Hawkins family papers, 1740-1898.

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Hawkins family papers, 1740-1898.

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The collection includes extensive business and personal correspondence, 1738-1893, of several generations of the Hawkins family. Also included are papers of other locally prominent related families and correspondence with relatives who lived in Texas, Mississippi, Florida, and other states. Some correspondence relates to slaves owned by family members. Volumes up to 1865 relate primarily to planting and railroads; included are some slave records. The remainder of the volumes are account books, letter books, inventories, order and shipping records, and other records. Among companies important in the papers are Hawkins, Williamson & Company, cotton brokerage and commission merchants of Baltimore, and its successor Hawkins & Company; C.M. Hawkins & Company, which continued Hawkins & Company; the Pioneer Manufacturing Company of Raleigh, N.C., distributor of plows, cotton planters, pulleys, machine castings, bobbins, spools, shuttles, and manure; and the North Carolina Phosphate Company, incorporated in 1885, with its main offices at Raleigh and works at Castle Hayne, N.C. There is almost no material pertaining to Benjamin Hawkins's activities as Revolutionary War leader and United States senator, but there are a few items relating to his career as a United States Indian agent.

ca. 1,600 items (28.5 linear feet)

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7090528

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

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Benjamin Hawkins (August 15, 1754 – June 6, 1816) was an American planter, statesman and a U.S. Indian agent He was a delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina, having grown up among the planter elite. Appointed by George Washington in 1796 as one of three commissioners to the Creeks, in 1801 President Jefferson named him "principal agent for Indian affairs south of the Ohio [River]", and was principal Indian agent to the Creek Indians. Born on his f...

Hawkins, Phil. B. (Philemon Benjamin), 1823-1891

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Pioneer Manufacturing Company (Raleigh, N.C.)

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North Carolina Phosphate Company (Raleigh and Castle Hayne, N.C.)

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Hawkins family.

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The Hawkins family, primarily of Warren and Franklin counties, N.C., included Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1818), who served with Washington in the American Revolution, was in the Continental Congress and the United States Senate, and, in the 1790s, was agent to the Creek Indians and superintendent of all tribes south of the Ohio River; John Davis Hawkins (1781-1858), who graduated from the University of North Carolina in 1801, studied law, and served in the North Carolina Senate; William J. Hawkins (...

Hawkins, Colin M., fl. 1860-1880.

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Colin M. Hawkins was a student at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill, N.C., 1864-1866. From the description of Colin M. Hawkins photographic collection, 1860s (bulk 1866) [graphic]. WorldCat record id: 43026535 Colin M. Hawkins was born on 26 December 1847. He attended the University of North Carolina from 1864 to 1866, at which time he transferred to Washington College (now Washington and Lee University). A member of a prominent Warren County, N.C., family, he ...

Hawkins, W. J. (William Joseph), 1819-1894

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Hawkins, John D. (John Davis), 1781-1858

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Raleigh Gas Light Company (N.C.)

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Hawkins, Williamson & Company (Baltimore, Md.)

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