"A biographical sketch and incidents of the life and services of the late Colonel Benjamin Hawkins Superintendent of all the Indians South of the Ohio", 1848

Containers:

Box 12, Folder 36, Item 1

Scope and content:

Composed by his nephew John D. Hawkins of Franklin County North Carolina.

Mentions an enslaved person, unnamed.

"The servant who attended upon Col Hawkins at the Battle of Monmouth, as he did before as well as after that period, and for many years, was freed in 1801 and although two years older than his Master he lived until about four years ago, when he died in the County of Warren, near the place of his Master's nativity."

Physical location:

32108050819575

Collection context