Philemon Hawkins

The newest issue of American Ancestors (Fall 2026) had information about a new book that talks about the Hawkins family to which Philemon Hawkins of NC belongs:

I am not tempted to buy the book right now as I know I do not have time to read it.....but I did not want to loose the thought.  The book is not yet listed on WorldCat....But I have great interest in seeing if the author has sorted out this Hawkins line in early Virginia.  

AI pulled up this URL for this family:

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/hawkins-philemon-ii

At this time I am not clear which family group is represented by this family tree.....

 

Family Group 1

Littleberry Hawkins and Gaddy and Bedford County and Green County, Kentucky

I wanted to save the following from an e-mail so that I could erase the e-mail

Green County, KY  Deed Book 7 pages 308-310....9 july 1816 

Benjamin Gaddy and wife Susannah of Green County to Littleberry Hawkins of Bedford Virginia....selling 184 acres This is Virginia land recorded in Green County ...the Gaddy's are selling land that is in Bedford County, Virginia to Littleberry Hawkins.....but they are recording it in Green County, Kentucky.

Elaine's Joseph had land in Green County.  THe land is described as "to a Hawkins Corner"....or perhaps it was land given for Revolutionary war service?  Anyone help me on this?  Was Green County, KY an area that was used for land for service in either war?

I feel sure that I had received that information from you.  But as I was making a quick look at the old post saw that there was a comment from a researcher who believes she descends from William Hawkins the plasterer ….she is from the Benjamin Hawkins found buried on the grounds of the Biltmore estate.  And her comment was:

From Dot I have the following that connects the Benjamin and Hannah Hawkins who lived on the land that is now a part of the Biltmore Estate to Littleberry Hawkins as well: 
We have been able to connect Benjamin and his brother, James, to William and Mary Littleberry of Bedford, VA and there is yet another William who travels down from Orange County,VA and seems to have been Ben's grandfather and was likely The Plasterer.  The story goes that Ben and James went on with their grandparents to NC and then the two of them later moved on with their families to Buncombe County. There are wills and other documents and "stories" that apparently verify all this and we hope to make a VA trip at some time in the future to get the data to verify all of this.  

Is it possible that a man who was born in before 1700 (William the plasterer) could have moved to Bedford County?  Bedford County was formed in 1754….so I suppose it is not impossible….but not very likely …..well unless he traveled with children…..Have you looked at the death of William the Plasterer when you were researching your Early Hawkins men?  Don’t spend a lot of time on this…I was just curious if you had any ideas that I have forgotten over the years….I haven’t done much research on early Hawkins lines….I got off on the tangent of my James Hawkins who died in Fleming County KY c. 1834…..you can’t believe that I have found 40 dna matches to descendants of James Hawkins who is my ancestor and died in Fleming County and that does not count the matches who descend from my Thomas Ross Hawkins (James’ son) as I didn’t count them in as I have known about them for a long time.  They are much closer cousins.  

OK….now I am rambling….Just wanted to run by you the thought that could William the Plasterer have died in Bedford County?  seems kind of crazy…..

 

Michael Hawkins, Loyalist (c1750-1845), New Brunswick

 A Hawkins researcher who lives in New Brunswick sent me the following information about his ancestor, Michael Hawkins who was a Loyalist in the American Revolution.  Michael's introduction for his ancestor says:  

I want to introduce a man who has become the central brick wall in my paternal line:

# Michael Hawkins, Loyalist  
born about 1750 | died about 1845 | Keswick/Douglas, York County, New Brunswick

Michael Hawkins is my direct paternal-line ancestor. He is often described as Michael Hawkins, Loyalist, a native of New Jersey, who emigrated to New Brunswick in the Spring Fleet of 1783. But I believe he deserves to be studied as more than a name on a Loyalist list.

I think Michael Hawkins belonged to the dangerous, complicated world of the Bergen–Hudson Loyalist corridor: New Jersey, New York, Weehawken, Bull’s Ferry, Fort Lee, Bergen Woods, British-held New York City, and eventually New Brunswick.

I am hoping this post becomes a place where other researchers can connect Hawkins, Brower/Brewer, Yerxa/Jurckse, Bergen County, Westchester, Loyalist, and Y-DNA clues.

