By th Way, I'll take any info you want to give me, gladly. > Sue, > > Please contact me by E-mail, bqueen@compusmart.ab.ca > > I found I have so many notes from several people, and have compared them. I > will pass all of it on to you. The first (I) Major Hancock, I have been > told "MAY" have been given his mother's maiden name. His mother was Jane, > but no one has been able to confirm her maiden name, and it is possible it > was Major, but this is ONLY speculation. This Major, son of Benjamina and > Jane, was born 1742 in Fluvanna, VA. and died in Clay Co. MO. in 1839. He > was almost 100 yrs. old. His SON, (2) Major was born 8 Feb. 1772 in > Goochland, VA, and died in 1850, in Hall County, Georgia. Major (2) married > Mary Page, and then moved to South Carolina. When she died, he married her > cousin, Elizabeth Page. They later moved to Hall, Georgia, where he died > leaving a will that named his children. > > Major (1) had an older brother John D. Hancock who married Elizabeth Maddox. > They had a son whom they called Major (3). He was born 18 july 1770 in > Fluvanna, VA and died after 1850 in Clinton, Kentucky. None of this Major's > children were named after him, but Benjamin, the eldest son of John D. > Hancock, and a brother to this Major (1770) named one of his sons Major (4). > He was born 13 Mar 1792 in Patrick Co. VA. It is one of the areas of > confusion. In his own Bio, he said he married Elizabeth Fuson in Oct. 1814, > and left for Ohio arriving a month later. He lived and died in OH. and was > a minister. > > The confusion seems to be with the Major born in 1770. It appears to me > that when the census was taken he was living in one place with his family, > but had just acquired new land. By the time the census taker got to his new > land, he had moved onto it, and his daughters had moved up another age > bracket making it appear that there were 2 different Major Hancocks in that > area. It tooks months to take the census in those days. It is also good > to remember the British accent in this case. A common English expression is > "Our". My uncle was referred to as "Our Bob". In this case he could have > been referred to as Our Major, but it was written as Armajor or R. Major, > especially if someone else gave the census taker the information. > > If you want all the notes on these Major Hancocks, I can send you a > genealogy report, giving you the IGI Film numbers for sources. > > I don't know if you are thoroughly confused or not, but I tried! <G> > > Ardath > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue" <sue@ziggycom.net> > To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 6:33 PM > Subject: Re: [HANCOCK-L] Major Hancock, Sr. > > > > Ardath, I have Major, Sr. b. Abt. 1742 in Fluvanna, Va. > > d. 10 Nov 1836 in Clay County, Mo. > > and > > Major, Sr. b. 1735 in Fluvanna, Va. > > d. 1820 in Green County, Tn > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Sue > > > > > > > > > > > Sue, > > > > > > I had those Major Hancock's badly mixed up also. It seemed to take > > forever > > > to straighten them out. Give me your dates of birth and marriages, and > I > > > will try to help you. There is one that doesn't exist, although I know > I > > > will an argument on that one. > > > > > > Ardath > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: "Sue" <sue@ziggycom.net> > > > To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:10 PM > > > Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Major Hancock, Sr. > > > > > > > > > > I have two birthdates and two different places of death for Major > > Hancock, > > > Sr. Could someone help? > > > > > > > > Sue LeFan > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > > > > Feel free to post the data you find on HANCOCK > > > > in your research. Census, bible, wills, marriages, > > > > deaths, cemetery, deeds, tax lists, and other > > > > useful data. You might help a cousin who needs it. > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > > > Check out our HANCOCK Project World Wide at: > > > http://members.aol.com/heatherjvw/Hancock/ > > > > > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > > Where to send messages to the list..... > > HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > Thank you for your support of The HANCOCK Family Discussion List. Please post your HANCOCK folks periodically so we will all know who you are looking for. >

Sue, I had those Major Hancock's badly mixed up also. It seemed to take forever to straighten them out. Give me your dates of birth and marriages, and I will try to help you. There is one that doesn't exist, although I know I will an argument on that one. Ardath ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue" <sue@ziggycom.net> To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:10 PM Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Major Hancock, Sr. > I have two birthdates and two different places of death for Major Hancock, Sr. Could someone help? > > Sue LeFan > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > Feel free to post the data you find on HANCOCK > in your research. Census, bible, wills, marriages, > deaths, cemetery, deeds, tax lists, and other > useful data. You might help a cousin who needs it. >

