Joseph Randall/Randolph Hoskins may be the son of Randolph Morris Hawkins and Mary Anne Middleton of Charles County.2358,2359 Joseph’s earliest reported given name was Randolph, and his surname was spelled many different ways in records I have found. The men’s names are like enough to make a father-son relationship credible, especially when we consider that neither was able to read or write, even to the extent of being able to sign his name. Randolph Morris lived from about 1737 to 1770. His will was conspicuous for saying nothing about his family, except that his wife as executrix should sell land he owned in order to pay his debts, which were substantial.2358,2360 She did so. Randolph Morris Hawkins was probably named after Randolph Morris,2361 a merchant of Charles County.

Further corroboration of this possible ancestry comes in the Charles County origins of the Mudd family, who were close friends of the Hoskins in Kentucky for three generations. Maryland records indicate that the Mudds were close indeed to Hawkin’s Purchase and Goat’s Lodge, owned by Randolph Morris Hawkins.2362,2363,2364,2365

There are two men surnamed Hoskins in the genetic data of 23andMe, both related to me in about the degree that would fit the tree I have constructed. Both have Y-DNA of the haplogroup R(1b)-L48, also called S162. I have not been able to fit that allele to Randolph Morris Hawkins’s family, or to any other line.