Samuel Hopkins (1682 - 1749)

Born Mar 1682 in Eastham, Plymouth Colony

Ancestors

Husband of Lidea (Rich) Hopkins — married before Nov 1707 in Eastham, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay [uncertain]

Descendants

Died 7 Jul 1749 at age 67 in Harwich, Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay

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Biography

Samuel Hopkins was born in the middle of March 1682 in Eastham, (then) Plymouth Colony, now Massachusetts, the son of Stephen Hopkins and Mary Merrick or Myrick.^{[1] [2]}

Samuel Hopkins married Lydia Rich in Massachusetts by November 1707 (birth of first child). ^[3][4]

Samuel Hopkins died on 7 Jul 1749.^[5] His will was dated 06 June 1749.^[6]

Their children, born Harwich:^[7]

1. Richard, b. 26 Nov 1707
2. Reliance, b. 17 Nov 1709
3. Lydia, b. 1 Jun 1713
4. Sarah, b. 25 Jul 1717
5. Susanna, b. 7 Jul 1719
6. Moses, b. Mar 1721/2
7. Theodosius, b. 9 Nov 1726
8. Nathan, b. 16 Jun 1729
9. Huldah Hopkins (she is often missed; she was baptized on 18 Apr 1731, in Brewster, Massachusetts^[8] and is found in Samuel Hopkins' will^[9]

Sources

1. ↑ "Massachusetts, Town Clerk, Vital and Town Records, 1626-2001," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-L979-9X4G?cc=2061550&wc=Q4DW-7MF%3A353349701%2C353418401%2C353418402 : 20 May 2014), Barnstable > Eastham, Orleans > Births, marriages, deaths, land grants 1649-1722 > image 131 of 157; town clerk offices, Massachusetts. (Eastham Vol. 1:66)

   "Samuel Hopkins the sonne of Steven Hopkins was borne the midle of march . 1682"

2. ↑ Town and City Clerks of Massachusetts. Massachusetts Vital and Town Records. Provo, UT: Holbrook Research Institute (Jay and Delene Holbrook).
3. ↑ Yates Publishing. U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2004. Source number: 2977.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: LSS
4. ↑ Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his Descendants," NEHGR Vol. 83(Jul 1929):263.
5. ↑ Mayflower Births and Deaths, Vol. 1 and 2 Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
6. ↑ Bowman, George Ernest, "Hopkins Notes," Mayflower Descendant, Vol. 15(1913):119 "Will of Samuel⁴ Hopkins" citing Barnstable County Probate Records, Vol. 8:336.
7. ↑ Louise H. Kelley & Dorothy Straw, Vital Records Town of Harwich, Massachusetts 1694-1850 (Harwich, MA: Harwich Historical Society, Inc., 1982), p, 7.
8. ↑ "Records of the First Parish in Brewster," The Mayflower Descendant, Vol. VI,"(Boston: Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1904); image of p. 217 at Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/mayflowerdescendv6mass/page/n459/mode/2up.
9. ↑ "Will of Samuel Hopkins". The Mayflower descendant : a quarterly magazine of Pilgrim genealogy and history, (Boston: Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1899); image of p. 119 at InternetArchive.org; "to my beloved daughter Huldah..."

See also:

• John D. Austin, Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Vol 6, Stephen Hopkins, Plymouth, Mass.: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001 [3rd edition], Pages 22-23, 85-86.

Family Papers

• Gaige Family Tree
• Crosby Family Descendants
• Stephen Hopkins family info

• "Family Tree," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org : modified 14 October 2018, 13:36), entry for Samuel Hopkins(PID https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/4:1:LZD2-5J7); contributed by various users.
• Family Search AFN LZD2-5J7

Acknowledgments

• Thanks to Steve Small for starting this profile.