Individual Details
Capt. Moses Hawkins
(4 Oct 1750 - 4 Oct 1777)
The Orange County records are full of records that were made as the orphans of Moses were provided for. For Example in Will book 3, page 173:
The estate of Moses Hawkins, dec'd, to Thomas Coleman. In 1788-1789, board and cloathing for four orphans of Moses Hawkins. Paid Duncan Campbell, Benjamin Hawkins, John Thomas, Reuben Moore, Isaac Rucker, Benja Willis, Thomas Coleman, guardian. Account returned into court 22nd Feb 1790.
Moses' widow, Sarah Strother, married her husband's good friend and neighbor, Thomas Coleman 28, June 1781. This couple moved to Kentucky as did many of our Hawkins DNA group #1 ancestors. Records tell us that Thomas Coleman was a corporal in the company commanded by Moses Hawkins of the 14th Virginia regiment, and a friend of long standing.
Events
| Birth | 4 Oct 1750 | Culpeper, Virginia, British America |  | ||
| Marriage | 3 Mar 1770 | Culpeper, Virginia, British America - Susanna Strother |  | | |
| Military | Bet 1774 and 1777 | American Revolution - Virginia, United States | | | |
| Will | 16 Apr 1777 | Orange, Virginia, United States | | | |
| Death | 4 Oct 1777 | Germantown, Pennsylvania, | | |
Families
| Spouse | Susanna Strother (1752 - 1830) |
| Child | Sarah Bailey "Sally" Hawkins (1771 - ) |
| Child | William Strother Hawkins (1772 - 1858) |
| Child | Lucy Hawkins (1774 - ) |
| Child | Moses Strother Hawkins Jr. (1776 - 1817) |
| Father | Benjamin Hawkins Sr. (1708 - 1782) |
| Mother | Sarah Willis (1716 - 1782) |
| Sibling | Mildred Hawkins (1734 - 1815) |
| Sibling | Benjamin Hawkins II (1738 - 1806) |
| Sibling | Rachel Hawkins (1740 - ) |
| Sibling | Lucy Hawkins (1742 - ) |
| Sibling | Jane / Jenny Hawkins (1748 - ) |
| Sibling | William Hawkins (1749 - 1818) |
| Sibling | Capt. James Hawkins (1750 - 1819) |
| Sibling | Elizabeth Hawkins ( - ) |
| Sibling | Sarah Hawkins ( - 1826) |
Notes
Marriage
Marriage Bonds Orange Co. VirginiaHawkins, Moses, m. 3 March, 1770, Susan Strother
Military
14th Virginia RegimentWilliam Strother Hawkins, heir, received on 17 July 1786 warrent no. 3326 from the Commonwealth of Virginia for 4000 acres of land due Moses Hawkins, dec'd, who served three years as a Captain in the Virginia Continental line.
Hawkins, Moses, esf Orange Co., VA; KIA Battle of Germantown; BLW1847 issued 5/16/1832 to eldest s & only heir William S who afb 1831 Woodford Co, KY when he res there c35 years; AFF then there by Francis Moore that he kin to sol & had previously res near him in Orange Co, VA; several persons mbnn/o Bedford Co, VA, obtained BLW1449 fraudulently based on sol RW svc; QLF states sol KIA 10/4/1777, md Susanna Strother, & their ch were Sarah Bailey, William Strother, Lucy & Moses Jr; QLF states sol b Culpeper Co, VA; QLF 1924 from desc Sarah Thornton (Mrs. Charles R) Moore, Dallas, TX. F-BLW 1847 R1228
Will
Book 2, pg 522. Witnesses were James, Benjamin, and Sarah Hawkins. The children were under ten in 1785.Death
He died in the battle of Germantown.Endnotes
1. Hill, Don, "Descendants of John Hawkins," e-mail message from
2. Hill, Don, "Descendants of John Hawkins," e-mail message from
3. Hawkins, John Parker, Memoranda concerning some branches of the Hawkins family and connections (Indianapolis, Ind.: unknown, 1913, 155 pgs.), p. 68.
4. Railey, William Edward, Brief sketches of the Randolphs and their connections : the Woodsons, the Keiths, the Strothers, the Pleasants and the Mayos : also, a brief sketch of the Owsleys and the Whitleys (Frankfort, Ky.: Roberts Print. Co., 1929?, 170 pgs.), p. 123.
5. Wulfeck, Dorothy Ford, Hawkins of Virginia, the Carolinas and Kentucky : court records, queries, brief lineages, genealogical notes. (Naugatuck, Conn.: D.F. Wulfeck, 1962?, 87 pgs.), p. 27.
6. Therese A. Fisher, Marriage records of the City of Fredericksburg, and of Orange, Spotsylvania, and Stafford Counties, Virginia, 1722-1850, Volume 18, 2 (Westminister, MD: Heritage Books, 2007), 80; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 23 November 2009.
7. Kentucky Land Office / Database Searches Home Page, Commonwealth of Kentucky online [http://sos.ky.gov/land/search/], accessed Oct 2008.
8. Patrick G. Wardell, Virginia and West Virginia Genealogical Data from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Records: Volume 2 - Dabbs through Hyslop (Westminister, MD: Heritage Books, 2008), 282; digital images, Google Books (http://books.google.com : accessed 11 October 2010.
9. Hawkins, John Parker, Memoranda concerning some branches of the Hawkins family and connections (Indianapolis, Ind.: unknown, 1913, 155 pgs.), p. 68.
10. Hill, Don, "Descendants of John Hawkins," e-mail message from