While Elaine and I were looking at the heirs of Benjamin Hawkins in Mercer County, Elaine happened to notice another Hawkins deed entry. It is Deed Book 10, p. 225 in the Mercer County land information on Family Search.
I do not know which family group this information belongs to. If you do know, please send me a comment.
The deed is in 1816. Edmund Hawkins has died. I think that his children are selling his land but I can't remember for sure.....and if I take the time to go back and look, I won't get this done. But his three children are named in the deed:
Joseph with wife Georgeanne, Littleberry with wife Mary, and Mary Ann with husband Hudson Martin.
Monday, March 11, 2019
Sunday, March 10, 2019
Family Group #1 in Mercer County, Kentucky
I was working on the connections between the Barnes family and the Hawkins family this weekend. I had found a reference to a deed in Mercer County, Kentucky that had Hawkins daughters married to Barnes husbands. I called Elaine to sort it out. I have downloaded the deed from Family Search and filed it in Hawkins in Kentucky.
Benjamin Hawkins who married Ann/Nancy Bourne had died in 1811. My interpretation of this deed is that Abraham has been chosen administrator of Benjamin's estate. There is no will. The heirs of Benjamin have come to an agreement for the land. I only guess that Ann (their mother) plans to live with one of the children.....perhaps Abraham and his wife, Polly Coke.....and that Abraham is paying the others for the land. The deed states that Abraham is paying $2000 to the heirs. Five of the heirs receive slaves as part of the deal. The slaves are named and each heir who receives 1 or 2 slaves is named. I have taken a screen shot of the signatures.
My best interpretation of this screen shot is that the signatures indicate that each heir has given up claim to the land and that they have all agreed to the change in ownership for the slaves named. And that the people are:
Abraham who is the administrator of Benjamin's will. According to the research of Joan Horseley who also employed at times, Craig Kilby, Abraham was born in 1776. Both Joan and Craig are now deceased. But both were excellent researchers. Abraham is not the oldest child of Benjamin and Ann, but I think it possible that he was the oldest son.
One of our participants in the Hawkins yDNA project, Patrick Harold Hawkins, believes that he descends from Abraham.
Reuben Boston is husband to Benjamin and Ann's daughter Sarah. I do have information about their marriage. From birth date that I received from Joan Horsley, Reuben would have been about 51 at this event.
William Barnes is perhaps the husband of the daughter Ann. She is the only daughter that I have no marriage information for. It is also possible that William Barnes is the son of daughter Elizabeth.
Someone else signs for daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth was married to either Fielding or William Barnes. I am not clear on that fact. My data base on this fact is confusing. But almost certainly, Elizabeth's husband with last name Barnes is dead in 1811.
John Hawkins. John Hawkins could be John B. Hawkins married to Ann Ford. I have always put John B. Hawkins into the family group of Benjamin and Nancy/Ann Bourne Hawkins. But I have noticed in my digging for this post that not all of the researchers attribute John B. into this family. Some have him as son of one of the other Hawkins/Bourne families....certainly we all believe that John B. had Bourne grandparents as well as Hawkins. This could also be a grandson.
Presley White is husband of daughter Lucy. Lucy is a relative newly wed:
Francis Hawkins (he may have been called Frank) is the son who eventually ended up with the property described in this deed.
Quite a few years ago I visited a house that fits this description. When I have extra time, I will try to pull out my photos and notes to see if indeed this is the house that I saw at that time.
Still talking about Francis/Frank: One of my autosomal matches says that this man’s name is Francis Gaines Hawkins.
Andrew Hawkins for Benjamin Hawkins. I could write an entire blog post about the mysteries in my data base for sons Andrew and Benjamin....but I won't. I do not know why Benjamin was not signing in his own right and not present.
And then Andrew signs for himself.
