Samuel Hanson, Jr. (?-1817)
MSA SC 3520-591
Biography:
BORN: in Charles County, of age by 1759; second son.
NATIVE fourth generation.
RESIDED in Port Tobacco Parish, Charles County.
FAMILY BACKGROUND.
FATHER Maj. Samuel Hanson (1705-1749), son of Robert Hanson (ca. 1680-1748)
and wife Benedicta; a justice of Charles County from 1736 to at
least 1747/48 (quorum, 1741-at least 1747/48).
MOTHER Mary (?-ca. 1759), daughter of John Fendall (1674-1734) and
wife Elizabeth.
HALF AUNTS: Dorothy Hanson (1721-1752), who married Richard Harrison
(?-1780); Mary Hanson, who married Daniel Jenifer (?-1795).
BROTHERS: Robert; Josias (?-1764).
SISTERS. Elizabeth; Benedicta (?-1790); Mary; Dorothy; and Martha (?-1765).
FIRST COUSINS: Philip Richard Fendall (?-?); Sarah Fendall (ca. 1732-1793),
who married Thomas Contee (ca. 1729-1811); and Josias Beall (ca. 1725-1803).
MARRIED first, by 1759 Margaret (?-by 1793).
MARRIED second, ca. 1793 Sarah, widow of Basil Beall (?-1792).
CHILDREN. SONS: Samuel (?-ca. 1823), a physician and justice of Charles
County from 1799 to 1801 and in 1803, who married Elizabeth Fendall, daughter
of
Thomas Marshall (?-1801); John Beall, who married Elizabeth Marshall.
DAUGHTERS: Margaret Beall, who married John Fendall Beall; Charity Fendall
Noble; Mary Fendall, who married (first name unknown) Cawood; Elizabeth
Beall, who married William Hanson McPherson (?-1815). STEPSONS: William
Beall; Benjamin Beall. STEPDAUGHTERS: Elizabeth Duvall; Elinor MacGill;
and Mary Beall.
PRIVATE CAREER.
EDUCATION: literate.
SOCIAL STATUS AND ACTIVITIES: Gent., 1759.
OCCUPATIONAL PROFILE: planter.
PUBLIC CAREER.
LEGISLATIVE SERVICE: Lower House, Charles County, 1778 (elected to
the 3rd session of the 1777-1778 Assembly to fill vacancy; discharged on
June 17,
1778, for serving as a field officer at the time of his election).
MILITARY SERVICE: second major, Upper Battalion, Charles County Militia,
appointed 1776; called major, 1783.
WEALTH DURING LIFETIME.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: assessed value £324.10.0, including 5 slaves,
1783; 34 slaves, 1798.
LAND AT FIRST ELECTION: probably 1,192 acres in Charles County (82
acres by purchase; ca. 1,100 acres inherited from his father).
SIGNIFICANT CHANGES IN LAND BETWEEN FIRST ELECTION AND DEATH: assessed
for 860 acres in Charles County in 1783; deeded 800 acres in
Charles County to his son Samuel in 1797; assessed for 513 acres in
1798.
WEALTH AT DEATH.
DIED: between September 21 and October 15, 1817, in Charles County.
PERSONAL PROPERTY: inventory totaled $10,262.00 (including 29 slaves,
plate, and books).
LAND: about 250 acres in Charles County.
IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS.
There were at least six Samuel Hansons of age in Charles County between
1774 and 1784. At least three of these men were known as "junior." The
Samuel Hanson dismissed from the 1777-1778 General Assembly was referred
to in the proceedings of that Assembly as both "junior" and "major." After
an analysis of the records pertaining to all of the Samuel Hansons, this
service was assigned to Samuel Hanson (?-1817), but it can not be positively
verified. See also the profiles of Samuel
Hanson (1716-1794) and Samuel
Hanson, of Samuel (ca. 1752-1830).
[Source: Edward C. Papenfuse, et al. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. 2 Vols. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979, 1985), 408-9, 945.]
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