SAR John Hancock Chapter President – Henry Stobbs SAR Patriot # P-179838 Hugh Henry, Senior, was probably born in Sorn, Scotland, and immigrated to Maryland. He took the Oath of Allegiance in 1777 at Pittsylvania County, Virginia. In 1740 he married Mary Donelson, a sister of the famed frontiersman and father-in-law of President Andrew Jackson, Colonel John Donelson. Henry oversaw Colonel Donelson's iron works on the Pigg River in Franklin County, "The Bloomery," and accomp