Name: HawkinsPikeBanfill

Updated: 05-27-2021 08:05:97.


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Marriage: Children:

  1. Joseph Elisha Pike: Birth: BEF 1791 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA. Death: AFT 1835 in Colesville, Broome, NY?

  2. William PIKE: Birth: 23 AUG 1792 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA. Death: 9 MAR 1866 in Colesville, Broome, NY

  3. Robert PIKE: Birth: 1794 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA. Death: AFT 1865

  4. Rachael\?Mary Elizabeth Pike: Birth: 1794 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA. Death: 25 SEP 1828 in MA?

  5. Samuel B. Pike: Birth: ABT 1800 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA.

  6. Joel Pike: Birth: 11 FEB 1800 in Williamstown, Berkshire, MA. Death: 21 JAN 1853 in Fairview Twp., Jones, IA

  7. Hiram Pike: Birth: 6 OCT 1801 in Sunderland, Bennington, VT. Death: 5 FEB 1866 in Broome/Chenango Co. NY


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Sources
1. Title:   Judd, Oliver P., <i>History of the Town of Coventry</i> (Coventry, NY, 1912)
Page:   pp.20-21
2. Title:   <i>Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War</i> (Massachusetts, Secretary of the Commonwealth, vol. 12, pp. 403-4.)
Page:   vol. 12, pp.403-4
3. Title:   Land record/Deed
Page:   Williamstown, Berkshire, MA
4. Title:   Massachusetts, State of, <i>Continental Army Pay Accounts, Muster Rolls, Return of men, etc. from Massachusetts Archives</i> (Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point, Boston, MA)
Page:   various pages
5. Title:   Paige, Lucius R., <i>History of Hardwick, Mass. with a genealogical register</i> (Boston, Houghton, Mifflin and Co., 1883, p. 271.)
Page:   p.271
6. Title:   U.S. Govt., General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, <i>Selected Records from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files.</i> (Washington, DC, National Archives Microfilm Publications, 1969.)
Page:   W.498
7. Title:   <i>1800 U.S. Federal Census</i> (Washington, D.C. National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Sunderland, Bennington, VT p. 41
8. Title:   <i>1810 U.S. Federal Census </i>(Washington, D.C. National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Williamstown, MA
9. Title:   <i>1825 New York State Census</i>
Page:   Colesville, Broome, p.8.
10. Title:   Shepherd, Elmer I, E.I. Shepherd cards of genealogical information in the Berkshire Athenaeum (Housed at Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, MA).
11. Title:   First Congregational Church of Williamstown, Mass., <i>Manual of the First Congregational Church of Williamstown, Mass; Jan 1, 1879 revision</i> (Pittsfield, Mass, Chickering & Axtell, Stearn Printers, 1879, pp. 31-33.)
Page:   p.31
12. Title:   Tax list (1805) -- Williamstown, MA
13. Title:   Land record/Deed
Page:   Broome Co., NYS
14. Title:   <i>1820 U.S. Federal Census</i>; Population Schedules of the Fourth Census of the United States 1820 (National Archives Microfilm Publications, Washington D.C., National Archives, 1959.)
Page:   Roll 65, NYS, p.225
15. Title:   <i>1830 U.S. Federal Census</i>; Fifth Census of the United States 1830 (National Archives of the United States, microfilm publications, Washington D.C., National Archives, 1955)
Page:   Roll 85, NYS, p.43 (handwritten)
16. Title:   Tombstone in Hawkins/Pike Cemetery, Coventry, NY (Coventry, Chenango, NY)
17. Title:   Tombstone
Page:   Hawkins/Pike family cemetery on Broome/Chenango County line
18. Title:   <i>1800 U.S. Federal Census</i> (Washington, D.C. National Archives microfilm publications)
Page:   Sunderland, Bennington, Vermont, p. 190
19. Title:   Judd, Oliver P., <i>History of the Town of Coventry</i> (Coventry, NY, 1912)
20. Title:   Tombstone
21. Title:   Hawkins, Ralph Clymer, <i>A Hawkins Genealogy, Volume 2; Record of the descendants of Robert Hawkins of Charlestown, Massachusetts</i> (Typescript given by author to New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston, MA, 1973.)
22. Title:   U.S. Govt., General Services Administration, National Archives and Records Service, <i>Selected Records from Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land-Warrant Application Files.</i> (Washington, DC, National Archives Microfilm Publications, 1969.)
Page:   W.498 for Sally Pike, widow benefits
23. Title:   National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution, <i>DAR Patriot Index</i> (Washington, D.C.: NSDAR, 1990)
Page:   p. 2316

