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A History of the Hancock Family
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23043
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Kammerer relates a letter from 1910 written by Robert Williams Smith (1869-1938) about a jug that had been in the Hancock family for 160 years. According to Smith, the story of the jug begins about 1719 when three Hancock brothers settled in Pennsylvania, Maryland and North Carolina. William Hancock settled on Durham’s Creek, Beaufort County and married Bettie Durham. They had a son named Durham Hancock who married and moved to near New Bern. Their son was George Hancock who married and moved to Lenoir County where the site of the town of Grainger is now. George had a son named James Hancock who married and moved to Fork Swamp, Pitt County and raised a large family. The jug then fell into possession of his son Harman Hancock who married and lived near Hancock’s Church. The jug then passed down to his daughter Polly Hancock who was a root doctor and fortune teller. When she died the jug was sold at her estate sale to R. L. Cox for 35 cents. Kammerer gives additions and corrections to the story as found in a published history of the Hancock Family by Jeanette Cox St. Amand.
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