Brief Life History of Joseph
When Joseph Hawkins was born in 1753, in Baltimore, Maryland, British Colonial America, his father, Nathan Hawkins, was 31 and his mother, Ruth Cole, was 28. He married Esther Davis in 1781, in Dorchester, Maryland, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 son and 4 daughters. He lived in Greene, Southwest Territory, United States in 1791. He registered for military service in 1779. He died on 3 May 1797, in Greene, Tennessee, United States, at the age of 44, and was buried in Babb Farm Cemetery, Afton, Greene, Tennessee, United States.
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- Legacy NFS Source: Joseph Hawkins - Individual or family possessions: birth-name: Joesph Hawkins
- Joseph Hawkins, Fold3 - US Revolutionary War, US Army
- Joseph Hawkins, "Find A Grave Index"
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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.
1776
Thomas Jefferson's American Declaration of Independence endorsed by Congress. Colonies declare independence.
1780 · Richmond Becomes the Capital
On April 18, 1780 Richmond became the capital of Virginia. It was the temporary capital from 1780-1788.
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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