Jones COUNTY GA Will Benjamin Hawkins
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Will Book A pt 33
BENJAMIN HAWKINS 1/9/1812 - 9/2/1816
By this my last will and testament, I give all my lands, negores and property of every description to my wife, Lavinia Hawkins and our daughters, Georgia, Musckogee, Cherokee, Caolina and Virginia and our son Madison and William Hawkins, my nephew of North Carolina to be divided in eight equal parts to their heirs forever. If my wife find or choses to stay here, she can do so with the property or if she should move into Georgia or any state to settle she has full power to do so to purchase a settlement for her convenience and accommodation for her children as her judgment may direct.
I apoint my nephew William Hawkins as Guardian for the education of my son Madison and I appoint my wife, Lavina Hawkins Executrix and my nephe William Hawkins Executor of this my last will and testament given under my hand at the Creek Agency this ninth day of January one thousand eight hundred and twelve.
Signed: Benjamin Hawkins
Jones County
Personally appeared in Open Court, John Jameson one of the witnesses to the within will who being duly sworn saith that he saw the testator Benjamin Hawkins sign the same and saw the other wintesses Christian Lumbough and Thoms M. Ellis sign in the presence of each other and that the testator was in sound mind and memory. Sworn to in open court 2nd Sept 1816.
Test A. Carter, Clk
See Story of Benjamin Hawkins and the Military Fort
http://www.rootsweb.com/~gataylor/forts.htm
The first Indian Agent for the area was Colonel Benjamin HAWKINS born in 1754, the son of Col. Philemon Hawkins. He was selected by General George WASHINGTON as French Interpreter on his official staff during the American Revolution when a senior studying at Princeton. He later was elected a congressman from North Carolina, and in 1796 appointed Agent for all the Indians south of the Ohio.
Col. Hawkins had his residence on the East side of the Flint River. The surrounding area was used to teach the Indian better ways of growing food and other skills.
Early in 1812, fearing that he might die, he sent for his common-law wife, Lavinia DOWNS, to come to the Agency to be with him. She was the daughter of Isaac Downs, a dispatch rider for Col Hawkins, stationed at Ft. Wilkinson.
Lavinia was born in 1782 (30 years younger than Benjamin). The Moravian missionaries at the Agency performed the marriage ceremony. He also made a will Jan 9, 1812 dividing his considerable estate into 8 equal parts...(wife, 6 children and a nephew). Jeffersonia, a daughter, was born after the will was made and there was controversy at the time of the probate, 1816.
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