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Notes for Robert HANNA, SR

ROBERT HANNA, Sr.
by
Vanik S. Eaddy, Ph. D.

Robert Hanna, Sr. (b. Abt. 1727) was a passenger, with his family, on the
ship Nancy which brought Irish Protestant settlers to the area. Council
Journal 33, pp. 178-184 shows Council meeting on June 22, 1767. Among
the petitioners for warrants of survey was Robert Hanna. "The
Petitioners set forth they were protestants and had lately arrived in
this province on the encouragement of the Bounty given by an act of the
General Assembly of this province passed on the 25th day of July 1761 and
therefore praying the same, and they have severally produced certificates
as required by the said Act, it was ordered that the Secretary to prepare
warrants of survey and the public Treasurer to pay their bounties to
Messrs Torrans and Poug and Mr. Bath on consideration of their passage in
the ship Nancy, Captain (Samuel) Hannah Commander" (no relation to this
family). This ship was owned by William Ray and Robert Wills of Belfast,
Ireland.

Note: This is very well documented in the council journals and in the
book "South Carolina Immigrants 1760-1770" by Jack M. Jones and Mary B.
Warren. Robert (Hannah) Hanna was not the commander of the Ship, Nancy,
he was only a passenger, according to information supplied by Muriel K.
Hanna, Sr., Ph. D.

The Robert Hanna family included Robert, age 40; Mary, 41; James, 18;
Sophia, 13; Elias, 12; and Richard, 11. It is believed that Richard
Hanna, age 11 here, was the Richard Hanna, Sr. of the Indiantown
Presbyterian Church Confession of Faith. He also served in the American
Revolution and was the father of Richard Hanna, Jr. through whom this
branch of Hanna descendants came. The dates of birth for the family of
Robert Hanna were calculated from 1767 when they petitioned for land.

Note: Jeri Mullis Allen reported that another child, Robert (b. 1750)
also belonged to this family.

The family of Hugh (Old Hugh) Hanna, Sr. (1759-1842), which developed on
Lynches Lake was a different branch of Hannas which may have descended
from Thomas Hanna of Dublin Ireland and settled in Pennsylvania. (See
Hugh Hanna, Sr. for this account) We can find no documentation as of
this writing which establishes a link between the descendants of Robert
Hanna, passenger of the Nancy, and those of Hugh Hanna, Sr. of the
American Revolution. Regardless of these differences, both of these
families have made a valuable contribution to the development of the
communities identified in this region of South Carolina. One of these is
named Hannah, now located in Florence County, South Carolina.

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