The Maryland Connection

The following "power of attorney" document is an extraordinary find. It proves that Andrew Haack of Maxatawny Twp (PA) and John Haack of Rockland Twp were brothers. And it proves that Andrew Haack moved southward to Maryland where he was living in Frederick County in 1778, while at the same time John remained in Rockland.

How does the Maryland connection help us? First, it gets Andrew moving south out of Pennsylvania. It is our first solid evidence of Andrew's trail to Georgia. There have been some intriguing references to Maryland in the Georgia data. Specifically, if I remember correctly, the Randolph County Jacob Hawk and one of his presumed slaves (a black man with the Hawk surname) are listed in one census as having been born in Maryland. (Jacob's wife Catherine is listed in the same census as born in Virginia. Also, Seaborn Hawk mentions his aunt Peggy Harris "of Virginia.")

The POA document asserts that on 20 April 1772 Andrew purchased 90 ac. land and mills from Casper Seibert (aka Seivert, Seybert), but had no deed to the property. Bill believes this is the same 90 ac. John sold in 1791 to George Bryfogel.

• Andrew Haack "power of attorney" to brother John Haack
• My transcript of the above document

Searching for Hawk records in Frederick County, Maryland

Maryland land records of Frederick County are now online thanks to the kind folks at the Maryland State Archives. The following PDF files were obtained from their site and copied here to save their bandwidth. These are large files. They range from 1 MB to 15MB in size. The multipage files are the large ones. If they cause me to exceed my bandwidth limits on the server I will take them offline. So if you are interested please download them to your system now. These are the pages which contain the names Hawk, Hawke, Hauck and in some cases Houck. Each file is one page of the land records. The files retain the Maryland Land Records stamp at the bottom of the document. Do not remove this stamp.

Here's the real question. Are any of these people from our line? We have found a preexisting Hawk line already in Frederick County, of no known relation to ours.

• Book O, page 68, Jacob Hawk
  
• Book O, page 69, Jacob Hawk
  
• S_404_Paul Hawke
  
• S_405_Paul Hawke
  
• S_406_Paul Hawke
  
• S_407_Paul Hawke
  
• T_33_William Hawke
  
• T_34_William Hawke
  
• T_35_William Hawke
  
• WR_2_590_Peter Hauck
  
• WR_2_591_Peter Hauck
  
• WR_4_238_Peter Houck
  
• WR_4_239_Peter Houck
  
• WR_4_240_Peter Houck
  
• WR_4_338_Peter Hawke
  
• WR_4_339_Peter Hawke
  
• WR_4_340_Peter Hawke
  
• WR_4_534_Paul Hawke
  
• WR_4_535_Paul Hawke
  
• WR_4_536_Paul Hawke
  
• WR_5_254_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_5_494-504_Paul Hawk
  
• WR_5_494_Paul Hawk
  
• WR_6_10_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_6_11_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_6_12_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_9_96_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_9_97-106_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_9_673_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_13_335_Peter Houck
  
• WR_13_336_Peter Houck
  
• WR_14_281_Paul Hawke
  
• WR_15_597_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_17_88_Paul Howk
  
• WR_17_308_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_17_309_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_18_340_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_18_341_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_18_386_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_18_387_Peter Hawk
  
• WR_20_408_William Hawk
  
• WR_20_409_William Hawk
  
• WR_21_135_Margaret Hauck
  
• WR_21_136_Margaret Hauck
  
• WR_22_167_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_22_168_Jacob Howk
  
• WR_24_83_John Howk