Henry McWhorter

Henry McWhorter (between 1760 and 1770 - after 1830) was an early farmer and Justice of the Peace in Smith County.Goodspeed's History of Tennessee: Smith County History. Goodspeed Publishing Company: Nashville, 1887.1830 Census of Smith County, TN. Web. Rootsweb.com. Transcribed by Roy Markham. Accessed 31 May 2021.
== Early life and family ==
An 1830 Census listing says McWhorter was between the ages of 60 and 70 at that date. No specifics of date or location of birth are known, nor is any information available regarding his arrival in Smith County.
As of 1830, McWhorter was living with a woman between 40 and 50, presumably his wife (born between 1780 and 1790).
Additionally, according to the Census of 1820, at that time the household contained the following eight younger white inhabitants, likely children of this or a previous union, but perhaps also including relatives or farm laborers:
* White male (born between 1794 and 1802)
* White male (born between 1794 and 1802)
* White female (born between 1794 and 1804)
* White female (born between 1794 and 1804)
* White male (born between 1794 and 1802)
* White female (born between 1804 and 1810)1820 Census of Smith County, TN. Web. Rootsweb.com. Transcribed by Charles Gregory and volunteers. Accessed 31 May 2021.
* White male (born between 1815 and 1820)
* White female (born between 1815 and 1820)
A slave male born between 1794 and 1806 was also present in 1820, but is no longer listed in the 1830 enumeration.
By 1830, the McWhorter household had become much smaller, consisting of Henry, his wife, a boy and a girl between 10 and 15, and a white woman between 30 and 40.
== Justice of the Peace ==
McWhorter served as a Justice of the Peace in Smith County in the early 1800s. He ended his term of service in a poetic fashion, by submitting the following resignation in the May 1814 term of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions:                       "A justice of the peace, you see,                      No longer now I mean to be;                      I therefore now resign to you,                      As by these lines you see it true.                      You therefore now your order may                      Give to the clerk without delay,                      That he may your right transmit                      To the next session when they sit."
== Death ==
The details of McWhorter's death are unknown beyond that he is not found in the 1840 Census enumeration of Smith County.
== Census information ==
=== 1820 Census ===
Census Year 1820 - Microfilm # M33-125 - State of Tennessee - County of Smith - Enumerator Price F. Martin
P#	L# 	Last name	First name	WM
0-10	WM
18-26	WM
45+	WF
0-10	WF
10-16	WF
16-26	WF
26-45	Occupied
Agriculture	Slave Male
14-26
73	1275	McWhorter	Henry 	1	3	1	1	1	2	1	1	1
=== 1830 Census ===
Census Year 1830 - Microfilm # M19-181 - State of Tennessee - County of Smith
PG#	LN#	Last name	First name	WM
10-15	WM
60-70	WF
10-15	WF
30-40	WF
40-50	TOTAL for
Household
84 	8 	McWhorter	Henry 	1	1	1	1	1	5
== References ==
Category:Smith County Justices of the Peace
Category:Smith County farmers
Category:Smith County slave owners