Milly Farmer in her book bits and pieces of the Hawkins puzzle mentions the Diary of Robert Rose in her bibliography. And at the bottom of page 46, she says: There were several men named Nicholas Hawkins in early Virginia. One owned an Ordinary on the Orange County side of Mallory's Ford where a road crossed the North Anna River. The road cleared between the Orange Court House and the Green Springs area of Louisa Co, VA. The Hawkins Tavern was still recorded in 1860. This information from The Diary of Robert Rose. One of Thomas Hawkins's daughters said that she was born near Springfield which is located close to the Edwards family. This was the granddaughter of Nicholas Hawkins, Jr. The book does not seem to be available locally for me. Here is what the LDS FHL library says about it: > Diary of Robert Rose (1704-1751), an Anglican clergyman, who > immigrated from Scotland to Essex County, Virginia in 1724, married > twice, and moved to Albemarle County, Virginia. His "... chronicle of > day-by- day events in 1746-1751 is a reliable prime source of many > aspects of pioneering life in two of Virginia's early parishes of the > Church of England: St. Anne's Parish in Essex County where he served > in 1725- 1748, and St. Anne's Parish in Albemarle County where he was > the first minister in 1744-1751 ...", 7394ZWICB Now if this is true, it makes no sense to me that she found information about the fact that the Hawkins Tavern was still recorded in 1860 in his diary. I am interested in knowing how much information about early Orange County is indeed in this diary. And if any one has easy access to this book, what is actually said about the Hawkins Tavern? There are no film notes for this book which means that it is not available through the LDS FHL system. Marsha in WV