Friday, November 11, 2022

52 Ancestors - Week 455: #726 William Hawkins (1676->1752) of Providence and Smithfield, Rhode Island

William Hawkins (a1676 - >1752) is #726 on my Ahnentafel List, my 7th great-grandfather, who married #727 Mary --?-- (a1688 - ????) before 1710 in Providence, Rhode Island.

I am descended through:

* their daughter #363 Mary Hawkins (1710-1761) who married #362 John Tracy (1695-1751), in 1728.
* their daughter, #181 Deborah Tracy (1731-a1800) who married #180 Simon Wade (1731-a1800), who in about 1763.
*  their son, #90 Simon Wade (1767-1857), who married #91 Phebe Horton (1772-a1820) in about 1790.
*  their daughter #45 Miranda Wade (1804-1850), who married #44 Jonathan White (1803-1850) in 1824.
*  their son #22 Henry Arnold White (1824-1885) who married #23 Amy Oatley (1826-1864) in 1844.
*  their daughter #11 Julia E. White (1848-1913) who married #10 Thomas Richmond (1848-1917) in 1868.
*  their daughter #5 Alma Bessie Richmond (1882-1962) who married #4 Frederick Walton Seaver (1876-1942) in 1900.
*  their son #2 Frederick Walton Seaver (1911-1983) who married #3 Betty Virginia Carringer (1919-2002) in 1942.
*  their son #1 Randall Jeffrey Seaver (1943-living)

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1)  PERSON (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Name:                         William Hawkins[1]
*  Alternate Name:          William Hawkings[2]

*  Sex:                              Male

*  Father:                          John Hawkins 1643-1727
*  Mother:                        Sarah Daniels 1654-    

2)  INDIVIDUAL EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Birth:                            about 1676, Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[1]

*  Death:                           after 13 December 1752 (after about age 76), probably Smithfield, Providence, Rhode Island, United States[2]
 
3)  SHARED EVENTS (with source citations as indicated in brackets):

*  Spouse 1:                      Mary  1688-    
*  Marriage 1:                   before 1710 (before about age 34), Rhode Island, United States[1]

*  Child 1:                        Mary Hawkins 1710-1767
*  Child 2:                        John Hawkins 1711-1740
*  Child 3:                        Jeriah Hawkins 1713-1751
*  Child 4:                        Job Hawkins 1715-1790
*  Child 5:                        Rufus Hawkins 1717-1788
*  Child 6:                        Sarah Hawkins 1719-1753

4)  NOTES (with source citations as indicated in brackets):    

William Hawkins was born in about 1676 in Providence, Rhode Island, the son and eldest child of John and Sarah (Daniels?) Hawkins[1]. There is no extant birth record for William Hawkins. 

He married Mary --?-- before 1710.  Mary's parents are not known.  There is no extant marriage record.  They had six children, all born in Providence but there are no extant records[1]:

*  Mary Hawkins (1710-1767), married 1728 John Tracy (1695-1751).
*  John Hawkins (1711-1740).
*  Jeriah Hawkins (1713-1751), married 1735 Amey Olney (1716-1808).
*  Job Hawkins (1715-1790), married 1747 Catherine Turpin (1719-1749).
*  Rufus Hawkins (1717-1788), married 1733 Elizabeth Sanders (1712-????).
*  Sarah Hawkins (1719-1753), married 1738 Richard Smith (1714-1774).

On 19 October, 1715, Father John Hawkins gave free consent to sons William Hawkins, Hosannah Brown, and Elisha Knowlton to sell all their lands which they had of him[1].

On 14 December 1716 "William Hawkins, Jr., son of John" sold 5 acres to Joshua Winsor[1].

On 6 March 1721, William and wife Mary sold land to Elisha Knowlton (a brother-in-law) for 60 pounds[1].
    
On 26 June 1724, William Hawkings of Providence and Smithfield, husbandman, sold land to Daniel Angell of Providence, for 4 pounds and 10 shillings 10 acres of land not yet laid out on the east side of Seven Mile line, part of the original right of his grandfather, William Hawkings, deceased.  This deed pertained to an original sale of property made from William Hawkings to Daniel Angel on June 26, 1724.  This deed acknowledges that William made the sale, and he personally appeared before Thomas Steere, Justice of the Peace in Smithfield on December 13, 1752[2].  William Hawkings signed with his signature.  The witnesses were Jonathan Salisbury and John Tracy (his sons-in-law). This William Hawkinks is the only William Hawkings of age to make a land sale in 1724, and alive in 1752[2].

On 7 January 1744, William deeded land to his son Job, for love, including rights to land west of Seven-Mile Line[1].

William Hawkins died after 13 December 1752, probably in Smithfield, Rhode Island.  There are no extant death, burial, or probate records.

[NOTE:  The deeds referred to above are behind the FamilySearch Catalog access wall for non-LDS members].

5.  SOURCES

1. John Osborne Austin; The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island; comprising three generations of settlers who came before 1690 (with many families carried to the fourth generation) (Albany, Md.: Joel Munson's sons, 1887), page 317, William Hawkins sketch.

2. Lorraine J. Hawkins, "Adelbert Edward Hawkins Family Tree," database, user lorrainejhawkins, Ancestry.com, (https://www.ancestry.com/), William Hawkins (1676-1752) profile (https://www.ancestry.com/https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/1133450/person/-1990311916/).

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NOTE:  Amy Johnson Crow suggested a weekly blog theme of "52 Ancestors" in her blog post 
 52 Ancestors in 52 Weeks on the No Story Too Small blog in 2014.  I have extended this theme in 2022 to 468 Ancestors in 468 Weeks.


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