ALDEN, ALONZO
Brig. Gen. Alonzo Alden, b. Essex Co, NY 1834, was a Hopkins and Brewster on his mother's side. See his Alden writeup for what little I know about his Alden line. Here is his Gen. 9 Hopkins lineage: Hannah (Snow) Alden, Jonathan Snow, Mark, Jonathan, Nicholas, Mark, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins and wife Mary, all 3 of the Mayflower. Some info from Caroline Halstead Royce, Bessboro: A History of Westport, Essex Co., NY (1902) and Nathaniel Bartlett Sylvester, History of Rensselaer Co., New York, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of its Prominent Men and Pioneers (Philadelphia: Everts & Peck, 1880), digitized by the New York Public Libraries, pp. 106-109. Image on the left from fold3.com's New York State Military Museum Photos Civil War - Vietnam War database and that on the right from History of Rensselaer Co. |
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ATWOOD, MARY - 5 Generations of Hopkins
Mary (Atwood) Homer was the daughter of Mary Knowles & Joshua Atwood of Barrington, NS. Their marriage is in the Hopkins silver book and the book from which this image was taken includes detailed family genealogies and the NEHGS site has vital records of this family from both Cape Cod and Nova Scotia. From left to right, the image shows Gens. 8, 7, 9,10, & 11 Hopkins descendants: Abigail (Homer) Doane, her mother Mary (Atwood) Homer, Mary's granddaughter Louisa (Doane) Crowell, Louisa (Crowell) Richan, and lap child Abigail Richan. The line from Gen 7 Mary to the Mayflower runs through her mother: Mary (Knowles) Atwood, Phebe (Paine) Knowles, Thomas Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins, both of whom came to MA the Mayflower in 1620. The Doane & Richan trio were Brewster descendants, so see that section for more on the two Louisas and Abigail Richan. Image & info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 428, 433, 435, 473, 474 digitized by the University of Toronto.
Mary (Atwood) Homer was the daughter of Mary Knowles & Joshua Atwood of Barrington, NS. Their marriage is in the Hopkins silver book and the book from which this image was taken includes detailed family genealogies and the NEHGS site has vital records of this family from both Cape Cod and Nova Scotia. From left to right, the image shows Gens. 8, 7, 9,10, & 11 Hopkins descendants: Abigail (Homer) Doane, her mother Mary (Atwood) Homer, Mary's granddaughter Louisa (Doane) Crowell, Louisa (Crowell) Richan, and lap child Abigail Richan. The line from Gen 7 Mary to the Mayflower runs through her mother: Mary (Knowles) Atwood, Phebe (Paine) Knowles, Thomas Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins, both of whom came to MA the Mayflower in 1620. The Doane & Richan trio were Brewster descendants, so see that section for more on the two Louisas and Abigail Richan. Image & info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne County, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 428, 433, 435, 473, 474 digitized by the University of Toronto.
BANGS, RUHAMA
Definitely a Hopkins descendant, she might have a double Hopkins line and be a Howland-Tilley descendant as well. Remind me to see if that has been resolved when the long-promised next edition of the Hopkins silver book is out. Ruhama's grandmother Reliance was born sometime after her last sibling's 1732 birth and married Jedediah Cobb who had been born in Falmouth, ME in 1742. The trick will be tracing his line to the correct Cobbs in SE MA if you want to find another pilgrim ancestor. Clues to Ruhamah's Mayflower linkage came from the DAR GRS database, using the "descendants" feature to find an ancestor born in the early-mid 1700s and therefore possibly in a silver book. Ruhama's Gen 8 line runs: Mary "Polly" (Cobb) Bangs, Reliance (Paine) Cobb, Elkanah Paine, Thomas, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen Hopkins. Both were Mayflower passengers so you may join the Mayflower Society on either one. Ruhama married Daniel Bean, who served in the War of 1812, making descendants eligible for membership in U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812 (for men). They had 11 children, most of whom survived to adulthood and married but you may have to look for descendants in Aurora, IL, "the Pacific Coast," and Buenos Aires. Four sons served in the Civil War and the National Archives should have pension files & service records for them with lots of genealogical detail. Noting Ruhama's thick dark hair in this picture, made when she was at least fifty, remember that people did wear wigs then. The full picture shows her husband General Daniel Bean and they look every inch the prosperous merchant and wife. Image from G. T. Ridlon, Sr., Saco Valley [Maine] Settlements and Families. Historical, Biographical, Genealogical, Traditional, and Legendary (Portland: 1895), 460, digitized by Cornell University. Watch out for the "legendary."
Definitely a Hopkins descendant, she might have a double Hopkins line and be a Howland-Tilley descendant as well. Remind me to see if that has been resolved when the long-promised next edition of the Hopkins silver book is out. Ruhama's grandmother Reliance was born sometime after her last sibling's 1732 birth and married Jedediah Cobb who had been born in Falmouth, ME in 1742. The trick will be tracing his line to the correct Cobbs in SE MA if you want to find another pilgrim ancestor. Clues to Ruhamah's Mayflower linkage came from the DAR GRS database, using the "descendants" feature to find an ancestor born in the early-mid 1700s and therefore possibly in a silver book. Ruhama's Gen 8 line runs: Mary "Polly" (Cobb) Bangs, Reliance (Paine) Cobb, Elkanah Paine, Thomas, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen Hopkins. Both were Mayflower passengers so you may join the Mayflower Society on either one. Ruhama married Daniel Bean, who served in the War of 1812, making descendants eligible for membership in U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812 (for men). They had 11 children, most of whom survived to adulthood and married but you may have to look for descendants in Aurora, IL, "the Pacific Coast," and Buenos Aires. Four sons served in the Civil War and the National Archives should have pension files & service records for them with lots of genealogical detail. Noting Ruhama's thick dark hair in this picture, made when she was at least fifty, remember that people did wear wigs then. The full picture shows her husband General Daniel Bean and they look every inch the prosperous merchant and wife. Image from G. T. Ridlon, Sr., Saco Valley [Maine] Settlements and Families. Historical, Biographical, Genealogical, Traditional, and Legendary (Portland: 1895), 460, digitized by Cornell University. Watch out for the "legendary."
BISBEE, REBECCA DELANO
Ironically, she was not even a Delano, but was named for her father's first wife. This Rebecca, b. Kingston, MA 1817, later became the wife of Joseph Brown Hamlen, a lobster cannery owner, thus her inclusion in the book with this picture. Rebecca was a Gen 8 & 9 Hopkins on both maternal and paternal lines. Her mother's Gen 9 lineage runs as follows: Sally (Sampson) Bisbee, Sarah (Washburn) Sampson, Ebenezer Washburn Jr., Lydia (Faunce) Washburn, Lydia (Cooke) Faunce, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Her father's Gen 8 lineage runs: Zebulon Bisbee, Grace (Ripley) Bisbee, Lydia (Ring) Ripley, Samuel Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. The Hopkins silver book does not cover the maternal line beyond the marriage of Jacob Cooke & Damaris Hopkins, but the Cooke silver book gets as far on Rebecca's maternal line as Ebenezer Washburn Jr. marrying Sarah Waterman. The Hopkins book does reach to the marriage of her grandparents, George Bisbee and Grace Ripley and the John Howland silver book vol. 23 extends to the birth of her father, Zebulon Bisbee. See Rebecca's Alden-Mullins, Billington, Standish, Allerton, Brewster, Cooke, Howland-Tilley, and Soule writeups for those lineages and her Priest writeup for more detail overall. Image and info from H. Franklin Andrews, A Genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable, Massachusetts, Eldest Son of James Hamlin, the Immigrant, Who Came from London, England and Settled in Barnstable 1639, 1639-1902 (Extra, IA: author, 1902), p. 582, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Ironically, she was not even a Delano, but was named for her father's first wife. This Rebecca, b. Kingston, MA 1817, later became the wife of Joseph Brown Hamlen, a lobster cannery owner, thus her inclusion in the book with this picture. Rebecca was a Gen 8 & 9 Hopkins on both maternal and paternal lines. Her mother's Gen 9 lineage runs as follows: Sally (Sampson) Bisbee, Sarah (Washburn) Sampson, Ebenezer Washburn Jr., Lydia (Faunce) Washburn, Lydia (Cooke) Faunce, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Her father's Gen 8 lineage runs: Zebulon Bisbee, Grace (Ripley) Bisbee, Lydia (Ring) Ripley, Samuel Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. The Hopkins silver book does not cover the maternal line beyond the marriage of Jacob Cooke & Damaris Hopkins, but the Cooke silver book gets as far on Rebecca's maternal line as Ebenezer Washburn Jr. marrying Sarah Waterman. The Hopkins book does reach to the marriage of her grandparents, George Bisbee and Grace Ripley and the John Howland silver book vol. 23 extends to the birth of her father, Zebulon Bisbee. See Rebecca's Alden-Mullins, Billington, Standish, Allerton, Brewster, Cooke, Howland-Tilley, and Soule writeups for those lineages and her Priest writeup for more detail overall. Image and info from H. Franklin Andrews, A Genealogy of James Hamlin of Barnstable, Massachusetts, Eldest Son of James Hamlin, the Immigrant, Who Came from London, England and Settled in Barnstable 1639, 1639-1902 (Extra, IA: author, 1902), p. 582, digitized by the Library of Congress.
BRALEY, HENRY CLAY
The Hopkins silver book gets as far as the marriage of Asa Braley to Ruth Morton, who was a Gen 6 descendant. On the same page there is an Amos Braley marrying sister Lucie. Asa & Amos were Freetown, MA brothers, 4 years apart. This image is clipped from a larger one showing Henry C. Braley (b. 1845 Freetown) wearing a uniform with a round metal badge bearing the number "4." He posed for it after serving 30+ years on the police force, I think in Fall River, MA. To link Henry to Asa & Ruth, you will need his and his parents' vital records. Henry's birth and his parents' marriage can be found in Helen Gurney Thomas's Vital Records of the Town of Freetown Massachusetts 1686 through 1890 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books 2010). Asa's birth, marriage, and death are there as well. Try the NEHGS for Curtis and wife and more on Ruth Morton. Based on the book with this photo, Henry's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Curtis Jackson Braley, Ruth (Morton) Braley, Nathaniel Morton, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His maternal line is worth checking for an Alden-Mullins link via the Keiths. A quick online search turned up no birth record for mother Salome (Keith) Braley but the Braley book says her parents were Marshall Keith and Hepsibah Leach of Plymouth County. Their marriage was recorded but that's all a quick search turned up. You might have to request Henry's Civil War pension file from the National Archives, always a treasure chest of "good stuff." Image & info from George L. Randall, The Braley Genealogy: The Descendants of Roger Braley 1696-1913 (New Bedford: Mercury, 1913), pp. 20, 54, 112-3, digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
The Hopkins silver book gets as far as the marriage of Asa Braley to Ruth Morton, who was a Gen 6 descendant. On the same page there is an Amos Braley marrying sister Lucie. Asa & Amos were Freetown, MA brothers, 4 years apart. This image is clipped from a larger one showing Henry C. Braley (b. 1845 Freetown) wearing a uniform with a round metal badge bearing the number "4." He posed for it after serving 30+ years on the police force, I think in Fall River, MA. To link Henry to Asa & Ruth, you will need his and his parents' vital records. Henry's birth and his parents' marriage can be found in Helen Gurney Thomas's Vital Records of the Town of Freetown Massachusetts 1686 through 1890 (Westminster, MD: Heritage Books 2010). Asa's birth, marriage, and death are there as well. Try the NEHGS for Curtis and wife and more on Ruth Morton. Based on the book with this photo, Henry's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Curtis Jackson Braley, Ruth (Morton) Braley, Nathaniel Morton, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His maternal line is worth checking for an Alden-Mullins link via the Keiths. A quick online search turned up no birth record for mother Salome (Keith) Braley but the Braley book says her parents were Marshall Keith and Hepsibah Leach of Plymouth County. Their marriage was recorded but that's all a quick search turned up. You might have to request Henry's Civil War pension file from the National Archives, always a treasure chest of "good stuff." Image & info from George L. Randall, The Braley Genealogy: The Descendants of Roger Braley 1696-1913 (New Bedford: Mercury, 1913), pp. 20, 54, 112-3, digitized by the New York Public Libraries.
BREITLING, JOSEPH CUSHMAN
Grandson of a German immigrant to Mobile, AL and son of a Confederate soldier, Joseph had a middle name and MA upbringing that made him relatively easy to trace. The book with this image names his maternal grandparents & great grandparents, then with a little help from the DAR database I found the birth of his great-great grandfather in the Allerton silver book. That revealed the Alden-Mullins, Standish, Cooke, & Hopkins links. The Hopkins book revealed a triple line and a hitherto unsuspected Howland-Tilley link. Joseph's 1st Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Isaiah, Sarah (Ring) Cushman, Andrew Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His Gen. 10 line runs: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Isaiah, Isaiah, Josiah, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins. His 2nd Gen 9 line is: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Sarah (Ripley) Cushman, Lydia (Ring) Ripley, Samuel Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. If you want more photos and more info, Joseph (b. 1874) and grandfather Thaddeus were both M.D.s so will have left a paper trail in ME and VT. The Thompson lead is worth pursuing for more Cooke ancestry in particular. Image & info from William H. Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties (East Burke, VT: Historical Publishing, 1904), pp. 99-101, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
Grandson of a German immigrant to Mobile, AL and son of a Confederate soldier, Joseph had a middle name and MA upbringing that made him relatively easy to trace. The book with this image names his maternal grandparents & great grandparents, then with a little help from the DAR database I found the birth of his great-great grandfather in the Allerton silver book. That revealed the Alden-Mullins, Standish, Cooke, & Hopkins links. The Hopkins book revealed a triple line and a hitherto unsuspected Howland-Tilley link. Joseph's 1st Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Isaiah, Sarah (Ring) Cushman, Andrew Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His Gen. 10 line runs: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Isaiah, Isaiah, Josiah, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins. His 2nd Gen 9 line is: Katherine Elizabeth (Cushman) Breitling, Thaddeus Thompson Cushman, Levi, Sarah (Ripley) Cushman, Lydia (Ring) Ripley, Samuel Ring, Eleazer, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. If you want more photos and more info, Joseph (b. 1874) and grandfather Thaddeus were both M.D.s so will have left a paper trail in ME and VT. The Thompson lead is worth pursuing for more Cooke ancestry in particular. Image & info from William H. Jeffrey, Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties (East Burke, VT: Historical Publishing, 1904), pp. 99-101, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
BRIDGMAN, ADDISON DANIEL
Brother of Laura Dewey Bridgman, below, Dr. Addison Bridgman (b 1832 NH) was likewise a 5-time Mayflower descendant and a Gen 9 Allerton. He was unusual for his time, though, in that he moved to GA in 1856 and then to IL in the late 1860s. In between was the Civil War and he served as a surgeon (I believe) in the 25th GA Vols. He did marry but the book with this photo, written while he was alive, did not mention children. See Laura's writeup for lineage details. Image and some info from Burt Nichols Bridgman & Joseph Clark Bridgman, Genealogy of the Bridgman Family, Descendants of James Bridgman 1636-1894 (Hyde Park, MA: Clark Bryan Printers, 1894), p. 63, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Brother of Laura Dewey Bridgman, below, Dr. Addison Bridgman (b 1832 NH) was likewise a 5-time Mayflower descendant and a Gen 9 Allerton. He was unusual for his time, though, in that he moved to GA in 1856 and then to IL in the late 1860s. In between was the Civil War and he served as a surgeon (I believe) in the 25th GA Vols. He did marry but the book with this photo, written while he was alive, did not mention children. See Laura's writeup for lineage details. Image and some info from Burt Nichols Bridgman & Joseph Clark Bridgman, Genealogy of the Bridgman Family, Descendants of James Bridgman 1636-1894 (Hyde Park, MA: Clark Bryan Printers, 1894), p. 63, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
BRIDGMAN, LAURA DEWEY
Laura's family descended from 5 Mayflower passengers all via her maternal grandfather's mother, Asenath (Cushman) Downer. See her Allerton writeup for more on her interesting life. Laura's Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Harmony (Downer) Bridgman, Cushman Downer, Asenath (Cushman) Downer, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Her other pilgrim ancestor write-ups are on the Allerton, Cooke, Soule, and Warren pages. Image from the National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
Laura's family descended from 5 Mayflower passengers all via her maternal grandfather's mother, Asenath (Cushman) Downer. See her Allerton writeup for more on her interesting life. Laura's Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Harmony (Downer) Bridgman, Cushman Downer, Asenath (Cushman) Downer, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Her other pilgrim ancestor write-ups are on the Allerton, Cooke, Soule, and Warren pages. Image from the National Library of Medicine, Washington, D.C.
