William Hanks III1,2,3

b. 26 May 1712
William Hanks III|b. 26 May 1712|p1717.htm|William Hanks II|b. 14 Feb 1679\nd. 1 May 1732|p1733.htm|Hester Mills|b. b 1695|p1734.htm|William Hanks I|b. c 1655\nd. b 7 Feb 1704/5|p1759.htm|Sarah (—?—) (Hanks-White)||p1760.htm|John Mills|d. 1711|p1748.htm|Hester White||p1749.htm|

3rd great-grandfather of Louise Underwood.
5th great-grandfather of Laura Jane Munson.
Family Background:
Underwood and Allied Families
Appears on charts:
Pedigree for Louise Underwood
     William Hanks III was born on 26 May 1712 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.1,5 He was the son of William Hanks II and Hester Mills.3,4 He married Sarah Durham, daughter of Thomas Durham Jr. and Mary Smoot, on 26 January 1738 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia.6,7 His will was proved in November Court 1787.8
     
     William Hanks III was known as "The Carpenter." He moved to Amelia County, Virginia, then to Dinwiddie County, Virginia, before moving to North Carolina.1

Additional Data
William Hanks III was an heir to, and co-executor of his father William Hanks' will dated 24 April 1732 in North Farnham Parish, Richmond County, Virginia, He inherited "land and plant. I now live on containing 100 ac., if he has no heirs to Richard Hanks." In the will, his father requested of him to teach his brothers the carpenter trade.9
...son William land and plantation I now live on containing 100 acres, if he has no heirs to Richard Hanks...10 I like wise give to my son William Hancks all my working tools...he teaching any of his brothers that has a mind to the trade of a carpenter or wheelright, and that he shall stay with his mother (and work to help pay my debts)...I give to my loving wife Hester Hancks...etc. (only a horse which I owe a pair of cartwheels and a small chest for which I desire my son William to pay and take horse)....William Hancks.11
William Hanks made a will on 10 July 1787 in Granville County, North Carolina. He bequeathed to his children, Elijah Hanks, William Hanks, Susanna Hanks, Argil Hanks and Hannah Moore.12,8,13 Click to view image

Children of William Hanks III and Sarah Durham

Citations

  1. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families; a genealogical, biographical, and historical study of the ancestry of the mother of Abraham Lincoln (Kansas, Illinois: Adin Baber, 1960), 280.
  2. [S291] Jack English Hightower, The Family of William Clayton Hightower and Mai Cole (Austin, Texas: n.pub., 1988), 155.
  3. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800 (Easley, South Carolina: Southern Historical Press, Inc., 1966).
  4. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families.
  5. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800, 85.
  6. [S283] George Harrison Sanford King, Registers of North Farnham Parish 1663-1814 and Lenenburg Parish 1783-1800, 56, 85.
  7. [S320] Robert K. Headley Jr., Married Well and Often; Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia 1649-1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003), 163.
  8. [S325] William Hanks will (1787), Granville County Will Book, County Clerk's Office, Oxford, North Carolina.
  9. [S321] Robert K. Headley Jr., Wills of Richmond County, Virginia 1699-1800 (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), 68 citing Will Book 5, p. 181.
  10. [S293] Southern Roots, online <http://www.gencircles.com/users/hrhdah/1>, David Allan Hardin (<e-mail address>), downloaded 29 March 2002.
  11. [S294] Barbara A. Baber, online <http://hanksforthememories.homestead.com/…>, Barbara A. Baber (Monroe, Ohio), downloaded 1998.
  12. [S284] Fred A. Olds, An Abstract of North Carolina Wills from about 1760 to about 1800 (Oxford: n.pub., 1925; reprint Baltimore: Clearfield Co., 1998), 128.
  13. [S326] Hanks Wills and Estates, online <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hlglkg/…>.
  14. [S267] Adin Baber, Nancy Hanks, of Undistinguished Families, 283.