The Cochrane & Allied Families
Cochranes from Scotland to Colonial Virginia (c 1760), to Kentucky (1811), to Kansas (1859) and beyond. Allied families to the United States from England, Scotland, Ireland and Switzerland.
HAWKINS, John T.
- Bef 1826 Has no ancestors but one descendant in this family tree.
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Name HAWKINS, John T. [1, 2] Gender Male Land-Purchaser 10 Aug 1818 Gallatin County, Kentucky, USA 
He and John T. HAWKINS* purchased 530 acres on the east bank of the Kentucky River from James, Walter C. and Greenberry SIMPSON - Role: Purchaser
The SIMPSONs operated a ferry there, just downstream of the mouth of Lower Twin Creek, and the purchase included 7 houses and the ferry equipment and its operation. Farmers in the area used this location to ship their produce downstream (north) about 13 miles on the Kentucky river to the Ohio river. The purchase, for $15 per acre ($7,950), included 2 parcels that the SIMPSONs had purchased, 250 acres along the river and 280 adjacent acres on higher ground away from the river.
The plan of Dr. COCHRAN and John HAWKINS was to plat and establish a town on the flat portion of the land along the river, to be called Marion. Based on subsequent deeds selling off the lots, this ambitious plan included at least 245 lots. On 21 April 1820, eight months after the purchase, they filed a "bill of complaint" in Gallatin Circiut Court** against the SIMPSONs claming they did not have a valid deed for the 280 acre upland tract which they bought from John ADAMS of Richmond, Virginia, Executor of Richard ADAMS' estate, his father. COCHRAN and HAWKINS had learned that other ADAMS' family heirs were claiming that John ADAMS did not have authority to sell the land per the Will. In the complaint, they requested a cancellation of the contract and return of the money already paid, plus reimbursement for buildings and improvements that they made. And if the SIMPSONs did not have the sufficient money, that COCHRAN and HAWKINS retain the 250 acres and be reimbursed for the 280 acres at the price they paid, $15 per acre ($4,200). The defendants countered that the 250 acres on the river where the town would be built and the associated ferry were the valuable part of the 530 acres, and that the more remote 280 acres was only worth $1 per acre, the amount they paid for it.
On 12 October 1821 the court issued a decree
* HAWKINS, who married Mary RIGG in 1818, became a brother-in-law of Dr. COCHRAN's daughter, Lucy Ann Catharine, when she married Alexander Moxley RIGG, Sr. in 1832. The town of Marion was later renamed Moxley in honor of Alexander Moxley RIGG, Sr. Although the town is now extinct, the area is still known as Moxley.
** Owen County did not expand to include Marion until 28 February 1821, but the legal proceedings continued in the Gallantin County Court until concluded on 18 April 1829.
Death Bef 19 Oct 1826 Kentucky, USA [3, 4] Person ID I3517 Cochrane Genealogy Last Modified 26 Jul 2025
Family 1 —?—, Lucy, b. 1776, Virginia, USA d. 8 Nov 1812, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA (Age 36 years) Marriage Y [5] Family ID F2375 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 26 Nov 2022
Family 2 RIGG, Mary, b. 1794, Westmoreland County, Virginia, USA d. 5 Jul 1834, Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA (Age 40 years) Marriage 31 Aug 1818 Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA [2, 6, 7, 8] Age at Marriage He : ?? - She : ~ 24 years and 8 months. Marriage Status Ended with Husband's death Children > 1. 
HAWKINS, Mary Ann, b. Abt 1825, Kentucky, USA d. 1902 (Age 77 years)Family ID F1401 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 28 Nov 2022
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Event Map 
Land-Purchaser - He and John T. HAWKINS* purchased 530 acres on the east bank of the Kentucky River from James, Walter C. and Greenberry SIMPSON - 10 Aug 1818 - Gallatin County, Kentucky, USA 
Marriage - 31 Aug 1818 - Lexington, Fayette, Kentucky, USA 
Death - Bef 19 Oct 1826 - Kentucky, USA = Link to Google Earth
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Sources - [S567] G. Glenn Clift, Book - Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishimg Co., Inc., 1966.), 25 Jul 2014, 19.
Announcement: Lexington Reporter, Lexington, KY, 9 Sep 1818. - [S998] Anderson Chenault Quisenberry, Book - Quisenberry (Rigg) Family (Ancestry), (Washington, D. C.: Hartman & Cadick, Printers, 1897.), 14 Aug 2016, p 26-28.
Book - Quisenberry Family (Rigg) - [S1532] Kentucky. Lexington., Newspaper Article - Kentucky Reporter [Lexington, KY] (Newspapers.com), 3 Feb 2023, 27 October 1827, p. 3, col. 5; digital images, Newspapers.com (https://www.newspapers.com : accessed 3 February 2023).
Death Info - John T. Hawkins - Kentucky Reporter, p 3 - [S1521] Kentucky. Owen County., Land Deeds - KY - Owen County, 26 Jul 2022, Vol. D: page 95-97, Sherriff's auction to Jonathan RIGG on 12 August 1829, recorded 16 June 1831.
Owen Co., KY Deed, Book D, p 95-97 - [S1526] Kentucky. Lexington., Newspaper Article - American Statesman (Genealogy Bank), 26 Nov 2022, "Communication," 14 November 1812, p. 3, col. 1; edigital images, GeanealogyBank (https://www.genealogybank.com/ : accessed 26 November 2022).
Obit - Lucy Hawkins - [S1527] Marriage Records - KY - 1797-1954 (FamilySearch), ((https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QG1D-295P)), 28 Nov 2022, accessed 28 November 2022), John T. Hawkins & Mary Rigg, 31 August 1818.
Marriage - John T. Hawkins & Mary Rigg - [S567] G. Glenn Clift, Book - Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishimg Co., Inc., 1966.), 25 Jul 2014, 19.
Announcement: Lexington Reporter, Lexington, KY, 9 Sep 1818. - [S565] G. Glenn Clift, Book - Kentucky Obituaries, 1787-1854 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishimg Co., Inc., 1977.), 25 Jul 2014, p 94.
Obit: Lexington Observer/Recorder, Lexington, KY, 16 Jul 1834.
- [S567] G. Glenn Clift, Book - Kentucky Marriages, 1797-1865 (Ancestry), (Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishimg Co., Inc., 1966.), 25 Jul 2014, 19.