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Hawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816

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Personal name headingHawkins, Benjamin, 1754-1816
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Associated countryUnited States
LocatedNorth Carolina
Birth date1754-08-15
Death date1816-06-06
Profession or occupationIndian agents Legislators
Found inA bibliography of the constitutions and laws of the Am. Indians, 1947: p. 78 (Benjamin Hawkins (1754-1816), a U.S. Indian agent whom [the Creek] named in their language Beloved Man of the Four Nations)
Wikipedia, July 7, 2015 (Benjamin Hawkins; b. August 15, 1754, d. June 6, 1816; American planter, statesman, and U.S. Indian agent; delegate to the Continental Congress and a United States Senator from North Carolina; had responsibility for the Native American tribes south of the Ohio River, and was principal Indian agent to the Creek Indians)
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Finding aid for Hawkins family papers, via UNC University Libraries, Mar. 30, 2020 (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 (1819-1894), who studied medicine, but worked chiefly in railroads and banking; Philemon Benjamin Hawkins (1823-1891), who was a planter and served in the North Carolina legislature; and Colin M. Hawkins (fl. 1860-1880), businessman of Raleigh, N.C. Hawkins family members worked as planters, state and federal officials, railroad executives, bankers, commission merchants, machinery and phosphate manufacturers, and operators of other enterprises in North Carolina and several adjacent states)
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