William Hawke

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68316
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72408
• Occupation: 1847, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer

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A-1-102 Benjamin Hawk Probate of the will of Benjamin Hawk, late of the Township of Wellesley, granted the 15^th July 1856 on the petition of Mary Roadhouse, late widow of Benjamin Hawk (Percifer Hawk & George Hughes having renounced) the Executrix named in said will.

I Benjamin Hawk of the Township of Wellesley, Farmer…I desire that my grain and such part of the farming stock as my Executors may think proper may be disposed of and the proceeds be applied to the payment of my debts. …I now occupy lot number six in the twelfth concession of the Township of Wellesley…that my Executors dispose of part of the said lot so as to enable them to pay the first installment on the remainder…I give and bequeath to my beloved wife Mary Hawk in trust to enable her to support my children during her natural life and at her decease to be equally divided amongst my then surviving children. And I hereby commit the Guardianship of all my children until they shall respectively become of age, unto my said wife, and my Executors hereafter named, and I do hereby declare that the expenses of the maintenance and education of my children until they shall be of age shall be paid and borne by my said wife by and out of the property given and bequeathed to her in and by this my will. And I do hereby constitute and appoint my said wife Mary Hawk joint Executrix and my brother Percifer Hawk and my brother-in-law George Hughes, joint Executors of this my last will and testament.

Witnessed by Geo Ballow, David Petch and Janet Hawk
Will dated 9 November 1847
Granted 15 July 1856
Died 12 November 1847
No inventory.

Surrogate Court Records Copybook Register A 1853-1871 transcript to 1863. Frances Hoffman transcriber

Benjamin — Mary Dean. Mary (daughter of George W. Dean) was born 20 Mar 1815, , Pennsylvania, USA; died 20 May 1857, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Rushes Cemetery, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Name: Mary Hawke
• Name: Mary Roadhouse
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-72407
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Methodist

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Mrs. Mary Roadhouse, wife of William Roadhouse of Wellesley, died May 20 May 1857, age, 42.


Christian Guardian 10 Jun 1857 pg 143

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• FindAGrave: https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136320143
• Interesting: military, pioneer, story
• Military: War of 1812 - contractor for hauling the cannons and supplies passing through Holland Landing
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68263
• Occupation: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Farmer
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Quaker
• Occupation: 1852, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; farmer
• Occupation: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Gentleman
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Lot 8 Con 11
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Quaker

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It is worthy of notice that the first distinct influx of settlers into this township, came in or about the year 1825, and most of those settled in this southeast quarter of the township. Among the names of settlers entering or taking up lands before this period, not already mentioned, we find that of John Connor (1822) who took up lot 19, con. I, and that of William Walker, (1821) on lot 15, con. I.

The Hawke family were amongst the earliest settlers in this south- east corner of the township. Benjamin Hawke, the head of the family, came to Yonge Street from Pennsylvania about the year 1811, his wife being a sister of Samuel Lount, who was executed after the Rebellion. During the war of 1812-15, Mr. Hawke was the contractor for hauling the cannons and supplies passing through Holland Landing, and across the portage from the Head of Kempenfeldt Bay to the Nottawasaga River. His sons, along with himself, settled in King and Tecumseth Townships in the twenties, when the parts around Lloydtown and Schomberg were opening for settlement. He was one of the candidates to represent the County of Simcoe at the election for the Assembly in 1834, but was not successful. He was appointed a justice of the peace in 1843. He was lame, and in his day had a full share of the rugged experiences of frontier and pioneer life. Periphen Hawke was taken prisoner during the Rebellion disturbances of 1837, and, after five months' imprisonment, was pardoned, according to the list of persons arrested appearing in Lindsay's Life of W. L. Mackenzie. And it is said that Gabriel Hawke, of Tecumseth, was also taken prisoner during the Rebellion, although his name does not appear in that list. Gabriel was a large, powerful man, and well-known in the early days of the Township of Tecumseth. Some part of the Hawke family moved to the Township of Wellesley, County of Waterloo, where the village of Hawkesville is named after them.

