Jeffrey
Hawkins
Born in Wiltshire, England
Ancestors 
Son of Geoffrey Hawkins
and [mother unknown]
[sibling(s) unknown]
Husband of
Dorothy (Mattock) Hawkins
— married
2 Sep 1662 in Norton Bavant, Wiltshire, England
Descendants 
Father of
Roger Hawkins, Susanna Margaret Hawkins, Daniel Hawkins, Elizabeth Jane (Hawkins) Derby, Jeffrey Hawkins, James Hawkins, Roger Hawkins and Anne Hawkins
Died
at about age 71
in Feltonville, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Biography
Jeffrey was born in 1640 in Wiltshire, England. He was the son of Geoffrey Hawkins.[1]
Jeffrey died at the age of about 71 on 16 January 1711 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.[1]
There are additional sources with no facts or date. Often these are sources for the baptism or marriage of children that mention the parents or father. This section can just be removed if you will be adding those children and using these sources there.[2]
Research Notes
Notes from external profile
- @N619@
He came to the colonies with his wife and children on the Welcome Ship with William Penn (proven) in 1682
Sources
- ↑ 1.0 1.1
Death: Title: Millennium File Publication: Name: Heritage Consulting. Millennium File [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2003.
Birth date: 1645 Birth place: England Death date: 1712 Death place: Pennsylvania, USA. - ↑
1684 Arrival: Title: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s Publication: Name: Gale Research. Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc, 2010,
Page: Place: Port uncertain; Year: 1684; Page Number:.
Arrival date: 1684 Arrival place: Port uncertain.
Notes
- The passenger list for the ship Welcome arriving PA in 1682 has never been found. Geo. E. McCracken in his Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful published in 1970, lists in his analysis of “Proved†the Hawkins’s Jeffrey, Dorothy, Roger, James, Daniel, Jeffrey, Susanna and Elizabeth. Those he considered as proved he had found letters, deeds, meeting minutes, court records, etc. to confirm their existence. He lists also Hawkins’s Roger and Sarah as “Possible†as there are records of their presence in PA in that immediate time frame. (Since the Shield article is written after the Welcome article did McCracken change his views?)
- The children in the parish records are not an exact match with the names on McCracken’s lists of Proved, and Possible. We do find that Jeffery, Dorothy, Roger, Daniel, and Jeffery from the Parish list are also considered proved by McCracken. But, what about Margaret, Jane, John, and Sarah? And who are James, Susanna, and Elizabeth? (note: Susanna is Margaret as in Susanna Margaret, Elizabeth is Jane, as in Elizabeth Jane, James may be James John but I do not have this definitively, I have no Sarah.)
- Warrants indicate that six (6) of Jeffery’s children were with him on the voyage in 1682. Anne had died in 1681, and if Margaret, age 19 had married and stayed in England, there were the five remaining children from the Parish list that were aboard. The sixth would be James (not listed in the Parish records) who was “proved†by McCracken, and whom we have positive records on. James must have been born in 1681 after the family became Quakers (or possibly at sea). (note: James was born 1674 that's why I think he is John, the Welcome list I have (McCracken) lists 6 children: Roger, James, Daniel, Jeffery, Susanna, Elizabeth)
- Margaret, John, and Sarah are not mentioned in any known records in America. Margaret would have been about 19 in 1682; maybe she married and stayed in England (no known record of this). John and Sarah could have perished at sea (“one passenger had come aboard at Deal with incipient small pox…burial at sea were an every day occurrence, until 31, or approximately one-third of the passengers died and went to a watery grave…†[source: An address to the Welcome Society, 25 Oct 1957, by George P. Orr]. (note: Susanna Margaret came to America and married John Collins but more of her is not now known; if John is James then he is found extensively in the records, he married Mary Elliot and had 7 children)
- Jane, though not listed by McCracken, must have been one of the six children. Later Jane, with her husband Thomas Coverdale, as stated in the probate record were the administrators of her brother Daniel Hawkins' estate. (note: Elizabeth Jane is in the records as marrying in NJ to William Derby)
- Falls MM reported that Roger (son) married out of unity in 1684. He was administrator of father Jeffery’s estate 16 Jan 1711/12. A Roger m. Elizabeth Holman at St. Mary’s, Burlington in 1712. I know of no known descendents of Roger. (note: I have no records for Roger)
- Who were the Elizabeth and Susanna that McCracken “Proved,†that were not listed in the Parish register? McCracken states that a “?†is placed before their names to express doubt as to whether this Elizabeth [and Susanna] was a child of Jeffery…†My belief is that Elizabeth and Susanna were children of Jeffery’s brother Roger. (note: The list I have, which is the McCracken list, gives the two girls as 'daughters' of Jeffery and Dorothy)
- Records indicate that Roger (a brother to Jeffery), and his wife Sarah were classified by McCracken as “Possible†on the Welcome. His death and relationship is recorded in Fall Quaker minutes of 1689. This Roger had named Wm. Darby (Elizabeth’s husband) heir to the land that Roger had purchased from his brother Jeffery. (note: Here is a mention of Elizabeth Jane's husband William Derby, not Thomas Cloverdale)
- Susanna had married John Collins. As a widow, she sold property in 1690 purchased from Jeffery in 1686. “As is the case with Elizabeth, the doubt is as to whether we have correctly identified Susanna as a child of Jeffrey Hawkins.†Welcome Society
- It seems that almost everyone that has records on Jeffery & Dorothy have bought into the fallacy that Susanna was “baptized†as Margaret, that Elizabeth was “baptized†as Jane, that James was “baptized†as John, and that Sarah was “baptized†as Anne. Peter R. G. Horton, O.B.E., a very respected Wiltshire researcher, in a reply to this information being included in a letter from Ralph Hawkins Bower stated in 1998, “…the theory is an ingenious one, but it can only be met by complete incredulity. I fear there is or was no English custom of differing baptismal and given names such as he suggests. In fact it was probably about 100 years after the baptisms of the Hawkins children that children were given more than one Christian name….†(note: I have read that the name changes occured when becoming Quakers. Also, Elizabeth Jane used the name Jane frequently after marriage and became a Baptist in NJ.)
