

The Quakers are known for their record-keeping. They can be very thorough. In looking through their records/books I was able to find the marriage of one Joseph Jones to Patience Bael and then started looking for the record of their children. The ONLY Sarah born to a Joseph Jones took place in 1729. The mother was a woman with the first name of Sarah. This story that she married Joseph Hawkins is quickly falling apart.
Records of marriages in Virginia also have flaws. Their laws for that time period can be found online. Banns were a good way to report a wedding was going to take place between two individuals and those who opposed the match could send a written objection prior to the wedding. This took three weeks. However, these Banns also weren't always properly recorded. In fact the people charged with this task were often found wanting. This could be why some aren't finding said record of a marriage. They could purchase a license, if they wished to have the marriage performed more expeditiously, but it was costly.
Also, according to this document cited above, by British law, the marriages were to be officiated by a pastor of the Anglican Church. Frederick County, VA was in the Northern Neck of Virginia and the farms/farmsteads and plantations were all very spread out. It was very rural. Since Virginia Colony had adopted as their own the Anglican Church, each man was to pay a monthly tithe to this church and they all had to attend once a month. But, attendance began to slag. Eventually, since getting to the "Mother" Church was so hard on the colonists, the Anglican Church responded by erecting what they called "Chapels of Ease".
The colonist began to have weddings at their own residences. I assert that my Joseph Hawkins married Sarah Marlin in or around 1744 in Virginia and the records are lost to time, or those who ravage this state during the Civil War. I'm told that the D.A.R. did a thorough search prior to the creating of the cenotaph.
We have sources for Marlin (DAR). We have no sources for Jones. The two posted under "sources" on her profile are completely bogus and irrelevant.
Patience Jones died 8 years before Sarah was born. Why is that so hard to understand? Is it just apathy? Complacency? Spite?
I say spite, because some people do seem to enjoy dragging her son-in-law's name through the muck.
It just doesn't make sense to leave it in ruins this way. This lady had the status almost of a Queen Mother (not quite, but close). Why allow her history to become falsified?
https://www.jstor.org/stable/42637428?seq=1#metadata_info_tab_contents
http://srvg.org/Members-Only/Library/Publications/Notable_Southern_...
https://posterityproject.blogspot.com/2013/03/sarah-hawkins-sevier-...
Even this author, a pseudo-historian (i.e "popular" or politically motivated historian) so intent on tearing him down in order to create controversy to promote his otherwise mediocre book, did not refute the General's wife's parentage claimed by real genealogists, visible for all the world to see on the public marker you refer to in Knoxville. There is nothing political about her humble origins.
https://archives.etsu.edu/agents/corporate_entities/147
https://archives.etsu.edu/repositories/2/resources/253
"A huge crowd gathers for the second funeral of John Sevier. His remains were exhumed from the original grave in Alabama and interred next to the Knox County Courthouse. Photograph courtesy of the Tennessee State Library and Archives."
https://www.tnmagazine.org/graves-of-sevier-and-polk-were-moved/
https://books.google.com/books?id=xDISAAAAYAAJ&printsec=frontco...
Marlins among the early Virginia Immigrants.
I posted this message because I wanted to poke holes in this ugly rumor. Once again, I have been confronted online by a cousin from the Hawkins side. Her (our) cousin has convinced her of a lie all based on records he found that demonstrates the marriage of first, Sarah Jones to a James McDaniel in 1739. I can find no record of his decease, nor of a divorce. There is a child named Mary, allegedly, but very little information to be found on her. No trees that I have come across mentions her, either. And secondly, a record that A Joseph Hawkins married a widow, Sarah MacDanile (obviously misspelling) in 1744 or 1745. I believe the full date is 19 May 1744 in Maryland. Might be Baltimore.
This cousin took it upon herself to put all of this evidence of the Hawkins/Jones marriage on the Marlin Family Facebook page. Just at a time when they were finally helping me find Richard Marlin. Why would she do this? Does she now have some doubt about which Sarah is ours? She pressed me to show proof of the DNA match, but I told her the page owner took the information of my Gedmatch kit and ran it against those on their Facebook page. He then informed me of the matches, but I wasn't given any record. Apparently, I match him and two of his other cousins. Their word is good enough. Why would they lie? The ONLY Marlins I have in my tree are Richard and his daughter, Sarah Marlin. I have a DNA match to three living Marlins. I need to connect them to my tree somehow. Yet, this woman is busy stabbing me in the back, or so it appears.
I have a hunch it is spite. I posted an image I found on Ancestry. A page from the History of the Shenandoah County including Frederick County. Under the name of Hawkins was a paragraph in which the author(s) stated the only thing that could be said (and I paraphrase) in any certainty is that A Joseph Hawkins appeared to be affiliated in some manner to Lt. Col. Richard Campbell, John Sevier, Governor of Tennessee and Davy Crockett. In essence, the Hawkinses were all tangled up and too confusing to figure out.
I told her I had seen all of this information, before from our cousin,(plus I did my own digging on Ancestry and lo, and behold, I found the records he did.) But unless she could prove that this particular Joseph Hawkins was our Joseph Hawkins I wasn't buying it.
I know in my heart Sarah Marlin is my 7th great-grandmother, but I was open to this 'new' information, not wishing to have a wrong person on my tree. Many thanks for the links you provided. Marinella Garrett Charles also remarked that the D.A.R. had done extensive research verifying Sarah Marlin was indeed, Sarah Hawkins mother. Marinella is our Family Historian, having been tapped for the job, by Nancy Sevier Madden, the co-writer of the "Sevier Family History" 1961 book.
Thanks again, for weighing in on this matter. Can't wait to check into the book mentioning the Marlins were among the early Virginia immigrants. I have found a record that a George Mallen (or possibly Marlin or Martin) arrived in Virginia in 1639, I think it was. He had headrights for himself and about seven others.