Samuel, the son of William and Grace Dutch Hodgkins, was born at Ipswich in 1658.[1]
Samuel Hodgkins first appears in Gloucester with his wife Hannah in 1684. Samuel Hodgkins was appointed, in 1694, to keep the ferry at Trynall Cove, where he had already built a house. He was a shoemaker; and a descendant of the same trade was living, near the close of the last century, where his ancestor settled, and was the last ferryman at the place.
Samuel Hodgkins's wife died July 28, 1724, aged sixty years; and he next married Mary Stockbridge, May 3, 1725. The date of his death is not known. Fifteen children are recorded to him: namely, Samuel, born in 1684; Hannah, 1686; John, 1688; Philip, 1690; William, 1691; a daughter, 1694; Jedediah, 1696; Patience, 1697; Abigail, 1699; Mercy, 1700; David, 1702; Martha, 1704; Anna, 1705; Jonathan, 1706; and Experience, 1708.
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