CLARK, LINCOLN
Judge, law professor, and state legislator Lincoln Clark lived and worked in VA, NC, AL (where several of his children were born), IA, and IL before retiring to his native Conway, MA. Born in 1800, he was named for a family member, not the US president born some years after him. The point is, descendants may be scattered. Lincoln was a Gen 8 Hopkins and Gen 9 Brewster descendant via his paternal grandmother, Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, whose birth and marriage to Revolutionary War patriot Elisha Clark is in the Hopkins silver book. See his Brewster writeup for the second lineage. The Hopkins line is: Elisha Clark (Jr.), Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, Judah Hopkins, Judah, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both passengers on the Mayflower. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 23, 25, 31, 51-2, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Judge, law professor, and state legislator Lincoln Clark lived and worked in VA, NC, AL (where several of his children were born), IA, and IL before retiring to his native Conway, MA. Born in 1800, he was named for a family member, not the US president born some years after him. The point is, descendants may be scattered. Lincoln was a Gen 8 Hopkins and Gen 9 Brewster descendant via his paternal grandmother, Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, whose birth and marriage to Revolutionary War patriot Elisha Clark is in the Hopkins silver book. See his Brewster writeup for the second lineage. The Hopkins line is: Elisha Clark (Jr.), Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, Judah Hopkins, Judah, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both passengers on the Mayflower. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 23, 25, 31, 51-2, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CLARK, SABRA COBB
First cousin of Lincoln, above, she also was a Hopkins and Brewster descendant and married an Alden-Mullins, Cooke descendant (Ebenezer S. Snell 1801-1876), so it would be nice to find pictures of any children they had. This daguerrotype and her birth, death, and marriage info is from "The Splendid Eminence" blog of Amherst College's Archives & Special Collections department, which kindly grants permission to reuse images on websites like this one. Thank you, Amherst. The article is about the Snells but the blogger has also posted other articles about the Amherst daguerrotype collection and you will see them here and there on MayflowerFaces.com. The original Sabra Cobb was her maternal grandmother, Sabra (Cobb) Emerson. The line of Sabra (1807-1883) runs: Scotto Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, Judah Hopkins, Judah, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both passengers on the Mayflower. See her Brewster writeup for that line. This Sabra's BR, MR, and DR are on the NEHGS site along with her father's MR & DR. There were several Scotto Clarks, so I also consulted William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (N. Greenfield, WI: Johnson, 1884), pp. 23, 25, 31, 53, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
First cousin of Lincoln, above, she also was a Hopkins and Brewster descendant and married an Alden-Mullins, Cooke descendant (Ebenezer S. Snell 1801-1876), so it would be nice to find pictures of any children they had. This daguerrotype and her birth, death, and marriage info is from "The Splendid Eminence" blog of Amherst College's Archives & Special Collections department, which kindly grants permission to reuse images on websites like this one. Thank you, Amherst. The article is about the Snells but the blogger has also posted other articles about the Amherst daguerrotype collection and you will see them here and there on MayflowerFaces.com. The original Sabra Cobb was her maternal grandmother, Sabra (Cobb) Emerson. The line of Sabra (1807-1883) runs: Scotto Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) Clark, Judah Hopkins, Judah, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both passengers on the Mayflower. See her Brewster writeup for that line. This Sabra's BR, MR, and DR are on the NEHGS site along with her father's MR & DR. There were several Scotto Clarks, so I also consulted William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (N. Greenfield, WI: Johnson, 1884), pp. 23, 25, 31, 53, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CLARKE, SAMUEL FESSENDEN
There are a handful of "Scotto" and "Fessenden" Clarks/Clarkes and you have to sort out who's who to get this line right. Samuel Fessenden Clarke (1851-1928) was a Gen. 9 Hopkins via someone barely mentioned in the book from which this image was taken - his paternal great-grandmother Sarah Griffith of Harwich, MA (who married Scotto Clark "3d".) Between her birth and his the family had moved to VT and Boston, then IL. Samuel's father Samuel Nye Clark (1818-1856) died in Geneva, IL at about age 38, which is probably the reason the son had to drop out of school for 5 years to earn enough money to continue. He ultimately earned a doctorate in science and had a long career in science and academia. Yale University has an 1899 oil painting of him with gray hair, a full beard, and wearing academic robes and you can see a black & white image of that at their art gallery web site. Samuel's line would run: Samuel Nye Clark, Fessenden Clark, Sarah (Griffith) Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) (Lincoln) Griffith, Stephen Hopkins, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 26, 37, 73, digitized by the Boston Public Library. (Note: he appears to have added the "e" himself.)
There are a handful of "Scotto" and "Fessenden" Clarks/Clarkes and you have to sort out who's who to get this line right. Samuel Fessenden Clarke (1851-1928) was a Gen. 9 Hopkins via someone barely mentioned in the book from which this image was taken - his paternal great-grandmother Sarah Griffith of Harwich, MA (who married Scotto Clark "3d".) Between her birth and his the family had moved to VT and Boston, then IL. Samuel's father Samuel Nye Clark (1818-1856) died in Geneva, IL at about age 38, which is probably the reason the son had to drop out of school for 5 years to earn enough money to continue. He ultimately earned a doctorate in science and had a long career in science and academia. Yale University has an 1899 oil painting of him with gray hair, a full beard, and wearing academic robes and you can see a black & white image of that at their art gallery web site. Samuel's line would run: Samuel Nye Clark, Fessenden Clark, Sarah (Griffith) Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) (Lincoln) Griffith, Stephen Hopkins, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 26, 37, 73, digitized by the Boston Public Library. (Note: he appears to have added the "e" himself.)
CLEAVELAND, JOHN PAYNE
Younger brother of Parker, below, he was born in 1799 and became a minister. He spent time in the midwest (MI & OH) and during the Civil War was for a few months in 1862 a chaplain to the 30th MA Vols in New Orleans. The book with this info on the two brothers describes him as "about 5 ft. 10 1/2 in. in height, full figure, light complexion, blue eyes, rich brown hair, which blanched early." The Rowley, MA town record transcription spelled his name "John Paine Cleveland." Like Parker, he would be a double Hopkins descendant. See his writeup for the 2 lineages. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 79-80, 175, 861-3, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Younger brother of Parker, below, he was born in 1799 and became a minister. He spent time in the midwest (MI & OH) and during the Civil War was for a few months in 1862 a chaplain to the 30th MA Vols in New Orleans. The book with this info on the two brothers describes him as "about 5 ft. 10 1/2 in. in height, full figure, light complexion, blue eyes, rich brown hair, which blanched early." The Rowley, MA town record transcription spelled his name "John Paine Cleveland." Like Parker, he would be a double Hopkins descendant. See his writeup for the 2 lineages. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 79-80, 175, 861-3, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CLEAVELAND, MOSES
Founder of Cleveland, OH, Moses (1754-1806) was only there briefly and spent most of his life in Connecticut. First cousin to the father of John Payne Cleaveland (above) and Parker Cleaveland (below), Moses's double Gen 7 Hopkins lines are courtesy of his parents, who were first cousins. One line runs: Aaron Cleaveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins & family of the Mayflower. The second runs Thankful (Paine) Cleaveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins & family. The image on the left is from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 79-80, 175, 367, digitized by the Boston Public Library. The center image is from John Fiske & James Grant Wilson, eds., Appletons' Cyclopedia of American Biography, Vol. 1 (NY: Appleton, ca. 1886), p. 647, online at Hathitrust Digital Library. The image on the right is from The Ohio History Connection writeup in Ohio History Central, accessed 14 March 2018 at http://www.ohiohistorycentral.org/w/Moses_Cleaveland. |
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CLEAVELAND, PARKER
Born in Rowley, MA 1780, he is rare for being someone from the part of Massachusetts just north of Boston who had Mayflower parentage. He was a professor of "natural philosophy" which we today call "science" and specifically was the "Father of American Mineralogy" according to the author of the book with this photo. Prof. Cleaveland married and had 8 children, of whom apparently 6 lived to adulthood and may have left descendants. His double Gen 8 Hopkins line would run, beginning with his father of the same name: Parker Cleaveland, John, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Secondly, due to the marriage of cousins: Abigail (Cleaveland) Cleaveland, Aaron, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 79-80, 175, 858, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Born in Rowley, MA 1780, he is rare for being someone from the part of Massachusetts just north of Boston who had Mayflower parentage. He was a professor of "natural philosophy" which we today call "science" and specifically was the "Father of American Mineralogy" according to the author of the book with this photo. Prof. Cleaveland married and had 8 children, of whom apparently 6 lived to adulthood and may have left descendants. His double Gen 8 Hopkins line would run, beginning with his father of the same name: Parker Cleaveland, John, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Secondly, due to the marriage of cousins: Abigail (Cleaveland) Cleaveland, Aaron, Abigail (Paine) Cleaveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 79-80, 175, 858, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Copeland, Davis
Born in West Bridgewater, 1835, Davis was the younger brother of Ira Copeland, below. The two were Generation 9 Hopkins, Billington, & Cooke courtesy of their mother Judith Washburn (Kingman) Copeland and Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins & Gen 9 descendants thanks to their father Francis. Judith's namesake grandmother, Judith (Faunce) Washburn, was a Generation 5 Hopkins & Cooke and the Cooke silver book (which covers this branch of the Hopkins family) takes you as far as the birth of her son Jabez Washburn. The brothers' Hopkins line runs: Judith Washburn (Kingman) Copeland, Judith (Washburn) Kingman, Jabez Washburn, Jr., Judith (Faunce) Washburn, Lydia (Cooke) Faunce, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. See the other write-ups for those lineages. Image & info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 2 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 633, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Copeland, Heman
The youngest brother of Davis (above) and Ira (below), Heman was born in West Bridgewater, 1843 and died in Chula Vista, CA 1909. The brothers were Generation 9 Hopkins, Billington, & Cooke descendents courtesy of their mother Judith Washburn (Kingman) Copeland and Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins & Gen 9 Warren descendants via their father Francis Copeland. (See Davis Copeland description.) Image & info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 2 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 634, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Copeland, Ira
Born in West Bridgewater, 1831, Ira was the brother of Davis Copeland, above. The brothers were Generation 9 Hopkins, Billington, & Cooke descendents courtesy of their mother Judith Washburn (Kingman) Copeland and Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins & Gen 9 Warren descendants via their father Francis Copeland. (See Davis Copeland description.) Image & info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 2 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 632, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CORNISH, ALBERT JUDSON
Son of Joel Northrop Cornish, below, judge Albert J. Cornish (b. 1855) may have been born in NY or IA but practiced law in Lincoln, NE, where he was city attorney, state legislator, then a judge. Given his line of work there should be a good paper trail and other photos. He had 3 small children by the time this book was published, so if you are a Cornish from Nebraska, this might be your line. See Joel's writeup for Albert's Gen. 9 Hopkins lineage. Note that around 1900 full beards were going out of style so you can get an idea of what Joel would have looked like as a younger man w/o facial foliage from Albert's picture. Image and info from Joseph E. Cornish, The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Boston: Ellis, 1907), p. 190.
Son of Joel Northrop Cornish, below, judge Albert J. Cornish (b. 1855) may have been born in NY or IA but practiced law in Lincoln, NE, where he was city attorney, state legislator, then a judge. Given his line of work there should be a good paper trail and other photos. He had 3 small children by the time this book was published, so if you are a Cornish from Nebraska, this might be your line. See Joel's writeup for Albert's Gen. 9 Hopkins lineage. Note that around 1900 full beards were going out of style so you can get an idea of what Joel would have looked like as a younger man w/o facial foliage from Albert's picture. Image and info from Joseph E. Cornish, The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Boston: Ellis, 1907), p. 190.
CORNISH, JOEL NORTHROP
Born in 1828, probably in Lee Centre, NY, to Allen Cornish and Clarissa Cornish, distant cousins originally from the Plymouth area, Col. Cornish was a Gen. 8 Hopkins & Cooke descendant and a Gen. 7 Doty descendant via his father. Allen's birth and marriage to Clarissa are in the Doty Silver Book, Vol. 1. It was as a descendant of Edward Doty's son John that Joel was also a Hopkins and Cooke. The Hopkins Silver Book lists Stephen Hopkins's daughter Damaris, who married Jacob Cooke and became the mother of Elizabeth Cooke, but then directs readers to the Doty volumes where they learn that Elizabeth married John Doty, son of Pilgrim Edward. Joel's Hopkins line runs: Allen Cornish, Abigail (Clark) Cornish, Experience (Doty) Clark, Josiah Doty, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. See Joel's Doty writeup on this site for more sources and information about him. He was the father of Albert J. Cornish, above. Image and info from Joseph E. Cornish, The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Boston: Ellis, 1907), pp. 154-5, 172-3, digitized by the G word.
Born in 1828, probably in Lee Centre, NY, to Allen Cornish and Clarissa Cornish, distant cousins originally from the Plymouth area, Col. Cornish was a Gen. 8 Hopkins & Cooke descendant and a Gen. 7 Doty descendant via his father. Allen's birth and marriage to Clarissa are in the Doty Silver Book, Vol. 1. It was as a descendant of Edward Doty's son John that Joel was also a Hopkins and Cooke. The Hopkins Silver Book lists Stephen Hopkins's daughter Damaris, who married Jacob Cooke and became the mother of Elizabeth Cooke, but then directs readers to the Doty volumes where they learn that Elizabeth married John Doty, son of Pilgrim Edward. Joel's Hopkins line runs: Allen Cornish, Abigail (Clark) Cornish, Experience (Doty) Clark, Josiah Doty, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. See Joel's Doty writeup on this site for more sources and information about him. He was the father of Albert J. Cornish, above. Image and info from Joseph E. Cornish, The History and Genealogy of the Cornish Families in America (Boston: Ellis, 1907), pp. 154-5, 172-3, digitized by the G word.
CROWELL, LOUISA
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations above.
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations above.
Crowell, Luther
Captain Luther Crowell is a descendant of Phebe Snow (Aaron, Thomas, Mark, Constance Hopkins, Stephen) and Jonathan Crowell (Thomas, John, Thomas, John) via son David and grandson James and his wife Ruth Nickerson, Luther's parents. The Snow-Crowell marriage is in the Hopkins Silver Book. Luther and Peter H. Crowell, below, were second cousins and Generation 9 Hopkins descendants. Born in 1818, Luther was 72 and still sailing when this book was published. The photo was probably taken 1875-1890, at age 57-72. Image from Simeon L. Deyo, ed., History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts (1890), p. 551, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Crowell, Peter H.
Captain Peter Crowell is a descendant of Phebe Snow (Aaron, Thomas, Mark, Constance Hopkins, Stephen Hopkins) and Jonathan Crowell (Thomas, John, Thomas, John) via son Isaiah and grandson Peter and his wife Reliance Coleman, Peter H.'s parents. The Snow-Crowell marriage is in the Hopkins Silver Book. Peter and Luther Crowell, above, were second cousins and Generation 9 Hopkins descendants. Born in 1837, Peter H. was 53 when this book was published. The photo was probably taken 1885-1890, at age 48-53. Image from Simeon L. Deyo, ed., History of Barnstable County, Massachusetts (1890), p. 552, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CUSHMAN, DON ALONZO
He is actually a closer relative of the Dresser cousins, below, than he is of the one other Cushman, and like them also an Allerton, Cooke, and Warren. Don Alonzo's Gen 6 Hopkins line runs: Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke and her family, with father Stephen Hopkins being the name most often given as the descendant. Don Alonzo (b. 1792 CT) was a merchant, according to the book with this photo (which gives a detailed story of his life.) The family moved to Otsego Co, NY. The Hopkins silver book refers all of poor Damaris's descendants to the Cooke book, but it then sends readers off to the Allerton book for everything after the birth of grandfather Allerton Cushman, but it only gets you one more generation. The Soule pink book will get you to Don Alonzo's birth. I mention this because he is Gen 6 in two lines but does not even appear in the index. Always look up every single line in each book, separately, then trace each one back upstream. See the Allerton writeup for more details. Image and info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans etc., pp. 171, 302, 515, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
He is actually a closer relative of the Dresser cousins, below, than he is of the one other Cushman, and like them also an Allerton, Cooke, and Warren. Don Alonzo's Gen 6 Hopkins line runs: Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke and her family, with father Stephen Hopkins being the name most often given as the descendant. Don Alonzo (b. 1792 CT) was a merchant, according to the book with this photo (which gives a detailed story of his life.) The family moved to Otsego Co, NY. The Hopkins silver book refers all of poor Damaris's descendants to the Cooke book, but it then sends readers off to the Allerton book for everything after the birth of grandfather Allerton Cushman, but it only gets you one more generation. The Soule pink book will get you to Don Alonzo's birth. I mention this because he is Gen 6 in two lines but does not even appear in the index. Always look up every single line in each book, separately, then trace each one back upstream. See the Allerton writeup for more details. Image and info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans etc., pp. 171, 302, 515, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
CUSHMAN, EARL
Dr. Earl Cushman of Vermont is a Gen 7 Hopkins descendant courtesy of his mother, Molly (Morton) Hopkins. Molly' mother Deborah (Morton) Morton was the line carrier, not her father Ichabod Morton, though he was a 3rd cousin, according to the Hopkins silver book. It gets this line the farthest, to the birth of Dr. Cushman's parents, Molly and Ichabod Cushman. Earl is a Gen 7 Allerton & Gen 8 Warren through his father; see those write-ups for those lines. Earl's Hopkins line runs: Molly (Morton) Cushman, Deborah (Morton) Morton, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen & Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. This sketch was made at age 57, thus about 1854. Image & info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855), pp. 136, 167, 293-4, 296-7, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Dr. Earl Cushman of Vermont is a Gen 7 Hopkins descendant courtesy of his mother, Molly (Morton) Hopkins. Molly' mother Deborah (Morton) Morton was the line carrier, not her father Ichabod Morton, though he was a 3rd cousin, according to the Hopkins silver book. It gets this line the farthest, to the birth of Dr. Cushman's parents, Molly and Ichabod Cushman. Earl is a Gen 7 Allerton & Gen 8 Warren through his father; see those write-ups for those lines. Earl's Hopkins line runs: Molly (Morton) Cushman, Deborah (Morton) Morton, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen & Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. This sketch was made at age 57, thus about 1854. Image & info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855), pp. 136, 167, 293-4, 296-7, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Davis, Nathan Winslow
Nathan is believed to be a Generation 10 descendant of Stephen Hopkins and also of William and Mary Brewster, via his mother Charity Hodges (Winslow) Davis. He was born in Freetown in 1857 and this photo was probably taken 1884-1902, after becoming a partner in his father's rifle manufacturing business, along with his brother William A. Davis. It comes from A History of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts, with an Account of the Old Home Festival, July 30th 1902 (Fall River: Franklin, 1902), p. 167, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Davis, William A.
William A. Davis resembles his father, Nathan R. Davis, originally of Somerset, MA and father also of Nathan Winslow Davis above. He is also a Generation 10 descendant of Stephen Hopkins and of the Brewsters. He was born in 1855 and this photo was probably taken 1884-1902, after becoming a partner in his father's rifle manufacturing business, along with his brother. The image also comes from A History of the Town of Freetown, Massachusetts, with an Account of the Old Home Festival, July 30th 1902 (Fall River: Franklin, 1902), p. 167, digitized by the Library of Congress. Nathan R. Davis's photo, for comparison, is on page 166.
DEXTER, ACHSAH L.
Like her maternal grandmother, Rachel Snow (b Falmouth, MA 1784), below, Achsah was a Hopkins descendant. Her Gen. 9 line would run: Achsah (Dexter) Dexter, Rachel (Snow) Dexter, Seth Snow Jr., Seth, Benjamin, Joseph, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. If you research this Achsah (1838-1902), her married name was Thacher thanks to her 1856 marriage to John Thacher. (I suspect the L. might be for Loring, her father's name.) Sharper scans of Rachel and Achsah would be very welcome, if someone with access to a hard copy could be so kind. This one is from William A. Warden & Robert L. Dexter, Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America, Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with the Record of Other Allied Families (Worcester, MA: Blanchard Press, 1905), pp. 107, 180, 283-4, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Like her maternal grandmother, Rachel Snow (b Falmouth, MA 1784), below, Achsah was a Hopkins descendant. Her Gen. 9 line would run: Achsah (Dexter) Dexter, Rachel (Snow) Dexter, Seth Snow Jr., Seth, Benjamin, Joseph, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. If you research this Achsah (1838-1902), her married name was Thacher thanks to her 1856 marriage to John Thacher. (I suspect the L. might be for Loring, her father's name.) Sharper scans of Rachel and Achsah would be very welcome, if someone with access to a hard copy could be so kind. This one is from William A. Warden & Robert L. Dexter, Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America, Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with the Record of Other Allied Families (Worcester, MA: Blanchard Press, 1905), pp. 107, 180, 283-4, digitized by the Library of Congress.
