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Descendants of John Hance
15.BENJAMIN4 HANCE (JOSEPH3, BENJAMIN2, JOHN1) was born March 19, 1743, and died Bef. 1827.He married BETTY BOURNE, daughter of JACOB BOURNE.
Child of BENJAMIN HANCE and BETTY BOURNE is:
34. | i. | JACOB B.5 HANCE, b. 1774. |
16.MARY4 JOHNS (ELIZABETH3HANCE, BENJAMIN2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1741.She married JOHN TALBOT February 22, 1760.
Children of MARY JOHNS and JOHN TALBOT are:
i. | BENJAMIN5 TALBOT, b. May 11, 1762, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
ii. | JOSEPH TALBOT, b. June 26, 1764, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
iii. | JOHN TALBOT, b. January 03, 1766, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
iv. | ELIZABETH TALBOT, b. September 29, 1767, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
v. | SUSANNA TALBOT, b. June 15, 1769, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
vi. | ANN TALBOT, b. May 08, 1771, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
vii. | SAMUEL TALBOT, b. December 18, 1772, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
viii. | RACHEL TALBOT, b. November 21, 1774, Calvert Co., Maryland. | ||
ix. | PEGGY TALBOT, b. November 09, 1776, Calvert Co., Maryland. |
17.BENJAMIN4 HANCE (SAMUEL3, BENJAMIN2, JOHN1) was born Abt. 1759 in Calvert Co., Maryland, and died 1830 in Williamson, Wayne Co., New York.He married SARAH DARE April 02, 1780 in Prince George's Co., Md., daughter of THOMAS DARE and SARAH //.She was born Abt. 1755.
Notes for BENJAMIN HANCE:
Just before 1800Benjamin and his brother, Francis, traveling by horseback to Ohio and New York,went looking for lands where they could start over without the threat to them, of slavery.About l802 Benjamin Hance persuaded his family to make the move but Francis decided to buy "Overton" from Benjmain and stay in Calvert Co.Benjamin freed his slaves and moved from Calvert County, Maryland with his wife and children, to western New York state.In l804 he purchased land in an area north of Canandiagua, New York called South Farmington.
SOURCE:Hutchins, Ailene A."Hunting Creek Hundred".p. 314.
RELIGION:"Episcopalians".... "until after their marriage when an eminent minister of the Society of Friends (Quakers) and a relative of the family (Evan Thomas) of Baltimore made a religious visit to Calvert County and there met Benjamin Hance who submitted to his ministerial relative for his consideration and advice, as offer of a high and lucrative office that had lately been tendered to him by Geo. Washington.After a patient and serious consideration of the offer, the minister answered in the most solemn manner "Benjamin, it is our business to make our calling and election sure".This reply made a profound impression on the minds and conscience of Benjmain and Sarah Hance.They soon after freed all their slaves of whom they had a large number and united with the Society of Friends.Though born and brought up in society that deemed labor degrading to the white man, they began and continued this labor on their large plantation up to about 1808.But he (Thomas C. Hance) was not satisfied with plantation life and with the consent and desire of his father, engaged as an apprentice in one of the largest shoe and boot manufacturing and sale houses in the City of Baltimore (owned by a wealthy Friend) with the intention of making this business his life work.Their son Thomas' opportunities on the plantation for school education were limited to a few weeks or months in the year and the whole time he attended school did not exceed a year. Yet he made a good reader, pensman and arithmetician.His only book was the Bible and his most thorough teacher, a Catholic Irishman.His school mates were sons of wealthy slave holders of whom Roger Brook Taney was one, of whom he has said, "He was a good boy."While in Baltimore, his father and Uncle Francis Hance, seeing and foreseeing the terrible and accumulating evils of African slavery on the white race as well as on the black, resolved to escape them by removing to a