 Abt 1578 - 1644 (~ 66 years)
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| Name |
Stephen HOPKINS [1] |
| Born |
Abt 1578 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Died |
1644 |
Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA  |
- Died presumably between the date of his Will, June 6, 1644, and taking of inventory relative to his will, July 17, 1644.
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| Person ID |
I913 |
adkinshorton |
| Last Modified |
2 Jan 2013 |
| Family 1 |
MARY, d. 9 May 1613, Hursley, Hampshire, England [2] |
| Married |
Bef 1604 |
| Children |
| | 1. Elizabeth HOPKINS, b. 13 Mar 1604, Hursley, Hampshire, England , d. Bef 1620 (Age < 15 years) |
| + | 2. Constance HOPKINS, b. 11 May 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England , d. 25 Oct 1677, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA (Age 71 years) |
| + | 3. Giles HOPKINS, b. 30 Jan 1608, Hursley, Hampshire, England , d. betw 5 Mar 1688/89 - 16 Apr 1690, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA (Age 82 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3732 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family 2 |
Elizabeth FISHER |
| Married |
19 Feb 1618 |
St. Mary Matfelon, Whitechapel, Middlesex, England |
| Children |
| | 1. Ruth HOPKINS, b. Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA , d. Aft 30 Nov 1644 |
| | 2. Elizabeth HOPKINS, b. Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA , d. Aft Oct 1657 |
| | 3. Damaris HOPKINS, b. Abt 1618, England , d. Aft 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA (Age ~ 10 years) |
| | 4. Oceanus HOPKINS, b. betw 6 Sep - 11 Nov 1620, Ship-Mayflower, North Atlantic Ocean, At Sea , d. Bef 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA (Age ~ 6 years) |
| | 5. Caleb HOPKINS, b. Abt 1623, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA , d. Between 1644 and 1651, Barbados (Age ~ 21 years) |
| | 6. Deborah HOPKINS, b. Abt 1625, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA , d. Bef 1674 (Age ~ 48 years) |
| | 7. Damaris HOPKINS, b. Aft 1627, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA , d. betw Jan 1665/66 - 18 Nov 1669, Plymouth, Plymouth Co, MA (Age < 40 years) |
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| Family ID |
F3950 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower:
- Misc. Notes:
Earlier lineages often used, not researched and documented:
Father given as Stephen Hopkins, Gloucester - further research shows this is incorrect.
Father given as Nicholas Hopkins, Norfolk & Mary Poole
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Caleb Johnson research-documented lineage results:
Father given as John Hopkins, mother as Elizabeth Williams...recent research (1998 Caleb Johnson)
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Stephen Hopkins Will
Literally transcribed from the original records,
BY GEORGE ERNEST BOWMAN.
[MD 2:14, 1900]
Also see Plymouth Colony Records, V1, Wills and Inventories, 1633-1669, Picton Press, Cambden, Maine 1996
The exact date of the death of Stephen Hopkins is unknown, but he must have died at Plymouth, in the year 1644, between June 6, the day his will was made, and July 17, the day his inventory was taken.
The will and inventory were recorded in the Plymouth Colony Wills and Inventories, Volume 1, folios 61, 62 and 63.
[61] The last Will and Testament of mr Stephen Hopkins exhibited Upon the Oathes of mr Willm Bradford and Captaine Miles Standish at the generall Court holden at Plymouth the xxth of August Anno dm 1644 as it followeth in these wordes vizt.
