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Descendants of John Hance

Generation No. 1

1. JOHN¹ HANCE was born Abt. 1635 in England, and died 1709 in Calvert Co., Maryland. He married (1) SARAH LEIGH August 29, 1677 in Calvert Co., Md., daughter of FRANCIS LEIGH. She was born Abt. 1627, and died Bet. 1680 - 1687. He married (2) MARY ANN SEWELL Bef. August 1687 in Calvert Co., Md., daughter of JOHN SEWELL and ELEANOR //. She was born Bef. 1665, and died Bet. 1692 - 1707. He married (3) SARAH BILLINGSLEY Aft. 1693, daughter of THOMAS BILLINGSLEY and ELIZABETH //. She was born Abt. 1665, and died Aft. 1744.

Notes for JOHN HANCE:
"A family tradition that there was an earlier John Hance in Maryland than the above while not impossible is improbable. It may have arisen from a wrong interpretation of a chart circulated in 1860 by J. Owen Dorsey. The first John Hance it refers to was probably of England which view is supported by Benjamin Mackall Hance writing of his father, Thomas Claire Hance, in which he says, his father was 6th generation from John Hance, a London merchant. No documentary evidence can be found of an earlier Hance in Maryland than the one here mentioned.

The immigrant came to Maryland in 1659. He had 3 wives as shown above. A chart to show more particularly the earlier generations was made by Charles Thistlewaite, Macedon, New York for Benjamin Mascal Hance in August l937."

(note: the spelling of Mascal --- Mackall is in the rest of the genealogy)

(Quote from the research done by those before --- Charles Thistlewaite, in 1937,
and two uncles (Thomas) Claire Hance and (Benjamin) Frank Hance in 1960's and 1970's)

WILL of ---- Hance, John, Calvert Co., drawn 14th Feb., 1708-9; probated 2nd May, 1709.
To wife Sarah, ˝ dwelling plantation (bought from Basil Warring) and ˝ personalty, she paying to dau. Elizabeth Ł100 at 16 yrs. or marriage, sd. dau. to inherit afsd. land at decease of her mother.
To Christopher Kellett, all land at Battle Creeke bought from Peter and Ignatius Sewall.
To wife's 2 sons, viz., Robert Roberts and Jno. Claw, personalty.
To Quakers, 3 A., part of "Neverton" where The Clifts Meeting House stands, and Ł10.
To son Benjamin, residue of land in Md. and of personalty at 18 yrs. He dying without issue, his estate to pass to dau. Eliza: and Chr. Kellett afsd. and hrs.
Ex.: Richd. Johns, Sr., and should he die Aquilla Johns to administer.
Test: Elinor Harris, David Morgan, Nathanll. Giles, Henry Drinkwater, Eliza: Giles.
By codicil 3rd Mch., 1708, testator shows that he had purchased 3 parcels of land from Abraham Johns, deceased, near Hunting Creek, viz., "Partnership", "Tanney's Ease" and "Hance's Lane" for which residue of payment is to
be made to Joseph Tilley, and devises sd. lands [p.132] to probable unborn child. In event of child not being born, or of its decease during minority, sd. lands to pass to dau. Elizabeth afsd. and hrs., and in succession to son Benjamin. Should son Benjamin die without issue, his estate to pass to sd. Elizabeth and son-in-law Chr. Kellett and unborn child. Part 2-12. 47.
SOURCE: Baldwin, Jane. "Maryland Calendar of Wills 1635 - aft. 1742". Baltimore, MD: Kohn & Pollack Inc. 1917. vols. 8 --------- Vol. 3, p. 131-2

note: "Overton" was the name of the plantation where the next generations, Benjamin, Samuel, and Benjamin lived in Calvert County, Maryland. "Neverton" probably was the same plantation,just missed spelled or missed pronounced.

More About JOHN HANCE:
Immigration: 1650, England to Virginia?
Occupation: Planter of tobacco
Property: 1668, "Hance's Lane" Tract Patent, Calvert Co.
Religion: Quaker at Christ Church
Residence: 1659, Calvert Co., Maryland

Children of JOHN HANCE and SARAH LEIGH are:

	i.		KINSEY² HANCE, b. 1672; d. Bef. 1688.
	ii.		SARAH HANCE, b. Bef. 1683; m. CHRISTOPHER KELLETT; b. Bef. 1686; d. March 1710, Calvert Co., Maryland.

Child of JOHN HANCE and MARY SEWELL is:

iii.

BENJAMIN² HANCE, b. Abt. 1692, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. 1773, Calvert Co., Maryland.

Children of JOHN HANCE and SARAH BILLINGSLEY are:

	iv.		ELIZABETH² HANCE, b. Aft. 1694.
3.	v.		JOHN HANCE, JR., b. Abt. 1709, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. December 1761, Calvert Co., Maryland.

Generation No. 2

2. BENJAMIN² HANCE (JOHN¹) was born Abt. 1692 in Calvert Co., Maryland, and died 1773 in Calvert Co., Maryland. He married MARY HUTCHINS 1711 in Calvert Co., Md., daughter of FRANCIS HUTCHINS and ELIZABETH BURRIDGE. She was born 1694, and died Bet. 1730 - 1737.