If you have answers for Jaime, write to him at jaimedeanhawkins@gmail.com

But also feel free to add a comment below that anyone can read.

Map of New Brunswick

## What we know about Michael Hawkins

The major compiled source I am working from is Alan H. Hawkins’s 2004 work:

The Descendants of Michael Hawkins, Loyalist, a native of New Jersey who emigrated to New Brunswick in the Spring Fleet of 1783

Alan Hawkins identifies Michael as the first of this Hawkins family to settle in New Brunswick. He notes that Michael’s parentage has not been ascertained, but that Michael is treated as the first generation of the New Brunswick family.

Alan gives Michael’s wife as:

Eleanor / Elaney Brower, later often written Brewer

She is described as a woman of Dutch descent, and family records preserve her name as Eleanor Brower. In New Brunswick, the name commonly became Brewer.

An old family paper quoted by Alan Hawkins says:

“Your grandfather died about 1845 about 95 years old … grandmothers name was Eleanor Brower died about 1837 age 74 years old.”

So Michael was probably born about 1750, and Eleanor about 1763.

That means Michael was old enough to be an adult during the American Revolution, old enough to serve as a Loyalist, and old enough to have had prewar ties that are now very difficult to recover.

## Michael Hawkins before and during the Revolution

Michael’s own memorial/petition identifies him as a native of New Jersey and says he joined the Royal Army early in the rebellion. He served in:

Major Ward’s Company of Refugees

and was involved in the:

defence of the Blockhouse

This was not ordinary militia service in a clean battlefield setting.

Major Ward’s men were operating in the brutal borderland between British-held New York and Patriot-controlled New Jersey. The so-called “woodcutters” were not just chopping firewood in a peaceful forest. They were moving through contested territory, supplying British forces, defending exposed positions, and relying on local knowledge of roads, woods, landings, farms, ferries, passes, and who could or could not be trusted.

In practical terms, a Loyalist “woodcutter” in this environment was part logistics, part armed labour, part scout, and often part intelligence network.

Michael’s service around the Blockhouse places him in the same world as Bull’s Ferry, Bergen Woods, Fort Lee, Weehawken, and the Hudson River corridor opposite Manhattan.

That is important because there was another Hawkins in that same wartime space:

## Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken — possible clue?

A Loyalist named Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken appears in Revolutionary War accounts as a guide.

The Journal of the American Revolution describes Joseph Hawkins as the son of a tenant of the same name who lived on William Bayard’s estate at Weehawken. Joseph served as a guide to Lord Cornwallis at the taking of Fort Lee, and later acted as a guide and pilot for British army and navy operations.

The Bergen County Historical Society also identifies Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken as one of three Bergen County Loyalists who guided British and Hessian troops up the Palisades during the Fort Lee operation.

That puts Joseph Hawkins in the same narrow Hudson-Palisades corridor where Michael Hawkins’s Loyalist service appears to belong.

So the question becomes:

How many Hawkins Loyalists were operating in the same Bergen–Hudson war zone, doing guide/woodcutter/refugee/blockhouse/intelligence-adjacent work, and yet had no connection to each other?

I cannot prove Joseph and Michael were kin. But I now consider Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken one of the strongest possible network clues for Michael Hawkins’s origin.

## The Brower / Brewer clue

Michael’s wife was Eleanor / Elaney Brower, later Brewer.

This may be the key.

Alan Hawkins preserved family memory that Michael “came out with the family of Brewers.” That is a huge clue. It suggests the Hawkins-Brower/Brewer relationship may have existed before New Brunswick, not merely after settlement there.

The Brouwer Genealogy blog has discussed Eleanor Brewer / Lanny Brower, wife of Michael Hawkins, and the uncertainty around her parents. Possible parentage theories point toward Brouwer/Brower families in Hackensack, Bergen County, New Jersey, and Dutchess County, New York.

There is also a wartime clue: Bergen County history identifies a Jacob Brower as serving in Thomas Ward’s corps of woodcutters and defending the blockhouse at Bull’s Ferry.

That means we may have:

Michael Hawkins — Major Ward’s Refugees / Blockhouse  
Jacob Brower — Ward’s woodcutters / Bull’s Ferry  
Eleanor Brower/Brewer — Michael’s wife  
Joseph Hawkins — Weehawken / Bayard estate / guide  
William Bayard’s estate — Loyalist Weehawken world

This is starting to look like a network, not coincidence.

