Henry Albright

"In the name of God Amen
                        I Henry Albright of the County of Orange & State of North Carolina in bodily health & perfect mind & memory, calling to minf the Mortality of my body & knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die I do make & ordain this my last will & testament; and principally & first of all I give my Soul to God who gave it, & my Body to the dust to be Buried in a Christian manner at the discretion of my Executors hereafter named, & my wordly property wherewith it has pleased God to bless me, I give demise & dispose of the same in the following manner, & form Viz – first I give & bequeath to my son Joseph Albright after my Decease the plantation whereon I now live = I give & bequeath to my Daughter Catherin or the heirs of her Body Lawfully begotten one Negro girl by the name of Nelly & Fifty Dollars = I give & bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth & the Heirs of her Body Lawfully Begotten one Negro girl by the name of June, & Fifty Dollars = I give & bequeath to my Daughter Polly & the heirs of her Body Lawfully Begotten one Negro girl by the name of Julia, & One hundred & Fifty Dollars = My will & desire is that my two Oldest Negroes Alen & Aga be kept together, & my other Negroes not heretofores dispos’d of, be Divided among all my Children also my other property of every description to be equally divided among all my Children – And I do Constitute my Sons Nicholas & Joseph Jointly Executors of this my last will & Testament
In Witness whereof I have set my hand & seal 28th August 1837
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                                Levin Wood (?)
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N.B. Intestin’d before sign’d
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On April 26, 2006 Norman Sharpe (Great-Great-Great-Grandson), Helen Leach (#4) (Great-Great-Great-Granddaughter) and Sandra Henson, Mary Lue Finch, and Susan Snyder (#2)... all Great-Great-Great-Great Granddaughters.... visited Stoners Church Cemetery located in a pasture on Rufus J. Dale's farm in Alamance County on Bellemont-Kimesville Rd. near the village of Belmont (near Graham) just off highway 49. While referring to a map that showed the location of tombstones in the cemetery, Henry's stone was found buried in the earth. (The source of the map is in the document Investigations at Historic Stoner's Cemetery (31 AM 174,174***), June 21, 1998 by Dr. Linda France Stine, PO Box 268, Julian, NC 27283 and Prepared for Stoner's Cemetery Preservation Fund Board, PO Box 2191, Burlington, NC 27216-2191.)

Below: Three photographs taken of Henry's very small tombstone on April 26, 2006 by Susan Leach Snyder (#2).

The stone was very eroded and difficult to read. But the name, Henry Albright, was discernible.

In November, 2009, the Daughters of the American Revolution honored Henry Albright at his gravesite with a ceremony and a new tombstone, as shown below. Below this picture of the stone is information that was shared at the ceremony:

“Southern Campaign American Revolution Pension Statements

Pension application of Henry Albright S6485
---Transcribed by Will Graves

State of North Carolina, Orange County

On this 14th day of September 1832, personally appeared before the Superior Court of Law, of the County & State aforesaid, Henry Albright, of the said County & State, aged seventy three years on the 4th of May 1832, who being first duly sworn according to Law, doth on his oath, make the following declaration, in order to obtain the benefit of the provision made by the Act of Congress, passed June 7th, 1832.

That he entered the service of the United States under the following named officers, & served as herein stated.

