Hawks, Francis L. (Francis Lister), 1798-1866 (Personal Name)

Cannot be positively identified as Lambert Lilly.

Cannot be positively identified as North Carolinian, author of Hints on the internal improvement of North Carolina, which some sources credit to him.

His A digested index of the reported cases adjudged in the courts of North-Carolina, 1826: t.p. (Francis L. Hawks, Esq. of Hillsborough, counsellor at law)

His The monuments of Egypt, 1854: t.p. (Francis L. Hawks, D.D., LL.D)

His History of North Carolina, 1857: t.p. (Francis L. Hawks)

His A letter to the Right Rev. L. Silliman Ives, 1846: t.p. (A Protestant Episcopalian)

Fontaine, J. A tale of the Huguenots, 1838: t.p. (F.L. Hawks, D.D.; author of introduction)

Wikipedia, via WWW, Jan. 11, 2013 (Dr. Francis Lister Hawks; an American priest of the Episcopal Church; politician in North Carolina; historian; editor; author; wrote some 9 titles under the pseudonym "Uncle Philip" for the publishers Harper & Brothers for their Harper's Boy's and Girl's Library imprint series; grad. Univ. of N.C., 1815 and practiced law; rep. for New Bern in N.C. House of Commons, 1821; entered Episcopal ministry, 1827; held livings New Haven, Philadelphia, New York, New Orleans, and many other places; b. 10 June 1798, New Bern, N.C.; d. 26 Sept. 1866)

America's Historical Newspapers, via WWW, Jan. 11, 2013: New York evening post, 9-27-1866 (Doctor Francis Lister Hawks; prominent divine of the Protestant Episcopal Church; died this morning at his residence in New York, in his 69th year)

DAB (Hawks, Francis Lister (June 10, 1798-Sept. 27, 1866), Protestant Episcopal clergyman, historian; his works include a number of children's books)

Tryon, W. The cost books of Ticknor & Fields, 1949: p. 12 (Francis L. Hawks; suggested by Cushing and Sabin as the author of the Lambert Lilly series, but no proof provided; the author may also have been Samuel G. Goodrich, but the true authorship of the series is uncertain)

Weeks, S.B. A bib. of the historical lit. of N.C., 1895: p. 25 (attributes Hints on the internal improvement of North Carolina to Francis Lister Hawks)

Hints on the internal improvement of North Carolina, 1854: t.p. (a North Carolinian)