## The family memory: “John Michael Hawkins from New York”

One of the most interesting items Alan Hawkins preserved is a family letter saying that great-grandfather Michael Hawkins was actually remembered as:

John Michael Hawkins

The same letter says he came from New York, came out with the Brewer family, and was the only Hawkins who went to New Brunswick. It says two brothers remained in New York:

George Hawkins  
Martin Hawkins

and that two unmarried sisters also remained in New York.

This does not necessarily contradict Michael’s official description as a native of New Jersey.

During the Revolution, the New York/New Jersey border was not a modern administrative wall. Loyalists moved through New Jersey, British-held New York City, Staten Island, Long Island, Bergen County, the Hudson River, and evacuation routes to Nova Scotia/New Brunswick.

This image is from Jaime's blog:  https://michaelhawkinsloyalist.blogspot.com/

So Michael may have been:

- born in New Jersey,
- connected to New York through the Brower/Brewer family,
- operating in the British New York/Bergen corridor,
- and later remembered by descendants as coming “from New York.”

That is exactly the kind of mixed identity one would expect from a Loyalist refugee.

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## The Yerxa / Cortlandt Manor connection

After the war, Michael Hawkins became connected to the Yerxa family.

John Yerxa / Johannes Jurckse was a Loyalist from Cortlandt Manor, Westchester County, New York. His memorial says he joined the refugees under Colonel DeLancey in 1780 and later came to New Brunswick.

Michael’s daughter:

Sarah Hawkins  
married  
James Yerxa

on 8 July 1817.

James was the son of John Yerxa.

Even more importantly, Michael Hawkins Sr. was one of the men attached to the appraisal/valuation of John Yerxa’s estate. That means Michael was not merely a distant in-law. He was trusted enough to be involved in the estate affairs of a major Cortlandt Manor Loyalist family in New Brunswick.

So Michael’s postwar world included:

Hawkins  
Brower/Brewer  
Yerxa/Jurckse  
Gerow/Giraud  
Keswick/Douglas, New Brunswick  
Cortlandt Manor / Westchester Loyalist memory

I am not claiming Michael Hawkins came from Cortlandt Manor. But the Yerxa connection means the Cortlandt Manor Loyalist network cannot be ignored.

## Michael Hawkins after the war

Michael came to New Brunswick in 1783 and survived the brutal Loyalist settlement period.

The early New Brunswick Loyalists arrived with promises of land, supplies, and support, but many faced cold, hunger, poor shelter, and wilderness conditions. Michael outlived almost everyone around him. If born about 1750 and dying about 1845, he lived to about 95 years old.

He outlived John Yerxa.  
He outlived many of the first Loyalist settlers around Keswick.  
He outlived the Revolution itself by six decades.

That alone is remarkable.

Alan Hawkins’s work shows Michael as a man who steadily built a life after the war. He acquired land, bought and sold parcels, and became part of the emerging community in York County, New Brunswick. His land activity suggests a man who was not passive or marginal. He was rebuilding, investing, moving, buying, selling, and establishing his family in a new province.

One particularly meaningful act was his donation of land connected to St. Mary’s Anglican Church at Keswick. Alan Hawkins notes that in 1824, Michael Hawkins of Douglas deeded land to the Rector, Church Wardens, and Vestry of St. Mary’s Church in the Parish of Douglas. The land was described as containing one or more acres, on which the church already stood.

That tells me something about the man.

Michael Hawkins was not only a former refugee. He became a community elder. A landholder. A church supporter. A man whose mark was literally attached to the religious and social landscape of early Keswick.

## What would Michael have looked like?

I have not found a surviving physical description of Michael Hawkins.

But the role tells us something.

A man serving as a woodcutter/refugee/blockhouse defender in the Bergen-Hudson war zone had to be physically capable. This was hard labour and dangerous service. Woodcutting for the British was not gentle work. These men worked in exposed conditions, often under threat of attack, while moving through contested territory.

Michael may not have left us a portrait, but the record gives us a silhouette:

An adult Loyalist male, probably in his late 20s during the war.  
Physically able enough for woodcutting and blockhouse defence.  
Hardy enough to survive war, displacement, migration, wilderness settlement, and old age.  
Resilient enough to live into his nineties.

