Jane Hanson

Jane Hanson (Contee)

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She was the daughter of Alexander Contee and Jane Brooke, who was the daughter of Colonel Thomas Brook and Barbara Dent. With her husband they were the grandparents of U.S. Congressman Alexander Contee Hanso. Their granddaughter, Rebecca Thomas, married her cousin U.S. Supreme Court Justice Alexander Contee Magruder

From the Federal Republican (Baltimore) of Feb. 25, 1812:

FREDERICK-TOWN, Feb. 21.

Departed this life at three o'clock this evening, in the 85th year of her age, Mrs. JANE HANSON, relict of John Hanson, Esq., a delegate from Maryland in the old Revolutionary Congress, and President of that body in Philadelphia, in the period of 1781-2.

Mrs. Hanson was a native of Prince George's county, in this state, but had resided a great part of her life in this town, of which she was one of the oldest and most respectable inhabitants. Nearly thirty years have passed away since she was bereft of her excellent & honored husband, and she had lived to mourn for the last of a numerous family of children, whom death had snatched from her. One of them, her youngest son, Lieut. Peter Contee Hanson, just entering into manhood, devoted himself to the service of his country in the struggle for independence, and fell in battle at Fort Washington in 1776. Her eldest son, and the last of her children who descended to the grave before her, was Alexander Contee Hanson, Esquire, the late Chancellor of this state.

Afflicted with many sorrows, and the trying vicissitudes of this life, Mrs. Hanson had still retained the natural clearness and vigor of her mind unimpaired, and its faculties remained unusually strong in the closing moments of a very advanced old age. Though distressed and enfeebled by illness, she prepared for her departure from this world with fortitude and composure; her last sufferings were endured without impatience; in the hour of approaching dissolution her heart seemed to be soothed and comforted under a sense of tenderness and the influence of the gentle affections; and she sunk peaceably and not unwillingly into the arms of death, with aspirations of an humble devout hope in the gracious merits of Almighty God, through the merits and atonement of the ever-blessed Redeemer and Mediator."