Family:John Covington and Hannah Dockery (1)

The children of John Covington and Hannah Dockery, listed in a court document as reported in Gregg, p. 558, are Mathew (b. abt 1760), Hannah (b. abt 1762/3), and twins Mary and Sarah Covington, (b. abt 1776/7). When John Covington names these children in his will, the implication is that they are the children of his first wife. In neither document is his son William listed as the son of Hannah Dockery. John did have a son William by his second wife, Rachel Thomas, but he was born in 1777 and died 1858.

1. ↑ Gregg, Eugene Stuart. A crane's foot or pedigree of branches of the Gregg, Stuart, Robertson, Dobbs and allied families. (Hilton Head Island, South Carolina: Gregg, c1975 (Columbia, S.C. : R.L. Bryan))
   p. 558.

   John Covington Jr. m.1 on 8 Oct 1758, Hannah Dockery, a dau. of Col. Thomas Dockery, at St. Luke's Church, Snow Hill, Md.

2. ↑ Dodd, Jordan, and comp. Liahona Research. Maryland Marriages, 1655-1850. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc., 2004).

   Name: Hannah Dockery
   Gender: Female
   Marriage Date: 8 Oct 1758
   Spouse: John, Jr. Covington
   Spouse Gender: Female
   County: Queen Anne's County

3. ↑ John Covington and Hannah Dockery are sometimes reported to have had a son named William, b. 1759 in Rockingham, Richmond, North Carolina, died 1789. No reliable evidence of such a child exists.