The Hawkins Family
Group-04 arrived in America in the fall of 1682 on the ship WELCOME. They accompanied Wm. Penn who
was on his first trip to the new land granted him by the king of England. The
ship departed London making a stop in the Down’s (Deal on the East coast of
Kent) where our Jeffrey & Dorothy (Mattock) boarded. Jeffrey’s brother
Roger, with his wife Sarah, were almost certainly aboard also. Jeffrey and
Dorothy had been married in 1662 at All Saints in Norton Bavant near Warminster in
Wiltshire (Jeffrey and Roger’s birthplace and parents are unknown.), and at
some time took up the Quaker faith. They settled on a land grant from Penn in
Bucks County near Philadelphia.
The late Carl
Henry Hawkins, 1906-1980, of Richmond, IN, is credited with much of the
research on the early family. In his writings he opinionates that Jeffrey’s
third son John, baptized circa 1675, and James are the same individual. At that
time in England having a first and a middle name was not yet adopted, and
having a name other than the baptismal name would not have met the legal
standards. There is no hard data that I know of, that proves that James is
Jeffery’s son. I am of the personal opinion that he is very possibly Roger and
Sarah’s son. It is also my belief that Elizabeth and Suzanna, listed as the
daughters of Jeffrey and Dorothy by McCracken in his Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved & Doubtful, were really the
daughters of Roger & Sarah.
Jeffrey and Dorothy had three
sons listed in Parish records, Daniel c. 1665, Roger c. 1670 and John c. 1675.
Births, with daughters, listed in the All Saint Parish records were in 1664
through 1680. If they had a son James, he would have been born in late 1681 or
1682 prior to the October arrival of the Welcome.
Our James married Mary
Ellot/Elliott in 1705 at the Falls MM, and their sons were James, Joseph, John,
Isaac, and William. Our research has turned up nothing on Joseph and John, and
only a wee amount that might apply to Isaac and to William. All of our history is
essentially related to James, the son of James that married Martha Hollowell at
the Abington Pennsylvania Monthly Meeting 30 January 1740. James and Martha,
with their family, migrated on to first Loudoun County, Virginia, and then on
to Union County, South Carolina where they were members of the Cane Creek
Monthly Meeting.
James and Martha’s children,
with the exception of Isaac that stayed in South Carolina, moved on in the
early 1800s Quaker departure from the slave states to the Ohio Country, in the
counties from Clinton and stretching to Wayne County, Indiana. Isaac’s son
Jonathon had children that remained & migrated in the south.
DNA testing has proven a southern line (SC
> AL > NM) through George Dallas Hawkins, 1847 South Carolina – 1919 New
Mexico, to an Elisha Hawkins, Union County, South Carolina, born circa 1800,
that married Elizabeth Guthry. We have not established how Elisha connects to
our line; maybe to one of our James’ brothers (Joseph, John, Isaac, or William)
that we have never found any information on. DNA could help resolve the Elisha
question. The problem is that our line is documented well enough that most Hawkins
families do not feel any need to test. Consequently we have not had any
descendants test from the lines of some of James’ sons. We need at least two
different descendants in each line to test. Maybe you feel no particular
interest in testing, but please consider that your participation would benefit
all of us immensely. Consider it maybe as a beneficial donation. It is simple,
not expensive, and can be very informative. You can test and join our project
with the discount price at
www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hawkins&Code=Z47192
. Please contact me with any questions, phil_hawkins@sbcglobal.net.
I wrote the HAWKINS Worldwide DNA Project newsletter
for a number of years after starting the project in 2003. Almost every letter
has something about our Hawkins Family Group-04 (Jeffery & Dorothy). Those
115 news letters are archived at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/#NEWSLETTERS.
1 ?Geoffrey? Hawkins II b: England
......2 Roger Hawkins b: Abt. 1639, d: 02 Aug 1689
...... +
Sarah _?_ d: 20 May 1687
.........3 Susannah Hawkins b: Abt. 1667
......... +
John Collins m: Bef. 01 Jul 1686, d: Bef. 11 Oct 1690
.........3 Elizabeth Hawkins b: Abt. 1668
......... +
William Darby m: Abt. 1689, d: Bef. 1706
............4 Deacon William Darby b: 1693 in
Scotch Plains, NJ, d: 26 Feb 1775 in Scotch Plains, NJ
............
+ Mary _?_ b: 1699, d: 14 Apr 1761
............4 Emhriam Darby b: 1697
............4 John Darby
............4 Benjamin Darby
……..3
?James? b: 1681-2
......... +
Mary Ellot b: 1683
......2 Jeffery Hawkins b: Abt. 1633, d: Bef. 16
Jan 1712 in PA, USA
...... + Elizabeth Ellen Pierson b: Abt.