That is a picture, even without a face.

## Y-DNA: I-Y20202

My direct paternal line descends from Michael Hawkins.

My current Big Y / paternal haplogroup line is:

I-Y20202

This is a rare branch in my results. I have not yet found the clean Hawkins Y-DNA match that solves Michael’s parentage. That is part of the frustration. The paper trail points to Michael. The Y-DNA gives me a rare line. But the matching pool has not yet delivered the obvious Hawkins cousin who breaks the wall.

That said, the Y-DNA matters because if another direct male-line descendant of Michael Hawkins, Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken, George Hawkins, Martin Hawkins, or another Bergen-Hudson Hawkins line ever tests, the comparison could be decisive.

If any Hawkins male from one of these suspected lines has done Big Y or is considering it, this could be the thing that finally separates coincidence from kinship.

## My working theory

Here is the theory I am currently testing:

Michael Hawkins was not just a generic Loyalist from New Jersey.

He was probably part of a Bergen–Hudson Loyalist network involving:

- Hawkins families in or near Weehawken / Bergen County
- Joseph Hawkins of Bayard’s estate
- Major Ward’s refugees and woodcutters
- Bull’s Ferry / Blockhouse service
- Brower/Brewer families from Bergen/New York/Dutch networks
- British-held New York evacuation routes
- and postwar New Brunswick settlement networks including Yerxa/Jurckse of Cortlandt Manor

The strongest clue right now may be the overlap between:

Michael Hawkins  
Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken  
Jacob Brower  
Eleanor Brower/Brewer  
Major Ward’s Company  
Bayard’s estate  
Bull’s Ferry / Fort Lee / Bergen corridor

That is the cluster I want to put in front of other researchers.

## Names I am looking for

I would love to hear from anyone researching:

- Michael Hawkins / John Michael Hawkins
- Eleanor / Elaney / Lanny Brower / Brewer
- Joseph Hawkins of Weehawken
- Joseph Hawkins Sr., tenant on William Bayard’s estate
- George Hawkins, possibly brother of Michael
- Martin Hawkins, possibly brother of Michael
- Jacob Brower of Ward’s woodcutters
- Major Thomas Ward’s Company of Refugees
- Bull’s Ferry blockhouse
- Bayard estate, Weehawken
- Hawkins families in Bergen County, NJ
- Hawkins families in New York connected to Loyalist evacuation
- Yerxa / Jurckse families from Cortlandt Manor to New Brunswick
- Hawkins Y-DNA connected to I-Y20202

## Why I am posting

I want Michael Hawkins to stop being just a name buried in Loyalist descendant charts.

He was a man who lived through the Revolution, served in a dangerous borderland role, survived exile, came to New Brunswick, built a family, bought land, gave land to the church, became tied to the Yerxa family, and lived into extreme old age.

He is the kind of ancestor who disappears because records are scattered across New Jersey, New York, Loyalist claims, New Brunswick land petitions, church records, family letters, and DNA databases.

I am trying to pull him back into one place.

If you have Hawkins, Brower/Brewer, Yerxa, Bergen County, Weehawken, Bull’s Ferry, Fort Lee, Ward’s Refugees, or Loyalist New Brunswick material, I would be grateful to compare notes.

This post is meant to be a marker for future researchers:

Michael Hawkins, Loyalist, probably belongs in the Bergen–Hudson corridor story.

Jaime Hawkins

From Wikipedia

This illustration as well as map earlier in the post from website:

https://allthingsliberty.com/2022/10/anthony-waynes-repulse-at-bulls-ferry-july-21-1780/

There is more information on Jaime's blog:

Thomas Wyatt Hawkins

 While looking for something else, I stumbled over a website that reminds me somewhat of Milly Farmer's Book:  Bits and Pieces.

https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/history/hawkins.html

144. John D.⁹ Hawkins (Philemon⁸, [Unknown]⁷, [Unknown]⁶, John Sidney⁵, Richard (Sir)⁴, John (Sir)³, William², John¹) was born 08 Apr 1720 in Gloucester Co., VA or Charles City Co., VA. He married Mary Wyatt Abt. 1744 in Probably Bute Co., NC, daughter of Henry Wyatt and Mary Wynne. She was born 20 Sep 1726 in Caroline Co., VA.

