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Caleb Hopkins (1759 - 1824)

Rev Caleb Hopkins
Born in New Jersey Colonymap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 23 Sep 1782 in Balesville, Sussex, New Jerseymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 65 in Angelica, Allegany County, New York, United Statesmap
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Biography

1776 Project
Lieutenant Caleb Hopkins served with Sussex County Militia, New Jersey Militia during the American Revolution.
Daughters of the American Revolution
Caleb Hopkins is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A057932.

Caleb Hopkins, born 1759; Lieutenant, Sussex County New Jersey Militia; died 1824, Angelica, New York.

"Caleb Hopkins was a Lieutenant under Captain Bonnell in the State troops of Sussex Co., New Jersey. He was ordained as a clergyman by Bishop White (first Anglican Bishop in America). He established churches at Muncy, Bloomsburg, Derry, and Sanbury, Pa. Later he moved to Angelica, NY, where he died in July 1824. Other places where he lived were Milton and Cole's MIll, both in Pennsylvania."

According to family tradition, Caleb visited his brother Silas in Canada before his ( Silas') death. Caleb was then described as "a very likeable person with a wonderful hat that the children secretly stroked as it was soft as a kitten's fur."

Sources


  • Index of the Rolls of honor (ancestor's index) in the Lineage books of the National society of the Daughters of the American revolution, volumes 1 to 160. by Daughters of the American Revolution.

Index of the Rolls of honor (ancestor's index) in the Lineage books of the National society of the Daughters of the American revolution, volumes 1 to 160. Published 1916 by Press of Pierpont, Siviter & co. Pittsburgh, Pa . Library of Congress E202.5 .A15 pp. 7-8, Entry for Jessie Boyd Ent Phillips # 51015

  • Snell, James P. History of Sussex and Warren Counties, New Jersey. pub.1881. pp 393, 330.




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