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Stephen Hopkins and Pocahontas by Caleb Johnson s early as 1769, Thomas A Mayo speculated that Stephen Hopkins of Plymouth may be the same man who ship wrecked in Bermuda in 1609. But it was not until my 1998 discovery of Stephen Hopkins’ origins in Hursley, that actual documents could be cited to show they were indeed the same. Since the Bermuda castaways built two ships and made it to Jamestown in 1610, we are then left with an inter esting question—did Stephen Hopkins know Pocahontas? The question is an intriguing one. Stephen, in his later life at Plymouth, was associated with Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Squanto, even housing him in sentence and her visits to his house. Could Stephen have Jamestown between 16071608 he was holding prisoner. After actually known and met the two are legendary. But the famous holding Pocahontas for a year, most famous Indians in early Captain Smith returned to Eng she began to sympathize with American history? Pocahontas land in 1609, and Indian rela her captors, and fell in love was the daughter of Powhattan, tions took a major downturn; by with one of the colonists, John the Indian ruler of most of the the time Hopkins arrived in Rolfe, and married him in April tribes around Virginia. Her res 1610, Pocahontas no longer vis 1614. cue of John Smith from a death ited. There were only two minis Pocahontas would later be ters at Jamestown that could In this issue: captured by Captain Samuel have performed the wedding Argall, and returned a prisoner ceremony: Alexander Whittaker Hopkins Chest...... 3 to Jamestown in March 1613. and Richard Buck. The latter Biggest Achievement ...... 5 They tried to use her capture to was Hopkins’ employer—he DNA Projects ...... 6 negotiate with her father, had hired Stephen to be his Truro Boyhood...... 9 Powhattan, to return stolen continued on page 4 goods and several Englishmen AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS Message from the Governor ur second year of opera that we can keep our member quire some prior experience O tion is coming to a close ship lists current. are that of Historian and and we feel confident that a In anticipation of our trien Treasurer. lot more will be accomplished nial meeting in Plymouth in Any proposed alterations in our third. September of 2008, anyone to our bylaws should also be Cousins Susan Abanor and interested in running for office submitted. Judith Brister have done an should send a note to the cor The Secretary will liaise outstanding job with the responding secretary with a with the Deputy Governor newsletter and with the web short bio and qualifications. who is head of our Nominat site which is about to be We will be electing a Gov ing Committee. launched. ernor, Deputy Governor, Cor We do hope to get a good Dues letters for the 2008 responding secretary, Mem expression of interest in the period are in the process of bership secretary, Treasurer, various project committees being sent out. When mailing Historian and three members which are proposed here in your dues be sure to include to the board of assistants. The the newsletter and on the web page. ▄ the member update info so two positions which do re

From the Editors his issue features Caleb wife of Daniel Doane, one of age data and a bit of Hopkins T Johnson’s thoughts on the Constance (Hopkins) Snow's history. We know there are possibility that Stephen Hop daughters? Where did all the many very talented, websavvy kins may have known Poca families go? Many of Con Hopkins cousins out there who hontas in Virginia, Stephen A. stance and Giles' descendants could help us enhance this in Hopkins’ piece on an often stayed on Cape Cod for many formation tool. Your feedback overlooked achievement of his generations, but that is not the is welcome! In fact, we’d like namesake, Mary Ames case for Deborah and Damaris. to set up a “website team” of Mitchell’s speculations regard To ring in the New Year, members with expertise in this ing the Hopkins links of an old the PHHS is off on a great ad area to further develop the family chest, and the reflec venture. With the help of web website. If you’d like to assist tions of our Governor Chester designer Angel Leal, we’ve on this front, want to find out Hopkins’ great uncle on his launched a website, more, or just give us your feed Truro boyhood. www.pilgrimhopkins.com , to back, please contact webmas- We’re most grateful for highlight the work being done [email protected] . these diverse and interesting by the PHHS and to facilitate For those of you with differ contributions, and hope they’ll the sharing of information ent interests and skills, the inspire some of you Atlantic about our common ancestors. PHHS is also launching a num Crossings readers to send us The email address is: ber of other projects. Getting equally interesting articles for [email protected] involved in any of these could our summer issue. We know We consider this a pilot, make your participation in the there are many Hopkins stories containing just the nuts and PHHS more rewarding. As to tell and mysteries to unravel. bolts of our aims, membership listed on the “Activities” page For instance, was Constance, procedures and activities, line continued on page 4

