GEORGE HOPE VA.1749-1781
I have a George Hope born Cumberland Co. England March 28, 1749.Don't
know who his parents were.He came to Virginia in 1772 leaving from
Whitehaven, England and landing first in Newport News, Virginia from
there he went to the Gosport Navy Yard, which at that time was a British
shipyard.During the Rev. war he built ships for the American Navy at
Gosport Navy Yard which was in the hands of the American Navy.He
married in Hampton,Va March 5, 1774 Rebecca Ballard nee Meridith, sister
of Capt James Meridith of the American Navy.His children were Geroge,
b 1775, Sarah,n 1777, Meridith b 1780, Isaac b 1782, John b 1786, Joseph
b 1789, Thomas b 1790, William b 1792 and Wilton b 1795.
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