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The Following Family Groups are the Maternal Lineages of LEAH ADAMS
Stephen Hopkins was a pilgrim who was one of the first passengers on the Mayflower
Direct Generations to Leah Adams
THE MAYFLOWER
| Generation #1: | Stephen Hopkins & Mary _____ |
| Generation #2: | Nicholas Snow & Constance Hopkins |
| Generation #3: | Thomas Paine & Mary Snow |
| Generation #4: | Elisha Paine & Rebecca Doane |
| Generation #5: | David Adams & Dorcas Paine |
| Generation #6: | Isaiah Cain & Leah Adams |
Stephen Hopkins - Pilgrim Hall Museum
Mayflower Society - http://www.themayflowersociety.com/
Stephen Hopkins & Mary _____
Stephen Hopkins - Born: 29 October 1581, Gloucestershire, England, Occupation: Sold glass (was fined for selling at too high a price), Died: 27 July 1644, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Nicholas Hopkins, Mother: Mary Poole
Other Sources List Stephen's Birth as: 30 APR 1581 in Hursley, Hampshire, England
Other Sources List Stephen's Parents as: John Hopkins & Elizabeth Williams
Married: Mary _____, Before 1604, Hampshire, England, Mary Born: Between 1564 & 1587 Died: 09 May 1613, Hursley, Hampshire, England, (Probably while Stephen was on his first attempt to reach the new world.), Buried: Hursley, Hampshire, England
Children:
1. Elizabeth Hopkins - Born: 13 March 1604, Hursley, Hampshire, England, Died: Before 1620 NEVER MARRIED 2. Constance Hopkins - Born: 25 Jan 1599, London, Middlesex County, England, Baptized: 11 May 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England, Died: Mid-October 1677, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Nicholas Snow, 01 June 1627, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Nicholas Born: 25 January 1599/1600, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England, Died: 15 November 1676, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA Constance was a Mayflower Passanger. Nicholas Came to Plymouth on the Ship "ANNE" in 1623 3. Giles Hopkins - Baptized: 30 January 1607/1608, Hursley, Hampshire, England, Occupation: 07 March 1642 - 1662, Road Surveyor, Died: Between 05 March 1688/89 & April 1690, Eastham, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Catherine Wheldon, 09 October 1639, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Gabriel (Gabruel) Wheldon Giles was a Mayflower Passenger 1620. He passed his property to his son Stephen 05 March 1688. More about Giles Hopkins 4. Bertha Hopkins 5. William Hopkins
Nicholas Snow & Constance Hopkins
Nicholas Snow - Born: 25 January 1599/1600, St. Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, England, Occupations: Carpenter & Town Clerk, Died: 15 November 1676, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA
Married: Constance Hopkins, 01 June 1627, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Constance Born: 25 January 1599, London, Middlesex County, England, Baptized: 11 May 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England, Died: Mid-October 1677, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Stephen Hopkins, Mother: Mary _____
Children:
1. Mark C. Snow (captain) - Born: 09 May 1628, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA, Occupations: Deputy; Selectman & Town Clerk, Died: 09 January 1694, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married #1: Anne Cooke, 18 January 1654/55 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Josias Cooke, Mother: Elizabeth Ring, Married #2: Jane Prence, 09 January 1660/61 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 2. Mary Snow - Born: 14 December 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 28 April 1704, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Married: Thomas Paine, July 1650, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Thomas Born: 18 January 1613, Kent, England, Died: 16 August 1706, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Thomas Paine, Mother: Margaret Pultney 3. Sarah Snow - Born: 1632, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: After 08 March 1696/97, Married: William Walker, 25 January 1654/55, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, William Born: 1620, England, Father: Richard Walker 4. Joseph Snow (lieutenant) - Born: 24 November 1634, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 January 1722, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Mary Higgins 5. Stephen Snow - Born: 1636, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 17 December 1705, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Susanna Deane, 28 October 1663, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 6. John Snow - Born: 1638, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: Before 04 April 1692, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Mary Small, 19 September 1667, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Mary Born: 11 December 1647 