I first learned of Elizabeth Hance from my cousin
Lois’ research. She was the daughter of Joseph Hance and Ann
Johns who were Quakers. She was born in the seventh month which for us
would be September of 1741 in Calvert County, Maryland. (Since the Julian
calendar was being used which started in March the Quakers considered the month
of September the seventh month. This made January the eleventh month and
February the twelfth month until the Gregorian calendar was adopted in 1752. The
Quakers only used numbers not names for the days of the week and for the
months.)
Elizabeth had two older sisters, Mary born 5th
day of the ninth month (November) 1738 and Ann born 1st day first
month (March) 1739/40, and a younger brother Benjamin born on the 19th
day of the third month (May) 1744.
According to Ancestry.com, “Meetings sometimes took
disciplinary actions to reinforce the basic tenants of the religion. These
included Disownments, in which a meeting affirmed that it did not “own” the
offender and denied responsibility for his or her behavior.” Disownment was not
permanent and the offender could apply for reinstatement after a year or so.
Various behaviors could result in disownment such as swearing; theft; marriage
outside of the faith, a first cousin, without consent of parents; slander;
debt; neglecting family responsibilities; morals; dress; assault and so on.
The Quaker Records of Southern Maryland, 1658-1800 transcribed
by Henry C Penden Jr. indicated that Benjamin Hance (son of Joseph and brother
of Elizabeth) was married and disowned, and Ann and Elizabeth Hance, for acting
disorderly were disowned, and Joseph Hance was “treated with” because of his
children all on the 26th of the fourth month (April) of 1765.
Elizabeth married Benjamin Franklin Hardesty (born
around 1735), son of William Hardesty and Priscilla Lawrence about 1765 in
Calvert County, Maryland. Their first
child Henry was born in Maryland and he was most probably followed by Elizabeth,
Rebecca and Thomas. At some point they must have moved to Virginia because some
of the children appear to have been born there - Samantha in about 1773,
Benjamin in about 1776, William in 1777, Kinzea in 1779 and Samuel about 1782.
According to some records Elizabeth and Benjamin may have had another child
while living in Virginia.
In 1784 the family moved to Kentucky (which at that
time was still part of Virginia.) Mary was born in about 1784, Sarah in
about1786, and Francis in about 1790.
Elizabeth and Benjamin were married for 53 years
when he died in 1818 in Bourbon County, Kentucky. Elizabeth died in 1833 on her
will was probated in June of that year.
Through Elizabeth Hance I descend from John Hance
who came to America in 1659 and settled in Calvert County, Maryland. His second
wife was Mary Sewell Kellett, the daughter of John and Eleanor Sewell, (John
Sewell, was a Puritan immigrant in 1652.) John and Mary’s only child was
Benjamin Hance born in 1692 in Calvert County. Benjamin Hance was married on
the 28th day of the seventh month (September) of 1711 in Calvert
County, Maryland to Mary Hutchins, daughter of Francis and Elizabeth Hutchins. Benjamin
and Mary were both Quakers. Their son Joseph Hance was born on the 10th
day of the ninth month (November). Joseph was the father of Elizabeth Hance.
Great Great Great Great Great Grandparents: Elizabeth
Hance/ Benjamin Hardesty
Great Great Great Great Grandparents: Kinzea
Hardesty Sr./Sally Campter (Kemper or Kempter)
Great Great Great Grandparents: Kinzea W Hardesty
Jr./Mary (Pollie) Sallee Dingle
Great Great Grandparents: Mary Grave Hardesty/John
Tucker
Great Grandparents: William John Tucker/Georgianna
Katherine Ragan
Grandparents: Alva Ashbury Tucker/Effa Belle Graves
Parents: Elva Rosalie Tucker/Lionell Burris Mitchell
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