Person:Oliver Hopkins (2)

From Marilyn Morgan Obit of Gardner Hopkins He was a native of RI and the last of a family of 10 children of Oliver Hopkins, a soldier of the revolution. Mrs Doubleday DAR application names 7, so still need proof of other 3.

Information from Nancy Curran: DAR papers on Nina Janette Martin, claiming Oliver Hopkins as patriotic ancestor. He served in the RI Militia, Rev. War. He was my Grandmother's (Susan Hopkins Stafford) father and my great-grandfather. Death--dropped dead, buried Goodell Corners, near Marathon ag 82.

DAR papers of May Watrous Harmon also give information about Oliver Hopkins. REF: RI to Lapeer Pioneer: Rev. soldier, one of Washington's men. DAR records list his as a Private, RI, PNSR and WPNS REF: O.W. Division F.R.W. 18045 National #35500

DAR papers (Mrs. Elizabeth H. Doubleday DAR ID #38209) Elizabaeth Stafford Doubleday. (Susan) (my ref) Mrs. Minnie Peck Fisher DAR ID #21204 descent from Oliver through son Josiah Hopkins and wife Orilla Taylor.

(My ref) Mrs Margaret Fisher Filbrick DAR ID #160700 daughter of above

Cortland Co, History Society files says his 1778 enlistment was as substitute for his father, Jonah Hopkins. Residence of soldier at time of enlistment Scituate, RI. Cortland Co. History verifies that this Oliver is the son of Jonah. The Oliver in Otsego Co, New York 1800, appears to be the Oliver that ends up in Cortland Co, New York.

DAR children of Oliver and Susanna Bennett: Gardner, Josiah, Jonah m Snyder, Stephen, Bennett m Parker, Susan 1788 m Joseph Stafford, Serene m 1st Gilbert, 2nd Perkins

    #2640-Steven 1778, Bennett 1778, Susan 1792, Josia 1799, Gardner 1796, (William Giden) 1792, (Jonathan 1804, Esek 1810 these cannot be correct dates)
    #4000--Stephen b 1790, Bennett b 1783, Susan b 1788, Jonah b 1792, Gardner b 1795, Eseck b 1797, Syrene b 1800, William abt 1779 (Wright/Schonewolf)
    Nancy Curran-Stephen abt 1786, William abt 1780, Jonah abt 1782, Ezra abt 1784, Susan b 1788, Esek/Esack, abt 1790, Josiah abt 1795, Serene abt 1794, Gardner b 1796, Sheffield b 1799.

Children from Hopkins research 1926 Stephen, Bennett, William, Josiah, Gardner, Susan, Jonathan, and Esek. Letter dated Feb 7, 1933 to Mrs Rosine F. Paul from a search for Revolutionary War records...pension claim W.18045..Oliver was the son of Jonah Hopkins, was b in 1756 at Scituate (later Foster)...Oliver Hopkins enlisted and served as a private with the RI troops, as follows- Oct 25,1775, 9mo 10 days in Capt Stephen Kimball's Co. in Col. Hitchcock's regiment; from Sept 10, 1776, 3 months in Capt James Williams' co. in Col. John Cocke's reg; Oct 20, 1777, 40 days in Capt Isaac Paine's co. in Col. Cornwall's reg and was in General Gideon Cornwall's co. in Col. Greene's reg. and was in Gen Sullivan's expedition; from Jan 1,1779, one month as substitute for his father, in Capt Edwards' co. in Col. John Caldwell's reg; very soon after, one month in Capt Isaac Hopkins' (no relationship to Oliver shown) Co. in Col. John Caldwell reg.

    Pension allowed resident of Virgil, Cortland co, New York. He died Apr. 7, 1839.
    He married Jan 18, 1777 at Foster, RI, Susanna Bennett, the daughter of Josiah Bennett...The widow was allowed pension Oct 28, 1839, 84 years living Virgil, New York. Their son, Bennett was living in Virgil, New York 1839 aged 57.

email of July 11, 1999 from Beverly Schonewolf--"I finally got my approved Mayflower supplemental for Richard Warren through Jonah Hopkins. It was approved June 16, 1999, so you should be able to use my General Society $65029, State #3467 as a reference thereafter. They made several "corrections" and additions including Providence VR 1:65, and RI VR 3:1:21, and RI Gen. Reg. 3:301 and they wrote "Weak" beside Oliver Hopkins name."

