Person:Nicholas Hawkins (3)

Research notes

• MAY be related to Person:Elijah Hawkins (18) from Orange county, VA who also died Abt 1816 in Madison County, KY. Both Hawkins marriages were recorded in Goochland county, VA in The Douglas Register. Additional research is needed to establish any relationship.

1. ↑ Ray, William Van Ness. Reminiscences of the bench and bar of Missouri, with an appendix: containing biographical sketches of nearly all of the judges and lawyers who have passed away, together with many interesting and valuable letters never before published of Washington, Jefferson, Burr, Granger, Clinton and others, some of which throw additional light upon the famous Burr conspiracy. (St. Louis, Missouri: F.H. Thomas, 1878)
   pg. 256-257.

   After leaving college he [John Boyle Gordon] entered upon the study of the law with Colonel Carpenter, and was admitted to the bar of Kentucky in 1824. In the following year, he married Miss Sophia Hawkins. she came from good Revolutionary stock. Her father, Nicholas Hawkins, a native of Virginia, served in the army under Washington, and was at the Battle of Yorktown, and witnessed the surrender of Cornwallis. He died in 1816. Mrs. Gordon is still living, at the venerable age of seventy-three.

2.   United States. 1810 U.S. Census Population Schedule. (National Archives Microfilm Publication M252).

   Name: Nicholas Hawkins
   Home in 1810 (City, County, State): Madison, Kentucky
   Free White Persons - Males - Under 10: 3
   Free White Persons - Males - 10 thru 15: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 16 thru 25: 1
   Free White Persons - Males - 45 and over: 1 [b. 1765 or before]
   Free White Persons - Females - Under 10: 4
   Free White Persons - Females - 10 thru 15: 1
   Free White Persons - Females - 16 thru 25: 2
   Free White Persons - Females - 45 and over : 2 [b. 1765 or before]
   Numbers of Slaves: 23
   Number of Household Members Under 16: 9
   Number of Household Members Over 25: 3
   Number of Household Members: 38

3.   Kentucky, United States. Tax Lists, 1799-1801. (Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006).

   Name: Nicholas Hawkins
   Residence County: Madison
   Residence Year: 1800

4.   Jackson, Ron V. Kentucky, Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1810-1890.

   Name: Nicholas Hawkins
   State: KY
   County: Madison County
   Township: No Township Listed
   Year: 1800
   Record Type: Tax list
   Database: KY Early Census Index

5.   Douglas, William. The Douglas register: being a detailed record of births, marriages and deaths together with other interesting notes, as kept by the Rev. William Douglas, from 1750-1797. An index of Goochland Wills : notes on the French-Hugeunot [sic] refugees who lived in Manakin-Town. (Richmond, Virginia: J.W. Ferguson & Sons, 1928)
   25.

   Hawkins, Nic: & Ann Robinson, both of Spot: 1781, Nov: 14 p. 21.