Notes
a. Continued:   Joseph Pike served in the Revolutionary war 8 years. He enlisted May 1775 from the town of Hardwick, Mass. His service record is summarized in his pension application file. A History of Binghamton, NY 1800-1900 lists Joseph Pike among 250 survivors of the Revolution who settled in Broome County, New York and indicates that Joseph was one whose place of residence was not known. A descriptive article about grandson Charles Pike in the No. Minnesota Compendium of History and Biography (1902) lists grandfather Joseph as having served in the Revolutionary War. The Paige history of Hardwick, Mass. references his joining the Revolutionary cause from Hardwick, and materials from the Mass. Archives indicate most service credited to Hardwick, MA and one occasion service credited to Shutesbury.
  Joseph Pike and family were members of the Congregational Church in Williamstown, Mass. He apparently remained active in religious affairs while in the latter part of his life as well and at one point was a member of one of the Congregational churches in the Coventry, NY area. In his diary his son William Pike mentions religious meetings in individual's homes, including his father Joseph's home.
  Joseph and son William may have lived on adjoining farms for many years. On at least one of the 1820 and 1830 census they were listed one entry following the next. Joseph and his second wife Sally were apparently living with her daughter and son-in-law Isaac Hurlburt at the time of his death.
  Joseph Pike was not enumerated in the 1790 Williamstown census although he was probably living in the area. Perhaps Joseph and Rebecca were married after the 1790 census was taken. Feb. 21, 1798 Robert Hawkins sold land to Joseph Pike in Williamstown. In 1800 the Joseph Pike family was enumerated in the Sunderland, VT census. In 1810 the family was back in Williamstown with an extra male over 45 living with the family. This might have been the Samuel Pike who was listed in the 1805 Williamstown tax list next to Joseph. On August 24, 1813 John King (husband to Anna Betsy Hawkins) sold land to Joseph Pike. By 1820 Joseph Pike was living in Broome Co. NY. Both Joseph and William were listed as heads of household in the 1820 Windsor, Broome, NY census. A later census report indicated Hiram was living in NYS such that the family probably moved to Broome Co. in 1813. The 1825 Colesville census had Joseph Pike listed 1-2-1. Sons Elisha (Levi), Robert, Samuel B. and Joel were listed separately.
  The records of the Old First Congregational Church in Bennington, VT list a Joseph Pike joining the church in 1786. Is this our Joseph Pike? He certainly could have been there at this time and the Bennington church had been founded about 1761 by people from the Congregational Church in Hardwick, Mass.
  Katie Winn from Williamstown, MA sent notations from a ledger book for the Town of Williamstown with transactions by Williamstown residents. The dates were the day some sort of a transaction was made (either borrowing or repaying a loan in most cases). For Joseph Pike 3 dates were listed: August 1798, March 1799, August 1799. Brothers-in-law Joel Baldwin and Abiel Hawkins also were listed in the same ledger.
  Joseph Pike served in a variety of places during the Revolutionary War enlisting from and service credited to Hardwick, Mass. including Cherry Valley, Roxbury, Mass., Chatham, NJ, the Battle of Westchester, discharged in 1780 from Fishkill, NY before re-enlisting at West Point. He served until the end of the war where he was discharged at West Point, NY. He apparently also served at Fort Herkimer and Albany. The records of his Revolutionary Service are in the Massachusetts Archives. The copies are on grey copy paper and difficult to read. Most or all of his service was in the Massachusetts line. Besides the Battle of Westchester he apparently was in several skirmishes per his description in his 1818 pension application. Joseph Pike's Rev. War pension at the time of his death was $96 per year.
  The exact date of Joseph Pike's birth is unknown, but most likely in 1759. The pension application indicated he was 58 on April 30, 1818 and age 60 years and upwards on September 14, 1820. A research trip to the Hardwick, Mass. area in Spring 1996 revealed no further information on his having lived there other than the Paige book. No information on possible parents or siblings was found. There was an Elisha and Samuel Pike (sons of Elisha Pike who died in 1749) from Hardwick, but no links can be made to them. This family apparently stayed in the Hardwick area for a period of time. They may have lived in the main Hardwick village. Joseph Pike enlisted from the South side of Hardwick.
  With the availability of DNA testing that has become available for use with genealogy about 2003 to 2004, it is hoped that a male Pike in this line will show a match with some of the early Massachusetts Pikes. The marker test would not prove his parents, but it could help finding other researchers with a common Pike ancestor and might lead to further sharing of family information and in the long run help to find some of his immediate ancestors.
b. Continued:   Date of birth as 1759-1760 determined from ages listed in Joseph's pension application. He was apparently 58 on April 30, 1818.
c. Continued:   Joseph Pike's date of death determined from the inscription on his tombstone.
d. Continued:   Rebecca signed her name as Hawkins on January 29, 1785 which meant she must have married after that time. Rebecca and Joseph may have been married after the 1790 Federal census was taken since the family is not listed in the Williamstown Census and it appears both were probably living there in 1790.

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