Gen. John Andre Hanna and Mary Read Harris

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Husband Gen. John Andre Hanna ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: 1761 - Flemington, Hunterdon Co, NJ 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Jul 1805 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 1 3 4
         Buried:  - Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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         Father: Rev. John Hanna (1731-1801) 1 3 4
         Mother: Mary McCrea (      -      ) 1 3 4

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       Marriage: 

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Wife Mary Read Harris ^{1 3 5}

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           Born: 1 Oct 1770 - Harris' Ferry, Dauphin Co, PA 3 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 20 Aug 1851 1 3 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Harris (Abt 1726-1791) 6 7
         Mother: Mary Read (1730-1787) 8

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Children

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1 F Mary Read Hanna ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 20 Apr 1788 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 14 Mar 1826 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Hon. John Tod (1779-1830) 3 4
           Marr: 29 Apr 1817 3

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2 F Juliana Catharine Hanna ^{1 4}

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           Born: 8 Nov 1789 3
     Christened: 
           Died: Apr 1861 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Fisher (      -      ) 3 4
           Marr: 14 Jan 1812 3

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3 F Frances Harris Hanna ^{1 3 4 9}

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           Born: 27 Apr 1791 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 1868 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: John Carson McAllister (Abt 1789-1862) 3 4 9
           Marr: 27 Oct 1812 3

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4 F Caroline Elizabeth Hanna ^{3 4 10 11}

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           Born: 5 Feb 1794 or 1795 3 4
     Christened: 
           Died: 29 Jan 1872 or 1880 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA 3 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Joseph Briggs (      -      ) 3 4 12 13
           Marr: 8 Dec 1812 or 1813 3 4

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5 F Henrietta Hanna ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 23 Aug 1796 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 18 Nov 1840 3 4
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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6 F Sarah Eaton Hanna ^{1 4}

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            AKA: Sarah Elder Hanna 3
           Born: 20 Jun 1798 3
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Apr 1829 3
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Richard Templin Jacobs (      -1842) 4
           Marr: 18 Apr 1820 3 4

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7 F Eleanor [1] Hanna ^{1 3 4}

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           Born: 22 Feb 1800 14
     Christened: 
           Died: 1802 14
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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8 F Esther Harris Hanna ^{1 4 14}

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           Born: Jul 1801 14
     Christened: 
           Died: 1801 14
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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9 F Eleanor [2] Hanna ¹

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           Born: 
     Christened: 
           Died: 
         Buried: 

         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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General Notes: Husband - Gen. John Andre Hanna

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He received a good classical education under his father, who was a most excellent tutor. He served in the war of the Revolution. Towards its close he came to Pennsylvania and studied law with Stephen Chambers, of Lancaster, whose acquaintance he had made in the army, and was admitted to the bar of Lancaster County at November session, 1783. He located at Harrisburg on the formation of the county of Dauphin, and was among the first lawyers admitted there. He took a deep interest in early municipal affairs, and there was little transpiring looking to the welfare and development of the new town in which Mr. Hanna did not take part. He represented the county in the Legislature, and in 1795 was elected to the United States Congress, a position he filled up to the time of his death by successive re-election. During the Whiskey Insurrection he was a brigadier-general of the Pennsylvania troops, in command of the Second Brigade, Second Division. In 1800, Governor McKean commissioned him a major-general of the Third Division of the militia forces of the State. He died at Harrisburg was buried in the cemetery there. [HDC 1883, 501]

He received a good education under the direction of his father, and was partly educated at the College of New Jersey. It is probable that he came to Pennsylvania as a tutor, afterwards studying law with Stephen Chambers, of Lancaster, a noted lawyer of his day, and was admitted to the bar of that county in 1784. Upon the formation of the county of Dauphin he located at Harrisburg, where his marriage to a daughter of the founder of the new town gave him a prestige and prominence he would perchance not otherwise have had. With this influence of family, and his great natural abilities, he soon became the leader at the bar. Probably an active participant in the war of the Revolution, he had a decided taste for military affairs. He commanded one of the first companies raised in Harrisburg, and during the so-called Whiskey Insurrection of 1794 was in command of the Second brigade of the Pennsylvania forces. The same year he was elected to Congress, and up to the time of his death served in that body.
He was a leader of the anti-federal party, and the colleague of Gallatin, Smilie and other Pennsylvanians, then quite prominent in the political affairs of the nation. He was a gentleman in manners and deportment.

Various sources give the date of his death as July 13, July 18 and July 23.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 501.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80, 189.

3 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 53.

4 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 84.

5 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80.

6 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 520.

7 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 77.

8 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 80, 169.

9 Samuel T. Wiley & W. Scott Garner, Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Blair County, Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Gresham Publishing Co., 1892), Pg 443.

10 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 469, 501.

11 Thomas Lynch Montgomery, LL.D., Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography, Vol. 15 (New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, 1924), Pg 343.

12 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 469.

13 —, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 173.

14 Charles A. Hanna, Ohio Valley Genealogies (New York, 1900), Pg 54.