Family:Esek Hopkins and Desire Burroughs (1)

Hopkins married to Desire Burroughs (1724-1794) in November 1741. The marriage produced 9 children, including;

John Burroughs Hopkins (1742-1796), a participant in the Gaspee Affair, who later became a captain in the Continental Navy.

Susannah Hopkins (1756-1850), who married Jonathan Maxcy, a Baptist minister and second president of the formerly Baptist affiliated Brown University which was then known as the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

1. ↑ Providence Marriages, in Arnold, James N. Vital Record of Rhode Island, 1636–1850: First series, births, marriages and deaths. A family register for the people. (Narragansett Hist. Publ. Co., 1891)
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   HOPKINS, Esek, of Providence, and Desire Burrows, of Newport; m. at Newport by Rev. Nicholas Eyres, Nov. 28, 1741.