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Descendants of Stephen (Mayflower Passenger) Hopkins




Generation No. 1


1. STEPHEN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER)2 HOPKINS (STEPHEN1)1 was born Abt. 1578 in probably in Hampshire, England2, and died Bet. June 6 - July 17, 1644 in Plymouth3. He married (1) MARY4 Bef. 1604 in Prob in Hampshire, Eng.5,6,7,8,9,10,11. She was born Abt. 1584 in Based on date of first born. He married (2) ELIZABETH (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) FISHER12 February 19, 1617/18 in St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, Middlesex, ENG13,14. She was born 1590 in Eng15,16,17, and died Aft. February 4, 1638/39 in Plymouth, MA18,19,20,21,22.

Notes for STEPHEN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
Caleb Johnson's The Mayflower Web Pages at http://members.aol.com/calebj/hopkins.html states on Dec. 11, 2000:
BORN: about 1578, probably in Hampshire, England
DIED: between 6 June and 17 July 1644, Plymouth
MARRIED:

Mary, before 1604, probably in Hampshire, England. NOTE: He did not
marry Constance Dudley, a claim which I disproved in the article
mentioned above.
Elizabeth Fisher, 19 February 1617/18, St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel,
Middlesex, England
Stephen Hopkins was not from Wortley, Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucestershire, as has been previously published in numerous books and articles, and the claim he married a woman named Constance Dudley is complete fiction. This alleged origin was disproven in my article, "The True English Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", published in The American Genealogist 73:161-171. The
Wotton-under-Edge claim was never factually sound to begin with, based simply on a few name coincidences and wild speculations.

The baptism records of Stephen Hopkins' children Giles and Constance, as well as an additional child Elizabeth, were discovered in the parish registers of Hursley, Hampshire, England. It says: "undecimo de May, Constancia filia Steph. Hopkins fuit baptizata", which translates into English as "Eleventh day of May, Constance daughter of Steph. Hopkins was baptized."

And there in Hursley, on 9 May 1613, Mary Hopkins the wife of Stephen was buried. 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).

The claim Stephen had a son William is based on Wotton-under-Edge records, and is invalid since that Hopkins family had no connection with the Mayflower. The claim that Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower had a son Stephen baptized at St. Stephen Coleman Street, London on 22 December 1609 is also wrong--no such baptism record exists. This baptism is apparently an error for a real baptism which is found on 3 December 1609 at the parish of St. Katherine Coleman, London. This child died on
19 February 1609/10, and the father had another child named John Hopkins, baptized on 14 April 1611. Since Stephen Hopkins the Mayflower passenger was in Virginia at the time this child was conceived and later baptized, he could not have fathered it. The name Stephen Hopkins is quite common--there are at least five of them in London during this time period. This is just another man named Stephen Hopkins, and there is no connection with the Mayflower passenger of the same name.

BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY:

Stephen Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made a prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown, Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island following a hurricane, and the150 passengers were stranded for
nine months. Hopkins led an uprising, challenging the governor's authority, and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin of his wife and children, and so was pardoned out of sympathy. The company eventually managed to build a ship, and escaped the island. After spending several years in Jamestown, Hopkins returned to England sometime between 1613 and 1617.

Stephen Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children Giles and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage. A son Oceanus was born while the Mayflower was at sea. Stephen participated in the early exploring missions and was an "ambassador" along with Myles Standish for early Indian relations.

Stephen Hopkins is mentioned in a letter written by William Bradford and Isaac Allerton on 8 September 1623, which was found in uncalendered papers at the Public Records Office in London. The letter was presented as evidence for the defense in the 1624 court case Stevens and Fell vs. the Little James. The letter is published in American Historical Review, 8(1903):294-301. The short section about Stephen
Hopkins reads as follows (spelling modernized):

About Hopkins and his men we are come to this issue. The men we retain in the general according to his resignation and equity of the thing. And about that recconing of 20 odd pounds, we have brought it to this pass, he is to have - 6 - " - payed by you there, and the rest to be quit; it is for nails and such other things as we have had of his brother here for the companies use, and upon promise of payment by us, we desire you will accordingly do it.