DOANE, LOUISA
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations, above.
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations, above.
Dodge, Joel
Joel may have been the oldest child of the Rev. Jordan Dodge and Lucy Adams, both of Connecticut. The children were born in CT, MA, and NY. It is on his mother's side that he and his brother John, below, were Generation 8 descendants of Stephen Hopkins. Lucy's parents, Levi Adams and Margaret Perkins are in the Hopkins Silver Book, showing Levi as the son of David Adams and Dorcas Paine, the Hopkins descendant. His Dodge parentage is in the Dodge genealogy cited here. Joel just barely lived long enough to have his photo taken (1772-1844) and this scan is of poor quality, so a better image would be appreciated. Image from Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), p. 173, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Dodge, John Adams
John Adams, named for a maternal distant cousin, was possibly the 7th child of the Rev. Jordan Dodge and Lucy Adams, both of Connecticut. He was born in Sturbridge, MA in 1788 and died in 1871. It is on his mother's side that he and his brother Joel, above, were Generation 8 descendants of Stephen Hopkins. Lucy's parents, Levi Adams and Margaret Perkins are in the Hopkins Silver Book, showing Levi as the son of David Adams and Dorcas Paine, the Hopkins descendant. His Dodge parentage is in the Dodge genealogy cited here. This scan is of poor quality, so a better image would be appreciated. Image from Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), p. 173, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Dodge, Mary
Granddaughter of Joel Dodge (above,) Mary (Dodge) Woodward was a Generation 10 descendant via the same Dodge-Adams line. She moved with her husband and (then) three children from Vermont to Wisconsin in 1855 and died there 1879. Her father Joel, a widower, had moved there in 1851. Mary's sisters Rachel Lucinda, Isabinda, Lucy Ann, and Martha Ann E. Dodge also moved to central Wisconsin as adults. Dodge County, WI was named for the first territorial governor, Henry Dodge, a very distant relative born in Missouri. Mary (1826-1890) was the mother of the author of the Tristram Dodge genealogy cited. Info and image from Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), frontispiece, digitized by the Library of Congress.
DOTEN, EBENEZER
This image was made on the subject's 91st birthday. He is listed by name in the Doty Silver Book, Vol. 1, as a Gen. 6 Doty, son of another Ebenezer (spelled "Doty" there but "Doten" in records and the book from which this picture was taken.) An early marriage to a Hopkins/Cooke grandchild makes this Ebenezer also a Gen. 7 Hopkins and Cooke as follows: Ebenezer Doten/Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. (See Doty for more info and a lead to Soule descendants in Oneida County and see Cooke for that line.) Image and some info from The Authors [Elizabeth J. Pike, Mrs. E. Edic, Mrs. W. J. Frisbie, Mrs. E. H. Conant], Pioneer History of Camden, Oneida County, NY (Utica: Griffiths, 1897), pp. 241-3, digitized by the Library of Congress.
This image was made on the subject's 91st birthday. He is listed by name in the Doty Silver Book, Vol. 1, as a Gen. 6 Doty, son of another Ebenezer (spelled "Doty" there but "Doten" in records and the book from which this picture was taken.) An early marriage to a Hopkins/Cooke grandchild makes this Ebenezer also a Gen. 7 Hopkins and Cooke as follows: Ebenezer Doten/Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. (See Doty for more info and a lead to Soule descendants in Oneida County and see Cooke for that line.) Image and some info from The Authors [Elizabeth J. Pike, Mrs. E. Edic, Mrs. W. J. Frisbie, Mrs. E. H. Conant], Pioneer History of Camden, Oneida County, NY (Utica: Griffiths, 1897), pp. 241-3, digitized by the Library of Congress.
DRESSER, AMOS
The Rev. Amos Dresser (b. 1812) of Farmington, OH, age 44 in this image, was a Gen. 8 Hopkins via his mother, Minerva Cushman. She was also a Gen. 7 Allerton, Cooke, and Warren descendant, as outlined in Amos's writeup in those sections. (His Allerton writeup is the most detailed.) Amos was active in the abolitionist movement in the US, Caribbean, and Europe, according to the author of the book from which this image was taken, so there should be more images of him in periodicals. His Hopkins line runs: Minerva (Cushman) Dresser, Caleb Cushman, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Grandfather Caleb's birth is covered in the Silver & Pink Books of the GSMD. Image and info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855), pp. 170-1, 307-8, 626, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
The Rev. Amos Dresser (b. 1812) of Farmington, OH, age 44 in this image, was a Gen. 8 Hopkins via his mother, Minerva Cushman. She was also a Gen. 7 Allerton, Cooke, and Warren descendant, as outlined in Amos's writeup in those sections. (His Allerton writeup is the most detailed.) Amos was active in the abolitionist movement in the US, Caribbean, and Europe, according to the author of the book from which this image was taken, so there should be more images of him in periodicals. His Hopkins line runs: Minerva (Cushman) Dresser, Caleb Cushman, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Grandfather Caleb's birth is covered in the Silver & Pink Books of the GSMD. Image and info from Henry Wyles Cushman, A Historical and Biographical Genealogy of the Cushmans: The Descendants of Robert Cushman, the Puritan, from the Year 1617 to 1855 (Boston: Little, Brown, 1855), pp. 170-1, 307-8, 626, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
DRESSER, GEORGE
First cousin of Rev. Amos Dresser, above, George was born in 1820 on a farm in Hampshire County, MA. See his Allerton writeup for more details. George is also a Hopkins, Cooke, Allerton, and Warren descendant. His Gen. 8 Hopkins line runs: Vesta (Cushman) Dresser, Caleb Cushman, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image & some info from from The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Boston: Biographical Review, 1896), pp. 538-9, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library and some info from the Cushman genealogy noted for cousin Amos, p. 309.
First cousin of Rev. Amos Dresser, above, George was born in 1820 on a farm in Hampshire County, MA. See his Allerton writeup for more details. George is also a Hopkins, Cooke, Allerton, and Warren descendant. His Gen. 8 Hopkins line runs: Vesta (Cushman) Dresser, Caleb Cushman, Allerton Cushman, Allerton, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image & some info from from The Leading Citizens of Hampshire County, Massachusetts (Boston: Biographical Review, 1896), pp. 538-9, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library and some info from the Cushman genealogy noted for cousin Amos, p. 309.
EDDY, JOSHUA
Joshua (1749-1833) was a Gen. 6 Hopkins descendant on his mother's Morton line. That likely accounts for the first name of his son Morton Eddy (below.) He was the father also of Nathaniel and Zechariah Eddy, just below Morton's image. Joshua's line runs: Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His own birth and marriage are in the Hopkins Silver Book, which also notes that he served as a captain in the Revolutionary War. Check out fold3.com for service and other records from the National Archives. This likeness was copied from a painting made in the 1820s, when he was in his 70s. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 243, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Joshua (1749-1833) was a Gen. 6 Hopkins descendant on his mother's Morton line. That likely accounts for the first name of his son Morton Eddy (below.) He was the father also of Nathaniel and Zechariah Eddy, just below Morton's image. Joshua's line runs: Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His own birth and marriage are in the Hopkins Silver Book, which also notes that he served as a captain in the Revolutionary War. Check out fold3.com for service and other records from the National Archives. This likeness was copied from a painting made in the 1820s, when he was in his 70s. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 243, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
EDDY, MORTON
Son of Capt. Joshua Eddy (above) and Lydia (Paddock) Eddy (a Billington), Morton was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and Gen. 8 Billington. (See that writeup for more details.) He was also the brother of Nathaniel, William S., and Zechariah Eddy, below. Morton's Hopkins line through the marriage of his parents is in the Hopkins Silver Book and the line runs as follows: Joshua Eddy, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 62, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Son of Capt. Joshua Eddy (above) and Lydia (Paddock) Eddy (a Billington), Morton was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and Gen. 8 Billington. (See that writeup for more details.) He was also the brother of Nathaniel, William S., and Zechariah Eddy, below. Morton's Hopkins line through the marriage of his parents is in the Hopkins Silver Book and the line runs as follows: Joshua Eddy, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 62, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
EDDY, NATHANIEL
Son of Joshua Eddy and brother of Morton, above, and of William S. and Zechariah below, Nathaniel (b. 1785) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and a Gen. 8 Billington on his mother's side (Lydia Paddock.) See Morton's writeups for more details. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 252, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Son of Joshua Eddy and brother of Morton, above, and of William S. and Zechariah below, Nathaniel (b. 1785) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and a Gen. 8 Billington on his mother's side (Lydia Paddock.) See Morton's writeups for more details. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 252, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
EDDY, WILLIAM S.
William turned up in another book that mentioned his father and brother, and vital records bore out his place in the family tree. Born about 1790, he was younger than Zachariah and Nathaniel, but older than Morton. Like his brothers he was also a Billington descendant, so see that section for the lineage. The Gen 7 Hopkins line runs: Joshua Eddy, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 348-9, digitized by the Library of Congress. This image was scanned from a hardcover copy at the LOC by me, to replace the blurrier digitized image.
William turned up in another book that mentioned his father and brother, and vital records bore out his place in the family tree. Born about 1790, he was younger than Zachariah and Nathaniel, but older than Morton. Like his brothers he was also a Billington descendant, so see that section for the lineage. The Gen 7 Hopkins line runs: Joshua Eddy, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 348-9, digitized by the Library of Congress. This image was scanned from a hardcover copy at the LOC by me, to replace the blurrier digitized image.
EDDY, ZACHARIAH/ZECHARIAH
Son of Joshua Eddy and brother of Morton and Nathaniel, above, Zechariah (b. 1780) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and a Gen. 8 Billington on his mother's side (Lydia Paddock.) See Morton's writeups for more details. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 257, digitized by the Boston Public Library. More info & same image in Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 230-2, digitized by the Library of Congress. Image scanned from a hardcover edition at the LOC by me.
Son of Joshua Eddy and brother of Morton and Nathaniel, above, Zechariah (b. 1780) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins and a Gen. 8 Billington on his mother's side (Lydia Paddock.) See Morton's writeups for more details. Image from R. H. Eddy, The Eddy family: Reunion at Providence to celebrate the two hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the landing of John and Samuel Eddy at Plymouth, Oct. 29, 1630 (Boston: Cushing, ca. 1880), p. 257, digitized by the Boston Public Library. More info & same image in Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), pp. 230-2, digitized by the Library of Congress. Image scanned from a hardcover edition at the LOC by me.
ELDRIDGE, MARTIN LUTHER
Martin, son of Isaac Eldridge and Abigail Snow and a probable Gen. 8 Hopkins, was born in 1827 in Sandwich. The book from which this image was taken claimed that Isaac was a lineal descendant of Stephen Hopkins via a Snow line but garbled that line. Thus Mr. Eldridge, who died just 2 years before this book was published, may not have been clear on it. Based on the VRs I have found the best case I can make is for Abigail Snow to be the daughter of Nathaniel & Mary/Mercy Snow. Abigail's DR has no father and "Mary m.n. Smith" as her mother but the age works and Mary, Marcy, and Mercy were interchangeable in that time period. There was no Mary Smith who married a Snow, either. Nathaniel appears as Gen. 6 in the Hopkins book, with Mercy Webber as a second wife. That Abigail had a brother named "Doane Snow," as did her father. Her grandmother was Mary (Doane) Snow. These people are also found in the Hopkins book. If these assumptions and deductions are correct Martin's line would run: Abigail (Snow) Eldridge, Nathaniel Snow, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Stephen, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet (New Bedford: author, 1907), p. 291, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Martin, son of Isaac Eldridge and Abigail Snow and a probable Gen. 8 Hopkins, was born in 1827 in Sandwich. The book from which this image was taken claimed that Isaac was a lineal descendant of Stephen Hopkins via a Snow line but garbled that line. Thus Mr. Eldridge, who died just 2 years before this book was published, may not have been clear on it. Based on the VRs I have found the best case I can make is for Abigail Snow to be the daughter of Nathaniel & Mary/Mercy Snow. Abigail's DR has no father and "Mary m.n. Smith" as her mother but the age works and Mary, Marcy, and Mercy were interchangeable in that time period. There was no Mary Smith who married a Snow, either. Nathaniel appears as Gen. 6 in the Hopkins book, with Mercy Webber as a second wife. That Abigail had a brother named "Doane Snow," as did her father. Her grandmother was Mary (Doane) Snow. These people are also found in the Hopkins book. If these assumptions and deductions are correct Martin's line would run: Abigail (Snow) Eldridge, Nathaniel Snow, Nathaniel, Ebenezer, Stephen, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Franklyn Howland, A History of the Town of Acushnet (New Bedford: author, 1907), p. 291, digitized by the Library of Congress.
ELLIS, BENJAMIN
Benjamin Ellis (b. 1775, Carver) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins, a Samson, double Howland-Tilley, Allerton, and a Cooke. He was also the uncle of Hon. Jesse Murdock, below. See Benjamin's other write-ups for those lineages & the Howland-Tilley section for more info overall. His parents are in the Allerton silver book and his own birth is in the Samson book, Part 2. (The Hopkins book refers readers to the Cooke book, which refers them to the Allerton book beyond Martha's birth.) Benjamin's Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton lines all run through his mother, as follows: Hannah (Shurtleff) Ellis, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 106, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Benjamin Ellis (b. 1775, Carver) was a Gen. 7 Hopkins, a Samson, double Howland-Tilley, Allerton, and a Cooke. He was also the uncle of Hon. Jesse Murdock, below. See Benjamin's other write-ups for those lineages & the Howland-Tilley section for more info overall. His parents are in the Allerton silver book and his own birth is in the Samson book, Part 2. (The Hopkins book refers readers to the Cooke book, which refers them to the Allerton book beyond Martha's birth.) Benjamin's Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton lines all run through his mother, as follows: Hannah (Shurtleff) Ellis, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 106, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
ELLIS, CALEB LORING, JR.
Brother of Leonard B. Ellis, below, Caleb Jr. is a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant, a Generation 8 Cooke (twice), and a Generation 8 Soule. This information comes from a quick search of New Bedford, MA vital records, which revealed his parents' names, then a search for a "Caleb Loring Ellis" revealed his birthplace in Plympton AND the names of his parents and paternal grandparents, all in one birth announcement. Sometimes you just get lucky. The grandfather was in the Hopkins Silver Book, which revealed the Cooke and Soule links. The line runs: Caleb & Leonard, Caleb Sr. & Abby D. Hathaway, Samuel Ellis & Abigail Parker, Stephen Ellis & Susanna Tomson, Ebenezer Tomson & Mary Wright, Thomas Tomson & Mary Morton, John Morton & Mary Ring, Andrew Ring & Deborah Hopkins, Stephen of the Mayflower. Tomson/Thomson/Thompsons in Plymouth County in that era should set the Cooke Alarm Bells ringing. Thomas Tomson, husband of Mary Morton, is a Generation 3 Cooke via his mother Mary (Cooke) Tomson, and Mary Wright, his daughter-in-law, is a daughter of Isaac Wright and granddaughter of Adam Wright Jr. Adam, Jr.'s mother was Hester Cooke, daughter of Francis of the Mayflower and his wife was Sarah Soule, granddaughter of pilgrim George. The Hopkins and Soule books will get you as far as Susanna Tomson marrying Stephen Ellis; Cooke does not specify Stephen's first name. He served in the Revolution so the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Genealogical Research System (GRS) database may help you beyond that. Currently the only DAR members who have Stephen Ellis listed as their patriot are his children Stephen, Josiah T., and Marcy, none from Samuel. This image is from Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1892), p. 250. Digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
Brother of Leonard B. Ellis, below, Caleb Jr. is a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant, a Generation 8 Cooke (twice), and a Generation 8 Soule. This information comes from a quick search of New Bedford, MA vital records, which revealed his parents' names, then a search for a "Caleb Loring Ellis" revealed his birthplace in Plympton AND the names of his parents and paternal grandparents, all in one birth announcement. Sometimes you just get lucky. The grandfather was in the Hopkins Silver Book, which revealed the Cooke and Soule links. The line runs: Caleb & Leonard, Caleb Sr. & Abby D. Hathaway, Samuel Ellis & Abigail Parker, Stephen Ellis & Susanna Tomson, Ebenezer Tomson & Mary Wright, Thomas Tomson & Mary Morton, John Morton & Mary Ring, Andrew Ring & Deborah Hopkins, Stephen of the Mayflower. Tomson/Thomson/Thompsons in Plymouth County in that era should set the Cooke Alarm Bells ringing. Thomas Tomson, husband of Mary Morton, is a Generation 3 Cooke via his mother Mary (Cooke) Tomson, and Mary Wright, his daughter-in-law, is a daughter of Isaac Wright and granddaughter of Adam Wright Jr. Adam, Jr.'s mother was Hester Cooke, daughter of Francis of the Mayflower and his wife was Sarah Soule, granddaughter of pilgrim George. The Hopkins and Soule books will get you as far as Susanna Tomson marrying Stephen Ellis; Cooke does not specify Stephen's first name. He served in the Revolution so the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) Genealogical Research System (GRS) database may help you beyond that. Currently the only DAR members who have Stephen Ellis listed as their patriot are his children Stephen, Josiah T., and Marcy, none from Samuel. This image is from Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1892), p. 250. Digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
ELLIS, LEONARD BOLLES
The brother of Caleb Loring Ellis, Jr., above, Leonard was also the author of the History of the History of the New Bedford Fire Dept, 1772-1890 from which other images on Mayflowerfaces.com have come, as well as the book from which this image was taken. He is also a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant, a Generation 8 Cooke (twice), and a Generation 8 Soule. See Caleb for details. Image from Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1892), p. 251. Digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
The brother of Caleb Loring Ellis, Jr., above, Leonard was also the author of the History of the History of the New Bedford Fire Dept, 1772-1890 from which other images on Mayflowerfaces.com have come, as well as the book from which this image was taken. He is also a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant, a Generation 8 Cooke (twice), and a Generation 8 Soule. See Caleb for details. Image from Leonard Bolles Ellis, History of New Bedford and Its Vicinity, 1602-1892 (Syracuse, NY: D. Mason, 1892), p. 251. Digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
FIELD, WILLIAM LAWRENCE
If you can find his mother's birth record and prove her parentage, you can demonstrate that William was a Gen 9 Hopkins & Cooke, and twice a Gen 8 Doty descendant as well. Start with the Doty Silver Book Part 1, 2d ed because his maternal grandparents, Susannah Reynolds and Oliver Howard are in it. Tracing Susannah's line backwards you will see that she was descended from Stephen Hopkins and Francis Cooke, since Edward Doty's son John married Elizabeth Cooke, a granddaughter of the two Mayflower pilgrims via daughter Damaris Hopkins and son Jacob Cooke. Susannah Reynolds' maternal grandfather Japhet Turner, was also a Doty descendant. See William's Doty write up for that lineage, but as a Hopkins his line runs: Bernice (Howard) Field, Susannah (Reynolds) Howard, Betty (Turner) Reynolds, Elizabeth (Morse) Turner, Elizabeth (Doty) Morse, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. William's father Zophar Field is not difficult to find on the NEHGS and neither is his mother, but as "Bernice Field." I spotted nothing in a quick search that gave her parents. Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 314, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
If you can find his mother's birth record and prove her parentage, you can demonstrate that William was a Gen 9 Hopkins & Cooke, and twice a Gen 8 Doty descendant as well. Start with the Doty Silver Book Part 1, 2d ed because his maternal grandparents, Susannah Reynolds and Oliver Howard are in it. Tracing Susannah's line backwards you will see that she was descended from Stephen Hopkins and Francis Cooke, since Edward Doty's son John married Elizabeth Cooke, a granddaughter of the two Mayflower pilgrims via daughter Damaris Hopkins and son Jacob Cooke. Susannah Reynolds' maternal grandfather Japhet Turner, was also a Doty descendant. See William's Doty write up for that lineage, but as a Hopkins his line runs: Bernice (Howard) Field, Susannah (Reynolds) Howard, Betty (Turner) Reynolds, Elizabeth (Morse) Turner, Elizabeth (Doty) Morse, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. William's father Zophar Field is not difficult to find on the NEHGS and neither is his mother, but as "Bernice Field." I spotted nothing in a quick search that gave her parents. Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 314, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
FULLER, ALBERT H.