free state or territory. They accordingly set out on traversing the great wilderness on their route.After visiting some of the larger settlements, they returned by the settlements in the Genesee County in the State of N. Y. to Calvert County, Md.After discussing freely with their families, the great merits of the new settlements they had visited and the desirableness of a removal to them.Uncle Francis' family could not consent to leave Md. (but in after years his son John did remove to southern Ohio) whose descendants are now scattered thru the West.But his father's family was quite willing, it not anxious, to remove to the Friends settlement in Ontario, N. Y. (now Wayne, N. Y.)His father sold the home plantation that he lived on to Uncle Francis and came to N. Y. in the Spring of 1803.His son came with the family from Baltimore.Thomas bringing honorable release from his apprenticeship and received a letter of high recommendation for his close and successful attention to business and uprightness of conduct, as a young Friend, from childhood to manhood, he was one of Nature's athletes that rarely if ever met in even weight his match in ability and strength.He knew not a pain from sickness, one of the closest observers of the whole world around him.The most beautiful and luscious fruit, both wild and cultivated, were the first things to catch his attention and draw forth his admiration.The haunts and habits of the denizens of the sky, sea and forest were almost an open book to him.His quick piercing eye and steady hand that in excitement unmoved, made unerring shots with his rifle and fowling piece.Traps of his own make caught the most wily game.The taking of fish and oysters from the Patuxent river and Chesapeake Bay were among his favorite pastime in boyhood.He grew to a man 5 foot, ten inches in height, broad shoulders, deep chest, large muscles and tendons, with a back as straight as an arrow.His weight was rarely, if ever over 160 pounds."source:papers from Ailene W. Hutchins.
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To Quaker, joined about 1797 according to the Cliffs Quaker Meeting Record.Sometime between 1782 and 1797, Samuel Hance (Benjamin's father), his wife and children received certificates of removal from the Cliffs Meeting to Baltimore.In 1803, Benjamin Hance received approval from the Society for transfer from Baltimore to Farmington, New York, for his family, which included his son, Thomas C. Hance.SOURCE: Hutchins, Ailene A."Hunting Creek Hundred". p.63
More About BENJAMIN HANCE:
Burial: 1830, Friends' Cemetery, S. Farmington, Ontario Co., N.Y.
Census: 1800, Christ Church Parish, Calvert Co., Md.
Census, 1810: Farmington, Ontario Co., N.Y.
Occupation: Wealthy Planter & Slaveowner
More About SARAH DARE:
Census: 1800, Christ Church Parish, Calvert Co., Md.
Census, 1810: Farmington, Ontario Co., N.Y.
Children of BENJAMIN HANCE and SARAH DARE are:
35. | i. | SAMUEL V.5 HANCE, b. March 12, 1781, Maryland; d. New York. | |
36. | ii. | THOMAS CLAIRE HANCE, b. September 27, 1782, Prince Frederick, Calvert Co.., Maryland; d. April 18, 1888, Wayne Co., New York. | |
37. | iii. | ANN HANCE, b. June 07, 1784, Prince Frederick, Calvert Co.., Maryland. | |
iv. | MARY HANCE, m. ASA POUND. | ||
38. | v. | BENJAMIN HANCE, JR., b. Prince Frederick, Calvert Co.., Maryland. |
18.ANN4 HANCE (SAMUEL3, BENJAMIN2, JOHN1) was born in Calvert Co., Maryland, and died June 26, 1840 in Port Republic, Rockingham Co., Virginia.She married CHARLES LEWIS March 18, 1792.He was born November 08, 1772 in Augusta Co., Virginia, and died 1832 in Port Republic, Rockingham Co., Virginia.
Children of ANN HANCE and CHARLES LEWIS are:
i. | CHARLES5 LEWIS. | ||
ii. | MARY ANN LEWIS, b. Rockingham Co., Virginia; m. DR. MUSCO CHAMBERS. | ||
iii. | ELIZABETH MACKALL LEWIS. | ||
iv. | GARBRIEL JONES LEWIS. | ||
v. | MARGARET STROTHER LEWIS. | ||
vi. | THOMAS LEWIS. | ||
vii. | SAMUEL HANCE LEWIS, m. (1) ANNA MARIA LOMAX; m. (2) MARTHA JONES FRY; m. (3) NANCY CAMERON LEWIS. |
19.FRANCIS4 HANCE (SAMUEL3, BENJAMIN2, JOHN1)He married ANN HUNGERFORD.