Another little-known reference to Stephen Hopkins, which also alludes to his two servants (Edward Doty and Edward Leister), is found in the Minutes for the Council of New England, on 5 May 1623 (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1867, pp. 93-94):

Touching the difference between Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Peirce, Mr. Hopkins alleadgeth that hee hath paid to Mr Peirce for Transportation of himselfe and two persons more, and Likewise for ihs goods, wch Peirce acknowledgeth, but alleadgeth, that by reason of his unfortunate returne, the rest of the passengers that went upon the Like Conditions have been contented to allow unto 40s a person towards his Loss, and therefore desireth that Master Hopkyns may doe the like, which Mr. Hopkins at length
agreed unto, soe as Mr. Peirce and his Associates will accept of £6 for 3 passengers out of £20 his Adventure wch he hath in their Joynt Stock. And therefore they both pray that the Councell will bee pleased to write to the Associates to accept thereof, which they are pleased to doe.

In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, in 1637 he was found guilty of allowing men to drink on a Sunday at his house, and in 1638 he was fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. He was also charged with several other minor crimes, including selling glass at too high a price, selling illegal intoxicants, and allowing men to get drunk at his house. However, this in no way indicated he was disloyal to the Colony--in fact he was Assistant governor from 1633
until 1636, and he volunteered to fight in the Pequot War of 1637.

SOURCES:

Caleb Johnson, "The True Origins of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins," The
American Genealogist, 73(1998):161-171.

John D. Austin, Mayflower Families for Five Generations: Stephen Hopkins,
volume 6 (Plymouth: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1992).

Eugene Aubrey Stratton, Plymouth Colony, Its History and Its People, 1620-1691
(Ancestor Publishers, Salt Lake City, 1986).

William Bradford and Edward Winslow. A Relation or Journal of the Beginning
and Proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plymouth . . . (John Bellamie:
London, 1622).

William Bradford, Of Plymouth Plantation, ed. Samuel Morison (New York, Random House, 1952).

Annie Lash Jester, Adventurers of Purse and Person--Virginia 1607-1625, p.
213-217.

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WILL: Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John D Austin (1992) p5 : "dated 6 Jun 1644, was proved upon the testimony of William Bradfor d and Captain Myles Standish at a General Court at Plymouth on 20 Aug . 1644."
HIST: `Documents of American History' by Henry Steel Commager p15: si gned The Mayflower Compact on 11 Nov 1620
HIST: `Hopkins of the Mayflower (Portrait of a Dissenter)' by Margare t Hodges, 1972 [Elsie Anne Hawes-Ltr 73 16 Oct 1991 p1]
HIST: `Saints and Strangers' by George P Willison p437/446: "Shipwrec ked on Bermuda while on way to Virginia and condemned to death for le ading mutiny there, 1609-10; joined to Captain Standish for `counse l and advice on First Discovery, being only one of passengers with an y knowledge of New World; accompanied Winslow on visit to Massasoit , 1621; Purchaser, 1626; asst. governor, 1633-36 and probably 1624-32 ; frequently in conflict with authorities in later years"
OCC: ibid.: "Officers of the Old Colony-Asst. Governor 1624-32, 1633- 36"
EMIG: ibid. p437: "Mayflower-of Harwich (180 tons); Christopher Jones , master; out of London, mid-July, 1620, dropping anchor off tip of C ape Cod, November 11th, Old Style, with 102 passengers"

NOTE: Walter Walley 06 Jun 93 (Hopkins 15): "An earlier genealogist o f the Mayflower Society reports: `I find Richard Hopkins in 1554, Wil l Hopkins, 1564; Samuel Hopkins 1609; Sampson Hopkins, 1640; Christop her Davenport, 1641, who gave twenty marks per annum to maintain an d keep, one schoolmaster, for educating such poor children of this ci ty whose parents are not able to pay their learning. When Charles I I was proclaimed (1659) Richard Hopkins was
knighted and received a plate, the value of which he failed to record . The Hopkins of Coventry are well and honorably mentioned with the D avenports. William Hopkins founded Bablake School, one of the most ce lebrated free schools in Coventry and gave his daughter in marriage t o the son of Edward Davenport, Mayor of Coventry.' There seems to hav e been little, if any, attempt to trace these persons to our Stephen"

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Notes for STEPHEN HOPKINS:
Origin: London

Migration: 1620 Mayflower

First Residence: Plymouth

Occupation: Trader and Merchant

Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth

Education: Signed his will. Owned books.

Offices: Assistant, Pequot War

Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers, butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights, two pails.

Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.

Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage, that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor. The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence" arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.

Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and danger to his fellows. In February 1620/21, when the Indians appeared on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of 1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen entertained at his home.

Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records, also as a "Gentleman" and "Master".

He served as a voluntary in the Pequot War of 1637.

Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June 1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple, an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with selling a looking glass at an excessive price.

Will dated 6/6/1644 and proved on 8/20/1644.
*Obtained from http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/u/Richard-A-Waugh/GENE10-0001.html "Descendants of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins"DOD between 6 Jun and 17 Jul 1644 per MayFloSoc-5Gen-Hopkins.
parentage "Not proved", per MayFloSoc-5Gen-Hopkins, but "possibly" son of Stephen Hopkins of Wortley, ENG.

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SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS Publication -- No. 8, COPYRIGHT, 1906, BY THE SOCIETY OF COLONIAL WARS IN MASSACHUSETTS. THE ROCKWELL AND CMURCHILL PRESS, BOSTON:

"HOPKINS, STEPHEN, (???) 1644, Plymouth. In the "First Encounter" with the Indians, Great Meadow Creek (Eastham), December 8, 1620. Member of Captain Myles Standish's Company 1621. Assistant, 1633-36. Member of the Council of War, 1642.
Bickford, Robert S.
Crandon, Edwin S.
Crandon, John H.
Eldredge, Zoeth S.
Nickerson, Stephen W.
Nickerson, Rev. Thomas W., Jr.
Parker, Edward L.
Parker, Frederic W.
Shaw, Henry S.
Wolcott, Roger. "

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In an article in "The American Genealogist", Vol. 73, No. 3, July 1998, entitled "The True Origin of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", by Caleb Johnson the following information is substantiated:

+ he was NOT married to Constance Dudley
+ he was from Hursley, Hampshire, England
+ he was the man who sailed for Jamestown, VA, on the Sea Venture, in 1609, & was wrecked in Bermuda; After 6 months, he began to challenge the authority of the governor, & went as far as to organize a mutiny. After he was sentenced to death, the following situation occured, and is described by Sea Venture passenger William Strachey:
"...therein did one Stephen Hopkins commence the first act or overture [of mutiny]: A fellow who had much knowledge of Scriptures, and could reasonm well therein, whom our Minister therefore chose to be his Clarke, to reade the Psalmes, and Chapters upon Sondays . . . it pleased the Governor to let this his factious offence to have a publique affront, and contestation by these two witnesses before the whole Company, who ( at the toling of a Bell) assemble before a Corps du guard, where the Prisoner was brought forth in manacles, and both accused and suffered to make at large, to every particular, his answere; which was onely full of sorrow and teares, pleading simplicity, and denial. But hee being onely found at this time, both the Captaine, and the follower of this Mutinie and generally held worthy to satisfie the punishment of his offence, with the sacrifice of his life, our Governour passed the sentence of a Martial Court upon him, such as belongs to Mutinie and Rebellion. But so penitent hee was, and mad so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his Wife and Children in this his tresparse, as it wrought in the hearts of all the better sorts of the Company, who therefore with humble intreaties, and earnest supplications, went unto our Governor, whom the besought . . . and never left him untill we had got his pardon."
The castaways eventually completed 2 ships which they used to sail from Jamestown, VA the next year.
+ Strachey's account came into the hands of William Shakespeare, & it became partly responsible for inspiring his play "The Tempest", which was first performed in Nov. 1611. The play relates the story of a shipwrecked group stranded on an enchanted island. A side plot includes a drunken & mutinous butler, whom Shakespeare named Stephano!

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ancestry.com database [Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.] states:
STEPHEN HOPKINS


ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1620 on Mayflower
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth

