Maj. William Hopkins

Grandfather of Declaration of Independence signer, Stephen Hopkins.

Born in Pedigree Resource File Pin on 1656 to Thomas Hopkins and Elizabeth Arnold.

2nd cousin to Stephen Hopkins, signer of the Declaration of Independence.

His brother: https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=44344098

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(politician)

His father https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hopkins_(settler)

Reference: ancestry.com:

'William Hopkins

Born in Rhode Island, USA on 1649 to Thomas Hopkins and Elizabeth Arnold.

William married Abigail Whipple and had 2 children.

He passed away on 1723 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Family Members

Parents

Thomas Hopkins 1610-1683

Elizabeth Arnold 1623-1675

Spouse(s)

Abigail Whipple 1662-1725

Children William Hopkins 1684-1738

Stephen Hopkins 1707-1785

'He was a justice of the peace in Providence, RI, who married scores of young couples.

1674-1716: He served as Deputy to the General Court for 14 years during this time.

1676, August 14- He was one of those "who staid and went not away" during King Phillip's War.

1681-1715: He served on the Town Council for 21 years during this time.

1682- Treasurer.

1698- Major for the main land. He had been a captain for years prior to this appointment.

1700-1707: Assistant to the General Assembly.

1715-16: Speaker of the House of Deputies.

His son William, Jr. (died 1738) was known as Colonel Hopkins.

Colonel William, Jr.'s sons were also prominent:

William III was granted a Colonel's commission by George I of England.

Stephen Hopkins (born 7 March 1707) was Governor of Rhode Island for nine years, 

Chancellor of Rhode Isalnd College for 21 years, member of the State Assembly,

delegate to Congress, Chief Justice of Rhode Island, member of the Continental Congress

which drew up and reported the Articles of Conferation, and he signed the Declaration of Independence.

Esek Hopkins (born 26 April 1718) was the first Commander-in-Chief of the American Navy.

