Hannah (Hopkins) Tryon (1760 - 1828)

Born 25 Aug 1760 in Springfield, Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of William Tryon — married 27 Aug 1791 in Deerfield, Franklin, Massachusetts, USA

Descendants

Died 17 Sep 1828 at age 68 in Manlius, Onondaga, New York, United States

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Biography

Daughter of Timothy Hopkins and Dinah Miller Hopkins, she was born 25 Aug 1760 in Springfield.^[1]

She married William Tryon on 22 Sep 1791 in Deerfield, Franklin County, MA.^[2][3][4] Another source lists the marriage place as West Springfield.^[5]

"[Her] early ancestors were English. Edward Hopkins, having come from Shrewsbury, England, to Boston in 1637, removed to Hartford and was chosen Governor of Connecticut, repeatedly, from 1640 to 1654. He afterwards went to England, where he was chosen Warden of the English Fleet and a Member of Parliament. Many of his descendants have been distinguished men in Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Pennsylvania. Stephen Hopkins, one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, was a delegate to Congress in 1774, and remained in that office until after the establishment of independence. He died in 1785, aged seventy-nine. Samuel Hopkins, D. D. graduated from Yale College in 1741, studied theology with his kinsman, Jonathan Edwards, of Northampton, and became a very eminent minister. His chief publication was a system of theology, in two volumes, octavo. In connection with Edwards he revolutionized many old ideas in theology, and helped to lift the human mind to a higher plain of thought. Of the latter, Barber, in his "Biographical History," says: "His essay on the 'Freedom of the Will' is considered by many as one of the greatest efforts of the human mind."^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Ancestry.com)
2. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Ancestry.com)
3. ↑ Massachusetts, Compiled Marriages, 1633-1850; Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0760648 & 1887384. (Ancestry.com)
4. ↑ The New England Historical & Genealogical Register, 1847-2011 (Ancestry.com)
5. ↑ Massachusetts, Town and Vital Records, 1620-1988 (Ancestry.com)
6. ↑ Interstate Publishing Co. (1885) History of McHenry County, Illinois : together with sketches of its cities, villages and towns, educational, religious, civil, military, and political history, portraits of prominent persons, and biographies of representative citizens : also a condensed History of Illinois, embodying accounts of pre-historic races, aborigines, Winnebago and Black Hawk wars, and a brief review of its civil and political history, Interstate Publishing, Chicago. pp 725-6. See Hopkins' ancestry

• Hannah Hopkins Tryon's Find a Grave Memorial 12906940

• Smith, John M. (1899) History of the town of Sunderland, Massachusetts, Greenfield, Massachusetts: Press of E.A. Hall & Co. p. 559.