OCCUPATION: Tanner and merchant.
FREEMAN: In the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen Stephen Hopkins is near the head of the list,
included among the assistants [PCR 1:3]. In list of Plymouth Colony freemen, 7 March 1636/7 (as
"Steephen Hopkins, gen.") [PCR 1:52]. In the Plymouth section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of
freemen (as "Mr. Steephen Hopkins," annotated "dead") [PCR 8:173].
EDUCATION: He signed his will. The inventory included "diverse books" valued at 12s.
OFFICES: Assistant, 1633-36 [PCR 1:5, 21, 32, 36].
Volunteered for service in the Pequot War, 1637 [PCR 1:61].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land "Steven Hobkins" received six acres as a passenger
on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Stephen Hopkins, his wife
Elizabeth Hopkins, Gyles Hopkins, Caleb Hopkins and Deborah Hopkins are the first five persons in
the seventh company, and Damaris Hopkins is the thirteenth person in the eighth company [PCR
12:11, 12].
In the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1634 Stephen Hopkins was assessed £1 7s., and in the list of
27 March 1634 £1 10s. [PCR 1:9, 27]. "Steven Hopkins" was one of the Purchasers [PCR 2:177].
On 1 July 1633 "Mr. Hopkins" was ordered to mow where he had mowed the year before [PCR
1:15], followed by similar orders on 14 March 1635/6 and 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:41, 57].
On 5 February 1637/8 "Mr. Stephen Hopkins requesteth a grant of lands towards the Six Mile
Brook" [PCR 1:76].
On 7 August 1638 "[l]iberty is granted to Mr. Steephen Hopkins to erect a house at Mattacheese,
and cut hay there this year to winter his cattle, provided that it be not to withdraw him from the
town of Plymouth" [PCR 1:93].
On 17 July 1637 "Steephen Hopkins of Plymouth, gent.," sold to George Boare of Scituate,
yeoman, "all that his messuage, houses, tenements, outhouses lying and being at the Broken Wharfe
towards the Eele River together with the six shares of lands thereunto belonging containing six
acres" [PCR 12:21]. On 30 November 1638 "Mr. Steephen Hopkins" sold to Josias Cooke "all those
his six acres of land lying on the south side of the Town Brook of Plymouth" [PCR 12:39]. On 8 June
1642 William Chase mortgaged to "Mr. Stephen Hopkins ... all that his house and lands in Yarmouth
containing eight acres of upland and six acres more lying at the Stony Cove" [PCR 12:83].
On 1 June 1640 "Mr. Hopkins" was granted twelve acres of meadow [PCR 1:154, 166].
In his will, dated 6 June 1644 and proved 20 August 1644, Stephen Hopkins "of Plymouth ...
weake yet in good and perfect memory" directed that he be buried "as near as conveniently may be
to my wife, deceased," and bequeathed to "son Giles Hopkins" the great bull now in the hands of
Mrs. Warren; to "Steven Hopkins my son Giles his son" 20s. in Mrs. Warren's hands; to "daughter
Constanc[e] Snow, wife of Nicholas ... my mare"; to "daughter Deborah Hopkins" cows; to
"daughter Damaris Hopkins" cows; to "daughter Ruth" cows; to "daughter Elizabeth" cows; to "four
daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins" all the moveable goods; if any of the
daughters die, their share to be divided equally among the survivors; to "son Caleb heir apparent"
house and lands at Plymouth, one pair of oxen and hire of them and all the debts "now owing unto
me"; daughters to have free recourse to use of the house in Plymouth while single; "son Caleb"
executor; Caleb and Captain Standish joint supervisors [PCPR 1:1:61].
The inventory of the estate of Stephen Hopkins was taken 17 July 1644 and was untotalled, with
no real estate included [PCPR 1:1:62-63].
On 28 October 1644 "Caleb Hopkins son and heir unto Mr. Steephen Hopkins of Plymouth
deceased" deeded to "Gyles Hopkins of Yarmouth, planter, one hundred acres of those lands taken
up for the Purchasers of Satuckquett which said lands do accrue unto the said Steephen as a
Purchaser" [PCR 12:104].

BIRTH: By about 1579 based on estimated date of first marriage.
DEATH: Plymouth between 6 June 1644 (writing of will) and 17 July 1644 (proving of will).
MARRIAGE: (1) By 1604 Mary _____; she was buried at Hursley, Hampshire, 9 May 1613 [TAG
73:169].
(2) St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, London, 19 February 1617/8 Elizabeth Fisher. She died at
Plymouth sometime in the early 1640s before her husband, who desired to be buried near her;
Bradford indicated that both she and her husband had lived in Plymouth above twenty years.

