James
M.
Hanks
Sr.
aka Hancks
Born in Richmond County, VA
Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Nancy (Hamlin) Hanks
— married
about 1758 in Loudon County, Virginia
Descendants 
Died
at about age 61
in Amelia County, VA
Profile last modified
| Created 24 Feb 2014
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Biography
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- Parents
- Luke Hanks 1679-1757
- Elizabeth Glasscock 1690-1752
- Marriage 1714 Virginia
"James Hanks of Hat Creek seems to have been the first of his name to purchase land in Campbell County, Virginia. In 1787, he sold to Daniel Walker, of Charlotte, 150 acres on the east branches of Hat Creek along Mitchell's line to Hanks spring branch.
Tabitha Hanks married Samuel Barnes in 1792; Abraham married in 1799 Lucy Jennings. Abraham Hanks died in Campbell and was buried in the Hat Creek Churchyard.
Thomas Hanks married Nancy Brooks both of Campbell County. They had a daughter named Nancy. Based upon these records a tradition prevails in the county that Abraham Lincoln owed his ancestry to this Campbell family on the maternal side and that he inherited his name from, Abraham Hanks.
But in "A Story of Lincoln's Mother," Caroline Hanks-Hitchcock traced the family from an Englishman, Benjahim Hanks (who first settled in Plymouth county, Mass.), whose son, William, came to Amelia county, Va., a record of which she found in the Hall of Records at Richmond, Va. According to her account, Joseph Hanks of this branch, married Nancy Shipley and moved to Nelson county, Kentucky; their youngest daughter, Nancy, in 18O6, married Thomas Lincoln (also of Virginia ancestry), in Beechland, Ky., and three years later their son, Abraham, was born."
Source: Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches: Embracing The History of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1926. Author: Ruth Hairston Early. Page 422.
Sources
- Campbell Chronicles and Family Sketches: Embracing The History of Campbell County, Virginia 1782-1926. Author: Ruth Hairston Early. Page 422. https://books.google.com/books?id=98_0ohjiw4oC&pg=PA422&lpg=PA422&dq=Tabitha+Hanks+Samuel+Barnes&source=bl&ots=UGRhnjoY92&sig=Ee9IquRsotczJv1tRN6Ys5DZqWc&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjq3p3ky47KAhWIKGMKHUyyAbEQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=Tabitha%20Hanks%20Samuel%20Barnes&f=false
- https://www.familytreedna.com/public/HanksDNAProject/default.aspx?section=results
- http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/r/James--R-Gardner/GENE4-0005.html
- https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/r/James--R-Gardner/GENE4-0003.html
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with James by comparing test results with other carriers of his Y-chromosome or his mother's mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known yDNA or mtDNA test-takers in his direct paternal or maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with James:
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~0.78%
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edited by Mary Gresham
This profile is a case of mistaken identity.
James Hanks/Hanckes of Hat Creek is this son of William Hanks, not Luke Hanks.
https://jameshancks.wordpress.com/etc/origins-in-richmond-county/
"A Story of Lincoln's Mother," is riddled with genealogy errors, by the way.