Jonathan Hancock and Mary Wright
Husband Jonathan Hancock 1 2
Born: - Virginia Christened: Died: 1830 - Wilkes-Barre, Luzerne Co, PA 2 Buried:Marriage:
Other Spouse: Catharine Young ( - ) 2 - Harrisburg, Dauphin Co, PA
Wife Mary Wright 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
Father: William Wright ( - ) 2 Mother:
Children
1 M George Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
2 M Charles Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
3 M Frederick Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
4 M John Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:
5 F Martha Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried:Spouse: James Perkins Atherton ( - ) 2
6 F Mary Hancock 2
Born: Christened: Died: Buried: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]
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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