Albert's photo is in the Brockton, MA library's collection (in Plymouth County) and was digitized for DigitalCommonwealth. He is a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Samuel Fuller, Francis Eaton, John Alden, John Billington, George Soule, Myles Standish, and William Mullins, with pilgrims on both sides of his family. To know that he is a Hopkins or Cooke descendant you first have to find Albert's line to another pilgrim because the Hopkins silver book from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) drops the line after Gen 2 Damaris's marriage to Jacob Cooke and the Cooke book drops Elizabeth after her marriage to Gen 2 John Doty and the birth of their children. Part Two of the Billington silver book set gets you the farthest, to the marriage of Albert's paternal grandparents, Consider Fuller and Mercy Thompson. The vital records on the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) site takes the line to Albert, and hopefully beyond if you are his descendant. Starting with his father, Albert's Gen 11 Hopkins line should run: Charles T. Fuller, Consider, John, Elizabeth (Doty) Fuller, John Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. See the other sections for Albert's other lines. Image from the Brockton Public Library thanks to DigitalCommonwealth. You can get a better look at Albert online there.
Albert's photo is in the Brockton, MA library's collection (in Plymouth County) and was digitized for DigitalCommonwealth. He is a descendant of Stephen Hopkins, Francis Cooke, Edward Doty, Samuel Fuller, Francis Eaton, John Alden, John Billington, George Soule, Myles Standish, and William Mullins, with pilgrims on both sides of his family. To know that he is a Hopkins or Cooke descendant you first have to find Albert's line to another pilgrim because the Hopkins silver book from the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) drops the line after Gen 2 Damaris's marriage to Jacob Cooke and the Cooke book drops Elizabeth after her marriage to Gen 2 John Doty and the birth of their children. Part Two of the Billington silver book set gets you the farthest, to the marriage of Albert's paternal grandparents, Consider Fuller and Mercy Thompson. The vital records on the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) site takes the line to Albert, and hopefully beyond if you are his descendant. Starting with his father, Albert's Gen 11 Hopkins line should run: Charles T. Fuller, Consider, John, Elizabeth (Doty) Fuller, John Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. See the other sections for Albert's other lines. Image from the Brockton Public Library thanks to DigitalCommonwealth. You can get a better look at Albert online there.
GOODWIN, MARY JANE
She and her brother John Abbott Goodwin both wrote about the first LeBaron immigrant, apparently with different explanations for his arrival. Mary Jane (1831-1894) wrote under her married name, Austin, if you want to look them up. She and her brother were Gen. 8 Hopkins, Warren, and Standish; Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins and Howland-Tilley, and Gen. 7 Bradford, whew!. Mary Jane was a Mayflower descendant through both parents, who were distant LeBaron cousins. Mary Jane's Hopkins line runs as follows: Isaac Goodwin, Lydia Cushing (Samson) Goodwin, Simeon Sampson/Samson, Mary (Ring) Samson, Eleazer Ring, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. She is not a descendant of Pilgrim Henry Samson, though her Samson line may be collateral relations. The Hopkins Silver Book gets through the marriage of Lydia Cushing Samson to William Goodwin. Vital records on the NEHGS site have her son Isaac's birth, his marriage to Elizabeth Hammatt, and Mary Jane's birth in Worcester, where the family had moved from Plymouth. See her Bradford, Alden-Mullins, Standish, Howland-Tilley, and Warren write-ups for those lines. This image is credited as a photo provided by Mary Jane's daughter, Lilian Ivers (Goodwin) DaSilva, circa 1890 would be my guess. Image and info from Mary LeBaron Stockwell, Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, Mass. (Boston: Marvin, 1904), pp. 21-22, 33, 50, 122, 263, 408, digitized by the New York Public Library.
She and her brother John Abbott Goodwin both wrote about the first LeBaron immigrant, apparently with different explanations for his arrival. Mary Jane (1831-1894) wrote under her married name, Austin, if you want to look them up. She and her brother were Gen. 8 Hopkins, Warren, and Standish; Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins and Howland-Tilley, and Gen. 7 Bradford, whew!. Mary Jane was a Mayflower descendant through both parents, who were distant LeBaron cousins. Mary Jane's Hopkins line runs as follows: Isaac Goodwin, Lydia Cushing (Samson) Goodwin, Simeon Sampson/Samson, Mary (Ring) Samson, Eleazer Ring, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. She is not a descendant of Pilgrim Henry Samson, though her Samson line may be collateral relations. The Hopkins Silver Book gets through the marriage of Lydia Cushing Samson to William Goodwin. Vital records on the NEHGS site have her son Isaac's birth, his marriage to Elizabeth Hammatt, and Mary Jane's birth in Worcester, where the family had moved from Plymouth. See her Bradford, Alden-Mullins, Standish, Howland-Tilley, and Warren write-ups for those lines. This image is credited as a photo provided by Mary Jane's daughter, Lilian Ivers (Goodwin) DaSilva, circa 1890 would be my guess. Image and info from Mary LeBaron Stockwell, Descendants of Francis LeBaron of Plymouth, Mass. (Boston: Marvin, 1904), pp. 21-22, 33, 50, 122, 263, 408, digitized by the New York Public Library.
GRIFFITH, EDWARD HERRICK
To learn why this man is wearing so many medals, how he relates to Stephen Hopkins as a Gen 11 descendant, and where I got this terrible scan, see the entry for his mother, Maria Louisa Knowlton below. The image source is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 493, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone has access to a paper copy and can scan the photos of Edward, his mother, and his daughter Margaret (below), I would appreciate having a copy.
To learn why this man is wearing so many medals, how he relates to Stephen Hopkins as a Gen 11 descendant, and where I got this terrible scan, see the entry for his mother, Maria Louisa Knowlton below. The image source is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 493, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone has access to a paper copy and can scan the photos of Edward, his mother, and his daughter Margaret (below), I would appreciate having a copy.
GRIFFITH, MARGARET FRANCES (or ROBERTSON)
I am not sure how young the child is in this picture because the digitized volume from which it came cut off the information that included her birthplace, birth year, and any siblings. In the book she was listed as Margaret Frances Griffith but as a DAR member - presumably it is the same daughter - she was called Margaret Robertson Griffith. For more information on her and her father Edward, above, see the listing for her grandmother, Maria Louisa (Knowlton) Griffith, below. The image source is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 495, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone can provide me with better images of these 3 Hopkins descendants, I would appreciate it.
I am not sure how young the child is in this picture because the digitized volume from which it came cut off the information that included her birthplace, birth year, and any siblings. In the book she was listed as Margaret Frances Griffith but as a DAR member - presumably it is the same daughter - she was called Margaret Robertson Griffith. For more information on her and her father Edward, above, see the listing for her grandmother, Maria Louisa (Knowlton) Griffith, below. The image source is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 495, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone can provide me with better images of these 3 Hopkins descendants, I would appreciate it.
Hall, Andrew Hodges
Descendant of a founding Taunton, MA family, the Halls, Andrew (1804-1876) was a Generation 7 Hopkins via his mother, Mehitable Hodges. Her birth and marriage to Ebenezer Hall are noted in the Hopkins Silver Book. Mehitable's line goes back through Andrew Hodges, Hannah Morton, Mary Ring, Deborah Hopkins, and Stephen Hopkins. Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 2 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 723, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Harris, Benjamin Winslow
U.S. Congressman Benjamin Harris (R-MA) (1823-1907), was a descendant of at least 8 Mayflower Families, going only from data on the Harris side. (His mother, Mary Winslow Thomas, was described in the book from which this photo came as a descendant of Kenelm Winslow, brother of pilgrim Edward. She turned out to be a Warren descendant.) Benjamin was a Generation 9 Hopkins & Cooke descendant. He was twice a Generation 8 Brown descendant from the marriage of an earlier Benjamin Harris, the congressman's great-grandfather, to Sarah Snow. Both were Generation 5 Browns. Benjamin was also a Generation 8 Bradford, Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins & Warren, and a Generation 10 Chilton descendant. His Hopkins lineage, through pilgrim Stephen's daughter Damaris, is found in the Cooke Silver Book, as she married pilgrim Francis's son Jacob. Great-grandfather Benjamin is the final Harris entry in that book. The Chilton & Alden Silver Books get only to Arthur Harris, the generation before. The Brown and Hopkins Silver Books get the line as far as Rep. Harris's grandfather, the first Deacon William Harris. Information on his Warren & Bradford descent is given in the description of his son Robert O. Harris, below. Info and image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 54-56, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Harris, Robert Orr
Son of Rep. Benjamin Winslow Harris, above, Robert O. Harris was a Generation 10 Hopkins & Cooke, a Generation 9 Brown (twice) and Bradford, a Generation 9/10 Alden-Mullins and Warren, and a Generation 11 Chilton. The book from which this photo comes gave evidence for many lines for his father, but stated that the son was a member of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants (GSMD) and also claimed descent from William Bradford and Richard Warren. This turned out to be also through his father's line, via great-grandmother Alice (Mitchell) Harris, wife if the 1st Deacon William Harris, though his grandmother's Warren line turned up later. Alice was daughter of Cushing Mitchell and Margaret (---). Cushing appears as Generation 6 in v3 of the Richard Warren Silver Book, and his descent is via Edward, Alice Bradford, and Mercy Warren (Gen 3) who had married John Bradford, a Generation 2 descendant of the pilgrim. His mother's family (Julia A. Orr, daughter of Robert Orr, esq. of Boston and Melinda Wilbur) merits examination for Pilgrim links. Info and image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 54-57, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
HIGGINS, ALVIN
This might, just might, be the face of a Gen. 9 Hopkins descendant. The most recent Hopkins Silver Book (2001), states that Hannah Snow and Daniel Cole might have had a son named Isaac. Whoever Isaac was, he married an Elizabeth with no known last name, and they had a daughter Hannah, born in Truro, 1715. That Hannah married the Reuben Higgins who was great-grandfather of Alvin. This assumes also that the author of the book containing this photo was correct about the intervening generations, which he likely is. Vital records carry this as far as the birth of Alvin's father, Eleazer, in Truro, 1772 but the family moved to the wilds of Maine a few years later, where online records are harder to come by. The odds are that Alvin knew who his parents and siblings were, though. So, if Isaac is who we think he is, Alvin's line runs: Eleazer Higgins, Reuben, Hannah (Cole) Higgins, Hannah (Snow) Cole, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info is from Katherine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins...and His Descendants (Worcester, MA: author, 1918), p. 375, digitized by the Allen County Public Library.
This might, just might, be the face of a Gen. 9 Hopkins descendant. The most recent Hopkins Silver Book (2001), states that Hannah Snow and Daniel Cole might have had a son named Isaac. Whoever Isaac was, he married an Elizabeth with no known last name, and they had a daughter Hannah, born in Truro, 1715. That Hannah married the Reuben Higgins who was great-grandfather of Alvin. This assumes also that the author of the book containing this photo was correct about the intervening generations, which he likely is. Vital records carry this as far as the birth of Alvin's father, Eleazer, in Truro, 1772 but the family moved to the wilds of Maine a few years later, where online records are harder to come by. The odds are that Alvin knew who his parents and siblings were, though. So, if Isaac is who we think he is, Alvin's line runs: Eleazer Higgins, Reuben, Hannah (Cole) Higgins, Hannah (Snow) Cole, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info is from Katherine Chapin Higgins, Richard Higgins...and His Descendants (Worcester, MA: author, 1918), p. 375, digitized by the Allen County Public Library.
HOMER, ABIGAIL
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations above.
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations above.
HOPKINS, JAMES FREDERICK
Here is another representative of that rare species: the straight-line male descendant of a male pilgrim. James (b. Newton, MA 1868) has a great grandfather in the Hopkins silver book and an old article in the New England Historical & Genealogical Register includes his grandfather (although the author wasn't sure which wife should take credit for him.) That may be because the father was 73 when the son was born, which makes for a nice, short line for a 20th-century descendant. James's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Benjamin Hopkins, Solomon, Seth, Benjamin, Stephen, Giles, Stephen Hopkins, the last two both Mayflower passengers. The image comes from the yearbook of an art college, which kindly dedicated the volume to James, then Director of Art Education for Massachusetts. Now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, its web site states that the school was instituted in 1873 "in response to the Massachusetts Drawing Act, a progressive 1870 mandate requiring all cities in the Commonwealth of over 10,000 residents to include drawing in their public school curricula." Way to go, Bay State, and thank you James, for carrying out that mandate apparently in admirable fashion. James married in 1893 but I did not check for descendants. Image from The Yearbook of the Massachusetts Normal Art School (Boston: 1917), dedication page, digitized on the Internet Archive.
Here is another representative of that rare species: the straight-line male descendant of a male pilgrim. James (b. Newton, MA 1868) has a great grandfather in the Hopkins silver book and an old article in the New England Historical & Genealogical Register includes his grandfather (although the author wasn't sure which wife should take credit for him.) That may be because the father was 73 when the son was born, which makes for a nice, short line for a 20th-century descendant. James's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Benjamin Hopkins, Solomon, Seth, Benjamin, Stephen, Giles, Stephen Hopkins, the last two both Mayflower passengers. The image comes from the yearbook of an art college, which kindly dedicated the volume to James, then Director of Art Education for Massachusetts. Now the Massachusetts College of Art and Design, its web site states that the school was instituted in 1873 "in response to the Massachusetts Drawing Act, a progressive 1870 mandate requiring all cities in the Commonwealth of over 10,000 residents to include drawing in their public school curricula." Way to go, Bay State, and thank you James, for carrying out that mandate apparently in admirable fashion. James married in 1893 but I did not check for descendants. Image from The Yearbook of the Massachusetts Normal Art School (Boston: 1917), dedication page, digitized on the Internet Archive.
Hopkins, Myrick
Myrick Hopkins of Maine is a Generation 7 & 8 Hopkins, and a Generation 8 & 9 Brewster, thanks to his grandfather Prence/Prince Hopkins marrying 3rd cousin once removed, Patience Snow. His great-grandfather, Edward Hopkins, had married Sarah Freeman. Both of these women were also Brewster descendants and appear in the Brewster Pink Books. The Hopkins Silver Book actually gets as far as Myrick's father, Prince Hopkins, who is stated to have married Phebe Morse and moved to New Sharon, Maine. The generations listed in the book cited below do agree with the Silver/Pink Books, not always the case in published histories of the 1800s. Image from Kingsbury & Deyo, Illustrated History of Kennebec County Maine (NY: H. W. Blake, 1892), p. 648, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
HOWARD, DANIEL S.
