Almost every one of the following footnotes begin with the MHA abbreviation, indicating commentary made by Grandpa Hawes's daughter Mary Hawes Ashbrook shortly after the 1965 discovery of the Milkcan Papers. Her commentary was inserted possibly in 1965 or 1968, when she retyped and then reretyped the work of Grandpa Hawes, whom she refers to, of course, as Dad. Be sure to read her general remarks at the end.

Any commentary by others is appropriately indicated.

¹MHA, 1968: James(6), Frederick Webber(7), Frederick Wilson(8)
Isabel C.(9), Robert A.(9), Frederick W.(9), Thomas F.(9), Jane E.(9), Mary A.(9).
[Back to the series of "begat"s.]

²MHA, 1968: I disagreed with Dad, and when I found the "evidence," I copied what I could.
[Back to Grandpa's reluctance to add detailed evidence to his narrative.]

³Ace, 2002: See the legend in The Legend of Squitum Waw Waw Ool Kaw.
[Back to the reference to the legend, which will be explained later.]

⁴MHA, 1968: There is a town named Hawes near York.
[Back to Edward Hawes being from north of London.]

⁵MHA, 1968: This genealogist was Frank M. Hawes of West Hartford, Connecticut.
[Back to the claim about the proliferation of Haweses in our line.]

⁶MHA, 1968: This information must have come from George O. Hawes in a letter I didn't find.
[Back to the figures of Hawes marriages, births, and deaths between 1635 and 1850.]

⁷Ace, 2002: See the legend in The Legend of Squitum Waw Waw Ool Kaw.
[Back to the remark about knowing where Edward learned his archery skill.]

⁸MHA, 1968: It could have been another Eliony Hawes.
[Back to the story of foxy grandma Eliony marrying again 65 years after her first wedding.]

⁹Ace, 2002: Wait a minute! The math doesn't work out. He was born in December 1652, and he died in March 1737. Three months before his death, in December 1736, he would have had his 84th birthday. Therefore, he would have died in his 85th year, not his 86th. Or if he did die in his 86th year, either the birth year or the death year are off.
[Back to the vital stats for Daniel Hawes.]

¹⁰MHA, 1968: One wife at a time.
[Back to the information on Daniel and his wives.]

¹¹MHA, 1968: I didn't find it.
Ace, 2002: Grandpa was writing in 1940 about an ancestor in 1675; I'm sure he meant that the Mr. Ware who wrote to him was a descendant of the Mr. Ware who came to Dan's relief.
[Back to the story of Daniel protecting his house from the Indians.]

¹²MHA, 1968: Dad never saw a dishwasher!
[Back to Abigail washing the dishes.]

¹³Ace, 2002: Under the description for Hezekiah's father (Our Second Ancestor in America), Hezekiah is listed as the third child.
[Back to Hezekiah being cited as the fifth child.]

¹⁴Ace, 2002: Maybe Robert Ware was connected to the "Mr. Ware" who came to Daniel Hawes's relief during King Philip's War.
[Back to Robert and Sarah Ware of Wrentham.]

¹⁵Ace, 2002: New Hampshire was not part of Massachusetts in 1780, but Maine was.
[Back to the marriage of David and Rebecca in Stoddard, New Hampshire.]

¹⁶MHA, 1968: Who wants to belong to the Sons/Daughters of the American Revolution? The official bulletin, National Society Sons of the American Revolution, Volume XXII, October 1927, Number 2, lists on page 328: "Frederick Wilson Hawes, Centralia, Wash. (43703). Son of Frederick Webber Hawes and Harriet Lovica (Wilson) Hawes; grandson of James and Frances Hancock (Lawrence) Hawes; great-grandson of David Hawes, private in Massachusetts Troops."
[Back to the mention of the Sons or Daughters of the American Revolution.]

¹⁷MHA, handwritten note, 1968?: Ambrise.
[Back to Martin Van Buren Hawes and Aunt Libbie.]

¹⁸Christine Barrett, 2002: Jesse Hawes wrote a book of his prisoner-of-war experience in a Confederate POW camp.
[Back to Jesse Hawes.]

¹⁹MHA, 1968: Dr. Colin Hawes was Byron Hawes's son? See the milkcan papers....
Ace, 2002: We are, of course, in the Milkcan Papers. My Mom's reference to them apparently refers to supplemental documentation, such as correspondence, that was in the sodden mess my Pop found in the milkcan in 1965.
[Back to the citation of Dr. Colin Hawes.]

²⁰MHA, 1968: Dad was a cowboy in Texas, had earlier been in on the opening of Oklahoma in 1889, and in 1912-1914 he and Mother homesteaded in Saskatchewan. Tom was born there.
[Back to the invitation to live in the wilderness and then compare it with towns and cities.]

²¹MHA, 1968: I can hear Dad now!! He never saw a TV dinner, either.
[Back to the tombstone we need to chisel.]

²²MHA, 1968: I have read that the name Hawes is included with the clan Buchannan.
[Back to the name Hawes being frequent in the area north of London.]

²³MHA, 1968: Dad was a private in the Rough Riders during the Spanish-American War.
[Back to the weapons that Grandpa owned and used.]

²⁴MHA, 1968: I think Dad was mad at women in general that day.
[Back to the lion suspicious at the misbehavior of females.]

²⁵Great-granddaughter Bernadette Yarnot Durbin, 2005 (Web site: Dex Lives), who made several improvements to the Web representation of the coat of arms (click here to see):
Okay, this is as much as I could find out using my handy-dandy heraldry book:

• Crests are awarded to individuals; they often change with family descent. (The splits in a coat of arms are decided through marriage and are called "quartering"; the arms as shown are unquartered and thus show an original patent.)
• This appears to be a modern (read Nineteenth or Twentieth Century) rendering of an older set of arms. I say this not only because the paper would never have survived as long as it has if it had been older, but because that point on the bottom is clearly Nineteenth Century (the shape of the shield changes through time).
• I'm assuming this is an older set of arms, one actually in use by progenitor Edward. The crown made of stone would support this assumption if Edward was a stonemason. Likewise, this is an extraordinarily simple coat of arms, and one would assume a greater complexity (or at least new animals) in later years.
• There are no colors indicated, and, yes, you can indicate them in black and white.
• A patent of arms: the grant that makes a family armigerous as well as describing the coat of arms so that an artist can reproduce it, would have something along the lines of "a wavy fess, [color], on [color], with three lions passant." It would probably also describe their positions on the shield. The crown on top is a "coronet"; I'm not sure what you call the lion head coming out of it.
• If this is Edward's crest, it was likely awarded between 1600 and 1620. If it's older than that, which is entirely possible, it's anyone's guess. The College of Heraldry accepts questions regarding coats of arms, but they do charge for their time, and you need to provide as much information as possible for it to be effective. Unfortunately, all we've got is the American records. They might be able to help find the origin of the arms, since we have a copy, however.

⁴¹MHA, 1968: After being with the Rough Riders, Dad came back to Montauk Point to be mustered out; with no job in sight, he went back to Puerto Rico to officer a Puerto Rican regiment as a lieutenant.... See the marker in the Greenwood Cemetery, Centralia, Washington, for the particulars. After this he came to New York City to work for the U.S. Customs Service.
[Back to Grandpa's promise to tell you all about it if he still loves you.]

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General Remarks by Mary Hawes Ashbrook

Mary Hawes Ashbrook
Centralia, Washington

Please, I'd love more information about them if anyone can share with me.

MHA, 1968

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