The last signature on the deed is Ann. I immediately jumped to the assumption that this was Benjamin's wife, Ann Bourne Hawkins. But, of course, it is possible that it is a daughter, Ann. Other researchers tell me that daughter Ann married John Green. And if that is true, she would have signed as Ann Green. According to dates given by other researchers, Ann would have been about 27 in 1811 and would have been an old maid according to the judgments of the times if she had still had Hawkins as last name. But either thing is possible.
Benjamin Hawkins who married Ann/Nancy Bourne had died in 1811. My interpretation of this deed is that Abraham has been chosen administrator of Benjamin's estate. There is no will. The heirs of Benjamin have come to an agreement for the land. I only guess that Ann (their mother) plans to live with one of the children.....perhaps Abraham and his wife, Polly Coke.....and that Abraham is paying the others for the land. The deed states that Abraham is paying $2000 to the heirs. Five of the heirs receive slaves as part of the deal. The slaves are named and each heir who receives 1 or 2 slaves is named. I have taken a screen shot of the signatures.
My best interpretation of this screen shot is that the signatures indicate that each heir has given up claim to the land and that they have all agreed to the change in ownership for the slaves named. And that the people are:
Abraham who is the administrator of Benjamin's will. According to the research of Joan Horseley who also employed at times, Craig Kilby, Abraham was born in 1776. Both Joan and Craig are now deceased. But both were excellent researchers. Abraham is not the oldest child of Benjamin and Ann, but I think it possible that he was the oldest son.
One of our participants in the Hawkins yDNA project, Patrick Harold Hawkins, believes that he descends from Abraham.
Reuben Boston is husband to Benjamin and Ann's daughter Sarah. I do have information about their marriage. From birth date that I received from Joan Horsley, Reuben would have been about 51 at this event.
William Barnes is perhaps the husband of the daughter Ann. She is the only daughter that I have no marriage information for. It is also possible that William Barnes is the son of daughter Elizabeth.
Someone else signs for daughter Elizabeth. Elizabeth was married to either Fielding or William Barnes. I am not clear on that fact. My data base on this fact is confusing. But almost certainly, Elizabeth's husband with last name Barnes is dead in 1811.
John Hawkins. John Hawkins could be John B. Hawkins married to Ann Ford. I have always put John B. Hawkins into the family group of Benjamin and Nancy/Ann Bourne Hawkins. But I have noticed in my digging for this post that not all of the researchers attribute John B. into this family. Some have him as son of one of the other Hawkins/Bourne families....certainly we all believe that John B. had Bourne grandparents as well as Hawkins. This could also be a grandson.
Presley White is husband of daughter Lucy. Lucy is a relative newly wed:
Mercer County marriage records Presley White to Lucy Hawkins with Reuben Boston as surety Nov 30, 1808. Consent of Ann Hawkins for her daughter.
After Benjamin Hawkins’ death, his oldest son, Andrew [I believe this to be a mistake in the book that I was looking at at the time I was doing research on this house...should be Abraham] purchased the property from his siblings in 1811, but it was Andrew’s brother, Francis Hawkins, who eventually bought the farm and lived there. He and his wife, Permelia, reared all ten of their children including Ann Hawkins who became the wife of John S. MCGee. Francis Hawkins died on June 14, 1869, and one of his sons, “A”L”” Hawkins, bought out his brothers’ interests and continued to reside on the farm raising another generation of Hawkins family on the home place.....
The original Hawkins farmhouse is still standing, although no longer used as a dwelling......
The house and cemetery are located on Short Road just a few miles north of Salvisa.
Quite a few years ago I visited a house that fits this description. When I have extra time, I will try to pull out my photos and notes to see if indeed this is the house that I saw at that time.
Still talking about Francis/Frank: One of my autosomal matches says that this man’s name is Francis Gaines Hawkins.
Andrew Hawkins for Benjamin Hawkins. I could write an entire blog post about the mysteries in my data base for sons Andrew and Benjamin....but I won't. I do not know why Benjamin was not signing in his own right and not present.
And then Andrew signs for himself.
