Benjamin Hawkins, Jr.

Probably a Hawkins family cemetery on Short Road, Mercer County, Kentucky

Note: date of marriage 10/6/1764 in this profile differs from the following document, m. 1768. (?)

Source: http://www.so-ky.com/books/mcgee/part-three.pdf

4. BENJAMIN3 HAWKINS (BENJAMIN2, JOHN1) was born June 16, 1738 in King George County, Virginia, and died November 30, 1806 in Mercer County, Kentucky.

He married NANCY ANN BOURNE 1768 in state of Virginia, daughter of ANDREW BOURNE and JANE MORTON. She was born March 07, 1748/49 in Culpeper County, Virginia, and died March 30, 1832 in Mercer County, Kentucky.

Notes for BENJAMIN HAWKINS: The following excerpt was taken from a personal letter dated December 26, 1968 and written by David Hawkins of Shreveport, La. addressed to Wyatt Shelly of Lawrenceburg, Ky. and on file at the Anderson Co., Ky. public library. "...a descendant of the Benjamin Hawkins who was a brother to my ancestor (Capt.) James. Benjamin came to Ky. with James in 1789 after the two sold out their Orange County, Va. property to the husband of the widow of Captain Moses Hawkins (killed at Germantown in 1777). Thomas Coleman bought the land in Orange and had married Moses' widow Susanna (Strother) Hawkins in 1783. From other sources (undocumented) I am informed that Benjamin was born in 1738. He married Ann Bourne (dau. of Andrew Bourne, d. 1788) in Fauquier County, Va. in 1764. He was in the 1790 census of Fayette with James and didn't show up in Jessamine (where James then lived) in 1800. Recently I have discovered that he died in Mercer in 1807.

There is an inventory there in the May court of that year and his children are listed as Sarah (married Reuben Boston in Orange 1783) and other daughters whose names I don't have together with sons Andrew, Francis, Benjamin, Abraham, and John. You will find these in the Mercer censuses except for Andrew who shows in 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses for Anderson. He was 78 in 1850.

"The disappointment, if such it is, is that Benjamin, so far as I know, wasn't in the Revolution. He was around 40 during the war.

"My reason for the digression about Capt. Moses Hawkins early in this letter is that I believe that he was related to Capt. James and Benjamin. James and Benjamin witnessed his will, and , as noted above, my ancestor very definitely sold land to his widow's husband. Moses' widow moved with her second husband to Woodford County and the family was later in Franklin. There are doubtless numerous descendants in that area. The reason that I am going to such length is that Moses Hawkins name is well known in genealogical circles. The DAR book of Patriots lists him as born in Culpeper County, Va. 1748. Very likely his ancestry has been run down by descendants - and it may well be the key to mine.

"The Bourne papers in the Kentucky Historical Society in Frankfort are supposed to contain a list of names of Hawkins who were related to Capt. Moses' son, William Strother Hawkins, who was born around 1771-2. He made the list in his lifetime and it passed through various hands before ending, I am told, in the records at Frankfort. I have written the Society but so far haven't received an answer as to the availability of "the list." It dealt only with Hawkins kin to William S. Hawkins who were then living in Kentucky - before 1858, the time of his death."

Inventory of the personal property of Benjamin Hawkins as reported by the commissioners appointed by the Mercer County, Kentucky court ,May session, 1807. Benjamin's son, Andrew Hawkins, was Administrator.

Three beds and furniture, one chest, one table, one desk, one cupboard, one table and table furniture, eight chairs, smoothing iron and shovel, one handsaw, three foils, two chisels, shears, old books, two plows, two adzs, crosscut saw, whipsaw, log chain, double trees, one wagon and gear, one old sorrel mare, one old gray horse, sorrel mare and colt, sorrel horse, bay horse, twenty three hogs, eleven more hogs, one spotted cow and yearling, two steer yearlings, two heiffers, one black cow and calf, one white-faced red cow and calf, one red white Barker cow and calf, one yearling heiffer, twenty eight sheep, one two year old bay filly, one two year old sorrel horse, large kettle, one small kettle and pot, one bake oven, pot hooks, one pot rack, pails, piggins and sifter, one loom, one grindstone, and saddle bags.

Total value was appraised at 190 Pounds, 10 Shillings, and 6 Pence.

More About BENJAMIN HAWKINS: Burial: prob. Hawkins family cemetery on Short Road, Mercer County, Kentucky

More About NANCY ANN BOURNE: Burial: prob. Hawkins family cemetery on Short Road, Mercer County, Kentucky

Children of BENJAMIN HAWKINS and NANCY BOURNE are:

7. i. SARAH4

8. ii. ANDREW HAWKINS, b. July 16, 1771, Fauquier County, Virginia; d. October 12, 1858, Anderson County, Kentucky.

iii. ANN HAWKINS, b. October 24, 1773; d. 1815, Woodford County, Kentucky; m. JOHN GREEN; b. abt. 1780, Orange County, Virginia.

9. iv. ABRAHAM HAWKINS, b. June 28, 1776, state of Virginia; d. July 10, 1837, Mercer County, Kentucky.

v. FRANCES HAWKINS, b. May 13, 1778; m. ? DALE.

vi. ELIZABETH "BETSY" HAWKINS, b. June 17, 1780; m. (1) WILLIAM BARNES; m. (2) ROBERT JOHNSON, October 22, 1812.

10. vii. FRANCIS "FRANK" HAWKINS, b. February 24, 1785, prob. Orange County, Virginia; d. June 14, 1869, Mercer County, Kentucky.

viii. JOHN HAWKINS, b. April 12, 1787; m. MILLY BARNES.

ix. BENJAMIN HAWKINS, b. October 04, 1793; d. abt. 1824; m. VIRGINIA ELIZA HAMMOND, June 20, 1819, Woodford County, Kentucky.

11. x. LUCY HAWKINS, b. February 04, 1797, state of Kentucky.

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Birth: 16 Jun 1738 in King George, King George, Virginia, United States

Death: 30 Nov 1806 in Mercer, Kentucky, United States

Conflicting DOD: May 1807

Benjamin married Ann Bourne and had 6 children.

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