Notes for John D. Hawkins:

Abt. 1735 moved from Virginia to North Carolina.

Did this couple have a son, Isham Hawkins, who had a grandson named Wyatt Hawkins? Did they have a son, Benjamin Hawkins, who married Phoebe Jones?

It appears that they had a daughter Sarah Hawkins who married William Caller, son of Robert Caller, from this record:

Will Book 4, Warren Co. NC, page 54

Agreement between Robert Caller and Salley, widow of his son William, lately deceased, with reference to Adm. of estate, property from her father John Hawkins, and guardianship of her infant son Charles.

Salley Caller married James Gordon 6/23/1787.

 

Children of John Hawkins and Mary Wyatt are:

+ 237 i. Mary¹⁰ Hawkins, born 1746; died Sep 1830 in Oglethorpe, GA.

+ 238 ii. Philemon Hawkins V, born Aft. 1748.

239 iii. Wyatt Hawkins, born Abt. 1752; died Aft. 1782. He married Frances Burford; born Abt. 1750.

+ 240 iv. Ann Hawkins, born Abt. 1755 in Granville Co., NC.

Nicholas Hawkins who married Elizabeth Long

 I googled "what Hawkins male married Elizabeth Long?" and received the AI answer:

Nicholas Hawkins was married to Elizabeth Long

. Elizabeth Long, who later became Elizabeth Hawkins, was born around 1704 in Spotsylvania, Virginia, United States and died after September 28, 1768 in the same county. She was the daughter of John Long of St. George Parish and Elizabeth Long. Nicholas Hawkins was from Spotsylvania. 

So beware of the answer and check it for yourself. 

However I was surfing a bit this afternoon on the internet and found a tidbit that I wanted to save and am in a hurry to post and get back to what I need to do this afternoon.

An interesting will from NC:

Will of Alice Wade dated 25 Apr 1701. Grandsons: John Hawkins, Thomas Hawkins, James Hawkins. Granddaughter: Elizabeth Hawkins. Dau. Elizabeth Long. Grandsons: James Long, Thomas Long. Granddaughter: Mary Long. Exec: Grandson John Hawkins.

This tidbit comes from website:  https://freepages.rootsweb.com/~markfreeman/history/hawkins.html

I don't have time to do justice to this tidbit, but I don't want to loose it.  A quick try to sort this out would interpret it to mean that Alice was the mother of Elizabeth Long who married Nicholas Hawkins.  A quick look on Ancestry gave me nothing that made any sense.  My own extremely unproven data base records what I believed many years ago.  That the couple Nicholas Hawkins who married Elizabeth Long were each born c.1704 and lived in Spotsylvania County.  So this will does not refer to this couple....I'll have to save this for another time as I have no time for at least a month to look at this more....and I need to look to see if such a will really exists....Anyone have answers for me? These early Hawkins families are sooooooooo hard to sort out!

Marsha Moses (mosesm@earthlink.net)

Hawkins yDNA family group #1 in Owen County, KY

 It seems that I was working a little bit on the Hawkins/Glass connections in Owen County, KY in 2012.  I must not yet have started this blog site for Hawkins yDNA project.  I wrote a blog post on my main blog site that you can read at:

https://www.blogger.com/blog/post/edit/8190925497620564011/5462678587983392750

Family Group #5

We had a new yDNA participant added to this family group in the last week or so.  This family group does a lot of research and has a lot of thoughts on their family line which is a wonderful thing.  Jeanne Bornefeld sent me an explanation about John Hawkins of Elk River and John Hawkins, Mariner of New England.  Jeanne has given me permission to post her information on the blog site.

Subject: John Hawkins of Elk River and John Hawkins, Mariner of New England

I just read your question about John Hawkins, Mariner of New England and John Hawkins of Elk River. I suspect the John Hawkins of Elk River, wife Sarah, attorney Augustine Herman, was the John Hawkins who was murdered by his slave. I think I remember the records say he beat him to death. His wife's attorney was Augustine Herman and she left Maryland and went to New York after the murder. The slave had a trial and was hanged.

It looks to me that Robert Barnes has confused the two men named John Hawkins. 