1630, m: 21 Sep 1687 in Middletown, PA, d: 30 Feb 1708/09 in PA
...... + Dorothy Mattock b: Abt. 01 Jan 1641
in Sutton-Veny, Wiltshire, England, m: 1662 in All Saints, Norton Bavant,
Wiltshire, England, d: 1685 in PA, USA
.........3 Margaret Hawkins b: Abt. 06 Feb 1664 in
Norton Bavant,Wiltshire, England
.........3 Daniel Hawkins b: Abt. 24 Dec 1665 in
Norton Bavant,Wiltshire, England, d: Abt. Sep 1689 in PA
......... +
Ann
.........3 Jane Hawkins b: Abt. 13 Sep 1668 in
Norton Bavant,Wiltshire, England
......... +
Thomas Coverdale
.........3 Jeffery Hawkins b: Abt. 18 Sep 1670 in
Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, England, d: Aft. 01 Mar 1706
.........3 Anne Hawkins b: Abt. 24 Nov 1672
in Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, England, d: Abt. 24 Oct 1681 in Norton
Bavant,Wiltshire, England
.........3 John Hawkins b: Abt. 12 Feb 1675 in
Norton Bavant,Wiltshire, England
.........3 Roger Hawkins b: Abt. 14 Jul 1678 in
Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, England, d: America
.........3 Sarah Hawkins b: Abt. 25 Jan 1680 in
Norton Bavant,Wiltshire, England
.........3
James Hawkins b: Abt. Aug 1681 in England, d: 1755 in Philadelphia Co., PA
......... +
Mary Ellot b: 1683, m: 04 May 1705 in Falls Mtng., Buck Co., PA, d: Aft. 1755
............4 James Hawkins II b: Abt. 1715 in near
Deleware River, PA, d: 1793 in Union Co., SC
............
+ Martha Hollowell b: Abt. 29 Mar 1721, m: 30 Jan 1740 in Abington, PA,
d: Union Co., SC
...............5 John Hawkins b: 1744 in Abington,
PA, d: Feb 1816 in Wayne County, IN
............... + Mary Moore b: 1744, m: 1768
in Union County, South Carolina, d: 28 Jul 1826 in Wayne Co. IN
...............5 Isaac Hawkins b: Bef. 1746 in PA,
d: 1813 in SC
...............
+ Margaret Kenworthy b: Abt. 1747, m: 1767 in VA, d: 12 Oct 1796 in SC
...............5 Benjamin Hawkins b: 19 May 1747 in
PA, d: 08 Jun 1815 in Butler Co., OH
............... + Martha Hollingsworth b:
Craven Co., SC, m: 10 Oct 1771 in Craven Co., SC, d: Abt. 1797 in Cane Creek
MM, Union Co., SC
...............
+ Olive Smith b: 25 Nov 1758, m: 26 Sep 1799 in SC
...............5 Jonathan Hawkins b: Abt. 1749, d:
Bef. 24 Dec 1790
...............5 Martha Hawkins b: Abt. 1751 in
Abington, PA, d: 07 May 1835 in Probably Wainsville, OH
...............
+ Eli Cook m: 12 Mar 1772 in Bush River MM, SC
...............5 Nathan Hawkins b: Abt. 1753, d:
1805 in Butler Co., OH
...............
+ Ann Cook b: Abt. 1753, m: 08 Jul 1773 in Craven Co., SC (Bush River
MM)
...............5 James Hawkins b: 23 Jan 1756 in
Loudoun Co., VA, d: 24 Nov 1840 in Clinton Co., OH
............... + Sarah Wilson b: 10 May 1773
in SC, m: 07 Jun 1792 in Cane Creek MM, SC, d: 26 Mar 1871
...............5 Amos Hawkins b: 05 Nov 1757 in
Loudoun Co., VA, d: 01 May 1844 in Wayne Co., IN
............... + Ann Comer b: 30 Dec 1763 in
Orange Co., NC, m: 09 Jun 1791 in Cane Creek MM, Union Co., SC, d: 08 Apr 1853
in Wayne Co., IN, Whitewater MM
...............5 William Hawkins b: 1759 in Loudon Co., VA, d: Bef. 1805
............4 John Hawkins
............4 Hannah Hawkins
............
+ Peter Helton b: 1686, d: 1757 in Orange Co., NC
............4 Isaac Hawkins
............ + ?-Susannah Marple-? b: Abt. 1728 in
Lower Dublin Twpp., Philadelphia Co., PA
............4 William Hawkins
............
+ Martha _?_
...............5 Agnes Hawkins
...............5 Joshua Hawkins b: 25 Jul 1727 in
PA, d: 16 May 1801 in SC
............... + Sarah Cook b: 1730, m: 1750 in Chester Co.,
PA
...............5 Thomas Hawkins
...............
+ Mary Howard
...............5 William Hawkins
...............
+ Elizabeth
...............
+ Elizabeth _?_
...............5 Martha Hawkins
...............5 John Hawkins
...............
+ Karen Happuch
...............5 Mary Hawkins
...............5 Joseph Hawkins
...............
+ Jenny _?_
...............5 Herbert Hawkins
...............
+ Ann Drury
...............5 Martha Hawkins
...............5 Pinketham Hawkins
............4 Mary Hawkins
