(Note be William E. Barton--Joseph Hanks, Jr., had removed with his mother to Virginia about a year after the death of Joseph Hanks, Sr., and later returned to Kentucky.) The deposition of Joseph Hanks taken on the bank of the Ohio River at John Dodson's Ferry in Breckenridge County on the eighth day of March, 1817, to be read as witness in a suit of chancery now pending in the Nelson County Circuit Court and undetermined where Zachariah Riney is complainant, and Jane Nevelt of the heirs of Joseph Nevelt, Mary Ann Compton and Charles Shanks for the heirs of Benedict Compton, defenders. This deponent, a full agent duly sworn deposeth and saith--That some time in the year 1799 in conversation with Joseph Nevelt concerning the title of a certain tract of land in Nelson County lying on the Rolling Fork about two miles above the mouth of Pottinger's Creek, which land was willed to him, this deponent, by his father Joseph Hanks and then in the possession of said Nevelt, he, this deponent heard Nevelt say that the title of Barnet was not good, but he expected probably he could obtain it but with great difficulty as Barnet had died solvent. This deponent states that the said Nevelt about two years after came to him to purchase his right of the said land and he, this deponent, sold him his good will of it for an old chunk of a horse that would of traded for about fifteen dollars; and further this deponent saith not. Taken and sworn to before me, the subscribed, a Justice of the Peace for Breckenridge County, this 8th day of March 1817. Arnold Elder, J. P. B. C Chancery Bundle, June, 1819, Nelson Circuit Court (Source: Barton, William E. THE LINEAGE OF LINCOLN. Indianapolis, IN: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929. pp. 350- 351.) Glenn Gohr (Hanks & Neville List Manager) ggohr01@mail.orion.org