BIOGRAPHY: Ref "Sunlight in the Southside" by Landon C. Bell listed in 1773 Virginia Lunenburg tithe page 26 under Thomas Edward's name(executor of his father's will);paid 7 tithes;1774 page 333 appeared as Head of Household,paid I tithe;1783 page 403,paid 16 tithes
Lunenburg County Court Virginia Publick Claims 1780-1784("for property taken for public use")page #4 Henry Embry 25#beef;page 8 Henry Embry 305#beef & a horse 5 years
ref.fo Henry and Ann--James Branch Cabell,The Majors & Their Marriages W.C. Hill Printing Co. Richmond Va 1915
The first Census in the United States was taken in 1790(Virginia Census destroyed by the British during the War of 1812)
In 1797 moved to Green County Kentucky with wife Ann Patteson,her brother Charles Patteson(with his wife Regina Allen Degraffenreidt,a half sister of Henry Allen Embry)
listed with wife & children in 1810 Census Green County Kentucky pages 10,16 Microfilm Reel #M252-6;33 free persons(also listed William ,his son as a separate head of his own household.)
listed on 4/19/1813 Green County Kentucky Tax list page 10;also in the list were sons William(married to Keziah Cook in 1810)& Samuel(married to Mary Towler in 1810)
listed in Census 1820 Campbellsville Township Green Co. Ky M33-20 p.67 ref Ancestry.com
Henry Embry built the Ist jail in Greensburg
ref Kentucky Court Case #5391 2/19/85 Henry Embry,et.al v. Catherine Cooke
listed as heir in Jonah(Jr) Patterson(Patteson)'s will (dated 2/9//1813;proven 2/10/1813 Green Co. Ky Wills pages 14-17(other heirs were siblings of Jonah Patteson Charles,David,Martha(Christian), Frances(Booker),Sarah(Hobsons)
mentioned in his stepfather,Tscharner Degraffenreidt's will abt. a land he sold to Henry
Ref.Will Records of Green Co. Kentucky 1796-1824 Book#2 page 28 author Elizabeth Ellsberry Ancestry.com will of Henry Embry written 2/10/1818 probated 11/21/1823 mentioned wife Ann; daughters Ann & Nancy;other heirs sons-William,Samuel P,Henry,grdson Henry Embry Creel(Ermine's son),sons-in-law Richard Munford(Elizabeth),William Ball(Martha)
BIOGRAPHY: tobacco planter,horse breeder
vestryman in antrim & Cumberland Parishes
member House of Burgesses
member of Convention 1769,Aug 1774,March & June 1775
appointed Lt-Col 4th Virginia Regiment,Continental Line
wounded in action;died in Philadelphia & buried with military honors on 7/21/1777
BIOGRAPHY: ref.Boddie's Hist Families Vol I0 page 70
Col. George Colgate Jr ELLIOTT
BIOGRAPHY: Revolutionary patriot
BIOGRAPHY: caution there were (3) Daniel Coleman's;
Daniel Coleman=wife unknown
Daniel Coleman=wife,Patience Elliott
Daniel Coleman=wife,Patience Thompson