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Speaker of the Rhode Island Assembly, (circa 1750-2); Delegate to the Albany Convention, 1754; Member of the Continental Congress, 1774-78; Member of Rhode Island Legislature. Died: July 13, 1785. Stephen Hopkins was born in Scituate (then a part of Providence), Rhode Island, on the seventh of March, 1707. He was apparently self-educated.
Jul 4, 2004 · Rhode Island. Stephen Hopkins. This signer, the second oldest next to Benjamin Franklin, is noted for his tremulous signature. Aged 69 and afflicted with palsy, according to tradition he declared, "My hand trembles, but my heart does not!" Before, during, and after a comparatively brief stretch of congressional service, he occupied Rhode Island ...
In a clear statement on the morality of slavery, Rhode Island’s Stephen Hopkins manumits his slave, Saint Jago Hopkins, because slavery is a violation of God’s will. Rhode Island would not abolish slavery through gradual emancipation until 1784. STEPHEN HOPKINS.
Jan 8, 2024 · January 8, 2024 5:00 am. Martin Howard, left, and Stephen Hopkins came to opposing conclusions about their colonial British identities. (Howard: John Singleton Copley via Wikimedia Commons; Hopkins: New York Public Library, CC BY-SA) Through the early 1750s, two men in the British colony of Rhode Island – Martin Howard and Stephen Hopkins ...
Dec 6, 2019 · Upon his return to Rhode Island, Hopkins remained an active member of the Rhode Island General Assembly before retiring in 1779. Hopkins died a few years later in 1785 at the age of 78. Stephen Hopkins in Philadelphia. Hopkins arrived in Philadelphia as a Delegate to the First Continental Congress which met at Carpenters' Hall in September 1774 ...
Stephen Hopkins (1707–1785) was an American political leader from Rhode Island who signed the Declaration of Independence. He served as the Chief Justice and Governor of colonial Rhode Island and was a Delegate to both the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754 and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.
Stephen Hopkins. Stephen Hopkins (March 7, 1707 – July 13, 1785) was a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, a Chief Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and a signer of the Declaration of Independence. From a prominent Rhode Island family, Hopkins was a grandson of William Hopkins who served the colony for ...
