Person:Daniel Hawkins (12)

    In 1688, there is a tragedy. "Cause of death of Ann Hawkins presented by ye Corner to this court to be from a mare she rid upon; occasioned by another horse that was tyed to her tayle going by the way on the contrary side of a tree, which caused the mare suddenly to stop so that she fell from the said mare and was killed." "Was she Daniel's wife? It would seem so since he left his property to his brother-in-law." Source: Record Of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and, and Common Pleas, of Bucks County, Pennsylvania -- 1684-1700. Published by the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania, Printed by the Tribune Publishing Co., Meadville, Pennsylvania -- 1943. [The Families Hawkins, Mills, Confer, and Gillett, copyright 1975 by Patricia Confer Spencer.]
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    Thomas & Jane Coverdale, (executor of the estate of his brother-in-law Daniel Hawkins), laborer, of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania to Henry Seddall, tailor, of same, 14.75 (English pounds), 100 acres...purchased of his father Jeffrey Hawkins...line of John Collins and Thomas Dickerson. Signed Thomas (X) Coverdale and Jane (X) Coverdale. Wit: William Beakes and Henry Baker. [From Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Deed Records, 1684-1763, by John David Davis, page 278, 11 Sep 1689 ( ?Nov?)]
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