When Eleazer Hawkins was born on 5 October 1733, in Paugasset, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Moses Gunn Hawkins, was 30 and his mother, Ann Smith, was 28. He married Ruth Botsford on 7 January 1762, in Derbyshire, England. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 1 daughter. He died on 9 July 1788, in Connecticut, United States, at the age of 54.
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Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
The capture of Fort Griswold was the final act of treason that Benedict Arnold committed. This would be a British victory. On the American side 85 were killed, 35 wounded and paroled, 28 taken prisoner, 13 escaped, and 1 twelve year old was captured and released.
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 .
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