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 11 December 1699, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Father: John Small, Mother: Ann Walden John was the 2nd Husband of Mary. Her first Husband was Ephraim Doane 7. Elizabeth Snow - Born: 1640, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 16 June 1678, USA, Married: Thomas Rogers, 13 Dec 1665 8. Jabez Snow - Born: 1642, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Died: December 1690, USA, Married: Elizabeth Smith, 09 October 1670 9. Ruth Snow - Born: 1644, USA, Died: 27 January 1715/16, USA, Married: John Cole, 10 Dec 1666, USA 10. Constance Snow - Born: 1646, Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Daniel Doane, Before 1666, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 11. Hannah Snow - Born: 1646, USA, Married: Giles Richard, 1683 12. Samuel Snow - Born: 28 May 1647, USA, Died: 1654, USA 13. Rebecca Snow - Born: 1648, USA, Married: Samuel Rickard (Richard)
Thomas Paine & Mary Snow
Thomas Paine III - Born: 18 January 1613, Kent, England, Died: 16 August 1706, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Thomas Paine, Mother: Margaret Pultney
Thomas lost the sight of one eye from an arrow. He was made a Freeman of the Plymouth Colony on June 1, 1658. He and Giles Hopkins served as surveyors of highways for Eastham in 1662. Thomas was also Treasurer, Cerk, and a Selectman of Eastham, and in 1671, Thomas was named Water Bailiff of Plymouth Colony.
Thomas was a cooper and builder of mills. In March of 1696 he bought a home in Boston and represented Eastham in the Massuchusetts General Court, until Oct. 13, 1697, when he sold his Boston home and moved back to Eastham.
Married: Mary Snow, July 1650, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Mary Born: 14 December 1630, Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts, USA, Died: 28 April 1704, Eastham, Barnstable Co., Massachusetts, USA, Father: Nicholas Snow, Mother: Constance Hopkins
Children:
1. Nicholas Paine - Married: Hannah Higgins 2. Samuel Paine - Born: 1652, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 13 October 1712, Married: Patience Freeman (a TWIN), 31 January 1681/82, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Patience Born: 03 February 1664/65, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 15 February 1744/45, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Father: (Major) John Freeman, Mother: Mercy Prence 3. Mary Paine - Born: ca1655, USA, Died: Before 1724, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Married #1: James Rogers, 11 January 1670/71, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, James Born: 1648, Died: 1678, Father: (Lieu.) Joseph Rogers, Married #2: Israel Cole, 24 April 1679, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Israel Born: 1653, Died: 1724, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Father: Daniel Cole, Mother: Ruth Collier 4. Thomas Paine IV (Captain) - Born: 10 March 1656/57, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 23 June 1721, Truro, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Old North Cemetery, Truro, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Hannah Shaw, 05 August 1678, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Hannah Born: 1661, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 24 July 1713, Truro, Massachusetts, USA, Buried: Old North Cemetery, Truro, Massachusetts 5. TWIN Elisha Paine - Born: 10 March 1657/58, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 7 February 1735/36, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: Rebecca Doane, 20 January 1684/85, Rebecca Born: 12 May 1668, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 19 December 1758, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: (Deacon) John Doane Jr., Mother: Abigail Doane 6. TWIN Eleazer Paine - Born: 10 March 1657/58, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA 7. James Paine - Born: 16 July 1665, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 12 November 1728, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Bethia Thatcher, 09 April 1691, Bethia Born: 10 July 1671, Yarmouth, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 08 July 1734, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA 8. Joseph Paine - Born: 1667, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 01 October 1712, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Married: Patience Sparrow 9. Dorcas Paine 10. John Paine
Elisha Paine & Rebecca Doane
TWIN Elisha Paine - Born: 10 March 1657/58, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 7 February 1735/36, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Thomas Paine, Mother: Mary Snow
Elisha was One of the most prominent citizens or Canterbury; 1st Town Clerkin1703; Selectman in 1706; one of the first members of the church in 1711; Deputy to General Court in Hartford in 1711.Three sons were mininsters of the Gospel.
