Born about in Henry County, Virginia
[uncertain]
Ancestors [uncertain]
Daughter of William Taylor
and Sarah (Scruggs) Taylor
[uncertain]
Wife of
Benjamin Hawkins Sr
— married
1 Oct 1778 in Henry County, Virginia
Descendants 
Mother of
Sarah Ann (Hawkins) Newman, Nancy (Hawkins) Templeton, Blanche (Hawkins) Campbell, Joseph Hawkins, John Hawkins, Polly Hawkins, William H. Hawkins Sr., Benjamin Franklin Hawkins Jr., James Hawkins and Raleigh Hawkins
Died
at about age 87
in McMinn, Tennessee, United States
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| Created 27 Jan 2015
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Biography
Descendant of William Taylor, a Revolutionary War Patriot.
Mary (Taylor) Hawkins was born on 6 May 1759 in Virginia, daughter of William Taylor (1728 - 1803) and Sarah (Scruggs) Taylor (1740 -1828).
Mary married Benjamin Hawkins (1757 - 1827) on 1 Oct 1778 in Henry County, Virginia. [1]Their children were:
- Sarah Ann Hawkins (~1780 - ~1860)
- Nancy (Hawkins) Templeton (~1783 - ~1825)
- Blanche (Hawkins) Campbell (~1784 - <1850)
- Joseph Hawkins (~1785 - <1870)
- John Hawkins (~1790 - <1869)
- Polly Hawkins (~1790 - <1850)
- William H. Hawkins Sr. (~1793 - ~1850)
- Benjamin Hawkins Jr. (~1796 - <1860)
- James Hawkins (~1797 - ~1864)
- Raleigh Hawkins (1800 - 1882).
Mary died in 1848 in McMinn County, TN aged ~89.
Sources
- ↑ Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940: Ancestry.com. Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2014. Original data: Virginia, Marriages, 1785-1940. Salt Lake City, Utah: FamilySearch, 2013. Ancestry Record 60214 #4437851
Marriage:
Name: Moluy Taylor Gender: Female Marriage Date: 01 Oct 1778 Marriage Place: Henry, Virginia Father: Wm. Taylor Spouse: Benjamin Hawkins Reference ID: p 2
- Father's DAR record https://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/search_adb/?action=full&p_id=A113060
- Find a Grave information for Mary Taylor Hawkins, 1759-1848, who died in McMinn County, TN.
- DAR record for Benjamin Hawkins of Henry County, VA.
- Henry County, Virginia, Marriage Bonds 1778-1849, page 24.
- December 1827 will of Benjamin Hawkins.
- 3 May 1831 Chancery Court record: page 3 of McMinn County, Tennessee Deeds and Other Data, 1820-1880.
- Tennessee 1830 census record for James Hawkins.
Notes
Data for Mary Taylor with birth and death dates can be found on Find a Grave at http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=22676525
The data associated with the above site also indicates her spouse was Benjamin Hawkins. The DAR record for Benjamin shows his wife as Mary Taylor, with a daughter named Nancy who married a John Templeton.
Henry County, Virginia, marriage records show a Benjamin Hawkins married a Molly Taylor on 1 October 1778. The record has her father listed as a William Taylor. William also served in the Revolutionary War and quite bit of data on him can be found at:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=68365334
Benjamin Hawkins's will of December 1827 states he left everything to his wife Mary and daughter Polly. Further stating one of the children was to take care of Mary and Polly. That person was then to receive half of the estate, with the remainder being divided between the other children.
In a 16 March 1846 deposition, Molly Hawkins (age 86) provided support documentation for a cousin named Charity Taylor who had married a John May. Mary (Molly) and Charity were not only cousins via the Taylor family but Mary's son James Hawkins married Mary May, a daughter of John and Charity May.
On page 24, under entry # 46 (filed 16 July 1860), of the Chancery Court Records of McMinn County, Tennessee, there are entries associated the family of Benjamin Hawkins. One entry states Mary remarried after Benjamin's death to "old man Dodson" and moved to Eastanalle. It further states Mary and daughter, Polly, have "long since died."
In the 1830 census for McMinn County, it appears James Hawkins took in his mother Mary and sister Polly. In the census there is a female in the 40-50 age bracket which could Polly, and a female in the 70-80 age bracket who could Mary. Since Mary, as stated above, married "old man Dodson" she may have been in a different household in 1840.
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It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
It may be possible to confirm family relationships with Mary by comparing test results with other carriers of her mitochondrial DNA. However, there are no known mtDNA test-takers in her direct maternal line. It is likely that these autosomal DNA test-takers will share some percentage of DNA with Mary:
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~1.56%
Candy (Burns) Elkins
:
23andMe, GEDmatch TH353671 [compare], yourDNAportal CAN607ed85d
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AncestryDNA, GEDmatch LT3998707 [compare], yourDNAportal CAN607ed85d, Ancestry member rainedaywm
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~1.56%
DM Finch :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member dmfinch
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~1.56%
Paul Burns :
AncestryDNA, Ancestry member PRBurnssenior
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~0.78%
Kathy (Frost) King :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A913885 [compare], Ancestry member kfstewart103
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Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch A913885 [compare], FTDNA kit #298086
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~0.78%
Suzanne Bailey :
AncestryDNA, GEDmatch A331462 [compare]
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~0.78%
~3.12%
Donna (Bennett) Prisley :
Family Tree DNA Family Finder, GEDmatch T005126 [compare], FTDNA kit #691624
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~0.39%
~1.56%
Kathryn (Stepp) Mullis :
23andMe
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~0.39%
Marla (Templeton) Holland :
AncestryDNA
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Robin Lee
DM Finch
Taylor-24072 and Taylor-35348 appear to represent the same person because: I recommend a merger between Taylor-24072 and Taylor-35348. They appear to be the same person and the husband Benjamin also needs to be merged.
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by DM Finch
[Living Templeton]
Phileey-1 and Taylor-24072 do not represent the same person because: Mary Phileey's birth year is listed as 1780 and Mary Taylor's as 1759. Additionally, Mary Phileey could not have been the wife of Ben Hawkins as Benjamin's marriage took place in October 1778 when Mary Phileey would have been two years of age. My suggestion would be to delete Mary Phileey as the husband of Ben Hawkins. In addition, Mary Phileey should be deleted as the mother of Sarah Hawkins.
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by [Living Templeton]
Robin Lee
Phileey-1 and Taylor-24072 appear to represent the same person because: not sure where the last name of Phileey came from, but, it is incorrect from all sources it should be Taylor
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by Robin Lee
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