Hamilton-Hawkins-Greene County TN Archives Military Records.....Hawkins, Samuel 
Revwar - Pension 
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SAMUEL HAWKINS



   Samuel Hawkins applied for revolutionary pension while living in Hamilton

County, in February, 1833. He was born May 18, 1735. He entered the service in

Boston, Mass., under Capt. Lemuel Stewart and Col. James Easton, in Williamston,

Mass., in the first year of the War and was marched to Albany, N. Y., where the

company joined other companies under Gen. Schuyler. He received a written

discharge. He knew personally, Gen. Washington, Gen. Schuyler, Gen. Putnam, Gen.

Gates, Gen. Sullivan, Gen. Nixon, Gen. LaFayette, Gen. Arnold, Gen. Montgomery

and many other officers. After the War he moved to Caswell County, N. C., and to

Hawkins County, Tenn., where he lived 30 years. He moved to Hamilton County,

Tenn., in 1831. His pension application was signed by Congressman John Blair. He

died in Hamilton County, May 6, 1836. His widow, Pharaba Hawkins, made

application for pension while living in Greene County, Tenn., July 29, 1848,

aged 67 years, therefore born 1781. She states that she was married to Samuel B.

Hawkins in Hawkins County, at her father, Samuel Spears' house by William Paine,

Justice of the Peace, for Hawkins County, in August, 1797. Mrs. Nancy Pruitt

(Mrs. Charles Pruitt) says that she was an attendant at the wedding and says

that she herself was married in the same house a few years later.



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SOME TENNESSEE HEROES

OF THE

REVOLUTION

Compiled From Pension Statements

PAMPHLET NO. II



by Zella Armstrong

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