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.
