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Hawkins, Philemon, born in Gloucester county. Virginia, September 28, 1717; served in a cavalry troop at the
battle of Alamance, May 16, 1771, as aid to Governor Tryon; in the same year was a member of the general assembly,
and represented Bute and Granville counties for thirteen years; he raised the first volunteer company in Bute county
for the revolutionary army, and was elected its colonel in 1776; was a member of the convention that ratified the
national constitution. was the last surviving signer of the constitution of North Carolina, and was frequently
a member of the executive council; died in Warren county, North Carolina, in 1801, at the advanced age of eighty
four years.
FROM:
Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography
Volume II
By: Lyon Gardiner Tyler, LL. D.
Lewis Historical Publishing Company
New York 1915
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