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Facts and Events
| Name |
William Hawkins |
| Gender |
Male |
| Alt Birth? |
20 Jan 1608/09 |
Quainton, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Alt Birth? |
20 Jan 1608/09 |
Exon Glour, Devon County, England |
| Birth? |
Abt 1610 |
England |
| Immigration? |
1634 |
Arrived in Rhode Island |
| Property? |
20 Dec 1638 |
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United StatesLand Was Recorded In His Name |
| Marriage |
1642 |
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United Statesto Margaret Harwood |
| Occupation? |
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Farmer |
| Death? |
1699 |
Providence, Providence County, Rhode Island |
| Alt Death? |
17 Jun 1699 |
Providence, Providence, Rhode Island, United States |
The Oct. 1860 edition of NEHGR contains the following, taken out of a book labelled as a listed of those leaving the port of Plymouth in 1634: "A list of the names and surnames of those persons who are bound for St. Christopher and have taken the Oath of Allegiance before me Mr. William Gourney, Mayor of Dartmouth, they being brought before me the twentyeth day of ffebruary in ye year of our lord God 1634: Imprimis William Haukins, of Exon, Glouer aged 25 yeares or thereabouts...Margarett Harwood of Starkgabriell, Devon, aged 22 yeares or thereabouts." (NEHGR 14:341) The problem with this record is that William the immigrant and his wife Margaret had no children until about 1641 or 1642, an unusual gap for the time.
Listed as a founding member of Rhode Island in NEHGR 1:291. This is likely because he was one of the original 52 men to receive land in 1638.
References
- Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
2:384.
| Founders of Providence, Rhode Island
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| Roger Williams was exiled from Massachusetts Bay in June 1636 for his religious beliefs. He settled the area now known as Providence with a few others, and two years in 1638 purchased it from the Narragansett. He then deeded 12/13 of it to twelve other religious dissenters known as the "Original Proprietors." There also exists in City Hall in Providence a manuscript that purports to show the lands of the first settlers, as originally allotted. It is undated, but appears to have been created before about 1650.
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| First Comers with Williams: William Arnold, John Smith, William Harris, Francis Wickes, and possibly Joshua Verin and Thomas Angell
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| Original Proprietors: Stukely Westcott, William Arnold, William Carpenter, John Greene, Thomas James, Robert Cole, William Harris, Thomas Olney, John Throckmorton, Francis Weston, Richard Waterman and Ezekiel Holliman.
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| Other early landowners (from south to north): Robert Williams - Christopher Unthank - William Hawkins - Robert West - Hugh Bewitt - John Lippitt - Matthew Weston - Edward Hart - Thomas Hopkins - Widow Sayer - Widow Tiler - Nicholas Power - William Wickenden - William Man - William Burrow - Adam Goodwin - Thomas Harris - Joshua Winsor - John Field - William Field - Richard Scott - George Rickard - John Warner - Chad Brown - Daniel Abbott - William Reynods - John Sweet - Alice Daniels - Widow Reeve - Benedict Arnold - John Greene Jr. - Edward Manton - Thomas Painter - Matthew Waller - Gregory Dexter
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| Resources: History of the State of Rhode Island - Lands and Houses of the First Settlers of Providence
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Current Location: Newport County, Rhode Island Parent Towns: Boston Daughter Towns: Newport
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