Hannah Wilkinson married Samuel Slater on October 2, 1791. This marriage was significant as it marked the union of Hannah, who came from a family with local business ties, and Samuel Slater, an industrialist who would later be known as the 'Father of the American Industrial Revolution'. The marriage took place after her parents relented their initial opposition based on Samuel not being Quaker.

Birth of Hannah Wilkinson (later Slater). She was an American inventor who invented a method to make cotton sewing thread and received a patent for it. She was married to Samuel Slater.