Born and died in North Bridgewater (later Brockton) MA, Daniel S. Howard (1818-1904) was a shoe manufacturer and a Gen. 9 Hopkins, Cooke, Priest, and probable Chilton, plus a Gen. 8 Eaton, Standish & Doty (twice), and Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins. Vital record and Silver Books back up the claims of the author of the photo from which these images were taken. Daniel S. is sometimes referred to as "Daniel 2d", apparently because there was an older Daniel, an uncle or great uncle. Brockton records also show a "Daniel 4th" and I suspect that there was no one in town who introduced himself as "Daniel Howard the Fourth." However, certain families settled certain towns and stayed there forever, so the town clerks needed a way to tell them apart. The Bridgewater area was full of Packards and Wareham was full of Bumpuses. Daniel's death certificate does say "Daniel S." (The informant was "the family.") See brother Gorham B.'s write-ups in each section for the particular lineages. Image and some info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 41-43, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Born and died in North Bridgewater (later Brockton) MA, Daniel S. Howard (1818-1904) was a shoe manufacturer and a Gen. 9 Hopkins, Cooke, Priest, and probable Chilton, plus a Gen. 8 Eaton, Standish & Doty (twice), and Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins. Vital record and Silver Books back up the claims of the author of the photo from which these images were taken. Daniel S. is sometimes referred to as "Daniel 2d", apparently because there was an older Daniel, an uncle or great uncle. Brockton records also show a "Daniel 4th" and I suspect that there was no one in town who introduced himself as "Daniel Howard the Fourth." However, certain families settled certain towns and stayed there forever, so the town clerks needed a way to tell them apart. The Bridgewater area was full of Packards and Wareham was full of Bumpuses. Daniel's death certificate does say "Daniel S." (The informant was "the family.") See brother Gorham B.'s write-ups in each section for the particular lineages. Image and some info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 41-43, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
HOWARD, GORHAM BRADFORD
As the younger brother (b. 1827) of Daniel S. Howard, above, Gorham B. Howard was also a Gen. 9 Hopkins, Cooke, Priest, and probable Chilton, plus a Gen. 8 Eaton, Standish & Doty (twice), and Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins. The brothers' Cooke line runs: Oliver Howard, Jr., Susanna (Reynolds) Howard, Betty (Turner) Reynolds, Elizabeth (Morse) Turner, Elizabeth (Doty) Morse, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Hopkins silver book drops this line after the marriage of Damaris to Jacob Cooke, and the Cooke silver book drops this family after the marriage of Gen. 3 Elizabeth to Gen. 2 John Doty and the Doty book picks up from there and gets as far as the marriage of the brothers' paternal grandparents, Susanna Reynolds & Oliver Howard. Thus, if you did not know about their Doty genes and follow both their Doty lines back to Edward, you would never know about Hopkins or Cooke. Vital records show many Howards with "Bradford" in their name. If you know whether Gorham has any direct genealogical link to the Mayflower Bradfords and Howlands, please let me know. Image and some info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 41-43, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
As the younger brother (b. 1827) of Daniel S. Howard, above, Gorham B. Howard was also a Gen. 9 Hopkins, Cooke, Priest, and probable Chilton, plus a Gen. 8 Eaton, Standish & Doty (twice), and Gen. 8/9 Alden-Mullins. The brothers' Cooke line runs: Oliver Howard, Jr., Susanna (Reynolds) Howard, Betty (Turner) Reynolds, Elizabeth (Morse) Turner, Elizabeth (Doty) Morse, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Hopkins silver book drops this line after the marriage of Damaris to Jacob Cooke, and the Cooke silver book drops this family after the marriage of Gen. 3 Elizabeth to Gen. 2 John Doty and the Doty book picks up from there and gets as far as the marriage of the brothers' paternal grandparents, Susanna Reynolds & Oliver Howard. Thus, if you did not know about their Doty genes and follow both their Doty lines back to Edward, you would never know about Hopkins or Cooke. Vital records show many Howards with "Bradford" in their name. If you know whether Gorham has any direct genealogical link to the Mayflower Bradfords and Howlands, please let me know. Image and some info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), pp. 41-43, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
JORDAN, SCOTT
Scott (b. Piqua, OH 1859) was a charter member of the GSMD in Illinois and one of the sponsors of and contributors to this book, so he should be a reliable witness to his own life events and at least some of his parents. It took some doing to find his actual pilgrim ancestor, though, because the book with this photo never states the lineage or the pilgrim. Scott would be a Gen 11 Hopkins descendant as follows: Collins Hausberger Jordan, Julia Ann (Cady) Jordan, Joseph Cleveland Cady, Lois (Cleveland) Cady, Josiah Cleveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Descendants of Josiah are also eligible for DAR and SAR membership due to his service as a lieutenant from CT, according to the Hopkins silver book. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. III (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), p. 2048, Vol. II, pp. 1575, 1984, and Vol. I, pp. 160, 839, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Scott (b. Piqua, OH 1859) was a charter member of the GSMD in Illinois and one of the sponsors of and contributors to this book, so he should be a reliable witness to his own life events and at least some of his parents. It took some doing to find his actual pilgrim ancestor, though, because the book with this photo never states the lineage or the pilgrim. Scott would be a Gen 11 Hopkins descendant as follows: Collins Hausberger Jordan, Julia Ann (Cady) Jordan, Joseph Cleveland Cady, Lois (Cleveland) Cady, Josiah Cleveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Descendants of Josiah are also eligible for DAR and SAR membership due to his service as a lieutenant from CT, according to the Hopkins silver book. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. III (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), p. 2048, Vol. II, pp. 1575, 1984, and Vol. I, pp. 160, 839, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
KENDRICK, SOLOMON
This is Capt. Solomon b. 1809, grandnephew of a grantee of the same name in Barrington, NS (and great grandson of a Barrington resident also named Solomon), according to the book from which this image was taken. The granduncle and grandfather's births, marriages, and residence in Barrington are in the Hopkins silver book, 3rd ed. (2001.) The rest will require Canadian vital records to prove. Capt. Solomon Kendrick's Gen 8 lineage runs: John Kendrick, Joseph, Solomon "Kenwrick", Elizabeth (Snow) "Kindreck", Jabez Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. Image and info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 334, 499-500, digitized by the University of Toronto.
This is Capt. Solomon b. 1809, grandnephew of a grantee of the same name in Barrington, NS (and great grandson of a Barrington resident also named Solomon), according to the book from which this image was taken. The granduncle and grandfather's births, marriages, and residence in Barrington are in the Hopkins silver book, 3rd ed. (2001.) The rest will require Canadian vital records to prove. Capt. Solomon Kendrick's Gen 8 lineage runs: John Kendrick, Joseph, Solomon "Kenwrick", Elizabeth (Snow) "Kindreck", Jabez Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. Image and info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 334, 499-500, digitized by the University of Toronto.
KNOWLES, CHARLES
The Rev. Charles Knowles of Barrington, NS was the grandson of a Nathan Kinney listed in the 2001 Hopkins silver book as an "alleged" son of Nathan Kinney and Mercy Smith. Young Nathan was a double Hopkins descendant due to an upstream second cousin marriage on his maternal site. The silver book refers to a Kenny Genealogy as the source and there is a Keeny, Keny Family article in the NEHGR that claims the relationship as well. It also states that Nathan moved to Barrington, NS and as an original land grantee there during the Planter period his name would be on documents and there was apparently just one Nathan Kinney/Kenney. Possibly the doubt exists because no one had found a document explicitly linking Nathan to his parents. His father died insolvent when Nathan was about 13 and those Barnstable Co Probate Records are not yet on the NEHGS site so I cannot tell what, if anything they said about Nathan the son. So assuming this is the correct Nathan Kinney, and I believe it is, Charles Knowles' Gen 8 Hopkins lines would run: Phebe (Kinney) Knowles, Nathan Kinney, Mercy (Smith) Kinney, Bethiah (Snow) Smith, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and secondly, Phebe (Kinney) Knowles, Nathan Kinney, Mercy (Smith) Kinney, John Smith, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, Stephen. A new Hopkins volume is in the works and hopefully Nathan will be proven a Hopkins. Image & info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 256, 509, 512, digitized by the University of Toronto.
The Rev. Charles Knowles of Barrington, NS was the grandson of a Nathan Kinney listed in the 2001 Hopkins silver book as an "alleged" son of Nathan Kinney and Mercy Smith. Young Nathan was a double Hopkins descendant due to an upstream second cousin marriage on his maternal site. The silver book refers to a Kenny Genealogy as the source and there is a Keeny, Keny Family article in the NEHGR that claims the relationship as well. It also states that Nathan moved to Barrington, NS and as an original land grantee there during the Planter period his name would be on documents and there was apparently just one Nathan Kinney/Kenney. Possibly the doubt exists because no one had found a document explicitly linking Nathan to his parents. His father died insolvent when Nathan was about 13 and those Barnstable Co Probate Records are not yet on the NEHGS site so I cannot tell what, if anything they said about Nathan the son. So assuming this is the correct Nathan Kinney, and I believe it is, Charles Knowles' Gen 8 Hopkins lines would run: Phebe (Kinney) Knowles, Nathan Kinney, Mercy (Smith) Kinney, Bethiah (Snow) Smith, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower and secondly, Phebe (Kinney) Knowles, Nathan Kinney, Mercy (Smith) Kinney, John Smith, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, Stephen. A new Hopkins volume is in the works and hopefully Nathan will be proven a Hopkins. Image & info from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), pp. 256, 509, 512, digitized by the University of Toronto.
KNOWLTON, MARIA LOUISA
Maria Louisa (Knowlton) Griffith was a Generation 10 Hopkins descendant. The 2-volume Knowlton genealogy (3 if you count the volume of errata, additions, & index) includes several pages on the lineage & lineage society memberships of Maria Louisa, her son Edward Herrick Griffith (above), and a photo of Edward's daughter Margaret Frances (presumably the same as Margaret Robertson) Griffith, also above. This is explained when you read that Edward was secretary/treasurer of the Knowlton Association, and apparently the driving force behind the corrections. Thank you, Edward. That said, the book takes a confusing turn when it attempts to link Maria Louisa to her Gen 6 Hopkins ancestor, Robert, who does appear in the Hopkins Silver Book. The author listed no wife for Robert, no wife for an alleged son John, then several German people and voila! Maria Louisa! Fortunately mother and granddaughter joined the DAR and you can buy copies of their Record Copies from the DAR and find out exactly who the mystery ancestors are. They turned out to be, working backwards from Maria Louisa: Sybil Anne (Rowe) Knowlton, Susan (Freeman) Rowe, John Freeman, Robert Freeman, Mary (Paine) Freeman, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, and Stephen Hopkins. The information is scattered through the 3 volumes, but the origin of this very badly scanned photo is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 464, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone has access to a paper copy and can scan these 3 photos, I would appreciate having a copy.
Maria Louisa (Knowlton) Griffith was a Generation 10 Hopkins descendant. The 2-volume Knowlton genealogy (3 if you count the volume of errata, additions, & index) includes several pages on the lineage & lineage society memberships of Maria Louisa, her son Edward Herrick Griffith (above), and a photo of Edward's daughter Margaret Frances (presumably the same as Margaret Robertson) Griffith, also above. This is explained when you read that Edward was secretary/treasurer of the Knowlton Association, and apparently the driving force behind the corrections. Thank you, Edward. That said, the book takes a confusing turn when it attempts to link Maria Louisa to her Gen 6 Hopkins ancestor, Robert, who does appear in the Hopkins Silver Book. The author listed no wife for Robert, no wife for an alleged son John, then several German people and voila! Maria Louisa! Fortunately mother and granddaughter joined the DAR and you can buy copies of their Record Copies from the DAR and find out exactly who the mystery ancestors are. They turned out to be, working backwards from Maria Louisa: Sybil Anne (Rowe) Knowlton, Susan (Freeman) Rowe, John Freeman, Robert Freeman, Mary (Paine) Freeman, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, and Stephen Hopkins. The information is scattered through the 3 volumes, but the origin of this very badly scanned photo is: Charles Henry Wright Stocking, The History and Genealogy of the Knowltons of England and America, vol 2 (NY: Knickerbocker Press, 1897), p. 464, digitized by the Allen County Public Library. If anyone has access to a paper copy and can scan these 3 photos, I would appreciate having a copy.
MAYO, JOHN G.
John has two Hopkins and two Brewster lines, as his family was from Cape Cod before relocating to Acworth, New Hampshire, where he was born the youngest of 11. The "G" might be for Gould, Godfrey, or Gray, two maternal family names. His paternities Gen 8 line runs, beginning with his father: Issachar Mayo, Moses, Abigail (Myrick/Merrick) Mayo, Benjamin Myrick/Merrick, Abigail (Hopkins) Myrick/Merrick, Giles Hopkins and his father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. John's maternal line, also Gen 8, is: Deborah (Gould) Mayo, Hannah (Godfrey) Gould, Moses Godfrey, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles and Stephen again. (This is apparently not a Francis Cooke line.) The book with this photo gave nothing more than a name, wife (Joan Bacon), and children: Josiah B., John G., and Mary E. plus a residence, Dover, ME. He was likely born after 1800 and if he had a photo for someone writing a book about a town in NH, he probably left a paper trail. See the Brewster section for those lines. Image and some info from J. L. Merrill, History of Acworth with The Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical Records, and Register of Farms (Acworth, NH: Town of Acworth, 1869), 242, digitized by the Allen Co (IN) Public Library. Merrill was listed as "town historian" so presumably had access to vital, land, and town records.
John has two Hopkins and two Brewster lines, as his family was from Cape Cod before relocating to Acworth, New Hampshire, where he was born the youngest of 11. The "G" might be for Gould, Godfrey, or Gray, two maternal family names. His paternities Gen 8 line runs, beginning with his father: Issachar Mayo, Moses, Abigail (Myrick/Merrick) Mayo, Benjamin Myrick/Merrick, Abigail (Hopkins) Myrick/Merrick, Giles Hopkins and his father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. John's maternal line, also Gen 8, is: Deborah (Gould) Mayo, Hannah (Godfrey) Gould, Moses Godfrey, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles and Stephen again. (This is apparently not a Francis Cooke line.) The book with this photo gave nothing more than a name, wife (Joan Bacon), and children: Josiah B., John G., and Mary E. plus a residence, Dover, ME. He was likely born after 1800 and if he had a photo for someone writing a book about a town in NH, he probably left a paper trail. See the Brewster section for those lines. Image and some info from J. L. Merrill, History of Acworth with The Proceedings of the Centennial Anniversary, Genealogical Records, and Register of Farms (Acworth, NH: Town of Acworth, 1869), 242, digitized by the Allen Co (IN) Public Library. Merrill was listed as "town historian" so presumably had access to vital, land, and town records.
Morse, Nahum Francis
Born 1835 in Rochester, MA, Nahum was the 9th child of John Norris Morse and Lydia Look. He was a Generation 8 Hopkins and Cooke descendant because the third generation Morris - Joshua, b. 1692 - had married the daughter of Elizabeth Cooke, granddaughter of both Francis Cooke and Stephen Hopkins. The daughter was Elizabeth Doten, Generation 3 granddaughter of Edward Doty, thus Nahum was also a Generation 7 Doty. In between Joshua and John came Newbury Morris and Lydia Briggs, then Revolutionary War soldier Simeon Morse and Bethiah Norris. Nahum's parents are in the Doty Silver Book, part 1. Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 3 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 1434, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
MORSE, ROBERT McNEIL JR
A first cousin of Samuel Fessenden Clarke, above, the Hon. Robert (b 1837), a MA state senator and representative, was like him a Gen. 9 Hopkins. His line runs as follows: Sarah Maria (Clark) Morse, Fessenden Clark, Sarah (Griffith) Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) (Lincoln) Griffith, Stephen Hopkins, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. He married a Gorham, so his children should be Howland-Tilley descendants as well. Four lived to adulthood. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 26, 37, 72, 139, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
A first cousin of Samuel Fessenden Clarke, above, the Hon. Robert (b 1837), a MA state senator and representative, was like him a Gen. 9 Hopkins. His line runs as follows: Sarah Maria (Clark) Morse, Fessenden Clark, Sarah (Griffith) Clark, Hannah (Hopkins) (Lincoln) Griffith, Stephen Hopkins, Stephen, Giles and Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. He married a Gorham, so his children should be Howland-Tilley descendants as well. Four lived to adulthood. Image and info from William W. Johnson, Records of the Descendants of Thomas Clarke, Plymouth, 1623-1697 (North Greenfield, WI: WW Johnson, 1884), pp. 26, 37, 72, 139, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
MORTON, LEVI PARSONS
As Vice President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison, U.S. Congressman representing Manhattan, U.S. Minister to France, and Governor of New York, Vermont native Levi P. Morton had his photograph taken and his portrait painted in various poses and with various whiskers and with white hair as well as dark. You can see some of those on wikipedia. He was a Gen 8 Hopkins descendant as follows: Daniel Oliver Morton, Livy, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins of the Mayflower. He was also a Howland and a Soule descendant; see those sections for those lines. The Hopkins silver book gets as far as the birth of Livy Morton. Image and info from Josiah Granville Leach, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States (1889-1893) (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894), p. 68 and frontispiece, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
As Vice President of the United States under Benjamin Harrison, U.S. Congressman representing Manhattan, U.S. Minister to France, and Governor of New York, Vermont native Levi P. Morton had his photograph taken and his portrait painted in various poses and with various whiskers and with white hair as well as dark. You can see some of those on wikipedia. He was a Gen 8 Hopkins descendant as follows: Daniel Oliver Morton, Livy, Ebenezer, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins of the Mayflower. He was also a Howland and a Soule descendant; see those sections for those lines. The Hopkins silver book gets as far as the birth of Livy Morton. Image and info from Josiah Granville Leach, Memoranda Relating to the Ancestry and Family of Hon. Levi Parsons Morton, Vice-President of the United States (1889-1893) (Cambridge: Riverside Press, 1894), p. 68 and frontispiece, digitized by the Allen County (IN) Public Library.
MURCH, JAMES BOWDOIN
I hope the 4th edition of the Hopkins silver book comes out soon because this writeup can use some actual evidence in Gen 7. To claim anything on this line you will have to document (meaning produce birth, marriage, death, probate, and land records proving the parent-child relationship) a convergence of Murches and Paines in Gorham, ME in the late 1700s. If you are eligible for membership in the DAR, those are exactly the people who served during the Revolution, so you can prove a new line. So far, descendants have been remiss in this duty. The Hopkins silver book leaves off with the Gen 5 & 6 people in Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA relocating to Gorham, Maine. J. Pierce's 1862ish unillustrated History of Gorham, Maine, available on Internet Archive, shows them arriving. The Hopkins silver book states which ones did service in the Revolution, and the history of Belfast, Maine with this image has a brief entry for James B, who does appear in the 1850 FC. Roaming the internet, I found leads on Geni.com and Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy Index. Thus, James is technically speculative but a darn good bet. He should be a Brewster descendant and a double Gen 8 Hopkins (through both parents) as follows: Simeon Murch, Jerusha (Brown) Murch, Joseph Brown, Ruth (Snow) Brown, Joseph Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen; also Rachel (Paine) Murch, Richard Paine, Richard, Joseph, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance and father Stephen again, both Mayflower passengers. See the Brewster section for that line. Image from Joseph Williamson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine Volume II 1875-1900 (Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), pp. 132, 139, digitized by the New York Public Library.
I hope the 4th edition of the Hopkins silver book comes out soon because this writeup can use some actual evidence in Gen 7. To claim anything on this line you will have to document (meaning produce birth, marriage, death, probate, and land records proving the parent-child relationship) a convergence of Murches and Paines in Gorham, ME in the late 1700s. If you are eligible for membership in the DAR, those are exactly the people who served during the Revolution, so you can prove a new line. So far, descendants have been remiss in this duty. The Hopkins silver book leaves off with the Gen 5 & 6 people in Eastham, Barnstable Co, MA relocating to Gorham, Maine. J. Pierce's 1862ish unillustrated History of Gorham, Maine, available on Internet Archive, shows them arriving. The Hopkins silver book states which ones did service in the Revolution, and the history of Belfast, Maine with this image has a brief entry for James B, who does appear in the 1850 FC. Roaming the internet, I found leads on Geni.com and Steve Condarcure's New England Genealogy Index. Thus, James is technically speculative but a darn good bet. He should be a Brewster descendant and a double Gen 8 Hopkins (through both parents) as follows: Simeon Murch, Jerusha (Brown) Murch, Joseph Brown, Ruth (Snow) Brown, Joseph Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen; also Rachel (Paine) Murch, Richard Paine, Richard, Joseph, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance and father Stephen again, both Mayflower passengers. See the Brewster section for that line. Image from Joseph Williamson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine Volume II 1875-1900 (Boston & NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), pp. 132, 139, digitized by the New York Public Library.