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Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 2 The Hopkins Chest by Mary Ames Mitchell n 1955, when my mother, I née Eileen Mary Hopkins, inherited an old, dark, beatup wooden chest at the death of her grandmother in Santa Bar bara, California, she didn’t think much about it. “It was just the piece of furniture on which Grandma kept the an tique Russian Samovar,” Mom said, “which I found much more interesting.” Mom didn’t care much about her American heritage since she was born and raised in England. Her American fa ther, Prince Hopkins, brought her to America after her Eng lish mother died, and to rescue her from the Blitzkrieg in 1939. don’t match the more modern The chest was moved to hinges with screws attaching Pasadena and placed in a dark the lid. Slots at the back reveal living room we seldom used. the placement of the original In 1965 it was transported hinges, probably of leather across town, and served as a that disintegrated long ago. resting place in Mom’s bed A trip to England brought room for her clothing and ear us to the chest’s twin, during a rings, when she was too hur tour of an old manor house in ried to store them properly. Surrey. The docent reported Not until 2004, when Mom the twin to be Jacobean, made Charles Harris Hopkins (1836-1913) gave the chest to me, did we in 1606. where the chest resided for the place it in some light and look My great grandfather first 160 to 184 years. We will at it closely. Charles Harris Hopkins never know which ancestor It’s a massive beast, brought the chest to California brought it to America, but roughly four feet wide, two from Maine sometime after here are some possibilities. feet deep and two feet tall. 1850. Most, if not all his an Charles was a seventh gen The crudely carved decoration cestors had sailed from Eng eration descendent of Stephen was chiseled and stamped by land to America between 1620 Hopkins through Stephen’s hand. The lid has no male and 1640. Since no seats were son Giles, and an eighth gen counterpart to the lock on the available on board ships back eration descendent through chest, So we’ve determined it then, such chests served as Stephen’s daughter Constance. to be a later replacement. tables and benches as well as Could the chest have been Also, the wooden pegs and containers. brought on the Mayflower by handhammered metal plate By 1640, Charles’ ances one of them? Or by Stephen covering the chest’s keyhole tors had settled on Cape Cod, continued on page 10

PPPAGE 333 AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS Pocahontas ter does not exist, only a brief summary of the From page 1 letter jotted down in a Virginia Company log book. Could the scribe have misread the name? clerk. We do not know which reverend per We know that a Stephen Hopkins married formed the wedding ceremony. Whittaker was Elizabeth Fisher in February 1618 at St. Mary more familiar with Pocahontas, and was the man Matellon, Whitechapel, London. This is in the who helped Christianize her. Buck, on the other heart of where Separatists were organizing the hand, was the primary minister of Jamestown, Mayflower's voyage from the London side. We and given the status and prominence of the mar know from Gov. Bradford that Stephen Hopkins' riage (deemed to be a royal marriage), he may second wife was named Elizabeth, and we also have been the one. In any case, the wedding was know that this couple's first child, Damaris, was almost likely attended by nearly everyone. born about nine months after the Whitechapel So when exactly did Stephen leave James wedding. Combining these tidbits it would seem town? There is no record of when he returned to that Stephen returned to England between 1615 England. The normal “contract” for a Virginia 1617, and therefore almost certainly was around Company employee was for seven years. If Hop to witness Pocahontas’ return to Jamestown in kins were to fulfill his contract, he would have March 1612, and her marriage in April 1614. In been “free” in mid1616. But his wife Mary, fact, Pocahontas and John Rolfe left Jamestown back in Hursley, died in May 1613, orphaning to visit London in 1616. Given there were so Stephen’s three children there. Could he have few ships leaving Jamestown, there is a reason been recalled to England on their account? In able chance that Hopkins returned on this ship September 1614, a letter was sent to Thomas too, spending several months at sea with two of Dale, governor, to send home by the next ship America’s most interesting figures, Pocahontas “Eliezer Hopkins.” There is, however, no known the “Indian Princess”, and John Rolfe, the future Eliezer Hopkins in Jamestown. The original let tobacco entrepreneur. ▄