John Hawkins, Mariner of New England did indeed marry Sarah Damerill, maiden name Minshew, d/o John Minshew and Elizabeth. She was the widow of Humphrey Damerill - 15 Sept 1654. Sarah was b 21 May 1659. They were m by Gov Richard Bellingham, Suffolk Co Mass. No known ch. She had a son, John, to whom John Hawkins gave all the land and holdings he got from the marriage when he left.

After John Hawkins arrived in Mass he purchased seats in the State Church in the 1630 and 1632. No. 41 in the list of Church Members. A seat had to be purchased to do business. He was on the Arabella, a ship in the Winthrop Fleet,  along with Daniel Hutt and Richard Brenton, people he had business dealings with later. They first settled at Salem, and shortly later went to Boston because it was a better port. he became a Quaker and settled on land in Baltimore/Anne Arundel Cos. He didn't move, the line did.

The Provincial Court Records of Maryland tell us Daniel Hutt, an agent of William Brenton, merchant of Boston, hired John Hawkins to carry freight for him. Daniel Hutt was also a Mariner of New England, and settled at Nomini, VA. The name of his "barke" was the May Flower. William Brenton became the Governor of Rhode Island. (There is litigation on whether or not John Hawkins should unload goods for him because Hawkins said Brenton failed to pay him the last time. He asked the Court to make Brenton pay him before he gave him the freight. The court sided with Brenton.

In 1651, according to Skordas, he arrived in Maryland

1653 - John Hawkins assigned rights to Giles Blake of 100 acres, confirmed 2 May 1653. In May 1653, Robert Burle, clerk, stated that John Hawkins of New England, Mariner, transported himself to the Colony in 1651 and assigned his 100 acres to Giles Blake, by his attorney Nicholas Wyatt. (Nicholas Wyatt was a Quaker who had probably come to America to escape persecution. At a Court held in lower Norfolk Co VA in 1646 William Howell said that he heard William Julian's man, Nicholas Wyatt say that after Henry Merriott was free, he had three years to serve. Liber B. f. 14, Portsmouth VA Court House. In 1653, he was attorney for John Hawkins, to whom an assignment of land had been given, which assignment had been lost. "I Nicholas Wyatt, attorney for John Hawkins, renew the rights, 2 May 1653". Early Settlers, Liber A.B.H.f.316, Annapolis, Maryland, Refusing to take the Oath of Fidelity, Nicholas Wyatt was deprived of the right to sell land.) Maryland State Archives copy herein.

1657 - John Hawkins is in Indonesia at Manadoes. see following 1658 court proceedings. ( The Dutch built fortresses, one at Manado in northern Sulawesi and threw out all foreign merchants. John Hawkins was there in 1657 and the fort was built in 1658 by the Dutch who wanted to be sure to get all the spice trade. The Dutch killed natives who traded with foreigners.)

1658 - Planter's Delight, 600 acres was surveyed the 15th July 1658 for John Hawkins and Tho. Goldsmith on the west side of Chesepeake Bay respecting the mouth of the Sassafras River and now in the possession of the Orphans of Coll. Wells...

1658 - provincial Court Proceedings To the Honorable the Governor and Counsil The humble Petition of Thomas David Sheweth - That whereas one Elizabeth Frame, your petitioner servant, did in December last sue your petitioner for her enlargement alleging that she the said Frame was free: At which Court it was ordered the said Frame was to bring proof of her said freedom, at the Court in March following, otherwise to make good, such damages to your petitioner as your petitioner should make appearance that he had sustained. And the said Elizabeth having not made anything appear your petitioner humbly craveth the benefit of said Order. And that the said Elizabeth may by Order from this Court be restored to your petitioner's service, to serve according to her condition or Indenture. Craving costs of suit and consideration of her absence, and loss of time, as this Court shall think meet. And your petitioner shall pray Know all men by these presents that I john Hawkins of New England, Mariner,have sold unto Thomas Davis One Maid servant for three years, her name is Elizabeth Frame and she doth promise and bind herself to serve the said Davis, his assigns and heirs truly, the full term of time above mentioned, and for the true performance hereof, the said Hawkins is to give her a cow and Calf, as speedily as he can, and to the true performance hereof we have hereunto set our hands, November the 8th day 1656. Witness us John Hawkins, Thomas Nadey, Eliz Frame

Upon the petition of Thomas Davis against Elizabeth Frame - The said Davis alleging that the said Elizabeth had time remaining of her service to him. Elizabeth the defendant replies that she had not received of her master according to Covenant and further that she was a servant, when she made that later condition with the said Davis, as appeareth by the oath of Adam Stanley verifying the same upon Oath on open court. The court hereby judges that the said Elizabeth be set free from Davis, without further obligation of Service. And the said David is left to have his damage against John Hawkins, who made the condition....

