Isabella Hopkins

Biography

• From profile of James Hopkins, recorded as written:

Perhaps it should be added of the parents of James Hopkins, Esq., that his father, John Hopkins, was a jolly, easy, good- natured, happy man, a shoemaker by trade, as well as a farmer. His grandson says of him that he would sit at work on his shoemaker's bench and sing Scotch songs from morning till night without a word of repetition. He had a great memory and took the world easy. On the contrary, his wife, Isabella Reed, was a woman tremendously nervous and active. She had strong convictions and great energy, no patience for idleness, was fearless and ready for anything, could do two days work in one and not feel injured by it. She came to this town to spend her old age was greatly venerated and loved and died here with her son, June 7, 1823, aged eighty-three, and was buried on the hill.

John Hopkins named above as marrying Isabella Reed, was born in Londonderry March 10, 1731 and was son of John and Elisabeth( Dinsmore) Hopkins.( See Dinsmore family) Isabella Reed was daughter of Matthew Reed and Mary Ann Holmes.

• Source: History of the Town of Antrim, New Hampshire From It's Earliest Settlement to June 27, 1877; With a Brief Genealogical Record of all the Antrim Families; Rev. W.R. Cochrane; Published by the town; Manchester, N.H. Publishing; Mirror Stream Printing Press; 1880; pgs. 544& 545
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Written s recorded:

John [4} (John1) b. in Londonderry March 10, 1739; m. Isabella, dau. of Matthew and Mary Ann (Holmes) Reid. He owned land south of his father's, and built the house and started the farm now owned by Michael Goodwin, south of James P Hughes's. His grandson, the Rev. John H. Morison, D.D., of Boston, says of him," He was a man of an easy, happy temperament, who it was said would sit at his shoemaker s bench in winter, and sing Scotch songs all day long, without repeating a single song. His wife, Isabella Reid, was of a very different temperament, and belonged to a family of very marked, and powerful characteristics. She was a woman of strong convictions, and of great energy of mind and body.

Source: "The History of Windham in New Hampshire (Rockford County) 1719-1883; Leonard Allison Morrison

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