Family group #1 Bedford County

I went to Marshall Special Collections this week to get some pages for Lynn Goldsmith for a potential Colonial Dames member.  The book from which I took the cover page and a page about the Walker family was "Our Kin": The genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia by Mary  Denham Ackerly and Lulu Eastman Jeter Parker.

I took about 20 minutes to browse through the book and copied the following information:

William Hawkins was the first Hawkins to come to Bedford.  He arrived in Campbell County in 1793.

His will mentions wife Mary and children William, Littleberry, Robert, Joseph, Benjamin, James, Mildred Hicks.

Son, Robert, died in Bedford in 1820.  He married Nancy Fourqueran 30 Dec 1794.

My additions to the information above from this book are:

This is Dot's family.  Dot's husband descended from Benjamin in the list of children above.  Benjamin was married to Hannah.  He moved his family to the area of NC that is now a part of the Biltmore estate.  There is some thought that this family group connects to the orphan William.  The orphans of John and Elizabeth Hawkins were getting fairly old when this William arrived in Bedford County if they were not already deceased.  I am not clear on who this family group would connect to William the orphan.

Hawkins Family group #1

We have a subgroup of Family group #1 that I have begun to call the Short Mountain group of Tennessee.  These are Hawkins lines that were likely originally from the Northern Neck of Virginia.....moving up the Rappahanock River in the early to mid 1700s into the area around Orange and Culpeper Counties.  Then moving to Madison County Kentucky.  And finally moving to the area in Tennessee near Warren, DeKalb, and Cannon Counties.  Some of them, of course, moved on after a generation or two.  But most of them have a connection to TN.

Bret Hawkins still lives close to this area and has been involved in maintaining the cemetery of his ancestors.  He just sent some great photos of his buddies and him working on this project.  After the photos I have a few links to some other blog posts about this group.











http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2017/01/family-group-1-short-mountain-subgroup.html

http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2017/01/hawkins-autosomal-dna-matches-in-family.html

http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2018/01/hawkins-family-group-1-autosomal-match.html

Family Group #1 and Barnes Connections

J. Deane left a couple of comments on a blog post that I had written recently.  Instead of answering the comments, I am going to start a new blog post about Hawkins family group #1 and Barnes connections.  I hope to write it with the help of Joanna, Jim Barnes, Sandi Vaught, and Patrick Hawkins.  And anyone else who wants to chime in is very welcome!

So first fact is that Joanna and Jim Barnes and Patrick Hawkins are all autosomal dna matches.  I have not checked to see if their matches are all on the same segment of the same chromosome yet of if they are matches to each other but not in the same spot.  I will add that information when we have figured that out.

Joanna sent me some Hawkins/Barnes marriages that she found on Family Search:

Willis Hawkins married  Polly Barnes Jan 23 1800 in Mercer Co.  Signed by Willis Hawkins and William Barnes jr.  Consent given by her father William Barnes, witnessed by William Barnes Jr and Reuben Barnes.  

Mary Hawkins and Zachariah Barnes.  application for a license submitted 1/29/1816, issued 1/30/1816 in  Mercer co. Signed by his father James Barnes and acknowledged by Joseph and Richard Barnes and John

Application for Nathan Hawkins and Margaret Barnes to be married on signed by her mother Elizabeth Johnson and witnesses by James Barnes and William Barnes. Mercer County court . Not dated, I think it matches with a document signed by James Barnes and Nathan Hawkins 12/7/1824

John Hawkins married Polly Barnes 9/22/1824 in Estill KY  … 

I believe this Elizabeth to be the daughter of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins as she is said to have first married Fielding Barnes and second have married Robert Johnson.  

Smith Hawkins Married Margaret Lane Barnes 11/5/1845 Anderson Co KY signed by Richard H Paxton , guardian and witnessed by James D Paxton and EL Paxton. Permission for Margaret Barnes to marry was signed by by Sarah Barnes, guardian and witnessed by William Hawkins and Mary Barns

There are also some more Hawkins/Barnes marriages in the below screen shot from Milly Farmer's book.