Oliver Hopkins-transcribed by Beverly Schonewolf online at Cortland Co, New York Genweb page State of New York County of Cortland. In order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. On this second day of October 1832 in open Court being a court of Common Pleas now sitting Oliver Hopkins aged 76 years, a resident of the town of Virgil in the County and State aforesaid being first duly sworn according to law on his oath makes the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed on the seventh day of June 1832. I enlisted at Providence in Rhode Island and joined the army at Boston on the 25th day of April 1775 under the command of Capt Stephen Kimball, Lieut. Jonathan Smith and in Col. Hitchcock's regiment and served nine months and ten days. I was at Roxbury at the time of the Battle of Bunker's Hill and was discharged about the tenth day of September 1776 I again entered the service and served three months under Capt. James Williams, Lieut. Bacon and in Col. John Cook's Regiment in the town County and State of Rhode Island. we were guarding the shore when the British came in and the troops went to a place called Howland's Ferry and I was there again discharged. I again entered the army about the 20th day of October 1777 at Providence in Rhode Island and served under Capt. Isaac Pain and Col. Cornwall. It was what was called Gen. Spencer's Expedition and served forty days. In the latter part of July 1778 I again entered the service under Capt. Gideon Cornwall and Col. Green in the town of Middletown and served twenty days in Gen. Sullivan's Expedition and was discharged. About the 1st day of Jan 1779 I entered the Service under Capt. Edwards, Col. John Caldwell in the town of Warwick, State of Rhode Island, we were guarding the Shore. This service was done as a substitute for Jonah Hopkins my father one month. I then went right on and served one month more in Capt. Isaac Hopkins company and under the said Col. Caldwell as a substitute for Oliver Carver. He Hereby relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity except the present and declares that his name is not on the pension roll of the agency of any State, he further says that he served in the Revolutionary Army one year four months and a half. 1st I was born in a town now called Foster in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island in the year 1756. 2nd I have no record of my age 3rd Lived in Scituate now called Foster when I entered the service. 4th I went as a volunteer except the two times that I went as a substitute as stated in my deposition one month for Jonah Hopkins my father and one month for Oliver Carver 5th I have stated under what officers I served in my deposition 6th I received a discharge for my first nine months Service at Boston, Signed by Lieut. Col. Cornwall. I know not where it is now. signed, Oliver Hopkins.

On the twenty eighth day of October eighteen Hundred and Thirty Nine personally appeared before the subscriber William Berry Esq a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas in and for the County of Cortland and State of New York the same being a court of record, Susanna Hopkins resident of Virgil in County of Cortland and State of New York aged Eighty four years who being first duly sworn accord to Law doth on her oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefits of the pension made by the act of Congress passed July 4, 1836-That She is the Widow of Oliver Hopkins who was a Pensioner under Act of Congress passed 7th June 1832. She further declares that she was married to the said Oliver Hopkins on the Sixteenth day of January Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven 1777 in the town of Foster in the county of Providence in the state of Rhode Island by a priest by the name of John Williams-That her Husband the aforesaid Oliver Hopkins died on the Seventh day of April Eighteen Hundred and Thirty Nine and that she has remained a widow___that___as Will more fully appear by reference to the proof hereto.

I, Josiah Westcott of Scituate in the County of Providence and State of Rhode Island aged 58 years do say upon oath that I am the town clerk of the Town of Scituate and have been for twenty five years___, and that as such am keeper of the Records of Marriages in Said Town, that I have carefully examined the Records of marriages in Said Town for the year 1777, by which it appears that Oliver Hopkins of Scituate Son of Jonah Hopkins and Susanna Bennett of Scituate Daughter of Josiah Bennett were lawfully joined together in Marriage on the Sixteenth day of January Seventeen Hundred and Seventy Seven, the ___ is a true copy of the record with the exception of the state which is ___ on the Record in ___legable as follows, I certify that Oliver Hopkins of Scituate, Son of Jonah Hopkins and Susanna Bennett of Scituate daughter of Josiah Bennett, were lawfully Joined together in Marriage on the 16th day of January Anno Domini 1777. By me the ___John Wiliams.

January 21, 1778, John Westcott Town Clerk, I Josiah Westcott above named, depose and say that I hold the Office of Town Clerk in the County town and State aforesaid and that the above is a true extract from the records of Said Town, with the exception above named as ___ by me John Westcott Town Clerk, sworn before me, Jonas Titus, Public Notary, February 15th 1840.

military Btw 1775-1779 Private Army Rev W18045 Pension 5 Sept 1833 Pension Roll Cortland Co, NY Military census 1777 Scituate, RI