The sixt of June 1644 I Stephen Hopkins of Plymouth in New England being weake yet in good and prfect memory blessed be God yet considering the fraile estate of all men I do ordaine and make this to be my last will and testament in manner and forme following and first I do commits my body to the earth from whence it was taken, and my soule to the Lord who gave it, my body to be buryed as neare as convenyently may be to my wyfe Deceased And first my will is that out of my whole -estate my funerall expences be discharged secondly that out of the remayneing part of my said estate that all my lawfull Debts be payd thirdly I do bequeath by this my will to my sonn Giles Hopkins my great Bull wch is now in the hands of mrs Warren Also I do give to Stephen Hopkins my vend Giles his sonne twenty shillings in mris Warrens hands for the hire of the said Bull Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Constanc Snow the wyfe of Nicholas Sow my mare also I give unto my daughter Deborah Hopkins the brodhorned black cowe and her calf and half the Cowe called Motley Also I doe give and bequeath unto my daughter Damaris Hopkins the Cowe called Damaris heiffer and the white faced calf and half the cowe called Mottley Also I give to my daughter Ruth the Cowe called Red Cole and her calfe and a Bull at Yarmouth wch is in the keepeing of Giles Hopkins wch is an yeare and advantage old and half the curld Cowe Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth the Cowe called Smykins and her calf and thother half of the Curld Cowe wth Ruth and an yearelinge heiffer wth out a tayle in the keepeing of Gyles Hopkins at Yarmouth Also I do give and bequeath unto my foure daughters that is. to say Deborah Hopkins Damaris Hopkins Ruth Hopkins and Elizabeth Hopkins all the mooveable goods the wch do belong to my house. as linnen wollen beds bedcloathes pott kettles pewter or whatsoevr are moveable belonging to my said house of what kynd soever and not named by their prticular names. all wch said mooveables to bee equally devided amongst my said daughters foure silver spoones that is to say to eich of them one, And in case any of my said daughters should be taken away by death before they be marryed that then the part of their division to be equally devided amongst the Survivors. I do also by this my will make Caleb Hopkins my sonn and heire apparent giveing and bequeathing unto my said sonn aforesaid all my Right title and interrest to my house and lands at Plymouth wth all the Right title and interrest wch doth might or of Right doth or may hereafter belong unto mee, as also I give unto my saide heire all such lance wch of Right is Rightly due unto me and not at prsent in my reall possession wch belongs unto me by right of my first comeing into this land or by any other due Right, as by such freedome or otherwise giveing unto my said heire my full & whole and entire Right in all divisions allottments appoyntments or distributions whatsoever to all or any pt of the said lance at any tyme or tymes so to be disposed Also I do give moreover unto my foresaid hire one paire or yooke of oxen and the hyer of them wch are in the hands of Richard Church as may appeare by bill under his. hand Also I do give unto my said heire Caleb Hopkins all my debts wch are now oweing unto me, or at the day of my death may be oweing unto mee either by booke bill or bills or any other way rightfully due unto mee ffurthermore my will is that. my daughters aforesaid shall have free recourse to my house in Plymouth upon any occasion there to abide and remayne for such tyme as any of them shall thinke meete and convenyent & they single persons And for the faythfull prformance of this my will I do make and ordayne my aforesaid sonn and heire Caleb Hopkins my true and lawfull Executor ffurther I do by this my will appoynt and make my said sonn and Captaine Miles Standish joyntly supervisors of this my will according to the true meaneing of the same that is to say that my Executor & supervisor shall make the severall divisions parts or porcons legacies or whatsoever doth appertaine to the fullfilling of this my will It is also my will that my Executr & Supervisor shall advise devise and dispose by the best wayes & meanes they cann for the disposeing in marriage or other wise for the best advancnt of the estate of the forenamed Deborah Damaris Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins Thus trusting in the Lord my will shalbe truly prformed according to the true meaneing of the same I committ the whole Disposeing hereof to the Lord that hee may direct you herein
June 6th 1644
Witnesses hereof By me Steven Hopkins
Myles Standish
William Bradford
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Documentation of two trips to America & origin: THE TRUE ORIGIN OF STEPHEN HOPKINS OF THE MAYFLOWER: With Evidence of His Earlier Presence in Virginia by Caleb Johnson
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The Division of Cattle, 1627 listed Hopkins: Steven, Elizabeth, Gyles, Caleb, Deborah...and Nickolas Snow, Constance Snow (the eaventh lott fell to Steven Hopkins & his companie Joyned to him his wife...to this lott fell A Black weining Calfe to wch was aded the Calfe of this yeare to come of the black Cow, wch fell to John Shaw & his Companie, wch pveing a bull they were to keepe it ungelt 5 years for common use & after to make there best of it. Nothing belongeth of thes too, for ye copanye of ye first stock: but only halfe ye Increase. To this lott ther fell two shee goats: which goats they possess on the like terms which others doe their cattell.) - Damaris Hopkins also listed under the eighth lot (re Samuell ffuller).
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Division of Land 1623 - These lye on the South side of the brook to the woodward opposite to the former (baywards) - Steven Hobkins (also Edward Doty of his Mayflower party)
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Would need to see documentation of this, compared to Caleb Johnson's work:
from article in PILGRIM HOPKINS HERITAGE SOCIETY's Atlantic Crossings newsletter, v1.iss2, Dec2007:
Stephen Hopkins was baptized April 30, 1581, Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England, son of John and Elizabeth (Williams) Hopkins. Stephen married first, Mary (maiden name unknown), probably in Hampshire, England prior to 1604. They had three children, Elizabeth, Constance and Giles. Mary was buried in Hursley on May 9, 1613. Stephen's second wife was Elizabeth. She may have been Elizabeth Fisher, who married a Stephen Hopkins in London on February, 1617. Prior to their trip on the Mayflower, they had a daughter, Damaris. A son, Oceanus, was delivered in the middle of the ocean, in the cramped quarters of the small, rolling Mayflower, probably in October 1620. He died in 1627.
