Person:John Hopkins (9)
John Hopkins
b.Bef 1606 England
d.Bet 27 Jul 1653 and 14 Apr 1654 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
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  • H.  John HopkinsBef 1606 - Bet 1653 & 1654
  • W.  Jane UnknownEst 1611 -
m. Bef 1631
  1. Bethia HopkinsEst 1631 - Bef 1695
  2. Stephen HopkinsEst 1633 - 1689
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Name[1][2][3][4] John Hopkins
Gender Male
Birth[1] Bef 1606 EnglandBased on estimate date of marriage.
Marriage Bef 1631 Englandto Jane Unknown
Emigration[1] 1634
Residence[1] 1634 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
Other[1] 4 Mar 1634/35 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United StatesFreeman
Residence[1] 1636 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Will[1] 1 Jan 1648/49
Death[1] Bet 27 Jul 1653 and 14 Apr 1654 Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut, United States
Estate Inventory[1] 14 Apr 1654 £236-08; £128 in real estate.
Probate[1] 16 May 1654
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 1.7 1.8 1.9 John Hopkins, in Anderson, Robert Charles; George F. Sanborn; and Melinde Lutz Sanborn. The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635. (Boston, Massachusetts: NEHGS, 1999-2011)
    III:411-413.

    ORIGIN: Unknown.
    MIGRATION: 1634 (based on land grants and freemanship).
    CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: Admission to Cambridge church prior to 4 March 1634/5 implied by freemanship.
    FREEMAN: 4 March 1634/5 (seventh in a sequence of nineteen Cambridge men) [MBCR 1:370].
    BIRTH: By about 1606 (based on estimated date of marriage).
    DEATH: Between 27 July 1653 (date of letter requesting medication for "my distemper" [WP 6:315-16]) and 14 April 1654 (date of inventory [Hopkins Gen 6]).

  2. ↑ Savage, James. A Genealogical Dictionary of the First Settlers of New England: Showing Three Generations of Those Who Came Before May, 1692, on the Basis of Farmer's Register. (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co, 1860-1862)
    II:461.

    HOPKINS, JOHN, Cambridge 1634; freem. 4 Mar. 1635, rem. to Hartford, was there an orig. propr. the yr. bef. Gov. Edward, to wh. we kn. not if he were related, d. 1654, leav. wid. Jane, and ch. Stephen, b. a. 1634; and Bethia, a. 1635, as Goodwin presumes. The wid. m. Nathaniel Ward of Hadley. Bethia m. 27 May 1652, Samuel Stocking of Middletown; and next, James Steele of Hartford.

  3. ↑ Barbour, Lucius Barnes. Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1977)
    314.

    John Hopkins died 1654 mar Jane who m Nathaniel Ward and Gregory Wilterton. Early member 1 Ch. Name on Founders Monument. Children: Stephen m Dorcas Bronson; Bethia m/1 Samuel Stocking May 27, 1652 (HTR) m/2 James Steele. Cambridge 1634; freeman Mass. March 4, 1635; removed to Hartford where he was an original proprietor; his home lot was on what is now the East Park; chosen townsman 1640; juror 1643; inv. Apl 14, 1654 £236-08.

  4. ↑ Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932).
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