Reverend Samuel Hopkins, D.D.

Rev Samuel Hopkins
BIRTH 17 Sep 1721
Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts, USA
DEATH 20 Dec 1803 (aged 82)
Newport, Newport County, Rhode Island, USA
BURIAL
Water Street Cemetery
Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts,

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/61966755/samuel-hopkins

REV. Samuel Hopkins
Born 17 Sep 1721 in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticutmap
ANCESTORS ancestors
Son of Timothy Hopkins and Mary (Judd) Hopkins
Brother of Timothy Hopkins, Huldah (Hopkins) Richards, Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, Sarah Hopkins, James Hopkins, Daniel Hopkins, Mary (Hopkins) Cossitt and Mark Hopkins
Husband of Joanna (Ingersoll) Hopkins — married 1748 (to 1793) in Great Barrington,Berkshire, Mass.map
DESCENDANTS descendants
Father of David Hopkins, Moses Hopkins, Levi S. Hopkins Sr., Elizabeth (Hopkins) Sibley, Joanna (Hopkins) Fisher, Samuel Hopkins, Daniel Hopkins, Rhoda (Hopkins) Anthony and Betsy Hopkins
Died 20 Dec 1803 at age 82 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United Statesmap
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Contents

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1 Research Notes
2 Biography
3 Sources
4 Acknowledgements
Research Notes

The Find A Grave record says he died in in Newport, Rhode Island not Boston, Massachusetts. I can't find a death record to confirm any location so I did not change the place. Williams-27459 14:19, 19 April 2018 (UTC)

Biography

See Samuel Hopkins, Theologian.

His parents were Timothy Hopkins and Mary Judd and he was born in 1721 in Waterbury, Connecticut.[1] [2]

Samuel was born 17 Sept 1721, married 1st to Joanna Ingersoll, married 2nd to Elizabeth West, a principal of a girls boarding school in Newport, RI and a niece of Rev. Stephen West of Stockbridge, MA. [2] [3]

Samuel was admitted (perhaps as the minister) to the Great Barrington Congregational Church in 1743.[4]Great Barrington Congregational Church early members

Children of Samuel and Joanna (Ingersoll) Hopkins: (first 6 born in Great Barrington before it was incorporated and their births recorded at Sheffield)

David b 1748 marr 1st Mrs Mary HOWARD marr 2nd Mary Hill DORSEY marr 3rd Isabella FORD marr 4th Mrs Hannah GREENLEAF
Moses b 1750/51 m Anna WHITING
Levi b 1753 marr 1st Abigail STEVENS marr 2nd Mrs Elizabeth Yance Looper
Elizabeth b 1755 marr Dr John SIBLEY, M.D.
Joanna b 1757 marr Simon FISHER
Samuel b 1759 marr Louisa SIBLEY
Daniel bap 1763 died 1788 at Elk Ridge MD, unmarried
Rhoda bap 1766 marr 1789 Capt John ANTHONY
Samuel wrote this letter at Newport, RI dated 5 Nov, 1798 to his cousin Rev Jonathan Judd [the mother of Samuel Hopkins was a sister of Jonathan Judd's father]

... "I was 77 years old on the 17th day of last September [1798] ... I have had eight children ... all born in Great Barrington. Four of them are deceased, viz.: my youngest son,, Daniel, who died in Maryland in the year 1788, in the 25th year of his age; my three daughters, Betsy, Joanna and Rhoda, all lived to marry and left issue. My oldest daughter left two sons who are now with their father in North Carolina. Joanna married a Fisher, in Medway, and has left but one child, a daughter, now in her 17th year, who lives with me. Rhoda married to John Antony and died in this town, soon after her first child was born, in 1792. Her child, a son, is now living, and is with his father's parents at Killington, in Vermont. My first wife died at Great Barrington, in August 1793 ... I have married a second wife, a maiden lady, who originated from Boston ..."

" I have only one brother and one sister living. The latter lives with a married daughter of hers, whose husband has lately moved from Waterbury to the north-west part of Connecticut, or in the bounds of New York State. The former is at Salem ... He is minister of a large and flourishing congregation ..."

"My oldest son David lives in Maryland near Baltimore. He has a large planation; has had two wives, both of which are dead. He is left a widower, with three daughters ... My third son, Levi, lives in the north-west part of Virginia near the Apalachian mountains. Has a wife and six children living. He lost his eldest daughter lately... My second and fourth sons, Moses and Samuel live at Great Barrington. Moses ... has nine children. Samuel lives in my house and occpies the farm. He has a wife and three children.[5]

He passed away in 1803 and is buried in Water Street Cemetery in Great Barrington, Rhode Island. [6].

