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Notes for JOHN HANCE:

Individual:

CAME: John Hance -- l659 -- in Calvert County, Maryland

......... a John Hanch, in 1650, was transported (someo ne else paid for his
passage) to Virginia by John Hallowes, gent., Northumberland Co.

Christopher were: Hugn Hallowell, age 22 and Jo: Harlow e, age l6. (source:
"Hotten", p. 80-82.) Where either of these gentlemen the one

(note ---- in checking the passsenger list of "Th e Ark" and "The Dove" , dated
l633 in which Gov. Leonard Calvert was also listed, was the name John
Hallowes. The voyage was by way of Barbadoes. Richard Lowe was the master
of "The Ark". (source-- Boyer, Carl 3rd. "Ship Passenger L ists -- The South"
l538-l825.)

"A family tradition t hat 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 firs t John
Hance it refers to was probably of England which view is supported by Ben jamin
Mackall Hance writing of his father, Thomas Claire Hance, in which he say s, his
father was 6th generation from John Hance, a London merchant. No
documentary evidence can be found of an earlier Hance in Maryland than th e
one here mentioned.

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

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

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

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WILL of HANCE, JOHN -- Calvert County, MD -- Feb 14, 17 08/9, May 22, 1709
(first date - when will was written, 2nd date - probate date)

....to wife Sarah, one-half dwelling plantation (bough t from Basil Waring) and
one- half personalty, she paying to dau. Elizabeth l00 pds. sterling at l 6 years or
marriage, sd. daughter to inherit afsd. land a decease of her mother.

....to Christopher Kellett, all land at Battle Creek bo ught from Peter and Ignatius
Sewall.

....to wife's 2 sons, viz., Robert Roberts and Jno. Cla w(Clare), personalty.

to the Quakers, 3 arces, part of "Neventon" w here the Clifts Meeting House
stands, and l0 pds sterling.

....to son Benjamin, residue of land in Maryland and o f personalty at l8 years. He
dying without issue, his estate to pass to dau. Elizabeth: and Chr. Kelle tt afsd.
and hrs.

Ex: Richard Johns, Sr., and should he die Aquilla John s to administer.

Test: Elinor Harris, David Morgan, Nathaniel Giles, Hen ry Drinkwater, Elizabeth
Giles

.....by codicil March 3, 1708, testator show that he ha d purchased 3 parcells of
land from Abraham Johns, deceased, near Hunting Creek, viz., "Partne rship",
"Tanney's Ease", and "Hance Lane" for which residue o f payment is to be made
to Joseph Tilley, and devises sd. lands to probable unborn child. In even t of child
not being born, or of its decease during minority, sd. lands to pass to d aug.
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-i n-law
Christopher Kellett and unborn child.

(source: Baldwin, Jane. "Calendar of Maryland Will s 1635 - 1738. pages 131-
132.)

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RESIDENCE: England and Calvert Co. MD

.......... in Calvert County, Maryland he owned: 1) lan d at Battle Creek purchased
from Peter and Ignatius Sewall, 2) "Neventon", where the Clift s Meeting House
stands, 3) in 1708 purchased -- 3 parcels of land from Abraham Johns, nea r
Hunting Creek, 4) "Partnership", "Taney's Ease", an d "Hance's Lane"

(NOTE: Is "Neventon" the same as "Overto n" ????? "Overton" was the name of
the residence of Benjamin II and Samuel III, could it have been also the
residence of John and his family or the name change slightly???)

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RELIGION: Quaker

"A family tradition that there was an earlier Joh n 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 firs t John
Hance it refers to was probably of England which view is supported by Ben jamin
Mackall Hance writing of his father, Thomas Claire Hance, in which he say s, his
father was 6th generation from John Hance, a London merchant.

No documentary evidence can be found of an earlier Hance in Maryland tha n the
one here mentioned.

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

(Quote from the research done by those before --- Charl es Thistlewaite, in 1937,
and together, two uncles (Thomas) Claire Hance and (Benjamin) Frank Hanc e in
1970)

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More About JOHN HANCE:

Immigration: 1650, Englan d to Virginia?

Occupation: Planter of tob acco

Property: 1668, "Hanc e's Lane" Tract Patent, Calvert Co.

Religion: Quaker at Chris t Church

Residence: 1659, Calvert C o., Maryland

Title: A History of Calver t County, Maryland

Author: Charles Francis St ein

Publication: published i n cooperation with Calvert County Historical Society,
1960, 1976

Note: 3rd edition has adde d material

Repository:

Note: Newberry Library

Call Number: F 85427 .841< /span>

Media: Book

Title: Magruder's Marylan d Colonial Abstracts -- Wills, Accounts, and Inventories

Author: compiled and mimeo graphed by James M. Magruder, Jr.

Publication: Annapolis, 19 34-1939

Repository:

Note: Newberry Library

Call Number: fK 49 .543

Media: Book

Title: The Hance Family

Author: Thomas C. Hance an d Benjamin P. Hance

Publication: 1969

Repository:

Note: Allen County Publi c Library

Call Number: 929.2 H1913H< /span>

Media: Manuscript < /div>

Title: Anne Agee

Repository:

Call Number: asagee@erols .com

Media: Electronic

Text: married by 1687 acco rding to settlement papers of Christopher Kellett's
estate

Title: The Maryland Calend ar of Wills

Author: Jane Baldwin Cotto n and F. Edward Wright

Publication: Family Line P ublications, Westminster, MD

Repository:

Note: personal library

Call Number: CD #206

Media: Electronic < /div>

• Married: 29 AUG 1677 in , Calvert, Maryland

1. Kinsey Hance b: ABT 1680
2. Sarah Hance b: ABT 1680

• Married: ABT 1687

1. Benjamin Hance b: ABT 1692 in , Calvert, Maryland

• Married: ABT 1695 ¹

1. Elizabeth Hance b: ABT 1702
2. John Hance b: 1709 in , Calvert, Maryland

1. Title: The Maryland Calendar of Wills
   Publication: Family Line Publications 1991-95
   Repository:
   Name: Maryland State Archives
   Annapolis, MD 21401
   USA
   
   Media: Book