The last signature on the deed is Ann. I immediately jumped to the assumption that this was Benjamin's wife, Ann Bourne Hawkins. But, of course, it is possible that it is a daughter, Ann. Other researchers tell me that daughter Ann married John Green. And if that is true, she would have signed as Ann Green. According to dates given by other researchers, Ann would have been about 27 in 1811 and would have been an old maid according to the judgments of the times if she had still had Hawkins as last name. But either thing is possible.
Tuesday, March 5, 2019
Family Group #28
Usually I do not add a new family group unless I have two or more participants who carry the Hawkins surname and are both part of our Hawkins yDNA project. However, today I added family group #28 with two kits who are close matches at 37 markers.
Harry Hawkins is the father of Cynthia Heidorn. And R.S. Waline is the father of Crystal Walline. Crystal has explained that her grandfather had biological surname of Hawkins but took the name of his adopted father. Thus he is a Hawkins by dna.
Here is what Cynthia explained about their new family group:
Harry Hawkins is the father of Cynthia Heidorn. And R.S. Waline is the father of Crystal Walline. Crystal has explained that her grandfather had biological surname of Hawkins but took the name of his adopted father. Thus he is a Hawkins by dna.
Here is what Cynthia explained about their new family group:
Hi Marsha,
According to Crystal Walline, her grandfather took his adoptive father’s name , Walline instead of keeping Hawkins. My gg grandfather, Orrin is the same age/generation as Henry Nelson Hawkins. We are wondering if they are cousins. I am searching for Orrin’s grandparents. Crystal is searching for Henry Nelson’s parents. Hopefully we can figure this out!
Sunday, August 19, 2018
Hawkins DNA family group #2
We just had a new match to family group #2. He is husband to Lynn Hawkins who is the researcher connected to this kit. Our new participant has excellent paper trail to Jehu Dyer Hawkins:
Jehu Dyer Hawkins b 1756, Henry George Hawkins b 1790, Samuel James Hawkins b 1821, Jehu / John Blookfield Hawkins b 1858, Fred Lamberth Hawkins, Robert Leeland Hawkins, then my husband Thomas Ralph Hawkins.
Jehu Dyer Hawkins b 1756, Henry George Hawkins b 1790, Samuel James Hawkins b 1821, Jehu / John Blookfield Hawkins b 1858, Fred Lamberth Hawkins, Robert Leeland Hawkins, then my husband Thomas Ralph Hawkins.
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Hawkins family #6
Our project has been going through much confusion as FTDNA instituted new privacy efforts to comply with the EEA requirements. My theory is that we will come out stronger from this confusion as we work to fix the things that need to be fixed. Today's blog post is an example in how we actually get better as we work to put things back to normal. The first of the co-adminstrators that I have reinstated is Cherie Ohlsson. The choice to ask Cherie first was serendipity. We were chatting about something else. Cherie contacted each of her participants in group #6 asking them to give her access to her kit results and asking other questions as well. She copied me to all of the correspondence.
Chuck's reply caused me to decide that we needed to work on a blog post. And here it is! What made me particularly interested in Chuck's reply was the fact that his autosomal test with Ancestry connected him to the Bickford family in Dover, New Hampshire. This connection would never have been found through his yDNA test since it is a ?-gr-grandmother who was a Bickford....not a ?-gr-grandfather.
Here is some of the information that Chuck has sharedwith Cherie and me.
I’ve also done the DNA test at Ancestry. An interesting link that came up there was to the Bickfords of NH and VT. That further cements my link to Stephen Hawkins, because Elizabeth Bickford was the spouse of William Hawkins (1757), son of Stephen Hawkins. My gg-grandfather was Luther Hawkins, last child of William and Elizabeth.
and
Chuck's reply caused me to decide that we needed to work on a blog post. And here it is! What made me particularly interested in Chuck's reply was the fact that his autosomal test with Ancestry connected him to the Bickford family in Dover, New Hampshire. This connection would never have been found through his yDNA test since it is a ?-gr-grandmother who was a Bickford....not a ?-gr-grandfather.
