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             Husband: Joseph HAWKINS (1 2 3 4)
                Born: 30 APR 1724 in Derby, New Haven, CT (5 6 7 8)
             Married: 01 JAN 1750 in Derby, New Haven, CT (53 54 55 56)
                Died: 31 MAY 1767 (9)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (10 11 12)
              Father: Joseph HAWKINS
              Mother: Sarah Ludlow BREWSTER
             Spouses: 
                Wife: Mercy RIGGS (13 14 15 16 17 18)
                Born: 06 DEC 1730 (19 20)
                Died: 15 SEP 1813
              Father: Samuel RIGGS
              Mother: Abigail GUNN
             Spouses: Isaac TOMLINSON
Children
01               (F): Mercy HAWKINS
                Born: 21 AUG 1750 (21 22 23 24)
                Died: 19 SEP 1750 (25 26)
             Spouses: 
02               (M): Freegift HAWKINS (27)
                Born: 1752 (28)
                Died: 1785 (29)
             Spouses: Hannah TOMLINSON
03               (M): Joseph HAWKINS (30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37)
                Born: 1754 (38)
                Died: 23 OCT 1832 (39)
             Spouses: Sarah THOMPSON; Elizabeth WASHBAND
04               (F): Mercy HAWKINS
                Born: 1756 (40)
                Died:
             Spouses: William CLARK
05               (F): Ruth HAWKINS
                Born: 1758 (41)
                Died:
             Spouses: David TOMLINSON
06               (M): Moses HAWKINS
                Born: 1760 (42)
          Christened: 04 OCT 1761 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (43)
                Died: 1793
             Spouses: 
07               (F): Sarah HAWKINS
                Born: l 1764
                Died:
             Spouses: Garwood CUNNINGHAM
08               (M): Amos HAWKINS
                Born: l 1766 (44 45)
          Christened: 08 FEB 1767 in First Congregational Church Of Derby (46)
                Died: 14 MAY 1769 (47 48)
              Buried: in Derby Colonial Cemetery, Derby, New Haven, CT (49 50 51)
             Spouses: 
09               (F): Ann HAWKINS
                Born: 1767 (52)
          Christened: 13 NOV 1768
                Died:
             Spouses:

Footnotes

  1. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 471, 472, 473, 475, 476.
    Chuch Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/471.html.]
  2. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  3. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
  4. Ibid., 465.
    ... was given by his grandfather the store and warehouse at Derby Neck. He built the house that stood on the corner of Elizabeth and Main streets, Birmingham, CT., where the Bank now stands ...
  5. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 235.
  6. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 247.
  7. Ibid., 245.
  8. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  9. Ibid., 807.
  10. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 268.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan268.html.]
  11. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 807.
    Here lyes buried | the body of | Joseph Hawkins | who departed this life | May 31 1767 in ye | 44 year of his age.
    He leaves the abodes of sense
    To shine in realms above
    Contemplate his Maker's Grace
    Sing redeeming love.
  12. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem347.html.]
  13. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 471, 472, 473, 475, 476.
    Chuch Records.
  14. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 247.
  15. Ibid., 245.
  16. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  17. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    Marcy.
  18. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 807.
    Marcy.
  19. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 283.
  20. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 536.
  21. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 236.
  22. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 247.
  23. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  24. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
    ... adopted ...
  25. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 236.
  26. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
  27. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
    In the distribution it states that Freegift was adopted. Owned land on Great Hill.
  28. Ibid., 465.
    ... adopted ...
  29. Ibid., 465.
  30. Donald Lines Jacobus, Families of Ancient New Haven ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1981[originally]Rome, N.Y. and New Haven, Conn., 1922-1932), vol 7, p 1764.
  31. Selected and Introduced by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogies of Connecticut Families From The New England Historical and Genealogical Register ([CD]Baltimore, Genealogical Publishing Co., 1983), vol 1, p 315.
  32. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 537.
  33. 1790 Derby Census.
  34. 1800 Derby Census.
  35. 1820 Derby Census.
  36. 1830 Derby Census.
  37. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
    Joseph lived on the corner of Elizabeth and Main streets, Birmingham, Ct., where his children were born. Later in life he removed to Bungay, about a mile west of the schoolhouse, where he died.
  38. Ibid., 465.
  39. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Great Hill Cemetery, 91.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/ghcemscan91.html.]
  40. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
  41. Ibid., 465.
  42. Ibid., 465.
  43. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 473.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/473.html.]
  44. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  45. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
    Amos, born 1763; died March 14, 1769.
  46. Copied and compared with the original by Nancy O. Phillips, Sarah Riggs Humphrey Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, Derby, Connecticut Town Records, 1655-1710 (New Haven, CT, The Tuttle, Morehouse and Taylor Company, 1901), 476.
    Church Records.
    [http://www.derbyhistorical.org/Records1655-1710/476.html.]
  47. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  48. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 807.
  49. Frank F. O'Brien, 1934 WPA Headstone Inscriptions - Derby Colonial Cemetery, 269.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/dccemscan269.html.]
  50. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 807.
    Here lyes ye body of | Amos Hawkins son | of Mr. Joseph and Mrs. Marcy Hawkins | who departed this life | May 14 1769 in ye | 3 year of his age.
    The Sprightly youth must leave this clay
    As common food for worms
    To dwell in bright eternal day
    In his dear Savior's arms.
  51. Derby Colonial Cemetery Photograph - Derby, CT.
    [http://oxfordpast.net/cem1023.html.]
  52. Rev. Hollis A. Campbell, William C. Sharpe and Frank G. Bassett, Seymour Past and Present (Seymour, Connecticut, W. C. Sharpe, 1902), 465.
  53. Compiled by Lorraine Cook White, The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records, Vol 8 - Derby 1655-1852 (Baltimore, Maryland, Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1997), 235.
  54. Ralph Clymer Hawkins, A Hawkins Genealogy 1635 - 1939, Record of the Descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts (The Hawkins Association, 1939), 247.
    Jan. 3, 1750.
  55. Samuel Orcutt, History of the Old Town of Derby, Connecticut, 1642-1880 (1880, Reprint: Bowie, Maryland, Heritage Books, Inc., 1998), 727.
    Jan. 3, 1750.
  56. John H. Wallace, Genealogy of the Riggs Family (New York, John H. Wallace, 1901), 11.
    January 5, 1749.

Revised: 17-Dec-08
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