COMMENTS: Caleb Johnson's discovery [TAG 73:161-71] of the family of Stephen Hopkins in
Hursley, Hampshire, eliminates at last the suggestion that Stephen Hopkins was son of Stephen
Hopkins, a clothier, of Wortley, Wooten Underedge, Gloucestershire [MF 6:3, citing "[t]he Wortley
historian"].
Johnson's discovery also strengthens the argument that this was the same Stephen Hopkins who
was the minister's clerk on the vessel Sea Venture which met with a hurricane in 1609 while on a
voyage to Virginia [TAG 73:165-66]. One of one hundred and fifty survivors marooned on a
Bermuda, he fomented a mutiny and was sentenced to death, but "so penitent he was and made so
much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass," that his friends procured a
pardon from the Governor [MF 6:3, citing William Strachey's account].
In his listing of the Mayflower passengers Bradford included "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" [Bradford 442]. Stephen Hopkins signed the Mayflower Compact.
In his accounting of this family in 1651 Bradford reported that "Mr. Hopkins and his wife are now
both dead, but they lived above twenty years in this place and had one son and four daughters born
here. Their son became a seaman and died at Barbadoes, one daughter died here, and two are
married; one of them hath two children, and one is yet to marry. So their increase which still survive
are five. But his son Giles is married and hath four children. His daughter Constanta is also married
and hath twelve children, all of them living, and one of them married" [Bradford 445].
In June 1621 Steven Hopkins and Edward Winslow were chosen by the governor to approach
Massasoit, and Hopkins repeated this duty as emissary frequently thereafter [Young's Pilgrim
Fathers 202, 204].
Despite his social standing and his early public service, Stephen Hopkins managed to run afoul of
the authorities several times in the late 1630s. In June of 1636 while an Assistant, he was fined for
battery of John Tisdale, whom he "dangerously wounded" [PCR 1:41-42]. On 2 October 1637 he
was fined for allowing drinking on the Lord's day and the playing of "shovell board" [PCR 1:68] and
on 2 January 1637/8 he was "presented for suffering excessive drinking in his house" [PCR 1:75].
On 5 June 1638 he was "presented for selling beer for 2d. the quart, not worth 1d. a quart" [PCR
1:87]; for this and other similar infractions he was on 4 September 1638 fined £5 [PCR 1:97]. He
dealt harshly with his pregnant servant Dorothy Temple and only the intercession of John Holmes
freed him from being held in contempt of court [PCR 1:111-13]. In December 1639 he was presented
for selling a looking glass for 16d. when a similar glass could be bought in the Bay for 9d. [PCR
1:137].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1992 John D. Austin published an excellent and extensive account of
Stephen Hopkins and his descendants as the sixth volume in the Five Generations Project of the
General Society of Mayflower Descendants [cited herein as MF 6].
In 1998 Caleb Johnson published his discovery of the baptismal place of the children of Stephen
Hopkins by his first wife [TAG 73:161-71].

More About STEPHEN (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
Date born 2: Abt. 158023,24,25
Died 2: August 20, 1644, Plymouth, MA26,27
Ancestry File No.: Gen'l Society of Mayflower Descendants #18647
Immigrated: 1620, aboard Mayflower28
Military service: Served as a volunteer in the Pequot War of 1637
Occupation: Tanner and merchant29
Will: June 6, 1644, asked to be" buryed as neare as convenyently may be to my wyfe Deceased"30

More About MARY:
Burial: 161331

Notes for ELIZABETH (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) FISHER:
EMIG: `Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p437: "Mayflow er-of Harwich (180 tons); Christopher Jones, master; out of London, m id-July, 1620, dropping anchor off tip of Cape Cod, November 11th, Ol d Style, with 102 passengers"


More About ELIZABETH (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) FISHER:
Immigrated: 1620, aboard Mayflower32
     
Children of STEPHEN HOPKINS and MARY are:
  i.   ELIZABETH3 HOPKINS, b. Abt. 1604, (based on baptism date); d. Bef. 1620, (was living in 1613)33,34.
  More About ELIZABETH HOPKINS:
Baptism: March 13, 1603/04, Hursley, Hampshire, England35,36
  ii.   CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS37,38,39, b. May 11, 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England40; d. October 1677, Eastham, MA41,42,43; m. NICHOLAS SNOW44,45,46, May 22, 1627, Plymouth, MA47,48,49,50; b. January 25, 1598/99, of Hoxton, MDX, Eng51,52; d. November 15, 1676, Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA, USA53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61.
  Notes for CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
********* SEE SNOW FAMILY FOR CONTINUATION OF THIS LINE ***********


Art Cohan lists b:January 25, 1599/00 in London, England, d:Nov. 25, 1677 in Eastham, MAEMIG: `Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p437: "Mayflow er-of Harwich (180 tons); Christopher Jones, master; out of London, m id-July, 1620, dropping anchor off tip of Cape Cod, November 11th, Ol d Style, with 102 passengers"


