ORIGIN: Unknown
MIGRATION: 1633
FIRST RESIDENCE: Watertown
OCCUPATION: Carpenter.
EDUCATION: The inventory of widow Anna (Hammond) (Hawkins) Barron included "books" valued at 15s.
ESTATE: Granted two acres in the Beaverbrook Plowlands at Watertown, 28 February 1636/7 [ WaBOP 7]; granted three acres in the Remote Meadows, 26 June 1637 [WaBOP 9]; granted a farm of sixty-four acres, 10 May 1642 [WaBOP 12].
   In the Inventory of Grants Timothy Hawkins held six parcels of land: ten acre homestall; two acres plowland in the Further Plain [Beaverbrook Plowlands]; seven acres upland beyond the Further Plain; three acres upland; two acres Remote Meadow; and twenty acres Great Dividend [WaBOP 90]. In the Composite Inventory he held two parcels: ten acre homestall and sixty-four acre farm [WaBOP].
   On 2 June 1641 the General Court concluded "that Tymo: Hawkins hath nothing due to him in justice, so nothing is to be allowed him; but if he will put in security to pay £45, he is granted the house to take away, & dispose of it, provided he give his answer in within a month" [ MBCR 1:331].
   On 1 April 1651 "William Clearke of Watertown, weaver, sold to "Timothy Haukins of the same town, carpenter," thirty-five acres of upland, being the first lot in the third division of the Great Dividends, granted by the town to Thomas Arnold, sold by him to Thomas Boiddson, and by him to the said Clearke [ MLR 1:22].
   On 18 June 1657 Henry Dunster, late President of Harvard College in Cambridge, confirmed a sale which he had earlier made verbally (but not yet in writing) to "Timothy Hawkins of Watertown, carpenter," of two parcels of meadow in Cambridge, totalling eighteen acres [MLR 3:219].
   The inventory of the estate of Timothy Hawkins was taken 27 September 1651 and totalled £186 10s., of which £85 15s. was real estate: "house and land at home," £45; "30 acres of Great Dividend," £16; "meadow at Rock Meadow," £18, "10 acres of upland," £1 10s.; "Remote Meadow," £15s.; "land in lieu of Township," £1 10s.; and "a farm," £3 [ MPR Case #10835].
   In her will, dated 18 August 1683 and proved 6 October 1685, "Hanna Barron of Watertowne ... widow, being weak in body," bequeathed to "my son Timothy Hawkins my dwelling house and all the lands upland and meadow adjacent ... together with all my outlands and meadow the whole and singular lands and buildings with all appurtenances"; to "my daughter Hanna Barron's children to each of them £3 to be paid as followeth, to my grandchild Eliz [i.e., Ellis] Barron to be paid £3 in cattle at my decease, to my grandchild Timothy Barron to be paid £3 at twenty-one years of age in cattle in both horses excepted, to my grandchildren Hanna, Elizabeth, Sary, Grace, Mehettabel Barron £3 apiece after my decease ... to be paid in brass, pewter, bedding, household goods such as I shall leave"; to "Timothy Hawkins's daughter Mary Hawkins my mohair coat"; to "my five granddaughters first named" my clothing equally divided; to "my two grandchildren Benjamin and Benoni Garfield £20 to be paid as followeth £5 in the hand of Elizabeth Gross of Boston to be improved for them till they attain the age of twenty-one years and at that age to be paid with the income of it and £10 more to be paid to them at twenty-one years of age by my son Timothy Hawkins" paid in cattle and corn, and if one of the boys dies, the other receives £20, if both die then the £20 be equally divided; to "the former grandchildren by my daughter Hannah Barron"; "my two son-in-laws Eliz Barron and Benjamin Garfield have had their wives' portions long since duly paid"; "my son Timothy Hawkins sole executor"; "to my negro Shippio his time, chest and clothing to perform the advice of my late husband Eliz [i.e., Ellis] Barron" [MPR 6:244, Case #1292].
   The inventory of the estate of "Hanah Barron widow in Watertown" was taken 10 September 1685 and was untotalled, but included £78 in real estate: "the house, barn, orchard and by estimation sixteen acres of land adjoining," £70; "a farm," £4; "two acres in lieu of Township," £3; and "a parcel of meadow in the great meadow," £1 [MPR Case #1292].
BIRTH: By about 1612 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: By 27 September 1651 (date of inventory).
MARRIAGE: By 1637 Anna Hammond, baptized Lavenham, Suffolk, 14 July 1616, daughter of WILLIAM and Elizabeth (Paine) HAMMOND. She married (2) Ellis Barron and died at Watertown 1 September 1685 [ WaVR 56; TAG 20:135-36].
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