Person:Francis Hopkinson (2)

  1. Francis Hopkinson, LL.D.1737 - 1791
  2. Mary HopkinsonAbt 1740 -
  3. Elizabeth HopkinsonAbt 1742 -
  • HFrancis Hopkinson, LL.D.1737 - 1791
  • WAnn Borden
  1. Joseph Hopkinson, L.L. D.1770 - 1842
  2. Elizabeth Hopkinson
Facts and Events
Name Francis Hopkinson, LL.D.
Gender Male
Birth[1] 21 Sep 1737 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage to Ann Borden
Death[1] 9 May 1791 Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Burial[1] Christ Church Burial Ground, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Reference Number? Q1397375?
References
  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
    [1].
  2.   Francis Hopkinson, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.

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    Francis Hopkinson (October 2, 1737 – May 9, 1791) was an American Founding Father, judge, author and composer. He designed Continental paper money and two early versions of flags, one for the United States and one for the United States Navy. He was a signer of the Declaration of Independence in July 1776 as a delegate from New Jersey.

    Hopkinson served in various roles in the early United States government including as a member of the Second Continental Congress and as a member of the Navy Board. He became the first federal judge of the Eastern District Court of Pennsylvania on September 30, 1789.

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  3.   MATRICULATES. 1757, in University of Pennsylvania, Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College: Together with Lists of the Members of the College Faculty and the Trustees, Officers and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1749-1893. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1894)
    50.

    t FRANCIS HOPKINSON, A.M. LL.D., 1790. (A.M., Coll. N.J., gratiae causa, 1763.)

    b. Phila., Sept. 21, 1737  ; d. Phila., May 9, 1791.
    s. Hon. Thomas Hopkinson and Mary Johnson.
    Entered May 25, 1754.
    Lawyer.
    Collector, Port of New Castle, 1772-76.
    Mem. Prov. Coun., N.J., 1774-76.
    Del. fr. N.J. to Cont. Cong., 1776-77.
    Signer Declaration of Independence.
    Chief Navy Dept. of the Confederation and Treas. Cont. Loan Office.
    Judge of the Admiralty, appointed by the State of Penna., 1779-89.
    First Judge U.S. Dist. Ct., Penna., 1790-91.
    Sec. Library Co., Phila.
    Mem. Km. Phil. Soc, 1768, and of other institutions.
    Trustee, 1778-91.
    Author, "The Battle of the Kegs;" "History of a New Roof;" etc., and edited a volume of Admiralty Reports,
    m. Ann, dau. Joseph Borden.
    See Simpson, Appleton, Allibone.

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