Person:Joseph Hopkins (43)

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Judge Joseph Hopkins
b.6 Jun 1730 Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
d.27 Mar 1801 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 20 Aug 1718
  1. Stephen Hopkins1721 - 1796
  2. Anna Hopkins1723 - 1804
  3. Judge Joseph Hopkins1730 - 1801
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m. 28 Nov 1754
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Facts and Events
Name[1] Judge Joseph Hopkins
Alt Name[1] Deacon Joseph Hopkins
Gender Male
Birth[1][2][3] 6 Jun 1730 Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
Marriage 28 Nov 1754 Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesJoseph Hopkins and Hephzibah Clark were half second cousins.
to Hephzibah Clark
Death[1][2][3] 27 Mar 1801 New Haven, New Haven, Connecticut, United StatesRecorded at Waterbury.
Burial[4] Library Park Cemetery, Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut, United States
References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 23. Joseph5 Hopkins, in Hopkins, Timothy. John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. (Palo Alto, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1932)
    70-74.

    "23. Joseph5 (Hopkins) (Stephen,4 John,3 Stephen,2 John1), b. at Waterbury 6 June 1730; … he d. 27 March 1801, at New Haven. … He was a deacon in the church; town treasurer 1758-63; justice of the peace 1762-66; representative to the General Assembly 1764, and between that year and 1796 was re-elected forty-four times. … In 1777 he was appointed one of the 'justices of the quorum' which post he held until his decease. When the Probate District of Waterbury was established, in 1779, he was made its first judge, and was continued in office during his life. Judge Hopkins died upon the bench, from heart failure, while in attendance at New Haven as senior assistant judge of the County Court."

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Stephen Hopkins; Joseph Hopkins, in Ward, Anna L. (Anna Lydia); Joseph Anderson; and Sarah J. (Sarah Johnson) Prichard. The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, from the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and Ninety-Five. (New Haven, CT: The Price & Lee Company, 1896)
    70Ap; Ap69.

    "Joseph (Hopkins), b. June 6, 1730."
    "Joseph Hopkins (Esq.), s. of Stephen, m. Hepsibah Clark, d. of Thomas, Nov. 28, 1754. She d. July 29, 1800; he, Mch. 27, 1801."

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Waterbury Vital Records [NEHGS], in Connecticut, United States. The Barbour Collection of Connecticut Town Vital Records
    149.

    "Hopkins, … Joseph, [s.Stephen & Susannah], b. June 6, 1750 [1:10]"
    "Hopkins, … Joseph, d. Mar. 27, 1801 [1:416]"

  4. ↑ Joseph Hopkins, in Find A Grave.
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