This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hanway/Hanaway Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/FEC.2ACE/18.1 Message Board Post: Did anyone ever answer your query about Capt. Samuel Hanway? Samuel never married. He enticed his brother Jesse, my ggggrandfather, to join him in Morgantown. In his old age he moved into the Morgantown home of Jesse's son John and Samuel left his estate to John; I found a typed copy of Samuel's (and Jesse's and John's, and William A.'s, John's son) in Morgantown. Some of Samuel's papers were passed from father to son and I have Samuel's 1784 commission as "Major of the militia of the Commonwealth of Virginia" signed by Benjamin Harrison, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. I also found Samuel's 1830's request for a Revolutionary War pension in the National Archives in DC.