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Thanks for the info! I've have not yet done much Dawkins research yet but some solid-looking work from other researchers suggest that I am related to the George Dawkins family that were SC Loyalist during the American Revolution. Thanks for showing their connection to other Dawkins families.
I took advantage of the Free Ancesty.com Thanksgiving and searched for info on all my known lines and I think I've found a couple of references to my George Dawkings family.
Some of the images were of poor quality so there may be some errors in transcription. This may be the reason for an apparent discrepancy; I am not certain about the word "same" in the sentence "He died the same year, leaving ..."
If I read this correctly, the first reference claims the elder George Dawkins died in 1788 but the second seems to indicate he was killed in 1783. Am I reading this incorrectly?
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"Newberry County, South Carolina Historical and Genealogical Annals" author George Leland, Summer 2002
page 332
Dawkins- George Dawkins made will which was proved in Court June 4, 1788. He died same(?) year, Leaving children Susannah Pope, Mary Ann Lane, Elizabeth Pope, Mrs. Grigsby (widow), George, Jemima Herbart, Nancy Barrett. Grand-children: Ellen Hampton, Thomas Barrett, William Dawkins Lane. Nephew: Thomas Dawkins.
Thomas Dawkins Sr. died about 1782 in Abbeville District, leaving widow, Elizabeth.
One George Dawkins in Abbeville District about 1781, leaving widow, Chloe, and children: George, Joseph, Thomas, Hannah and Polly.
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American Migrations 1765-1799
page 675 (South Carolina chapter)
Dawkins, George of Broad River. Memorials by Alexander Innes, Col. of the SC Regt., attorney for claimant, Capt. of the same Regt., now at St. Augustine, 1784: by the claimant, Halifax NS. 1785. In February 1778, the claimant and 500 others joined the Army at St. Augustine. He accompanied the remains of his Regt. when it embarked from EF for NS and is now in a remote place settling his men. He sent a Memorial to London by a Mr. Bice who is thought to have perished while he was on passage. Claim for two plantations of 250 acres on Broad River, thirty miles from the Congarees: 150 acres opposite with 8 negroes. Letter from the claimant to Col. Alexander Innes dated Halifax, December 1783: his old father, aged 69, was murdered by the rebels at the Congarees; in a few days the writer expects to embark for Country Harbour where his Regimental lands have been granted: the husband of his sister Mrs. Lane belonged to Innes's Regt. and was killed in action at Combahee leaving his sister and her 3 small children to be plundered by the rebels. (12/49/1, 68/t, 92/1a, 109/130; 13/96/t17-133,138/526-535).
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