I believe that William Hanks was tha father of Thomas Hanks my 4^th great grandfather. I do not have any definitive evidence for this claim but I am fairly confident based a few pieces of information that lead me to this conclusion.

Although I have no record of his birth, based upon his death certificate and burial entry Thomas Hanks was born about 1766. Thomas was the father of Mary Hanks my 3^rd great-grandmother who married Francis Fane Taylor.