My Hawk ancestors |
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01. Hans Jerg Hag (also known as Johann George Haag) was born about 1707. He married Catherina. Hans and family arrived in Philadelphia on September 1748 aboard the ship Hampshire. His age on arrival was recorded as 41 and he was accompanied by his wife and 6 children, none of them named. The ship listed the spelling as "Yerich Hack", but George could write and signed both the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Abjuration as "Hans Jerg Hag". George states that he came down the river Rhine, which borders on the Palatinate and Badan- Wurttenberg areas of Germany. Recent discoveries have shown at least 4 children of Hans who came over with him from Reutlingen, Wurttemburg, Germany. Source: Kenneth Hawk Slaker |
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02. Conrad Hawk, son of Hans and Catherina was born in 1741 in Reutlingen, Wurttemburg, Germany. While still a child, he came to America with his father in 1748. He married his wife Sarah Catherine Williams in about 1759. With the growth of the families and the shrinkage of available land in Lehigh Township, word of the "New Purchase" by Penn, located west of the Allegheny mountains, inspired the younger family members to seek this new land. Conrad, along with his brother-in-law, arrived at the land office to file their claim in March 1770. Conrad's claim was on Brush Creek, Hempfield Township, Cumberland County. He constructed a cabin and returned to Lehigh Township. In the spring of 1771, Conrad and Sarah, their children, along with George and Catherine Haag, departed Northampton County for this new land. In the early spring of 1774, Conrad took his family and his parents to the eastern side of the mountains. Their absence from all church records in Westmoreland County for the next three years authenticates this move. No doubt Conrad visited his sister, Catherine Best and her husband William, and influenced their later move to Westmoreland County by informing them that the farm adjacent to his was to be sold the following year for back taxes. Conrad returned to Westmoreland County later that spring with supplies for his farm, his neighbors, and for Ft. Allen, which was under construction. For this return trip across the mountains, he hauled his freight in a Conestoga wagon built in Lancaster County, and by so doing, made history. To quote from the Western Pennsylvania History Magazine, Vol. VI, page 139: "These pack horses streamed over the mountains in endless cavalcades, but in 1774, Conrad Hawk drove a wagon over the mountains, and this event also marked a significant milestone in early transportation in the Monongahela river valley." Source: Kenneth Hawk Slaker |
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03. Michael Hawk, the last known child of Conrad
and Sarah Williams Hawk, was born in Hempfield Township, Westmoreland
County, Pennsylvania, on the 6th of August 1784. He was baptised on the
5th of April 1785, in the Zion Lutheran Church by Anton Lutge. His
sponsors were Michael Rup and Christina Williams, the wife of Daniel
Williams. Michael's mother died when he was 4 years old; therefore, he was
raised by his step-mother, Elizabeth Walker Hawk, who married his father
in 1789. The Federal Census of 1790 showed Michael living with his father
at Hawksworth, the name of the family farm. Church records show that
Michael, in his 12th year, was confirmed into the Zion Lutheran Church on
the 8th of April in the year 1797. He was as communicate at the First
Lutheran Church of Greensburg on the 5th of April 1801. In 1804 he married
Delilah Minnie Clevenger. Michael was listed on the Hempfield
Township, Westmoreland County tax roll for 1805, but did not appear on any
subsequent tax rolls in this county. His name does not show in the
Greensburg Lutheran Church records after 1805, which supports family
history that he departed ca 1807 for Ohio. Whether his brother, Conrad
Hawk Junior who made a trip to Huron, Ohio, in 1808, talked Michael into
migrating to Ohio, or vice versa, Michael packed his belongings and left
for Ohio. Whether he went overland, or took a boat down the Ohio, is not
known, but he settled in Pickaway County, Ohio. Michael left
Delilah ca 1824, and purchased a lot in Pickaway County. Michael
died interstate in 1833. Delilah, not holding deed to the farm in Fayette
County, filed suit to settle the ownership problem. Source: Kenneth
Hawk Slaker |
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| Note: The parentage of David is not certain due to conflicting reports from different sources. I have listed here the ancestry to Hans Jerg Hag as presented in Slaker's book. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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04. David Hawk was born on September 27, 1819 in Fayette
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05. Nathaniel Henry Hawk, son of David was born on June 18, 1858 in
Champaign,
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06. Grace Myrtle Hawk, the eldest daughter of Nathaniel
and Anna was born on August
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Co.,
Ohio. David Married
Eleanor Jones who was born October 21, 1820 in Washington County,
Ohio. David was a barber. They moved to Sugar Creek Township, Hancock
County, Indiana in the early 1840's. In 1851, they moved further west to
Champaign County, Illinois. A land warrant was issued to David Hawk of
Champaign County on the 1st of February 1853. In 1872, they moved west
again, this time to Iowa. Ten years later in 1882, a final move was made to
Buffalo Co., Nebraska. Eleanor died here on the 5th of September 1890.
David passed away a little over eight years later on the 15th of December
1898. Both were interned in the cemetery in Kearney, Nebraska. The 10
children of David and Eleanor are: 
Illinois.
In the 1860 census he is listed with his family as age 2 and at that
time he was the youngest child. At some point he took up the trade
of barber like his father had. Prior to his marriage, he moved to
Nebraska. He married 
18, 1885 in Armada, Nebraska.
Between 1900 and 1904 she made the journey from Nebraska to Portales,
New Mexico with her family in a covered wagon. She
married (1) 
