I have been trying to establish a link between Jesse Hawkins (born in the 1780s in North Carolina, died in Pike County, Ga., in the 1840s) and earlier Hawkinses.
One of his sons, William Hawkins, came to Talbot County, Ga., in the first decades of the 19th century.
A "Hawkins" cousin did the "Y" test three or four years ago (at my urging), and the results were quite revealing.
In short, it seems that there is no doubt that our branch of the family "springs" from Godfrey Spruill, who was an early physician in Maryland and North Carolina. In Tyrrell County (N.C.), there were Spruills and Hawkinses in the county (or the immediate vicinity) as early as the late 1600s/early 1700s.
The administrator of the Spruill (Sproul?) family project has given assurance, based on "Y" results, that my Hawkins line is, in fact, a Spruill line.
This information is from Roger Harris: rogerharrisnyc@aol.com
Roger added the following link June 2023: https://www.ncgenweb.us/tyrrell/HWKN1755.HTM