Editors tive contact listed on “Activities” page of the From page 2 website: www.pilgrimhopkins.com of the website, the five new projects envisioned Depending on the success of these initiatives are: and on the interests of PHHS members, other projects could be launched in the future. Sugges MtDNA: Documenting all female lines of de tions on new projects can be sent to: scent [email protected] . YDNA: Documenting all male lines of de Finally, we’d like to remind you that our tri scent ennial meeting is coming up, on September 7, Lineage: Setting up and maintaining a data 2008, from 9:30 am – 12:30 pm, in the May base of all lines of descent flower Room at the Radisson Hotel in Plymouth, Migration: Tracking the migration patterns of MA. As this coincides with the triennial meeting the Hopkins family around the coun of the General Mayflower Society, it’s advisable try and the world to book your hotel rooms early. In addition to Signage: Research and marker placement for electing new officers, we’re hoping to have a remembrance of descendants of the speaker and time for networking. So pencil it into Pilgrim Hopkins family your calendar! Each team will be able to record its progress and research findings in this newsletter and, in To all our Hopkins cousins, health and happiness the future, on the website. in 2008! If you’d like to work on or just find out more Susan B. W. Abanor and Judith McLoud Brister, about any of these projects, click on the respec Editors ▄

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Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 2 Stephen Hopkins’ Biggest Achievement by Stephen A. Hopkins tephen Hopkins was a man of many Stephen well and Samoset stayed at his house S achievements. Although not a Separatist, he when he visited the colony. Without doubt, and his family joined the Pilgrims' journey to the Stephen Hopkins contributed to the Pilgrims’ New World perhaps because Stephen had al mutually beneficial relationship with the Native ready been to the colony in Jamestown and Americans during the settlement’s early years. therefore had experience valuable for the May While Stephen had many achievements dur flower group. Stephen, along with his second ing his life, one of his most significant contribu wife, Elizabeth, their three children and two in tions would become apparent only after his dentured servants, made the long and dangerous death in 1644: the huge number of progeny trip aboard the Mayflower in 1620. which resulted from the family he brought to

Photo by Ellie Johnson PhotoEllie by Johnson Plymouth and the children he had afterwards. Stephen Hopkins was baptized April 30, 1581, Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England, son of John and Elizabeth (Williams) Hopkins. Stephen married first, Mary (maiden name un known), 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 Lon don 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, roll ing Mayflower, probably in October 1620. He died in 1627. Stephen A. Hopkins, summer 2007 Stephen and Elizabeth had five more children after settling in the colony: Caleb in 1623, Deb Stephen settled in Plymouth with the other orah in 1626, Demaris in 1628 (the first Damaris Pilgrims. He built one of the larger houses in died before1627), Ruth in 1630 and Elizabeth in the colony and, except for a brief stay in Yar 1632. But only four of Stephen's children mouth, spent the rest life in the house on the east reached adulthood, married and had children of corner of Main and Leyden Streets. Records their own. These were Constance, Giles, Dama indicate that Stephen was a merchant and ris and Deborah, each of whom had large fami planter, but another of his enterprises was evi lies, which over future generations resulted in dently a tavern. In those times taverns satisfied thousands of descendents of the original Stephen the need for beverages, alcoholic and otherwise, Hopkins and also served as a center for discussions of For example, Constance, the oldest of issues facing the colony. Stephen’s children, married Nicholas Snow in Carrying the title of Master and Gentleman, 1627, and over the next 17 years, had Mark, Stephen became a leader in the community, par Mary, Sarah, Joseph, Stephen, John, Elizabeth, ticularly in connection with Native American Jabez, Ruth, and three children whose names affairs. He was frequently tapped by Captain have not been conclusively documentedbut one Miles Standish to be an envoy to the Indians. continued on page 8 Chiefs Massasoit and Samoset came to know

