By Mrs. Caroline Hanks Hitchcock 

This shows the history of these early ancestors who first settled in Plymouth, against the odds that the Puritan forefathers had to fight. Benjamin Hanks was the first emigrant to America. He and his wife Abigail landed at Plymouth in October 1699.  He had lived in the old town of Malmsbury in England. This book shows the influence in community that this New England branch of the Hanks family held. In 1785 Colonel Benjamin Hanks cast the first bronze cannon in America and established a bell and cannon foundry on Hanks Hill, Mansfield. In 1810 Rodney Hanks erected the first mill for manufacturing sewing silk by machinery.  typescript

(367p., typescript, 1937)