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Descendants of Thomas Hawkins

Generation No. 1

      1. Thomas¹ Hawkins was born January 10, 1757 in Nottaway River, Virginia, and died October 05, 1849 in Lowndes Co., AL. He married (1) ? Hawkins. She died Abt. 1803. He married (2) Sarah Adams Unknown. She was born Unknown, and died Aft. 1850.

Notes for Thomas Hawkins:
Pension application of Thomas Hawkins
Conecuh, County Alabama

On this fifth day of February in the year of Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty four personally appeared Thomas Hawkins in open court a resident of said Conecuh County and State of Alabama of ninety three years of age who being first duly sworn according to the law doth make on his oath the following declarations in order to obtain the benefit of the provisions made by the act of Congress passed June the 7th 1832. That he Thomas Hawkins volunteered in the service of the United States in May 1776 in the company by Captain George Avery. He resided at this time of volunteering in Union District State of South Carolina and was in the service nearly a year before he was in any battle . The first being the battle of Kings Mountain, South Carolina. Colonels Lacy Campbell and Cleveland commanding. That after the Battle of Kings Mountain he enlisted in a horse company under captain George Avery, That he acted as Lieutenant but never received a commission. The company was under General Thomas Brandon. That he was engaged in the battle at the Fish Dam Ford and Broad River under Colonel Sumpter in which twenty two of the enemy was killed and three prisoners taken. Eight days thereafter he was in the Battle at Blackstock Hill on Liger River in which Colonel Sumpter was wounded. The next battle he was engaged was the Battle of Cowpens. When the Company to which he belonged was under General Morgan and Colonel Phaar. The next Battle or Siege was at Ninety Six in which they were engaged near four weeks. This company was then under Colonel William Pharr and General Gorum ? That as the morning of the battle at Eutaw Springs they took some fifty or sixty prisoners and the company under Captain Avery were ordered to - - - them - - - was in the year 1781. He together with the company to which he belonged were dismissed at Eutaw after the battle. He never received any final discharge - they were dismissed by General Greene. That he engaged five years during which time he was not at home but once and was not home during the three years that proceeded the battle at Eutaw.

He states that his service was registered on the list of the State of South Carolina - that he saw it on the list of registers source five or six years after the Revolution - at Granby South Carolina where the State.....there was...

Answers to interrogations proposed by the court

      He was born on or about the tenth day of January AD 1751 on the waters of Nottaway River in Virginia.
      He has no record of his age, that it was recorder in a bible which was taken from him by the Tories during the revolution.
      He was living in Union District South Carolina but moved from South Carolina to Georgia and from Georgia to Conecuh County, Alabama where he now lives.
      He volunteered - He already stated the names of the officers
      He has stated that he acted as Lieutenant but was never commissioned and never received a discharge.
      He states the names R. O. Jackson, James Towlinson, Churchill Jones(?), J. V. Perryman, N Stallworth, C. H. Stallworth
      He states that the reason he has received his pension before this he has heretofore made a declaration but from inattentiveness on informality his declaration has not been acted on.
      He does not know any person whose testimony he can procure to prove his services.
      He hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except this present and declared that his name is not on this pension roll of the agency of any state-
      Sworn to and subscribed this day and year aforesaid
      Thomas Hawkins

Thomas Hawkins, Deceased Alabama
Admitted.
Act 7th June 1832
2 years private Cavalry $100.00 from
4th march 1831 to 5th October 1849, when he died.
Pay John Hawkins, administrator for benefit of;
John Hawkins; Calvin Hawkins; Stephen Hawkins; Wiley Hawkins, William Hawkins, and Fanny Hawkins Beckum, only surviving children.
Certificate to H. G. McCutchen, Esq, present.

The will of Thomas Hawkins
Date recorded; 26, January 1850
Located in Wills Book B 1830 - 1859, page 228

I, Thomas Hawkins, of the county of Lowndes and state of Alabama being mindful of my mortality do this fourth day of April eighteen hundred and forty seven make and publish this my last will and testament in the manner following.
First, I desire to be decently buried after the usual manner.
Second, I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Sarah Hawkins during her natural life or widowhood all my estate both real and personal. After all my just debts are paid, and at the death or marriage of my beloved Sarah Hawkins that this estate left in her hands shall be sold and equally divided among my lawful heirs.
And lastly I do hereby constitute and approve my dear son Wiley Hawkins Executor of this my last will and Testimony hereby revoking all other or former wills.

More About Thomas Hawkins and Sarah Adams:
Marriage: Unknown

Children of Thomas Hawkins and ? Hawkins are:

+	2	i.	John² Hawkins, born Abt. 1798 in Georgia; died January 05, 1854 in Monroe County, Alabama.
	3	ii.	Calvin Hawkins.
	4	iii.	Stephen Hawkins, born Abt. 1795 in Georgia or South Carolina; died March 18, 1875 in Manningham, Lowndes County, Alabama.
	5	iv.	Wiley Hawkins, born Abt. 1800.
	6	v.	William Hawkins, born January 01, 1800 in Georgia; died March 12, 1871 in Lowndes County, Alabama.
	7	vi.	Fanny Hawkins. She married Daniel Beckum January 10, 1808 in Baldwin County, Alabama.

More About Daniel Beckum and Fanny Hawkins:
Marriage: January 10, 1808, Baldwin County, Alabama

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