Dorcas (Hopkins) Webster (1659 - 1697)

Born 31 Dec 1659 in Farmington, Hartford, Connecticut

Ancestors

Wife of Jonathan Webster — married 11 May 1681 in Hartford, Connecticut

Descendants

Died 10 May 1697 at age 37 in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut

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Biography

Dorcas Hopkins born on 31 Dec., 1659 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut.^[1], daughter of Stephen and Dorcas (Bronson) Hopkins [and granddaughter of John and Jane Hopkins, first settlers of Hartford, also of John Bronson of Farmington] married Deacon Johnathon Webster 11 May 1681 Hartford^[2]

Stephan Hopkins, in his will dated Sep. 28, 1689, makes a bequest to Dorcas Hopkins his wife, and one to his daughter, Dorcas Webster, of '40 shillings, besides what I have already given her."^[3]

Dorcas Webster received into the Second Church at Hartford 17 Mar 1695 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut^[4] and she died that year. Her widower, Jonathan Webster married 2nd Jan 2, 1696 to Mary Judd and Jonathan died 1735.

Children of Jonathan Webster and Dorcas Hopkins:

1. Jonathan b 1682
2. Samuel b 1683-4
3. Susannah b 1686
4. Mary b 1688
5. Mehitabel b 1691
6. Stephen b 1693

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S79 page: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=114502134 Accessed 31 Jan., 2017 Certainty of Data: 2
2. ↑ Lucius Barnes Barbour Collection, vol FFS, p 36, 1928 Connecticut Vital Records to 1870 (Online Database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2011.) From original typescripts,
3. ↑ "History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut" by William Holcomb Webster and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, pub 1915 p 34 http://www.archive.org/stream/historygenealogy00webs#page/34/mode/1up
4. ↑ Source: #S350 Page: 293 page: https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE89164 Accessed 31 Jan., 2017 Certainty of Data: 3.5

See also:

• Title: History of the Second Church of Christ in Hartford 1670-1892 Author: Edwin P. Parker Original Publisher: Belknap & Warfield Hartford, CT 1892 Publisher: FamilySearch.org
• Note: Samuel Steel ... grandson of Jonathan and Dorcas (Hopkins) Webster Dexter, Franklin Bowditch. Biographical Sketches of the Graduates of Yale College (Holt, 1885) Vol. 1, Page 593
• Clemens, William Montgomery. Early Marriage Records of the Hopkins Family in the United States (W.M. Clemens, New York, 1916) Page 6