JOHNSON and SCHAUFELBERGER GENEALOGY
HAWKINS Research
GOVERNMENT RECORDS
- A number of requests were made to the State of New Hampshire; only some of the requested records were found.
- Information about the deaths of Charles Phineas Hawkins and his wife, Mary Hampton White, were obtained from the Health Department of the City of New York.
CEMETERIES
Evelyn Johansen, daughter of Mildred Evelyn (Hawkins) Livingston, visited the Tufts Cemetery (Ashuelot) in 1977 and obtained the following information: |
Daniel Hawkins
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born 1740
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died 14sep1825
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Thankful Hawkins, Daniel's wife
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died 1819
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Daniel Hawkins, Jr.
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born 1771
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died 1820
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Amy Arnold Hawkins, wife of Daniel Jr.
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born 1773
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died 6apr1854
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Daniel Hawkins
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born 1801
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died 1820
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Roby Wilson Hawkins
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born 1805
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died 14jan189?
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Stephen O. Hawkins
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born 1794
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died 1866
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Cynthia Hawkins, wife of Stephen
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born 1795
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died 18sep1840
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Stephen O. Hawkins
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born 1827
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died 1892
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Abbie A. Hawkins, wife of Stephen
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born 1831
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died 1891
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Rand and Sharon Johnson visited the Tufts Cemetery on Old Hinsdale Road, Ashuelot, Cheshire NH on May 23, 2004 and were able to supplement the data provided by Evelyn Johansen.
Willis Cemetery, located in the woods on a hill south of the Back Ashuelot Road, includes the burial place of Jonathan Jenks - one of the founders/partners of the iron company and the town of Ashuelot. Rand and Sharon Johnson visited this cemetery on May 23, 2004 with Gene and Dianne Piurkowski as guides.Green Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn was visited by Rand, Sharon and Tim Johnson in January 2001: lot 5456 Section 22, although no additional information regarding direct lineage was gleaned.The Dale Cemetery in Ossining, NY provided a layout of the plot of Martin Leggett Van Tine, where he and his wife Sarah are buried, along with Augusta (VanTine) Hawkins, her husband George White Hawkins, and their son George W. Hawkins, Jr. All of Augusta's siblings are also buried at Dale. The plot was purchased on April 22, 1868 by Sarah A. Mangam [her relationship, if any, to the VanTines is unknown.]HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
Rand and Sharon Johnson visited the Brooklyn Historical Society where the History of Cheshire and Sullivan Counties, New Hampshire provided much of the information about the Hawkins. Meanwhile, the Biographical Review , Cheshire and Hillsboro Counties, New Hampshire, Vol. XXIII, ©1897 contained no reference to a Hawkins. We consulted A Hawkins Genealogy by Ralph Clymer Hawkins, Genealogist of the Hawkins Association, which charts the descendants of Robert Hawkins, primarily of Long Island; there are no references to a Stephen prior to 1800 so we conclude this is not a directly related line.
LIBRARIES
Rand and Sharon Johnson visited the Perkins Library at Duke University where the Gazatteer of Cheshire County New Hampshire (see transcription) linked Stephen O. Hawkins, Sr. back to a Stephen Hawkins--this was a very exciting find and we couldn't wait to get back to the hospital to tell Rand's dad. This work suggests that both Stephen and Stephen O. Sr. died in Winchester, but neither is apparently buried in Ashuelot Cemetery [subsequently learned that both are buried at Tufts Cemetery, Ashuelot]. The Town Papers of New Hampshire 1690-1800 were also found here.In a visit to the New York Public Library, we learned that there is no Stephen Hawkins in the 1732 Census for New Hampshire.Rand and Sharon Johnson visited the Conant Library in Winchester, Cheshire NH on May 24, 2004. The library has microfilm records of the early years of Winchester but we did not have sufficient time to review them.FIELD TRIPS
On Saturday March 4, 2000, Rand and Sharon Johnson visited the address of the Hawkins brewery in NYC (343-345 W. 41st Street): the location is now a Post Office building "behind" The Port of Authority; the interior may be original although the facade is certainly not. We also found the home of Charles Phineas Hawkins at 446 W. 44th Street, a 4-story townhouse (including "garden" floor) located on the south side of the street between 10th and 11th Avenues.
MISCELLANEOUS
Evelyn Johansen wrote to Charles R. (Dutch) Nelson, a Hawkins genealogist, whose line seems to be to an Abraham Hawkins. His letter is difficult to read and follow but he thinks that a Daniel Hawkins had Stephen as his principal beneficiary.
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