Note 10 — The Original Houses of Frederica, Georgia: The Hawkins-Davison Houses

This Christian Perkins who petitioned for Dr. Hawkins’ lot came to Georgia as Christian Grant. Several of her brothers, all of whom were indentured servants, came at the same time. (E. M. Coulter and A. B. Saye, eds., A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia (Athens, 1949), 19. One of these, Peter Grant, fought at the Battle of Bloody Marsh and spent the rest of his life on St. Simons Island, where he died in 1804 at the age of eighty-four. [George White, Statistics of the State of Georgia (Savannah, 1849), 283; Coll. Ga. Hist. Soc. I, 284n]. Christian Grant married John Perkins and after his death married Francis Lewis. In her will (executed in 1786 and recorded in 1811) on file in Chatham County, Georgia, Court House (Will Book E, 84), she left her Frederica lots (17N and 1S) to her brother, Peter Grant. However, in 1789 she executed a deed transferring lot 17N “to my loving nephew ... Thomas Grant, son of my brother, Peter Grant.” (Glynn County, Ga., Deed Book CD, 168).