MURDOCK, JESSE
His mother was the sister of Benjamin Ellis, above. The Hon. Jesse Murdock, b. 1806, actually appears in 10 places on this web site: Allerton, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, Cooke, Hopkins, Howland-Tilley, Samson, Soule, Standish, and Warren. Check those pages for those lines and see Benjamin Ellis's Howland-Tilley writeup for more on Jesse's maternal line. His Gen. 8 Hopkins connection runs as follows: Susanna (Ellis) Murdock, Hannah (Shurtleff) Ellis, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 200, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
His mother was the sister of Benjamin Ellis, above. The Hon. Jesse Murdock, b. 1806, actually appears in 10 places on this web site: Allerton, Alden-Mullins, Brewster, Cooke, Hopkins, Howland-Tilley, Samson, Soule, Standish, and Warren. Check those pages for those lines and see Benjamin Ellis's Howland-Tilley writeup for more on Jesse's maternal line. His Gen. 8 Hopkins connection runs as follows: Susanna (Ellis) Murdock, Hannah (Shurtleff) Ellis, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 200, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and some info from Churchill, et al., The Churchill Family in America (Boston: G. A. Churchill Family, n.d. (by 1893 & bef. 1914), p. 9, digitized by the Library of Congress.
NICKERSON, SALATHIEL
One would think he would be easy to find but an online search of the NEHGS web site turned up only his death at age 87, in Chatham, with no parents. Thus we are relying on the accuracy of the author from whom this image was taken to state that Salathiel was a Generation 7 Hopkins descendant twice. He states that Salathiel's parents were Caleb Nickerson and Elizabeth Mayo, and that Caleb was the son of an earlier Caleb Nickerson. Beyond that, he notes, the first Caleb was "traditionally reported as one 'of ten sons of William'..." Info on the 2 Calebs was surprisingly lacking but the grandfather turned up in a journal article about his wife, Mary Godfrey. Also fortunately for us, both Calebs and their wives are in the Hopkins silver book. (Always check Hopkins if you have a longtime Cape Cod family.) Both of Salathiel's parents were generation 6, so his line runs like this, on the father's side: Caleb Nickerson, Mary (Godfrey) Nickerson, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles Hopkins (a Mayflower passenger also), Stephen of the Mayflower. His mother's line is: Elizabeth (Mayo) Nickerson, Mary (Hamilton) Mayo, Mary (Smith) Hamilton, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, Stephen. Thus Salathiel's parents were 3rd cousins. The Cooke in his paternal line was apparently no relation to Francis the Pilgrim, but Mary (Hamilton) Mayo's husband Judah (1691-1758/61) was a Brewster. See Salathiel's Brewster entry for details and see the entry for his great grandson, Albert Boyd Otis, below, to learn where the family went in Maine. Image (engraving) and info from Frederick Freeman, History of Cape Cod: Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, vol. 2 (Boston: Rand & Avery, 1862), pp. 606, 611, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
One would think he would be easy to find but an online search of the NEHGS web site turned up only his death at age 87, in Chatham, with no parents. Thus we are relying on the accuracy of the author from whom this image was taken to state that Salathiel was a Generation 7 Hopkins descendant twice. He states that Salathiel's parents were Caleb Nickerson and Elizabeth Mayo, and that Caleb was the son of an earlier Caleb Nickerson. Beyond that, he notes, the first Caleb was "traditionally reported as one 'of ten sons of William'..." Info on the 2 Calebs was surprisingly lacking but the grandfather turned up in a journal article about his wife, Mary Godfrey. Also fortunately for us, both Calebs and their wives are in the Hopkins silver book. (Always check Hopkins if you have a longtime Cape Cod family.) Both of Salathiel's parents were generation 6, so his line runs like this, on the father's side: Caleb Nickerson, Mary (Godfrey) Nickerson, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles Hopkins (a Mayflower passenger also), Stephen of the Mayflower. His mother's line is: Elizabeth (Mayo) Nickerson, Mary (Hamilton) Mayo, Mary (Smith) Hamilton, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, Stephen. Thus Salathiel's parents were 3rd cousins. The Cooke in his paternal line was apparently no relation to Francis the Pilgrim, but Mary (Hamilton) Mayo's husband Judah (1691-1758/61) was a Brewster. See Salathiel's Brewster entry for details and see the entry for his great grandson, Albert Boyd Otis, below, to learn where the family went in Maine. Image (engraving) and info from Frederick Freeman, History of Cape Cod: Annals of the Thirteen Towns of Barnstable County, vol. 2 (Boston: Rand & Avery, 1862), pp. 606, 611, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
NICKERSON, THOMAS WHITE Jr.
Assuming the last few generations set forth in the book from which this image was taken can be substantiated, the Rev. Thomas is a three-way Gen 9 Hopkins descendant and has Brewster genes as well. Here are his lines, beginning with his father: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Seth, Ebenezer, Mary (Snow) Nickerson, Mark Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow who sailed with her father Stephen Hopkins on the Mayflower. She appears also in a second line: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Mary (Smith) Nickerson, Seth Smith, Bethiah (Snow) Smith, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Rev. Nickerson's third line should run: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Mary (Smith) Nickerson, Seth Smith, John Smith, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, who also arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower with Stephen. The assumption in these lines is because the Hopkins silver book, 2001 edition, gets only as far as Seth Nickerson and Mary Smith, pre-Revolutionary War. The birth of Ebenezer in 1768 was recorded in the Provincetown, MA records (available on the NEHGS site) but he became a "leading merchant of his day" with "extensive shipping interests," per the book from which the picture comes. He reportedly married a Eudoxa White, but a quick online search shows events and burials near or in Boston, Eudoxa vs Eudora, too many Thomas Whites, then this Thomas materializes in the Berkshires. You will have to spend the time looking for and perusing probate records and land records on the NEHGS and familysearch.org and not rely on the quick-and-dirties I do on this web site to convince the GSMD that there has not been a horrible mistake. Yes, a prosperous merchant born in Provincetown was quite close to Boston, but there were a lot of Nickersons and Bostonians, merchants, and ministers of that era typically owned little to no real estate. See the Brewster section of Mayflowerfaces.com (this site) for that line. Image and info from Rollin Hillyer Cooke, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (NY: Lewis, 1906), pp. 276-78, digitized by U MA Amherst.
Assuming the last few generations set forth in the book from which this image was taken can be substantiated, the Rev. Thomas is a three-way Gen 9 Hopkins descendant and has Brewster genes as well. Here are his lines, beginning with his father: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Seth, Ebenezer, Mary (Snow) Nickerson, Mark Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow who sailed with her father Stephen Hopkins on the Mayflower. She appears also in a second line: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Mary (Smith) Nickerson, Seth Smith, Bethiah (Snow) Smith, Stephen Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. Rev. Nickerson's third line should run: Thomas White Nickerson, Ebenezer, Mary (Smith) Nickerson, Seth Smith, John Smith, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles Hopkins, who also arrived in 1620 on the Mayflower with Stephen. The assumption in these lines is because the Hopkins silver book, 2001 edition, gets only as far as Seth Nickerson and Mary Smith, pre-Revolutionary War. The birth of Ebenezer in 1768 was recorded in the Provincetown, MA records (available on the NEHGS site) but he became a "leading merchant of his day" with "extensive shipping interests," per the book from which the picture comes. He reportedly married a Eudoxa White, but a quick online search shows events and burials near or in Boston, Eudoxa vs Eudora, too many Thomas Whites, then this Thomas materializes in the Berkshires. You will have to spend the time looking for and perusing probate records and land records on the NEHGS and familysearch.org and not rely on the quick-and-dirties I do on this web site to convince the GSMD that there has not been a horrible mistake. Yes, a prosperous merchant born in Provincetown was quite close to Boston, but there were a lot of Nickersons and Bostonians, merchants, and ministers of that era typically owned little to no real estate. See the Brewster section of Mayflowerfaces.com (this site) for that line. Image and info from Rollin Hillyer Cooke, Historic Homes and Institutions and Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Berkshire County, Massachusetts, Vol. 1 (NY: Lewis, 1906), pp. 276-78, digitized by U MA Amherst.
OTIS, ALFRED BOYD
A great grandson of Salathiel Nickerson, above, via his mother, Alfred was likewise a Hopkins and Brewster, but may have additional Mayflower lines through Salathiel Sr.'s wife, Sabra Nickerson, b ca 1765. I find no parents for her. Alfred's family had been in Maine for 3 generations; he was born in Belfast, ME in 1839 and died there in 1897. The Otis relatives listed in the book with this photo also appear in the Belfast Vital Records, available on the NEHGS online. Alfred's 4-page writeup also reveals that he was a graduate of Harvard law school, so there should be more information and maybe more photos online. The book offers something of a physical description: "tall and erect of figure, of handsome features," and mentions that he did not marry. It also implies that his sister Martha Jane did not. However, brother Salathiel Nickerson Otis (b 1834) did. Albert's first, Gen 10, Hopkins line runs: Eliza M. (Nickerson) Otis, Salathiel Nickerson, Salathiel (above), Elizabeth (Mayo) Nickerson, Mary (Hamilton) Mayo, Mary (Smith) Hamilton, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles and his father Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. His second, Gen 11, runs: Eliza M. (Nickerson) Otis, Salathiel Nickerson, Salathiel (above), Caleb, Mary (Godfrey) Nickerson, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles Hopkins and Stephen again. (The Cooke ancestor is not a Francis Cooke descendant.) Image and info from Williamson & Johnson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine, Vol. II 1875-1900 (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), pp. 132, 148-51, digitized by the NY Public Library.
A great grandson of Salathiel Nickerson, above, via his mother, Alfred was likewise a Hopkins and Brewster, but may have additional Mayflower lines through Salathiel Sr.'s wife, Sabra Nickerson, b ca 1765. I find no parents for her. Alfred's family had been in Maine for 3 generations; he was born in Belfast, ME in 1839 and died there in 1897. The Otis relatives listed in the book with this photo also appear in the Belfast Vital Records, available on the NEHGS online. Alfred's 4-page writeup also reveals that he was a graduate of Harvard law school, so there should be more information and maybe more photos online. The book offers something of a physical description: "tall and erect of figure, of handsome features," and mentions that he did not marry. It also implies that his sister Martha Jane did not. However, brother Salathiel Nickerson Otis (b 1834) did. Albert's first, Gen 10, Hopkins line runs: Eliza M. (Nickerson) Otis, Salathiel Nickerson, Salathiel (above), Elizabeth (Mayo) Nickerson, Mary (Hamilton) Mayo, Mary (Smith) Hamilton, Mary (Hopkins) Smith, Giles and his father Stephen Hopkins, both of the Mayflower. His second, Gen 11, runs: Eliza M. (Nickerson) Otis, Salathiel Nickerson, Salathiel (above), Caleb, Mary (Godfrey) Nickerson, Deborah (Cooke) Godfrey, Deborah (Hopkins) Cooke, Giles Hopkins and Stephen again. (The Cooke ancestor is not a Francis Cooke descendant.) Image and info from Williamson & Johnson, History of the City of Belfast in the State of Maine, Vol. II 1875-1900 (NY: Houghton Mifflin, 1913), pp. 132, 148-51, digitized by the NY Public Library.
Paine, Amasa Elliot
There is more than one Paine/Payne family in 1600s New England with Mayflower blood. Dr. A. Elliot Paine was 7 generations removed from the Thomas Paine of Cape Cod, who married Mary Snow, granddaughter of Stephen Hopkins. Thus he was a Generation 9 Hopkins descendent. The last Paine in his line mentioned in the Hopkins Silver book is Joshua (b. 1732), son of Elkanah, and Joshua's wife Elizabeth Atkins. They were the good doctor's great-grandparents. His mother, Susannah (Freeman) Paine (ca. 1816-1907) was said by the compiler of the book from which this photo comes, that she was "of 'Mayflower' stock" and the daughter of John Freeman and Susan T. Atwood. I find the marriage of Susannah Freeman "of Wellfleet" to Amasa Paine "of Truro" in 1836 but no trace of her parents. A likely pilgrim candidate would be William Brewster. Image & info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. 2 (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 905, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
PAINE, ROBERT TREAT, JR.
Originally named Thomas for his grandfather and/or great-great grandfather, Robert changed his name to that of his father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Images of his father (frustratingly) show a man in the traditional white wig. His son wears his hair in the fashion of the War of 1812 era, the "windswept look," I call it. Barbers sometimes call it the "Julius Caesar" haircut. The birth of the father (1730/31 - 1814) in Weymouth, MA is listed in the Hopkins Silver Book. (As an adult he lived in Taunton and married there.) Robert, Jr. is a Gen. 7 Hopkins descendant, as follows: Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Paine, James, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. James Paine's wife, Bethiah Thatcher, may have been a collateral descendant of Edward Winslow. Image from The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the late Robert Treat Paine Jun. Esq. with Notes to Which are Prefixed Sketches of his Life, Character, and Writings (Boston: J. Belcher, 1812, frontispiece, digitized by my nemesis, Google. In a bizarre coincidence, they digitized a copy owned by my great grandmother's grandmother's uncle, a noted publisher and bookseller in his day.
Originally named Thomas for his grandfather and/or great-great grandfather, Robert changed his name to that of his father, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. Images of his father (frustratingly) show a man in the traditional white wig. His son wears his hair in the fashion of the War of 1812 era, the "windswept look," I call it. Barbers sometimes call it the "Julius Caesar" haircut. The birth of the father (1730/31 - 1814) in Weymouth, MA is listed in the Hopkins Silver Book. (As an adult he lived in Taunton and married there.) Robert, Jr. is a Gen. 7 Hopkins descendant, as follows: Robert Treat Paine, Thomas Paine, James, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. James Paine's wife, Bethiah Thatcher, may have been a collateral descendant of Edward Winslow. Image from The Works, in Verse and Prose, of the late Robert Treat Paine Jun. Esq. with Notes to Which are Prefixed Sketches of his Life, Character, and Writings (Boston: J. Belcher, 1812, frontispiece, digitized by my nemesis, Google. In a bizarre coincidence, they digitized a copy owned by my great grandmother's grandmother's uncle, a noted publisher and bookseller in his day.
Payne, Charles Clark
Charles (1806-1888) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Charles was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 121, 128, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses. Charles's picture from that photo is on the right.
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Payne, Edwin Douglas
Edwin (1818-1884) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Edwin was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. He and his wife removed to Dayton, OH, where their children were born. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 187, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses. Edwin's image (sans beard) is on the right.
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Payne, Elisha
This Elisha was father of Charles, Edwin, Elisha Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, Maria/Mariah, Mary, Nelson, Thomas, and William Payne on this page and Mansfield Payne (1801-1864), shown in a group photo on p. 198. Judge Payne (1762-1843) was twice a Generation 7 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne). He married twice, with John and Mary from his first marriage, and the others from his second. Elisha lived in New York state and was a Revolutionary War veteran so there may be pension records available from NARA via fold3.com. This image is likely a painting. Elisha was said to strongly resemble his son Samuel, below. One of Elisha's Hopkins lines runs as follows: Abraham Payne, Abraham, Elisha, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins, the latter two both Mayflower passengers. The second line runs: Rebecca (Freeman) Payne, Mary (Paine) Freeman, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), frontispiece and pp. 35, 51-53, digitized by the Boston Public Library. The group photo depicts Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and Mansfield with their spouses.
Payne, Elisha, Jr.
Elisha, Jr. (1800-1883) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Henry, John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Elisha, Jr. was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 84-85, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses. This image appears to show scarring, noticeably on the right cheek. Smallpox is one guess, as it was still common in his early childhood and marked the sufferer for life. Younger brother Charles has similar marks, but Edwin, 18 years younger, does not.
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Payne, Henry B.
Henry (1810-1896) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Henry was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. Like his brother Edwin, he removed to Ohio (Cleveland), his wife's home and where his children were born. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 160 digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses.
Payne, John
John (1790-1844) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. John, like Mary/Polly, was a child of his father's first marriage to Mary/Polly Brooks. According to this family history, his children were born in New York, but he farmed in Wisconsin, and died at Huntsville, Montgomery County, Texas, where he had gone to look after the business interests of another brother, Samuel Payne (below). Samuel had died in Galveston, Texas the previous year. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 66-67, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of his half-siblings Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William, and Mansfield, with their spouses. Mary and Samuel are his full siblings.
Payne, Joseph Colwell
Joseph (b 1803-1887) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Joseph was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 113, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses.
PAYNE, MANSFIELD
Twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page., Mansfield (1801-1864) lived his entire life in New York. He was afflicted with a series of strokes, beginning in middle age, thus he used the cane with which he is pictured in the group photo facing page 198. He married and left six children. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 97-98, 198 digitized by the Boston Public Library. There is another photo of him on pg. 85 but it is less distinct.
Twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page., Mansfield (1801-1864) lived his entire life in New York. He was afflicted with a series of strokes, beginning in middle age, thus he used the cane with which he is pictured in the group photo facing page 198. He married and left six children. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 97-98, 198 digitized by the Boston Public Library. There is another photo of him on pg. 85 but it is less distinct.
Payne, Maria
Maria/Mariah (Payne) Chollar (1809-1861) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant. Her grandfather, Abraham Paine, b. Canterbury, CT 1722 married his first cousin, Rebecca Freeman of Truro, MA. This couple appears in the Hopkins Silver Book. Rebecca's paternal line was Robert Freeman, Constant Freeman, and Samuel Freeman of Eastham, a different family than the Freemans of Cape Cod, found in the Brewster line. She was a half sister of John Payne (above) and Mary (Payne) Lathrop, below, and a full sibling of Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, Joseph, Mansfield, Nelson, Thomas, and William, all on this page. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 149-150, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses. Maria's image is on the right here.
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Payne, Mary
Mary (Payne) Lathrop (1792-1854) was a Generation 8 descendant via the same Thomas Paine as Amasa Elliot Paine (above), but from a branch that changed the spelling of its name to avoid confusion with the "godless" Revolutionary Era "rabblerouser" Thomas Paine of England. Like her half- and full siblings on this page, she was actually twice a Generation 8 Hopkins (see Maria Payne). From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 68, 74, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of some half-siblings Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William, and Mansfield, with their spouses. John and Samuel are her full siblings.
Payne, Nelson
Nelson (1804-1883) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, MansfieldMaria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Thomas, and William, all on this page. Nelson was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. Like his brother William, he married into a Sears/Irish family, Cape Cod names, so if you are his descendant you might have other Mayflower ancestors. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 120-121, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses.