Married: Rebecca Doane, 20 January 1684/85, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Rebecca Born: 12 May 1668, Eastham, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 19 December 1758, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: (Deacon) John Doane Jr., Mother: Abigail Doane
Children:
1. Hannah Paine
2. Abigail Paine - Born: 05 January 1686/87, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 August 1762, USA, Married: Josiah Cleveland, 07 August 1710, USA, Josiah Born: 07 OCT 1690, Father: Josiah Cleveland, Mother: Mary Bates Josiah & Abigail had 11 Children all born Canterbury, Connecticut 3. Rebecca Paine - Born: ca1690, Died: 1784, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: Edward Cleveland, Edward Born: 1686, North Kingston, RI, USA, Died: 1771 Edward & Rebecca had 8 Children all born Canterbury, Connecticut 4. Elisha Paine - Born: 29 December 1693, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 26 August 1775, Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, USA, Married #1: Mary Johnson, 25 September 1720, USA, Father: William Johnson, Mother: Mary Cook, Married #2: Anne _____ Elisha & Mary had 9 Children Elisha & his wife first resided at Eastham MA, then moved to Barnstable and then back to Eastham. Finally they moved to Canterbury CT, where he died. In the Hopkins genealogy, he is assumed to have been also known as "Eliezer" and "Alisha". Elisha was following the practice of law, becoming one of the most talented lawyers in CT. He abandoned the law to practice preaching. Disliking the Saybrook Platform, by which all CT churches were governed, he began advocating greater religious liberty and thus attracted the enmity of the church authorities. He was arrested at Woodstock for preaching without authority and cast into jail at Worcester, 19 February 1743. He was not released until May the following. 5. Mary Paine - Born: 01 February 1696/97, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: After 01 February 1768, Married #1: Robert Freeman, 05 April 1722, Truro, Massachusetts, USA, Robert Born: 1696, Died: 1754, Father: Constant Freeman, Mother: Jane Treat, Married #2: Edward Waldo, After 13 December 1757, Edward Born: 1684, Died: 1767, Father: John Waldo, Mother: Rebecca Adams Robert & Mary had 9 Children 6. Abraham Paine - Born: 1696, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Baptized: 1697, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 20 March 1776, Amenia, NY, USA, Married: Ruth Adams, Ruth Born: 10 December 1691, USA, Father: John Adams, Mother: Michall Bloice Abraham & Ruth had 10 Children 7. Solomon Paine - Born: 16 May 1698, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 25 October 1754, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married #1: Ruth Carver, 02 March 1719/20, USA, Ruth Born: 1701, Died: 1731, Father: David Carver, Mother: Ruth Whitmarsh, Married #2: Priscilla Fitch, 31 May 1732, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Priscilla Born: 1703, Died: ca1784, Father: John Fitch, Mother: Elizabeth Waterman Solomon & Ruth had 6 Children. Solomon & Priscilla had 3 Children Solomon was the Minister of the Separatist Church, Canterbury, Connecticut 8. Dorcas Paine - Born: 24 February 1700, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: David Adams, 27 August 1723, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, David Born: 29 March 1699, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745 or 1759, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Jonathan Adams, Mother: Leah Gould David & Dorcas had 8 Children 9. Constance Paine - Born: 17 February 1705/6, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 15 May 1787, Amenia, NY, USA, Married #1: William Baker Jr., 27 April 1730, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, William Born: 1709, Died: 1735, Father: William Baker, Mother: Rebecca Backus, Married #2: Joshua Paine, 03 January 1736, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Joshua Born: 1697, Died: 1775, Father: Thomas Paine, Mother: Hannah Shaw Joshua & Constance were 1st cousins and had 6 Children 10. John Paine - Born: 12 July 1707, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 18 May 1753, Southold, Suffolk Co., NY, USA, of accidental shooting by Richard Howser who thought he was shooting a deer. Married: Sarah Church, 12 February 1729/30, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Sarah Born: 1713, Died: 1756, Father: Samuel Church, Mother: Elizabeth (Burr) Clark. John & Sarah had 5 Children
He visited Brisstol, Providence, Boston, Cambridge, Dunstable and Lancaster preaching 244 sermons from July to December. Returning again to Windham, CT, he was arrested and imprisoned for preaching without being an "ordained and settled minister."Public opinion soon compelled his release. He soon after settled at Bridgehampton, Long Island, NY, preaching until 15 days before his death.
