Benjamin Hawkins
BIRTH
Aug 15, 1754
Granville County, North Carolina
DEATH
June 6, 1816
Crawford County, Georgia
FAMILY
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Hawkins, Benjamin
(1754-1816)
Benjamin Hawkins was a North Carolina statesman who served in the Continental Congress during the closing years of the Revolution. He later became a United States senator and a prominent federal agent to the Creek Nation in the Southeast.
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Places | Image | Address | GPS | Site |
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Benjamin Hawkins Indian Agent Marker | 2434 Franklin Pkwy, Franklin, GA 30217 | MARKER |
DIED:
Crawford County, Georgia
Jun 6, 1816
Benjamin Hawkins was born on Aug 15, 1754 in Granville County, North Carolina. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
The available biographical record identifies Benjamin Hawkins with work or public activity as a spy. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Benjamin Hawkins died on Jun 6, 1816 in Crawford County, Georgia. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.