MATTHEW HAWKINS lived in the Sandy Creek District of Warren County according to the 1830 census records. He was a former slave of PHILEMON HAWKINS, d. abt 1802, who was freed at HAWKINS request. The details can be read in the attached information in this file.
According to the 1850 Warren County, North Carolina Mortality Schedule, there was from this household, a BETSY HAWKINS, Mulatto, age 40, b. abt 1810, who died in July 1849 of Bilious Fever; there is no indication whether or not she was married.
Also, MINS GUY married a THENY HAWKINS in 1825 Warren County, ARCHIBALD EVANS was the bondsman. MINS & THENY HAWKINS GUY appear to have been the parents of MATTHEW GUY, b. abt 1823, could THENY HAWKINS have been a daughter of MATTHEW HAWKINS?

• Married: 26 Feb 1812 in Warren County,North Carolina ⁸

1. Betsy HAWKINS b: 1810 in Warren County, North Carolina
2. Amy HAWKINS b: ABT 1815 in Warren County,North Carolina
3. Woodley HAWKINS b: 1820 in Warren County,North Carolina
4. Frank HAWKINS b: 1821 in Warren County,North Carolina
5. Nancy HAWKINS b: Mar 1824 in Warren County,North Carolina

1. Title: U.S. Federal Census
   Note: 1830 Warren County,North Carolina Image 9 & 10:.
   MATTHEW HAWKINS - FCP
   3 - M = 10 1 - F = 10
   1 - M = 10 - 24 2 - F = 10 - 24
   1 - M = 36 - 55 1 - F = 36 - 55.
   
2. Title: U.S. Federal Census
   Note: 1840 Warren County,North Carolina,Image 25:.
   MATTHEW HAWKINS - FCP
   4 - M = 10 - 24 1 - F = 10 - 24
   1 - M = 55 - 100 1 - F = 24 - 36
   1 - F = 36 - 55.
   
3. Title: U.S. Federal Census
   Note: 1850 Warren County,North Carolina,Warrenton,Image 1, #285/285:.
   MATTHEW HAWKINS - 67 - MU - FARMER - /489 - NC
   ABNEY HAWKINS - 67 - MU - NC
   NANCY HAWKINS - 26 - MU - NC
   WILLIAM HAWKINS - 14 - MU - NC
   THOMAS CARTER - 10 - MU - NC
   BETSY CARTER - 9 - MU - NC
   HAWK CARTER - 7 - MU - NC
   MATTHEW CARTER - 5 - MU - NC.
4. Title: Abstracts of Wills, Warren County, North Carolina
   Publication: GoldenWest Marketing Genealogy,5812 Temple City Blvd,Temple City,CA 91780-2112
   Page: 1845-1902, #275
   Note: MATTHEW HAWKINS - 17 Dec 1855 - Feb Ct. 1856 Original -WB 49/12:
   "...being in feeble health..."
   Daughter NANCY - horse. All other property is to be used to support my wife MAHALY, my son WOODLY, daughter NANCY, and my four grandchildren THOMAS CARTER, ELIZABETH CARTER, HAWKINS CARTER, and MATTHEW CARTER. Nothing is to be sold as long as my wife lives. At my wife's death, my property is to be divided into parts, one for my son WOODLY, another for my daughter NANCY, and and the third for my four said grandchildren
   Ex: WILLIAM WATSON,JR., JOHN WATSON
   Wit: EDWIN D. DRAKE, L.Y. CHRISTMAS
5. Title: Records of Estates, Warren County,North Carolina, 1852 -1868. Estates found in court records, Vol. IV
   Publication: GoldenWest Mktg. Genealogy, 5812 Temple City Blvd.,Temple City,CA 91780-2112, 800-445-8925, http://www.gwest.org
   Page: Entry # 239 -
   Note: MATTHEW HAWKINS - Will proved on oaths of EDWIN D. DRAKE and L.Y.CHRISTMAS, Feb. Ct. 1856
   
   #416-
   MATTHEW HAWKINS -Accounts ordered examined with WILLIAM and JOHN WATSON, exrs., Feb. Ct. 1858.
   
