Joseph Hawkins
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Joseph Hawkins grave rests in Montrose Cemetery in Copley Township which is located west of the city of Akron in Summit County, Ohio.
Waymark Code: WM8MQV
Location: Ohio, United States
Date Posted: 04/20/2010
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Excerpts from: Revolutionary Soldiers of Summit County:
Joseph Hawkins, a Revolutionary soldier, born November 3, 1760, at Providence, Rhode Island, died in Copley Twp., November 17, 1848, and is buried in Montrose Cemetary.
In 1779 was residing in Vermont and enrolled in May of that year, in Capt. Ephrim Bull's company, Colonel Warren's regiment of militia. Their regiment did scouting for security of the frontiers.
Later served in Capt. Isaac Clark's company of volunteers that turned out for a month in October, 1780; and was enrolled in Capt. John Hawkins' company of minute-men of Woodstock, for service in the alarm at Royalton, in October, 1780. Also served in company of militia under command of Lieut. Abisha Samson that did duty at Bernard for ten days in October, 1780.
In an alarm of March, 1781, and one of August 10, 1781, he was a member of Capt. Jesse Safford's company; and in 1782, served as a corporal in Capt. Isaac Hurlburt's company, in Col. Thomas Lee's regiment, on an expedition to the northward under the immediate command of Major Gideon Brownson.
Location type: Single Grave
Date of Birth: November 3, 1760
Date of Death: November 17, 1848
Cause of death: Died Later
Grave Marker Text: JOSEPH HAWKINS
DIED
NOV. 17, 1848
AGED 89 YRS.
There is more written at the bottom of the gravestone, perhaps a poem, but it is too weathered to make out.
Ranks: Presumably, a private.
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