James Grover HENDRICKSON^{[1, 2]}

1791 - 1859  (68 years)

• Name	James Grover HENDRICKSON
  Birth	19 Feb 1791	Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Death	9 Nov 1859	Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Person ID	I8441	HHDHA
  Last Modified	28 Jan 2014

  
  

  Father	Daniel HENDRICKSON,   b. 18 Nov 1762, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 5 Feb 1840, Shrewsbury, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 77 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth GROVER,   b. 1 Jan 1764, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 7 Nov 1851, Upper Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 87 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1781	Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey   [3]
  Family ID	F2552	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah MORRIS,   b. 1791, Freehold, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Marriage	3 Mar 1813	, Monmouth, New Jersey
  Children	1. Thomas Johnson HENDRICKSON,   b. 1816, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 14 Feb 1875, Williamsburg, Kings, New York (Age 59 years)   2. Ann Morris HENDRICKSON,   b. 1819, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey   3. Hubbard HENDRICKSON,   b. 22 Jul 1822, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 21 Nov 1891, Red Bank, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 69 years)   4. Ellwood Robert HENDRICKSON,   b. 1831, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 1921 (Age 90 years)   5. Edward A. HENDRICKSON,   b. 8 Jul 1831, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 12 Mar 1903, Holmdel, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 71 years)   6. Jane L. HENDRICKSON,   b. 1837, Manalapan, Monmouth, New Jersey d. 15 Jun 1913, Ocean Grove, Monmouth, New Jersey (Age 76 years)
  Family ID	F2858	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	14 Oct 2018

  
  

• Sources

  [S20] Internet History and Family History sites., The Portal to Texas History http://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth78378/m1/2/zoom/. Texas Planter (Brazoria, Tex.), Vol. 3, No. 14, Ed. 1, Wednesday, October 18, 1854 [S38] Hendricks, Andrew A. MD, Hendricks and Hendrickson Family of Monmouth County, New Jersey, (November 13th-14th, 2010), Desc. of Daniel Hendrickson p. 33- 34. James G. Hendrickson had four sons and four daughters. He was the inventer of a "perpetual motion machinge" for which he was persecuted. Trenton True Democrat (reprinted in Ocean Emblem, Toms River, NJ on November 9, 1859: "Death of an Ingenious Man" "Mr. James G. Hendrickson of Freehold, Monmouth County well known for his perpetual motion machine died on Saturday last He had devoted his life obtaining perpetuel motion and his machines have been a puzzle to all who examined them, as they have certainly moved for six years without tha application of any external powers, and apparently with no intention of stopping. Mr. Hendrickson suffered much ridicule and persecution but he was a quiet honest and patient old man. He was once arrested at Keyport for practicing "Jugglery" under the act for suppressing vice and immorality. At trial several builders, millwrights engineers, and philosophers were called who testified positivly that no such motive powers as that alleged could drive the machine and that there must be some concealed spring. So the machine was broken, but no motive was discovered. At the time of his death, Mr Hendrickson was engaged in applying his machine to clock work. He had been so much persecuted by the incredulous that he had provided a secret place beneath the floor of his shop, where his last two machines were deposited. It was in the form of a vault covered by a trap door which was locked, and the floor so replaced as to avoid suspicion. After his last illness commenced, he made known this secret to his family who examined the spot, and found the contents exactly as described. The night of his death, the shop was broken open, the floor taken up, the trap door pried off, and both models stolen. It is probable that the family in their visits had not taken the same precautions as the inventor, and some prying eyes had discovered the secret. Fortunately, the drawings are preserved, and there is a little machine, one of the earliest made, now running in Brooklyn where it has kept up its ceaseless ticking for nearly six years. Mr Hendrickson leaves a family of four sons and four daughters all of them we believe given to ineventions." [S38] Hendricks, Andrew A. MD, Hendricks and Hendrickson Family of Monmouth County, New Jersey, (November 13th-14th, 2010), Desc. of Daniel Hendrickson p. 33.