Joanna also sent me a marriage that I had seen before that is of interest to this blog post:

The original evidence is John Hawkins and Milly Barnes marriage bond (original found on familysearch.org) in Mercer Co KY.  Reuben Boston posted bond and signed with John on Dec 3 1808. Feilden (Fielding) Barnes and Reuben Boston appeared before the Justice of the Peace and made an oath that Milla (Milly) Barnes, daughter of William Barnes is 21 years old. 

My own personal research indicates that Reuben Boston was married to one of Benjamin and Nancy/Ann Bourne Hawkins' daughters.  Reuben signed the document in which each of the heirs of Benjamin gave up their part of the land that was inherited by the group of children in return for $2000.  I believe that he was signing for his wife's part of the inheritance.  I believe that Reuben was married to daughter, Sarah.  Fielding Barnes was married to Benjamin and Ann/Nancy's daughter, Elizabeth when the above marriage took place.  Fielding died young in 1810 according to other researchers.

So we know who the men were and how they were related to the Hawkins line in the above.  But which John Hawkins is it that is marrying Milly Barnes in 1808?  Most of the children of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins were born 1769 to 1785.  I think that many of us have assumed that the son of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins who had name John was John B. Hawkins (and that likely the B. stood for Bourne).  What do we know about John B. Hawkins? He first married Mahala Randolph in Culpeper County in 1795.  That is a good date for marriage for one of the older children of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy.  He second married Ann Ford.  After his marriage to Ann Ford in 1812, he and Ann moved to Kentucky where they had perhaps six children.  It is definitely NOT John B. Hawkins!  He is not in Kentucky in 1808.  Is the John Hawkins marrying Milly Barnes a grandson of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins?  And it is his two uncles who are named in the marriage above...or an uncle and his father?  Or perhaps the idea that John B. Hawkins is the son of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins is not correct.  John B. is said to have died in Owen County Kentucky which is not next door to Mercer County where Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins died.

Joanna says about her John Hawkins:

John who married Milly Barnes and is Vardimans  father was born in 1787 in Virginia and died between the 1860 and 1870 census.   I think he is a son of Benjamin and Nancy Ann borne and the brother of Abraham. I’m thinking Abraham was born in 1776? 

Milly Farmer says about this family group:

I find that in my VERY unproven data base, I have attributed this group to the orphan William and given him wife,  Mary Margaret Smith.  Then the son of this couple as Elisha who is named above.  Dot Hawkins and her daughter believe that they descend from the orphan William Hawkins

Note:  when I use the term orphan in talking about Hawkins family group #1, I am talking about the generation born in the early 1700s who are named in the will of John Hawkins who died in what was probably an epidemic c. 1715 in Richmond County, Virginia:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com/2012/11/will-of-john-hawkins-of-richmond-county.html

Ok, I am so totally confused that I quit for the day.  I may have to redo the entire blog post?

Family group #5

Jeanne Bornefeld has done a great deal of primary research on family group #5.  Here is Jeanne's answer to the question posed about the relationship of Family group #5 and Sarah Hawkins Sevier:

You ask about Group # 5 Hawkins relationship to Sarah Hawkins Sevier. There is no relationship.

 John Hawkins, Mariner of New England came with the Winthrop Fleet,1630. He was born ca 1599/1600. He immigrated into Maryland in 1651. He was a mariner and was in and out of Maryland many times. He died by 17 March 1675. He wrote his will 3 Feb 1670 and it was in 1676, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, when his relatives, Robert Franklyn and Walter Carr, signed the appraisal of his earthly goods.. When he lived in Maryland, he was always in Anne Arundel County on the Patapsco River where it runs into the Bay under the Chesepeake Bridge. He was an early Quaker in Maryland and they met at first at William Richardson's house, and later at West River. 

He first married in New England. She was a widow who died. No children from that marriage. She brought a son into the marriage. John Hawkins signed all property over to her son that she brought in to the marriage when she died and he left Mass.  He married 2nd to Mary. I have not been able to identify Mary. John and Mary had: John, Augustine, Matthew, Anne, Joseph, and Thomas - not in birth order. 

