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Rh 11.4.1640; Constant. born 17. 5. 1642; Eleazer. killed in the war, April 21, 1676.

The names of Obadiah Hawes and Eleazer Hawes appear in a list of names of male inhabitants of Dorchester in the year 1700, of persons who had reached the age of twenty-one years and upwards. In a chronicle dated February 22, 1660, Jeremy Hawes is mentioned as having been publicly reproved, and on October 19, 1664, the name of Eleazer Hawes, among others, appears signed to a petition addressed to the governor. Abijah Hawes, born September 11, 1752, at Wrentham, now Franklin, Massachusetts, died January 10. 1839, at Union, Maine; and Matthias Hawes, born at Franklin, Massachusetts, October 6, 1754, died November 4, 1828, at Union, Maine. These two brothers were the original founders of the Hawes family at Union, Maine, after the revolutionary war. and were descendants of Edward Hawes, of Dedham, Massachusetts, already mentioned.

(I) About 1785 there was one John Hawes with a family of eight in Shenandoah county, Virginia, who may have been the antecedent of this Virginia branch; but Jesse Hawes, born in Maine and accredited with revolutionary war service is, so far as now known, the founder of this particular branch of the Hawes family in Virginia. He married Anna Pierce, and had issue, who lived in Virginia.

(II) Samuel Pierce Hawes, son of Jesse and Anna (Pierce) Hawes, was born March 30, 1799, in Dorchester, Massachusetts. He was a merchant in Virginia, and a member of the Presbyterian church. He married Judith Anna Smith, January 25, 1825, at Olney, Henrico county, Virginia, and had children, born in Virginia.

(III) Samuel Horace Hawes, son of Samuel Pierce and Judith Anna (Smith) Hawes, was born June 5, 1838, in Powhatan county, Virginia. He was educated in private schools of Virginia. He learned the mercantile business in his father's store, and became a general merchant in Richmond, Virginia. He served as a soldier in the Confederate States army from April 19, 1861, to June 1, 1865; was lieutenant in the First Regiment of Virginia Artillery; and participated in nine of the hardest fought battles of the war; also was captured in 1864, and held a prisoner of war for thirteen months at Fort Delaware. Mr. Hawes has long been identified with the social and business interests of Richmond. He was a director of the National State and City Bank of Richmond, Virginia, for ten years; a member of the Westmoreland Club, of Richmond; and of the Presbyterian church of the same place.

Mr. Hawes married (first) Martha Crane Heath, daughter of Stafford Robert Wilson and Catherine (Woodruff) Heath, of Newark, New Jersey, October 3, 1867, at Newark, New Jersey. He married (second) Mrs. Mary (Blair) Fitts, daughter of John and Cornelia (Dickenson) Blair, September 25, 1902, at Richmond, Virginia. Issue of first marriage: Horace Sterling, born November 4, 1868, at Richmond, Virginia: Katharine Heath, born September 3, 1875, at Richmond, Virginia.

Edward Govan Hill, M. D. Dr. Edward Govan Hill was born in King William county, Virginia, December 18, 1863. son of Edward C. Hill, born in June, 1837, died in 1906, and his wife, Mary Nelson (Bell) Hill, of Rockbridge county, Virginia. Edward C. Hill, a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute, class of 1857, and a civil engineer, was the son of Edward and Elizabeth (Govan) Hill. His wife was Mary Nelson Bell, daughter of John Marshall and Charlotte (Crawford) Bell.

Dr. Hill was educated at Aberdeen Academy, and was variously engaged until deciding upon medicine as his profession. He entered the University College of Medicine at Richmond, whence he was graduated Doctor of Medicine, class of 1900. Since that date he has been engaged in the practice of medicine in Richmond. Dr. Hill is the inventor of a system of refrigeration for railroad freight trains, and a system of temperature and air regulation for passenger trains. He is a member of the American Medical Association, American Public Health Association, Richmond Academy of Medicine and Surgery, and the Medical Society of Virginia. He stands high in the professional world, and has a well established medical practice in Richmond. Dr. Hill married, October 7, 1903, Bessie H., daughter of Horace K. and Virginia Carolina Reid. Children: Edward Govan (2) and Virginia.

Hugh Greenway Russell, D. D. S. Dr. Hugh Greenway Russell, of Richmond, one