_William HOPKINS ____+
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_Nicholas HOPKINS ___|
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|--Stephen HOPKINS
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|_Mary POOLE _________|
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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 the 150
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.
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.
Stephen Hopkins
Birth: ABT 1580 England Death: ABT JUL 1644 Plymouth,Massachusetts
Notes: Of the Mayflower. !Death: Between 6 June and 17 July 1644. His
parentage has not been proved, but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins
of Wortley, Parish of Wotton, Underedge, Co. Gloucester, England, perhaps
baptised there 29 Oct 1581.
His first wife's identity is unknown.
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= From "Mayflower Families in Progress: Vol. VI, Stephen Hopkins" pages
3-6: Stephen Hopkins sailed in the Mayflower in 1620, one of the
"Londoners" or "strangers" recruited for the voyage. He was called
"Master", and only two others of the 17 free men on the voyage were so
styled [another was Richard Warren]. He seems to have originated from the
family of Hopkins, alias Seborne, located for several generations at
Wortley, Wotton Underedge, co. Glouchester. The Wortley historian has
conjectured, after a thorough study of the family, that Stephen of the
Mayflower may well have been son of Stephen Hopkins, a clothier of
Wortley who also had son Robert Hopkins of London. Stephen Hopkins
was probably the young man of that name who served as minister's clerk on
the vessel "Sea Venture" which sailed from London 2 June 1609, bound for
Virginia. The ship was severely damaged in a hurricane, and the company
was washed ashore on the Bermudan "Ile of Divels" on 28 July. The 150
survivors were marooned on the island for nine months, building two
vessels which ultimatelytook 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 existence in Bermuda. For his remarks he was
placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and sentenced
to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made so much
moane, alleadging the ruine of his Wife and Children in this 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 "Deliverance" arrived at
Jamestown on 24 May 1610, but no evidence has been found of Hopkins'
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 wrest leadership from others. The home in England of Stephen
Hopkins was just outside of London Wall on the high road entering the
city at Aldgate in the vicinity of Heneage House. In this neighborhood
lived John Carver and William Bradford of the Mayflower Company; Robert
Cushman, the London agent for the Pilgrims; and Edward Southworth, who
later came to New England. Stephen was called a tanner or
leathermaker at the time of the Mayflower voyage. The name of
Stephen's first wife remains unknown. No authority has been found for the
oft published identification of her as Constance Dudley. His second wife
was named Elizabeth, and it seems certain that the marriage of Stephen
Hopkins and Elizabeth Fisher on 19 Feb 1617/18 at St. Mary Matfellon,
Whitechapel, London pertains to them. Stephen, wife Elizabeth and
children Giles and Constance by first wife and daughter Damaris by second
wife, and two men servants, Edward Doty and Edward Lister, came on the
Mayflower. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. Upon the ship's
arrival at Cape Cod 11 Nov 1620, Stephen was among the men signing the
Mayflower Compact in the cabin. 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
_Monroe Cobb HOWELL _____+
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_Monroe HOWELL ______|
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| |_Henrietta Clay STEVENS _+
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|-- HOWELL
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| _John BLAUVELT __________
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|_Lizzie BLAUVELT ____|
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|_Maria __________________
_Henry H. HOWELL ____________________+
| (1775 - 1865) m 1803
_John Henry HOWELL __________|
| (1808 - 1869) m 1827 |
| |_Mary Catherine (Polly Mary) MILLER _
| (1792 - 1853) m 1803
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|--Adeline HOWELL
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| _Abraham RATCLIFF ___________________+
| | (1770 - 1836)
|_Elizabeth "Betsy" RATCLIFF _|
(1809 - 1883) m 1827 |
|_Mary Ann "Polly" JAYNES ____________
(1774 - ....)
_Samuel HOWELL ______+
| (1754 - 1837) m 1782
_William HOWELL _____|
| (1786 - 1842) |
| |_Sarah CORNELL ______
| (1765 - 1823) m 1782
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|--Samuel HOWELL
| (1812 - ....)
| _____________________
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|_Abigail HOWELL _____|
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|_____________________
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_Thomas PHILBRICK ___|
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|--Thomas II PHILBRICK
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| _William KNOPP ______
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|_Elizabeth KNOPP ____|
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|_____________________
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