Dennis Hankins Sr. (abt. 1715 - 1740)

Born about 1715 in Craven, NC [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 1740 at about age 25 in Craven, NC

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Biography

Dennis was born about 1715. He passed away in 1740.

He was the original owner of Lot 143 in Georgetown, SC

Research Notes

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For right now this is where the bus stops for Hankins of Carolina Colony descendants.

However, from the Elizabeth Haven Kocher papers we have these tantalizing clues from Ray's Index to N.C historical and geneological registers: In 1837 in Chowan, N.C. the estate of Thomas Hankins was divided. On another page of the book are listed John G. Hankins and Sarah Elizabeth Hathaway (dau. of Rev. Thomas V. and wife Caroline E.A.R. Hankins).

In the Carolina Geneoligist there is an account of plats for lands granted before the revolutionary war but which were not recorded before 1775. David Hankins and Dennis Hankins are listed.

Records searching on familysearch brings up a handful of "David Hankins" in the 1700s in the area of southern Pennsylvania/Northern Maryland. This is Quaker country, and we know some of the later Hankinses married Quakers. Is it out of the question to think that our Carolina Hankinses relocated from the Quaker area and that the Glasgow legend perhaps pre-dates a soujourn with the Quakers?

The Quakers kept pretty good records. It might be worth checking them out.

New information about a son of Hankinson-466 potentially casts a light on the origins of Hankins-1129, who I see as the leading candidate to be his father. The former's son James married a local Monmouth woman who was the daughter of an Irish immigrant named Dennis. Since her father Dennis would have arrived in Monmouth within a few years of Hankinson-466's arrival, it stands to reason that Hankins-1129 was perhaps named after a family friend and that there was family intermarriage down the line. At least one Hankinson shortened his name, perhaps Hankins-1129 also did.

Sources

• Smith, Henry A. M. "Georgetown: The Original Plan and the Earliest Settlers." The South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Magazine 9, no. 2 (1908): 85-101. http://www.jstor.org/stable/27575190.

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 18 November 2018, 20:28), entry for Dennis Hankins(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LJV8-BHD); contributed by various users.
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/15778304/person/310490584/facts

• "Pedigree Resource File," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/2:2:3MK8-1HK : accessed 15 June 2018), entry for Dennis /Hankins/, cites sources; file (2:2:2:MM4K-239), submitted 1 April 2012.

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