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State of Service: VA
Qualifying Service: Patriotic Service
Birth: Death: aft 25 Mar 1787
Additional References:
Rev War Graves Register. Clovis H. Brakebill, compiler. 672pp. SAR. 1993
SAR Rev War Graves Register CD. Progeny Publishing Co: Buffalo, NY. 1998
Author: William A. Roberts
Henry Fink son of Johan Nickolas Fink and Maria Catharine was born about 1737 in Germany and died ca. 1790, Buckhannon, Randolph County, Virginia. Henry married Mary Magdaline Power daughter of Valentine Power and Susanna Lancisco.
Prior to 1770 Henry Fink is believed to have moved from Pennsylvania to Virginia. Circa 1772, he settled in the Horse Shoe Bottoms of the Cheat River (Monongahela County) as a member of John Minear’s Cheat River Colony. The Horse Shoe Bottom was located by Captain James Parsons, of the South Branch; also in the neighborhood settled Robert Cunningham, Henry Fink, John Goff, John Minear, Robert Butler, William Morgan and others who settled on the Dunkard bottom. Henry Fink first came to the Buckhannon Settlement; he with his family made their abode in the cavity of a large sycamore near the mouth of Fink’s run, just west of Buckhannon. On the 8th of February 1782, while Henry and his son John were engaged in sledging rails on their farm in the Buckhannon settlement they had an encounter with Indians, in which John was killed.
Henry owned much land in Monongahela County, i.e. 1770, purchased 400, acres on the Buckhannon River, in 1772, 300, acres on Stone Cole Creek, 1781, 395, acres on Blue Lick Run, 1782, 800, acres on Little Kanawha, 200, acres on Stone Cole Creek and 200, acres near Buckhannon, River.
Henry was acknowledged for his nom-military Revolutionary War, Service by the State of Virginia.
Education was a subject of early lawmakers of Virginia considered worthy of their consideration and Randolph Academy was established by act of Virginia Assembly of December 1, 1787. Among the additional trustees appointed were the following from Randolph County: John Hadden, Abraham Claypool, James Westfall, and Henry Fink.
The same fate befell Henry in 1790, as that of his son John. He was laying down a pair of rails leading from one field to another when a party of Indians in ambush shot and killed him.
Issue of Henry and Mary Magdaline Power Fink: 1. Hannah (1760-1835) Married, William Roberts 2. John (- 1782) 3. Susan (1770-1807) married William Parsons 4. Henry (1767-1842) 5. Daniel married Hannah
Sources: 1. West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia Vol#1, pgs. 4-5 & 441 2. Monongahela County Land Book (1700-1800) 3. West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors, by Anne Waller Reddy, pgs. 30 & 190.
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