Here is some of the information that Chuck has sharedwith Cherie and me.
I’ve also done the DNA test at Ancestry. An interesting link that came up there was to the Bickfords of NH and VT. That further cements my link to Stephen Hawkins, because Elizabeth Bickford was the spouse of William Hawkins (1757), son of Stephen Hawkins. My gg-grandfather was Luther Hawkins, last child of William and Elizabeth.
and
Here is Elizabeth's “life story” from Ancestry
"When Elizabeth Bickford was born on February 2, 1757, in Dover, New Hampshire, her father, John, was 27, and her mother, Lydia, was 32. Elizabeth married William Hawkins and they had 14 children together. She also had one child from another relationship. She died in 1810 at the age of 53.”
Some info there that I didn’t know—that she died in 1810 or had that many children. I thought there were 14—have to check my info again! Regardless of how many there were, Luther, was the last, born in 1805.
Cherie's reply to Chuck was: Her David Hawkins had following information: David's family ended up in Michigan around the same time as some in Chuck's tree went there. Chuck's immigrant George Hawkins stated he was going to meet a Mrs Hawkins on his entry documents and ended up in Michigan. So I think it is possible that at least people in the Stephen branch were keeping contact with extended family in England, which helped influence David's branch into coming over. David's branch goes back for many generations in the same place in Hampshire, England, which must be where Chuck's immigrant Stephen (and perhaps the rest of our branches) may have come from. I looked into the history of New Hampshire, where Chuck's original Stephen (1685-1720) died. Since New Hampshire was only settled and named in 1622, we will have to read more on its historic settlers. There must be more information on the Hawkins who were original immigrants.
Hampshire is a county on the southern coast of England in the United Kingdom. The county town of Hampshire is Winchester, the former capital city of England.
As I pushed the button to publish this, I had the nagging thought that I had looked at this area before. And I had! I had worked with another family group #6 member to write an earlier blog post:
http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-group-6.html
As I pushed the button to publish this, I had the nagging thought that I had looked at this area before. And I had! I had worked with another family group #6 member to write an earlier blog post:
http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2017/11/family-group-6.html
Friday, March 16, 2018
Family Group #1
Bret Hawkins who is a family group #1 participant, had a question about whether his 3-gr-grandfather was Joseph Hawkins married to Charity Miller or John Hawkins married to Mary/Polly Tinney. The two men were brothers. The traditional methods of research had not shown Bret which man was his 3-gr-grandfather and which man was his 3-gr-uncle.
Bret turned to a professional genealogist to get help solving the puzzle using autosomal DNA. The genealogist is Nicole Meruvia. Nicole@genealogybynicole.com
Her website can be found at: https://www.genealogybynicole.com
Bret shared the report that she created for him and Nicole gave me permission to share it on the Hawkins DNA blog site. I think that the method that she used is an inspiration to me to work on some of my own brick walls with my own autosomal DNA tests! And anyone reading this during the weekend of St Patrick Day 2018 can take advantage of FTDNA's St Patrick's day sale. The family finder test is $20 cheaper than normal: $59!
https://www.familytreedna.com
Here is the report from Nicole:
Bret turned to a professional genealogist to get help solving the puzzle using autosomal DNA. The genealogist is Nicole Meruvia. Nicole@genealogybynicole.com
Her website can be found at: https://www.genealogybynicole.com
Bret shared the report that she created for him and Nicole gave me permission to share it on the Hawkins DNA blog site. I think that the method that she used is an inspiration to me to work on some of my own brick walls with my own autosomal DNA tests! And anyone reading this during the weekend of St Patrick Day 2018 can take advantage of FTDNA's St Patrick's day sale. The family finder test is $20 cheaper than normal: $59!
https://www.familytreedna.com
Here is the report from Nicole:
I have finished my research on both of your projects! I enjoyed researching both of these and learning more about middle Tennessee history!
