The Pamunkey Hendrick Family
"Pamunkey Hendrick" refers to descendants of Hance Hendrick, an early immigrant to Virginia who settled in Pamunkey Neck of King William County. He was the progenitor of a vast and often confusing array of descendants who comprised virtually all persons named Hendrick in colonial Virginia. By the early 1800s, his numerous descendants had spread into Georgia, North and South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Alabama, and Mississippi.
A Four-Generation Genealogy
Temporary Version 2.5 (June 2009)
First posted in May 2004, this is a narrative genealogy of the first four generations of the Hendrick family in the form of an electronic book of approximately 130 printed pages. It can be downloaded, searched, or printed using the free version of Acrobat Reader.
I intend to produce revised editions of this book as new information is incorporated. Electronic books have the enormous advantage of being easily revised. As this document is edited, and new information added, portions of the genealogy may change significantly.
If you prefer, you can look at the individual "chapters" of this book a smaller files. (Be warned, though, that each chapter contains references to individuals and records covered in other chapters.) Chapter 2: The Line of Adolphus Hendrick
Chapter 3: The Line of Hance Hendrick II
Chapter 4: The Line of Benjamin Hendrick
Chapter 5: The Line of William Hendrick
Summary Pedigree Chart to four generations summarizing the lines covered in the above chapters.
The Hendrick Chronicles -- a compilation of records 1699-1800 (and beyond) The Chronicles is a chronologically-arranged compilation of the records on which the above genealogy is based. Sources are cited, and in many cases the records are annotated with helpful explanatory comments. You can download all the records by clicking on the large master file below.
Pamunkey Hendrick Chronicles
Version 2 (June 2004)
[link deliberately broken as of July 2009]
This edition contains records through 1800, with a modest number of post-1800 records relating mainly to the third and fourth generations. The file above is roughly 245 printed pages.
The large Chronicles file at left can be viewed in smaller segments (about 30-50 pages per segment) by clicking on the links below: Introduction [added July 2009]
Records 1760-1770 [updated September 2009]
Records 1770-1780 [updated September 2009]
Records 1780-1790 [updated September 2009]
Records 1790-1800 [updated September 2009]
Selected Post-1800 Records [updated September 2009]
Anson/Chesterfield Chronicles Records of the family of 1.4.3 Benjamin Hendrick in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, and Georgia which are not included in the above files [updated September 2009]
Mecklenburg Chronicles Records from Mecklenburg County, Virginia after 1800 which are not included in the above files [added September 2009]
Genealogies are only as complete and accurate as the underlying records on which they're based. These records are by no means complete, for several geographies and records types remain largely unexplored. I hope that others will contribute additional records from their own research.
Please let me know if you have records to add, errors to point out, or friendly arguments to pursue. I will update all these files as new information is discovered.