Person:Ann Borden (6)

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Name[1] Ann Borden
Gender Female
Marriage to Francis Hopkinson, LL.D.
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  1. 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.

    + 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.