This illustration of Hawkins appears in "Benjamin Hawkins - Indian Agent," by Merritt B. Pound (The University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1951), from an engraving in Samuel Ashe's "Biographical History of North Carolina." The profile was most likely taken from the painting below...

from "General George Washington Resigning His Commission to Congress as Commander in Chief of the Army at Annapolis, Maryland, December 23d, 1783" by John Trumbull.

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