William Hawkins

concerns

According to the following text (which might have come from http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mrmarsha&...), this William could not be a son of Capt. Henry Hawkins, of Charles County.

Henry Hawkins, of Charles County, in his Will dated 18 October 1698 and proved 12 May 1699, recorded in "Maryland Will Book, 6: 310, named his wife Elizabeth (who was the widow of Francis Wyne) and his six children. Of these two were by his first wife. They were Henry Hawkins and Ellinor (Hawkins) Tubman. The others were children of his second wife Eleanor and were John Hawkins, Henry Holland Hawkins (so named to distinquish him from his half brothers, Henry Hawkins and Henry Wine). Ruth Hawkins and Mary Hawkins. Henry Holland Hawkins became "whole and sole executor" under his mother's Will. Ruth Hawkins became the first wife of James Keech, Gent., and had daughters named Martha and Elizabeth Keech, mentioned in the Will of their grandmother Elizabeth Hawkins already cited.