6 Oct. 1772–13 Aug. 1833 Leonard Henderson, lawyer, teacher, and
chief justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court , was born in
the Nutbush community near Williamsboro, Granville County , the
third son of six children of Richard and Elizabeth Keeling
Henderson. His grandfather was Samuel Henderson, first sheriff
of the county, and his wife, Elizabeth Williams, who had moved
there from Hanover, Va., in 1740. At their home, Jonesboro, the
Richard Hendersons  raised two daughters (Fannie, who married
Judge Spruce Macay ; and Elizabeth, who became Mrs. William Lee
Alexander) and four sons (Richard, who moved to Virginia and
became a judge; Archibald , who moved to Salisbury and there
married the sister of Governor Nathaniel Alexander ; Leonard;
and John Lawson, who often represented the borough of Salisbury
in the General Assembly , and was comptroller of the state and
clerk  of the Supreme Court in Raleigh). Leonard's education was
confined to instruction by local teachers and the Reverend Henry
Pattillo , the