History of Simcoe County, Andrew F. Hunter 1909

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There are at least 2 children not mentioned as daughters of Benjamin Hawke and Mary Lount. They are: Ann Dunham Hawke who married John PETCH and later Philip CHAMBERS. Ann Chambers died in Caledon Twp. on October 14, 1887. Corrine Hawke married Dennis ROGERS. She died in South Norwich Twp. on June 6, 1874.

Benjamin — Mary "Polly" Lount. Mary (daughter of Gabriel Lount) was born 16 Mar 1787, , , Delaware; died 9 Mar 1876, Hawkesville, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; was buried , Hawkesville Union Cemetery, Hawkesville, Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada. [Group Sheet]

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• Birth: , Georgia
• Birth: Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
• Birth: , Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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• Name: Mary "Polly" Hawke
• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68264
• Residence: 1851, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Quaker
• Residence: 1861, Wellesley Twp., Waterloo Region, Ontario, Canada; Quaker

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• Eby ID Number: Waterloo-68270

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George W.'s two sons by his first wife, Henry H. and George, married Newton sisters and settled in Tecumseth Township, Simcoe County as early as 1833. They lived there most of the remainder of their lives
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In 1834 Samuel Lount was elected to represent Simcoe County in the Legislature of Upper Canada (Ontario). He was an uncle of John Hawk who in about 1832 married George W. Dean's eldest daughter, Martha. In the 1830's, political storm clouds were gathering over the corrupt administration of Upper Canada by the "Family Compact," a collection of officials who favored family and friends in dispensing land and appointing government officials. The leader of the opposition to the "Family Compact" was William Lyon Mackenzie, and he was joined by others including Samuel Lount. In 1837 many of the leading reformers, including Mackenzie and Lount, lost their seats in Parliament, and their cause became an armed rebellion. After the uprising was put down, some of its leaders including Mackenzie escaped to the United States, but two of the leaders were caught and later hanged. One of these was Samuel Lount. The reforms over which the rebellion was fought were enacted into law on February 10, 1841.

In about 1846 Benjamin Hawk Sr., his wife Mary (Lount) Hawk, and the families of their five sons and four daughters moved from Simcoe County to unsettled land in Wellesley Township, Waterloo County. The area was known as the "Queen's Bush." The community where they settled became Hawkesville. These Hawk families included Benjamin Jr. and Mary (Dean) Hawk and John and Martha (Dean) Hawk. John Hawk built the first gristmill in the vicinity of Hawkesville, and his brother Percifer Hawk built the first sawmill. There are numerous instances where verifiable members of this family, in some cases even the same person, spelled their name Hawk or Hawke. On at least one early map the town was named Hawksville. Except where quoting sources, I have chosen to spell the name Hawk.

Accompanying the Hawk families were a number of other families, including George W. Dean, his wife and their sons John, Alfred and Walter. Land records indicate George Dean, Sr. claimed Lot 4, Con. 15 (Eastern Section) Wellesley Township in 1847. This is the land devised in George W.'s will when he died in 1856. These land records also show a Henry H. Dean claimed part of Lot 8, Con. 11 (ES) Wellesley Township in 1847 and a George Dean claimed the east half of Lot 13, Con. 14 (Western Section) in 1850. I think these were George W.'s sons claiming land in Wellesley Township, but not remaining there for any length of time.

The 1851/52 census was the earliest Canadian census to list the names and ages of all the members of each household. It records many of the people listed in the previous two paragraphs at or near Hawkesville, Wellesley Township. In that census, George W. Dean, his wife Jane, their two youngest sons Alfred and Walter, their son John and his wife Margaret and a Jane Newton were enumerated in a one-story log house. The census enumerator wrote "granddau" beside the name of Jane Newton even though the census form did not require such information. My research indicates she was actually a grandniece of George W., not a granddaughter. In that census, George W. gave his religion as "No Church" while the remainder of the family were "Wesleyan Methodist."

