HANKS, BENJAMIN |
USA, 1755-1824, MIM SIM |
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apprenticed to Thomas Harland; made surveying instruments, clocks, bells, etc.; called himself Col. |
Windham, Conn.(1777-80); Litchfield, Conn.(1780-90); Mansfield, Conn.(1790); Gibbonsville, N.Y.(1808); Gibbonsville is now Watervliet and may have been West Troy. |
Bedini 1, 8 and 17; Smart 1; O.B. Frye. |
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