- Determining 3rd great grandfather Hawkins. My approach and the only definitive way to prove direct relation to one brother over the another is to look for common ancestors between you and the spouses of each of the brothers. After lots of searching I was not able to determine who Charity Miller or Mary Polly Tinney’s parents were to assist with this analysis. However, If you do a search against your DNA matches on Ancestry.com for “Tinney” you do get several results. Let’s examine them:
- After searching for “Tinney” scroll to match, “lindoncreak”. Her Tinney line is the best documented of the others in your DNA match list. She descends from a Nathanael Tinney born in VA in 1765. He is the son of Daniel Tenney b. 1721. Note the change in spelling to Tenney with an “e”.
- Now if you do a search for the new spelling “Tenney” you get even more DNA matches with this name in their tree. If you click on the closest match, “mc_kcer”. She descends from a James Tenney and Thankful Shippee through their son Peter. Let’s see if we can find a connection through Thankful Shippee’s ancestors….
- Search for the name Shippee against your Ancestry DNA matches. Click on match, “TL12866”, click on “Shippee” in his surname list, now click on his ancestor Joseph Shippee, then his father Thomas b. 1675. Now click on Thomas’ son Peter and you will see Thankful Shippee! We have confirmed DNA triangulation with the Shippee line.
- Now let’s see if we can confirm even more by connecting James Tenney with another DNA match. DNA match, “B.K., managed by Marc Lough” also descends from James Tenney and Thankful Shippee through their son, Samuel. That’s a different son and therefore another triangulation to confirm! Her tree traces the Tenney line all the way to Daniel Tenney born 1652 in Rowley, Essex, Massahusetts. She also shows the same Daniel Tenney from letter a. above in her tree as a descendant of the same Daniel Tenney born 1652 (need to open her tree and the search for Daniel Tenney).
- If you browse the rest of your DNA matches who have the surname Tenney, you will see their lines all trace to Massachusetts. (those who have well documented lineage on the Tenney line)
- Conclusion: John is your 3rd great grandfather based on the number of DNA matches who share his wife’s surname – Tinney/Tenney and their connections to each other as outlined above.
Thank you again for allowing me to work on these projects! Let me know what questions you have or how I can be of further assistance!
For more information on Bret's Hawkins line try the following posts:
Saturday, March 10, 2018
Gardner Hawkins
Gardner Hawkins has been associated with the Hawkins DNA project for many years. Gardner's son, Gerry, shared death information for our group's friend and associate:
Hi,
His son, Gerry, is the researcher who is connected to Gardner's yDNA results. So while Gardner is now deceased, his genealogy is alive and well. Here is a link to some information from Jerry about Gardner:
http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2014/05/hawkins-dna-group-1-new-match.html
And here is the link to the obit on Legacy:
http://www.legacy.com/search?countryId=366899&countryUrl=united-states-of-america&dateRange=2010-2017&firstName=Gardner&lastName=Hawkins&stateAbbrev=WA&stateId=366872&stateUrl=washington
Hi,
I’m sorry to let you know of the recent death of my father, Gardner Perry “Pete” Hawkins (II), in Olympia, Washington. A full obituary is available on Legacy.com. He was the son of Gardner P. (“Doc”) Hawkins and Hallie Gertrude Chapman. The elder Gardner P. Hawkins (1861-1949) was the son of William S. (Strother?) Hawkins (~1815-1869) of McLean County, Illinois, born in or near Owen County, KY. Our DNA line is Hawkins Group #1. Here is a picture of my dad [standing] with his late sister and younger brother.
His son, Gerry, is the researcher who is connected to Gardner's yDNA results. So while Gardner is now deceased, his genealogy is alive and well. Here is a link to some information from Jerry about Gardner:
http://hawkinsdna.blogspot.com/2014/05/hawkins-dna-group-1-new-match.html
And here is the link to the obit on Legacy:
http://www.legacy.com/search?countryId=366899&countryUrl=united-states-of-america&dateRange=2010-2017&firstName=Gardner&lastName=Hawkins&stateAbbrev=WA&stateId=366872&stateUrl=washington
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