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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. 


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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.