Jonathan Hancock and Catharine Young

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Husband Jonathan Hancock ^{1 2}

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           Born:  - Virginia
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           Died: 1830 - Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co, PA 2
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       Marriage:  - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA

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   Other Spouse: Mary Wright (      -      ) 2

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Wife Catharine Young ²

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Children

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1 M John Hancock ²

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry

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2 F Catharine Hancock ²

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         Spouse: Hon. David Scott (      -      ) 2

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3 M James Hancock ^{1 2}

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           Born: 1793 - Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co, PA 2
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           Died: 1880 - Wyoming, Luzerne Co, PA 2
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         Spouse: Mary Perkins (      -      ) 1 2

         Spouse: Elizabeth Hibler (      -      ) 2

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4 M William Hancock ²

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         Spouse: Laura Smith (      -      ) 2

         Spouse: Elizabeth Denison (      -      ) 2

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5 F Nancy Hancock ²

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         Spouse: James Denton Haff (      -      ) 2

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General Notes: Husband - Jonathan Hancock

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He was a native of Virginia and descended from a family which has been represented in the “Old Dominion” since the seventeenth century.

He came to Wilkes-Barre, PA, about 1790-91, when twenty-three or twenty-four years old. He was born at Snowhill, MD. Coming north he stopped at Harrisburg and married Catharine Young, a descendant maternally of the Foster, Redsecker and Montgomery families. In his early days he was a school teacher, but later became a business man, engaged in various undertakings, being a director of the Branch National Bank at Wilkes-Barre (the first of its kind in the United States), a director of the Bridge Com­pany there, and at one time postmaster. He was a large landowner, and an extensive dealer (for the time) in real estate. The character of his activities would indicate an energetic and progressive temperament. [CAB, 449]

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General Notes: Wife - Catharine Young

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She was a descendant maternally of the Foster, Redsecker and Montgomery families.

1 Editor, History of Venango County, Pennsylvania (Chicago, IL: Brown, Runk, & Co., Publishers, 1890), Pg 805.

2 Charles A. Babcock, Venango County, Pennsylvania, Her Pioneers and People (Chicago, IL: J. H. Beers & Co., 1919), Pg 449.