Elijah Hanks1

b. 17 December 1740
Elijah Hanks|b. 17 Dec 1740|p1692.htm|William Hanks III|b. 26 May 1712|p1717.htm|Sarah Durham|b. c 1714|p1718.htm|William Hanks II|b. 14 Feb 1679\nd. 1 May 1732|p1733.htm|Hester Mills|b. b 1695|p1734.htm|Thomas Durham Jr.|b. 27 Jun 1690\nd. 3 Dec 1734|p1821.htm|Mary Smoot|b. 7 Apr 1693\nd. 8 May 1750|p1822.htm|

2nd great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
4th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     Elijah Hanks was born on 17 December 1740 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.3 He was the son of William Hanks III and Sarah Durham.2 He married Ann Craft, daughter of Thomas Craft and Elizabeth Morse.4,1,5,6 His will was proved in August Court in 1798 in Granville County, North Carolina.
     
     As a young man he was in Amelia County, Virginia. He perhaps lived in Dinwiddie County, Virginia before moving to North Carolina.4

Additional Data
Elijah Hanks appeared on the Granville County, North Carolina, list of taxables for 1769; one white.

Elijah Hanks and wife Ann sold land on 3 November 1777 in Granville County, North Carolina, to John Brame of Mecklenburg County, Virginia.7

Elijah Hanks was mentioned in his father William Hanks' will dated 10 July 1787 in Granville County, North Carolina.8,9,10 Click to view image

Elijah Hanks made his will on 8 November 1797 in Granville County, North Carolina. He bequeathed to his children Samuel, David, Thomas, John, William and Betsy, and to the children of his brother Argyle.8,10 Click to view image

Children of Elijah Hanks and Ann Craft

Citations

  1. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800 (Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1966).
  2. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families; a genealogical, biographical, and historical study of the ancestry of the mother of Abraham Lincoln (Kansas, Illinois: Adin Baber, 1960), 280.
  3. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800, 85.
  4. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families, 282.
  5. [S291] Jack English Hightower, The Family of William Clayton Hightower and Mai Cole (Austin, Texas: n.pub., 1988), 3-4.
  6. [S292] Jordan R. Dodd, Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1800 (Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997).
  7. [S285] Granville County Deeds, L: 162, County Clerk's Office, Oxford, North Carolina.
  8. [S284] Fred A. Olds, An Abstract of North Carolina Wills from about 1760 to about 1800 (Oxford: n.pub., 1925; reprint Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1998), 128.
  9. [S325] William Hanks will (1787), Granville County Will Book, County Clerk's Office, Oxford, North Carolina.
  10. [S326] Hanks Wills and Estates, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hlglkg/…>.
  11. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families, 291.