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y testing the MtDNA, females and males and it can help connect married women with B can determine the origin of their maternal their birth families. Records in early New Eng line. This line is sometimes called the umbilical land were kept in the male name. For example, line. The MtDNA can be tested on all people if Samuel Paine's wife had a child it was re because mothers pass it on to all children, but it corded as the daughter or son of Samuel Paine. is deadended with the males because only moth Sometimes the wife's first name was given but ers pass it on (see chart on opposite page). not her father's name, so it is hard to connect the A project has been started to follow the married women to her parents. MtDNA results MtDNA for Constance Hopkins. This research is will help identify which families to look at when being done for Stephen's first wife, Mary. A researching the records for proof of relationship. continuation of the project will test for second If you know of a direct female line back to wife Elizabeth's MtDNA. Mary (?) Hopkins or Elizabeth (Fisher?) Hopkins This research is important because women please email us at: [email protected] ▄ face special challenges in tracing their lineage

Hopkins Y-DNA Project he Hopkins Surname Project, run by Family moved from the U. S. to Canada. According to T Tree DNA, is tracing direct male lineages. the undocumented family tradition of the Cana By testing their YDNA, male Hopkins descen dian Hopkins, he was descended from Stephen dants can verify their relationship to a specific Hopkins’ grandson Nathaniel, son of Giles. male ancestor and to each other on the paternal Chester Hopkins traces his line through Giles’ line. son Caleb. The matching on all 37 points indi The tests have different levels of relationship cates a 99.5% probability that Governor Chester proof according to the number of mutation mark Hopkins and the Canadian Hopkins had a com ers tested. There are tests for 12, 25, 37, and 64 mon ancestor going back at least 12 generations. YDNA markers. For example the YDNA of Anyone interested in joining this project can society PHHS Governor, Chester Hopkins, with contact: http://www.familytreedna.com . This documented lineage traced back to Pilgrim company offers a discount for those who join the Stephen Hopkins, was matched on 37 points to Surname Project and order the test through the the YDNA of a Hopkins in Canada who could only trace his lineage back to the beginning of webpage. Also, please contact us at: the 19 th century when his parental ancestor [email protected] ▄

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Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 2 Mt-DNA Inheritance Descendants Chart (Maternal Line)

Y-DNA Inheritance Descendants Chart (Paternal Line)

Copyright © 20022007 Charles F. Kerchner, Jr. (www.kerchner.com/dnainfo.html) Reprinted with permission

