John HANCE

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"A family tradition that there was an earlier John Hance in Maryland than the above while not impossible is improbable. It may have arisen from a wrong interpretation of a chart circulated in 1860 by J. Owen Dorsey. The first John Hance it refers to was probably of England which view is supported by Benjamin Mackall Hance writing of his father, Thomas Claire Hance, in which he says, his father was 6th generation from John Hance, a London merchant. No documentary evidence can be found of an earlier Hance in Maryland than the one here mentioned.
The immigrant came to Maryland in 1659. He had 3 wives as shown above. A chart to show more particulary the earlier generations was made by Charles Thistlewaite, Macedon, New York for Benjamin Mascal Hance in August 1937."
(Quote from the research done by those before --- Charles Thistlewaite, in 1937, and together, two uncles (Thomas) Claire Hance and (Benjamin) Frank Hance in 1970)