I descend from Matthew who married 1st Ann Parrish; and, 2nd Mary Parrish. Both women were daughters of Edward Parrish. Matthew and Ann had: Anne, b 1693; Matthew, b 1694.

Matthew and Mary had: Mary, b 1697, Dinah, b 1699, Augustine, b 1702, and Rebecca, b 1704. Matthew wrote his will in 1705 and died shortly after. Matthew wanted his brother, Thomas, to raise his children, as Mary had predeceased him. Thomas declined and Joseph raised his children.

Rebecca Hawkins appears to have grown up in Joseph's household. She conceived a son, Nathan, who was born 16 Nov 1722, Baltimore County, Maryland. He died in Sullivan County, N. C. His estate settlement was1781-1783. The estate settlements are bundled together in that time period. He married Ruth Cole in Baltimore County, MD on 14 Feb 1744 at St. Paul's Church, Baltimore Co., MD. 

Nathan's and Ruth's children were born in MD. Nathan and his son, Aaron, both signed a petition to move the county seat of Baltimore from Old Joppa to Baltimore Town. By the very early 1770's, Nathan, Aaron, and another son, Matthew, are in the VA Colonial Government Records as having served under David Looney in the Fincastle County Militia. These records are in the Virginia State Library.

We have the male Hawkins line through the YDNA of Nathan's sons and his mother, Rebecca's, brother's male descendants. 

Children out of marriage of Nathan Hawkins and Ruth Cole, both of Baltimore County, Maryland:

Aaron, b MD, served in the Fincastle County, Virginia Militia during Lord Dunmore's War in the Valley of Virginia under David Looney. He owned land in Sullivan and Washington Counties, NC/TN. He married Margaret Stonecypher. Aaron died during the Rev War in the late 1770's- early1780's. Matthew took Aaron's widowed wife, Margaret, and her children, his own wife and their children, and several neighbors and friends to Greeneville, SC (the Upcountry) for safety under King George. Where they stayed until 1799, when they started meandering back up to Knox Co and the environs.

Matthew, b MD, served in the Fincastle County, Virginia Militia during Lord Dunmore's War under David Looney. The abovementioned Matthew left E. TN. for the Yellow Banks (Owensborough, KY) in 1817, where he stayed until ca 1824 when he left for land in Fountain Co IN. However, he died on Honey Creek Prairie in Vigo County, IN.ca 1814. His wife continued on up to Fountain Co with many of the same people who had originally gone to SC earlier.

Joseph, b MD, m Esther (thought Davis), lived Greene County, TN/NC. After they died there many of their children went up into Indiana, but on the other side of the state. The center of the state was off limits to non-Indians until after the removal.

Wilson, b MD, stayed close to his sister, Rebecca Crockett, and is buried in Gibson Co., TN.

Mary Elizabeth, b MD, m David Lewis and moved to Dearborn and Franklin Cos., IN. She died ca 1827. Ch: Nathan, Jane, John, Morgan, Mary, Eleanor, Rebecca, Celia, Sarah, David and Elizabeth - all born Sullivan County, TN.

Rebecca, b MD, m John Crockett, and they lived on Limestone Branch of Lick Creek, Washington Co., TN. They are the parents of "Davy Crockett". (As a sidelight - Davy Crockett and his mother's brother's son, Aaron Hawkins, s/o Matthew abovementioned, both fought under Jackson - thought by his men to be a poor leader. Janaluska - a respected leader, led the battle at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, in 1814. They were stationed at Fort Strother on the Coosa River in Alabama. It was part of the 1812 War- aka the Creek Indian War. Loyalties were not set in stone.) 

Ruth, b MD, m Jonathan Webb, and went to Dearborn and Franklin Cos., IN.

John, b MD, m Nancy Gray, d/o Robert and Margaret Wilson Gray of Sullivan Co., TN. They went to Dearborn and Franklin Cos., IN.

