Captain Eleazer Hawkins, Sr.

Military 19 Aug 1715 * He enlisted in Capt. Joseph Tooker's Brookhaven Company of Militia under under Col. Henry Smith. He served subsequently as there is reference to his service in 1746.

Occupation farmer and sea captain

     The results of one of his voyages was particularly noteworthy. On this voyage he came across an abandoned ship which he boarded with his crew to see what could be salvaged. They found a large heavy chest filled with so much gold and other valuables that even after the crew were given their proper share, Capt. Eleazer had enough remaining as his portion that he was able on his return home to buy large farms for each of his children.  http://www.threevillagehistoricalsociety.org/video/player_page.php?... 

Died 22 Sep 1772 [2] Buried Setauket (Presbyterian Church Cemetery), Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY

Father Zachariah Hawkins, ^, b. Bef 25 Oct 1639, d. 1698/9, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY Mother Mary Biggs, >, b. Abt 1643, {Charlestown, Suffolk, MA}

Family Sarah Owen, >, b. 22 Sep 1690, d. 23 Apr 1768, {Stony Brook, Brookhaven, Suffolk, NY}

http://books.google.com/books?id=fzXb-to1W5QC&pg=PA92&lpg=PA92&dq=%... The Three Villages By Three Village Historical Society - The Captain Eleazer Hawkins House

http://www.setauketpresbyterian.org/AboutUs/Churchyard/tabid/53266/... Setauket Presbyterian Church - Established in 1660 - The Village Green, 5 Caroline Avenue Setauket, NY 11733 Church Yard Map Cemetery Map Grave Stones and Epitaphs from the Churchyard This information is based on Belle Barstow's 1984 work Setauket's Religious Beginnings With Epitaphs from the Presbyterian Churchyard. HAWKINS: In Memory of Capt. Eleazer Hawkins Who departed this life Sept. 22, 1772 in the 84th year of his age. (b. 1688)

Genealogies of Long Island Families a collection of genealogies relating to the following Long Island Families: Disckerson, Mitchill, Wickham, Carman, Raynor, Rushmore, Satterly, Hawkins, Arthur Smith, Mills, Howard, Lush, Greene. Compiled by Charles J. Werner mainly from records left by Benjamin F. Thompson Historian of Long Island Published by Charles J. Werner New York, NY 1919

A Hawkins Genealogy, 1635-1939 : record of the descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts, Hawkins, Ralph Clymer, (Baltimore : Gateway Press, 1987)