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| Metro Louisville, Jefferson County, KyGenWeb Project |
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| Henry Hawkins |
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Henry Hawkins, who was a private in Capt. Frederick Geiger's Company of
Volunteers in the Battle of Tippecanoe was inscribed on the Pension List
of the Kentucky Agency to commence on 15 Dec 1814. Certificate of
pension was issued 02 Jan 1816 and sent to Robert Crockett, Esq., an agent
for paying invalid pensioners, Lexington, Kentucky on 20 Dec 1820. Henry
Hawkins and Frederic Gergis made affidavit for pension in Jefferson
County, Kentucky on 10 Dec 1814 before James Ferguson, Justice of the
Peace. They stated that in 1811, a company was raised and started to
Vincennes, Indiana. They said Gergis was chosen by the company as their
Captain to command them and was received as such by William Henry
Harrison, then governor of said state. Hawkins was one of Gergis's
volunteers. They were marched under the command and orders of said
Harrison to Tippecanoe on the Wabash. Hawkins was in action on 07 Nov
1811 in the Battle of Tippecanoe between the Indians and the force under
command of said Harrison. Hawkins was badly wounded in left leg above
the ankle and was so disabled he could not march and was conveyed in a
wagon to Vincennes and helped in and out of the wagon, and was obliged to
return to his home on horseback from Vincennes. It was said Hawkins
promptly performed his duty. The above affidavit was made before James
Ferguson, Justice of the Peace. Dr. John L. Murray made affidavit of having examined the wound of Henry Hawkins and said that he had been wounded by a ball passing from out the side his left leg. This affidavit was made on 14 Dec 1814 in Jefferson County, Kentucky. Warden Pope made affidavit of being well acquainted with the applicant, Henry Hawkins, and to his belief in his statements. He said they became acquainted in 1783 and that Hawkins is in moderate circumstances and has a wife and children and depends on latter for existence. This affidavit was certified by James Ferguson, Justice of the Peace and Warden Pope, Clerk. Isaac Shelby, Governor of Kentucky, made certificate that James Ferguson, Esquire, was an active Justice of the Peace in said county and state. Governor Isaac Shelby made this affidavit in Frankfort, Kentucky 20 Dec 1814. |
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