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Stephen Hopkins was a pilgrim who was one of the first passengers on the Mayflower

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Biography of Stephen Hopkins

Stephen Hopkins - Pilgrim Hall Museum

Mayflower Society - http://www.themayflowersociety.com/

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

Last Will & Testament of Stephen Hopkins, 1644

The last Will and Testament of Mr. Stephen Hopkins exhibited upon the Oathes of mr Willm Bradford and Captaine Miles Standish at the generall Court holden at Plymouth the xxth of August Anno dm 1644 as it followeth in these wordes vizt.

The sixt of June 1644 I Stephen Hopkins of Plymouth in New England being weake yet in good and prfect memory blessed be God yet considering the fraile estate of all men I do ordaine and make this to be my last will and testament in manner and forme following and first I do committ my body to the earth from whence it was taken, and my soule to the Lord who gave it, my body to b eburyed as neare as convenyently may be to my wyfe Deceased And first my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall expences be discharged secondly that out of the remayneing part of my said estate that all my lawfull Debts be payd thirdly I do bequeath by this my will to my sonn Giles Hopkins my great Bull wch is now in the hands of Mris Warren. Also I do give to Stephen Hopkins my sonn Giles his sonne twenty shillings in Mris Warrens hands for the hire of the said Bull Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Constanc Snow the wyfe of Nicholas Snow my mare also I give unto my daughter Deborah Hopkins the brodhorned black cowe and her calf and half the Cowe called Motley Also I doe give and bequeath unto my daughter Damaris Hopkins the Cowe called Damaris heiffer and the white faced calf and half the cowe called Mottley Also I give to my daughter Ruth the Cowe called Red Cole and her calfe and a Bull at Yarmouth wch is in the keepeing of Giles Hopkins wch is an yeare and advantage old and half the curld Cowe Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth the Cowe called Smykins and her calf and thother half of the Curld Cowe wth Ruth and an yearelinge heiffer wth out a tayle in the keeping of Gyles Hopkins at Yarmouth Also I do give and bequeath unto my foure daughters that is to say Deborah Hopkins Damaris Hopkins Ruth Hopkins and Elizabeth Hopkins all the mooveable goods the wch do belong to my house as linnen wollen beds bedcloathes pott kettles pewter or whatsoevr are moveable belonging to my said house of what kynd soever and not named by their prticular names all wch said mooveables to be equally devided amongst my said daughters foure silver spoones that is to say to eich of them one, And in case any of my said daughters should be taken away by death before they be marryed that then the part of their division to be equally devided amongst the Survivors. I do also by this my will make Caleb Hopkins my sonn and heire apparent giveing and bequeathing unto my said sonn aforesaid all my Right title and interrest to my house and lands at Plymouth wth all the Right title and interrest wch doth might or of Right doth or may hereafter belong unto mee, as also I give unto my saide heire all such land wch of Right is Rightly due unto me and not at prsent in my reall possession wch belongs unto me by right of my first comeing into this land or by any other due Right, as by such freedome or otherwise giveing unto my said heire my full & whole and entire Right in all divisions allottments appoyntments or distributions whatsoever to all or any pt of the said lande at any tyme or tymes so to be disposed Also I do give moreover unto my foresaid heire one paire or yooke of oxen and the hyer of them wch are in the hands of Richard Church as may appeare by bill under his hand Also I do give unto my said heire Caleb Hopkins all my debts wch are now oweing unto me, or at the day of my death may be oweing unto mee either by booke bill or bills or any other way rightfully due unto mee ffurthermore my will is that my daughters aforesaid shall have free recourse to my house in Plymouth upon any occation there to abide and remayne for such tyme as any of them shall thinke meete and convenyent & they single persons And for the faythfull prformance of this my will I do make and ordayne my aforesaid sonn and heire Caleb Hopkins my true and lawfull Executor ffurther I do by this my will appoynt and make my said sonn and Captaine Miles Standish joyntly supervisors of this my will according to the true meaneing of the same that is to say that my Executor & supervisor shall make the severall divisions parts or porcons legacies or whatsoever doth appertaine to the fullfilling of this my will It is also my will that my Executr & Supervisor shall advise devise and dispose by the best wayes & meanes they cann for the disposeing in marriage or other wise for the best advancnt of the estate of the forenamed Deborah Damaris Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins Thus trusting in the Lord my will shalbe truly prformed according to the true meaneing of the same I committ the whole Disposeing hereof to the Lord that hee may direct you herein

June 6th 1644

Witnesses hereof By me Steven Hopkins

Myles Standish

William Bradford

Last Will & Testament of Gyles Hopkins, 1682/1683

To all Christian people to whome these presents shall com know ye that I Giles Hopkins of Eastham being sick and weak of Body and yet of perfit memory do declare this as my Last will and Testament on this ninteenth day of January in ye year of our Lord 1682

