Debbi, There is not much on the Hopkins family as such. Scott's reference is to the husband of a Miss Scott in Columbia.SC...don't know whether it is pertinent to your family research but here it is: "Where the post office now stands Ainsley Hall built a large store and dwelling and carried on the most extensive business in cotton and general merchandise in the town. He had been brought from the old country by the Purvises and,after serving them some years as a clerk, set out on his own account. Being a clear-headed and fearless speculator, at the close of the war and afterwards he became immensely rich. Of medium stature but elegantly formed, with the finest complexion I have ever seen, and always neatly dressed, he was the perfect pattern of a gentlemanly English merchant of the olden time. His wife, Miss Hopkins, belonged to one of the aristocratic families in Richland Fork, and the connection secured him the custom and patronage of that wealthy region; but they had no children." This was in Scott's description of Camden, 1811-1817 including the War of 1812: General Blair was the second of Hopkins in his duel with my former school fellow, the elegant and talented Henry G. Nixon, at Augusta where the latter was shot through the heart at the first fire, his second being Governor John Lide Wilson, author of the "Code of Honor," who had himself stood fire in a similar rencontre with a cigar in his mouth." Blanche