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Facts and Events
Records of Mary (Hopkins) Cabell in Augusta County, VA
From Chalkley’s Augusta County Records: (record establishes Mary as sister of James Hopkins of Amherst, Co)
- Vol. 2 - Pollard vs. Pollard---O. S. 380; N. S. 139---Bill in Richmond City Superior Ccurt 1809, by Elizabeth Boush Pollard, wife of Richard C. Pollard, by Henry Martin of Fluvanna, next friend, and by Arthur Pollard by same. Elizabeth B. was daughter of Dr. James Hopkins, of Amherst, who died 1803, testate. Will, 31st October, 1802. Richard C. has deserted Elizabeth and gone to Louisiana or Mississippi. Deed, 5th November, 1798, by James Hopkins, at present of Annadales, Amherst County, to only surviving child, Anna Boush Pollard, at present of Mount Liberty, of same county, for parental affection and anxious to alleviate the miserable state of those my fellow mortals whom the Supreme Creator and Governor of all hath put into my hands--slaves to be emancipated. Recorded in Amherst, 17th June, 1799. Will of James Hopkins, of Amherst County. To be buried by his parents in the burying ground on land formerly belonging to his father, but now Mr. Samuel Dyer's, in Albemarle. Legacy to heirs of his friend. Dr. George Gilmer, of Albemarle; also to Col. Wm. Miles Cary, formerly of Fluvanna; also to Edward Bybee Carpenter, formerly of Amherst, since of Bedford or Pittsylvania, to William Allen, stonemason, formerly of Amherst, now of Kentucky; negroes to be emancipated; devises land to wife. Sister, Lucy Robinson, living in Pittsylvania, and her sons, Nicholas and Arthur. Wife was Ann Sparks Hopkins. Establishes a hospital, patients to be poor and afflicted, one with consumption, one with the yaws or venerial diseases, and one with stone in kidney or bladder. The physician is to use his best efforts to effect cure. If he is successful, or if he is so only in one instance of the three in one year, then the physician is to enjoy the occupancy of the farm and building another year gratis, and so on from year to year; but if he is not successful in curing two of the patients in the second year, or in one of the two first years, he shall for the third year cure two patients ill of one of the said disorders (four in all) for that year; and if he fail that year to cure two out of the four, then the trustees have discretion to dismiss him. The farm-hospital is to be located in Buckingham, Campbell or Bedford. Contributions are to be asked to enlarge the hospital and to establish bounties for cure of the species of deplorable disorder, such as hydrophobia, and on the discovery of any useful medicine of native American plants or vegetables or of foreign origin, makes trustees (besides his executors), viz: Wilson Cary Nicholas, of Albemarle; Wm. Lewis, son-in-law of his sister, Mary Cabell, of Buckingham; Wm. Callaway, son-in-law of his sister, E. Smith, near New Loudon; Saml. Calland, also son-in-law of sister Smith. Hospital not to be more than 12-15 miles from James River or from town of New Loudon. Two acres to be purchased and house built, then conveyed to John Shephard, preacher of the Gospel, Tandy Kee and Richard Breedlove, members of the Methodist Society. To be called Christ Church; to be open to any other denomination; also a preaching house to be erected on his Waterford tract in Fluvanna by trustees, viz: His brother, William Hopkins, Tandy Kee and Skyler Harris, of Albemarle, to be called the Waterford Preaching House. Son-in-law, Richard C. Pollard; nephew, James Hopkins, eldest son of brother Arthur Hopkins, late of Pittsylvania County; grandson, Arthur, only child of Elizabeth Boush Pollard; grandnephew, Arthur Hopkins, son of James, supra; grandnephew, Jacob Hopkins, son of nephew William, son of brother William; daughter, Elizabeth B. Pollard--Arthur Pollard was born February, 1794; brother-in-law (Dr. Wm. Martin Wallace?) William Martin (?); brother, Wm. Hopkins-- place to be called Limerick; nephew, James Hopkins Davis, son of sister Amelia; sister Frances Davis's deceased children; sister Isabella Town's children; nephew, John Davis, son of sister Jane Davis, deceased; brother-in-law, Braxter Davis, of Mecklinburg County; nephew, Joseph Cabell; niece, Mrs. Mary Hopkins Breckinridge, of Kentucky; nephew, Gen. Saml. Hopkins, of Kentucky.
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