Tammany, old native African - The following note had no date but was filed with Hopkins family data from 1923. It is probably from an interview with Judge Hopkins.

"Old Tammany, the African, was brought over on the 'Wanderer', the last vessel that ran the blockade of slave trade into U.S. [In 1858]

"Capt. Sam Brockington, was making for Brunswick, pursued by Revenue Cutter off St. Simon's, & landed slaves on Jekyll Is. The natives from the mainland & Island wd. come in canoes & row boats, jerk up a negro; throw him in, & off with his prize

- Tammany was bought by [space in document is blank but
possibly refers to Dr. Thomas Spalding Hopkins, though it may refer to a prior owner] and built himself a hut in which he lived apart from other negroes - children afraid of him."

Information from the memory of Octavius Hopkins, son of Dr. Thomas
Spalding Hopkins, Jan. 6, 1938. (This has been transcribed as it was
written.) Original in private collection, Atlanta, GA.
(wills, are located in Glynn County, GA probate records, available on microfilm at the Georgia Archives, Atlanta, GA.)

"Tammany & Phoebe were native Africans Phoebe lived to be 110.Octavius Hopkins.1,6,'38

Sources not otherwise noted are in private collection, Atlanta, GA