William, Joseph Hawkins of Campbell County, Virginia

The newest issue of the National Genealogical Society Quarterly (vol 100, No 2, June 2012) was in my pile of things to read last night.  In an article titled  Finding the Father of Henry Pratt of Southeastern Kentucky written by Warren C. Pratt, Ph.D (page 95) is a paragraph that I will not quote as I would like to include the footnotes and explanatory material in the paragraph since I don't quite know how to do footnotes in the blog.  The section of the article is labelled James Pratt.

James Pratt lived in the same Campbell County community as Mary Pratt, his uncle James' widow.  In 1793 Mary and Bartlett Wiley witnessed the will of William Hawkins, whose son was Joseph Hawkins. [information from Campbell County Will Book I:25253, William Hawkins].   The preceding year William Hawkins, Sr, Joseph Hawkins, Bartlett Wiley, and James Pratt lived near each other on Beaver  Creek.  [Virginia Auditor of Public Accounts, Personal Property Tax Lists, Campbell Co., 1792, Talbot's district, pp. 16FHL microfilm 2,204,501.  For Beaver Creek see Campbell Co. Deed Book 4:491, Hawkins to Ross, 5 Dec 1798, FHL microfilm 31,023)]....

It interesting to note that the beginning of this section contains information that James Pratt had lived in Culpeper County before his move to Campbell County.  That makes me wonder if the Pratts and the Hawkins family had been friends before the move to Campbell and perhaps even moved there together.  Could there even have been a family relationship?  A Hawkins son or daughter married to a Pratt spouse?

The below map shows where Beaver Creek is located in Campbell County.  I believe that it flows into the James River just northwest of the marker on the below map.

What else do I know about Campbell and Bedford Counties in Virginia and the Hawkins family?

Littleberry Hawkins married Jane Shearer, dt. James.  Richard W. Hicks Surety 18 June 1794 Campbell County marriage bonds found in Hinshaw Vol VI

The next Information comes from Elaine Campbell....she reminded me that:   

The only daughter named in Littleberry Hawkins will was Milly Hicks. Mildred Hawkins married Richard W. Hicks (source Wulfeck.) So was the above marriage between Littleberry and Jane Shearer a second marriage with son-in-law serving as surety?  I don't have dates for Littleberry right at hand...need to work on this when I have time.

Our  Hawkins DNA group #1 has a participant who descends from Benjamin Hawkins married to Hannah who lived on land that is now part of the Biltmore estate.  This Benjamin Hawkins had both a son and a grandson named Littleberry.  Dot Hawkins whose husband and son are descendants of this Benjamin has told me in the past that William Hawkins who is found in the part of Bedford County that became Campbell County in 1781 named sons Littleberry, Robert, Benjamin and James in his will.

Hawkins DNA group #1 has 2 more participants who descend from John and Winnie Hawkins.  This couple have children who seemed to have lived in Bedford County at some point.  

Elaine Campbell gave me the below information that lets us know that Littleberry Hawkins is still living in Bedford County in 1816:
Green County, KY  Deed Book 7 pages 308-310....9 july 1816 

Benjamin Gaddy and wife Susannah of Green County to Littleberry Hawkins of Bedford Virginia....selling 184 acres. This is Virginia land recorded in Green County ...the Gaddy's are selling land that is in Bedford County, Virginia to Littleberry Hawkins.....but they are recording it in Green County, Kentucky.  The land is described as being "to a Hawkins Corner".

Dot Hawkins has shared the next information.  Her Benjamin is married to Hannah and lived on land that is now a part of the Biltmore Estate in NC:

This is the William (William of Bedford/Campbell County, VA)
 that we believe is the father of our Benjamin.  If one reads
the full will including the condicils it is almost certain because of the names
of Robert and Littleberry occuring in Benjamin's family as well as
William, James and Joseph.

Since Robert was listed as an exedutor of the will, when his father named him in
the codicil to receive only a token amount it really indicates that he had
already received a patrimony and that Benjamin and James, also named in the
codicil had received theirs.  That being the case they were the oldest of the
sons and that Littleberry was the youngest and under age to receive property in
his own name.

