"Probate Records, Vol. X, 1723 to 1729. Invt in Vol. XII, Page 92.
Hopkins, Consider. Invt. £624-01-00. Taken 21 February, 1726-7, by Thomas Shepherd, William Gaylord and Ebenezer Wells.
Court Record, Page 147—7 March, 1726-7: Adms. granted to Elizabeth Hopkins, widow of sd. decd. The sd. Elizabeth Hopkins, Capt. Samuel Sedgewick and William Gaylord, all of Hartford, acknowledged themselves joyntly and severally bound in a recog. of £700.
Page 84 (Vol XI) 6 March, 1732-3: John Hopkins, a minor, 18 years, and Elizabeth 17 years, chose their mother Elizabeth Hopkins to be their guardian. And this Court appoint Elizabeth Hopkins, widow, to be guardian unto Asa Hopkins 13 years, Consider 10, and Elias 7 years, all children of Consider Hopkins, late decd. Recog., £200.
Page 173 (Vol. XIV, Probate Side): We, the subscribers, being the widow, children and heirs to the estate of Mr. Consider Hopkins, late of Hartford decd., have mutually agreed to divide the estate of the sd. decd, to us the sd. widow and heirs in the following manner:
To the widow, Elizabeth Hopkins, a brass kettle, £7-00s-00d; A warming pan and skillett, £2; a iron pott, £1-10; a box iron and heaters, 10 shillings, 4-00-00; A paire of stilyards, 7s; 16 3-4 pounds of pewter at 6s per lb, £4-19-00, 5-06-00; Two wheels, a churn, 10 shillings; a little table, 5 shillings; 2 pails, 8 shillings; 2 trammells, £1-05,, 2-18-00; A meshing tub, 12s; a mare, £36; 4 cows, £51; 15 sheep and 8 lambs, £12-00-00, 106-12-00; 1 swine, £12; low case of drawers, 25s; plain chest, 7s; great table, 14s, 6-06-00; Bedd and bedding, 13-12-07; 1-3 part of the lands on the north side, with 1-3 part of the buildings,
To John Hopkins, the eldest son of the sd. decd., land in the West Division, from the commons to the west end, excluding the 20 acres with the buildings, £588-00-00; A swine, set of cart boxes and brands, £7; a shave and narrow axe and four yerlings, 15-02-00
To Elizabeth: Received, 129-06-09
Pewter, bedding and hetchell, £19-15-00; 2 heifers and paid by Elias, £16-08-00, 36-03-00
To Asa: Received, £161-00-00; a yoke of steers, £16, 177-00-00; 1-3 part of the land in New Hartford, 105-13-04; Right in the west end of the West Division lott, 22-06-08
To Consider: a horse and yoke of steers, 65-00-00; A sword and belt, 35s; 1-3 part of the lands in New Hartford, £106-13-04, 108-08-04; 1-2 of the land in Waterbury is 60-00-00; Right in the west end of the West division lott, 72-11-08
To Elias: a yoke of cattle, 34-00-00; 1-3 part of the land in New Hartford, 106-13-04; 1-2 of the land in Waterbury, £60, £105-06-08 rights in the west end of the West Division lott, 105-0608
To which agreements we, the sd. widow, children and heirs, have hereunto set our hands and seals, and acknowledged the same before the Court of Probate in Hartford, in the County of Hartford, on the 2nd day of April, 1745.
ELIZABETH X HOPKINS, LS. JOHN HOPKINS, LS.
NEHEMIAH MESSENGER, and ELIZABETH HIS WIFE.
CONSIDER HOPKINS, LS. ELIZABETH X HOPKINS, LS.
GUARDIAN TO ELIAS HOPKINS.