Philemon Hawkins III (1752 - 1833)

Born 3 Dec 1752 in Pleasant Hill Plantation, Warren County, North Carolina

Ancestors

Husband of Lucy (Davis) Hawkins — married 31 Aug 1775 in Mecklenburg County, Virginia

Descendants

Died 27 Jan 1833 at age 80 in Pleasant Hill Plantation, Warren, North Carolina

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Biography

Colonel Philemon Hawkins III served with Bute County Regiment, North Carolina Militia during the American Revolution.

Philemon Hawkins III is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A053528.

Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed August 14, 2016), "Record of Philemon Hawkins Jr.", Ancestor # A053528. Listed as Jr instead of Philemon III on DAR.

Philemon Hawkins, III was a Revolutionary official, landholder and planter who was born at the Pleasant Hill Plantation, the seat of the Hawkins family in present day Warren County, North Carolina. He was the son of Philemon and Delia Martin Hawkins. His brothers, John, Joseph and Benjamin served as colonels in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War. The subject of this sketch was the great-grandson of Philemon and Ann Eleanor Howard Hawkins of Devonshire, England, founders of this branch of the family in America in 1715.

Young Philemon was long in public life, serving eleven terms in the General Assembly between 1787 and 1818 and three terms on the Council of State between 1781 and 1791; in the latter year, he was president of the Council. He held thousands of acres of land and erected his residence, also named Pleasant Hill after his birthplace, near Middleburg in present Vance County. He was a member of the Church of England and afterwards the Episcopal Church.

At age nineteen, Hawkins fought alongside his father, who was Governor William William's chief aide, at the Battle of Alamance during the War of the Regulation; however, both father and son later became ardent supporters of the Revolution. In the colonial period Philemon was commander of the county militia, and in May 1776, as a colonel, was named one of the officers to organize recruits in the Halifax and Edenton districts. He resigned ten days later, perhaps because he was a member of the Provincial Congress. Later he was a member of the 1789 convention at Fayetteville, which ratified the newly written federal Constitution.

Hawkins married Lucy Davis of Roanoke, Roanoke, Virginia on August 31, 1775. They became the parents of thirteen children, the oldest of whom was Governor William Hawkins. It is said that Hawkins left 131 children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren.

Philemon Hawkins, III, was born in 1752. At age 19 he fought alongside his father, who was Gov. William Tryon's aide-de-camp, at the Battle of Alamance during the War of the Regulation. A colonel in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War, he was subsequently a member of the Provincial Congress and a member of the 1789 Convention in Fayetteville, North Carolina, that ratified the federal Constitution. He passed away in 1833. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64683985/philemon-hawkins Burial Hawkins-Carroll Family Cemetery Middleburg, Vance County, North Carolina, USA

Sources

1. ↑ Armistead Jones Maupin, Hawkins, Philemon, III. In: Powell, William S., Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, 1988. Archived at NCPedia, Accessed at: [1]
2. ↑ Manly Wade Wellman, The County of Warren, North Carolina, 1586-1917. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1959 (2002 ed.). 75, 84. Accessed at: [2]
3. ↑ Samuel A. Ashe, editor, Biographical History of North Carolina, Volume 5, 1906. Accessed at: [3]

• Douglas M. Henry and the "Biographical History of North Carolina," Vol. 5, 1906, Samuel A. Ashe, editor; "North Carolina Government 1585-1979" John L. Cheney, Jr., editor; "State Records of North Carolina, vols. 13, 17, 21 (1896, 1899, 1903), Walter Clark, editor; "Colonial Records of North Carolina," Vol. 10 (1890), William L. Saunders, editor; "The County of Warren, North Carolina, 1586-1917." Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1959, by Manly Wade Wellman; and "Henry Genealogy" by William Henry Eldridge, Press of T. R. Marvin and Son, Boston, Massachusetts, 1915. A copy of the latter can be found in the library of the Southwest Texas State Teacher's College, San Marcos, Texas.