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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 ...
Discover life events, stories and photos about Bethiah Hopkins (1713–1781) of Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island, British Colonial America.
- Female
- Jabez Hopkins
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 ...
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
- Male
- Jane Strong
John Kelsey, the second son and fifth child of Stephen Kelsey and Hannah Ingersoll was born January 20, 1679 at Hartford. He lived at Wethersfield and at Berlin where he died January 3, 1767. He married November 23, 1704, at Wethersfield, Mary Buck, the daughter of Ezekiel Buck and Rachel Andrews Buck. Mary was born in Wethersfield in March 1682.
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.
Jane Strong. 1610–1679 • Female. Marriage. February 1626 Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States. Children (2) Bethia Hopkins. 1631–1692 • Female. Stephen Hopkins. 1635–1689 • Male.
