HISTORY OF HENDERSON COUNTY, KY.



and "Birds of America " published. He returned some years after-
wards and settled in New York, where he died on the twenty-seventh
day of January, 1851, aged seventy-one years.

    GENERAL SAMUEL HOPKINS, who, as agent and attorney,
in fact for Richard Henderson  Company, located and caused to be
surveyed the Town of Henderson, and for whom Hopkins County is
named, was a native of Albermarle County, Virginia. He was an
officer of the Revolution, and bore a conspicuous part in that great
struggle for freedom. He fought at the battles of Princeton, Trenton,
Monmouth, Brandywine and Germantown, in the last of which he
commanded a battalion of light infantry, and was severely wounded,
after the almost entire loss of his command in killed and wounded.
He was Lieutenant Colonel of the Tenth Regiment, Virginia, at the
siege of Charleston and commanded that regiment after Colonel Par-
ker was killed. At the surrender of Charleston, May 20th, 1780, he
was made a prisoner. In 1797 General Hopkins came West and
settled at the Red Banks, now Henderson. In October, 1812, he led
a corps of two thousand mounted men against the Kickapoo villages,
upon the Illinois River, but being misled by the guides, after wander-
ing over the prairies for some days to no purpose, the party returned
to the Capital of Indiana. Chagrined at this result, in the succeeding
November, General Hopkins led a band of infantry up the Wabash
and succeeded in destroying several Indian villages. His wily enemy
declining a combat, and the cold proving severe, he was forced again
to retire to Vincennes, where his troops were disbanded. At the
close of this campaign, the General returned to Henderson, and settled
down upon the old Spring Garden farm, one and a half or two miles
out on the Owensboro Road, where he died in 1819. General Hop-
kins served several terms in the Kentucky Legislature and represented
the Henderson District. 1813 to 1815, in Congress. He was commis-
sioned a Major General, during the War of 1812-'15, by President
Madison, who was his second cousin. General Hopkins was a double
second cousin of Patrick Henry, their mothers being double first
cousins. He was also a second cousin of Stephen Hopkins. who
signed the Declaration of Independence, and second cousin of
Colonel Taylor, father of President Zachary Taylor. He was the
father of Captain Sam. Goode Hopkins, of the Forty-second Regiment
United States Dragoons, in the War of 1812-'15. He was also grand-
father of Thomas Towles, Jr., and Mrs. R. G. Beverly and Mrs. Col-
onel John T, Bunch.



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