When David Hank was born on 5 March 1788, in Rockingham, Virginia, United States, his father, William I Hank, was 33 and his mother, Susannah Berry, was 21. He married Sarah "Sally" Tackett on 20 April 1812, in Monroe, Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter. He lived in Springfield Township, Gallia, Ohio, United States in 1850. He died on 4 May 1854, in Gallia, Ohio, United States, at the age of 66, and was buried in Gallia, Ohio, United States.
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George Washington elected first president of United States.
On March 1st, 1803, the First General Assembly of the State of Ohio met at Chillicothe, about three months after the State was admitted into the Union. One of the first acts of the new legislature was the creation of eight new counties, of which Gallia was one of the first, from a vast territory known as Washington county, “Territory of the United States, North-west of the river Ohio,” which then comprised a tract covering nearly half of the present area of the State, and including what is now divided into nearly forty separate counties. “Gallia,” the ancient name of France, was given it in honor of the French settlers, who for nearly thirteen years had been located at Gallipolis, within its borders, and it was made a separate and distinct county April 30, 1803. It originally included the lands comprising the present counties of Gallia, Jackson, the greater part of Lawrence, about three-fourths of Meigs and a part of Vinton county, [...].
Atlantic slave trade abolished.
German: from a North German or Slavic pet form of Johann .
German (Alemannic): from a pet form of Heinrich .
English: variant of Hanke ; see Hanks .
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