1788 first property purchase in Tredyffrin, 34 acres
1789 tax 32 acres 1 horse, 1 cow
1790 census head of household, 2 males < 16yo., 2 females.
1791 tax 32 acres 1 horse, 2 cows
1792 purchases land
1793 purchases land
(no 1793 tax)
1795 tax blacksmith 34 acres (@ $7.67 valuation $260.78), buildings, 1 horse, 3 cows
1795-6 purchases more land
1797 tax blacksmith 52 acres & improvements, buildings, 1 horse, 3 cows
1798 property return 1/30/1798, 52 acres, 2 horses, 4 cows
1798 Glass Tax: 59 acres, stone house 23’ x 18’, 1 floor; log barn 39’ x 17’; log smithshop 24’ x 16’.
1799 tax 60 acres, 2 horses, 3 cows
1800 census males: 1 10 – 16 years old, 1 45 years or older, 2 females 0 – 10 years old, 1 10 -16 years old, 1 45 years or older
1804 purchases land
1810 census – no John Henry in Chester County
1811 purchases land from Thomas J. Walker, daughters Hannah & Mary in 1836 deed selling land (father having died).
Land sales mention wife, Catherine

Message from Bill Henry

Here’s what I have on my great great grandfather, John Henry.
(Material taken primarily from the 1922 Henry Genealogy)

JOHN HENRY, the second child of Robert and Mary Woodburn Henry, was born in Derry County, Ireland, on March 20, 1763. He came by himself to America at age 25 in 1788. This was the year following his marriage to Rachel and the year prior to General George Washington taking office as the first President of the United States. Henry landed at Philadelphia, near where he remained about three years, working most of the time on a farm in Chester County. (Whether or not Henry was in Tredyffrin Twsp from 1788 to 1791, I don't know. But, see below, he was clearly in Tredyffrin Twsp from about 1793 until 1801 with wife Rachel) At this time (1791) he concluded to return to Ireland, and hoping to add something to his scanty means he decided to invest his earnings in flax seed. With this merchandise he sailed for Ireland to join his family, but on the coast of that island, in sight of his home, the vessel was wrecked and his flax seed went to the bottom of the ocean. By this accident he lost nearly all the fortune he possessed.
After remaining in Ireland about two years (1793), he again sailed for Philadelphia (then the capital city of the U.S. while Washington was being built), bringing with him his wife and youngest son Matthew, leaving his eldest son, John Jr., with his grandfather, Robert. John Jr. remained in Ireland until he grew to manhood when he came to Nova Scotia and there engaged in farming. As no communication between him and the rest of the family has taken place for many years, it is not known what became of him.
Mr. Henry, after arriving in America the second time, settled in Tredyffrin Township (per the 1800 census), the easternmost township in Chester County, and remained there until 1801, when he moved to Washington County, Ohio. Here he rented a farm in Newport Township and remained on it about five years (son William was born here in 1804). Henry next bought a farm in 1806 on the Ohio River, five miles below Harmar, now West Marietta, to which he moved and spent a number of years improving. He had, when a young man, learned the trade of a wheel wright, and after he came to Ohio was able to turn his knowledge to profitable account, there being a good demand for flax-wheels among the early settlers, where almost every family used one for the manufacture of its own cloth, and by industry, he could make two wheels a week, which were worth four dollars each. Wife Rachel died here in 1809 and John married second wife Margaret in 1811. The high water in the Ohio River in 1815 decided him to sell his farm, having already bought section 33 in what was then Bern Township, Athens County, Ohio.
John Henry with two sons Matthew and Robert and two daughters Janette and Nancy, journeyed from the Ohio River farm in February, 1817, to what later became the farm of Carlos D. Henry and made sugar molasses. On April 17, 1817, and at age 54, John moved the rest of his family to their new home in Bern Township. Here he lived until the time of his death which occurred February 27th, 1854, aged 90 years, 11 months and 7 days. During his long life he was a continuous example of industry and economy. He was twice married, his first wife was Rachel Henry (possibly a cousin), whom he married in Ireland in 1787. She died in 1809. He in 1811 married Margaret McNutt, who died April 12th, 1857. His children by the first wife were five sons and four daughters, and by the last, four sons and six daughters, in all nineteen children; one daughter died in infancy, but the remaining eighteen Mr. Henry lived to see grow to manhood and womanhood. At the time of his death he had nearly 60 grandchildren and ten great grandchildren living.