Person:Joseph Hopkins (29)

From Barnstable County, Mass. records:

Records of the First Parish in Brewster, Formerly the First Parish in Harwich, Mass. Transcribed from the Original Records by George Ernest Bowman

Extracted from The Complete Mayflower Descendant, Vols. IV to XIII Part 2 - 13 May 1733 to 3 Jun 1744

Joseph HOPKINS jun : & his Wife owned ye Covenant & had their child Solomon Baptised 12 Aug 1739

From "The Stephen Hopkins Family", pg. 394.

Joseph Hopkins, Jr. and his wife owned the covenant at Brewster Church 12 Aug 1739 and were admitted to full communion 29 Aug. 1742. Joseph Hopkins, Jr. and Mary, his wife were dismissed to the Rev. Mr. Kent's church at the Oblong (Dutchess/Putnam County, NY) 3 Sept. 1749, along with David and Reliance Crosby; Mary Foster (wife of Thomas), and Lydia Crosby (wife of Joshua). Joseph Hopkins settled in that part of Dutchess County, NY later set off as Putnam County. Daughter Hannah was baptised at the West Society of Philipse Patent 17 Apr. 1757.

Joseph Hopkins was named in Southern Dutchess Co. Tax Lists from Feb. 1754, and "Widow" Hopkins from Feb. 1762 to 1765.

1. ↑ "Harwich, Mass., Vital Records", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   5:89.

   Joseph hopkins son to Joseph and mary hopkins was born may 10 day 1715.

2.   Curtis, Joseph O. The descendants of Elisha Cole who came from Cape Cod to what is now Putnam County, New York, about 1745. (New York: T. A. Wright, 1909)
   12.

   Joseph, s/o Joseph Hopkins and Mary mayo, m. Harwick [sic, Harwich] 16 Sep 1736 Mary or Mercy Berry, dismissed to Oblong 3 Sep 1849-50 [sic, 1749-50], and he d. Jan. 1762.