Hello to my fellow list Members,
This is my first posting on here.
Does anyone have info on my Solomon besides this.
 
SOLOM0N HOPKINS SR.
BORN: 1752
WHERE:NORTH CAROLINA
DIED: 19 JULY 1814
WHERE: LAURENS COUNTY, SOUTH CAROLINA
MARRIED: 
WHERE: 
WIFE: 2801 - MARGARET HARRISON
FATHER: 29000 - HOPKINS 
MOTHER: 29001 - 
OCCUPATION: PLANTATION OWNER, FARMER
CHILDREN:
(1)  A - NANCY HOPKINS
         (        1775 - 17 JAN 1833)
(2)  B - JAMES HOPKINS
         (        1777 -         1809) 
(3)  C - MARY HOPKINS
         (        1779 -         1840)
(4)  D - SOLOMON HOPKINS JR. 
         ( 6 APR 1781 - 14 NOV 1858)
(5)  E - THOMAS HOPKINS
         (        1783 -             )
(6)  F - GEORGE HOPKINS SR. - 2700
         (        1787 -    MAY 1843)
(7)  G - FRANCIS HOPKINS
         (        1790 -             )
(8)  H - JOHN HOPKINS
         (29 MAR 1793 - 22 OCT 1837)
(9)  I - JEREMIAH HOPKINS
         ( 5 NOV 1795 - 26 OCT 1854)  

      
FACTS:1774 WHEN ORANGE COUNTY NORTH CAROLINA WAS SURVEYED TO BE DIVIDED INTO
DISTRICTS THE SURVEY LINE CROSSED THE LAND OF SOLOMON HOPKINS. JOHN HOPKINS
LAND WAS THE NEXT LAND SOUTH OF HIM AND FUTHER SOUTH WAS THE LAND OF DAVID
HOPKINS.
ON 26 OCTOBER 1779, SOLOMON HOPKINS MADE APPLICATION
FOR A LAND GRANT, INCLUDING HIS IMPROVEMENTS. (SO HE MUST OF ALREADY BEEN
LIVING THERE),250 ACRES ON BOTH SIDES OF NELSON CREEK, A BRANCH OF HAW RIVER.
THIS WAS IN ORANGE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA, ORIGINAL PAPERS ARE IN THE OFFICE
OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE, RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA. MINUTES OF THE INFERIOR
COURT OF
ORANGE COUNTY SHOW THAT IN MAY 1778 SOLOMON HOPKINS WAS
APPOINTED OVERSEER OF THE ROAD FROM ROSS'S FERRY TO JOHN HALL'S, OPEN AND
REPAIR THE OLD ROAD.
JAN.6,1785 SOLOMON HOPKINS INVENTORIED JACOB TAYLORS THINGS. THIS FOUND IN
"EARLY WILLS OF CAMDEN DISTRICT" 
VOL. 3,PG. 154 #237 Read to Wax Haw Congergation
IN 1790 SOLOMON HOPKINS WAS A RESIDENT OF NEWBERRY COUNTY,
SOUTH CAROLINA. 
ON 12 FEBRUARY 1792 RECORDS SHOWS SOLOMON HOPKINS PURCHASE
387 ACRES OF LAND FOR L125 IN UPPER LAURENS COUNTY SOUTH
CAROLINA. IN 1800 LAURENS CENSUS SHOWS THE FAMILY IN THIS
LOCALITY NEAR REEDY RIVER AND THE ANCIENT BOUNDARY, NOT FAR FROM WHERE RABUN
CREEK BAPTIST CHURCH
WAS ESTABLISHED IN 1828. IN 1810, TWO MORE SONS HAD MARRIED AND LIVING IN
GREENVILLE DISTRICT. 
THE WILL OF SOLOMON HOPKINS 19 JULY 1814, WAS PROVED 19 APRIL 1815, WIFE
MARGARET AND SON FRANCIS EXECUTORS. PAPERS
IN THE FOLDER SHOW THAT SOLOMON DIED IN 1815 AND MARGARET IN 1819.
THANX
I am also looking for other family members to exchange research.
Jerry Hopkins
[email protected]

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