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• William Hopkins
• Birth: 1647
• Death: Jul. 8, 1723
• Son of Thomas Hopkins and Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins of Providence,RI and Oyster Bay,NY.
• Second husband of Abigail Whipple, married Jan 1681/2.
• Children: William Hopkins Jr.
• Family links:
• Parents:
• Thomas Hopkins (1616 - 1684)
• Elizabeth Hopkins (1611 - ____)
• Spouse:
• Abigail Whipple Dexter Hopkins (1658 - 1725)*
• Sibling:
• William Hopkins (1647 - 1723)
• Thomas Hopkins (1650 - 1718)*
• Burial: Unknown
• Find A Grave Memorial# 29580381
• From: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=29580381 _______________
• Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, Connecticut ...
• https://books.google.com/books?id=wPsnAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA148&lpg=PA148&d...
• Pg.232
• .... etc.
• Thomas Hopkins married about 1648, his wife (according to Savage) being Elizabeth, daughter of William Arnold, and a sister of Gov. Benedict Arnold. He appears to have contributed from his talents to the public weal, having been deputy to the General Assembly from Providence for the years 1652, 1659, 1660, 1665, 1666 and 1667, and a member of the town council in 1667 and 1672. His children were William and Thomas.
• (II) Major William Hopkins, the eldest son of Thomas, was made a freeman of the Colony April 30, 1672. He married, about 1680, Abigail, widow of Stephen Dexter, and daughter of John and Sarah Whipple, early settlers of Providence. The Major as a man of marked ability, serving the Colony both in a civil and military capacity. He was also a noted surveyor of lands throughout the Colony. He died July 8, 1723, leaving a large property. He had but one son, William.
• (III) William Hopkins, the only son of Major William and Abigail Hopkins, died in Scituate, R. I., in 1738. He married, early in life, Ruth, daughter of Samuel and Plaine (Wickenden) Wilkinson, early settlers of Providence. Their children were; William, Stephen, John, Esek, Rufus, Hope, Samuel, Abigail and Susanna.
• (IV) Gov. Stephen Hopkins, .... etc. __________________
• WHIPPLE, Abigail
• b. ABT 1660 Providence Co., RI.
• d. 19 AUG 1725 Providence, Providence, RI.
• Parents:
• Father: WHIPPLE, John
• Mother: HUTCHINSON, Sarah
• Family:
• Marriage: ABT 1673 Providence Co., RI.
• Spouse:DEXTER, Stephen
• Children:
  • DEXTER, John
  • DEXTER, Abigail
• Family:
• Marriage: JAN 1681/2 Providence, Providence, RI.
• Spouse: HOPKINS, William
• b. 1647 Providence Co., RI.
• d. 8 JUL 1723 Providence, Providence, RI.
• Parents:
• Father: HOPKINS, Thomas
• Mother: Elizabeth,
• Children:
  • HOPKINS, Abigail
  • HOPKINS, William
• From: http://www.genealogyofnewengland.com/f_e1.htm#15 ________________
• John Whipple (c. 1617 - 1685)[2] was an early settler of Dorchester in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, who later settled in Providence in the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, where the family became well established.
• .... etc.
• Whipple wrote his will on 8 May 1682, and it was proved three years later on 27 May 1685. His wife had died in 1666, aged about 42,[1] and he and his wife were buried on their own land, but were later moved to the North Burial Ground after its opening in 1700.[2]
• With his wife Sarah, Whipple had 11 children, the first eight born in Dorchester, and the remainder born in Providence.[5] His oldest son, John, married first Mary Olney, the daughter of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, and secondly Rebecca Scott, the widow of John Scott (son of Richard Scott and Catharine Marbury).[2] Sarah married John Smith, Samuel married Mary Harris, and Eleazer married Alice Angell, the daughter of Thomas and Alice Angell.[6] Mary married Epentus Olney, the son of Thomas Olney and Mary Small, William's wife was named Mary, and Benjamin married Ruth Mathewson.[6] David married first Sarah Hearndon, and secondly Hannah Tower, and Abigail married first Stephen Dexter, the son of colonial President Gregory Dexter, and secondly William Hopkins, the son of Thomas Hopkins.[7] Whipple's tenth child, prominent merchant Joseph Whipple, married Alice Smith, and his youngest child, Jonathan, married first Margaret Angell, the daughter of Thomas Angell, and secondly a woman named Anne.[8]
• A grandson of Whipple, Joseph Whipple, Jr. became deputy governor of the colony, and a great grandson, Joseph Whipple, III, was also a deputy governor.[9] Another great grandson, Stephen Hopkins was a governor of the colony, Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
• From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Whipple_(settler) ______________
• Genealogical notes of the Whipple-Hill families, together with fragmentary records of other families by Hill, John Whipple
• https://archive.org/details/genealogicalnote00hill
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00hill#page/26/mode/1up