Nicholas, b MD, m Jane Gray, d/o Robert and Margaret Wilson Gray of Sullivan Co., TN. They lived in Christian County, KY.

Nathan, b MD, m Mary Gray, d/o Robert and Margaret Wilson Gray of Sullivan County, TN. They lived in Dearborn and Franklin Cos., IN.

The above information is from original records. Please do not add or subtract to suit whatever purpose. The Sarah Hawkins who married John Sevier was from the Joseph Hawkins and Martha Borden family that has been documented in original records. Sarah Hawkins Sevier who married John Sevier is of no relation to the Hawkins Group #5, above mentioned. 

Jeanne Bornefeld

Post to the overview page

The site just received the following comment from an anonymous responder:

My first ancestor to come here from Devon, England was John Hawkins, Jr.  He was born in 1633 and died in 1676.  I have been trying to find a possible connection to Sarah Hawkins Sevier, wife of Tennessee's first governor, John Sevier.  I am told she was also related to Rebecca Hawkins Crockett, other of David "Davy" Crockett.  I have found that I am a descendant of the same line as Benjamin Hawkins who is buried at Biltmore Estate, but have not yet connected him to the others. 


There are so many ideas on this paragraph that I wanted to be able to make comments and links and also give any of you reading this the chance to make your own comments.  Please send me any comments that you would want to add to:  mosesm@earthlink.net
I will add them to this post or to this blog site.

So I would comment that the Benjamin Hawkins who is buried at the Biltmore Estate is connected to family group #1.  That is the same group that my father's yDNA is a part of.  Most of us in this group believe that we connect back to John and Elizabeth Butler Hawkins who seem to have died in an epidemic c. 1715 in Richmond County, Virginia.  This was a part of the Northern Neck of Virginia.  There is not proof that I know of that Elizabeth's maiden name was Butler.  However, John's will infers that she was the sister to two Butler men as he asks these men to care for his orphans in his death bed will.  We do have a member of family group #1 whose family never left England and he still lives in London.

I have written many posts about this family line on both the Hawkins DNA blog that you are on right now and also my own private blog site:

http://marshamoses.blogspot.com

I suggest that you use search words such as Northern Neck and  Hawkins to pull these posts up to read.

More than 10 years ago, Dot Hawkins and I chatted about the Biltmore graves.  She was a part of a celebration at the time that the Biltmore put on for the small cemetery on their property that the Biltmore actually maintains.  Dot sent photos for the newsletter.  I tried to pull this up this morning without luck.  Phil and I will work on doing this and when we are successful, I'll do something to make this even accessible.

No one that I know of claims Sarah Hawkins Sevier in family group #1.  But you are correct  that  family group #5 claims  Rebecca Hawkins Crockett who was Davey's mother.

We have several researchers who have lots of good information on family group #5.  One of them is Jeanne Bornefeld.  I asked her to comment on your question.  You will find her comment at:

https://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2019/06/family-group-5.html

Jeanne suggested that Sarah Hawkins Sevier who was the mother of John Sevier is from the same group from which Benjamin Hawkins who married Martha Borden connects.  My notes say that this is Hawkins family group #7.  I have written several blog posts about this family group.  Find them by using Family group #7 in the search box on the blog site.

All sorts of Hawkins clues to follow up on

Jim sent me a excel file yesterday to compare Hawkins and Barnes.  It is amazing.  However, I am hot on the trail of my 4-gr-grandfather this morning and can not be distracted.....except....I keep seeing distractions....so I am going to put these distractions into this blog post.  And if anyone is reading this, and knows anything at all and is willing for me to add those thoughts to this blog, please e-mail me with your additions!  (mosesm@earthlink.net)

The first distraction is from Ancestry public trees.  The owner of the tree is

jeanh1942

There was only one son to this couple....the other children were female.

Probably family group #1

Does anyone claim this John W. Hawkins?  Elaine found the below article:



It is from the Nashville Republican, January 15, 1835,  Is anyone looking for this Swindler????

