Capt. Thomas Hawkins

Abt 1609 - 1648  (~ 38 years)

• Name	Thomas Hawkins  [1]
  Prefix	Capt.
  Birth	Abt 1609  [2]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Between 20 Oct 1647 and 7 Nov 1648	At sea   [2]
  Person ID	I21339	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TWK
  Last Modified	22 Nov 2020

  
  

  Family	Mary Welles,   b. Abt 1610   d. Aft 11 Jan 1671, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age ~ 61 years)
  Marriage	19 Aug 1628	St. Dunstan's, Stepney, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Children	+ 1. Hannah Hawkins,   b. 8 Oct 1644, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts d. 9 Oct 1676, Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F12653	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Dec 2018

  
  

• Notes

  "At his death in the autumn of 1648 aboard his own ship, the Peregrine, on a voyage from England to Boston, Capt. Thomas Hawkins, formerly a shipwright in London's Stepney district, was a successful Boston shipbuilder and merchant. James Savage called him 'a man of distinction, a captain and merchant of more enterprise than discretion.' Oliver A. Roberts in his history of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston described Hawkins as 'a busy, restless ship-builder, who owned a ship-yard near his house, made many voyages, was cast away three times, and, at length, as if determined to show that he was not born to be hanged, lost his life by shipwreck.'" [Wilcox, citation details below.]

  
  

• Sources

  [S137] Wayne Howard Miller Wilcox, "The Ancestry of Katherine Hamby, Wife of Captain Edward Hutchinson of Boston, Massachusetts." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 145:99, 1991; 145:258, 1991. [S1068] Wayne H. M. Wilcox, "Captain Thomas Hawkins, Shipwright, of London and Dorchester, Massachusetts, and Three Generations of His Descendants." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 151:193, 1997.