    (Ann Maria Cory)¹⁷⁰    Ann of Providence, R.I. "of exceptional beauty".⁹    Ann, daughter of Ebenezer H. + Phebe Corey, was born Mar 25 1795, East Greenwich, Kent, Rhode Island.^c,d

Note that John named his first son George Holt Henshaw.    Apparently the Henshaw and Holt families were quite friendly: John's brother George married Maria Holt, sister Caroline married George Johnston Holt, and sister Esther married Charles Holt.

John Leavitt Henshaw died 1832, Montreal, Canada.^9,170,173    John died in the cholera epidemic of 1832, leaving a family of six children.    His younger brother Charles then took in the family and took on the role of father to John's children.¹⁷⁰   

SOURCES

9. The "American Registry", Vol. X, pg 181, 973 US015 Vol. X in the LDS Family History Library.

170. "Our Family: A Little Account of it for my Descendents", by Sarah Edwards Henshaw, Oakland, California, 1894, contributed by Donald Craig Henshaw. USIGS scan: http://www.usigs.org/library/books/families/Henshaw1894

173. Henshaw genealogical chart, author unknown; Contributed by Donald Craig Henshaw.

(a) LDS IGI, citing: patron sheets.

(b) LDS IGI, citing: Providence (Rhode Island). City Registrar.

(c) LDS IGI, citing: Vital record of Rhode Island, 1636-1850 : a family register for the people Arnold, James N. (James Newell) , 1844-1927.

(d) Contribution from Barbara B. Poblocki ().

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