Proprietary Records of Maryland.. Adam Stavley/Stanley aged 30 years or thereabouts swore and examined in open court this 29th of Dec 1657, sayeth that he this deponent coming from Manadoes to Rappahannock with John Hawkins to Rice Jones his house, the said Mr. Hawkins had then a man servant, who had a year and a half to serve, and the said Hawkins being willing to exchange the said Man servant for a maid servant, Elizabeth "fframe" living in that house, and being willing to be bought by the said Hawkins having but one year or near upon to serve. the said Hawkins told the said Elizabeth that he would not buy her without she would make up the time which his man had to serve to which the said Elizabeth agreed, and upon that account the said Hawkins exchanged his man servant for the said Elizabeth Frame. And the said Hawkins coming up the Bay told the said Elizabeth that she would be free in a bad time of the year, and the said Hawkins asked her, what he should give her...

1659 - 100 acres surveyed 12 Nov 1659 for James Bonner on the North side of West River on the west side of Cedar Creek. Possrs: 75 a John Hawkins. 75 a Samuel Galloway.

1659 - Cecilius Lord Baltimore grants to James Bonner, planter, 150 acres, 7 Feb 1659, a parcel called Great Bonnerston, north side of West River, north side of Cedar Creek, bounded by land now in possession of Jacob Duhattaway, on the north side of a swamp. On the back side was assignment of the property by James Bonner to John Hawkins. Witnesses by Richard Talbot, Thomas Clarke, Patent and assignment was recorded 11 Nov 1661. John Hawkins, claimer of the land, requests the patent be rerecorded. (Abstracts of Land Records of AA Co Md., by Dodd.

1660 - Mary Hawkins arrived in Maryland.

1663 - John Hawkins, AA Co states he assigns to William Coale, AA Co., a parcel of land already possessed by him named Great Bonnerston, north side of West River, north side of Cedar Creek. 150 acres, half of which is made over to William Coale. 11th day of April 1663. Witnessed by Obadiah Judkins, Francis Sandry. Copy of original herein.

1663 - Daniel Jenifer made over to John Hawkins of New England Mariner...26 rights of land 8 Dec 1663.

1663 - John Hawkins, Mariner, wrote down the last will of Richard Grimes while at sea approaching Manhatten, New York. He later registered it for him in Maryland.

1667 = Pole Almanack Neck surveyed 100 acres on 26 Oct 1667 for William Davis on the south side of the Patapsco River belongs to the heirs of said Rigby...

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1667 - John Hawkins, mariner, possessed Boleal Monack, which was later sold by his son, John Hawkins, planter.

1670 - John Hawkins wrote his will at the house of William Richardson, Quaker, "being intended for a voidg (sic) for New England. He also owned a "barke" named the Providence of Maryland. 

Note: Quaker wills are very interesting. Their beliefs governed their value system. I have one Quaker gentleman who gave all he owned before he died to the poorest in his family to be determined by others.  

       John Burnyeat appointed a Meeting at West River in Maryland for all the Friends in the Province...from :Bulletin of Friends Historical Assn. Vol. 36, Spring Number, 1946, No. 1. (Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy)

       

        John Burnyeat came in 1655...He returned in 1671-1, when he helped organize a functioning network of local Meetings. He also arranged a gathering of all Quakers at Patuxent (West River) in Maryland in 1672, now remembered as the 1st Baltimore Yearly Meeting.

        On Long Island, Friend's Meetings began in the 1660's. John Burnyeat appears to have held the first Quaker meeting in this city in 1671...he states in his Truth Exalted, p 142 how he was at the Autumn Half Yearly Meeting at Oyster Bay..." 

       

Sincerely, Jeanne Bornefeld