Capt. Timothy Hopkins

Timothy was known as a man of old-fashioned integrity, authority, and religion, He was a constable, selectman, grand juror, moderator. After his father died , he raised 3 younger brothers, James, Rev. Daniel and Col Mark, and educated all of them at Yale. He was appointed Captain in 1732 and was in charge of a recruiting office for the expeditions to Cuba during the Spanish/American War.

In 1734 he was appointed Justice of the Peace.

Family

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/42965912/timothy-hopkins

• Son of John.
• Husband to Mary Judd, married on 25 June 1719.
• Buried in the First Congregational Church Section.

Father to:

• Samuell, born 17 Sept 1721, die at Newport 1803
• Timothy, born 8 Sept 1723
• Huldah, born 22 Dec 1725, married Abijah Richards
• Sarah, born 25 May 1730, married Tim Clark
• James, born 26 June 1732, died 14 July 1754 at New Haven
• Daniel, born 16 Oct 1734, died Salem Mass 14 Dec 1814
• Mary, born 27 June 1737, married John Cossett
• Mark, born 18 Sept 1739, died at Great Barrington

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GEDCOM Note

9. CAPTAIN TIMOTHY4 (JOHN,3 STEPHEN,2 JOHN1), b. at Waterbury, Connecticut, 16 November 1691; m. 25 June 1719, Mary4 Judd, b. 30 January 1701, daughter of Deacon Thomas3 Judda of Waterbury, bapt. 13 October 1662, and Sarah Freeman, b. 1670. (Stephen Freeman of Milford, Connecticut, and Newark, New Jersey.) He d. 5 February 1748-49, at Waterbury (G.S.); she d. there 5 December 1744.

Captain Hopkins was "a man of more than ordinary intelligence, a type of that old-fashioned integrity and religion and authority which was not uncommon in the New England village in the eighteenth century. He was probably the most influential man of his generation in the town of Waterbury." (Anderson's Waterbury, 1:305, 311.) He was often constable, selectman. grand juror, and moderator of the town meeting; justice of the peaceb 1734-42, and representative to the General Court in 1727-30, 1734, 1736. In 1730 he was lieutenant in the train band, and when the second company was formed in 1732 he was appointed its captain. In August 1741 he was appointed a recruiting officer for the expedition to Cuba in the war with Spain. (Ibid.) He probably resided in Waterbury, but his farm was on its outskirts.

a Deacon Thomas3 Judd was the first deacon, the first captain, and the second justice of the peace of Waterbury. William2 Judd of Farmington (d. 1690) m. 30 March 1658, Mary Steele (daughter of John); Deacon Thomas1 Judd, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1632, Hartford, Connecticut, 1636, and Farmington, 1644. (Judd Genealogy, p. 14.)

b As an illustration of the rigidity with which the observance of the Sabbath was construed, Timothy6 Hopkins, as justice of the peace, in 1737, fined Isaac Bronson, a leading man of Waterbury, five shillings and costs for breaking the law against "servile labor" on the Sabbath. Bronson's offense was permitting his sister to ride home behind him on a Sunday night after the meeting upon her return from a visit to her sick mother. (Bronson's Waterbury, p. 318.)

GEDCOM Note

GEDCOM Note

He served as Constable, Selectman, Grand Juryman, Justice of the Peace, and Representative to the General Court of CT. He was commissioned Captain in the militia.