George W. Dean died 21 November 1856 at the age of 70 years. He was buried in the Hawkesville Cemetery. In his will he bequeathed 62 acres of land consisting of the east part of Lot 4, Con. 15 (Eastern Section), Wellesley Township and the buildings on it to his son, John Dean, and he bequeathed 50 acres consisting of the west part of that lot to his son, Walter Dean. The James Sim who witnessed the will was "a minister of the Baptist Denomination" and a community leader in Hawkesville. He later performed marriages involving at least two Hawk children and the Jane Newton mentioned above. <sup>1

1</sup>https://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~ladeanxx/famgwd.htm

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Record of the Will of George Dean recorded December 1856

Typed from a microfilm of the original court record by L. A. Dean, 26 October 1996

Probate of The Will of George Dean, late of the Township of Wellesley, Yeoman, deceased, granted the 5th day of December, 1856, by William Uillen [?], Esquire, Judge, on the Petition of Jane Dean, the sole Executrix named in said Will, and which Will is in the words following, namely:

The Last Will and Testament of George Dean, in the Township of Wellesley, County of Waterloo, and Province of Canada, by the Grace of God, Amen. I George Dean Considering the uncertainty of this Natural life and, Being of Sound Mind and Memory (blessed be Almighty God for the Same) do Make and publish this My last Will and Testament in Manner and form following (That is to Say) First I give and bequeath unto My beloved Wife Jane Dean all My personal Property Constituting My entire Farm Stocking Consisting in goods and Chattles viz: My entire farm Stocking On Lot No. 4 -15 Con (E.S) in the Township of Wellesley with the exception and reservation of One New Waggon One Span of Horses and harness and One Cow and Calf. I also will and bequeath fifty five Dollars in Money to be paid to her Annually for the term of her Natural life by My Eldest Son John Dean out of My real Estate. -

Item. I further Will and bequeath unto My Eldest Son John Dean the rest of My personal property Consisting of One New Waggon One Span of Horses and harness and One Cow and Calf. I also give and devise to My Son John Dean his heirs and assigns that part of My real Estate Lot No. 4 - 15 Con. (E.S.) in the Township of Wellesley Consisting of the East part of the Said Lot Containing Sixty two Acres of land with all the buildings and tenements thereon. Reservation that from Said part of My Estate he John Dean Shall Pay to My wife Jane Dean the Sum of fifty five Dollars in Money Annually for the term of her Natural life: -

Item - I further give and devise unto My Youngest Son Walter Dean of my real Estate all the remainder of Lot No. 4 - 15 Con (E.S.) of Wellesley Consisting of the West part of Said Lot Containing fifty Acres of Land with the exception of One Hundred Dollars of its value in Money which I reserve to be paid by Walter Dean to My Son Alfred Dean.

Item - I further Will and bequeath to My Son Alfred Dean One hundred Dollars in Money, to be Paid to him by Walter Dean Consisting of the Sum which I reserved of that part of My Real Estate bequeathed to My Son Walter Dean.

Item - I further will and bequeath to Henry H. Dean to Martha Dean to Mary Dean and George Dean of My first Marriage Five Shillings Currency each. And of the Second to Eliza Dean to Sarah Ann Dean to James Dean William Dean and to Levi Dean five Shillings Currency each. And lastly I hereby appoint My beloved wife Jane Dean to be the Sole Executrix of this My last will and Testament. In Witness whereof I have hereunto set My hand and Seal this Fifth day of April in the Year of Our Lord One Thousand Eighty hundred and fifty Six. [5 April 1856]

[Sd] George Dean [seal]

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English immigrant Gabriel Lount (1759\endash 1827), arrived in Philadelphia in 1773 as an indentured servant, served in the Pennsylvania Militia 1777\endash 1778, then moved to Cape May, New Jersey, about 1782.

The Lounts and the extended Hughes family emigrated from Cape May to Catawissa, Northumberland, Pennsylvania, about 1790, then to Whitchurch Township in Upper Canada in 1811. Gabriel Lount and his sons Samuel, Gabriel and George became surveyors and extensive land-owners in Upper Canada. Gabriel Lount served as a Member of Parliament from Upper Canada

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