Captain Levin Lank

1789 - 1875  (86 years)

• Name	Levin Lank
  Prefix	Captain
  Birth	25 Oct 1789	Sussex county, Delaware
  Gender	Male
  Death	16 Nov 1875	Sussex county, Delaware
  Burial	Seaford, Sussex, Delaware
  Person ID	I4427	Scudder
  Last Modified	29 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Thomas Barr Lank,   b. 5 Sep 1764, Milton, Broadkill, Sussex, Delaware d. 7 Feb 1838 (Age 73 years)
  Mother	Comfort Scudder,   b. Abt 1764, Sussex county, Delaware d. 4 Jan 1791, Sussex county, Delaware (Age 27 years)
  Marriage	21 Jun 1787	Delaware   [1]
  Family ID	F1578	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family 1	Eleanor   d. Abt 1830
  Marriage	Abt 1820
  Children	1. William Thomas Lank,   b. 28 Dec 1824, Delaware d. Yes, date unknown   2. Urias Etsey Lank,   b. 20 Apr 1827, Delaware d. 27 Dec 1879, At Sea (Age 52 years)   3. Hester Ann Comfort Lank,   b. 10 Jan 1830, Delaware d. Bef 1871 (Age < 40 years)
  Family ID	F12167	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

  Family 2	Ann Coulbourn,   b. 22 Jan 1812, Delaware d. 19 May 1891, Delaware (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	20 Sep 1832	Delaware
  Children	1. Elizabeth Eleanor Lank,   b. 21 Jul 1835, Delaware d. 15 Jan 1894 (Age 58 years)   2. Margaret Ann Lank,   b. 3 Nov 1838, Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware d. 17 Oct 1868 (Age 29 years)   3. Levin John Lank,   b. 12 Dec 1840, Delaware d. 24 Dec 1879, At Sea (Age 39 years)   4. Catherine Jane Lank,   b. 10 Jul 1844, Delaware d. 15 Apr 1915 (Age 70 years)   5. Robert Richard Lank,   b. 22 Jun 1847, Broad Creek Hundred, Sussex, Delaware d. 25 Apr 1931 (Age 83 years)   6. Sabra Martin Lank,   b. 13 Jan 1852, Delaware d. 28 Jun 1913 (Age 61 years)
  Family ID	F12168	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	3 Mar 2024

  
  

• Notes

  Title of "Captain" was often bestowed upon master shipbuilders as well as small boat owners delivering local goods or seafood (oysters, clams, crabs, rockfish) on the Nanticoke River and Chesapeake Bay to Baltimore.

  
  

• Sources

  [S127] Ancestral File (R), Submission: AF93-102180. Submitter: Wallace K. Penrose, 4339 Bennion Road, Salt Lake City, Utah 84119