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may have been Constance, who later married “Deare and loving wife, Elizabeth” in his will of Daniel Doane. In 1645, Constance (Hopkins) December 11, 1675. Snow settled with her family in that part of East Moving along to the third generation, the ham which is now Orleans, near where her known children of Nicholas and Constance brother Giles had already settled in 1644. One (Hopkins) Snow produced 73 children: 32 sons can assume that the two families were close and and 41 daughters. The nine children of Giles and supported each other in this new undertaking in Catherine Hopkins produced 44 children: 26 sons an undeveloped area. and 18 daughters. One of Giles’ sons, Joshua, Stephen was the first settler to construct a born in Eastham in June 1657, married Mary wharf in the Plymouth harbor, which he sold in Cole in May 1681, and they had eight children 1637. With the proceeds he built a house in Yar over the next 21 years. One of those was Joshua, mouth to “winter his cattle,” according to the who was born on February 20, 1697. He too be Plymouth Colony Records. He was given per came an important chain in our branch of the mission to do so provided he not withdraw from Hopkins family. the town of Plymouth (Plymouth Colony Re The fourth generation of descendents of cords, Vol.1, p.93). Stephen duly returned to his Stephen Hopkins were especially prolific. Look house in Plymouth, where he remained until his ing at the offspring of Constance Snow alone, death in 1644. His son Giles had in the mean 324 children were born among 49 families, a time moved to Yarmouth in 1638, where he met huge jump above the 73 children born in the third Catherine Whelden, his bridetobe. Before generation. A key reason for this amazing Stephen died, he gave the Yarmouth house to growth was the size of these new families, which Giles. One wonders whether Stephen purposely typically ranged between eight and 12 children. set this up to provide Giles with independence Indeed, John Paine had 16 children (with two from himself. wives).The descendents of Giles Hopkins dem During their stay in Yarmouth over the next onstrated even greater productivity in the fourth four years, Giles and Catherine had three chil generation, with 348 children among the 46 fami dren, Mary, Stephen and John (who died at age lies, which included Hopkinses, Merricks, one three months). In 1644, as noted above, Giles Mayo, Rings, Cookes, and Mortons. Again most and his young family moved to the Tonset area of of these families had between eight and 12 chil what is now East Orleans. Catherine gave birth dren. to seven more children, including Joshua, who Thus, the fourth generation of Snow and Hop was born in June 1657. Joshua’s significance to kins descendents, consisting of 95 families, pro our branch of the Hopkins family will later be duced 672 children, six times the number of chil clarified. Giles died in 1690 and there is now a dren born in the third generation. large monument at his grave site in The Cove One reason for the large size of families in Burying Ground off Route Six in Eastham. those times, which played such a prominent role Deborah Hopkins, born in 1626, married An in this huge increase, was of course the lack of drew Ring in Plymouth on April 23, 1646. They birth control. Equally important, however, was settled in Plymouth and had six children, five the fact that in an economy based mainly on agri daughters and a son William. culture and fishing, the labor power of children Damaris Hopkins, born 1628, married Jacob was a necessity. Big families were still common Cooke in June 1646. From then until 1665, they on Cape Cod through the nineteenth century. My had seven children, three sons and four daugh grandfather, Josiah Hopkins, who was born on ters. Demraris died probably in 1668 and appar continued on page 11 ently Jacob remarried since he referred to his

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Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 2 My Truro Boyhood: Part I by L. Thomas Hopkins The following are excerpts from a January 1976 estate and insurance talk by Levi Thomas Hopkins, the great uncle of office. Mother ran our PHHS Governor Chester Irving Hopkins III. the hotel and Father The Governor’s direct male line is Stephen, attended to the mail. Giles, Caleb, Nathaniel, Isaac, Simon Will …On a Saturday Thayer, Ezra Rogers (Levi Thomas’s father), morning in May of Chester Irving, Chester Irving Jr. and PHHS 1902, when I was Governor Chester Irving Hopkins III. The talk twelve, I took an ex was given to an audience of one hundred press package from Friends of the Truro Library. In his introduc- the depot to Cat Is tion, L.T. Hopkins notes that the three factors land, down the Cas that greatly influenced his boyhood were the sea, tle Road, to the the land and the people. The following passages home of Capt. Mat focus on the sea: thias Rick, whose ship was the only n 1893, when I was four years old, the ship one on Georges Jason was wrecked off Truro Lifesaving L.T. & Hester Hopkins “I Banks to survive the Station. When she struck, the 16 year old cabin boy threw out life jackets to the men from a October gale of 1841 which decimated the Truro locker near the foremast. They proceeded aft to fishing fleet. I had heard about this, had seen the lash themselves to the mainmast. Before he monument to the lost men in Truro Cemetery, could adjust his own jacket, the ship pitched, and was eager to have his story. broke in the middle, and the forward part was When I entered the living room, Capt. Rich, thrust high up on the shore by the lofty wave. wrapped in his long robe, was seated in his big The cabin boy was thrown in the water but chair by the fireplace. This morning he smiled, grasped a bale of jute and rode it to shore where spoke about the beautiful spring day, and he was rescued by the lifesaving crew. He re seemed so affable that I dared ask him how he mained in Truro for a month to identify the bod ies of the thirty officers and crew. He was the survived the October gale when all other Truro only survivor. ships were lost. He asked me to draw up a stool He loved to sing hymns and pump our old and then explained. On Saturday, October 2, he organ, so he came frequently to our house after watched the storm making and knew that it noons to sing with my three older sisters. At would be severe since all sings were different these times he took me on his knee, told me the from any he had previously observed. At sunset sea was everywhere in the world, that usually it he called in his boats, stowed the hear and mack was helpful but sometimes there were storms. erel away and headed for Highland Light, about People were everywhere over the world. They 120 miles distant, passing other boats not yet were all different – food, clothing, customs—but underway. At daylight next morning he put on they were all friendly and always willing to help full sail toward Provincetown and at noon, with anyone. So he gave me a friendly attitude toward the storm at its height, was able to keep the boat the sea and the people who lived around it eve off Peaked Hill Bars, to round Race Point, and at rywhere. He certainly extended my vision be 6:30 pm, just at dark, to anchor in Provincetown yond the limits of Truro and Cape Cod. Harbor. When he had finished, the kindly eyes In 1895 Father took a contract to carry the looked at me through the heavy eyebrows above mail from the railroad station to and from the a long white beard, and he said, “Young man, Truro Post office – four round trips a day. So he always remember that foresight is better than purchased the old Wilder Hotel, now the Oliver continued on page 12 House in Truro center, opposite Pat Duarte’s real

