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From: "LouAnn Corrigan" <>
Subject: Replying to Dave's Invitation
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 1998 14:06:10 -0600


From: LouAnn Corrigan <>
To: Uncle^Ken <>
Date: Saturday, April 04, 1998 11:58 AM
Subject: Re: Replying to Dave's Invitation

Hi there..

I'm glad to find such a nice Uncle out there in Washington
county, PA! Hahaha.

I noticed two familiar surnames in your long list and am
wondering if they might be the same lines as the ones I am
trying to pin down. So here goes:

I have been trying to find out more about Roger ROBERTS who
was a Methodist-Episcopal Church member just across the
Monongahela River (prob spelled wrong, but I don't want to
take time to look it up now) that separates Wash co from
Fayette co., in the vicinity of Brownsville, I believe. He
built a meeting house for the use of the church in 1784 and
it was known as the Roberts Chapel. He died in 1801.

His wife was Rebecca CRAWFORD born 9 May 1735 Harford
county, MD, said to be of the James Crawford line, but
which James? This was a Quaker family mentioned in the
Hopewell
records, which I have not been able to really look at
except one marriage (of John Reley and Mary Hutton) in the
Westland MM that both Roger's daughter Cassandra Roberts
Hawkins and
her Uncle (Rebecca's brother) James Crawford attended 20th
day of the 2nd month of 1783.

I don't know if Roger Roberts' family was also Quaker when
they married and then they became ME or if Rebecca was a
little Quaker girl who was tempted by a handsome outsider
and "married out". :-)

But I have been told that the witnesses and executor of
Robert Rogers' will were Rebecca's brothers and sisters.
Unfortunately that is all I have--I wasn't given the names
of these witnesses, just that they were Rebecca's family.

Roger and Rebecca's daughter Cassandra is the only child I
know of for them. She married Willliam Hawkins, a widower
with 3 kids, by 1779 in Maryland, probably in Harford or
Baltimore county. They moved out to Washington county in
the early 1780s supposedly.

I am still trying to determine when for sure. There is a
confusing situation with TWO couples of William and
Cassandra Hawkins, one younger than mine. The other Wm was
born in 1766, whereas mine was born 1749. The younger
couple's descendants claim the same documents identify that
couple as our line say identify OURS, specifically, a deed
to 95 acres in East Bethlehem Twp they bought (sale
recorded in 1788) from Jacob White and then later sold in 3
parcels
to Wm Taylor (90 acres), Amos White (4 acres), and the ME
church trustees (1 acre donated) in 1790. The deeds to Amos
White and Wm Taylor note that Wm Hawkins settled that land
in 1780.

The one acre donated to the ME church had a
meetinghouse/chapel built on it in 1786 that was known as
the Hawkins Chapel or meetinghouse at that time, and later
was called the Taylor Meetinghouse.

The younger couple had a daughter Cassander born before
they left Washington county for Bedford county in 1790,
where
they had several children and Cassandra died. Wm moved on
to WVA and became a ME minister eventually, had 2 more wives
and a lot more kids.

Our Wm and Cassandra also left Bethlehem Twp in 1790 and
bought land in Donegal Twp where they lived for only one
year before they sold it and came back to East Beth Twp,
buying 95 acres from Joseph Woodfield adjacent to Wm's
brother Richard's land. (Richard was taxed in Wash co from
1781-1785 and went back to Harford county, MD.) In 1794 Wm
left the state, buying land near Cincinnati Ohio and
selling the 95 acres in 1795. (I have wondered if the timing
had
anything to do with the Whiskey Rebellion. Perhaps he was
involved and thought it expedient to move on? Just a guess
on my part.)

Does any of this sound familiar to you? Probably not the
stuff about the Hawkins line, but I thought I'd put it in
just in case you had run across anything about them. (I do
know there was a third Wm Hawkins with wife Hannah, who
lived in Donegal twp and was killed by the Indians in 1781
and his daughter Elizabeth was captured. He may be a cousin
to mine.)

But perhaps the Quaker Crawfords and the Roberts line???

Please let me know what you know? Hahaha.
LouAnn Corrigan

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