Person:Susannah Hawkins (6)

    The Welcome Society of Pennsylvania in their book The Welcome Claimants, Proved, Disproved, And Doubtful by George E.Mc Cracken lists a Susanna Hawkins as a "proven" passenger on the Welcome arriving Philadelphia in 1682. As she is not shown in the All Saints Parish (Norton Bavant's Parish) Register as a child of Jeffrey & Dorothy Hawkins, I believe that she was more likely to have been a daughter of Jeffery's brother Roger, who is carried on the Welcome list as a possible. References by the late Carl Henry Hawkins, 1906-1980, to Elizabeth beening baptized as Jane could not be correct. Englishmen of that time did not have two names, and for legal purposes the given name was the same as the baptismal name. [Phillip Ardath Hawkins]

   " vi. ?Susanna, m. John Collins who was dead by 11 10th mo. 1690 when as his widow she sold property purchased from Jeffrey Hawkins the elder on 1 7th mo. 1686. As in the case with Elizabeth, the doubt is as to whether we have correctly identified Susanna as a child of Jeffrey Hawkins. [Copied from Hawkins Family ... by Harold T. Hawkins, that was copied with permission fromThe Welcome Claiments Proved, Disproved And Doubtful.

    From Bucks Co., Pennsylvania Deed Records, 1684-1763, by John David Davis: Page 48, 1July 1686, Jeffrey Hawkins, laborer, of Bucks Co., Pennsylvania to John & Susannag Collins, laborer, of same 9 (English pounds), 110 acres...bounded by John Luff...patented 4 Jul 1685. Signed Jeffrey Hawkins. Wit: Israel Taylor, Robert Lucas, and John Saxby.

    On 29 Dec. 11 Anne 1712 Roger Hawkins, late of Bristol, Bucks County, laborer, for 5/-, grants to Jonathan Nutt of Falls Township, a release and quitclaim for 210 acres in possession of Jonathan Nutt, granted to Jeffrey Hawkins, "my father," by William Penn, 7th mo. 1685, 110 acres of which were sold to John and Susannah Collins, 1 7th mo. 1686, sold by said Susannah, widow of John, to John Liddell, 11 10th mo. 1690; the other 100 acres Jeffrey conveyed to son Daniel, 1 10th mo. 1687, confirmed and conveyed by Thomas Croasdale being sole executor to his brother-in-law, said Daniel, to Henry Liddell, 10 7th mo. 1689. Then these two pieces were taken in execution at the suit of Isaac Meritt by Wm Croasdale, then High Sheriff of Bucks County, and sold to Jonathan Nutt.
 
    Susanna Collins bur 2-6-1698 (6 Apr 1698). Source Hinshaw, Vol II, p 441, a list of "Deaths of Persons Not Friends.) Roger & Sarah's daughter?
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