Samuel Hoopkins was appalled by the Atlantic slave trade. He published a pamphlet entitled, "A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans" (1776)[7] which was addressed "To the Honorable Members of the Continental Congress, Representatives of the Thirteen United American Colonies". Hopkins referred to enslaved peoples as "our brethren and children" and stated that it was the duty of the U.S. and in its interest to free them.[8]

Sources

↑ Connecticut Town Birth Records, pre-1870 (Barbour Collection); Waterbury Vital Records 1686-1853; page 177. Original record Vol. 1 page 78 (Ancestry.com)
↑ 2.0 2.1 "John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634 and some of his descendants" by Timothy Hopkins, publ 1932, p 36, 74, 78 https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?dps_pid=IE2232...
↑ "Connecticut Births and Christenings, 1649-1906," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F749-RQZ : 11 February 2018), Samuel Hopkins, 17 Sep 1721; citing ; FHL microfilm unknown.
↑ Great Barrington, Mass. Congregational Church vital statistics, 1744-1890 Family History Library United States & Canada 2nd Floor Film 234568 7900641
↑ "Letter of Rev Samuel Hopkins, D.D.," in NEHGR vol 5 1851 p 43-44 https://archive.org/stream/newenglandhistor005wate#page/43/mode/1up
↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #61966755
↑ Walker, Williston (1911). "Hopkins, Samuel". In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 13 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 685.
↑ Guelzo, Allen C. (October 4, 2016). "The Ties that Bind". Claremont Book Review. The Claremont Institute. Archived from the original on October 6, 2016. Retrieved Feb 3 2024.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Hopkins_(clergyman)

Samuel Hopkins (September 17, 1721 – December 20, 1803) was an American Congregationalist, theologian of the late colonial era of the United States, and from whom the Hopkinsian theology takes its name.

An early opponent to the institution of slavery, he published a pamphlet entitled, "A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans," which was addressed "To the Honorable Members of the Continental Congress, Representatives of the Thirteen United American Colonies."

Early life

Samuel Hopkins (the younger) was born in Waterbury, Connecticut and was named after his uncle, Samuel Hopkins (1693–1755), a minister in the church in West Springfield, Massachusetts. Hopkins graduated from Yale College in 1741, then studied divinity in Northampton, Massachusetts with his brother-in-law Jonathan Edwards. He was licensed to preach in 1742, and in December 1743 was ordained pastor of the North Parish of Sheffield (now Great Barrington) in Housatonic, Massachusetts, a small settlement of only 30 families, from 1743 to 1769. Hopkins theological views were faced opposition and was finally dismissed from the pastorate on the grounds of lack of funds for his support. From April 1770 until his death in 1803 Hopkins preached at the First Congregational Church in Newport in Newport, Rhode Island While the British occupied Newport from 1776-1780, Hopkins preached at Newburyport, Massachusetts, and Canterbury and Stamford, Connecticut.

Hopkins received a Doctor of Divinity from Yale in 1802.

Theological Contributions

He created the theological scheme that bears his name, Hopkinsianism, also known as the New Divinity. This religious system is a form of Calvinism which its adherents called "consistent Calvinism." It involved a belief that sincerity in God's commands required the ability to obey denied and that, at birth, people are not born with an inherited sinfulness—denials of original sin and total depravity. The view evolved into a distinct theology under Nathaniel W. Taylor, a later instructor of theology at Yale Divinity School, known as the "New Haven Theology" or New England theology. Hopkins is credited with originating the concept of "disinterested benevolence" in American theology which became a central concept in the Second Great Awakening.

Originally a slaveholder, Hopkins was one of the first of the Congregationalist ministers to denounce slavery. His efforts coincided with the 1774 law that forbade the importation of slaves into Rhode Island, and the 1784 law that granted freedom to all slaves born in Rhode Island after March 1785. During America's war of independence, Hopkins' school for negro missionaries to Africa was broken up due to the confusion.

Publications

A Dialogue concerning the Slavery of the Africans, showing it to be the Duty and Interest of the American States to emancipate all their African Slaves (1776)

A Discourse upon the Slave Trade and the History of the Africans (1793)

A System of Doctrines Contained in Divine Revelation, Explained and Defended (1793)

Life and Character of Jonathan Edwards (1799)

Congregational Church pastor of Great Barrington, MA and Newport, RI.

Son of Capt. Timothy Hopkins and Mary Judd.

Married first wife Joanna Ingersoll on Jan. 13, 1748 in Great Barrington, MA. 8 children. Married second wife Elizabeth West in Newport, RI on Sep. 14, 1794. No children.

This is a John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 line.

• Updated from Find A Grave Memorial via son Moses Hopkins by SmartCopy: Sep 16 2015, 15:50:18 UTC