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Absalom Hooper, according to his pension affidavit, enlisted in the Revolution in the SC line. In his list of officers, he stated he had served under Colonel William Henderson. I have no idea as to whether his commander was a relative to the man in the message above.
However, at the time of his enlistment, Absalom Hooper had been a resident of NC, but ran away from his widowed mother's home to join in SC. He never returned to that home. However, he did describe his birthplace as near the mouth of the Green River on the Broad River. If you look at the USGS "Rutherfordton South" topo map, you can see that White Oak Creek is the nearest creek to join the Green River before the Green merges with the Broad River. It would seem logical to consider the possibility that Hooper either enlisted under some person he already knew, or else that he could have talked about his home and influenced his officer or that officer's family, to settle in the proximity.
There was a bounty-land-warrant issued in Colonel William Henderson's name in 1790, but none of the application papers remain in the NARA file [papers lost in War Dept. fire in 1800]. Other sources show that William Henderson served initially in the 6th SC Regiment, from 17 June 1775 as a Major. Promoted to Lt. Col. 16 Sept 1776. In 1780, he took over the 3rd Regiment; in January 1781 that regiment merged into the First Regiment for the defense (and fall) of Charleston. He eventually was brigadier general of state troops in 1781 and 1782. Bobby Gilmer Moss's "Roster of South Carolina Patriots in the American Revolution" gives birth and death dates of 5 March 1748 and 29 Jan 1787/8, but has no information on where this William Henderson lived. I have no specific source other than Moss's roster to confirm the birth and death dates of Colonel William Henderson.
Within the nearly empty folder for the bounty-land-warrant for Col. William Henderson is a memo about the letter by math professor Archibald Henderson of UNC in 1929. The letter is stored in the file for pensioner Pleasant Henderson, who served in NC. The Pleasant Henderson pension application specifically states that Col. William Henderson of the SC line was a brother to Pleasant Henderson. The soldier Pleasant Henderson was born in Granville Co., NC in January 1756. Pleasant Henderson at some point attended the University of North Carolina and moved from NC to Carroll County, Tennessee in the 1830s. Where he lived in NC before that move was not stated. There was a Pleasant Henderson on the 1800 and 1820 Orange Co., NC census. A death notice in the Raleigh Register of Jan 14, 1843 says that Major Pleasant Henderson of Chapel Hill died in December [1842] in Huntington, TN.
As a side note, the Alfred Hooper cited in the prior message was listed on the census as a resident of the Bill's Creek community. He appears as either "free colored" or "mulatto" in census records. He and his white wife (the former Elizabeth Suttle) were the subjects of what appears to have been a vindictive Rutherford County case challenging the legality of their interracial marriage. The case was appealed to the NC Supreme Court and can be located via Lexis/Nexis search. Descendants suggest that Alfred Hooper was part Indian rather than part African.
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