Person:Roger Hawkins (1)

    HinshaW, Vol. 2, p. 1000, Falls MM: "1684, 4, 4. Roger [Hawkins] rpd mou"

    Baptized 14 Jul 1678 All Saints, Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, England; administrator of father's estate in 1712; married one or two times; believe he married "out of unity" the first time; believe he 2nd married Elizabeth Holman on 11 Jun 1714/1715.

     From the book First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsbridge, Olde East New Jersey: " HAWKINS,"The great English Rear Admiral, Sir John Hawkins, definitely stating, in his own will of 1594, that he was a kinsman of Sir Francis Drake, made important here because of the fact that the Hawkins family came early into New Jersey. Roger Hawkins,of this lineage, was a settler of Woodbridge, New Jersey in 1709, and appears in earlier New Jersey records, along with William Hawkins locating Gloucester County. It is an assumption that Joseph Hawkins, who was of Middlesex County, 1725-1726, was a son of the Roger Hawkins. In 1684, Roger Hawkins was a planter and called ' of Crookhorne, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.' It also should be noted that in the register of St. Mary's Church at Burlington, New Jersey, is an entry of marriage, June 11 or 14 or 15 1712, of Roger Hawkins and Elizabeth Holman. (Gen. Soc. of Penn., Vol. II, 1900-1903, p. 245)" 

    The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, January 1, 1902, pp 67-8, Historical Society of Pennsylvania, "In reply to inquiries, Dr. William H. Egle writes me that "Crookhorne" in Falls Township, Bucks County, was the first seat of justice of the county," And General W. W. H. Davis writes, "Crookhorne was on the Pennsylvania side of the Delaware at Trenton Falls. It had no surveyed bounds, but a frontier settlement and local court was held there. 
    The "new town of Crewcorne" At the Falls must have been the first settlement of what is now Morrisviille. "Gilbert Wheeler called his house 'Crookhorn,' a name long forgotten," says Davis, and John Wood, whose plantation included the present site of Morrisville, described himself in his will, 1692, as John Wood of Crookhorne in the County of Bucks."