   #650 -
   MATTHEW HAWKINS - Accounts ordered examined with WILLIAM WATSON and JOHN WATSON, exs. Feb. Ct. 1863
6. Title: Warren County,North Carolina Minutes to the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions, Volume IV, 1797-1800
   Author: Ginger L. Christmas-Beattie
   Publication: Ancestral Tracks, P.O. Box 64,Forest Grove,Oregon 97116-0064
   Page: (Page 126)
   Note: NOVEMBER COURT 1800,
   Page 14 - Monday - November 24th
   On hearing the petition of Philemon Hawkins praying that two Negroes, the one by the name of Amy and the other by the name of Matthew, may be liberated for reasons in said petition set forth, it appearing to the Court that the said Negroes, for the said reason in the said petition set forth, ought to be liberated and emancipated, it is therefore considered by the Court that the said Negroes in the petition mentioned shall from this time be free and emancipated agreeable to the prayers of the petitioner, and that the said Negro Amy shall hereafter be known by the name of AMY HONESTY, and that the said Negro Matthew shall hereafter be known by the name of MATTHEW HAWKINS, agreeable to the prayers of the petition.
7. Title: Other--
   Page: "In Full Force and Virtue: North Carolina Emancipation Records 1713-1860"
   Note: by, William L. Byrd III - (Heritage Books Inc.) - Page 281
   Chapter 25, Warren County Records, Box #1, Folder 6A-
   Will of PHILEMON HAWKINS;
   (exerpt from will, Codicil)
   I PHILEMON HAWKINS SENIOR of the County of Warren and State of North Carolina do make and ordain this to be a Codicil to my last Wil and Testament bearing date the Twenty Second Day of July 1801. Whereas my Boy MATTHEW has discovered an honest disposition in making Known to me many Circumstances relative to the Deeds of Gift which were obtained from me by fraud and imposition by my Grand Son PHILEMON, son of JOHN, and Negro AMY is very attentive to me in my sickness, It is my Desire that my Executors should do all in their Power to procure his Emancipation, provided the Order for his Emancipation made by Warren County Court should be set aside and provided he should continue to behave himself well and there is no obstruction in the Way Towards the recovery of my Deeds from my Grand Son PHILEMON Son of JOHN and others, I hereby give and bequeath to him two hundred and fifty acres of Land on the South Side of Ballards Tract including Howells improvement, one feather Bed and furniture; my bay Horse Saddle and Bridle, one hundred Pounds Virga. Currency, Two Cows and Calves, four Saws and pight, and fifty Barrels of Corn. This Legacy to be void if he should hold the property contained in a Deed of Gift which it is alledged I have made to him at or about the Time it is alledged I made a Deed to my Grand Son PHILEMON Son of JOHN It being my intention that he shall not Possess both this Legacy and the property contained in the said Deed.
   In Witness whereof I have hereunto Set my Hand and affixed my Seal this Twenty Second Day of July Anno Dom. 1801.
   PHIL. HAWKINS (Seal)
   
   Signed, Sealed and declared to be his Codicil to his Will in presence of us
   JAMES VAUGHAN
   W. GILLIAM
   Warren County - February Court 1802.
   
   This last Will and Testament of Philemon Hawkins dec'd together with the Codicil hereto was proved by the Oaths of James Vaughan and William Gilliam Subscribing Witnessses hereto and ordered to be recorded, whereupon John & Philemon Hawkins Executors named in Said Will qualified according and Letters Testamentary granted them.
   Test. M DUKE JOHNSON CC
   I William Green Clerk of Warren County Court do hereby certify that the foregoing Will and the Codicil to said Will are correct Copies from the Records in my office.
   WM. GREEN, C.W. CT.
   Warrenton,
   October 26, 1815
8. Title: Marriage Index or License
   Page: NORTH CAROLINA MARRIAGE BONDS 1741-1868 (Ancestry.com)
   Note: Groom: Matthew Hawkins
   Bride: Aley Moosher
   Bond Date: 26 Feb 1812
   Bond #: 000161198
   Level Info: North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868ImageNum: 005645
   County: Warren
   Record #: 01 114
   Bondsman: Frederick Parum
   Witness: Wm Green, Clerk of Court