"Col. Ben. Hawkins, a native of Warren county, N.C., was next Agent. He raised ......... daughters-- Georgia, Carolina, and Virginia --and one son, James Madison, called after the Col.'s class-mate in college, who was afterwards President of the United States." according to "Woodward's Reminiscences of the Creek, or Muscogee Indians"
[Col. Hawkins' other daughters were Cherokee, Jeffersonia and adopted daughter Muscogee Hawkins.]

James Madison Hawkins is enumerated with his sister Virginia in 1850 in Yalobusha County, Mississippi
Federal Census of 1850 North of the Yalobusha River in the County of Yalobusha State of Mississippi 4th Sept 1850 -
177 177 W. A. Carr 47 M Planter 6,000 GA
Virginia 40 F GA
Benjamin 19 M Flda
Mary 15 F Ga
Cherokee A. 16 F Ga
Lewis P. 13 M Ga
Silas W. 11 M Ga
Thomas L. 9 M Miss
Lucy P. 6 F Miss
William D(?) 10/12 M Miss
J. M. Hawkins 41 M None Ga

James Madison Hawkins had two children with Mahalia - Jim Hawkins and Martha Benny Hawkins. Martha Benny Hawkins married Ed Tom Lawshe, a son of Lewis Madison Lawshe. According to James Madison Hawkins' will, Martha Benny was left in the custody of his niece, Georgia Lawshe Woods.∼*Madison Hawkins
Born unknown and before 1816
Parents Col Ben Hawkins and Lavinia Downs. She was the daughter of Isaac, dispatch rider for Col. Hawkins, who was stationed at Ft. Wilkinson

Never married

Siblings:
Georgia and Caroline who died without marrying;

Muscogee mar. Christopher Kizer and Bagnell B. Tiller who left her

Cherokee married Lewis Lawsha;

Virginia b. 1810 married William A. Carr b. 1803 a Captain in the Creek Indian War of 1836, Stewart Co., in which he was accused of ordering his men to retreat without sufficient cause and they roved to Yalobusha Co., Miss.

William A. was the son of Henry Carr who mar. Mary , 1783-1851, also a daughter of Isaac and a sister of Lavinia who mar. Col. Hawkins.

Jeffersonia, youngest child, was born about 1815 after the will had been made. Jeffersonia was not named in the will and when probated in Jones County in 1816, a legal battle ensued. Jeffersonia married Francis Bacon who came from Boston and founded the town of Francisville on the Crawford side of the Agency around 1825. It flourished until railroads were built in the area in the early 1850 s and it gradually became a dead town. After the death of Francis, Jeffersonia married Dr. J. C. Harvey

(See the Carr Family in the 1900 Census of Taylor Co.). Col. Hawkins widow went into business with John Buchanan and lost her share of Hawkins estate.
Lavinia died 1828 and was buried at Ft. Hawkins, Macon, Ga., her grave is unmarked.

NOTES ON MADISON'S FATHERS LINEAGE FROM Holt Felmet
I believe the two Benjamin Hawkins were 3rd cousins to each other. Benjamin Hawkins of Buncombe Cty NC is at FaG 107501449

NOTES ON MADISON'S FATHER AND FAMILY
Benjamin Hawkins (August 15, 1754 ¨C June 6, 1816 was an American planter, statesman, and 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 as General Superintendent for Indian Affairs (1796¨C1818), he had responsibility for the territory of the Southeast south of the Ohio River, and was principal Indian agent to the Creek Indians.

Hawkins established the Creek Agency and his plantation in present-day Georgia, where he lived in what became Crawford County.
He learned the Muscogee language, was adopted by the tribe and married Lavinia Downs, who some believe was a Creek woman, with whom he had seven children. (See marriage and family below)
He wrote extensively about the Creek and other Southeast tribes: the Choctaw, Cherokee and Chickasaw.

He eventually built a large complex with African slave labor, including mills, and raised considerable livestock in cattle and hogs

Hawkins was born to Philemon and Delia Martin Hawkins on August 15, 1754, the third of four sons.
The family farmed and operated a plantation in what was then Granville County, North Carolina, but is now Warren County.
He attended the College of New Jersey, later to become Princeton, but left in his last year to join the Continental Army.
Hawkins was commissioned a Colonel and served for several years on George Washington's staff as his main interpreter of French.

Hawkins was released from federal service late in 1777, as Washington learned to rely on la Fayette for dealing with the French.
He returned home, where he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives in 1778.
He served there until 1779, and again in 1784.
The Carolina Assembly sent him to the Continental Congress as their delegate from 1781 to 1783, and again in 1787.

In 1789, Hawkins was a delegate to the North Carolina convention that ratified the United States Constitution.
He was elected to the first U.S. Senate, where he served from 1789 to 1795.
Although the Senate did not have organized political parties at the time, Hawkins' views aligned with different groups.
Early in his Senate career, he was counted in the ranks of those senators viewed as pro-Administration, but by the third congress, he generally sided with senators of the Republican or Anti-Administration Party.

1785, Hawkins had served as a representative for the Congress in negotiations over land with the Creek Indians of the Southeast.
He was generally successful, and convinced the tribe to lessen their raids for several years, although he could not conclude a formal treaty.
The Creek wanted to deal with the 'head man'.
They finally signed the Treaty of New York after Hawkins convinced George Washington to become involved.

In 1796, Washington appointed Benjamin Hawkins as General Superintendent of Indian Affairs, dealing with all tribes south of the Ohio River.
As principal agent to the Creek tribe, Hawkins soon moved to present-day Crawford County in Georgia where he established his home and the Creek Agency.
He studied the language and was adopted by the Creek. He wrote extensively about them and the other southeast tribes.

