HENRY, LEWIS (1777-1836)

HENRY, LEWIS, businessman, navigation officer, and JP; b. Aberdeenshire, Scotland, c1777; m. 1816, Elizabeth Taylor; d. Newcastle, 17 Mar 1836.

Lewis Henry arrived on the Miramichi in 1811. In 1812 he was surveying officer of navigation for the port. He was a school trustee for Chatham parish in 1817. In the same year, he was ordained an elder of St Andrew's Presbyterian Church. He was named a lieutenant in the 1st Battalion of militia in 1823 and a captain in 1826. In 1824 he was appointed a justice of the peace.

In the 1820s, and probably from an earlier period, Henry conducted a lumbering and shipbuilding business on the riverfront between Chatham and Chatham Head, at a location later known as Desbrisay's Point. He was experiencing serious financial difficulties in 1827. He was fifty-eight when he died at Newcastle in 1836.