Stephen and Elizabeth had five more children after settling in the colony: Caleb in 1623, Deborah in 1626, Demaris in 1628 (the first Damaris died before1627), Ruth in 1630 and Elizabeth in 1632. But only four of Stephen's children reached adulthood, married and had children of their own. These were Constance, Giles, Damaris and Deborah, each of whom had large families, which over future generations resulted in thousands of descendents of the original Stephen Hopkins.
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Pilgrim Hall Museum notes:
Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins may have been the same Stephen Hopkins who was on board the Sea Venture, which was shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609. The Sea Venture was part of a fleet of 9 ships under the command of Sir George Somers and Sir William Gates. Scattered by a hurricane, some of the ships made their way to Jamestown. The Sea Venture, however, was wrecked off Bermuda. The Stephen Hopkins of the Sea Venture (and possibly the Mayflower) was a minister's clerk who fomented a mutiny on the grounds that the authority of the governor ceased when the ship was wrecked. This Stephen Hopkins was sentenced to death, but pardoned, with reference made to his [unnamed] wife and children. This Stephen Hopkins spent a further two years in the English colonial settlement at Jamestown, Virginia.
Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower had two wives. The name of his first wife is unknown. His second wife was named Elizabeth Fisher, she and Stephen were married in London in 1618. Elizabeth died in Plymouth in 1639. Stephen Hopkins had two children by his first wife, and 7 by his second.
Elizabeth Hopkins accompanied her husband Stephen on the Mayflower. With them were Stephen's two children by his first marriage (Giles and Constanta), and Elizabeth and Stephen's daughter Damaris. Their son, Oceanus, was born while the Mayflower was at sea.
Stephen Hopkins had positions of responsibility in the Colony. Hopkins and Edward Winslow were chosen to approach Massasoit and Hopkins repeated this duty as emissary. He nevertheless ran afoul of the law several times, for assault, for not properly regulating other people's alcohol intake, and for overpricing.
Stephen Hopkins died between 6 June 1644, when his will was made, and 17 July 1644, when the inventory of his estate was taken.
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PHM notes re 17th century records:
"The names of those which came over first, in the year 1620, and were by the blessing of God the first beginners, and in a sort the foundation of all the Plantations and Colonies in New England; and their families... "Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. and two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester." William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 441-3.
I shall ... begin with a combination made by them before they came ashore ; being the first foundation of their government in this place. Occasioned partly by the discontented and mutinous speeches that some of the strangers amonst them had let fall from them in the ship: That when they came ashore they would use their own liberty, for none had power to command them, the patent they had being for Virginia and not for New England... And partly that such an act by them done, this their condition considered, might be as firm as any patent, and in some respects more sure. "The form was as followeth : IN THE NAME OF GOD, AMEN. We whose names are underwritten, the loyal subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord King James, by the Grace of God of Great Britain, France and Ireland King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken, for the Glory of God and advancement of the Christian Faith and Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the First Colony in the Northern parts of Virginia, do by these presents solemnly and mutually in the presence of God and one of another, Covenant and Combine ourselves together into a Civil Body Politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute and frame such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience. In witness whereof we have hereunder subscribed our names at Cape Cod, the 11th of November, in the year of the reign of our Sovereign Lord King James, of England, France and Ireland the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini 1620." William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647, ed. Samuel Eliot Morison (New York : Knopf, 1991), p. 75-76.
Stephen 1578 was the 14th signer of the Mayflower Compact.
He left for America the first time on the Sea Venture, and was shipwrecked on the "Isle of the Devils" reef, near Bermuda, due to a hurricane in 1609, arriving later on May 24, 1610, on one of the two ships (Deliverance & Patience)built partially from parts of the wrecked ship.
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- [S18752] William Bradford, of Plymouth Plantation 1620-1647.
- [S18750] Hampshire Records Office, 1613AD/046.
Mary's children Giles, Constance, and Elizabeth are all named in her probate estate papers dated 10 May 1613 and on file at the Hampshire Records Office (file: 1613AD/046).
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