Sarah I. (Bigelow) Hopkins (1744 - 1831)

Born 13 Nov 1744 in Colchester, New London, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Elias Ransom — married 19 Nov 1761 in Colchester, New London County, Connecticut

Wife of Ichabod Hopkins — married 28 Apr 1774 in Great Barrington, Berkshire, Massachusetts

Descendants

Died 10 Aug 1831 at age 86 in Amherst, Erie, New York, United States

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Biography

Sarah Bigelow is the daughter of Asahel Bigelow and Dorothy Otis. She is a descendant of Mayflower Passengers John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley through her mother.

Siblings [1]: Asa, b. 31 Oct 1738, d. 18 Sept 1754 Jonathan, b. 10 Aug 1740 Dorothy, b. 2 Sept 1742 Otis, b. 4 Jan 1746-7 Betty, b. 8 Feb 1749, d. 28 Jan 1751-2 Delight, B. 25 Feb 1751, d. 28 Sept 1754 Betty, b. 21 Mar 1753 Asa, b. 12 May 1755

Married Elias Ransom (d. 1793) Nov 19, 1761 Colchester.

DAR record for granddaughter Anna Hopkins Fluekiger (381748) shows name "Sarah (Bigelow) Ransom (died 1831)" as wife of Ichabod Hopkins.[Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 082]

In her will, Sarah makes bequests of $50 to her daughter Mary Kellogg (wife of Norman Kellogg and of $5 to her daughter Lois Hollenbeck (wife of Andrew Hollenbeck). She bequeaths the remainder of her estate to her daughter Lydia Sprague (widow of Barnabas Sprague); her son Elias Ransom; her daughter Sarah Ann Whiting (wife of William Whiting); her son Amasa Ransom; her son Timothy Hopkins; her son Orlando Hopkins; her son Otis R. Hopkins; her son Cyrus Hopkins; her son James Hopkins; and her son Harry Hopkins.

Sarah was a midwife[2]

Sources

• Genealogy of the Bigelow Family of America: From the Marriage in 1642 of John Biglo and Mary Warren to the Year 1890 Gilman Bigelow Howe, 1890[3]
• Bigelow SocietyDescendents of John Bigelow (1616-1703) and Mary Warren (1624-1691)
• Connecticut Marriages, 1630-1997", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F759-S66 : 11 January 2020), Sarah Bigelow in entry for Elias Ransom, 1761.
• Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906", database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:4VPF-KRT2 : 7 January 2020), Sarah Bigelow, 1744.
• Find A Grave: Memorial #36308372
• Lineage Book of the Charter Members of the DAR Vol 082
• White, Elizabeth Pearson. John Howland of the Mayflower (Picton Press, Camden, ME, 1990) Vol. 1, Page 517.
• New York Probate Records, 1629-1971, Erie County, Will of Sarah Hopkins and Misc. Estate Documents, Case No. 10609 (1836), online at: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L9HB-T9VM-V?i=931&cc=1920234&cat=311372.