Henrietta Hall Shuck (28 October 1817 – 27 November 1844) was the first American female missionary to China[1] and the first Western woman to live in Hong Kong.

Shuck and his fellow student Robert Dunlavy Davenport (1809–1848) were ordained on August 30, and each married on 18 September 1835.

[2] Days after both couples were set apart for foreign missions at a service conducted at Richmond's First Baptist Church, they embarked for China (and Siam for the Davenports).

[3] They stopped in Burma and Henrietta visited the grave of Ann Judson (whose memoirs had inspired her), but did not meet her husband Rev.

Their ship reached Singapore in March, 1836, where Henrietta gave birth to their first child, Lewis (named for her father and grandfather), and the Davenports sailed to Bangkok.

[1] In September 1836, the small Shuck family arrived in Macao, about 90 miles from Canton, and where the Chinese government allowed foreigners.

Shuck returned to the United States to search for another wife, as well as raise funds for a chapel in Canton.

Baptist promotional literature called Henrietta "Virginia's Fairest Flower"; her fame was second only to Lottie Moon.

Virginia's Baptists celebrated the Shuck Centennial in 1935 with a memorial service,[10] commemorative marker at her birthplace[11] and pageants in Norfolk, Bluefield, Newport News, Lynchburg and Danville.