Brief Life History of John
When John Hawkins was born on 25 February 1715, in St George's Parish, Harford, Maryland, United States, his father, Robert Hawkins, Sr., was 23 and his mother, Anne Preble, was 18. He married Mary Wells in March 1740, in Harford, Maryland, United States. They were the parents of at least 3 sons and 4 daughters. He died in 1783, in Deercreek, Harford, Maryland, United States, at the age of 68.
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- Maryland, U.S., Compiled Marriage Index, 1634-1777
- John Hawkins in entry for Rebecca, "England Deaths and Burials, 1538-1991"
- John Hawkins, "Maryland, Church Records, 1668-1995"
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1773
Historical Boundaries: 1774: Harford, Maryland Colony, British Colonial America 1776: Harford, Maryland, United States
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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