Robert Hopkins (1662)

Born 1662 in Virginia

Ancestors

Biography

On 13 May 1706, Robert Hopkins of Sittenburne Parish in Richmond County, granted to his daughter Elizabeth and her husband Mathew Thornton all his land on the north side of the Rappahannock River.^[1]

On 11 Feb. 1707/8 a tract of 84 acres "belonging to Robt Hopkins and Arthur Dye" was surveyed, and then divided between Hopkins and Dye. Then on the same day the surveyor surveyed for Hopkins and Dye "a parcel of land being part of a Dividend of land sold by Mr. James Williamson deceased to Robert Hopkins (deceased, father of Hopkins).^[2]

Robert Hopkins' daughter Elizabeth married Matthew Thornton, son of Luke Thornton, a Rappahannock County surveyor. Both died in 1727, Matthew leaving a will in Rappahannock County.^[3]

Sources

1. ↑ Robert Hopkins' page on the Early Colonial Settlers of Southern Maryland and Virginia's Northern Neck website, citing 1705-1708 Richmond Co VA Deed Book 4 (Antient Press), p. 51. The text of the deed: TO ALL CHRISTIAN PEOPLE to whome these presents shall come, I ROBERT HOPKINS of the Parish of SITTENBURNE in County of Richmond send Greeting in our Lord God everlasting KNOW YEE that I ROBERT HOPKINS for the natural love and affection that I have and beare towards MATHEW THORNTON & ELIZABETH his Wife of the Parish and County aforesd. and Eldest Daughter of me the said ROBERT, by these presents do confirme and make over unto said MATHEW THORNTON and ELIZABETH his Wife and theire heires all that plantation or parcel! of land (be the same more or less) wch' now doth or att times hereafter shall or may by an lawfull wayes whatsoever descend or of right come or belong to the said ROBERT or my heires scituate on the North side of RAPPAHANNOCK RIVER and is part of a Patent for Eleven hundred and fifty acres formerly granted to JAMES WILLIAMSON deced., beareing date the 22d day of May 1650, and is bounded beginning att a marked white Oake corner tree of the aforesaid Patent, standing on the Maine River side and running thence along the line of the Patent North East by North to a place comonly called or knowne by the name of the SLASHETT, then along the said SLASHETT and downe the River the bounds of the Patent and including all !the land that now doth or might belong to me lying betweene the said SLASHETT and the River of Rappahannock, together with all the woods houses orchards profitts & appurtenances belonging; To have and to hold the said plantation or parcell of land with appurtenances to them the said MATHEW THORNTON and ELIZABETH his Wife: And ROBERT HOPKINS his heires shall warrant and forever defend In Wittness whereof ROBERT HOPKINS hath hereunto set his hand and seale this 13th day of May Anno Domini 1706

   Signed sealed and delivered in the presence of

   JOHN BIVION ROBERT his marke HOPKINS WILLIAM LAWSON, THOMAS DICKENSON Acknowledged in Richmond County Court the 5th day of June Ano: Dom: 1706 and recorded amongst the Records of the sd County the 21st day of the same month & yeare
2. ↑ Beverly Fleet, Virginia Colonial Abstracts, vol. 1, p. 318.
3. ↑ Jeannette Holland Austin, The Georgians: Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers (1984), p. 351, citing Thornton Family: A Partial History.