PAYNE, SAMUEL
Like his older full siblings Mary and John, above, Samuel (1794-1873) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins. He died unmarried in Texas. The author of this book describes him, from some combination of personal knowledge, reputation, and this painting, as "an exceedingly handsome man and bore a strong resemblance to his father [Elisha, Sr., above]." From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 68, 74, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Like his older full siblings Mary and John, above, Samuel (1794-1873) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins. He died unmarried in Texas. The author of this book describes him, from some combination of personal knowledge, reputation, and this painting, as "an exceedingly handsome man and bore a strong resemblance to his father [Elisha, Sr., above]." From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 68, 74, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Payne, Thomas Hubbard
Thomas (1807-1892) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, and William, all on this page. Thomas was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass. He died in Freemont, Lake County, IL, not far from Wisconsin, and his children stayed in Fremont, so descendants might be found there. Two sons died in the Civil War and their service records should be obtainable from the NARA via fold3.com. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 121, 136, digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses.
Payne, William Wallace
William (1814-1863) was twice a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant (see Maria Payne), like his siblings Charles, Edwin, Elisha, Jr., Henry, John, Joseph, Mansfield, Maria/Mariah, Mary/Polly, Nelson, and Thomas, all on this page. William was a child of his father's second marriage to Esther Douglass and the second child so named. The previous child was born in 1812 and died in 1813. Like his brother Nelson, he married into a Sears/Irish family, Cape Cod names, so if you are his descendant you might have other Mayflower ancestors. From Augusta Francelia Payne White, The Paynes of Hamilton (NY: Wright, 1912), pp. 51, 178 digitized by the Boston Public Library. This book also contains on page 198 a group photo of Generation 8 Paynes Elisha, Jr., Charles, Maria/Mariah, Edwin, William and another sibling, Mansfield, with their spouses. Wm. W's picture from that group is on the right.
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PRATT, FRANCIS GREENLEAF JR.
Francis G. Pratt Jr. (1850-1894) worked in publishing and was a personal acquaintance of the author of the book with this photo, a history of their church in Middleborough, MA. He also turns out to be a distant cousin - see Thomas Weston's writeup below. Francis was a Hopkins & Billington thanks to his maternal grandfather, Zachariah Eddy and Zachariah's father Joshua, both above. Joshua's birth is in the Hopkins silver book. Francis was an Allerton & Warren via the Pratts and an Eaton, Priest, and Alden-Mullins thanks to his father's mother. (See those other sections for the lineages.) Beginning with his mother, Francis's Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Charlotte Elizabeth (Eddy) Pratt, Zachariah Eddy, Joshua, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Most of the lineage data is from the vital records and some probate records on the NEHGS but the image & a little biographical data came from Thomas Weston, Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Middleboro: 1st Congregational Church, 1895), pp. 92, 120, 126, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Francis G. Pratt Jr. (1850-1894) worked in publishing and was a personal acquaintance of the author of the book with this photo, a history of their church in Middleborough, MA. He also turns out to be a distant cousin - see Thomas Weston's writeup below. Francis was a Hopkins & Billington thanks to his maternal grandfather, Zachariah Eddy and Zachariah's father Joshua, both above. Joshua's birth is in the Hopkins silver book. Francis was an Allerton & Warren via the Pratts and an Eaton, Priest, and Alden-Mullins thanks to his father's mother. (See those other sections for the lineages.) Beginning with his mother, Francis's Gen 9 Hopkins line runs: Charlotte Elizabeth (Eddy) Pratt, Zachariah Eddy, Joshua, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Most of the lineage data is from the vital records and some probate records on the NEHGS but the image & a little biographical data came from Thomas Weston, Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Middleboro: 1st Congregational Church, 1895), pp. 92, 120, 126, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Rich, Shebnah
Born in Truro, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, Shebnah wrote a history of the area, published in 1883, when he was 59. This undated sketch is in the frontispiece. He is a Generation 10 descendant of Stephen Hopkins via his paternal grandfather, Capt. Eleazer Higgins, several generations of Paines and then to Snow and Hopkins. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register has an early 20th century article on the Rich family and the Silver Book on Stephen Hopkins, published in 2001, notes on pp. 7-8 claims by the Rich and the Bangs families of that area to descent via an unproven line. If you have that proof, send it to the Mayflower Society, please, as they are expanding the Silver Book series to include Generations 6 & 7. Image from Shebnah Rich, Truro—Cape Cod or Land Marks and Sea Marks, 2nd ed (Boston: D. Lothrop & Co., 1884), frontispiece, digitized by the Library of Congress.
RICHAN, ABIGAIL
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations, above.
See Atwood, Mary 5 Generations, above.
ROGERS, PUBLIUS V.
He was said to be a lineal descendant of pilgrim Thomas Rogers via a "Capt. James Rogers, a vigorous Indian fighter" who moved to Londonderry, NH (from ??), where the family resided for several generations. See Publius's entry in the Rogers section for the speculation in support of his claim to Rogers descent. If I picked the correct as "Capt. James," Publius is a Generation 9 Hopkins, Brewster, and Rogers because this James's paternal great-grandmother Mary (Paine) Rogers was a Gen 4 Hopkins descendant via her mother Mary (Snow) Paine. ( If you are a female and a descendant of Capt. James, joining the DAR will document his lineage, at least to an extent, though it would not prove that James's relationship to the pilgrim.) Publius was also said to be an Alden/Mullins via "a grandmother" but with no name, that story will have to wait. Photo and some info from Daniel E. Wager, ed., Our County and Its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (The Boston History Company, 1896), pp. 50, 362, part I. Digitized by the University of California Libraries.
He was said to be a lineal descendant of pilgrim Thomas Rogers via a "Capt. James Rogers, a vigorous Indian fighter" who moved to Londonderry, NH (from ??), where the family resided for several generations. See Publius's entry in the Rogers section for the speculation in support of his claim to Rogers descent. If I picked the correct as "Capt. James," Publius is a Generation 9 Hopkins, Brewster, and Rogers because this James's paternal great-grandmother Mary (Paine) Rogers was a Gen 4 Hopkins descendant via her mother Mary (Snow) Paine. ( If you are a female and a descendant of Capt. James, joining the DAR will document his lineage, at least to an extent, though it would not prove that James's relationship to the pilgrim.) Publius was also said to be an Alden/Mullins via "a grandmother" but with no name, that story will have to wait. Photo and some info from Daniel E. Wager, ed., Our County and Its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (The Boston History Company, 1896), pp. 50, 362, part I. Digitized by the University of California Libraries.
SAMPSON, CASSANDER CAREY
Son of Thomas Robie Sampson, below, the Rev. Sampson was a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant as well as a Samson and Cooke. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 600-601, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Son of Thomas Robie Sampson, below, the Rev. Sampson was a Generation 9 Hopkins descendant as well as a Samson and Cooke. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 600-601, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SAMPSON, THOMAS ROBIE
Maine merchant Thomas Sampson was a Generation 8 Hopkins as well as a Samson and Cooke descendant via great-great grandmother Rebecca (Cooke) Samson. (See Thomas's writeups in those sections for the lineages.) Thomas's Hopkins line is: John Samson, Micah, Micah/Michael, Rebecca (Cooke) Samson, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Rev. Cassander Cary Sampson, above, is his son via a second wife, Harriet Cary. If you did not know about Rebecca Cooke marrying Benjamin Samson, you would not know about the Hopkins relationship because after Generation 3, the birth of Jacob Cooke in 1653 to Jacob Cooke (son of Francis) and Damaris Hopkins (daughter of Stephen) the reader is referred to the Cooke Silver Book. None of the Samson/Sampsons in this family appear in the Hopkins index. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 598-600, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Maine merchant Thomas Sampson was a Generation 8 Hopkins as well as a Samson and Cooke descendant via great-great grandmother Rebecca (Cooke) Samson. (See Thomas's writeups in those sections for the lineages.) Thomas's Hopkins line is: John Samson, Micah, Micah/Michael, Rebecca (Cooke) Samson, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Rev. Cassander Cary Sampson, above, is his son via a second wife, Harriet Cary. If you did not know about Rebecca Cooke marrying Benjamin Samson, you would not know about the Hopkins relationship because after Generation 3, the birth of Jacob Cooke in 1653 to Jacob Cooke (son of Francis) and Damaris Hopkins (daughter of Stephen) the reader is referred to the Cooke Silver Book. None of the Samson/Sampsons in this family appear in the Hopkins index. Image and info from Alphonso Moulton, et al., Centennial History of Harrison, Maine (Portland: Town of Harrison, 1909), pp. 598-600, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SCRIPTURE, WILLIAM E.
William E. Scripture was probably twice a Generation 10 Hopkins descendant via his mother, Harriet Standish Snow, a daughter of Wilson Snow. This is "probably" because the NEHGS database has a Wilson Snow marrying a Hannah Standish in Rochester, Plymouth County in 1819 and presumably the same Wilson Snow marrying a different woman in 1824. It shows no daughter Harriet, though the book from which this photo comes says that she was born in Plymouth (and was still alive in 1896, presumably in Rome, NY.) Wilson Snow of Rochester was the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Joshua Snows, the last two of whom are on page 142 of the Hopkins silver book as Generations 5 & 6, making William E. a Generation 10 Hopkins. The next Joshua (Wilson's father) married a Hannah Snow. Assuming she was also of Rochester, the most likely candidate is the daughter of Joseph & Rachel, b. 1771. Assuming this was the Joseph of Rochester who married Rachel Landers of Sandwich in 1756, who are in the Hopkins Silver Book as Generation 6, William E. Scripture would also be a Generation 10 Hopkins that way. The Hopkins book further says that Joseph's mother, Mary (Sturtevant) Snow was a Warren descendant. She and her husband and son are indeed in the Warren silver book, vol. II, as generations 5 & 6, making William E. Scripture also a Generation 10 Warren. Image and 2 generations from Daniel E. Wager, ed., Our County and Its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (The Boston History Company, 1896), p. 197, part II. Digitized by the University of California Libraries.
William E. Scripture was probably twice a Generation 10 Hopkins descendant via his mother, Harriet Standish Snow, a daughter of Wilson Snow. This is "probably" because the NEHGS database has a Wilson Snow marrying a Hannah Standish in Rochester, Plymouth County in 1819 and presumably the same Wilson Snow marrying a different woman in 1824. It shows no daughter Harriet, though the book from which this photo comes says that she was born in Plymouth (and was still alive in 1896, presumably in Rome, NY.) Wilson Snow of Rochester was the son, grandson, and great-grandson of Joshua Snows, the last two of whom are on page 142 of the Hopkins silver book as Generations 5 & 6, making William E. a Generation 10 Hopkins. The next Joshua (Wilson's father) married a Hannah Snow. Assuming she was also of Rochester, the most likely candidate is the daughter of Joseph & Rachel, b. 1771. Assuming this was the Joseph of Rochester who married Rachel Landers of Sandwich in 1756, who are in the Hopkins Silver Book as Generation 6, William E. Scripture would also be a Generation 10 Hopkins that way. The Hopkins book further says that Joseph's mother, Mary (Sturtevant) Snow was a Warren descendant. She and her husband and son are indeed in the Warren silver book, vol. II, as generations 5 & 6, making William E. Scripture also a Generation 10 Warren. Image and 2 generations from Daniel E. Wager, ed., Our County and Its People, a Descriptive Work on Oneida County, New York (The Boston History Company, 1896), p. 197, part II. Digitized by the University of California Libraries.
SEARS, JOHN D.
Grandson of Benjamin Sears, probably the one married to Mary Hall, a Generation 6 Hopkins descendant, John D. of Upper Sandusky, OH should be a Generation 8 Hopkins. The book from which this photo comes claims direct descent from "one of the pilgrim families" and if John's grandparents left their birthplaces in Massachusetts and Connecticut for New York (where he was born in 1821) and then the wilds of Ohio, the specifics might have been left along the way. See what you think. Image and some info from The History of Wyandot County, OH (Chicago: Leggett, Conaway & Co, 1884), pp. 352, 645-46. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
Grandson of Benjamin Sears, probably the one married to Mary Hall, a Generation 6 Hopkins descendant, John D. of Upper Sandusky, OH should be a Generation 8 Hopkins. The book from which this photo comes claims direct descent from "one of the pilgrim families" and if John's grandparents left their birthplaces in Massachusetts and Connecticut for New York (where he was born in 1821) and then the wilds of Ohio, the specifics might have been left along the way. See what you think. Image and some info from The History of Wyandot County, OH (Chicago: Leggett, Conaway & Co, 1884), pp. 352, 645-46. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
SHERMAN, CHARLES EDWIN WALLACE
The writeup in this book turns out to be correct and Charles is a Generation 8 Standish via his mother Irene Shaw (Standish) Sherman, daughter of Jonathan Standish who is listed as Generation 6 in the Standish Silver Book. The book does not note that he was also a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant via his maternal grandmother Mary (Eddy) Standish, a Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins because his Standish line comes from Myles's son Alexander and his first wife Sarah Alden, and a Generation 8 Soule via his maternal great-grandmother Rachel (Cobb) Standish. Charles's Hopkins line is Irene Standish, Jonathan, Mary (Eddy) Standish, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. The Hopkins silver book will get you as far as Mary Eddy and Moses Standish. Info and image from D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Bristol County (Philadelphia: Lewis, 1883), p. 593. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
The writeup in this book turns out to be correct and Charles is a Generation 8 Standish via his mother Irene Shaw (Standish) Sherman, daughter of Jonathan Standish who is listed as Generation 6 in the Standish Silver Book. The book does not note that he was also a Generation 8 Hopkins descendant via his maternal grandmother Mary (Eddy) Standish, a Generation 8/9 Alden-Mullins because his Standish line comes from Myles's son Alexander and his first wife Sarah Alden, and a Generation 8 Soule via his maternal great-grandmother Rachel (Cobb) Standish. Charles's Hopkins line is Irene Standish, Jonathan, Mary (Eddy) Standish, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins. The Hopkins silver book will get you as far as Mary Eddy and Moses Standish. Info and image from D. Hamilton Hurd, History of Bristol County (Philadelphia: Lewis, 1883), p. 593. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
SHERMAN, HENRY
Quite coincidentally, I have found a photo of the father of the man below, Nelson Sherman. The book with the image of Henry has random pictures in it that bear no relation to the text but fortunately there was only the one Henry Sherman in Carver and his parents are in the Doty silver book Part 1 plus his vital records are online at the NEHGS. (In addition to being a Gen. 8 Hopkins & Cooke descendant, Henry was a Gen. 7 Doty.) Henry's Hopkins line runs as follows: Lydia (Doty/Doten) Sherman/Shearman, Ebenezer Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. This is a rare image from about 1850 of someone smiling. (Henry was b. 1806.) See his Doty & Cooke write-ups for those lines. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 112, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Since this web site is about family resemblance, I wonder whether their brown eyes were from the Dotys or the Shermans.
Quite coincidentally, I have found a photo of the father of the man below, Nelson Sherman. The book with the image of Henry has random pictures in it that bear no relation to the text but fortunately there was only the one Henry Sherman in Carver and his parents are in the Doty silver book Part 1 plus his vital records are online at the NEHGS. (In addition to being a Gen. 8 Hopkins & Cooke descendant, Henry was a Gen. 7 Doty.) Henry's Hopkins line runs as follows: Lydia (Doty/Doten) Sherman/Shearman, Ebenezer Doty, John, John, Elizabeth (Cooke) Doty, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. This is a rare image from about 1850 of someone smiling. (Henry was b. 1806.) See his Doty & Cooke write-ups for those lines. Image from Henry S. Griffith, History of the Town of Carver, Massachusetts: Historical Review 1637 to 1910 (New Bedford: Anthony, 1913), p. 112, digitized by the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Since this web site is about family resemblance, I wonder whether their brown eyes were from the Dotys or the Shermans.
Sherman, Nelson
A Generation 9 Hopkins born 1841 in North Carver, MA, Nelson was son of Henry Sherman (above) and grandson of Lydia (Doten) Sherman, born 1768, daughter of Ebenezer Doten. Lydia's birth & marriage in Generation 6 are noted in the Doty silver book, Part 1, making Nelson a Generation 8 Doty. Due to the marriage of Generation 2 John Doty to Elizabeth Cooke, a Cooke and Hopkins granddaughter, Nelson was a Generation 9 Hopkins as well as Cooke. See his father's writeup for the lineage. Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 469, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
SHURTLEFF: ABIGAIL, BARZILLAI, BENJAMIN, FLAVEL, HANNAH, NATHANIEL, RUTH, AND SAMUEL ATWOOD
These 8 siblings are Gen 7 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton. (There is much more information in their Allerton write-ups.) They are listed in alphabetical order (matching the picture order, top row then bottom row, left to right.) Here they are in birth order: Benjamin (1774-1897), Nathaniel (1776-1856), Barzillai (1780-1855), Abigail (1782-1864), Flavel (1784-1845), Ruth (1787-1873), Samuel Atwood (1792-1873), and Hannah (1794-1876). Not shown are Charles (1790-1840) and Milton (1796-1842). Barzillai and Milton moved to Illinois, so look for descendants there. Charles died in MA but his wife Hannah (Shaw) Shurtleff died in California, so look for descendants there, too. The Hopkins silver book stops reporting on this line in Gen. 2, and the Cooke book in Gen 3, but the Allerton book gets to Gen. 6. Thus it may escape your notice that they are also Cooke descendants, and Hopkinses as follows: Benjamin Shurtleff, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 76, 78-9, 80-2, 145, 153-7, digitized by the New York Public Library.
These 8 siblings are Gen 7 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton. (There is much more information in their Allerton write-ups.) They are listed in alphabetical order (matching the picture order, top row then bottom row, left to right.) Here they are in birth order: Benjamin (1774-1897), Nathaniel (1776-1856), Barzillai (1780-1855), Abigail (1782-1864), Flavel (1784-1845), Ruth (1787-1873), Samuel Atwood (1792-1873), and Hannah (1794-1876). Not shown are Charles (1790-1840) and Milton (1796-1842). Barzillai and Milton moved to Illinois, so look for descendants there. Charles died in MA but his wife Hannah (Shaw) Shurtleff died in California, so look for descendants there, too. The Hopkins silver book stops reporting on this line in Gen. 2, and the Cooke book in Gen 3, but the Allerton book gets to Gen. 6. Thus it may escape your notice that they are also Cooke descendants, and Hopkinses as follows: Benjamin Shurtleff, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 76, 78-9, 80-2, 145, 153-7, digitized by the New York Public Library.