I haven't been able to get to Bedford/Campbell County for further research, yet,
but all who have looked at the evidence we have to date are in agreement that
this is or family.

With the evidence we do have we know Benjamin and James had already left VA and
were well settled in Buncombe County, NC by the date of this will.  At this time
Benjamin already had 2 children, Mary and John and was very active in the
government of the county.  We know that Benjamin was in the area for the 1790
census and there is evidence from a court case that they were there in the late
1780's.  In the family Bible of Benjamin's youngest son we have Benjamin's birth
year as 1762 which would fit in with the age of William and his birth date of
1733.

Bourne and Glass Connections in Owen County, Ky

Mike Glass sent me some information about three Bourne females who married three Glass males in Owen County, Kentucky.  I'll post some of that information from Mike on this Blog after I get some clarifications and get Mike's permission to share.  However, I want to go ahead and share one piece of information while it is still in my head.  Owen County was not formed until 1819 and even then it was not the same shape as today's Owen County.  I scanned a small part of a map from Map Guide to the U.S. Federal Censuses, 1790-1920 by William Thorndale and William Dollarhide to share below:

As you can see, one could have lived in Scott, Franklin, Gallatin, or Pendleton from 1800 until 1820 and then die in Owen after 1820 without ever moving.  What made me look this up is that I was thumbing through my data base that I call Hawkins/Bourne trying to figure out where the Hawkins/Bourn tribes had lived. They seem to have been all over this area that encircles Lexington, Ky today.

Hawkins in Owen County, Kentucky

It has been porch weather in Huntington, so I have carried files and piles out to my porch any time I get a free minute when the temperature is nice.  Several years ago, I spent some time with a good buddy in Frankfort, Kentucky.  During this time I copied some information and filed it in a manila file that is labelled:  Owen County Kentucky Hawkins including Harbin Hawkins Ford.  At first glance, I honestly didn't remember exactly why I copied this information.  However, as I have studied some of my accumulated information, I have found that much of what I call the Hawkins/Bourne family settled in Owen County in the late 1700's or early 1800's.  Perhaps this was my reason.  It seemed that a great many of the Orange/Culpeper families moved to the area that is shown in the below map in this time period.  For those of you who do not do a lot of Kentucky research,  Lexington is in Fayette County, Frankfort (the Capital) is in Franklin County, and Louisville is in Jefferson County.  The northern boundary of the part of the state that you see is the Ohio River.  Ohio and Illinois are the states to the north.

Our Hawkins DNA group #1 (which are matches for my dad's DNA results) has at least 6 participants who believe that they descend this Hawkins/Bourne line.  My description of the Hawkins/Bourne line is:  three Hawkins brothers who were sons of Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins.  These men were born mid 1700s and married three Bourne sisters either just before, during or after the Revolution.  All three of these men and many of their descendants moved to Kentucky from Orange/Culpeper County, Virginia after the Revolutionary War.  Another brother, Moses died in the battle of Germantown during the Revolution.  Moses' wife remarried and she and new husband and Hawkins children also moved to Kentucky.

The very first pages inside the manilla folder at the top of the pile have title:  Owen County, KY Family Bible Records Volume I compiled by Doris Shell Gill.  The stamp tells me that I copied them at the Kentucky Genealogical Society library.  As I turned the page to read,  I was absolutely amazed to see that the first Bible records that I copied were between a couple:  James Howard and George Ann Hawkins Glass.  Below are the pages that I copied.  To read them better click on the image.

Larry Glass sent me a URL that he found that has much of the information that is contained in the above pages:

http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bakhelvy/html/fam03884.htm

The Next pages are in the same volume and are transcriptions of a Bible record for Harben and Elizabeth Clift Hawkins.  These pages include family information for John B. and Ann Ford Hawkins. John B. Hawkins (many of us guess that the B. stood for Bourne) was the son of Benjamin and Ann/Nancy Bourne Hawkins.  John had at least one wife in Orange/Culpeper County.  It is not clear if he had children with his first and/or second wife.  However the story is that he married a very young Ann Ford in 1812 and moved to Kentucky.

