Selected Hancock Family Information
1663 - Perhaps the first member of this Hancock Family in America, Stephen Hancock, was transported to Maryland as an indentured servant of Thomas Vaughan. Later he married heiress Rebecca Crouch, daughter of a prominent Annapolitan, Wm. Crouch. He lived on the North Shore of the Severn River at Crouch's Mill Pond. Stephen died in 1701.
1733-1st Hancock associated with the Bodkin Creek property, William Hancock, Sr., was Stephen's eldest son. Wm. also lived on the Severn, but leased 300 acres of Homewood's Range & 100 acres of Dividing Points. (Note: the name "Hancock's Resolution did not come into use until 1793.)
1785-The stone farmhouse was built by Stephen Hancock, Jr.
1793 Stephen combines 76.5 acres of vacant land and 127.5 acres of Homewood's Range, which he bought in 1790, and patents them as "Hancock's Resolution".
"This is the first known use of the name "Hancocks Resolution".It is believed that the name resulted from the "resolution" of long-standing boundary disputes over the land.
l807 Stephen patents all 409.5 acres of his property as "Long Meadows".
1807 Francis, Stephen's son, is appointed Lieutenant in the 22nd Regiment, Anne Arundel County Militia.
1812 Francis becomes a Captain in the 22nd Regiment. His unit was active in the defense of the South Shore of the Patapsco when the British attempted to capture Baltimore in September 1814.
The last Hancocks to live in the house: Mary Adeline Hancock (Mamie)-1869-1954; and John Henry Hancock (Harry)-1870-1962: They were sister and brother and were the children of Henry Alfred and Matilda Hancock.
