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Thomas1 Hanson, a possible Quaker or at least father of a Quaker family, and the immigrant ancestor to New England, and his wife Mary ______. Thomas Hanson died about June 1666 in Dover, New Hampshire. His will was proved June 27, 1666. His wife Mary was killed by the Indians at a the assault of the Waldron Garrison House in Dover, N.H.
Speculative but unproven parents John HANSON, b. abt 1584 in England and Francis Prichard who happen to have a lustrous pedigree. But no evidence has been provided to prove the man of Dover was identical to the son if any of this couple.
Family 1: Mary HANSON, b. abt 1619
- 1.Tobias HANSON, b. abt 1641 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
- 2. Thomas HANSON, b. abt 1643 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
- 3. Elizabeth HANSON, b. abt 1645 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
- 4.Isaac HANSON, b. abt 1648 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
- 5.Timothy HANSON, b. abt 1651 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
- 6.Miss HANSON, b. abt 1653 in Dover, Strafford, New Hampshire
For evidence that his Mary's maiden name may be Paul see the link and notes for The New York genealogical and biographical record v.47 (1916) p 332-3 below. This evidence is dubious. It has been proposed that she was the daughter of Daniel Paul and Elizabeth Lever, but read below.
References
- ↑ Thomas1 Hanson, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939)
307-8.
6 Thomas1 Hanson, Dover 1657, had 100 a. gr. near Salmon F. 11 Jan. 1658-9 and bot from Wm. Hackett and Capt. Barefoot. Freeman 5 June 1661. If not a Quaker hims., the founder of a fam. of Quakers. Constable; Highway Surveyor. Lists 356abcegh, 47. Will (undated) proved 27 June 1666, names w. Mary [note no maiden name], 6 ch. She was abs. from meet. 1663; k. by Ind. ‘old wid. Hand-son’ 28 June 1689. Lists 356jk, 359ab, 96. Ch:
1 Tobias, oldest son, prob. of age 1662.
2 Thomas.
3 Isaac.
4 Timothy.
Two daus. under age by will:
5 one Elizabeth, m. John Hance;
6 the other poss. Mary.
- ↑ Thomas Hanson, in New Hampshire; Albert Stillman Batchellor (ed.); Otis Grant Hammond (ed.); and Henry Harrison Metcalf (ed.). Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire. (New Hampshire: The State [et al], 1907–1941)
Vol. 31, Page 85-6.
link
Thomas Hanson died testate in Cocheco, (Dover), NH, in 1666. Capt. Richard Waldren proved his undated will on 27 June 1666. He mentioned his wife Mary, two unnamed daughters under 18, son Tobias to have two grants from the Town of Dover, son Thomas to have land bought of Capt. Barefoot, and two youngest sons, Isaac and Timothy, not of age. His will, in full, was published in Volume 1 of Probate Records of the Province of New Hampshire in 1907, and is as follows:
These presents wittnesse that I Thomas Hanson Being in perffect mind & memory though weak in Body doe make this my Last Will & testament, First I Bequeath my soul to God that gave itt & my body to ye Earth to bee decently Buried. My Will is thatt affter my debts are paid with my funerall Charge I doe give To my Loving Wife (duering her Naturall liffe or soe long as shee keeps herselfe a Widdow) all My housing with the Improved Ground thereunto Belonging at Cutcheco with all my Cattell and moveables withall my . . . . stuffe, she paying to my two daughters when they Come to the age off eighteen years old twenty pound a peece. But in case shee shall marry again then my will is that she shall have Butt one third off houses & improved Lands with all moveables and the other two thirds I give to my son’ Tobias with all ye Rest off that Threscore acres off Land lying in Com’on & nott improved given mee in two grants ffrom ye Town one off fforty acres another off twenty acres all which affter my decease I Give to my son’ Tobias, except whatt is Beffore given to my wife. Likewise I Give to my son’ Thomas thatt thirty acres off Land I Bought off William Hackett & thatt fifty [acres?] off Land thatt I Bought off Capt Bearffoott with ffive pounds in Cattell. Also I Give to my two youngest son’s Isaac & Timothy ten’ pounds a peece When they Come off age with thatt six score acres of land Granted my By ye town & laid outt to mee Between ffresh Creek and Nechowoneck River Be equaly devided Between them and doe apoint my Loving Wiffe Mary Hanson my soule Exequetrix to see all this my Last will to Be perfformed and to pay outt all these Legacies when my Children Come off age: outt off ye Chattells and if there is more in any Goods or Chattels or any bils Bonds or amounts due to mee ffrom any man affter my debts are paid and all ye abovesd Legacies I Give & Bequeatth to my Wife with third off houses & lands to Bestow upon any off her Children that shall Be most Obedient as shee shall see Cause. In Witnesse heroff I have putt to my hand & seale
Signed seleid and deliverd I Thomas hanson (seal)
in the presence of us
Richard Walderne
Samuell hale
- ↑ Alonzo H Quint, Genealogical Items Relating to Dover, N.H. , in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
6:329, 1852.
link This is a fairly good genealogy of the family for 1852
- Query, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
38:313, 1907.
link Looking for evidence regarding his claimed pedigree.