PPPAGE 999 AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS Hopkins Chest From page 3 himself? Could it possibly have sailed with him to America twice, surviving the first trip to Jamestown in 1609 and the shipwreck on Barba dos? Perhaps Stephen’s inlaws brought it. Giles’ wife Catherine and her father Gabriel Wheldon could have hauled it from England through Ply mouth to Yarmouth, where they, Giles and Mary Ames Mitchell is a writer and de- Stephen built the first houses. signer in San Rafael, California, and cur- Constance’s husband Nicholas Snow could rently Governor of the Redwood Empire Col- have carried it with him on the Anne when he ony of the Mayflower Society. More informa- sailed to Plymouth in 1623. Perhaps our ancestor tion regarding her genealogical interests and William Brewster brought it on the Mayflower , the book she wrote on her father and the though his chest in Pilgrim Hall looks very dif Ames/Eames family are available on her ferent—more Dutch. Maybe his daughter Pa website: www.MaryAmesMitchell.com . tience brought the chest with her when she sailed on the Anne with her sister Fear. Or perhaps Pa grandfather Charles Harris was their child. Their tience’s husband, Thomas Prence of Glouchester, son Prince IV died at age four. shipped it with him on the Fortune in 1621. News of gold in California reached North Ancestor Edmund Freeman could have had Vasselboro when Charles was twelve. He made it the chest made in Sussex before bringing it on to San Francisco a few years later. But the chest the Abigail . After landing in Boston Harbor, Ed probably didn’t travel with him quite yet. mund would have hauled it first to Saugus, then Charles landed a lucrative job in San Fran Plymouth, then Duxbury and finally to Sand cisco’s new mint and put enough change in his wich, which he helped settle in 1637. pocket to finance a return trip in 1865 to Maine It could have belonged to Stephen Tracy, part to marry his childhood sweetheart, Lizzie A. of the group who emigrated through Holland. Or Cullis. Maybe Charles brought the chest to Cali Samuel Mayo could have brought the chest from fornia when he returned with Lizzie. But the Essex, in which case it landed on Long Island poor girl died soon after in childbirth. before moving to Eastham where many of our Charles then married Ruth Merritt Mathews, ancestors resided. Edward Hawes, part of Free one of the twentyseven children of Isaac Merritt man’s group in Sandwich, is another possibility. Singer who died in 1876. Charles received It’s more certain that by 1700 the chest re Ruth’s inheritance when she also died during sided in Harwich, either in the home of Joseph childbirth in 1878, and became the major holder Hopkins (Stephen’s great grandson through of Singer Manufacturing Company stock. Giles) or Nathanial Snow (Stephen’s great great Charles’s third wife was the daughter of an grandson through Constance). These families Englishman Charles had known at the mint. united when Joseph’s son, Prence Hopkins, mar Charles was fortysix when he married eighteen ried Nathanial’s daughter, Prence’s third/fourth yearold Mary Isabelle Booth, known as May. cousin, Patience Snow, in 1753. In 1885, May successfully gave birth to Their son Prince Jr was born in Harwich in Charles’ only child in Oakland, California, my 1768 and would have moved the chest off the grandfather Prince Charles Hopkins. By 1900 the Cape in 1804 to New Sharon, Maine. Their son family had built and moved to a large home in Prince III would have taken it with him to North Santa Barbara, which Charles claimed as his resi Vassalboro, Maine, where he and his wife Olive Hawes owned the P. Hopkins Hotel. My great continued on page 12

