Private in American Revolution - Source: Sons of the American Revolution Application #60688, State # 3148. Ancestor's Service: Referenced; "John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and some of his Descendants." Published 1932 by Timothy Hopkins, Page 128
Stephen Hopkins "He removed from Nine Partners, Duchess County, New York, to Bennington, Vermont in 1766 where his name appears among the subscribers for the support of the minister in 1784. His mother in 1788 sates that Stephen "has been a cripple and not able to work for above twenty years," which explains why he did not enter the army as did all of his brothers. Evidently his disability did not prevent occasional service in the Militia as the Sons of the American Revolution have accepted him as a qualified ancestor as a private in it. The Vermont Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolution credits him as a private in Captain Joseph Safford's Company, Col. Ebenezer Wallbridge's Regiment, on an alarm 2 to 8 August 1781. By order of Council, 14 June 1781, he was told to watch with armed men " a path on the East Mountain that leeds to Woodford for anyone passing to the Eastward, but to take special care not to discover themselves to anyone passing to the Westward. " "He signed a statement 15 June 1781 that he had carried out his orders."
He died age 69 yrs 1 mo 6 d
Son of Stephen Hopkins 1706CT-1767NY & Jemima Bronson.
Grandson of Ebenezer Hopkins 1668-1711 & Mary Butler.
This is a John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 line.
Husband of Rhoda Dewey.
Private in American Revolution - Source: Sons of the American Revolution Application #60688, State # 3148. Ancestor's Service: Referenced; "John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and some of his Descendants." Published 1932 by Timothy Hopkins, Page 128
Stephen Hopkins "He removed from Nine Partners, Duchess County, New York, to Bennington, Vermont in 1766 where his name appears among the subscribers for the support of the minister in 1784. His mother in 1788 sates that Stephen "has been a cripple and not able to work for above twenty years," which explains why he did not enter the army as did all of his brothers. Evidently his disability did not prevent occasional service in the Militia as the Sons of the American Revolution have accepted him as a qualified ancestor as a private in it. The Vermont Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolution credits him as a private in Captain Joseph Safford's Company, Col. Ebenezer Wallbridge's Regiment, on an alarm 2 to 8 August 1781. By order of Council, 14 June 1781, he was told to watch with armed men " a path on the East Mountain that leeds to Woodford for anyone passing to the Eastward, but to take special care not to discover themselves to anyone passing to the Westward. " "He signed a statement 15 June 1781 that he had carried out his orders."
He died age 69 yrs 1 mo 6 d
Son of Stephen Hopkins 1706CT-1767NY & Jemima Bronson.
Grandson of Ebenezer Hopkins 1668-1711 & Mary Butler.
This is a John Hopkins of Cambridge, MA 1634 line.
Husband of Rhoda Dewey.
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