Joseph Hawkins and his wife, Margaret Conner

In an effort to break through my brick wall on my own Hawkins line, I am reading everything that I can find on Stafford County, Virginia.  I printed out the Stafford County research WIKI from Family search and am systematically going through each entry.  Stafford is a burned county, so the research is  challenging.

However, one of the first things that I am looking at are the George Harrison King papers held by the Virginia Historical Society.  I found finding just what I wanted to see to be less than simple, so I am going to write how I got to the pages that I am looking at.  First on the Stafford County Wiki, I clicked on Virginia Genealogy beside the reference to George Harrison King.  Once there, I clicked the large blue button that says Virginia Online Records.  Next under vital records I chose Virginia Historical Society Papers.  I scrolled down to:

Browse through 918,495 images

And then clicked on that link.  That pulls up a list of the digital records that are available on-line.  I chose the George Harrison Sanford King Papers. Then go to Series I: Harrison to Hite.  When the images come up,  Put image #2152 into the search box.

The Hawkins line that is being discussed is that of John Hawkins of Spotsylvania County.  Mr. King is writing information to a woman who is a descendant of Capt. John Hawkins and has asked if he can help her ascertain parents for her ancestor.

Mr. King says that Mrs. Susannah (Sukey) Edmonson Wyatt was old in 1805. She knew Peggy Conner personally.  Peggy had been orphaned.  Peggy's half brother was her guardian.  This man who was her guardian was Mrs. Susannah Sukey Edmonson Wyatt's husband, Thomas Wyatt.  Peggy Conner had lived in their home in Essex County, Virginia.

Mrs. Wyatt says that Peggy married Joseph Hawkins.

And Mr. King also says that much later in Fayette County, Kentucky in 1800, Peggy Conner Hawkins made a deposition in which she says that she lived with her half-brother, Thomas Wyatt in Essex and in 1752 he moved to Spotsylvania.  Mr. King also says that he found guardian accounts for Margaret Conner, orphan of Martin Conner, in County Essex in the years 1749-1753 settled by Thomas Wyatt.  Mr. King surmises that Thomas Wyatt was the only father that Peggy Conner ever knew.

Mr. King then also puts forth the theory that Capt. John Hawkins (1756-1833) who is the ancestor of his client was the son of Joseph Hawkins and his wife Margaret Conner.

On image 2154 there is VERY interesting information about slaves that had belonged to these people.  As part of this information Mr. King adds this chart:

On the next few pages there is information about John Hawkins, son of Joseph and Peggy Conner Hawkins having lived in Amherst County between Spotsylvania and Kentucky.

On image #2179 there is information on the John and Mary Langford Hawkins line.but I have run out of steam....If you believe you descend from this family, I am happy to help you get to this information

Autosomal match to Hawkins family #1

You may want to read the post that is below this post first if you have interest in family group #1.  However, if your interest is strictly autosomal DNA testing, and you have no interest in the family line that has Benjamin Hawkins who married Ann/Nancy Bourne and died in Mercer County, Kentucky there is no need to take the time to read it.

Jim Barnes and I began chatting about his Barnes family that is found in Culpeper, Virginia (maybe Orange?) in the late 1700s.  I know their names because I have looked at a marriage date of maybe 1799? between a Hawkins male and Milly Barnes.  I'll try to edit this with facts later.  The date is just a little too late to be parents for my Thomas R. Hawkins who was born c.1797.  But for 30 years it has been of interest to me.

But because of the conversation between Jim and me, I started looking around for documents that included both the Hawkins and Barnes name.  And I found a deed that I had in my files and piles that was signed by the heirs of the Benjamin Hawkins who is named above after Benjamin's death in Mercer County Kentucky.  That is what the below post is about.

As part of our conversation, Jim and were both surprised that he has as many matches who claim Hawkins connections on his family finder list as I do.  I have no Barnes in my tree that I know of and he has no Hawkins that he knows.  And in turn I have as many family finder matches who claim Barnes ancestors on my list of family finder matches as Jim does (I might have a few more).  Our conversation led to the thought that it is because the Barnes and Hawkins family was so intermarried in Culpeper and Mercer County that many Hawkins researchers have Barnes in their tree and vice versa.

