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