David Adams & Dorcas Paine
David Adams - Born: 29 March 1699, Chelmsford, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745 or 1759, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Jonathan Adams, Mother: Leah Gould
Married: Dorcas Paine, 27 August 1723, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Dorcas Born: 24 February 1700, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts, USA, Died: 03 March 1745, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Father: Elisha Paine, Mother: Rebecca Doane
Children:
1. Jonathan Adams - Born: 24 May 1724, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 08 June 1757, USA, Married: Desire Ashcraft, 27 December 1745, USA, Died: 19 May 1753, USA 2. Constance Adams - Born: 17 April 1726, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: Robert Reynolds 3. Levi Adams - Born: 18 November 1728, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Died: 1816, Hardwick, Otsego Co., NY, USA, Married: Margaret Perkins, 26 December 1751, Lisbon, Connecticut, USA, Margaret Born: July 1729, Lisbon, Connecticut, USA, Died: 23 June 1827, Hartford, Washington Co., NY, USA Levi was a Revolutionary Soldier, and was at New London, Connecticut at the capture of Fort Griswold by the British. He and his three sons escaped, but two Adams brothers were murdered there. 4. Dr. Abel Adams - Born: 05 January 1729, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Occupation: Physician, Died: 16 April 1791, New Marlborough, NY, USA, Married: Deborah Young, 1770, Deborah Born: 1727 "Dr. ABEL ADAMS, son of David and Dorcas Paine Adams, was born in Canterbury, Conn. on January 5, 1729/30. Later residences are thought to be Canaan or Salisbury, Conn. and Dutchess County, NY, where he died in 1791. He was a Quaker, and physician of prominence in Dutchess County. He married twice and had thirteen children. 5. Elisha Adams - Born: 05 July 1733, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA, Married: Margaret _____ 6. Dorcas Adams - Born: 05 June 1735, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA 7. Leah Adams - Born: 18 August 1738, Canterbury, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA, Baptized: 20 August 1738, Canterbury First Congregational Church, Connecticut, USA, Died: 1806, Caintown, Ontario, Canada, Buried: Caintown Cemetery, Married: Isaiah Cain, 1762, Canterbury, Windham Co., Connecticut, USA, Isaiah Born: 1737, NY, USA, Residence: Caintown, Ontario, Canada, Concession III Lot 15, Died: 1812, Caintown, Ontario, Canada 8. Rebecca Adams - Born: 06 August 1742, Canterbury, Connecticut, USA
This Abel Adams is of the same generation and cousin to President John Adams and Revolutionary Patriot Samuel Adams."
Stephen Hopkins - Pilgrim Hall Museum
SOURCE OF INFORMATION BY: PILGRIM HALL MUSEUM - America's Museum of Pilgrim Possessions
"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in new England; and their families…
"Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. And two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester."
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 441-3.
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Biography of Stephen Hopkins
BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:
Stephen Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made a prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown, Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island following a hurricane, and the 150 passengers were stranded for nine months. Hopkins led an uprising, challenging the governor's authority, and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin of his wife and children, and so was pardoned out of sympathy. The company eventually managed to build a ship, and escaped the island. After spending several years in Jamestown, Hopkins returned to England sometime between 1613 and 1617.
Stephen Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children Giles and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage. A son Oceanus was born while the Mayflower was at sea. Stephen participated in the early exploring missions and was an "ambassador" along with Myles Standish for early Indian relations.
Stephen Hopkins is mentioned in a letter written by William Bradford and Isaac Allerton on 8 September 1623, which was found in uncalendered papers at the Public Records Office in London. The letter was presented as evidence for the defense in the 1624 court case Stevens and Fell vs. the Little James. The letter is published in American Historical Review, 8(1903):294-301. The short section about Stephen Hopkins reads as follows (spelling modernized):
About Hopkins and his men we are come to this issue. The men we retain in the general according to his resignation and equity of the thing. And about that recconing of 20 odd pounds, we have brought it to this pass, he is to have - 6 - " - payed by you there, and the rest to be quit; it is for nails and such other things as we have had of his brother here for the companies use, and upon promise of payment by us, we desire you will accordingly do it.