Hawkins began to teach European-American agricultural practices to the Creek, and started a farm at his and Lavinia's home on the Flint River.
In time, he purchased enslaved Africans and hired other workers to clear several hundred acres for his plantation. They built a sawmill, gristmill and a trading post for the agency. Hawkins expanded his operation to include more than 1,000 head of cattle and a large number of hogs.
For years, he met with chiefs on his porch and discussed matters there.
His personal hard work and open-handed generosity won him such respect that reports say that he never lost an animal to Indian raiders.

He was responsible for 19 years of peace between the settlers and the tribe, the longest such period during European-American settlement.
When in 1806 the government built a fort at the fall line of the Ocmulgee River, to protect expanding settlements just east of modern Macon, Georgia, the government named it Fort Benjamin Hawkins in his honor.

Hawkins, Benjamin - Chose the site for Fort Hawkins - The fort was constructed in 1806. "In 1795 President Washington appointed Mr. Hawkins, then a U.S. senator from North Carolina, as one of three commissioners to treat with the Creek Confederacy. In 1801 Colonel Hawkins [former Revolutionary War interpreter for George Washington] was appointed principal agent of Indian affairs south of the Ohio River. He was one of the leading actors in treaties with the Indians, and in 1812 he was the sole commissioner in Georgia" (Kilowatt News, May 1946).

Hawkins, William (1777 in North Carolina - 1819 in Sparta, Georgia on a return trip from settling the estate of this uncle, Benjamin Hawkins). Served two years at Fort Hawkins as assistant to his uncle. William was educated at Princeton [as was Benjamin], became a lawyer in 1797, served as Speaker of the House (1805) and was elected governor of North Carolina in 1810 - The Virginia Magazine
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Hawkins saw much of his work to preserve peace destroyed in 1812. A group of Creek rebels, known as Red Sticks, were working to revive traditional ways and halt encroachment by European Americans.
The ensuing civil war among the Creeks coincided with the War of 1812.

During the Creek War of 1813-1814, Hawkins organized "friendly" Creek Indians under the command of William McIntosh to aid Georgia and Tennessee militias in their forays against the Red Sticks.
General Andrew Jackson led the defeat of the Red Sticks at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend in present-day Alabama. Hawkins was unable to attend negotiations of the Treaty of Fort Jackson in August 1814, which required the Creeks to cede most of their territory and give up their way of life. Hawkins later organized "friendly" Creek warriors to oppose a British force on the Apalachicola River that threatened to rally the scattered Red Sticks and reignite the war on the Georgia frontier.

After the British withdrew in 1815, Hawkins was organizing another force when he died of a sudden illness in June 1816.

Hawkins tried more than once to resign his post and return from the Georgia wilderness, but his resignation was refused by every president after Washington.
He remained Superintendent until his death on June 6, 1816.

At the end of his life, he formally married Lavinia Downs in a European-American ceremony, making their children legitimate in United States society.
They already belonged to Downs' clan among the Creek, as they had a matrilineal system; this gave them status in the tribe.

He made a common-law marriage for years with Lavinia Downs, who some erringly believe was a Creek Indian woman, whereas most evidence indicates that she was a white woman.

They had a total of six daughters: Georgia, Muscogee, Cherokee, Carolina, Virginia, and Jeffersonia, and one son, Madison Hawkins.
In 1812, thinking he was on his death bed, Hawkins married Lavinia formally to make their children legitimate in US society.
Jeffersonia was born after this marriage.

Hawkins was close to his nephew William Hawkins, whom he made a co-executor of his estate along with his wife; he bequeathed to William a share of his estate, reputed to be quite large. This bequest became a source of contention among his heirs, especially as he had not altered his will to include his youngest daughter Jeffersonia.

Benjamin Hawkins was buried at the Creek Agency near the Flint River and Roberta, Georgia.

Fort Hawkins was built overlooking the ancient site since designated as the Ocmulgee National Monument. Revealing 17,000 years of human habitation, it is a National Historic Landmark and has been sacred for centuries to the Creek. It has massive earthwork mounds built nearly 1,000 years ago as expressions of the religious and political world of the Mississippian culture, the ancestors to the Creek.

NOTES ON HAWKINSVILLE, GEORGIA
The seat of Pulaski County, Hawkinsville lies in south central Georgia on the banks of the Ocmulgee River. Situated about forty-six miles south of Macon, Hawkinsville plays a significant role in the state's agriculture, industry, and tourism sectors. According to the 2010 U.S. census, Hawkinsville's population was 4,589.

Ten highways run through the town, which is nicknamed Hub City and Georgia's Highway Hub. This intersection of state and federal highways provides Hawkinsville industries, which include textiles and paper, convenient access to Georgia's ports.

Small businesses line Commerce Street in Hawkinsville, the county seat of Pulaski County. Hawkinsville is nicknamed Hub City and Georgia's Highway Hub because of the ten state and federal highways running through the town.Hawkinsville
is named for Colonel Benjamin Hawkins, who served as the principal temporary agent for Indian affairs south of the Ohio River from 1796 until 1803, when he became the principal agent for the Creeks. Hawkins's close relationship with the Creek Nation, he lived among them and eventually married a Creek woman helped to preserve peace between the Native American people and the newly formed United States

HAWKINS CTY TENN
Hawkins County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2010 census, the population was 56,833.Its county seat is Rogersville, Tennessee's second-oldest town.

Hawkins County is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region.

Hawkins County was named for Benjamin Hawkins, a U.S. Senator from North Carolina

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