  More About CONSTANCE (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
Date born 2: 1608, London, Wotton Underedge, ENG62,63
AFN: QDSN-9C64
Ancestry File No.: Gen'l Society of Mayflower Descendants #18429
Baptism: May 11, 1606, Hursley, Hampshire, England65
Burial: Old Cove, Orleans, MA, USA66

  Notes for NICHOLAS SNOW:
Occupation: Carpenter

Freeman: 1633 Plymouth List; 1658 and May 29, 1670 Eastham List

Education: Owned books

Offices: Deputy from Eastham 6/3/1652. 6/3/1657; Commissioner to lay out highways 7/23/1634; Surveyor and supervisor of highways March 3, 1639/40, 6/2/1640. 6/1/1647, 6/7/1653, 6/5/1671; Committee to lay out lands 5/5/1640; Plymouth Grand Jury 6/5/1638; coroner's jury 6/5/1638; jury 10/2/1637, 3/6/1637/38, 3/3/1639/40, 9/1/1640, 6/1/1641, 8/3/1641, 3/7/1642/43, 6/6/1643. Lot Layer 2/1/1640/41. Excise collector 6/7/1648. Committee Member 6/7/1648, 6/4/1650. Eastman Selectman 6/7/1670, 6/5/1671, 6/5/1672, 6/3/1674, 6/1/1675. Constable 6/3/1662. Able to bear arms 1643.

Nicholas was one of the first seven who settled Nausett and was a man of sterling worth and very prominent in the settlement. He was a large landowner and had land in Harwich, Eastham and Truro. His will is dated November 14, 1676 and he died
the next day.
*Obtained from http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/w/a/u/Richard-A-Waugh/GENE10-0002.html "Descendants of Mayflower Passenger Stephen Hopkins"WILL: `Mayflower Families-Stephen Hopkins' by John Austin (1992) p9 : "The will of Nicholas Snow of Eastham, dated 14 Nov. 1676 and prove d 5 March 1676/7, left livestock and household goods to wife Constan t for life use and then to son Jabez, and devised various parcels o f land to sons Mark, Joseph, Steven, John and Jabez. The descriptio n of land near the testator's house mentioned "son Thomas Paine" <act ually son-in-law> as an abutting owner. Nicholas also gave, after th e death of wife, the sum of ten shillings "to the Church of Eastham f or the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other Neces saries." He named Deacon Samuel Freeman and John Mayo as executors. L etters of administration were granted to Constant, Mark and John Sno w on 6 March 1676/7. A lengthy inventory, including many cooper's an d carpenter's tools was sworn to by widow Constant on 22 March 1676/7 ."
RES: Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p450: "removed t o Eastham, 1644"
OCC: ibid.: "town clerk 1646-1662"
OCC: Austin (1992) p9: "Nicholas Snow...was made freeman at Plymout h in 1633. He was named in 1634 to lay out highways at Plymouth, an d he served there as
arbitrator, surveyor of highways and on juries. By 1645 he had settle d at
Eastham where he served as clerk, selectman, deputy, constable, highw ay
surveyor, excise collector, and on court committees."
EMIG: Willison p446: "Anne-of London (140 tons); William Pierce, mast er; and Little James (44 tons); John Bridges, master; arriving July-A ugust 1623, with `about 60 persons'"
EMIG: Austin (1992) p9: "came on the `Ann' in 1623"
HIST: Kathryn Graham 17 Jul 1996 (Snow 24 #3): more details

