When Deliverance Hawkins was born on 23 October 1744, in Stony Brook, Brookhaven, Suffolk, New York, United States, her father, Major Eleazer Hawkins Sr, was 28 and her mother, Ruth Mills, was 22. She married James Mapes on 14 May 1764, in New York, United States. They were the parents of at least 2 sons and 1 daughter. She died on 10 June 1829, in Southold, Southold, Suffolk, New York, United States, at the age of 84, and was buried in Head of the Harbor, Smithtown, Suffolk, New York, United States.
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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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