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Over zealous people (I hesitate to use the word genealogist for something so sloppy) have linked Bethia to Stephen Hopkins in order to provide a Mayflower passenger for their family trees, but any cursory study of Stephen Hopkins’s life reveals he had no such daughter.
Stephen Hopkins was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, signed at Provincetown, 11 November 1620. In the 1623 land division, he received six acres. The cattle division of 1627 lists he and his wife Elizabeth, with children Gyles, Caleb, Deborah, and daughter Constance and her husband Nicholas Snow. Stephen’s experiences in Jamestown made him ...
Over zealous people (I hesitate to use the word genealogist for something so sloppy) have linked Bethia to Stephen Hopkins in order to provide a Mayflower passenger for their family trees, but any cursory study of Stephen Hopkins’s life reveals he had no such daughter.
William Kelsey and Bethia Hopkins married back in England. Bethia Hopkins was not the daughter of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. There were two Bethia Hopkins in Hartford at about the same time. The older of the two was the one who married William Kelsey and settled in Hartford. I am not aware of anyone who has found the parents of the ...
Discover life events, stories and photos about Bethiah Hopkins (1713–1781) of Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
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- Jabez Hopkins
IV. Oceanus Hopkins, (son of Stephen 1 Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher) b. in On The "MAYFLOWER".
New England Historic Genealocial Society ("Great Migration Begins"), and Connecticut and Massachusetts Kelsey & Hopkins scholars/researchers agree that Wm Kelsey's wife is never named (and the Mayflower Society agrees she isn't the dau of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower (who didn't marry the mythical Constance Dudley who was disproved in 1998)).