- Concerning Jeffery’s sons, Daniel died in probably 1711, Jeffery the son in 1706 signed a quit claim on land Jeffery the elder had willed to Jane’s husband and no more is know on him, John is not mentioned in American records (maybe died at sea), and Roger the son is recorded as marrying out of unity, and is the probable Roger mentioned as an early New Jersey settler (no known offspring). I have been contacted by possible descendents of Jeffery’s and brother Roger's daughters, but nothing on any descendents of the sons other than James. Is anyone aware of any descendents of Jeffery’s sons or issue of his brother Roger? (note: I have reason to believe John is James, but other than a year of birth being the same have no other compelling data)
Acknowledgments
- Jeffrey Hawkins (1633-1712) on Find A Grave: Memorial #176308379 retrieved 06 May 2021
- Tepper, Michael (editor), New World Immigrants: a Consolidation of Ship Passenger Lists and Associated Data from Periodical Literature (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1979).
- McCracken, George E, The Welcome Claimants Proved, Disproved and Doubtful with an Account of Some of their Descendants (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1970); Uses extensive research to prove or disprove claims made as to who was on the ship Welcome with William Penn.
- This person was created through the import of MYERS-EVEY Family WikiTree.ged on Apr 18, 2013.
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2. There are two sons named Roger attached to this profile, almost surely an error copied from Ancestry. Please remove the one born in 1678 unless there is a record of this birth and death in England. 3. Because they crossed with William Penn (Thomas Holmes’ transfer on 10-13 or 10-23-1682 to Jeffrey Hawkins Holmes’s head-rights to acreage in PA was endorsed by Wiliam Penn when the Welcome was at sea), their arrival was not 1684. Jeffrey Hawkins was granted 288 acres in Bucks Co. (PA) in Nov. 1683, some of which was to fulfill Holmes’ grant transferred to Hawkins in Oct. 1682. Please delete the source saying they arrived in 1684 and any related text. 4. McCracken’s article should be listed as a source for arrival in 1682 et al. 5. A profile note mentions an article by Shield; perhaps it should be listed as a reference. 6. Since McCracken’s hypothesis re mismatched given names has been discredited, the profile’s narrative should not be fitted into discredited conjecture and instead should start anew. To that end there follows a proposed new bio based mainly on what already appears in the current bio:
DRAFT of NEW BIO Jeffrey Hawkins from Norton-Bavant, Co. Wiltshire, crossed with his wife Dorothy and 6 children in 1682 on the Welcome with William Penn. Four children (Jeffrey, Daniel, Jane and Roger) who left tracks in PA correspond to baptismal records in England. Thirty-one passengers on the Welcome died due to a smallpox outbreak, so not all of Jeffrey’s 6 children necessarily reached PA. This couple’s children bp. In England included: [LIST HERE] McCracken in Source # ___ hypothesized that 3 of the children bp. in England were known by different names in PA. That claim was judged not credible by Peter R. G. Horton, O.B.E., a very respected Wiltshire researcher, when replying to correspondence from Ralph Hawkins Bower in 1998. Horton added that the practice of giving children two Christian names began nearly 100 years later. Hawkins’ daughter Margaret left no record in PA. Bp. in 1663, Margaret might have m. by 1682 and not come to PA or crossed with a different family. Daughter Jane, bp. in England in 1668, evidently married in PA Thomas Croasdale, named executor of the estate of his brother-in-law Daniel Hawkins who died ca. 1689. McCracken guessed that Jeffrey Hawkins had daughters Susannah and Elizabeth although they weren’t found in England’s bp. records. Immigrant Jeffrey Hawkins sold land to John Collins whose wife was a Susanna, hardly proof of her paternity. Jeffrey’s brother Roger’s will devised 100 acres to William Darby/Derby; Darby had a wife Elizabeth who was far more likely to have been Roger’s daughter than Jeffrey’s. So 1-2 vacancies remain for the 6 children who crossed with father Jeffrey. James Hawkins was almost surely the son of either Jeffrey or Roger Hawkins; Jeffrey is the prohibitive favorite since Roger devised 100 acres to his son-in law, nothing to James. There is no record of James’ baptism where Jeffrey’s other children were bp., so James was possibly John, son of Jeffrey and Dorothy baptized in 1674. Far more likely, though, is that James was born after 1680 (he didn’t marry until 1705). So we can account for all children of this couple bp. in England by assuming Margaret had married and son James was not born in England. The b. date of 2-12-1674 assigned to James was the date of son John’s christening, adhering to McCracken’s now-discredited conjecture that James was christened John. It is more likely that John died while crossing and James was b. after the family crossed.