Hopkinson Jr., Francis, 1779-1823

Born in Philadelphia, Francis Hopkinson Jr. was the son of founding father Francis Hopkinson and Ann Borden Hopkinson. On May 7, 1808, he married Mary Hewitt in Baltimore County. They lived at 42 Chatham St. in Baltimore, and had at least two children. In the 1810 Census, he's living in household of ten, and he enslaved two of those people. He died in Georgetown at the house of Ebenezer Stout, and is buried at Old Saint Pauls Cemetery in Baltimore.

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[Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker, July 28, 1812, Vol. 3]

Letter from Littleton Dennis Teackle to Charles Nicoll Bancker. The letter is from Vol. 3 of Charles N. Bancker's correspondence journal. Littleton gives a detailed recount of the riot that occurred in Baltimore on July 27, 1812. Anti-war articles written by Alexander Contee Hanson in the Federal Republican newspaper caused riots against the newspaper. The riot and events occurring afterwards were violent and resulted in the death of at least one man, Dr. Gale. Littleton includes an additional note with some of the names of the men involved.