In a message dated 7/18/01 4:58:46 PM, sue@ziggycom.net writes: << I have two birthdates and two different places of death for Major Hancock, Sr. Could someone help? >> Sue- I am not sure who you mean by "Major, Sr." but assume it is Major born abt 1742 in Fluvanna Co VA and died in Clay Co, MO on 10 Nov 1839? He is commonly said to have been born 1735 to 1742 depending on the source and to have died after 1820 in Greene Co TN or in 1849 Clay Co MO in the home of a son Benjamin.. In reality, he left Greene Co TN in 1820 and went to Mo with three of his sons. ( Again these sons are not posted or acknowledged by most Hancock researchers.) BobHop Visit our home page http://mx4.xoom.com/bhop1 Major family names- Abel, Adams, Anders, Bellisfield, Brock, Byers, Davis, Dement, Field, Guffey, Hancock, Hockaday, Hopkins, Irvine, McClanahan, Scarbrough, Shipley, Strother, Stonestreet, Wade, Wampler, Westlake

Ardath, I have Major, Sr. b. Abt. 1742 in Fluvanna, Va. d. 10 Nov 1836 in Clay County, Mo. and Major, Sr. b. 1735 in Fluvanna, Va. d. 1820 in Green County, Tn Any help will be appreciated. Sue > Sue, > > I had those Major Hancock's badly mixed up also. It seemed to take forever > to straighten them out. Give me your dates of birth and marriages, and I > will try to help you. There is one that doesn't exist, although I know I > will an argument on that one. > > Ardath > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Sue" <sue@ziggycom.net> > To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2001 3:10 PM > Subject: [HANCOCK-L] Major Hancock, Sr. > > > > I have two birthdates and two different places of death for Major Hancock, > Sr. Could someone help? > > > > Sue LeFan > > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > > Feel free to post the data you find on HANCOCK > > in your research. Census, bible, wills, marriages, > > deaths, cemetery, deeds, tax lists, and other > > useful data. You might help a cousin who needs it. > > > > > ==== HANCOCK Mailing List ==== > Check out our HANCOCK Project World Wide at: > http://members.aol.com/heatherjvw/Hancock/ >

I have two birthdates and two different places of death for Major Hancock, Sr. Could someone help? Sue LeFan

As long as you don't start "seeing" dead people you should be just fine!<LOL> Jean ----- Original Message ----- From: <Graylwolfe@aol.com> To: <HANCOCK-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, July 16, 2001 8:54 PM Subject: Re: [HANCOCK-L] The Genealogy Psalm Hi, My daughter calls my genealogy work "digging up dead people". Mary

Hi, My daughter calls my genealogy work "digging up dead people". Mary

Does anyone have Hancocks who may of been preacher for Methodist church and Maryland was part of his circuit.Had at least two sons named William and Charles? Thank you Tamara

In a message dated 07/15/2001 1:56:46 PM Central Daylight Time, swarren2@prodigy.net writes: > 3. William Hancock, Jr. (1774-1854), m. 1806 Mary Sears (d. 1849). > 4. William Hancock m. Sarah —–. > [p.79] William Hancock served as ensign in Captain Tyre's company, Craven > County, North Carolina troops. He was born 1740, in North Carolina; died in > New Bern, N. C. > Also No. 109356 > In which volume of the Patriot Index was this listed? Many of the older lines are not longer accepted by the DAR and must be reproven, because of errors. William Hancock who m. Mary JAMES SEARS (Sears was her first husband) was not the son of William m. Sarah. William was the son of James Hancock of Jones Co., NC as listed in his bible. William who m. Sarah may have been the son of Hector, but I am not the Hector researcher, so I could be wrong on the latter. Julia French Wood

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Mrs. Elizabeth Hancock Pruette. DAR ID Number: 160228 Born in Oxford, N. C. Wife of Rowland Shaw Pruette. Descendant of Ensign William Hancock, as follows: 1. Franklin Wills Hancock (b. 1854) m. 1891 Lizzie Hobgood (b. 1869). 2. Robert Hancock (1812-87) m. 1838 Elizabeth Swan Mallard (1820-88). 3. William Hancock, Jr. (1774-1854), m. 1806 Mary Sears (d. 1849). 4. William Hancock m. Sarah —–. [p.79] William Hancock served as ensign in Captain Tyre's company, Craven County, North Carolina troops. He was born 1740, in North Carolina; died in New Bern, N. C. Also No. 109356

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I am so sorry, but something went wrong when I sent the article. I should have sent the website to start with. Here is the website to go to: www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/horizon/horizon0611/trees0611.html Thanks, Cathie

