Western Pennsylvania Genealogy
Compiled by Douglas H. Lusher


Family Group Record



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Jonathan Hancock and Mary Wright




Husband Jonathan Hancock 1 2

           Born:  - Virginia
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           Died: 1830 - Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co, PA 2
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   Other Spouse: Catharine Young (      -      ) 2 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA



Wife Mary Wright 2

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         Father: William Wright (      -      ) 2
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Children
1 M George Hancock 2

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2 M Charles Hancock 2

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3 M Frederick Hancock 2

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4 M John Hancock 2

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5 F Martha Hancock 2

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         Spouse: James Perkins Atherton (      -      ) 2


6 F Mary Hancock 2

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         Spouse: Did Not Marry



General Notes: Husband - Jonathan Hancock


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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Sources


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.


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