Notes for BENJAMIN HANCE:
On the Lists of Taxables of Calvert County, Maryland, dated 1733, Benjamin lived in the area called Hunting Creek Hundred. He had 26 slaves. He was the 2nd largest owner of slaves in Calvert Co. at that time.

By 1753, Benjamin Hance owned one of the largest plantations in Calvert County, Maryland. It was called "Overton" . The location of this property was located on the main highway between Huntington and Prince Frederick. Also he owned "Parker's Clifts", "Warrington" ( acquired from the estate of his first wife Sarah and step-son, Basil Waring), "Agreement", "Bussey's Garden", "Tillington", "Hance's Lane", and "Chittam". This estate consisted of between l500 and l620 acres of land. Most of this estate went to Samuel, which in turn was passed on to his son, Benjamin by the year 1800.

WILL of HANCE, BENJAMIN, Calvert Co. drawn 20 May l773, probated 7 Dec l773
To son Samuel Hance, ex., ten negroes, land I now live on "Overton" and all lands except those given hereafter.
To dau. Margaret Hance, nine negroes, plantation where my father lived (unnamed) 50 acres of land where Peter Sewell lived.
To dau. Elizabeth Johns, five negroes, tract (unnamed) next to where I live during her lifetime or widowhood then to my son Samuel Hance.
To grandson Kinsey Hance (son of Benjamin) three negroes, tract of land (unnamed) and l00 acres of "Parkers Clifts."
To grandson Benjamin Talbot (son of John Talbot) one negro.
To my several grandchildren (unnamed) 5 shillings each.
To children Samuel Hance, Mary Mackall, Elizabeth Johns and Margaret Hance, residue of my estate.

Wit: William Harris; John Ireland; Phillip Talbot; Joseph Ireland.
Codicil: To dau. Margaret Hance, horse. To dau. Elizabeth Johns, horse. Wit: John Talbott son Jos.; Joseph Ireland. 39. 432

More About BENJAMIN HANCE:
Occupation: Plantation Owner
Religion: Quaker

Notes for MARY HUTCHINS:
Mary Hutchins is not mentioned in her husband's will so she must have died before his death in 1773. In Mackenzie's book "Colonial Families of the United States of America" there is reference to a "Samuel Thomas of West River, MD., b. circa 1655; d. before 1743; was a minister of the Society of Friends: married at his own house at West River, May 15, 1688, Mary Hutchins, d. July 1751; daughter of Francis Hutchins of Calvert County, MD."

source: Hutchins, Ailene W. "Hunting Creek Hundred" self published. 1992.
In a book by Ailene W. Hutchins, "Hunting Creek Hundred", on page 319, it states that "In 1711, at the House of Richard Johns, Benjamin Hance and Mary Hutchins announced their first intention to marry."

When the Quakers first settled their Monthly Meetings were held at the homes of their leaders.

??? -- The Samuel Thomas was a leader of the Quaker Church and probably married Benjamin Hance and Mary Hutchins at his home. The date of May 15, 1688 could have been her birth date and July 1751 seems a reasonable date for her death.

Children of BENJAMIN HANCE and MARY HUTCHINS are:

4.	i.	BENJAMIN³ HANCE, JR., b. Abt. 1715; d. 1748, Calvert Co., Maryland.
	ii.	CHRISTOPHER HANCE, b. Abt. 1715.
	iii.	FRANCIS HANCE, b. Abt. 1715, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. 1764, Prince George Co., Maryland; m. SARAH KEEN.
5.	iv.	JOSEPH HANCE, b. September 10, 1716, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. Aft. 1776, Calvert Co., Maryland.
6.	v.	MARY HANCE, b. 1718.
7.	vi.	ELIZABETH HANCE, b. Abt. 1720.
	vii.	MARGARET HANCE, b. Abt. 1720; m. RICHARD HARRIS, December 19, 1779, Maryland.

Notes for MARGARET HANCE:
In 1773, when her father, Benjamin Hance, died Margaret Hance got 9 negroes, the plantation, where her father had lived, 50 acres next to Peter Sewell and a horse.

viii.

SAMUEL HANCE, b. June 1730, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. December 1798, Calvert Co., Maryland.

3. JOHN² HANCE, JR. (JOHN¹) was born Abt. 1709 in Calvert Co., Maryland, and died December 1761 in Calvert Co., Maryland. He married SARAH HALL June 27, 1735, daughter of RICHARD HALL and MARY HOSIER. She was born 1715, and died Aft. 1762.

Notes for JOHN HANCE, JR.:
John was born after the death of his father.

More About JOHN HANCE, JR.:
Died 2: January 1762, Calvert Co., Maryland
Census: 1748, Maryland Colony, Residence List

Children of JOHN HANCE and SARAH HALL are:

9.	i.	ELISHA³ HANCE, d. Bet. 1812 - 1816.
10.	ii.	REBECCA HANCE, d. Bet. 1816 - 1820.
	iii.	SARAH HANCE.
	iv.	MARGARET HANCE, b. 1755.
11.	v.	III BENJAMIN HANCE, b. 1756, Calvert Co., Maryland; d. March 13, 1812, Calvert Co., Maryland.
12.	vi.	RICHARD HANCE, b. Abt. 1760, Maryland; d. Abt. 1839, Lockport, Henry County, Kentucky.

Generation No. 3

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