Re: Hawkins, Benjamin, Indian Agent, and Chief McIntosh
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Re: Hawkins, Benjamin, Indian Agent, and Chief McIntosh
dot williams 7/03/03
Update: To all who answered my first message about Hawkins and McIntosh, thank you!Further study has caused more riddles! There are some books I can recommend:"Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent", "Chief William McIntosh", and there is a new one written about Jane McIntosh (Ah-Ko-Kee).These books have indexes in back which give clues to genealogy.I'm beginning to think I'll find the truth only by going to geneology libraries...it is so complicated.Found out that Chief McIntosh's wife, Eliza, was a Hawkins;that two of his daughters (one was Jane and I can't remember the other's name, both married Hawkins men.Jane's husband was Samuel Hawkins, who died with the Chief when they were killed by "Red Sticks" Creeks.Davy Crockett's mother was Rebekah Hawkins, whose father was Joseph Hawkins who married Anneka Jane Edwards, a "Quakeress."Rebekah's grandfather was a Samuel Hawkins. Turns out Benjamin Hawkins, Indian Agent, only had one son, James Madison Hawkins, who never married(!)(so how could we have Hawkins name from the Indian Agent? ...the son had a girl child to a slave, Mahalia.I think I read years ago that Benjamin had another Native American wife.His "real" wife, Lavinia, was a Native American.I would be very interested in receiving email from Dorothy Hawkins about the "sons of Benjamin Hawkins who was pioneer settler in Buncombe County, NC"My studies have only caused more doubts, yet wonderment at how my father could have written a family tree with all of these people.There were no computers in his days.He had no way to come up with a fiction which checks out and then doesn't.For instance, he knew the name of Anneka Jane Edwards, the grandmother of Davy Crockett! Sorry I took so long to get back to you all.
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Re: Hawkins, Benjamin, Indian Agent, and Chief McIntosh
Dr. Dorothy Rushing 7/11/04