So I suggested to Jim that he join the Hawkins dna project for just an hour so that I could look at his family finder matches to see if anything jumped out at me.  And absolutely!  When we used the filter Hawkins his matches went down to around 61 and his very top match was Patrick Harold Hawkins.  I took a quick look at his tree and immediately knew that Patrick was a family group #1 Hawkins descendant.  And I sent an e-mail to Patrick.  BUT WAIT....as I reread the blog post that I had written already, I saw that I had actually mentioned the fact that Patrick was a descendant of Abraham Hawkins who was the administrator for Benjamin Hawkins who had married Ann/Nancy Bourne!  Oh, Wow!  This is fun!  In the middle of the night, I could not help but jump out of bed to form my theory.  Here is a screen shot of Patrick's tree from 1841 going back to Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins:  (You may have to manipulate it to see all the way back....it was unreadable when smaller.  I can send it to you if you are unable to manipulate)



And below are may middle of the night scratchings.  The left hand side are Patrick's Hawkins line.  While the right hand side are Jim's Barnes line.



The huge big brace....had to look up word   

marks the generations that should match for a 2nd to 4th cousin.  But remember that if Jim and Patrick are not of the same generation (that is one is retired while the other is young and still working), their match may actually be 4th cousin once removed.....or some such thing.  This will show up the same as a 4th cousin.  One of them will have the couple who are their common ancestors as 3-gr-grandparents while the other will have the same couple as 4-gr-grandparents.

Ok.  Finally the punch line.  It would seem to me that the most likely scenarios is that Sarah Barnes who married Pleasant Fielding Hawkins may have been a sister to John and George Barnes.  And then the common ancestor to both  would be the father of these three siblings.  And if this is not the case, it might have been one more generation earlier (the grandfather of John and George Barnes).

Please help me edit this blog post.  It is done quickly.  Additions?  Deletions? corrections?  misspelled words?  Clarifications?  Thanks

Mercer County, Kentucky Edmund Hawkins

While Elaine and I were looking at the heirs of Benjamin Hawkins in Mercer County, Elaine happened to notice another Hawkins deed entry.  It is Deed Book 10, p. 225 in the Mercer County land information on Family Search.

I do not know which family group this information belongs to.  If you do know, please send me a comment.

The deed is in 1816.  Edmund Hawkins has died.  I think that his children are selling his land but I can't remember for sure.....and if I take the time to go back and look, I won't get this done.  But his three children are named in the deed:

Joseph with wife Georgeanne, Littleberry with wife Mary, and Mary Ann with husband Hudson Martin.

Family Group #1 in Mercer County, Kentucky

I was working on the connections between the Barnes family and the Hawkins family this weekend.  I had found a reference to a deed in Mercer County, Kentucky that had Hawkins daughters married to Barnes husbands.  I called Elaine to sort it out.  I have downloaded the deed from Family Search and filed it in Hawkins in Kentucky.

Benjamin Hawkins who married Ann/Nancy Bourne had died in 1811.  My interpretation of this deed is that Abraham has been chosen administrator of Benjamin's estate.  There is no will.  The heirs of Benjamin have come to an agreement for the land.  I only guess that Ann (their mother) plans to live with one of the children.....perhaps Abraham and his wife, Polly Coke.....and that Abraham is paying the others for the land.  The deed states that Abraham is paying $2000 to the heirs.  Five of the heirs receive slaves as part of the deal.  The slaves are named and each heir who receives 1 or 2 slaves is named.  I have taken a screen shot of the signatures.


  

My best interpretation of this screen shot is that the signatures indicate that each heir has given up claim to the land and that they have all agreed to the change in ownership for the slaves named.  And that the people are:

Abraham who is the administrator of Benjamin's will.  According to the research of Joan Horseley who also employed at times, Craig Kilby, Abraham was born in 1776.  Both Joan and Craig are now deceased.  But both were excellent researchers.  Abraham is not the oldest child of Benjamin and Ann, but I think it possible that he was the oldest son.

