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he rushed off the stage. Nineteen years bter he came again to Williamsburg and v/as at his best. His main support was his cousin, the beautiful Miss Sarah Hallam, whose portrait in her role of "Imogene" had been painted by Charles Wilson Peale.

Jones, Catlet, born in Virginia, about 1750. accompanied Daniel Boone to Ken- tucky, and was one of the twelve settlers who rescued Boone's daughter, who had been captured by the Indians, and while guarding the "corn-patch'* with Boone was severely wounded. After serving through- out the revolution, he joined the Society of Friends, became a preacher, and in 1801 emigrated to Ohio. He died in Columbiana county. Ohio, in 1829.

Hopkins, Samuel, son of Samuel Hopkins t.nd grandson of Dr. Arthur Hopkins, of Cloochland county, Virginia, and Elizabeth I'ettus, his wife, born in Albemarle county, \'irginii, about 1750; was an officer in the Continental army, and fought at Princeton, Trenton. Monmouth, and Brandywine. At the battle of German town his battalion of light infantry was nearly annihilated, and he was severely wounded. He was lieu- tenant-colonel of the Tenth Virginia Regi- ment at the siege of Charleston, and after the death of Col. Richard Parker became its colonel, serving as such until the end of the war. He was taken prisoner with other officers, at the surrender of Charleston, May 20, 1780. While they were being taken in a British vessel to Virginia, he complained to the captain of harsh treatment and want of food, and threatened to raise a mutiny un- less they were treated as officers and gentle- men, which bold language secured proper care during the rest of the voj-age. In 1797

he settled on Green river. Kentucky, and served for several sessions in the legisla- ture of that state. In 1812 he led two thou- sand mounted volunteers against the Kicka- poo villages on the Illinois river, but the party was misled by the guides, and re- turned, after wandering for several days about the prairie. In November he led a body of infantry up the Wabash, and de- stroyed several deserted villages, but lost a part of his force by ambuscade. He re- turned to Vincennes, after destroying a town on Wildcat creek. He was elected to congress from Kentucky, and took his seat June 26, 18 1 3. After the end of his term, March 2. 1815, he retired to his farm in Hopkins county, which was named for him. He died in Henderson, Kentucky, in Octo- ber, 1819.

Lenoir, William, born in Brunswick coun- ty, Virginia, April 20, 1751 ; removed to Tar- borough, North Carolina, and settled near Wilkesborough. At the outbreak of the revolution he was clerk of the Surrj- county committee of safety. He was lieutenant in Gen. Griffith Rutherford's campaign against the Indians in 1776, and was afterwards a captain in Benjamin Cleveland's regiment against the Tories. At King s Mountain he was wounded in the arm and side, and at the defeat of Col. Pylc, near Haw river, a horse was shot under him. After the war he was made a justice by congress and afterward by the state assembly. He was a member of the assembly, and from 1781 till 1795 a state senator, and presiding offi- cer for five years. He took an active part in the Hillsborough convention for the adop- tion of the constitution of the United States. At the organization of the state university

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