William Hanks II1

b. 14 February 1679, d. 1 May 1732
William Hanks II|b. 14 Feb 1679\nd. 1 May 1732|p1733.htm|William Hanks I|b. c 1655\nd. b 7 Feb 1704/5|p1759.htm|Sarah (—?—) (Hanks-White)||p1760.htm|Thomas Hanks|b. b 1630\nd. c 1675|p1761.htm|Elizabeth (—?—) (Hanks)||p1894.htm|||||||

4th great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
6th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     William Hanks II was born on 14 February 1679 in Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia.3 He was the son of William Hanks I and Sarah (—?—) (Hanks-White).2 He married Esther Mills, daughter of John Mills and Hester White, on 1 July 1711 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.2,1,4,5 He died on 1 May 1732 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, at age 53.3 His will was proved on 7 June 1732 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.6
     
     William II bought land in various parcels from 1706 until apparently 1728, some of the later purchases made possibly by his son or nephew of the same name. He was a farmer and carpenter. William II left instructions in his will for the oldest son to teach his brothers the carpenter's trade. Son Thomas is not mentioned in his father's will, though he was living at the time. Edward Hanks, who is mentioned in the will, does not appear in the North Farnum Parish Registers. It's likely that Thomas and Edward were the same person, and a mistake was made in the Register.7,8

Additional Data
Administration on the estate of his father William Hanks I was granted to William Hanks II on 7 February 1704/5 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, Upon the Petition of William Hanks Order for administration is granted to him all and Singular the Estate of his desed Father - William Hanks he giving Secty according to law." An order for Inventory and Appraisal was made the same day: "Upon the petition of Sarah Hanks ordered that Rowland Lawson, William Smoote, Dora Benneham and Thomas Bryant or any three of them do meet at the House of William Hanks dec'd and do the eighth day of this Instant if faire, if not on the next faire day after and do then and accordingly to the Inventory and Apprisement thereof by them Returned, and make report of theire proceedings therein to the next court there hands in writing."9

William Hanks, Richard White, Luke Hanks and John Hanks participated equally in the division of the estate of William Hanks I, 20 November 1705, each share amounting to 8945 pounds of tobacco. His share included the value of all the land in the estate as dictated by the Law of Primogenture then in effect. Under this law, the eldest living son (the "heir at law") inherited all the real property of the father if the father died intestate.10

William Hanks made his will 24 April 1732 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia. Mentioned were sons William, Richard, John, James, and wife Hester. He bequeathed to son William land and plant. I now live on containing 100 ac, if he has no heirs to Richard Hanks; son John land and plant. whereon William Eriskean now lives containing 90 ac, if he has no heirs, to go to Edward and James Hanks; I give to William Downman 1 ac. of land on the north side of the Briery Swamp in NFP which land I obtained by order of court to build a mill on, he, the sd. Downman, paying all charges that shall arise thereon; child. to remain and work for their mother. Executors were his wife Hester and son William; witnesses, James Neal, Thomas [?], Penelope [Eriskeen].11 Inventory of the estate of William Hanks II was ordered on 6 September 1732.12

Children of William Hanks II and Hester Mills

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).
  3. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800, 85.
  4. [S292] Jordan R. Dodd, Early American Marriages: Virginia to 1800 (Provo, Utah: The Generations Network, Inc., 1997).
  5. [S320] Robert K. Headley Jr., Married Well and Often; Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003), 163.
  6. [S293] Southern Roots, online <http://www.gencircles.com/users/hrhdah/1>, David Allan Hardin (<e-mail address>), downloaded 29 March 2002.
  7. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families, 279.
  8. [S291] Jack English Hightower, The Family of William Clayton Hightower and Mai Cole (Austin, Texas: n.pub., 1988), 155.
  9. [S323] Connie Lynn Hornbaker, "Ancestors of Virginia and Kristen Hoye," online <http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/a/v/Connie-L-Cavin/…>, downloaded 1999, citing Order Book 4, page 32.
  10. [S323] Connie Lynn Hornbaker, 1999, citing Will Book 2: 88.
  11. [S321] Robert K. Headley Jr., Wills of Richmond County, Virginia 1699-1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), 68 citing Will Book 5, p. 181.
  12. [S321] Robert K. Headley Jr., Married Well and Often; Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800, 68 citing Will Book 5, p. 182.