Hawks

Hawks, FRANCIS LISTER, an American clergyman, born at New Berne, North Carolina, 10th June 1798, practised law for a time with success, but in 1827 was ordained to the Episcopal ministry. He was professor of Divinity at Washington (now Trinity) College, Hartford, in 1830–31, and afterwards rector of churches in New York, New Orleans, and Baltimore. He died in New York, September 26, 1866. In 1836 he went to England, and there obtained 18 folio vols. of MSS. relating to the Episcopal Church in America, of which he had been appointed historiographer. In 1836–39 he published 2 vols. of Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States, dealing with Virginia and Maryland. Among his other works are a Commentary on the Constitution and Canons (1841), and, with Bishop Perry, Documentary History of the Protestant Episcopal Church (vols. i. and ii. 1863–64); and he edited Alexander Hamilton's state-papers (1842), Commodore Perry's Expedition to Japan (1852–54), and Appleton's Cyclopædia of Biography (1856).