Damaris (Hancock) Birdsong (abt. 1730 - abt. 1803)

Born about 1730 in Virginia colony

Descendants

Died about 1803 at about age 73 in Sussex Co., Virginia, USA

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Biography

http://www.birdsongfamily.com/genealogy/birdsong_gen2/005_john_damaris.htm

http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/s/h/a/Liam-Kelly-Shaw/GENE1-0013.html

Research Notes

http://www.geocities.ws/Heartland/Valley/7502/hancock/gen5.htm

https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.northam.usa.states.northcarolina.counties.chatham/731.735/mb.ashx

http://www.jamestowne.org/revolutionary-war-era-people.html - Jamestowne Society notes that John Birdsong married Damaris Hancock. The connecting Jamestowne Society Qualifying Ancestors are Randall Holt (A4003) and Mary Bayly (A705). See WikiTree profiles Holt-1037 and Bayley-97.

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 11 March 2020), "Record of John Birdsong", Ancestor # A210738.

https://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hanser5&id=I19052

https://www.ancestry.com/genealogy/records/damaris-hancock_9695515

https://www.ancestry.com.au/genealogy/records/william-hancock_44690397

https://www.myheritage.com/names/damaris_hancock On this website, there is more than one version of "Damaris Hancock" living in Virginia during this time period. I believe there must have been another DH, who married a different husband and had different children. Confusion possible!

In the vast majority of sources mentioned above, the ancestry of Damaris Hancock, other Hancock ancestors of hers, and of her alleged husband, John Hancock, and her father William Hancock is undisputed. William is very important because his ancestry traces back through a member of the Virginia Society (the colonists of Jamestown [of which he was not a planter]), who was massacred in the Great Massacre of 1622.

The Bible of Simon Hancock, currently located at the library of Randolph-Macon College in Ashland, Virginia, would be an excellent source for these early Virginians.

Sources

• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86012729/damaris-birdsong