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ancestry.com database [Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633 [database online] Provo, UT: Ancestry.com, 2000. Original data: Robert Charles Anderson. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, vols. 1-3. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1995.] states:
NICHOLAS SNOW
ORIGIN: Unknown
FREEMAN: In "1633" Plymouth list of freemen in close proximity to those admitted on 1 January
1632/3 [PCR 1:4]; in list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth
Colony list of freemen, then erased and moved to Eastham section of list [PCR 8:174, 177]. In
Eastham section of lists of freemen of 1658 and 29 May 1670 [PCR 5:278, 8:201].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "a parcel of old books" valued at 4s., "a psalm book" valued
at 1s., and "1 book" valued at 1s.
OFFICES: Deputy (from Eastham), 3 June 1652, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:9, 115]. Committee to lay out
highways, 23 July 1634 [PCR 1:31]; surveyor and supervisor of highways, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June
1640, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1653, 5 June 1671 [PCR 1:141, 155, 2:115, 3:33, 5:58]. Committee to lay
out lands, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151]. Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:87]; coroner's jury, 5
June 1638 [PCR 1:88]; jury, 2 October 1637, 6 March 1637/8, 3 March 1639/40, 1 September
1640, 1 June 1641, 3 August 1641, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 7:7, 8, 16, 17, 20, 23, 34,
35]. Lot layer, 1 February 1640/1 [PCR 2:7]. Excise collector, 7 June 1648 [PCR 2:125]. Committee
member, 7 June 1648, 4 June 1650 [PCR 2:123, 154].
Eastham selectman, 7 June 1670, 5 June 1671, 5 June 1672, 3 June 1674, 1 June 1675 [PCR 5:35,
57, 92, 143, 164]. Constable, 3 June 1662 [PCR 4:15].
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:189].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth land division granted an unknown number of acres (but almost
certainly one) at Hobes Hole near the Eel River as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:6]. In the 1627
Plymouth cattle division "Nickolas Snow" and Constance Snow were the sixth and seventh persons
in the seventh company (headed by Stephen Hopkins) [PCR 12:11].
Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634 [PCR
1:10, 27].
Assigned mowing ground, 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:57]; requested more hay ground, 2 July 1638
[PCR 1:90]. He was one of the purchasers [PCR 2:177].
On 7 May 1638 Nicholas Snow was one of a group of men desiring "lands towards the Six Mile
Brooke" [PCR 1:83], and on 7 August 1638 he requested "5 or 6 acres of land lying on the north side
the lands granted lately to Mr. Atwood" [PCR 1:93]. On 6 July 1638 Nicholas Snow acknowledged
that he sold to Samuell Eddy his house and garden in Plymouth where he "now dwelleth" [PCR
12:31].
Granted ten acres meadow in the South Meadows, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:166]. About March
1645/6 Nicholas Snow sold his house and buildings and upland, with two acres of meadow at High
Pines and ten acres of upland meadow at Colebrook meadows, totalling fifty-two acres to Thomas
Morton [PCR 12:134]. On 10 March 1645[/6] Nicholas Snow sold one acre to Nathaniel Morton
[PCR 12:135]. In an account of liquors brought into Eastham, dated 28 November 1664, Nicholas
Snow was responsible for one and a half gallons of liquor [PCR 4:100].
In his will, dated 14 November 1676 and proved 5 March 1676/7, "Nicholas Snow of Eastham
being weak and infirm of body" bequeathed to "my son Marke Snow" all twenty acres of upland
lying at Namskekitt where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow and all that broken
marsh at Namscekett and two thirds of "my great lot at Satuckett"; to "my son Joseph Snow I give
that other third part of my great lot at Satuckett, and two acres and an half of meadow lying at
Namscekett near the head and an neck of upland"; to "my son Steven Snow I give twenty acres on
the southside of my great lot at Pochett, and ten acres of my little lot at Satuckett ... an acre and an
half of meadow at the boat meadow ... and that part of my meadow at the great meadow that lyeth
between Josiah Cooke and the Eel creek"; to "my son John Snow I give all that my land at Paomett
purchased or unpurchased ... and all my right and title or privilege there"; to "my son Jabez Snow I
give all this my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paine's, and seven acres at the
Bass pond ... and an half acre of marsh at the end of it and six acres of upland at the Herring pond,
and an acre and half of meadow at Silver spring ... and that part of my house he lives in as long as my
wife or I do live ... and two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow"; to "my son Jabez I give that my
four acres of meadow at Billinsgate due to me yet unlaid out"; "my meadow about my house I give to
my son Jabez"; to "my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine,
whatsoever, to be at her disposal for the comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable
goods I am possessed of and after her decease, stock and movables to be equally divided amongst
all my children ... the use and disposal of the part of my house she now dwells in during her lifetime,
and after her decease to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "my loving wife that ten acres of upland at
Pochett and twenty on Billinsgate Iland, for her disposal for the comfort of her life, but if she need it
now, and leave it undisposed, I give it then to my son Steven Snow"; "twenty acres of upland at
Billingsgate if my wife leave it undisposed, then to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "the church of
Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other necessaries, I say I do give
10s. out of my estate after my wife's decease" [MD 3:167-69, citing PCPR 3:2:71-72].
The undated inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of Eastham totalled £102 10s. 9d., with no
real estate included [MD 3:169-74, citing PCPR 3:2:73-77].
On 6 March 1676/7 letters of administration were granted to Constant Snow, Mark Snow and John
Snow, on the estate of Nicholas Snow, deceased [PCR 5:220].