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Page # VVVOLUME 1, I SSUE 2 Achievement From page 8 October 14, 1848, lived on Tonset Road in East From this third Joshua, the Hopkins descen Orleans. By three wives, Josiah had 10 children, dents in our chain were as follows: Curtis Hop including my father, Reuben Hopkins, born on kins, born October 26, 1772; Josiah Hopkins, April 4, 1895. born October 20, 1803; Josiah C. Hopkins, born It is noted that the figures I used above were October 14, 1848; Reuben S. B. Hopkins, born derived from "Mayflower Families Through April l5, 1895; and myself, born April 25, 1932. Five Generations, Volume Six, Third Edition, I have eight children, including two sons, Chris Stephen Hopkins", published by The General topher and Joshua, and they have fourteen chil Society of Mayflower Descendents in 2001, au thored by John D. Austin. dren, including four boys. And so “the beat If we extrapolate the number of descendents goes on”. who potentially exist today by applying a factor Everyone in our Hopkins line, going back to Giles Hopkins, has lived continuously in the of three, rather than the sixfold figure of the Tonset area of Orleans. From time to time, fourth generation, and used the three factor fig maps of different areas of the Town were pre ure over the seven generations which developed pared which showed the locations and owners of after the fourth generation, up to the present, we houses on the roads of the particular area de would have a total in excess of 1.4 million de picted. We have one such map, circa 1885, scendents. And mind you, this does not include which covers the Tonset area. On this map, the descendents of Deborah and Demaris Hop some 15 houses are indicated as being Hopkins kins. owned. Joshua Hopkins, mentioned above, did little Our Hopkins line is unique in that they have to contribute to the huge surge in the fourth gen all lived in this one small area of Cape Cod. In eration. He had only three children, two daugh the big scheme of things, however, our line is ters and a son, Joshua, born in 1725. But that small and insignificant, compared to the number one son was vital in the development of our pre of Stephen Hopkins descendents now living sent family. This Joshua married Rebecca Spar across our nation perhaps close to two million row in May 1747 and they more than made up persons. Yes, the original Stephen Hopkins ac for his father’s shortfall by having 10 children, complished a great deal during his life. But lit including the third Joshua, born on September tle did he dream that he would, over the years, 19, 1753. through one generation to the next, have such vast numbers of progeny. Stephen A. Hopkins was born on April 25 Boston. Mr. Hopkins retired in 1998 and now 1932 in the home of a midwife, Nettie Knowles, spends the winter months with his wife, Sylvia, located next to the Old Cove Burial Ground in at their home in Anguilla and the summer Eastham, Massachusetts. His mother was Lucy months at their house off Hopkins Lane in the Knowles Hopkins. Ironically, the birthing room Tonset area, located on land that originally had where he was born looked out upon the grave been in the Hopkins family for several centuries. marker of Giles Hopkins, Mr. Hopkins’ distant In his retirement, Mr. Hopkins has written ancestor. stories about growing up in Orleans and vari- Mr. Hopkins grew up in the Tonset area of ous events in his life thereafter. These interest- East Orleans, and after graduating from the ing stories have been published in two books, University of Massachusetts in Amherst, he the first “Three Dollars Just Same” and the sec- spent two years in the Army stationed in Stutt- ond “Memoirs of a Cape Codder”. The first is gart, Germany. He graduated from Boston College Law sold in local book stores and the second can be School in 1961, and after a year as a law clerk, obtained through Authorhouse.com and Ama- he spent the next 36 years as a trial attorney in zon.com

