1765 - 1827

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• Suffix	or Holly
  Birth	22 Oct 1765	Waterton, Phelps (Ontario), New York
  Gender	Male
  Died	7 Dec 1827	Cleveland, Cuyahoga, Ohio
  Person ID	I79518	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	25 Aug 2005 00:00:00
  Father	Ezekiel HAWLEY
  Family ID	F37939	Group Sheet
  Family	Lucy CARTER, b. 14 Oct 1770, Warren, Litchfield Co., Connecticut
  Married	Bef 1792
  Children	1. Alphonso HAWLEY, or Holly > 2. Lorenzo C. HAWLEY, b. 14 Sep 1795, Castleton,, Vermont   3. Fannie HAWLEY
  Family ID	F34644	Group Sheet

• Notes

  Came from Vermont with his brother-in-law, Lorenze Carter to settle in Cleveland, Ohio in 1797. 'Proof' of at least two children is provided by these paragraphs from the book, A history of the city of Cleveland: Its settlement, rise and progress 1796-1896by James Harrison Kennedy, 1896, pg 75. "It is pleasant to turn from this scene of blood to an incident that occurred on the last Christmas of the century, when Lorenzo Carter, the hunter, saved the lives of several lost little ones. Three children of Judge Kingsbury, and two of the Hawleys, the eldest but eight years of age, lost their way in the dusk of the evening when homeward bound from a visit to Job Stiles. They wandered about, in the cold and dark, in danger from wild beasts. The eldest carried the youngest; at last they all gave up, and sat down upon the frozen ground to await whatever fate the winter night might have in store for them. It happened that toward evening, Carter, the uncle of the Hawley children, called at the house of their parents, on his way from the hunt. An alarm had already been given, and the few men of the neighborhood had started out in search. The Major of course joined them. He took his hound to where the children had been last seen. The trail was found, although the little ones had crossed their own tracks again and again. After a long run through bush and brier, the faithful animal dashed down into a hollow, and among the frightened children, who thought that at last the wolves were upon them. We can rest assured that, along all his triumphs in forest and field, Lorenzo Carter counted the privilege of returning those children to the arms of their parents that Christmas night, by no means the least." =================================== They first lived on west 9th street, near the corner of Superior Ave., and within three years removed to a more healthy location on Broadway near Woodhill Road. The parents were victims of the epidemic of fever that swept the township in 1827. --Ohio's Frontier -- Part 4 Lorenzo Carter and family Doans' Corners Articles by S.L. Kelly Plains Dealer