Notes for FRANCIS HANCE:
Just before 1800Benjamin and his brother, Francis, traveling by horseback to Ohio and New York,went looking for lands where they could start over without the threat to them, of slavery.About l802 Benjamin Hance persuaded his family to make the move but Francis decided to stay in Calvert Co. and bought and lived at "Overton".
A suit was filed against Francis Hance and ----"A deed of 1805 indicated that Francis had attempted to make over, to his children, his lands, cited as "Overton", part of Purchase, part of Hance's Discovery, part of Co partnership, part of Taney's Ease, part of Bussey's Garden, part of Taney's Addition and part of Taney's Reserve --- a total of 1000 acres."When the case was settled, in 1815, Benjamin Hance Mackall, who had been appointed trustee to dispose of the property, sold 500 acres of the same back to Francis Hance and the remainder was conveyed to Robert Lowe as "Overton", part of Purchase and Hance's Discovery ---400 acres.`
SOURCE:Hutchins, Ailene W."Hunting Creek Hundred". self published. 1992. p. 64 - 65.
More About FRANCIS HANCE:
Census, 1810: Calvert Co., Maryland
Census, 1820: Calvert Co., Maryland
Children of FRANCIS HANCE and ANN HUNGERFORD are:
i. | JOHN5 HANCE, b. January 16, 1793. |
More About JOHN HANCE: Baptism: September 01, 1799, Christ Church Parish, Calvert Co., Md. |
ii. | HARRIET HANCE. | ||
iii. | MARY ANN HANCE. | ||
iv. | CHARLOTTE HANCE. | ||
v. | ANN H. HANCE. |
20.JOHN4 HANCE (ELISHA3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born Bef. 1797, and died Bef. 1870.He married ELIZABETH //.
More About JOHN HANCE:
Occupation: Lighthouse Keeper
Children of JOHN HANCE and ELIZABETH // are:
39. | i. | ELIZABETH ARIANNA5 HANCE, b. 1832. | |
ii. | JAMES R. HANCE, b. 1834. | ||
40. | iii. | LOUISA FRANCES HANCE, b. December 1838. | |
iv. | ANNA HANCE, b. 1844. | ||
v. | ALICE J. HANCE, b. February 1849. |
21.RICHARD4 HANCE (ELISHA3, JOHN2, JOHN1) was born 1800, and died 1867.He married ARIANNA S. HANCE, daughter of BENJAMIN HANCE and ELIZABETH DORSEY.She was born 1800.
More About RICHARD HANCE:
Census, 1810: Calvert Co., Maryland
Census, 1820: Calvert Co., Maryland
Occupation: Ship Captain (brought over the Hance Table)
Residence: Plum Point on Chesapeake Bay
Children of RICHARD HANCE and ARIANNA HANCE are:
41. | i. | BENJAMIN O.5 HANCE, b. 1825. | |
ii. | ELIZABETH HANCE, b. 1826; d. August 26, 1899; m. BASFORD. |
More About ELIZABETH HANCE: Name 2: Sarah Hance |
42. | iii. | ELISHA YOUNG HANCE, b. 1829; d. Bet. 1880 - 1900. | |
43. | iv. | JAMES JOHN HANCE, b. May 1830; d. December 12, 1903. | |
v. | MARGARET E. HANCE, b. 1832; m. RICHARD BILLINGSLEY. | ||
vi. | RICHARD HANCE, b. 1834. | ||
vii. | REBECCA HANCE, b. 1837. | ||
viii. | MARIA HANCE, b. 1840. | ||
ix. | HENRIETTA HANCE, b. 1846. |