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Note: HOPKINS, BENJAMIN of KE Co., was mentioned in an
indenture tripartite on 3 July 1736, between James Stout of KE Co.,planter
and his wife Ann one of the daus. of Saint Leger Codd late of the same
county, Esq., dec., of the first part and Mary Hopkens of the same county
widow, lately called Mary Codd another dau. of sd. Saint Leger of the second
part and Gideon Pearce, Junr. of the same county, mariner and Beatrix his
wife another dau. of the same Saint Leger of the third part. Whereas the
afsd. Saint Leger Codd was seized in his lifetime of 250 a. part of Worton
Manor and d. intestate and sd. land descended to the same Ann, Mary and
Beatrix as his heirs, since whose death sd. Ann m. James Stout, the afsd.
Mary [m.] Benjamin Hopkens since dec. and Beatrix the same Gideon
Pearce.[KELR JS#18:255]On 22 July 1736 James Stout of KE Co., planter and
his wife Anne, conv. to Gideon Pearce, Junr., mariner. Whereas the same
James and Anne together with Mary Hopkins, widow, and the afsd. Gideon
[Pearce] and Beatrix his wife in right of Anne, Mary and Beatrix, daus. of
Saint Leiger Codd, dec., were seized of 250a., part of Morton McCannor by
deed of partition on 3 July made a division of the land. ...(KELR
JS#18:268)Benjamin Hopkins, d. by 27 July 1736, when his estate was inv.
Mary Hopkins, acct., filed the inv. on 14 Nov 1736. Next of kin were Gideon
Pearce, Mary Rasin. [MINV 22:681]On 7 Sep 1759, Mary Watkins, widow, and
relict of Benjamin Hopkins late of KE Co., dec., conv. land to Joseph
Hopkins of Chester Town in KE Co., Gent., son and heir of afsd. Benjamin
Hopkins. Whereas the afsd. Mary Watkins is now possessed of Hopewell Unity,
150 a. in ICE Co., which sd. parcel was assigned by the sd. Joseph Hopkins
to afsd. Mary Watkins in lieu of her right of dower which she the sd. Mary
had in the lands of her dec. husband Benjamin Hopkins. [KELR JS#29:159]
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