I ALSO GIVE HIM AT HIS MOTHERS DEATH, ABRAHAM AND A PART OF THE PLANTATION I GIVE UNTO MY SON THOMAS HOPE, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE GUSTWOODS BEING THE OTHER HALF OF THE TRACT WHICH I GAVE MY SON JOHN HOPE AND ADJOINING HIM ON THE EAST. ISAAC AND CHARLOTTE AND AT HIS MOTHERS DEATH I GIVE HIM GEORGE WASHINGTON. KNOWN BY THE NAME OF THE GUSTWOODS, WHICH I BOUGHT OF WORLEDGE WESTWOOD AND THOMAS LATIMER. I GIVE UNTO MY SON JOHN HOPE, ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTEEN ACRES OF LAND ADJOINING CAPT WILLIAM ARMESTEAD. I GIVE UNTO MY DAUGHTER SARAH WILLS, THE PLANTION KNOWN BY THE NAME OF ROUND PONDS. I GIVE UNTO MY SON GEORGE HOPE, ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY NINE ACRES OF LAND BOUGHT OF WILLIAM CARY AND MARY SMALLWOOD, ADJOINING THE LAND OF THOMAS JONES. MAKE AND ORDAIN THIS MY LAST WILL AND TASTEMENT AND THEREBY DISPOSE OF SUCH WORLDLY ESTATE AS GOD OF HIS GREAT MERCY HAS BEEN PLEASED TO BESTORE UPON ME IN THE MANNER FOLLOWING IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN, I GEORGE HOPE OF THE TOWN OF HAMPTON AND COUNTY OF ELIZABETH CITY, BEING OF SOUND MIND AND PERFECT MEMORY, PRAISED BE GOD, BUT CALLING TO MIND THE SHORTING OF LIFE AND CERTAINTY OF DEATH, DO WILL OF GEORGE HOPE OF HAMPTON,VIRGINIA,1818 +ANNIE BEVERLY WHITING b: Unknown d: Unknown ē JAMES BARRON HOPE b: Main NORFOLK,VA d: 1798 in HAMPTON,VA d: Unknown in HAMPTON,VA +MARY LETITIA CORILLIA TAYLOR b: Octoin FROM JAMES CITY CO m: Janud: Januin HAMPTON,VA ē GEORGE WILLIAM HOPE b: Februin HAMPTON,VA d: +MARIA A TABB SMITH b: 1796 d: Januin HAMPTON,VA Ē WILLIAM DR HOPE b: 1792 in HAMPTON,VA d: 1845 in HAMPTON,VA 1779 in HAMPTON,VA d: Unknown in HAMPTON,VA His son, Wilton, married Jane, daughter of Commondore James Barron, and was father of the poet, James Barron Hope, of Norfolk,Virginia."ĬUMBERLAND CO,ENGLAND d: August 1819 in HAMPTON,VA
During the American revolution he superintended the construction of gunboats for the American navy. He came to Virginia from White Haven about 1771. 1902.įrom the Virginia Biography "Hope, George, of Hampton, Virginia, was born in Cumberland County, England March 28, 1749. He married and became the father of six sons." book pub. John's Episcopal Church, and since that time there has been a Hope in that office.
Later he returned to Hampton, and his name appears in the courthouse records of 1783, signed as magistrate. John sĮpiscopal Church, and from thence proceeded to the Gosport navy yard in Norfolk. George Hope, the American progenitor of the family came from Whitehaven England and was in Hampton Roads, off Hampton,Virginia, in 1771 when he heard the church bell ringing. I quote from the History of Norfolk Co, Virginia "They were from the old Hope family, which was originally from France, where the name was L'Esperance, and which was banished with the other Huguenot families.
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