Person:Benjamin Hawkins (12)

Information on Benjamin Hawkins

Benjamin Hawkins II was born on 16 June 1738 in Virginia Colony, Fauquier Co..749 or 1736 He died in May 1807 in USA, Kentucky, Mercer Co..1013 Benjamin and Ann went from Orange Co., Virginia to Mercer Co., KY sometime after 1788 as a land Transactions in Orange County lists the following sale: 1788 Benjamin Hawkins and Ann his wife James Hawkins and Jane his wife sell to Thomas Coleman 370 acres on Rapidan River Close to Willis and Waugh. It is part of the 40,000 acres formerly granted to Spotswood.

Most of the Hawkins/Bourne line and Benjamin and Sarah Willis Hawkins lived up near the Rapidan River and in Culpeper on the other side of the Rapidan....except, for Benjamin and Ann Bourne Hawkins who moved down close to Barboursville in the area of Cameron Mt.

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