I seemed to have left out a very important part of why I have renewed interest in the Glass information contained in these pages.  Our newest participants whose DNA results have been a match for Hawkins DNA group #1 carry surnames Glass and Cullen.  These men were very surprised with the results of their DNA testing!  Never did any of them have any reason to believe that there might be a birth incident in their ancestry that would connect them with any male who did not carry last name Glass nor Cullen.  If you are interested in more information about this situation, go to 

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~hawkinsdnaproject/temp/dna.nsltr11-11_30nov2011.pdf

for more information about the connection.  This links you to Phil Hawkins' Nov 2011 Newsletter.  These Bible pages only prove that there was a Hawkins family in close proximity to a Glass family in the mid 1800's in Owen County, Ky.  This may be a wild goose chase, but I believe that I would be remiss to not run the possibility that this is a clue by anyone who has an interest in this puzzle.  There are many reason why a male child may carry a surname that does not match that of his biological father.  Among these possibilities are: 1) a female who brings an illegitimate child or the child of a previous  husband into a marriage.  The child is then raised in the family with his mother's new husband's name. 2) a child is born to a couple and the husband never knows that the son is not his own, 3) a woman has a child and never marries the father of the child and then raises him with HER maiden name rather than the name of the biological father.  You can probably think of more possibilities.  But many are just another version of these three.    

In 2024, Larry Glass sent me a marriage record for H W Glass and Mil???? Hawkins.  With Larry's permission I am adding it to this blog post.  You will have to manipulate it a bit to read it.  The marriage seems to be going to happen in 1853 in Owen County, KY

As our group chatted in 2024, Kenneth Hawkins who is a yDNA match to family group #1 added the following comment:

When I was searching for genealogy Information in Lawrence County, Alabama, regarding the Hawkins name, I ran across some people with the last name of Glass.
Seems like a bunch of Hawkins and acquaintance all moved to Lawrence County at the same time.  It appears to be right after the War of 1812, when land grants in Alabama were given to soldiers as payment.

Lawrence County, Alabama is  the red dotted are just west of Huntsville in the below map 

Julia Norton's Hawkins family is found in somewhat the same area.  I had made this slide several years ago as cheat sheet about Julia's family.  Jefferson county includes Birmingham

Hawkins in the Northern Neck

While working on an article for Phil Hawkins' Hawkins DNA Newsletter for the month of May, I found myself talking about the ancestry of my dad's closest DNA match, Gene Hawkins.  Here is what I sent to Phil for his newsletter:

The month of May held a very special event for me!  I visited Gene Hawkins in Warren County, Ohio.  Gene is my dad's closest DNA match.  The celebration took place over dinner at the Golden Lamb with Gene's wife and several of his family and friends.  It was a VERY special evening!  I was in Cincinnati for the National Genealogical Society's Annual Conference only a 35 minute from Warren County.  Gene and I do not yet know who our common Hawkins ancestor will prove to be.  Gene connects to James and Jane Bourne Hawkins who were married in Culpeper, Virginia probably 12 April, 1781.  This couple moved to Kentucky after the Revolutionary War where James Hawkins died 2 Mar 1819 in Anderson County, Kentucky.  

James was the son of Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins.  Benjamin Hawkins died c.1782 in Culpeper County, Va.  My Hawkins line has earliest ancestor, Thomas R. Hawkins who was born c. 1797 in the same general area of Virginia as Gene's early ancestors.  Thomas R. Hawkins lived most of his life in Orange County, Virginia which adjoins Culpeper.  He married Matilda Pinkard in Culpeper County in 1823.  

I believe that it is almost a certainty that Gene and I will find common ancestors in the Northern Neck of Virginia one, two, or three generations before what we know now. Perhaps our connection will be as early as the 17th Century.  Other researchers have told me that Benjamin Hawkins who married Sarah Willis had father, John Hawkins who died bef 1716 in Richmond County, Virginia (a part of the Northern Neck of Virginia).  The below information may or may not relate to Hawkins DNA group #1.  I am mostly brainstorming to see if anyone in DNA group #1 or any other Hawkins DNA group recognizes anyone or anything that might be a clue for all of us.

