Person in the county’s record
From the state marker“Governor, 1811-1814; speaker, State House of Commons, 1810-1811. His home, Pleasant Hill, stands one mile N.W.”
State historical marker: G-44: William Hawkins 1777-1819
1777–1819 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗
9 indexed works are connected with this person.
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August 1814 papers of Governor William Hawkins, 55 images, from the War of 1812 years. Richard Atkinson is among the writers. Militia and military supplies, extradition, clemency, judges and the Creek Nation come up, with Hillsborough and Currituck, Iredell, Moore, Person and Randolph counties named.
William Hawkins, governor from 1811 to 1814, who had studied at Princeton, kept these letters from January 1814. Among the 45 images are letters of John P. Leonard, with topics such as the militia, military supplies, extradition and public printing. Chapel Hill and Hillsborough appear with Beaufort, Brunswick and Wake counties.
Governor William Hawkins's correspondence for April 1813, 59 images, with Secretary of War John Armstrong among the writers. Matters include the militia, state boundaries, steamboats, horse stealing, fugitives and judges, and Chapel Hill appears alongside Haywood, Stokes and Wilkes counties and the name of Henry Seawell.
July 1813 correspondence of Governor William Hawkins, 121 images. William Watson is among the writers. Ocracoke, Shell Castle and Pamlico Sound appear, along with Brunswick and Hyde counties and Hillsborough, and the letters take up drought, boundaries, the militia and military supplies.
James Monroe, then secretary of state, is among the writers in Governor William Hawkins's March 1813 correspondence. John Armstrong, Congress, the Cherokee, militia supplies, steamboats, a murder trial and pardons also appear. Chapel Hill and Hillsborough are named with Duplin, Lenoir and Richmond counties. Forty-nine images.
Ninety-eight images of Governor William Hawkins's correspondence for May 1813. William Jones and Nathaniel Macon are among the names, and the letters range over elections, sheriffs, trials, clemency, boundaries and the militia. Hillsborough appears along with more than a dozen counties from Burke and Caswell to Perquimans and Wilkes.
October 1813 letters to and from Governor William Hawkins, 41 images, with Francis K. Huger and Thomas Pinckney among the names. Inland navigation and the Dismal Swamp Canal come up beside boundaries, the militia and supplies, and Chapel Hill appears with Ocracoke and Brunswick and Caswell counties.
Letters from 1812 in the papers of William Hawkins, North Carolina's seventeenth governor, in 14 images. They take up clemency, enslaved people and the state militia, with Granville, Orange and Rowan counties named.
June 1812, the month the United States declared war on Britain, in the correspondence of Governor William Hawkins. Andrew Joyner is among the writers. Across 58 images come the militia and its supplies, the electoral college, wars with Native nations, fugitives, horse stealing and enslaved people, with Hillsborough and many counties named.
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