Silas
Jabez
(Jabez)
Hancock
Born in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay
Ancestors 
Son of John Hancock I
and Anna (Webb) Hancock
Brother of
Mary Hancock, John Hancock, Abel Hancock, Jotham Hancock, Mabel (Hancock) Cooley, Thomas Hancock II, William Hancock, Daniel Hancock and Mercy (Hancock) Bonner
Husband of
Rachel (Wright) Hancock
— married
29 Nov 1750 in Longmeadow, Hampden, Massachusetts
Descendants 
Father of
Abner Hancock, Freelove (Hancock) Chandler, Lovina Rebecca (Hancock) Edson and Rosanna (Hancock) Swetland
Died
at age 87
in Waterville, Oneida, New York, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Oct 2016
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Contents |
Biography
Birth
- Silas was born 09 Jul 1728.[1]
Parents
- Silas Jabez Hancock's parents were Reverend John Hancock I and Anna Webb Hancock. Silas' father was a farmer in Farmington, Connecticut who relocated to Springfield, Massachusetts.[2]
Marriage
- Silas married Rachel Wright on September 15, 1759.[3]
Children
- The children of Jabez Hancock and Rachel Wright Hancock were:
- Abner, b. 1751
- Jabez, b. 1753
- Freelove, b. 1756
- Rachel, b. 1758
- Lovina b. 18 Mar 1761
- Rosanna, b. 1763
- Loranda, b. 1766
- Phebe, b. 1768
- Uriah, b. 1771
- Gad, b. 1774
- Bathsheba, b. 1777
Military Service
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| Jabez served in the Revolutionary War in 1778,. |
- Silas served as a Private during the Revolutionary War in 1778 with Captain John Carpenter's Company in Colonel Ezra Wood's Regiment.[4][5] Colonel Wood was the husband of Anna Chapin Wood.
Death and Burial
- Silas passed away on January 25, 1816 in Waterville, Oneida, New York. He is buried alongside his wife, Rachel Wright Hancock and their daughter Rosanna Hancock Swetland, and her husband, Benjamin Swetland, in the Waterville Cemetery in Waterville, Oneida County, New York.[6]
Sources
- ↑ : 9 February 2018 Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887
- ↑ InSearch of the Father of Thomas Hancock by Reed Hancock Gaddie
- ↑ : 9 February 2018 Massachusetts, Springfield Vital Records, 1638-1887
- ↑ DAR Genealogical Research System; Hancock, Jabez, Ancestor: A050841
- ↑ United States Rosters of Revolutionary War Soldiers and Sailors, 1775-1783
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #63579465
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez 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 Jabez:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Jabez 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 Jabez:
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Marie (Rich) Lane 
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~0.78%
Kat (Baggett) Dougall :
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Kylen Campbell :
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~0.39%
Scott Lee :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A953048 [compare], Ancestry member dslcards1
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~0.39%
~0.78%
Dawn (Witvoet) Dooley :
AncestryDNA
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Jodi Campbell :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member JodiLCA
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