Stephen Hopkins (1689 - 1769)

Born 19 Nov 1689 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony

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Died 4 Jan 1769 at age 79 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony

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Biography

Stephen Hopkins was born 19 Nov 1689 at Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut.^[1][2] He was the son of John Hopkins and Hannah Strong of Waterbury. Stephen married first in 1717, Susannah Peck, daughter of John Peck of Wallingford, Connecticut. Susannah died 2 Dec 1755. Stephen married second, 25 May 1756, Abigail Webster, widow of John Webster, of Farmington, Connecticut. He had 10 children, all with his first wife. Stephen died at Hartford, Connecticut 4 Jan 1769 at the age of 79.

Children of Stephen Hopkins and Susannah Peck

1. John, b. 20 Jul 1718
2. Stephen, b. 28 Jun 1719
3. Anna, b. 25 Sep 1723; m. Thomas Bronson and Phineas Joyce
4. Susannah Hopkins, b. 10 Nov 1725
5. Mary, 4 Jun 1728; d. 1 Jun 1735
6. Joseph, b. 6 Jun 1730
7. Jesse, b. 12 Feb 1733; d. 3 Dec 1754
8. Mary, b. 26 Nov 1735; d. 27 Sep 1748
9. Lois, b. 22 Jun 1738; m. Isaac Johnson, son of Benajah
10. David, b. 14 Oct 1741; d. 23 Sep 1748

Sources

1. ↑ Anderson, Joseph. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five (Price & Lee Co., New Haven, 1895) Ap69.
2. ↑ The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records - White, Lorraine Cook, ed. (Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1994-2002) Vol. 50 - Waterbury, Page 177.

• "Ancient Burying-Grounds of the Town of Waterbury, Connecticut, Together With Other Records of Church and Town", Publications of the Mattatuck Historical Society (Mattatuck Historical Society, Waterbury, Conn., 1917) Page 62 & Page 122: #344
• Connecticut Deaths and Burials Index, 1650-1934

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Birth: abt 1690. Death: 4 Jan 1769 Connecticut.

• Judd, Sylvester. Ancestors of Rev. Samuel hopkins, D.D., of Newport, and Their Children, The New England Historical & Genealogical Register (NEHGS, Boston, Mass., 1851) Vol. 5, Page 43: Gives birth date of Nov. 19, 1689

See also:

• Goodwin, Nathaniel. Genealogical Notes, or Contributions to the Family History of Some of the First Settlers of Connecticut and Massachusetts. F. A. Brown. Hartford. 1856. : Stephen Hopkins, p. 109.
• The Town and City of Waterbury Connecticut. The Price & Lee Company. New Haven. 1896. : Stephen Hopkins, p. 70.
• Hopkins, Timothy. "John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts: 1634, and Some of His Descendants". United States, Stanford University Press, 1932. (Not in public domain.)
• Green, Constance McLaughlin. History of Naugatuck, Connecticut (Yale Univ. Press, New Haven, 1948) Page 33.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #135956684: Old Pine Grove Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut
• Find A Grave: Memorial #122411323: Library Park Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut