The history of the town of Dorchester, Massachusetts, By a committee of the Dorchester antiquarian and historical society ...

122 HISTORY OF DORCHESTER.
calls him a London ship-carpenter; but he was a
navigator. He was a large land-holder in Dorchester. He owned land at Bass Neck, so called! now
the southerly part of Harrison Square. His farm
was in that part of Dorchester now Quincy, at the
Farm Meadows, so called, and adjoined the Newbury
(or Mr. Glover's) farm. Hawkins's Brook, a small
stream named for him, crosses Columbia street. He,
removed to Boston before 1643, when he and
Major Gibbens chartered four ships to M. De La
Tour to cruise against his enemy D'Aulna, which
fleet he comnfanded in person. From Hubbard we
learn that he built a very large ship (for those times)
in Boston, being upwards of four hundred tons.
She "was set out with great ornament of carving
and painting, and with much strength of ordnance."
She sailed for Malaga, November 23, 1645, in company with another ship under the command of Capt.
Karman. Both vessels were lost on the coast of
Spain, and nineteen of the company perished,
among whom was Capt. Karman. Unfortunately,
he was wrecked on the same spot the next year,
when in the company of some persons from London.
In 1646 he arrived in Boston, commanding a London ship. In November, 1648, Winthrop writes
his son that news is received from England by Capt.
Hawkins's ship (God being pleased to send him
[Hawkins] to heaven by the way). Iis will is recorded in Suffolk Records (vol. iii., fol. 101), in 1654.
His children were -Sarah, baptized 1638, married
to Rev. James Allen; Elizabeth, who married Adam
Winthrop and John Richards; Abigail, married to