Brief Life History of Sarah (Sally)
Sarah (Sally) Hawkins was born on 15 February 1754, in Lunenburg, Virginia, British Colonial America as the daughter of Thomas Hawkins. She married Stephen Stone about 1772, in Virginia, United States. They were the parents of at least 5 sons and 3 daughters. She died after 19 January 1818, in Mecklenburg, Virginia, United States.
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1758 · Mount Vernon
Mount Vernon Plantation was the home of George Washington. It started off as 2,000 acres and was later expanded to 8,000 acres. The house itself started off as a six room building then got extended to twenty-one rooms.
1775
Patrick Henry made his "Give me Liberty or Give me Death" speech in Richmond Virginia.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
Name Meaning
English: variant of Hawkin , with genitival or post-medieval excrescent -s.
English: habitational name, with excrescent -s, from Hawkinge (Kent). The placename derives from the Old English personal name Heafoc or Old English heafoc ‘hawk’ + the placename forming suffix -ing. This name has been assimilated to the patronymic surname in Devon from Sir John Hawkyns (1532–95), victor against the Spanish Armada (1588), who was a member of the Devon family of Hawkins, a branch of a Kentish family from the village of Hawkinge. They held land in Plymouth as long ago as 1480.
Irish: variant of Haughn .
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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