PPPAGE 111111 AAATLANTIC C ROSSINGS Hopkins Chest Mayflower movies From page 10 In her spare time, writer/designer/Mayflower dence when he became the twentyfourth member Governor Mary Ames Mitchell has produced five short animated films targeted at her of the California Mayflower Society, established in younger generation relatives who prefer to be 1908. The chest remained in Santa Barbara through “spoon fed” their family history. The series, Charles’ death in 1913 and May’s in 1955. And “Ancestors Coming to America, 16091623,” that leads us back to the beginning of this story. ▄ focuses on her own Brewster, Hopkins, War ren, Cooke, Prence, Snow, Annable and Tracy Permission granted to the Hopkins Family lines. They also provide solid historical con Association to publish this story and the at- text of a general nature, however, written sim tached photos in its newsletter. For use else- ply but not “dumbed down.” The animation is where, please contact the author. full of whimsical touches. Adults as well as children may want to give these charming “flash films” a try. To date, Mary has pro Truro duced: “Introduction: The Puritans and the From page 9 Separatists” (10 min.); “Crossing the Atlan hindsight.” I had heard this bit of philosophy tic” (19 min); “The First Winter” (12.5 min.); “The Arrival of the Fortune, the Anne and the before, but it never had the meaning of today… James,” and “Nineteen Weddings” (12 min.). The sea was always a friend around us. They can be viewed by visiting Mary’s web Sometimes it was quiet, peaceful, beautiful. At site www.maryamesmitchell.com and click other times it was like an enraged, roaring mon ing on “Genealogy Trivia.” Future films will ster. But whatever its moods, the people of Cape cover the settling of the Massachusetts Bay Cod could not live without it, for the fish it fur Colony and some smaller side stories, such as nished kept them alive. The oil which Father the voyage of the Angel Gabriel. tried out from the cod livers and which Mother fed us each school day morning from four years Spread the word! of age until I graduated from high school is one As we enter our third year, we’ll be making of the reasons…I am here this afternoon…” ▄ special efforts to promote PHHS membership. We encourage you to let your relatives know Forthcoming issues of this newsletter will that the PHHS provides an excellent means of include L.T. Hopkins’ reflections on the discovering roots and sharing family history. It can also be a unique window into the social land and the people history of our country. The more members we have, the greater will be our pool of informa Hot off the press tion about the Hopkins family heritage. We’ll Hopkins cousins interested in the migration pat also have a larger pool of talents to draw on as terns of Stephen Hopkins’ descendants might we embark on our various new projects. So want to check out the newly released Kennebec: please spread the word! Stories from three families of the river – Weston, Bixby & Hopkins by Dr. Bill Hopkins. This Newsletter submissions book focuses on some families that moved into Please send contributions to the next issue of the Maine in the late 18th century, including the au newsletter to [email protected] by thor’s ancestor Dr. Theophilus Hopkins, who 15 April 2008. Submissions can range from moved from Orleans, MA in 1791. From Maine, short letters to the editors, brief articles (500 these descendants of Stephen Hopkins moved to 600 words) on the life and times of the Pilgrim Wisconsin and Washington State. To read the Hopkins family, lineage information, ques first 15 pages of this book, to purchase it, or to tions and research findings, to Pilgrim Hop find out more about the author, go to: kins Family Increasings (births) and Decreas http://www.blurb.com/user/doch609 ings (deaths), and unusual factual tidbits about Hopkins and his descendants.

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