Person:Silas Hopkins (2)

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Captain Silas Hopkins
b.9 Aug 1741 Wales
d.Nov 1818 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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m. 5 May 1763
  1. Silas Hopkins1764 -
  2. Mehetable Hopkins1766 -
  3. Peter Hopkins1768 -
  4. Azubah Hopkins1770 -
  5. Silas Hopkins1773 -
  6. Lydia Hopkins1775 -
  7. Joseph Hopkins1777 -
  8. Elizabeth Hopkins1779 -
  9. Mary Hopkins1780 -
  10. Benjamin Hopkins1782 -
  11. Ephraim Hopkins1784 - 1852
  12. Caleb Hopkins1786 - 1880
  13. Gabriel Hopkins1788 - 1861
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Name Captain Silas Hopkins
Gender Male
Birth? 9 Aug 1741 Wales
Marriage 5 May 1763 Beaver Dams, Welland, Ontario, Canadato Mary(Sarah) Swayze
Military? From 1776 to 1777 New Jersey, United StatesCaptain New Jersey Volunteers Military Service
Death? Nov 1818 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Burial? Wentworth, Ontario, CanadaHopkins Cemetery

(Research):«i»From:«/i» "montrose" <«u»montrose@ptdprolog.net <mailto:montrose@ptdprolog.net>«/u»> «i»Subject:«/i» [NJSUSSEX-L] Hopkins «i»Date:«/i» Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:53:10 -0400

I am looking for information on the ancestry and descendants of Ephraim Hopkins and wife Martha of Sussex County.

Ephraim Hopkins purchased land in Roxbury, Morris County in 1749 and is most likely a member of the Hopkins family of Southold, New York. Ephraim was enrolled 7 May 1757 in a company of provincial forces on the frontier of New Jersey during the French and Indian War, discharged 18 Oct 1757. The Will of William Griffing Jr., dated 17 Mar 1763 mentions "10 acres on the mountain that I bought of Ephraim Hopkins." Ephraim Hopkins and wife, Martha of Oxford township, Sussex (that portion that later became Warren County) County, carpenter, sold four acres to Israel Swezey (Swayze) in Oxford, 16 June 1761. This land had been conveyed to Ephraim by John Cain and originally surveyed to Mahlon Starey. They removed to Hardyston township, Sussex County, New Jersey and Ephraim was taxed there in Sept 1774 with 140 acres and 7 horses and or cattle. Taxed in Hardyston in 1780. Will of Ephraim dated 10 Jan 1782 Newton named wife Martha; daughters, Mary, Martha, Elizabeth, and Susannah; sons, Silas (eldest), Peter, Caleb, Abijah, and grandson John only child of deceased son John. Ephraim d. 1783 sometime before 1 Sept when Robert Adams and Peter Hopkins Junr two of the witnesses to the Will acknowledged.

Children: 1. Silas Hopkins b. 9 May/Aug 1741 m. Mary Swayze. 2. Peter Hopkins b. 1744 m. Mehitable Swayze. 3. Abijah Hopkins m. perhaps Mary Price. 4. Caleb Hopkins b. c. 1755 m. Ruth Hull. 5. Ephraim Hopkins. 6. Mary Hopkins. 7. Martha Hopkins. 8. Elizabeth Hopkins. 9. Susannah Hopkins.

Silas and his family (except his eldest daughter Mehitable who m. Abraham DeWitt), Peter's widow Mehitable and children, Abijah's widow Mary and children removed to Canada in the late 1790's as United Empire Loyalists.

J. Kelsey Jones

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