George Hancock

Birth Date

1798-04-06

Death Date

1875-08-27

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Louisville, Kentucky, planter. Fincastle, Virginia, native. Son of George Hancock and Margaret Strother Hancock. Married to Eliza Croghan Hancock on September 28, 1819. Married to Mary Holliday Davidson Hancock on December 14, 1834. Graduated from Yale College in New Haven Connecticut, in 1818. Member of the Virginia House of Delegates. Relocated to Jefferson County, Kentucky. Planter in Jefferson County in 1850 and 1860. Owned thirty-five enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1850. Founder and president of the Jefferson County Agricultural and Mechanical Association in 1852. Owner of Hayfield plantation in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Owned twenty-two enslaved persons in Jefferson County in 1860.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District No. 1, p. 175B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District No. 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District No. 2, p. 62. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, District No. 2, p. 14-15. Johnston, J. Stoddard, Memorial History of Louisville, From its First Settlement to the Year 1896, Volume I (Chicago; New York: American Biographical Publishing Co., 1896), 391-92.

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