Col. John Hannum, IV - Col. John Hannum

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Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788: Chapter IX
Pennsylvania and the Federal Constitution, 1787-1788
Edited by John Bach McMaster and Frederick D. Stone
CHAPTER IX: SKETCHES OF THE MEMBERS OF THE PENNSYLVANIA CONVENTION
BY W. H. EGLE, M. D.

HANNUM, JOHN, of Chester county, was born in 1742, in Concord, that county. He was the son of John Hannum, Jr., and his wife, Jane Neild. Arriving at maturity, he settled on a large farm in East Bradford township. He was commissioned early in life one of the provincial justices of the peace, and continued in commission by the constitutional convention of 1776. At the outset of the struggle with the mother-country he became an ardent Whig, and was appointed one of the Committee of Observation for the county of Chester the loth of December, 1774. In 1777 he was chosen to the command of one of the Associated Battalions, and became an active participant in the Revolutionary contest. He was with Wayne at the Paoli. Subsequently he was captured at his own residence by a squad of British light-horse, led thither by a Tory neighbor, and taken to Philadelphia, then occupied by the enemy. He soon after escaped, and was more energetic than ever in the cause of his country. He was appointed one of the commissioners of purchases, June 27, 1780, one of the auditors of depreciation accounts, March 3, 1781, and on the 8th of November, the latter year, one of the agents for forfeited estates. He was chosen to the General Assembly in 1781, serving until 1785. While a member of this body, independence having been established, he was largely instrumental in securing the repeal of the “Test Law,” then no longer necessary as a war measure. He was a delegate to the Pennsylvania convention to ratify the federal constitution in 1787, and signed the ratification. He was recommissioned one of the justices for the county in 1788, serving until his appointment by Governor Mifflin of register and recorder, December 13, 1793, which office he held until the 6th of December, 1798, when he was succeeded by his son, Richard Montgomery Hannum. He had previously served in the House of Representatives, 1792 -93. Colonel Hannum died the 7th of February, 1799, and was interred at Bradford Meeting-house, Marshallton.