Interesting Day at the Old Surratt Hacienda

[RJNorton]

Thank you to Steve for sending this information.  Steve writes, "I have something to post to the Forum. It's Rachel Hawkins' testimony during the John Surratt trial, it's more extensive than the testimony she gave at the Conspirators' Trial.

       I should note that in her testimony she clarifies that Seavers (recorded as "Semus" in the Conspirators' Trial record and apparently "Cephas" elsewhere according to the Surratt Museum) is her married name. That she was married to a man named Tom Seavers and they split up (or he left her) after being freed. She seems to have taken up the Hawkins surname after that."