- William White Hance, Hance, in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
58:94.
link Regarding the possible marriage of daughter Elizabeth to John Hance and naming of children.
- The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
78:427.
link QUick lineage for Charles Henry Hanson.
- Query, in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
1907.
link Looking again for evidence Thomas Hanson was son of John and Francis (Prichard) Hanson of London.
- Scales, John. Piscataqua Pioneers : Register of members and ancestors, 1623-1775. (Dover, NH: Piscataqua Pioneers, 1919)
99.
link Scales points to Everett S. Stackpole's "discovery" of Thomas Hanson's wife maiden name but see below.
- Trask, William Blake, and M. B. (Mittie Belcher) Fairbanks. Captain William Traske and some of his descendants. (Washington [District of Columbia]: L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1978)
14.
- Lawrence, Ethel V. (Ethel Viola). Tripp family with collaterals, Mary Dobbs and descendants. (Washington [District of Columbia]: L.C. Photoduplication Service, 1984)
60.
- Nicely, Charlotte Ada Edgerly. Hanson relatives: ancestors and descendants of Love, Susan, Nahum, and Charles Hanson, and ancestors of some of the spouses of Hanson descendants. (Baltimore [Maryland]: Gateway Press, c1977).
- J R Hutchinson, Some notable depositions from the high court of admiralty, in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society)
47:332-33.
link This deposition of Thomas Harrison of Redriffe, Surrey, mariner age 50 7 Mar 1636/7 that his son Thomas Harrison is to go master of the "Success" of London set to Prussia and if he can not go his brother-in-law Daniel Paule of Ipswich, shipwright and mariner is to go master. He was probably associate with the Kittery mast trade. The author dicusses Lechford 293 see below.
Note Stackpole author of old Old Kittery and her families made a big deal about this entry because he supposed that this showed that Daniel Paul of New England was son-in-law of Thomas Hanson of Dover i.e. either Thomas Hanson's wife was Mary Paul or Daniel Paul's wife was Elizabeth Hanson. We now know that Daniel Paul's was Elizabeth Lever. But is Thomas Hanson, quaker, Constable & Highway Surveyor of Dover a land lover the same as Thomas Harrison a master mariner? I just don't get how you could conflate this Harrison with Hanson. This evidence for the maiden name for the wife of Thomas Hanson is beyond weak in my opinion and GDMNH doesn't even bother to mention it. This is the only source for the proposition that Thomas Hanson's wife was Mary Paul and it has been repeated ad nauseam. It is probably time for this theory to be put to rest.
- Lechford, Thomas, and James Hammond Trumbull. Note-book kept by Thomas Lechford, Esq.,: lawyer in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, from June 27, 1638 to July 29, 1641. (Cambridge [Massachusetts]: John Wilson and Son, 1885)
293, 1916.
link Daniel Paul late of Ipsw., Eng. (Now of New England), he sent back power of attorney to sell his lands and deliv. the money to wife Elizabeth in England.
- Noyes, Sybil. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, in Noyes, Sybil; Charles Thornton Libby; and Walter Goodwin Davis. Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire. (Portland, Maine: Southworth Press, 1928-1939).
PAUL. Daniel, bp. at St. Clement’s, Ipswich, co. Suff., 24 Feb. 1590-1, m. there 9 Feb. 1617 Elizabeth Lever, bp. 30 Nov. 1590 in same par., where a dau. Thomasine was bp. 16 June 1624.DANIEL, mariner, shipwright, Kittery. From Boston 26 Aug. 1640, late of Ipsw., Eng., he sent back p/a to sell his lands and deliv. the money to w. Elizabeth. He and Bartholomew Smith bot on Long Reach from John Andrews 21 Mar. 1647-8; in 1649 he bot from Rich. Cutts ho. and land adj. his own, form. Stephen Sanborn’s. Gr.j. 1650, 1651. Grants 1653, 1665. Lists 282, 284, 298, 323, 326a. His w. Elizabeth was liv. in Oct. 1659 when he gave a mtg. to Cutts. On July 18, 1668, with no ment. of her he deeded all aft. he died to s. Stephen, except 15 a. given to Jos. Alcock; alive 22 Aug. 1672. Children he deeded all aft. he died to s. Stephen, except 15 a. given to Jos. Alcock; alive 22 Aug. 1672. ; alive 22 Aug. 1672. Ch. here, poss. others in Eng.
