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History of Hometown. 



At Hopetown the evidences of degeneracy were more abundant and marked 

 and consequently to this place more attention was given. Hopetown is a settle- 

 ment of about ] 000 pure whites and 12 colored people. As the two races have 

 not intermingled appreciably, our study was rendered much more simple on 

 account of the absence of mulattoes. In brief, the history of the colony is as 

 follows : 



Wyannie Malone, a widow and a Tory sympathizer, not wishing to remain 

 in the United States after the close of the Eevolutionary War, changed her 

 residence from Charleston, South Carolina, to Hopetown, Abaco, in 1785. 

 She brought with her four children, Ephraim, David, Sarah, and Wyannie. 

 Walter ]Malone, one of the children, died in South Carolina. Sarah ran away 

 with the captain of a whaler and was lost track of. The other three children 

 married and settled down at Hopetown. Ephraim married Elizabeth Tedder 

 of Harbor Island. David also married a woman from Harbor Island, while 

 Wyannie, the daughter of the widow ]\Ialone, married Jacob Adams of South 

 Carolina, who had accompanied them in their migration. From this stock 

 most of the present inhabitants of Hopetown have descended, and the names of 

 Malone and Eussell are constantly met with throughout the settlement. 



Explanation of Chart. 



With the aid of Eev. E. C. Johnson, a clergyman in the settlement, and 

 Captain Samuel Malone, one of the old inhabitants of the village, Mr. Gill- 

 more and I were able to construct a diagram of the Malone family showing the 

 lines of descent since the appearance of widow Malone in the settlement. In 

 order to study intelligently this family tree, which is shown on Plate LXXVI, a 

 word or two of explanation may be necessary. The lines of descent start from 

 the right-hand side of the diagram, with the name widow Wyannie Malone. 

 To the left, her five children are placed, two of \vhom disappeared from the 

 settlement, while the marriages and descendants of the other three who re- 

 mained are indicated. Next, or to the right, are shown the descendants of the 

 grandchildren of the widow Malone, and their marriages are in turn indicated. 

 In this way the descent runs progressively towards the left. In the early 

 history of the settlement " Old " John Albury, of Harbor Island, and Nathaniel 

 Key, of St. Augustine, Florida, settled in Hopetown. As they were already 

 married when they arrived in this settlement, they brought in new blood, but 

 their offspring in a short time closely intermarried with the descendants of 



