Henry Hendricks[1][2][3] was born in 1702 in Chester County, Pennsylvania, on the banks of the Delaware River. [4] or in 1701 in Chester County, Pennsylvania.[5] He was the son of James Hendricks and Lucy Duckett. Henry grew up on the frontier in Pennsylvania. He became a carpenter and was engaged in the Indian trade.[6]
He sided with Maryland in Cresaps Border Wars.[7] He witnessed the marriage of Rebecca Worley and his brother John Hendricks on 30 Apr 1718 at Chester Monthly Meeting. He was taxed in 1720 at Chester County, Pennsylvania.[8] He may have been born as early as 1698, since he should not have been taxed until he was 21.[9]
He married Hannah Low, or another daughter of Joshua Low, (as Hannah lived until the 1760s, whereas he married Ruth Knott about 1745)[10] circa 1721 at Conistogoe Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania.[11] They were the parents of the following children:
1. James Hendricks married Christina Rowland
2. Garrett J. Hendricks married Mary Jackson
3. John Hendricks married Ruth Sing
4. William Hendricks married Sarah Huggins
5. Henry Hendricks married Margaretta Bobb
6. Joan Hendricks
He lived between 1721 and 1741 on Conestoga, Donegal and Yellow Britches, frontier settlements in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. As of 1722, he was also known as Hendrickson. He was taxed in 1725 at Conestagoe Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. He lived across Deer Creek in Hopewell Township, bounded by Adam Hendricks Sr. on the northeast, John Low on the northwest and Joshua Low on the southeast[12]
With his brothers John and James Jr. and their nephew Thomas Linville, Henry made a wilderness settlement in the Forks of Codorous Creek west of Susquehanna in 1727 in an area that was later in Shrewsbury Township, York County, Pennsylvania, but were forced to abandon their improvements and move back to the east side of the river by Pennsylvania authorities on complaints of the Indians as well as Maryland authorities.[13]