William Hawkins (son of William Hawkins and Katherine Gonson)267 was born 1609 in Exon, Glouer, Devonshire, England, and died 1699 in Providence, Providence County, RI267. He married Margaret Harwood in Providence, Providence County, RI.
Notes for William Hawkins: From "Three Hundred Colonial Ancestors and War Service", Hawkins Ancestry, p. 134:
"William is on record as receiving land in Providence Plantations, Dec. 20, 1638. On July 27, 1640, he was one of the thirty-nine who signed an agreement for a form of government. He was made freeman in 1655, and on August 14, 1676, is recorded as one "who staid and went not away" in King Philip's War.
(Note: As a family name, Hawkins stands for Holkin, pet name of Henry or Harry. Hankyn Mayne is in the early Rolls of Parliament, and Johannes Hawkyn is in the Poll Tax of Yorkshire, A. D., 1379.
The Hawkins are a family of great antiquity in the County of Kent, the name being local from the Parish of Hawkins in the "Hundred of Folkstone" written at the time of the Saxons, Hawleyngge. The first of the name on record is Osbert De Hawking, temp, Henry II, about Edward III reign the Hawkins became seated at Nash Court, in the Parish of Broughton-under-Blean, Co. Kent.)"
He immigrated in 1631. He gave oath of allegiance on February 20, 1634; bound for St. Christopher, WI and took the Allegence before Mr. William Gourney, Mayor of Dartmouth. William Hawkins, of Exon, Glouer, aged 25 years or there abouts. He was granted land on December 20, 1638 at Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. In 1655 William Hawkins was listed as a freeman at Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island. (Source: Ancestors of David Kipp Conover, p. 104, on web page.)
More About William Hawkins: Baptised: January 20, 1608/09, Quainton, Buckingham, England.
More About William Hawkins and Margaret Harwood: Marriage: Providence, Providence County, RI.
Children of William Hawkins and Margaret Harwood are:
+William Hawkins, b. Abt. 1647, Providence, RI267, d. July 06, 1723, Providence, RI.
William Hawkins (b. 1609, d. 1699)
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