DURHAM, John (b. 23 NOV 1698, d. 23 SEP 1722)
Given Name: John
Given Name: Margaret
Given Name: Thomas
Given Name: Mary
Given Name: Joseph
Given Name: Eleanor
Given Name: George (Jerhome)
Given Name: Anne
Given Name: George
Given Name: Alice
Given Name: Joan
Given Name: Francis
Given Name: Thomas
Given Name: James
Given Name: Mary Garland
Given Name: Lucy
Given Name: Edmund
Given Name: Mary
Given Name: Joseph Langford
Note: He was the father of Dr. James Russell. He made a will in SpotsylvaniaCounty, Virginia, and mentioned his wife Nancy, but not the names ofhis 14 children.
Given Name: William "Billy"
Note: The following article, "The Hawkins Family Among America'sEarliest Settlers" was written by Lizzie Hawkins Dean " and isreprinted from a 1914 issue of "The Jeffersonian" newspaper ofLouisville, Kentucky.
"Fairmount, Sept. 6 -- Among the earlier settlers in the EnglishColony in America was William Hawkins, one of the younger sons of SirJohn Hawkins, a Rear Admiral in the British Navy under QueenElizabeth, the Virgin Queen after whom the colonists named theirsettlement in honor of her virginity and Virginia is has been calledever since.
"William Hawkins migrated from England and took possession of hisfather's land (see father's bio). He lived to be 114 years old andreared 12 sons, who eventually scattered out all over the Britishterritory hee. One of these sons founded Hawkinsville, Tennessee.Still another settled in Mississippi, and another, Reuben Hawkins,brought his entire connections to what is now the State of Kentucky.
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