One of our participants in the Hawkins yDNA project, Patrick Harold Hawkins, believes that he descends from Abraham.

Reuben Boston is husband to Benjamin and Ann's daughter Sarah.  I do have information about their marriage.  From birth date that I received from Joan Horsley, Reuben would have been about 51 at this event.

William Barnes is perhaps the husband of the daughter Ann.  She is the only daughter that I have no marriage information for.  It is also possible that William Barnes is the son of daughter Elizabeth.

Someone else signs for daughter Elizabeth.  Elizabeth was married to either Fielding or William Barnes.  I am not clear on that fact.  My data base on this fact is confusing.  But almost certainly, Elizabeth's husband with last name Barnes is dead in 1811.

John Hawkins.  John Hawkins could be John B. Hawkins married to Ann Ford.  I have always put John B. Hawkins into the family group of Benjamin and Nancy/Ann Bourne Hawkins.  But I have noticed in my digging for this post that not all of the researchers attribute John B. into this family.  Some have him as son of one of the other Hawkins/Bourne families....certainly we all believe that John B. had Bourne grandparents as well as Hawkins.  This could also be a grandson.

Presley White is husband of daughter Lucy.  Lucy is a relative newly wed:

Mercer County marriage records Presley White to Lucy Hawkins with Reuben Boston as surety Nov 30, 1808.  Consent of Ann Hawkins for her daughter.

Francis Hawkins (he may have been called Frank) is the son who eventually ended up with the property described in this deed.

After Benjamin Hawkins’ death, his oldest son, Andrew [I believe this to be a mistake in the book that I was looking at at the time I was doing research on this house...should be Abraham] purchased the property from his siblings in 1811, but it was Andrew’s brother, Francis Hawkins, who eventually bought the farm and lived there.  He and his wife, Permelia, reared all ten of their children including Ann Hawkins who became the wife of John S. MCGee.  Francis Hawkins died on June 14, 1869, and one of his sons, “A”L”” Hawkins, bought out his brothers’ interests and continued to reside on the farm raising another generation of Hawkins family on the home place.....

 The original Hawkins farmhouse is still standing, although no longer used as a dwelling......

 The house and cemetery are located on Short Road just a few miles north of Salvisa.

Quite a few years ago I visited a house that fits this description.  When I have extra time, I will try to pull out my photos and notes to see if indeed this is the house that I saw at that time.

Still talking about Francis/Frank:  One of my autosomal matches says that this man’s name is Francis Gaines Hawkins.

Andrew Hawkins for Benjamin Hawkins.  I could write an entire blog post about the mysteries in my data base for sons Andrew and Benjamin....but I won't.  I do not know why Benjamin was not signing in his own right and not present.

And then Andrew signs for himself.

The last signature on the deed is Ann.  I immediately jumped to the assumption that this was Benjamin's wife, Ann Bourne Hawkins.  But, of course, it is possible that it is a daughter, Ann.  Other researchers tell me that daughter Ann married John Green.  And if that is true, she would have signed as Ann Green.  According to dates given by other researchers, Ann would have been about 27 in 1811 and would have been an old maid according to the judgments of the times if she had still had Hawkins as last name.  But either thing is possible.

Family Group #28

Usually I do not add a new family group unless I have two or more participants who carry the Hawkins surname and are both part of our Hawkins yDNA project.  However, today I added family group #28 with two kits who are close matches at 37 markers.

Harry Hawkins is the father of Cynthia Heidorn.  And R.S. Waline is the father of Crystal Walline.  Crystal has explained that her grandfather had biological surname of Hawkins but took the name of his adopted father.  Thus he is a Hawkins by dna.

Here is what Cynthia explained about their new family group:

Hi Marsha,

According to Crystal Walline, her grandfather took his adoptive father’s name , Walline instead of keeping Hawkins. My gg grandfather, Orrin is the same age/generation as Henry Nelson Hawkins. We are wondering if they are cousins. I am searching for Orrin’s grandparents. Crystal is searching for Henry Nelson’s parents. Hopefully we can figure this out!