Henry Hanslap was another of my generation's 9th great grandfathers and thus of the same generation as Nicholas Gassaway and John Hammond. As prominent colonial residents of Maryland, these gentlemen's progeny intermarried, which explains our descent from all of them. Hanslap is described as "sheriff of Anne Arundel" County, having been appointed to this post by the Associators' convention which had displaced the Calverts in 1689. However, he apparently served only until February 1689/90 (Carr and Jordan, 107). He seems to have been a supporter of Lord Baltimore and thus "refused cooperation with the Associators" (Carr and Jordan, 195), whose legitimacy was in dispute between 1689 and 1692.