COMMENTS: Bradford, in describing the family of STEPHEN HOPKINS in 1651, stated that "His
daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living and one of them
married" [Bradford 445]. (In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden suggested that two of the children who are
implied by Bradford's accounting but do not otherwise appear in the records were Hannah and
Rebecca "on the authority of Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth. Both married Rickards" [NEHGR
47:83]; she cites no evidence.)
In January 1634/5 the Plymouth court noted that "The servant of Nicolas Snow was willing to
serve out his time with John Cooper, according to the tenor of his indenture" [PCR 1:33]. This
servant was not the same as Twiford West who, after brief service with Nicholas Snow, agreed on 12
February 1635/6 to return to Edward Winslow, with whom he had originally made his indenture
[PCR 1:37].
Nicholas Snow and others were presented 1 December 1640 for failing to mend the highways
[PCR 2:5].

BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden published a substantial article on Nicholas
Snow and his children [NEHGR 47:81-84, 186-89, 48:71-73]. In 1948 Donald Lines Jacobus
prepared an account of Nicholas Snow and a line of descent through his son Stephen [Brainerd Anc
270-72].


  More About NICHOLAS SNOW:
AFN: 46RG-XN67
Baptism (LDS): January 25, 1598/99, St Leonard's, Shoreditch, London, Eng68,69,70,71,72
Burial: Old Cove, Orleans, MA, USA73
Immigrated: July 1623, aboard Anne74,75
Occupation: Carpenter76
Residence 1: 1623, Plymouth, , Mass.77
Residence 2: Aft. 1623, Eastham, , Mass.78
  iii.   GILES (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS, b. January 30, 1607/08, Hursley, Hampshire, England79; d. Bet. March 5, 1688/89 - April 16, 1690, Eastham or Harwich, MA80,81; m. CATHERINE WHELDEN, October 9, 1639, Plymouth, MA82,83,84,85; b. Abt. 161586,87; d. Aft. March 5, 1688/89, Eastham, MA, USA88,89,90.
  Notes for GILES (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
MIL: `Saints and Strangers' by George F Willison 1945 p441: "He volun teered with his father and brother Caleb to go against the Pequot Ind ians in 1637."


  More About GILES (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER) HOPKINS:
Date born 2: Abt. 1609, London, Eng91,92,93,94,95
Baptism: January 30, 1607/08, Hursley, Hampshire, England96
     
Children of STEPHEN HOPKINS and ELIZABETH FISHER are:
  iv.   DAMARIS (MAYFLOWER PASSENGER)3 HOPKINS, b. Abt. 1618, England97,98; d. Aft. 1627, Plymouth, , Mass.99,100.
  v.   OCEANUS HOPKINS101, b. Bet. September 16 - November 11, 1620, at sea aboard Mayflower101,102; d. Bef. 1627, Plymouth103,104.
  vi.   CALEB HOPKINS105, b. Abt. 1623, Plymouth, , Mass.105,106; d. Bet. 1644 - 1651, in Barbados of starvation107,108.
  More About CALEB HOPKINS:
Occupation: Seaman109
  vii.   DEBORAH HOPKINS110, b. Abt. 1625, Plymouth110,111; d. Bef. 1674112; m. ANDREW RING113, April 23, 1646, Plymouth114,115,116.
  More About DEBORAH HOPKINS:
Date born 2: Bet. 1622 - 1625
  viii.   DAMARIS HOPKINS117, b. Aft. 1627, Plymouth, , Mass.117,118; d. Bet. January 1665/66 - November 18, 1669, Plymouth, MA119,120; m. JACOB COOKE121, Aft. June 10, 1646122,123; b. Abt. 1618, Leyden, So. Holland, Holland124; d. Abt. December 15, 1675, Plymouth, MA124.
  Notes for JACOB COOKE:
immigrated in 1623 with mother on the "Anne"

buried in Tyler Point Cemetry, Barrington, Bristol Co., RI - src FHC

generations/marriage to Elizabeth Lettice and daughter Sarah here in doubt...

  ix.   RUTH HOPKINS125, b. Abt. 1630, Plymouth126,127; d. Aft. November 30, 1644128,129.
  x.   ELIZABETH HOPKINS130, b. Abt. 1632, Plymouth131,132; d. Abt. October 1657, apparently had disappeared & was thought dead by 5 Oct. 1659133,134.


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