I found myself wanting to explain a bit about the Northern Neck and Hawkins connections to that area and decided to do that in a new Blog article.  In its most common definition today the Northern Neck consists of the four counties between the Rappahannock and Potomac River, which are Northumberland, Lancaster, Richmond and Westmoreland Counties.

However, for genealogical purposes, we might not want to be so narrow in our looking at the area.  So I am going to include Essex County in my information on this Blog which is just south of the Rappahanock River.  In these very early years Rivers were used for transportation and a neighbor who lived just across the river might be closer in proximity than someone who lived in a place that would have had to be reached via land roads.

You can see where Gene's possible ancestor, John Hawkins,  is said to have died in Richmond County.

Other early Hawkins men that I have looked at are Thomas Hawkins who I call Thomas of Old Rappahanock County.  Since my earliest proven Hawkins ancestor  is Thomas R. Hawkins, you can guess why I might like to look at early men named Thomas Hawkins.  This Thomas Hawkins died in Rappahanock County, Virginia in 1677.

The County of Rappahanock disappeared in 1692.  The part of the County that was north of the Rappahanock River became Richmond County.  The part that was south of the river became Essex County.

There is also a well documented Hawkins family that I call the John and Mary Long family.  It is doubtful that Mary actually had Long as a maiden name.  However,  Hawkins researchers called John's wife Mary Long for so many years that everyone immediately recognizes the family by this title.  This family seems to be found in Spotsylvania County in 1740 when John died.  Other researchers have told me that John migrated to these shores sometime between 1705 and 1720 and settled first in St. Anne's Parish in Essex County, Virginia.  He bought land in Spotsylvania County from Thomas and Larkin Chew 1723-1725.  He is said to have moved to Virginia with his brother, Philemon Hawkins.  This is idea is reinforced by the fact that he named a son Philemon.  Others say that both John and Philemon and their families lived first near Todd's Bridge over the Matapony River in what was then King and Queen County.  If you start at Tappahannock on the Rappahanock River in Essex County on the map below and travel in your mind south on Rt 340 to the Mataponi River, it crosses about the site of Todd's Bridge according to the research that I have done thus far.  If you have trouble seeing the below map, try single clicking on it to get a better view.

Eno families of NC and their relationship with my Moore Family in NC

In this Blog entry, I will look at the families that are named on the back of the Eno Cemetery Stone marker.  For more information about Eno Cemetery, see my Blog entry dated April 24, 2012.

I already talked about the Maddock family in the same April 24, 2012 blog entry.

I am reading Joseph Moore's article that was published in the Georgia Genealogical Society Quarterly, Vol. 44, No 1 that was titled:  The Quaker John Moore of Upton's Creek, Wrightsboro Township.
On page 15, he says that the Moore family (Richard and Sarah (Jenkins?) Moore) were following their daughter Mary and her husband Joseph Mooney Sr. who  had made the trip to Orange County from Pennsyvlania by 1 March 1755, when Joseph Mooney was received in membership at Cane Creek Meeting.  The Mooneys had been members of Maiden Creek and New Garden Meetings in Berks County.  Remember that the Eno was a preparatory meeting for at least some of the years that these families lived in the area of Cane Creek MM.  I need to do a bit more research in order to be sure that the Mooney family mentioned on the stone is the same Mooney family that is daughter and son-in-law of John Moore.

Sarah Moore McKinsey--wife of George McKinsey

Today's entry is about George McKinsey and his wife, Sarah Moore.  It is also about the serendipity of the internet.  And the fortunate discoveries that networking can provide.

In 1998 my husband and I were preparing for a trip to Scotland with three other couples.  The men were a foursome who would play golf on as many of the famous golf courses of Scotland as they could arrange in the time period that we would be traveling.  I was trying to do as much research as possible to get ready to sightsee while the men played golf. 