Another little-known reference to Stephen Hopkins, which also alludes to his two servants (Edward Doty and Edward Leister), is found in the Minutes for the Council of New England, on 5 May 1623 (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1867, pp. 93-94):
Touching the difference between Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Peirce, Mr. Hopkins alleadgeth that hee hath paid to Mr Peirce for Transportation of himselfe and two persons more, and Likewise for ihs goods, wch Peirce acknowledgeth, but alleadgeth, that by reason of his unfortunate returne, the rest of the passengers that went upon the Like Conditions have been contented to allow unto 40s a person towards his Loss, and therefore desireth that Master Hopkyns may doe the like, which Mr. Hopkins at length agreed unto, soe as Mr. Peirce and his Associates will accept of £6 for 3 passengers out of £20 his Adventure wch he hath in their Joynt Stock. And therefore they both pray that the Councell will bee pleased to write to the Associates to accept thereof, which they are pleased to doe.
In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, in 1637 he was found guilty of allowing men to drink on a Sunday at his house, and in 1638 he was fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. He was also charged with several other minor crimes, including selling glass at too high a price, selling illegal intoxicants, and allowing men to get drunk at his house. However, this in no way indicated he was disloyal to the Colony--in fact he was Assistant governor from 1633 until 1636, and he volunteered to fight in the Pequot War of 1637.
SOURCES:
Caleb Johnson, "The True Origins of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins," The American Genealogist, 73(1998):161-171.
John D. Austin, Mayflower Families for Five Generations: Stephen Hopkins, volume 6 (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992).
Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Its History and Its People, 1620-1691 (Ancestor Publishers, Salt Lake City, 1986).
William Bradford and Edward Winslow. A Relation or Journal of the Beginning and Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth . . . (John Bellamie: London, 1622).
William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison (New York: Random House, 1952).
Annie Lash Jester, Adventurers of Purse and Person--Virginia 1607-1625, p. 213-217.
COMMENTS: Caleb Johnson's discovery [TAG 73:161-71] of the family of Stephen Hopkins in Hursley, Hampshire, eliminates at last the suggestion that Stephen Hopkins was son of Stephen Hopkins, a clothier, of Wortley, Wooten Underedge, Gloucestershire [MF 6:3, citing "[t]he Wortley historian"].
Johnson's discovery also strengthens the argument that this was the same Stephen Hopkins who was the minister's clerk on the vessel Sea Venture which met with a hurricane in 1609 while on a voyage to Virginia [TAG 73:165-66]. One of one hundred and fifty survivors marooned on a Bermuda, he fomented a mutiny and was sentenced to death, but "so penitent he was and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass," that his friends procured a pardon from the Governor [MF 6:3, citing William Strachey's account].
In his listing of the Mayflower passengers Bradford included "Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. And two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester" [Bradford 442]. Stephen Hopkins signed the Mayflower Compact. In his accounting of this family in 1651 Bradford reported that "Mr. Hopkins and his wife are now both dead, but they lived above twenty years in this place and had one son and four daughters born here. Their son became a seaman and died at Barbadoes, one daughter died here, and two are married; one of them hath two children, and one is yet to marry. So their increase which still survive are five. But his son Giles is married and hath four children. His daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living, and one of them married" [Bradford 445].
In June 1621 Steven Hopkins and Edward Winslow were chosen by the governor to approach Massasoit, and Hopkins repeated this duty as emissary frequently thereafter [Young's Pilgrim Fathers 202, 204].