The declarant was drafted in the County of Orange aforesaid in the summer of 1781, in the militia of the State aforesaid, for the term of three months and was attached to a company commanded by Captain Trousdale & Lieutenant John Campbell. The declarant’s said Company was stationed at Hillsboro in the State aforesaid, for the purpose of guarding said Town. He was appointed Sergeant in his Company at Hillsboro. After being at Hillsboro a few weeks, the Tories captured the said Town, & took Governor Burke of No. Ca. And many of the soldiers stationed there prisoners--among whom was this declarant. He was conveyed by the Tories to Wilmington, North Carolina, & then placed on board a British prison-ship--where he lay some weeks-- & thence was carried in said prison-ship to Charleston, South Carolina; -- where he was detained nearly eleven months, as a prisoner & was exchanged by the British for British soldiers who had been made prisoners by the American forces. From the time of his capture as aforesaid at Hillsborough, to the time of his arrival at home in Orange aforesaid after his discharge from his British said imprisonment on board the British prison-ship--there was the lapse of precisely eleven months. He did not entered the service again after his return from Charleston as aforesaid. Previously to his draft for three months as aforesaid, the declarant turned out as a soldier in the Western part of Orange County, under the command of Colonel Oneal [sic. O’Neal?] on three different occasions--for the purpose of suppressing the Tories in that section of the Country, under the command of the Tory Colonel Fanning. He was not in service on those occasions more than three weeks or thereabouts, -- was in no general battle in the time--but aided in taking many of the Tories prisoners. He did not enter the service on those occasions for any particular length of time-- but did so in particular emergencies, as the safety of the neighborhood was supposed to require it. The declarant knew Genl Butler of the North Carolina Militia in the revolutionary War--was his neighbor.

He hath no documentary evidence of his service. He can prove a part of his service aforesaid by George Nease of the County & State aforesaid whose affidavit is hereunto appended.

This declarant is known to Doctor James J. Smith of the Town of Hillsboro aforesaid--and to Willie P. Mangum and Dr. James A. Craig of the County aforesaid-- and to the Reverend Alexander Albright of his neighborhood, whose affidavit is hereunto appended.

He was born in the State of Pennsylvania on the 4th of May 1759--and was removed to the County of Orange in North Carolina when about four years of age, where he hath resided every since. He has a record of his age at home. He did not receive a written discharge from the service. He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the Agency of any State.

Sworn to & subscribed the day & year aforesaid........... S/Henry Albright, X his mark
S/ S.B. Bruce, C.S.C.

State of North Carolina, Orange County: Superior Court of same September Term 1832

I Abner B. Bruce Clerk of the Superior Court of Orange County do hereby Certify that the foregoing Declaration of Henry Albright was made, subscribed & Sworn to in Open Court and that the affidavit of George Nease [sic] was duly sworn to & Subscribed in open court.

In testimony whereof I do hereunto subscribed my name and affixed the Seal of said Court at Office in Hillsborough this 21st day of September A.D. 1832.---S/ A. B. Bruce, C.S.C.

North Carolina, Orange County

Personally appeared before me William Montgomery, a Justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the County aforesaid (it being a court of record) on this 4th day of July A.D. 1833, Henry Albright, an applicant for a pension under the act of the 7th June 1832, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath make the following supplemental declaration amendatory of His former declaration, To wit.

That he was drafted into the Service of the United States on or about the 20th of August 1781, and was stationed at the Town of Hillsboro, as in his original declaration set forth, and for the term as there mentioned--and that he was a Sergeant of his company from its first organization at Hillsboro: That he was captured at Hillsboro on or about the 6th day of September following and was conveyed to Wilmington in North Carolina, and thence To Charleston in South Carolina as in his original declaration set forth, and that he was Exchanged at Charleston some time in July 1782, and returned directly to his home in Orange County North Carolina without any delay, and arrived at his home on or about the 6th day of August 1782, eleven months from the time of his capture, and eleven and a half months from the day of entering into the Service, which with his other service of three weeks, will make twelve months & one week [of service].

Sworn to and subscribed or me the day & date above...... S/ Henry Albright, X his mark
S/W. Montgomery, J

Personally appeared before me on the 4th day of July 1833 Ludwick May aged about seventy years, resident in the county & state above written, who being first duly sworn according to law, doth on his oath say that he has been acquainted with Henry Albright during & since the war of the revolution, that He was attached to the company of Captain James Trousdale and stationed at Hillsborough at the Time of the capture of Governor Burke in September 1781 when the said declarant Henry Albright was made a prisoner by the Tories, but does not now recollect the period of the said declarant’s imprisonment, and that he also [digital image posed on Heritage Quest ends here].”

The webmaster's DNA has matched no less than 37 other members in a Henry Albright DNA circle in ancestry.com.