Person:Roger Hawkins (2)

    1685, Jeffrey Hawkins, planter, conveyed to Roger Hawkins, planter, for L8/15, 100 acres, part of a grant confirmed to Jeffrey Hawkins by William Penn.1  This deed does not call the grantee a brother but on 1 March 1706, Jeffrey Hawkins of Philadelphia, laborer, gave a release to Elizabeth, widow of William Darby, in which he recites that his father Jeffrey had sold to his brother Roger (uncle of the younger Jeffrey) the property mentioned in the deed of 1685. 

    1687. In a deed of Jeffrey Hawkins to his son Daniel dated 1 10th mo. 1687, the mark of Roger Hawkins appears as witness. Roger Hawkins was also a witness on 17 4th mo. 1683 to the marriage of Samuel Dark and Ann Knight and again in 1684 to the marriage of Richard Lundy.

     1689, This man is identified as a brother of Jeffrey Hawkins the elder by a record of Falls Monthly Meeting dated 6 9th mo. 1689, shortly after the death of Roger. On 4 7th mo.
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     From: Bucks County Pennsylvania, Church Records of the 17th and 18th century by Watring & Wright. Volume 2. From minutes of the Falls MM, and Middletown MM. g.

     Page 58 6/9/1689. Jeffrey Hawkins, brother of Roger Hawkins is executor of his estate, and states that his brother has taken occasion against Friends before his death. (Falls MM, Men's minutes)

     Page 58 4/10/1689. Jeffrey Hawkins changes his comment and states he is troubled about what he said and that he did not make the funeral more publik.

Joelle Bertolet, Haverford College Library
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    From Bucks County Pennsylvania Deed Records, 1684-1763 by John David Davie (Heritage Books, Inc): Page 314, 17 Mar 1706 [?17 May 1706], "Elizabeth Darby, (widow of Willaim Darby of Falls Twp., Bucks Co., Pennsylvania to Thomas Kirkbride, 54 acres...line of George Biles...purchased of Thomas Dure... and 100 acres... purchased of Roger Hawkins, who purchased of Jeffery Hawkins, who patented 1685. Signed Elizabeth Darby. Wit: Joseph Kirkbride and John Large.

    From the Welcome Claimants Approved, Disproved and Doubtful by McCracken, page 223. "In the release by his nephew Jeffrey, cited above, reference is made to a will of this Roger, "dated" but the date is left blank, in which the 100 acres bought from his brother were willed to William Darby. [Wm Darby is the husband of Elizabeth Hawkins. PAH] No Hawkins will has been founded in the counties of Bucks, Chester, or Philadelphia, or in New Jersey. 

    Hinshaw, Vol. 2, p. 1000, Falls MM: "1684, 4, 4. Roger [Hawkins] rpd mou." This Roger is almost certainlly the son of Jeffery.

    Could our James 1 possibly be the son of Jeffery's brother Roger and wife Sarah? Why not (as I believe Susanna and Elizabeth to be)? [Phillip A. Hawkins, 11 Apr 2004, Easter]