Despite his social standing and his early public service, Stephen Hopkins managed to run afoul of the authorities several times in the late 1630s. In June of 1636 while an Assistant, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale, whom he "dangerously wounded" [PCR 1:41-42]. On 2 October 1637 he was fined for allowing drinking on the Lord's day and the playing of "shovell board" [PCR 1:68] and on 2 January 1637/8 he was "presented for suffering excessive drinking in his house" [PCR 1:75]. On 5 June 1638 he was "presented for selling beer for 2d. the quart, not worth 1d. a quart" [PCR 1:87]; for this and other similar infractions he was on 4 September 1638 fined £5 [PCR 1:97]. He dealt harshly with his pregnant servant Dorothy Temple and only the intercession of John Holmes freed him from being held in contempt of court [PCR 1:111-13]. In December 1639 he was presented for selling a looking glass for 16d. when a similar glass could be bought in the Bay for 9d. [PCR 1:137].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1992 John D. Austin published an excellent and extensive account of Stephen Hopkins and his descendants as the sixth volume in the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants [cited herein as MF 6].
In 1998 Caleb Johnson published his discovery of the baptismal place of the children of Stephen Hopkins by his first wife [TAG 73:161-71].
More about Giles Hopkins
The Mayflower Reader: A Selection of Articles from The Mayflower Descendant, page 31Will of Giles Hopkins of Eastham, dated 19 Jan 1682, probated 16/26 April 1690. Mentions wife Catorne, sons Stephen, William, Caleb, and Joshua.
16 April 1690 Jonathan Sparrow and Samuel Knowles witnesses to this will made oath in Court.
He made a codicil to this will 15 March 1689. Give property to Stephen to care for himself and his wife.
Genealogies of Mayflower Families, Pe-W, First Settlers of Eastham, Mass., Page 884 He was on the list of inhabitants of Eastham dated 22 May 1655.
Comprehensive History of Eastham, Massachusetts, page 112 Hopkins' pond, which took its name from Mr. Giles Hopkins, who lived near it for many years, is one-fourth of a mile north of Duck pond, and about the same size, but not so deep.
First Settlers of Ye Plantations of Piscataway and Woodsridge Olde East New Jersey part 5, page 742 In 1656 Giles Hopkins deeded land to Andrew Hallet, Jr., "being the west field between the lands of Nicholas Simpin's on the northeast side and the land of Robert Dennis on the southwest side."
Peirce's Colonial Lists, page 847 June 1637 It is concluded and enacted by the Court, that the Colony of New Plymouth shall send forth aid to assist them of MA Bay and CT in their wars against the Pequin Indians in revenge of the innocent blood of the English which the said Pequins have barbarously shed and refuse to give satisfaccon for.
It is also enacted by the Court that there shall be thirty pesons sent for land service and as many others as shall be sufficient to manage the barque. Lt William Holmes is elected to be leader of the said company. Mr. Thomas Prence is also elected by lott to be for the council of war and to goe forth wth them. Giles is on the list of the Soldiers that willingly offered themselves to goe upon the said service wth Mr. Prence & the Lt.
The Hamlin Family, page 52 GILES HOPKINS.2 came with his father in the Mayflower 1620. It is supposed he built the first house in Yarmouth, Mass., about 1638; which was sold to Andrew Hallet. Jr. 1642; he settled at Eastham, Mass. before 1654; m. Catherine Wheldon, and had four children before 1650, says Gov. Bradford.
The Hamlin Family, page 19 The permanent settlement of the town of Yarmouth commenced early in 1639. The grantees were Anthony Thacher, John Crow, and Thomas Hawes, who had surveyed the land prepartory to occupation. They with John Coite, "to be enquired of," Madrick Matthews, Philip Tabor, William Palmer, Samuel Rider, William Lumpkin, and Thomas Hatch were proposed Jan. 7. 1639, "to take up their freedom at Yarmouth," but the following persons were excepted against: Old Worden (dead), Burnell Wright and Nat Deville. In March (1640) Nicholas Simpkins, Hugh Tilley, Giles Hopkins and Joshua Barnes are mentioned in the Court records as of Yarmouth. Andrew Hallett, Sr., was there in March, but did not settle permanently until 1643. At the close of 1640 the following persons had also settled there: Thomas Starr, Robert Dennis, Edward Sturgis, James Matthews, William Nickerson, Yelverton Crow and Thomas Payne. William Payne was chosen constable; and Thomas Payne and Philip Tabor deputies to the court; the first resresentative assembly in the colony, June 4, 1639. William Clark took the oath of allegiance and fidelity in September, and was constable of the town.