In a message dated 7/10/01 10:01:49 PM, JULIAFWOOD@aol.com writes: << HEADLINE: DOCTOR SAYS JAMESTOWN SETTLERS DIED FROM ARSENIC PBS SPECIAL SUGGESTS MILITANT CATHOLICS' PLOT Published: Monday, July 9, 2001 Section: A-SECTION Page: A1 >> For more information about the exciting work that is taking place at Jamestown, go to the PBS website: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/secrets2/case3_clues.html There is a picture of Dr. Frank Hancock. Then read the interview with William Kelso, Director of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project. Arvil

HEADLINE: DOCTOR SAYS JAMESTOWN SETTLERS DIED FROM ARSENIC PBS SPECIAL SUGGESTS MILITANT CATHOLICS' PLOT Published: Monday, July 9, 2001 Section: A-SECTION Page: A1 By The Associated Press TEXT: A documentary airing on public broadcasting stations this week contends international intrigue and a steady dose of arsenic led to the high death rate at America's first permanent English settlement."Death at Jamestown," an episode of the "Secrets of the Dead" series, follows Dr. Frank Hancock's attempts to help solve the nearly 400- year-old mystery of why so many of the original settlers died. The program airs Tuesday. The series is described by PBS as showing "scientific sleuths piece together clues in an attempt to solve the greatest mysteries of the past."Hancock is convinced foul play was the reason 440 of the first 500 Jamestown colonists died within three years of the colony's founding in 1607. He said he believes the Virginia colonists were the victims of a 17th-century plot by Spain and militant Catholics in England to sabotage Protestant colonization of the New World."I feel that my case is almost all circumstantial, but I feel the more that I examine the politics between England and Spain, and the internal politics in England, the case becomes stronger and stronger," said Hancock, a former pathologist and the medical director for Laboratory Corp. of America in Burlington. The company conducts clinical tests for hospitals and clinics.Hancock and a LabCorp colleague, Dr. Richard Earley, conducted tests for arsenic using bone samples provided by the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities. Those tests have not been conclusive, he said."We'll probably never know 100 percent for sure," he said. "But I feel we're about 80 percent certain."According to historians, rats destroyed much of the colony's corn stores in the spring of 1609.Many settlers died from starvation, disease and Indian attacks during the winter of 1609-1610, according to written accounts. By that spring, only 60 of the 215 people at the Jamestown fort were still alive.There also are theories that early settlers died from civil unrest, saltwater poisoning or famine brought on by drought. Excavations of an unmarked burial ground under way since last summer are expected to provide more information about how they died.Bill Kelso, director of archaeology for the Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities, which is excavating the Jamestown site, said last year he didn't think it was probable that a conspiracy led to the deaths.Earley argues the fact that deadly outbreaks of a mysterious disease seemed to take place just after English supply ships left the Jamestown colony for home could be more than just coincidence.Hancock's prime suspect is Thomas Arundell, a Catholic baron involved in the failed 1605 Gunpowder Plot, an anti-Protestant conspiracy to blow up British Parliament and King James I.Arundell had funded an exploration of the Maine and Maryland coastlines hoping to establish a Catholic colony along North America's Atlantic coast. Spanish Catholics had already established colonies from South America to Florida."His name comes up again and again in the correspondence between the Spanish ambassador to England and King Phillip III of Spain," Hancock said. "There is mention in the letters that Arundell has told the ambassador that he can take out the colony without recourse to arms. I believe that he's an excellent suspect."Hancock said his conclusions have also been drawn from the diaries and correspondence of prominent Jamestown leaders and colonists such as Capt. John Smith, George Percy and Lord Delaware.LOCAL VIEWING TIMES* "Secrets of the Dead II: Death at Jamestown" airs at 8 p.m. Tuesday on WHRO-TV Channel 15 and WCVE-TV Channel 23. The one-hour program repeats at 1:30 a.m. Wednesday on WHRO. Copyright 2001, Unauthorized reproduction prohibited.    

Due to a major computer crash it was necessary to purchase a new computer thus we have a new address as of today: Gavegang@cs.com Thanks, Gary, Donna & Alyssa

I am searching for Hancock's from Somerset. Samuel Hancock from Banwell on 1851 and 1881 census Samuel Hancock from Huntspill 18th & 19th Century. Is anyone else looking for Hancocks in Somerset? Pat Priddy San Francisco

In 1850 Wm.Hancock born Maryland married a Phebe Shrack in Delaware Co Indiana.Anyone know of these people? Thanks Tamara

Sorry I forgot to add the state they lived in. R.A. was born in Jackson, Aiken Co, S.C. but he and he and his family move to Kerrens, Navarro Co. Texas. This is were he and the Glenn family both are buried.

What State are your Hancock's from ? Wishing you good health and a rainbow day, Minnie Ann Jesus , A Never Ending Friend !