[2] Hannan first fought in Lord Dunmore's War at the Battle of Point Pleasant.
[3][4] At the start of the American Revolutionary War, he enlisted in the navy for one year.
[5] In 1781, several years after his initial term of enlistment, he was drafted into a rifle regiment and served at the Battle of Yorktown.
[16] This path linked the then-capital of the Northwest Territory, Chillicothe, Ohio, to points in the Eastern United States.
Hannan was a friend and neighbor of several other early settlers in the Kanawha Valley region, including Anne Bailey[17] and Daniel Boone.