Elisha Hawkins (abt. 1750 - 1833)

Born about 1750 in Spotsylvania, Virginia

Descendants

Died 24 Nov 1833 at about age 83 in Franklin, Kentucky, United States

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Biography

Elisha Hawkins pension deposition dated 20 August 1832, he gives his age as 77. making his birth around 1755. Elisha Hawkins state that he enlisted on the 2nd day of March 1776. Stated " I know of but one person now living whom I can prove my service a Mr Jehu Hawkins"

Franklin County Will Book 2 page 56

I Elisha Hawkins Senr. of the County of Franklin and the State of Kentucky being at this time of perfect mind & memory but calling to mind the morality of all living do hereby ordain & establish this instrument of writing as my last will & testament In the first place I comment my soul into the hands of almighty God & my body be decently Buried by executors to be hereinafter named _ _ _ 2nd It is my will that the plantation & tract of land on which I now live as well as all or any real Estate as well all my slaves & their increase also. all my personal Estate of every kind including money & notes due me Shall belong to William Hawkins (blackhead) who I raised & his heirs forever & all property received By my present wife at the time I married her shall return to her again. 3rd I hereby appoint the said William Hawkins the executor of this my last will & testament evoking all former wills, witness my hand & seal this 2nd day of November 1824. Elisha Hawkins test Robert B Mcafee Wm H Wright Franklin County January Court 1833

Pension records list his death date as 28 November 1833.

Note: According to Franklin County Deed Book F page 346 William Hawkins had already purchased 100 acres of land from Elisha Hawkins and Elizabeth wife on 13 October 1717 (yes it says one thousand seven hundred and seventeen). Delivered to William Hawkins 9 June 1821 in side margin.

Franklin County Deed Book L page 371 William Hawkins had already purchased the 200 arces from Elisha Hawkins on 8 November 1824. Elisha Hawkins lists that the tract of land part of Isaac Larue survey containing two hundred acres i now live on to my sd nephew William Hawkins and his heirs. Delivered to William Hawkins 29 November 1833 in the side margin.

Elisha Hawkins purchased from Isaac Larue and Bethel his wife on 16 October 1798 Franklin County Kentucky, being on the waters of Beaver Creek.

Elisha Hawkins was born in 1750.

He married Elizabeth Edwards.

He passed away in 1833.

Family

Uriah Edwards (father in law)

Will of Uriah Edwards^[1]
Written: 16 April 1781
Proved: 17 August 1781
Berkeley Parish, Spotsylvania County, Virginia
Legatees:
wife Milley Edwards;
son John Edwards;
my four youngest children, Benjamin, Moses, Milley and Mary Edwards;
my seven children, Uriah, Benjamin, Moses, Milley and Mary Edwards, Rebecca, the wife of Reuben Hawkins, and Elizabeth, the wife of Elisha Hawkins
Witnesses: Charles Pemberton, Edward Brasfield, Bennet Pemberton
Executors: Edward Herndon, Joseph Herndon and my son John Edwards

Sources

1. ↑ Spotsylvania County (Va.), William Armstrong Crozier, and Clayton Torrence. 1905. Spotsylvania county, 1721-1800 being transcriptions from the original files at the county court house, of wills, deeds, administrators' and guardians' bonds, marriage licenses, and lists of revolutionary pensioners. New York: Pub. for the Genealogical Association by Fox, Duffield & Co.

See also: * Franklin County Kentucky Will Book 2 page 56

• Franklin County Kentucky Deed Book F page 346
• Franklin County Kentucky Deed BooK L page 371

• Extensive research on this person and family by Robert Fillerup.