Thomas Hankinson Jr.

The children of Thomas Hankinson, Jr: Thomas III., Robert, Ann, Joseph, William, Daniel, Hannah who married John Shaw and Sarah who married Peter Wilson. Thomas Hankinson, Sr. was born in England. Taken From: "This Old Monmouth of Ours" page 105. The coming to Monmouth- The particular Hankinson family with which we are here dealing is probably of Anglo-Saxon origin, the original name being Haneca. It is thought to have come from Middlesex County, England, its coat of Arms being-Ar. a fesse gu. fretty or betw. 3 ducks sa. The first of whom we have record is, Thomas Hankinson, who settled in Monmouth County, New Jersey, about 1684 or 1685. He acquired a tract of land to the southward of the present Freneau, which was of 200 acres. This he sold to Mark Salem in 1717, at which time Thomas Hankinson is thought to have removed into the middle of the county, where he is thought to have died about 1724. The tract on which he settled first was at the head of Gravel Brook, the feeder of Lake Matawan, and adjoined the Gordon tract and the Thomas Boels tract, which last comprised what has been known in late years as the Whitlock and the William H. Horner farms.

Thomas married.