Thomas Hawkins Hanson


Thomas Hawkins Hanson, Sr. was a planter from Maryland. He was born in Maryland to Samuel and Anne Hanson. Hanson served as a captain in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. He married a widow, Rebecca Addison, and the couple lived at Oxon Hill Manor in Prince George's County, Maryland.
Hanson was a nephew of John Hanson, a Maryland planter and public official who served as President of the Continental Congress. John Hanson died at Oxon Hill Manor during a visit there in 1783.
He now has a great, great, great, grandson that is named Aaron Hanson who has his own YouTube channel, is a comedian, and is in a band called Starbomb.