Children:
1. Abigail, m. 1st Joseph Alcock (3), m. 2d Robert Rowsley.
2. STEPHEN (1), shipwright, Kit., compl. ag. Benj. Hull in 1666 for abusing him. He m. Katherine Maverick (1) aft. 18 July 1668 when in view of his coming marriage his fa. deeded him the homestead. She had a legacy from Mrs. Catherine Hilton (1) in 1676. He had tav. lic. at Long Reach 1680, 1682, lic. contin. in 1683 to wife. Lists 298, 92. Inv. 25 Sept. 1696. She had beer lic. 1695, tav. 1696, 1698, and was liv. in July 1706. Ch. (Y. D. 6: 162, 7: 52, 8: 63): Elizabeth, m. (ct. Apr. 1696) John Thompson. Susannah, m. Samuel Fernald (4). John, m. by 1706 Margaret Tobey (James). Lists 290-1, 296-7. In 1717 he deeded all to s. Amos (b. 19 Feb. 1712-3), he to pay £20 to sis. Katherine (b. 18 July 1707); wife not ment., but in 1737 John Thompson depos. ‘In 1717 at request of J. P. and w. Margaret.’ He liv. up to 1735 (SJC 44026), appar. to 1737 (SJC 43978). Daniel, shipwright, m. 30 Mar. 1701 Sarah Bragdon (5), she liv. 28 Sept. 1732. In 1731 his home was half the Long Reach homestead; liv. 1736; marked ‘moved’ on Eliot Ch. list of 1727. Lists 291, 296-7. 8 ch. Moses, carver, Portsm., Boston, apprent. to Richard Knight, likely (14). Of Kit. 1701, still K.’s apprent., he bot in Portsm.; taxed there as late as 1727. He d. in Boston 5 Jan. 1730, ag. 53 yrs. 3 mos. Adm. in Suff. 1730, in N. H. 1731, to wid. Mary (Cotton 2, m. by 1703), who d. in Boston 7 May 1742, in 61st yr. Her will names dau. Mary (m. in Boston 1728 Jonathan Payson; d. there 1743 in 36th yr.) and gr.s. Moses Paul Payson. A s. Moses, ag. 27, and a dau. Sarah, ag. 18 yrs. 8 mos., both d. in Boston in Mar. 1730. Abigail, m. aft. 1701 John Skriggins. (With or near Moses’ fam. was bur. Aquila, s. of Aquila and Sarah, d. 30 July 1714, acc. to Copps Hill rec. pub. 1878. This ch. was bp. in Charlest. 1712).
Note Walter Goodwin Davis doesn't buy that Daniel Paul had a daughter Mary Paul.
- Foster, Joseph. Pedigrees of the county families of Yorkshire. (London: W. Wilfred Head, 1874)
155.
link Does any serious genealogist believe this pedigree has anything to do with Thomas Hanson of Dover?
- Austin, John Osborne. One Hundred and Sixty Allied Families. (Salem, Massachusetts, 1893)
120, 123.
p 123
"It is confidently believed by some of the American branch of Hansons that this Thomas Hanson was identical with the Homas Hanson of London, who was a descendant of in the 12th generation from Roger Delaware Rastricke, of Rastricke in Yorkshire, who was living in 1251. 21 July 1657. In a "Rate" (for the minister probably) appears the name of Thomas Hanson. 11 Jan 1659. Granted 100 Acres Near Salmon Falls, N. H. 5 Jun 1661. Freeman. 1665. Taxed at Dover, for the last time, his death occuring the next year. 27 Jun 1666. Will proved. Executor, Wife Mary. Witnesses, Richard Waldron, Samuel Hale. To wife Mary, all his housing, goods, cattle, and Movable goods, she paying legacies. to son Tobias, 60 acres. To son Thomas, 80 acres and 5 in cattle. The two other sons under age, Isaac and Timothy, each to have 10, and 120 acres of land when of age. The two daughters to have 20, when eighteen years of age. 1680. Widow Hanson taxed at Dover. 28 Jun 1689. "Old Widow Hanson" was killed at the attack of the Indians on Waldron's Garrison.
- Stam. H.E. Desc. of Thos. Hanson of Dover, N. H. (1937) Mss. at New Eng. Gen. Hist. Library, Boston, Mass.
- Justus G. Hanson M. D.: The Hanson Ancestry Address: 219 Elm St., Northamton, Mass. Stillwell, vol 1, p 248 and vol 2, p 362.
- Hanson Family of New Hampshire Colony.
link The author did a fairly competent job. He does bring up the bogus pedigree but states it isn't proven. He also goes with the maiden name of Mary as Paul but adds the disclaimer he doesn't know what the evidence is. See NYGBR above for the "evidence."
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