• 1. Captain JOHN WHIPPLE, one of the early settlers at Providence, R. I., was born in England about 1616 or 1617, and died May 16, 1685. What part of England he came from is not known. History states that in 1630 about fifteen hundred persons landed in Boston from England. "Oct. 3, 1632, he was ordered to pay 3s. 4d. to his master, Israel Stoughton, for wasteful expenditure of powder and shot." As he was apprenticed to Stoughton, it is only fair to suppose that he came to this country with him. In 1637, he received a grant of land at Dorchester Neck. He married his wife, Sarah, at Dorchester about the year 1639-40, and they united with the church at Dorchester in 1641. He was a house-carpenter by trade, and owned a house and forty or fifty acres of land near Neponset village. He lived at Dorchester about eighteen years, and during that time there were born unto him six sons and two daughters.
• .... etc.
• https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00hill#page/31/mode/1up
• Children of John (1) and Sarah Whipple:
  • 2. I. .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00hill#page/33/mode/1up
  • 10. IX. ABIGAIL, born 1660; died August 19, 1725. She married first, Stephen, son of Gregory and Abigail
  • https://archive.org/stream/genealogicalnote00hill#page/34/mode/1up
  • (Fullerton) Dexter, who was born November 1, 1647, and died 1679. Secondly, January, 1682, she married William, son of Thomas Hopkins, who was born in 1647, and died July 8, 1723.
  • 11. X. .... etc. _________________________
• Descendants of Capt. John Whipple of Providence, R.I. by Jillson, David
• https://archive.org/details/descendantsofcap00jill
• https://archive.org/stream/descendantsofcap00jill#page/n8/mode/1up
• John Whipple was in Dorchester, Mass., as early as 1632, in service to Isreal Stoughton, carpenter. He received a grant of land at Worchester neck in 1637. He married his wife Sarah in Dorchester in 1639 or '40, They united with the church in Dorchester in 1641, He owned a house and forty or fifty acres of land near what is now called Neonset Village. In 1658 he sold his estate in Dorchester to James Minot and the same year, or the year following, removed to Providence, where he received an allotment of land July 29, 1659. He and his son John took the oath of allegiance in 1666. He was member of the town council in 1669, and received a license to keep an ordinary in 1674, On the tomb stones of John and Sarah Whipple, in the north burial-ground in Providence, are the following inscriptions:
• .... etc.
• Children of John and Sarah Whipple:
  • 2. i. .... etc.
  • https://archive.org/stream/descendantsofcap00jill#page/2/mode/1up
  • xi. Abigail, b. in Providence, 1665; m. William M. Hopkins, of P.
• .... etc. _________________
• The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island: Comprising Three Generations of ... By John Osborne Austin
• https://books.google.com/books?id=LA7ntaS11ocC&pg=PA329&lpg=PA329&d...
• Pg.221
  • WHIPPLE.
• JOHN, b. 1617 d. 1685, May 16. m. 1639 SARAH, b. 1624 d. 1666 ch:
  • I. .... etc.
  • Pg.223
  • IX. ABIGAIL, d. 1725, Aug. 19. m.(1) STEPHEN DEXTER, b. 1647, Nov. 1. d. 1679. of Gregory & Abigail (Fullerton) Dexter. ch: 1. John, 1673., 2. Abigail. m.(2) 1682, Jan. WILLIAM HOPKINS b. 1647. d. 1723, Jul. 8. of Thomas Hopkins. ch: 3. William
  • X. .... etc. _________________
• Steere Genealogy: A Record of the Descendants of John Steere, who Settled in ... By James Pierce Root
• https://books.google.com/books?id=Yz5VAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA104&lpg=PA104&d...
• Pg.183
• CAPT. JOHN WHIPPLE, Sen., was an early settler of Dorchester, Mass. He was born in England about 1616 or 1617, and emigrated from that counrty as early as 1632. His employment was that of a carpenter, having learned his trade with Josiah Stoughton. .... etc.
• Pg. 184
• .... He had married, about 1640, Sarah —— , born in Dorchester about 1624.
• Mrs. Sarah Whipple died in the year 1666, aged 42. Her husband died May 16, 1685, aged 68. His will was made May 8, 1685. He and his wife were first buried near his residence, but as this with other burial places were needed for public uses in the opening of Benefit Street, their remains were removed to the North Burial Ground, where their tombstones are to be seen.
• Children:
  • I. .... etc.
  • VI. ABIGAIL, baptized about 1650; m., 1st Stephen Dexter, son of Gregory Dexter. He d. 1679. She m., 2d, Maj. William Hopkins. He d. July 8, 1723; she d. August 19, 1725.
  • VII. .... etc. _______________________

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'Source: ancestry.com: William Hopkins

Found 10 Records, 10 Photos and 2,568,965 Family Trees Born in Rhode Island, USA on 1649 to Thomas Hopkins and Elizabeth Arnold.

William married Abigail Whipple and had 2 children.

He passed away on 1723 in Providence, Rhode Island, USA.

Family Members

Parents Thomas Hopkins 1610-1683

Elizabeth Arnold 1623-1675

Spouse(s)

Abigail Whipple 1662-1725

Children William Hopkins 1684-1738

Stephen Hopkins 1707-1785