The obvious choices for my research were my father's mother's people.  My grandmother's maiden name was McGregor and her mother's maiden name was McKinsey.  I knew the romantic story that was told in the family that Robert McGregor was a ship's captain who was transporting Irish passengers in the mid 1800's when he fell in love with Mary Ann Hare/O'Haire.  He married her and their first son was born in New York.  Robert then traveled to California and sent for his wife and son to join him. I descend from a later child, James McGregor, who was born while the family lived in Cherokee, CA.  

On the McKinsey side I knew very little.  But with help via internet from Tim Purdy of Susanville, CA,  I was able to discover that my grandmother's gr-grandfather's name was Andrew Jackson McKinsey and that he had moved to CA during the gold rush.  But I will save that story for another entry.

That year I was "hanging out" at my local LDS FHL and I somehow stumbled onto a fiche that I ordered that was a filming of a book by Ruby Mundell Barry:

The McKinsey's, McKensey, McKensie, McKinsey family : descendants of George K. McKinsey and his wife Sarah (Thomas) McKinsey of Newberry County, South Carolina, and Warren County, Ohio, and the migrations of their children into Indiana (fiche #6049761)

I printed out much of the book and it became my Bible on the McKinsey family for the next ten years.  My grandmother would have been amazed to find out that on her mother's side her family had been on our continent since before the Revolutionary War.  It is hard to believe that only 15 years ago I did not know these people.  I have had so much fun looking at the descendants of George and Sarah!

A new highlight in my McKinsey research was just a few years ago when Harriet Imrey who is my good friend via internet pointed out that George had been a loyalist in the Revolutionary War.  That was part of what started me on my quest to understand the Revolutionary War in the south that has been my passion ever since.  And that is a subject for another blog as well.

But back to my story.  I spent the next ten years after discovering George and Sarah McKinsey in SC looking at the Thomas family trying to figure out how Sarah was related and who of the Thomas family that were in NC and SC might have been her father.  I just couldn't seem to make her fit in.  Now, I don't want you to think that I am so dumb that it took me an entire ten years to make a breakthrough on a line.  I need to explain that I do many lines all at the same time. I am just as interested in the female lines as I am in the male lines.  Thus when I take a family back one generation, I have two lines to research:  that of the mother and that of the father of the ancestor at which  I am looking.   I am always researching ALL of my lines.  So I just chip away.

Why did Ruby Mundell Barry think that Sarah McKinsey's maiden name was Thomas?  Because of a will that she found that had been written by Nehemiah Thomas.  The transcription below of this will can be found:  

http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/onlinearchives/Thumbnails.aspx?recordId=301869

From the evidence in the will, Ms. Barry had assumed that Sarah was the niece of Nehemiah Thomas.  However, I am now totally convinced that Sarah was the niece of Abigail Moore Thomas instead of Abigail's husband, Nehemiah.  That is that Sarah was a Moore NOT a Thomas as Ruby Mundell Barry had assumed.  I will save my arguments as to why I have adopted this Moore family as my own for another post dated Sept 1, 2012.

George McKinsey's second wife

Joseph Moore sent me a scan from a book compiled by Majorie Dickey Parsons called:  Lines and Lifestyles Dickey, Moore, Parsons and some Related Families.  My understanding of the people who are named on this page is so new and so exciting that I found myself wanting to record how it happened.  According to the notation on the front cover, Ms. Parsons is no longer alive.  Below is page 222 of Ms. Parsons' book.

Only a few years ago, I would have had no clue that Daughter Mary m. George McKinzie "in Ohio" who is listed in the above transcription of the will of John Moore was the second wife of my 5-gr-grandfather.  George was not the simple farmer that I would have believed him to be.  After the death of his first wife, Sarah Moore, George moved his entire family to Warren County, Ohio with the mass exodus of the Quaker families out of the south and into the non-slave northern states of Ohio and Indiana.  Then after getting his family settled in Ohio, he traveled back down to Newberry County, SC to finish some business and then down to Wrightsboro, Ga to marry a cousin to his first wife:  Mary Moore Lacy.  Next he proceeded to move all of her family up to Ohio.  It must have been a huge undertaking!