Biography

06/22/1772 - 11/04/1830

Captain Henry “Light Horse” Jarrett (Democratic-Republican) Lehigh, Northampton and Wayne Counties 1814-1815 (Democratic-Republican8) Lehigh, Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties 1815-1817

Early Life:

Captain Henry “Light Horse” Jarrett, born June 22, 1772, Milford Township, Lehigh County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of Isaac and Catherine Wetzel Jarrett; elected, Justice of the Peace, Macungie, Weisenberg Townships, Lehigh County, 1798; unsuccessful candidate, Sheriff, Northampton County, 1799; married, Anna Elizabeth Heinly Jarrett, 1800, children, Margaret Jarrett, Elizabeth Jarrett Ginkinger, Colonel Phaon Jarrett, Angelina Jarrett Troxell, Mary Ann Jarrett Serfass unsuccessful candidate, Sheriff, Northampton County, 1802; elected, Sheriff, Northampton County, 1805; unsuccessful campaign, Federalist, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1808; Unsuccessful campaign, Sheriff, Northampton County, 1811; elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1814-1817; elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1819-1820; admitted, practice as an attorney , Lehigh County, 1824; Clerk of the Courts of Lehigh County; died, November 4, 1830, (aged 58), Macungie, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; interment, Linden Street Cemetery, Allentown, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics:

Elected, Justice of the Peace, Macungie, Weisenberg Townships, Lehigh County, 1798.

Unsuccessful candidate, Pennsylvania Sheriff, Northampton County, 1799.

Unsuccessful candidate, Pennsylvania Sheriff, Northampton County, 1802.

Elected, Pennsylvania Sheriff, Northampton County, 1805. 

Unsuccessful campaign, Federalist, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Northampton and Wayne Counties, 1808.

Unsuccessful campaign, Pennsylvania Sheriff, Northampton County, 1811. 

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, no district number, Lehigh, Northampton and Wayne Counties, 1814-1815.

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 8th district, Lehigh, Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties, 1815-1817.

Elected, Democrat, Pennsylvania House of Representatives, Northampton, Pike and Wayne Counties, 1819-1820.

Legacy:

Captain "Light Horse" Henry Jarrett (an officer in the local cavalry) was one of the key figures and was sentenced to two years in prison and fined $1000. History states that many of these sentences were alleviated, and there is no record that he was one of the men eventually imprisoned in Philadelphia, several of whom died of yellow fever.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "J"". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

Gilbert-Knappenberger-Jarrett and Allied Families, 1990, page 410.

Capt Henry “Light Horse” Jarrett (1772-1830) - Find a Grave Memorial