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Elizabeth Story

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(1688-1764)

BIRTH

1688

PLACE

Province of Maryland

NAME

Elizabeth Storey

DEATH

1764

PLACE

Province of Maryland

FAMILY

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Elizabeth Story Hanson, born about 1688, was a daughter of Walter Storey of Maryland. Widowed after Benjamin Warren’s death in 1706, she married Samuel Hanson by 1707 and had a Charles County family, including future Continental Congress president John Hanson. In a 1763 deposition she recalled her first marriage, the child who died just after his father, and occupants of their plantation. Her testimony preserves her own recollections beyond vital dates.

EARLY LIFE

Elizabeth Story was born 1688. Surviving structured biographical sources provide limited detail about childhood, education, household routines, or the economic circumstances in which this person grew up. Those matters are therefore not reconstructed here without documentation. The secure information preserved in this entry is the person’s identity and place within a family network connected to individuals represented in HistoryGPS. Such family links are historically useful even when an independent narrative biography has not survived: they help distinguish people with similar names, establish generations, and clarify the kinship networks through which property, education, occupation, political allegiance, and social influence often passed. Birth and parentage records also provide a starting point for understanding the communities in which a person’s early experiences unfolded. A household’s location could shape access to schooling, churches, markets, trades, military service, and extended kin, but no particular experience is attributed to this person without supporting evidence. Likewise, a family name or titled status alone is not treated as proof of wealth, political belief, social standing, or personal opportunity. These cautions are especially important when the surviving record was compiled retrospectively or preserves only dates and relationships. The absence of fuller childhood evidence should not be read as evidence that these experiences were unimportant; it reflects the uneven survival of records, especially for women and for people whose public lives were recorded chiefly through relatives. Additional claims about schooling, upbringing, religion, migration, wealth, or household status have been omitted unless they appear in the consulted external record. Future research in probate files, parish registers, family papers, land records, and contemporary newspapers may permit this early-life account to be expanded with greater specificity.

No distinct public profession or office for Elizabeth Story is established by the structured external record used for this entry. The surviving information is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independently recorded public career. Elizabeth Story died 1764. Additional claims about employment, officeholding, military service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted record did not support them.

CAREER

DEATH

Elizabeth Story died in 1764, in Province of Maryland. Elizabeth Story Hanson, born about 1688, was a daughter of Walter Storey of Maryland. Widowed after Benjamin Warren’s death in 1706, she married Samuel Hanson by 1707 and had a Charles County family, including future Continental Congress president John Hanson. In a 1763 deposition she recalled her first marriage, the child who died just after his father, and occupants of their plantation. Her testimony preserves her own recollections beyond vital dates. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.

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