Individual Details
Benjamin Hawkins Sr.
(Abt 1708 - Abt 1782)
On 2 May 1716 Henry Wood Sr.'s petition for "tuition of an orphan boy named Benjamin Hawkins" was rejected after Richard Butler stated that John Haskins [Hawkins] and his wife Elizabeth, both deceased, had left their two youngest sons, Benjamin and James, to James Butler (brother of the petitioner Richard Butler), that James Butler was now deceased, and that the children were to be bound to Richard Butler until they were twenty-one with John Willis (undoubtedly John Jr.., Sarah's brother-in-law) as Butler's security (Rush 92)..
By 1736 Ben1 joined his brothers Wm1 and John1 in Orange Co. in the area of Chestnut Mts (Clark Mts now).
May 28, 1767 a portion of land owned by John Spotswood was seized at his death for repayment of debts. Guardians of John's son Alexander are selling the seized land for best possible price. Benjamin Hawkins is buying part of the said estate lands.
Description: lying in county of Orange and bounded as follows: Beginning at a gum and poplar and white oak stump on the Rapidan River Corner to Mrs. Willis thence with her lines South Sixty one degrees East one Hundred and ten poles to a locust thence with Thirty six degree East Forty eight poles is a .....to a coner of said Willis and Waugh. Thence up that branch with Francis Moore. (Lucy, Ben's daughter, married Francis Moore.)
Most of the Hawkins/Bourne line and Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins lived up near the Rapidan River and in Culpeper on the other side of the Rapidan....except, for Benjamin and Ann Bourne Hawkins who moved down close to Barboursville in the area of Cameron Mt.
By 1736 Ben1 joined his brothers Wm1 and John1 in Orange Co. in the area of Chestnut Mts (Clark Mts now).
May 28, 1767 a portion of land owned by John Spotswood was seized at his death for repayment of debts. Guardians of John's son Alexander are selling the seized land for best possible price. Benjamin Hawkins is buying part of the said estate lands.
Description: lying in county of Orange and bounded as follows: Beginning at a gum and poplar and white oak stump on the Rapidan River Corner to Mrs. Willis thence with her lines South Sixty one degrees East one Hundred and ten poles to a locust thence with Thirty six degree East Forty eight poles is a .....to a coner of said Willis and Waugh. Thence up that branch with Francis Moore. (Lucy, Ben's daughter, married Francis Moore.)
Most of the Hawkins/Bourne line and Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins lived up near the Rapidan River and in Culpeper on the other side of the Rapidan....except, for Benjamin and Ann Bourne Hawkins who moved down close to Barboursville in the area of Cameron Mt.
Events
| Birth | Abt 1708 | Richmond, Virginia, British America |  |  | |
| Marriage | Abt 1734 | King George, Virginia, British America - Sarah Willis | | ||
| Death | Abt 1782 | Culpeper, Virginia, United States | |
Families
| Spouse | Sarah Willis (1716 - 1782) |
| Child | Mildred Hawkins (1734 - 1815) |
| Child | Benjamin Hawkins II (1738 - 1806) |
| Child | Rachel Hawkins (1740 - ) |
| Child | Lucy Hawkins (1742 - ) |
| Child | Jane / Jenny Hawkins (1748 - ) |
| Child | William Hawkins (1749 - 1818) |
| Child | Capt. James Hawkins (1750 - 1819) |
| Child | Capt. Moses Hawkins (1750 - 1777) |
| Child | Elizabeth Hawkins ( - ) |
| Child | Sarah Hawkins ( - 1826) |
| Father | John Hawkins Sr. (1675 - 1715) |
| Mother | Elizabeth Butler? (1682 - 1715) |
| Sibling | William Hawkins (1697 - 1776) |
| Sibling | John Hawkins (1706 - ) |
| Sibling | James Hawkins (1710 - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Hawkins (1715 - ) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Hawkins (1715 - ) |
Notes
Birth
The first legal court appearance for Benj is in 1729, he would be 21 now - extrapolating back for approx. birth year gets 1708.Endnotes
1. Abbott, Olyve Hallmark, "Hawkins, Bourne genealogy," e-mail message from
2. Claeys-Shahmiri, Janet, "Hawkins, Capt James genealogy," e-mail messages from
3. Abbott, Olyve Hallmark, "Hawkins, Bourne genealogy," e-mail message from
4. Hill, Don, "Descendants of John Hawkins," e-mail message from
5. Hill, Don, "Descendants of John Hawkins," e-mail message from