I bequeath my Body to ye grave in decent burial when this Temporal Life of mine shall have an end and my soul to god that gave it in hopes of a blessed Resurection at ye Last day

2ly my will is that my son Stephen Hopkins shall possess and Injoy all my Upland and meadow Lying and being at Satuckit that is to say all my upland and meadow on ye southerly side of ye bounds of ye Towne of eastham that is to say all my Right and title Intrest and claime to all those Lands from ye head of Namescakit to ye southermost part of ye long pond where mannomoyet cart way goes over to Satuckit and from thence to ye head of manomoyet river and so as our Line shall run over to ye south sea all ye Lands between thos bounds and ye westermost bounds of ye purchesers at satuckit river all these Lands I give Unto my son Stephen Hopkins and to his heirs forever: and half my stock of cattill for and in consideration of ye above sd Land and half stock of cattel my will is that after my decease my son Stephen Hopkins shall take ye care and oversight and maintaine my son William Hopkins during his natural Life in a comfortable decent manner.

3ly my will is that all my Lands at Palmet both purchesed and unpurchesed both meadows and upland and all my Lands at Pochet and my third part of Samsons neck and what other Lands shall fall unto me as a purcheser from ye fore mentioned Bounds of my son Stephen Hopkinses Lands and potanomacot all these fore specified Lands I give unto my sons Caleb and Joshua Hopkins to be equaly devided between them: further my will is that if either of my sons Joshua or Caleb Hopkins dye having no Issew that then these Lands which I have given them to be equally devided between them fall to him that surviveth.

4ly. I give unto my wife Catorne Hopkins and to my son William Hopkins the improvment of too acres of meadow Lying at ye head of Rock Harbor during my wifes Life and ye one half of that too acres I give Unto my son william during his Life and after ye decease of and after ye decease of my wife and son william I do give this above sd too acres of meadow to my son Joshua Hopkins and his heirs forever: as also after my decease I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins a parcel of meadow Lying at ye mouth of Rock Harbor according to ye bounds thereof specified in ye Towne Records of Lands: it I give unto my son Caleb Hopkins a parcel of meadow Lying at Little Nameskeket according to ye bounds thereof specified in ye Towne Book of Records of Lands.

It. I give unto my wife my now dwelling House and halfe my Land and halfe my orchard that is by my house: by Land I mean half my Land that is about my house both fenced and Unfenced during my wifes natural Life, and then ye above sd housing and Lands to fall unto my son Joshua Hopkins; the other half of my Land and orchard I give to my son Joshua Hopkins after my death that is to say ye other half of my Lands Liying about my house.

It. I give unto my son Caleb Hopkins one pair of plow Irons.

It. I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins one payer of plow Irons.

It. I give Unto my son Joshua Hopkins my carte and wheels.

It. I give unto my wife ye other half of my stock and moveables I say to my wife and my son William or what parse of ye moveables my wife shall see cause to bestow on my son William Hopkins.

It. I do appoint my son Stephen Hopkins to be my true and Lawful executor of this my Last will and testament to pay what is payable and Receive what is due.

And to ye truth and verity hereof I have hereunto sett my hand and seal ye day and year above written.

Signed and sealed

in presence of us, ye mark of

Jonathan Sparrow.

Giles Hopkins (seal)

Samuel Knowles.

Jonathan Sparrow and Samuel Knowles witnesses to this will made oath in Court ye: 16 th: of April 1690 that they saw ye above sd Giles Hopkins signe seal and declare this to be his Last will and Testament.

Attest Joseph Lothrop. Clerk.

I ye above sd Giles Hopkins do declare where as by ye providence of God my Life has been prolonged unto me and by Reason of age and disabillity of Body Lam Incapatiated to provide for my owne support and my wifes, my will further is that my son Stephen Hopkins from this time and forward shall possess and Injoy all my stock and moveable estate provided he take effectual care for mine and my wifes Comfortable Support during our natural Lives witness my hand and seal this fifth day of march 1688/9.

Witness Mark Snow

Giles Hopkins (seal)

Jonath Sparrow

The within mentioned Mark Snow and Jonathan Sparrow made oath in Court April ye: 16 : 1690 that they saw Giles Hopkins within mentioned signe seal and declare ye latter part of this will within mentioned to be his Last will and Testament. Attest. Joseph Lothrop, Clerk.

Duly Compared with the original and entered April ye: 22 : 1690. Attest. Joseph Lothrop, Recorder

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:

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:

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:

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:

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…

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].

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.