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SHURTLEFF, BENJAMIN 2d (1711-1788)
Father of the 8 siblings above, Benjamin of Plymouth County, MA was a Gen. 6 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton and his birth is in the Allerton Silver Book. His Hopkins line would run: Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He was also the grandfather of Augustine, George Augustus Charles, and Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, below on this page, who were cousins via different sons of their grandfather. Much more detail about this clan is in the Allerton section. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 48, 76, digitized by the New York Public Library.
Father of the 8 siblings above, Benjamin of Plymouth County, MA was a Gen. 6 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton and his birth is in the Allerton Silver Book. His Hopkins line would run: Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He was also the grandfather of Augustine, George Augustus Charles, and Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff, below on this page, who were cousins via different sons of their grandfather. Much more detail about this clan is in the Allerton section. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 48, 76, digitized by the New York Public Library.
SHURTLEFF, BENJAMIN (1806-1865)
Son of Benjamin (second from the right in the group of 8 above) and grandson of Benjamin 2d (directly above), he was also the older brother of Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (far right, below) and thus a Gen. 8 Hopkins, Allerton, and Cooke. His Hopkins line would run: Benjamin Shurtleff, Benjamin, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. According to the book from which this image was taken, Benjamin was born in Boston and died in North Chelsea (now Revere). This is a scan of a reprint of a painting done in 1846 (age 40) by an F. Alexander. See his relatives for more detail, and see the Allerton and Cooke write-ups for those lineages. His namesake grandson is the author of the book Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), p. 317, digitized by the New York Public Library.
Son of Benjamin (second from the right in the group of 8 above) and grandson of Benjamin 2d (directly above), he was also the older brother of Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (far right, below) and thus a Gen. 8 Hopkins, Allerton, and Cooke. His Hopkins line would run: Benjamin Shurtleff, Benjamin, Susannah (Cushman) Shurtleff, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. According to the book from which this image was taken, Benjamin was born in Boston and died in North Chelsea (now Revere). This is a scan of a reprint of a painting done in 1846 (age 40) by an F. Alexander. See his relatives for more detail, and see the Allerton and Cooke write-ups for those lineages. His namesake grandson is the author of the book Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), p. 317, digitized by the New York Public Library.
SHURTLEFF: AUGUSTINE, GEORGE AUGUSTUS CHARLES, AND NATHANIEL BRADSTREET
Grandsons of Benjamin 2d, immediately above, these three cousins are Gen. 8 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton descendants. Much more on each man can be read in the Allerton section. Left to right, they are: Augustine Shurtleff, MD (1826-1901, son of Dr. Samuel Atwood Shurtleff); George Augustus Charles Shurtleff, MD (b 1819, son of Charles); and Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810-1874, son of Benjamin). Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff had additional lineage via his mother, so see the Allerton section for more on that. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 150-1, 155-7, 322, digitized by the New York Public Library.
Grandsons of Benjamin 2d, immediately above, these three cousins are Gen. 8 Hopkins, Cooke, and Allerton descendants. Much more on each man can be read in the Allerton section. Left to right, they are: Augustine Shurtleff, MD (1826-1901, son of Dr. Samuel Atwood Shurtleff); George Augustus Charles Shurtleff, MD (b 1819, son of Charles); and Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff (1810-1874, son of Benjamin). Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff had additional lineage via his mother, so see the Allerton section for more on that. Image and info from Benjamin Shurtleff (6th), Descendants of William Shurtleff of Plymouth and Marshfield, Massachusetts, vol. 1 (Revere, MA: 1912), pp. 150-1, 155-7, 322, digitized by the New York Public Library.
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SMITH, ABIGAIL
Per the author of the book with this image she was born 1781 in Hanover, NH, married Rev. Cyrus Perkins there in 1800, and died in Goshen, NY in 1870. This particular line of the family included lots of ministers and some sort of affiliation with Dartmouth College so they are likely a group that left a good paper trail. The current (2017) Hopkins silver book leaves off with the birth and marriage of Abigail's grandfather Ebenezer to Abigail Stevens so you will have to prove the rest. Her Gen. 8 line should run: Mary (Cleveland) Smith, Ebenezer Cleveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins and family of the Mayflower. Abigail is a distant cousin of the much younger Scott Jordan, above. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 160, 171, 362, 876, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
Per the author of the book with this image she was born 1781 in Hanover, NH, married Rev. Cyrus Perkins there in 1800, and died in Goshen, NY in 1870. This particular line of the family included lots of ministers and some sort of affiliation with Dartmouth College so they are likely a group that left a good paper trail. The current (2017) Hopkins silver book leaves off with the birth and marriage of Abigail's grandfather Ebenezer to Abigail Stevens so you will have to prove the rest. Her Gen. 8 line should run: Mary (Cleveland) Smith, Ebenezer Cleveland, Abigail (Paine) Cleveland, Elisha Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins and family of the Mayflower. Abigail is a distant cousin of the much younger Scott Jordan, above. Image and info from Edmund Janes Cleveland and Horace Gillette Cleveland, The Genealogy of the Cleveland and Cleaveland Families, etc. Vol. I (Hartford, CT: Case, Lockwood, & Brainard, 1899), pp. 160, 171, 362, 876, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
SNOW, AMBROSE
Capt. Ambrose Snow of ME, grandson of an earlier Capt. Ambrose Snow, was a 9th Generation Hopkins. The silver book takes you as far as his great grandparents, Rev. Elisha and Betsey (Jordan) Snow. Elisha and his siblings were the first generation of that line to be born in ME (Brunswick, now in Cumberland Co.) Elisha named a son Ambrose and had a brother and nephews named Ambrose, so that is a good identifier for that family. The Silver Book discloses that Elisha's grandfather John Snow (John, Constance Hopkins, Stephen) lived in Truro and in CT with first wife Elizabeth Ridley. Accused of adultery in 1726/7 he departed for Duck Creek, DE, minus Elizabeth and their 12 children. Two brothers already lived there. At some point he acquired a second wife, Hannah (---) and they had 1 son. I mention this not to gossip but because the number of Mayflower descendants living in Delaware in 1711 (when brothers Elisha and Isaac moved there) is tiny. If you run across a Snow ancestor living in Delaware, yes, it could be the same people. Beyond our Ambrose's great grandparents I have relied on the book from which this image was taken. Rev. Elisha lived to 1832, at which time Ambrose was 19. He likely heard about his family from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Ambrose himself lived to 1895. Image from Little, Burrage, Stubbs, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, v. III (NY: Lewis Historical Pub., 1909), pp. 1626-7, digitized by Columbia University.
Capt. Ambrose Snow of ME, grandson of an earlier Capt. Ambrose Snow, was a 9th Generation Hopkins. The silver book takes you as far as his great grandparents, Rev. Elisha and Betsey (Jordan) Snow. Elisha and his siblings were the first generation of that line to be born in ME (Brunswick, now in Cumberland Co.) Elisha named a son Ambrose and had a brother and nephews named Ambrose, so that is a good identifier for that family. The Silver Book discloses that Elisha's grandfather John Snow (John, Constance Hopkins, Stephen) lived in Truro and in CT with first wife Elizabeth Ridley. Accused of adultery in 1726/7 he departed for Duck Creek, DE, minus Elizabeth and their 12 children. Two brothers already lived there. At some point he acquired a second wife, Hannah (---) and they had 1 son. I mention this not to gossip but because the number of Mayflower descendants living in Delaware in 1711 (when brothers Elisha and Isaac moved there) is tiny. If you run across a Snow ancestor living in Delaware, yes, it could be the same people. Beyond our Ambrose's great grandparents I have relied on the book from which this image was taken. Rev. Elisha lived to 1832, at which time Ambrose was 19. He likely heard about his family from the horse's mouth, so to speak. Ambrose himself lived to 1895. Image from Little, Burrage, Stubbs, comp., Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine, v. III (NY: Lewis Historical Pub., 1909), pp. 1626-7, digitized by Columbia University.
Snow, Barnabas
Deacon Barnabas Snow (Generation 9 Hopkins) was the grandson of Deacon Prence Snow and Content Doty of Rochester, married there in 1770. Prence was a Generation 7 Hopkins and Brewster descendant, Content a Generation 5 Edward Doty descendant via her father Barnabus Snow, then Ellis, Joseph, and pilgrim Edward. Prence Snow is in the Hopkins silver book and Patience Brewster pink book, and son Deacon Thomas Snow, Barnabas Snow's father, is in the Doty silver book. Image from Lucy Cutler Kellogg, History of the Town of Bernardston, Franklin County, Massachusetts 1736-1900 (Greenfield, MA: E. A. Hall, 1902), p. 507, digitized by the Allen County Public Library.
SNOW, BETSY KEZIAH
The first clue was that her father was named Sparrow Snow and both father and daughter were born in Massachusetts. Capt. Jack Sparrow came ashore in the 1600s at Cape Cod and married into the Brewster family. Snows of Cape Cod are generally Hopkins. A quick look for Sparrow in VR on the NEHGS site turned him up, as promised, in Sandisfield, MA, where the town records noted his parents had moved after leaving Cape Cod. Right beneath the Sandisfield VR listing for him & his siblings was a list of births of his children, including Betsy. Sparrow's birth is in the Hopkins Silver Book as Gen 6, making Betsy a Gen. 7 as follows: Sparrow Snow, Samuel, Jabez, Jabez, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Sparrow (1786-1869 OH) turned out also to be a Hopkins via his mother, so Betsy's second, Gen. 8 Hopkins line runs: Sparrow Snow, Elizabeth (Freeman) Snow, Mary (Paine) Freeman, John Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. See her Brewster writeup for those lines. Image & info from Stillman Foster Kneeland, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family (NY: privately published, 1897), pp. 397-8, digitized by the Allen County Public Library.
The first clue was that her father was named Sparrow Snow and both father and daughter were born in Massachusetts. Capt. Jack Sparrow came ashore in the 1600s at Cape Cod and married into the Brewster family. Snows of Cape Cod are generally Hopkins. A quick look for Sparrow in VR on the NEHGS site turned him up, as promised, in Sandisfield, MA, where the town records noted his parents had moved after leaving Cape Cod. Right beneath the Sandisfield VR listing for him & his siblings was a list of births of his children, including Betsy. Sparrow's birth is in the Hopkins Silver Book as Gen 6, making Betsy a Gen. 7 as follows: Sparrow Snow, Samuel, Jabez, Jabez, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Sparrow (1786-1869 OH) turned out also to be a Hopkins via his mother, so Betsy's second, Gen. 8 Hopkins line runs: Sparrow Snow, Elizabeth (Freeman) Snow, Mary (Paine) Freeman, John Paine, Mary (Snow) Paine, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. See her Brewster writeup for those lines. Image & info from Stillman Foster Kneeland, Seven Centuries in the Kneeland Family (NY: privately published, 1897), pp. 397-8, digitized by the Allen County Public Library.
SNOW, ELBRIDGE GERRY (JR.)
Insurance executive Eldbridge Gerry Snow was a Gen. 9 Hopkins as follows: Elbridge Gerry Snow, Elkanah, Ebenezer, Aaron, Thomas, Mark, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. There are 2 pieces of guesswork here: one is that Elbridge Sr., born in MA ca 1811/12, according to the censuses, is the same Elbridge born in Orleans, Barnstable Co., in 1811 to Elkanah Show and a wife named Sally. The other is that I find record of Elkanah marrying a Ruth in 1796 and having several children but no record of Ruth dying and Elkanah marrying a Sally. The only other reference I find to an Elkanah is one being baptized in 1754 who turns out to not be our Elkanah, since the marriage record to Ruth reveals his parents to be Ebenezer Snow and Elizabeth Chase (wife #2 of 3 for Ebenezer.) Also, the birth of Elbridge to Elkanah and Sally is listed at the tail end of the list of Elkanah and Ruth's children, indicating it was likely a second marriage but the same Elkanah. Who was Sally? If you can find her, you might find another Mayflower line, ditto for Elizabeth Chase. Some Chases are related to the Cookes and Warrens, a few to Howlands. The compiler of the book from which this image was taken mentioned that this Elbridge was related to Stephen Hopkins on his father's side and also to Gov. Thomas Prence, which is true for the line I am proposing here. Image and some info from Mitchell C. Harrison, comp., New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men, vol. 1 (NY: NY Tribune, 1900) p. 369, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Insurance executive Eldbridge Gerry Snow was a Gen. 9 Hopkins as follows: Elbridge Gerry Snow, Elkanah, Ebenezer, Aaron, Thomas, Mark, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. There are 2 pieces of guesswork here: one is that Elbridge Sr., born in MA ca 1811/12, according to the censuses, is the same Elbridge born in Orleans, Barnstable Co., in 1811 to Elkanah Show and a wife named Sally. The other is that I find record of Elkanah marrying a Ruth in 1796 and having several children but no record of Ruth dying and Elkanah marrying a Sally. The only other reference I find to an Elkanah is one being baptized in 1754 who turns out to not be our Elkanah, since the marriage record to Ruth reveals his parents to be Ebenezer Snow and Elizabeth Chase (wife #2 of 3 for Ebenezer.) Also, the birth of Elbridge to Elkanah and Sally is listed at the tail end of the list of Elkanah and Ruth's children, indicating it was likely a second marriage but the same Elkanah. Who was Sally? If you can find her, you might find another Mayflower line, ditto for Elizabeth Chase. Some Chases are related to the Cookes and Warrens, a few to Howlands. The compiler of the book from which this image was taken mentioned that this Elbridge was related to Stephen Hopkins on his father's side and also to Gov. Thomas Prence, which is true for the line I am proposing here. Image and some info from Mitchell C. Harrison, comp., New York State's Prominent and Progressive Men, vol. 1 (NY: NY Tribune, 1900) p. 369, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Snow, George Granville
George is at least a Generation 9 & 10 Hopkins descendant, likely with more Hopkins genes as his grandfather, Maj. Joel Snow, married one of the many Phebe Snows, this one daughter of Joseph and Susannah (Horton) Snow. George is also a 10 Brewster and Rogers descendant. Those and the second Hopkins line are due to the marriage of great-great grandfather Jesse Snow to Lois Freeman, daughter of Edmund Freeman (Gen 5 Brewster) and Lois Paine, daughter of Nicholas Paine (Gen 4 Hopkins) and Hannah Higgins (Gen 4 Rogers). His Hopkins lineage gets to Generation 6 in the Silver Book, great-grandfather Edmund Snow, b. 1752. Image and info from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 209, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
SNOW, GEORGE WALTER
Born in Rochester, MA in 1808, not 1800 as the author of the book with this image states, Dr. George W. Snow was a Gen. 8 Hopkins and Brewster via his father, as follows: Jonathan Snow, Mark, Jonathan, Nicholas, Mark, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. (See the Brewster section for that line.) The author notes that his parents died when he was very little so he was raised by a meternal uncle in Providence, RI. A Harvard grad, he should have left a good paper trail. This matters because he had no chuldren himself but had lots of siblings who may have left descendants. If you are trying to prove descent from the Mark Snow born 1731 for either the GSMD or the DAR or SAR, you may have to prove it through a sibling somewhere along the line. When you run into a roadblock, always back up a generation or two and cast a wider net, i.e. trace siblings and cousins. Image and some info from Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 244, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Born in Rochester, MA in 1808, not 1800 as the author of the book with this image states, Dr. George W. Snow was a Gen. 8 Hopkins and Brewster via his father, as follows: Jonathan Snow, Mark, Jonathan, Nicholas, Mark, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins. (See the Brewster section for that line.) The author notes that his parents died when he was very little so he was raised by a meternal uncle in Providence, RI. A Harvard grad, he should have left a good paper trail. This matters because he had no chuldren himself but had lots of siblings who may have left descendants. If you are trying to prove descent from the Mark Snow born 1731 for either the GSMD or the DAR or SAR, you may have to prove it through a sibling somewhere along the line. When you run into a roadblock, always back up a generation or two and cast a wider net, i.e. trace siblings and cousins. Image and some info from Thomas Weston, History of the Town of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1906), p. 244, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SNOW, RACHEL
Both Rachel Snow of Falmouth, MA (b 1784) and her older sister Achsah (b 1782) married Ephraim Dexter (#3), a cooper from the same town. Achsah had one child and Rachel was the mother of the other eight. Achsah's name lived on in one of Rachel's daughters, who married a cousin, and produced the granddaughter above: Achsah (Dexter) Thacher, above. The marriage of Rachel & Achsah Snow's parents, Seth Snow Jr. of Rochester and Rachel Jenkins of Falmouth is in the 3rd edition (2001) of the Hopkins silver book. Her Gen 7 line runs: Seth Snow Jr., Seth, Benjamin, Joseph, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. A better image of Rachel would be very welcome, if someone with access to a hard copy could be so kind. This one is from William A. Warden & Robert L. Dexter, Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America, Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with the Record of Other Allied Families (Worcester, MA: Blanchard Press, 1905), p. 107, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Both Rachel Snow of Falmouth, MA (b 1784) and her older sister Achsah (b 1782) married Ephraim Dexter (#3), a cooper from the same town. Achsah had one child and Rachel was the mother of the other eight. Achsah's name lived on in one of Rachel's daughters, who married a cousin, and produced the granddaughter above: Achsah (Dexter) Thacher, above. The marriage of Rachel & Achsah Snow's parents, Seth Snow Jr. of Rochester and Rachel Jenkins of Falmouth is in the 3rd edition (2001) of the Hopkins silver book. Her Gen 7 line runs: Seth Snow Jr., Seth, Benjamin, Joseph, Constance (Hopkins) Snow and her father Stephen, both Mayflower passengers. A better image of Rachel would be very welcome, if someone with access to a hard copy could be so kind. This one is from William A. Warden & Robert L. Dexter, Genealogy of the Dexter Family in America, Descendants of Thomas Dexter, Together with the Record of Other Allied Families (Worcester, MA: Blanchard Press, 1905), p. 107, digitized by the Library of Congress.
SOPER, ROBERT C.
My guess is the "C." is for "Cook" as he has at least two Provincetown-Truro Cook ancestors (not descendants of Francis.) There is a lot of endogamy in this family, which I just learned is the official name for people marrying within the same families multiple times in small communities, islands, ethnic or religious groups, etc. Robert (1838-1915) and his family had a decent paper trail and there are probably several more Mayflower lines but let's start with this Hopkins line. Beginning with his father, his Gen 9 line runs: Mary Bryant (Cook) Soper, Solomon Cook/Cooke, Solomon, Solomon, Josiah, Deborah (Hopkins) Cook/Cooke, Giles Hopkins, Steven Hopkins, the latter two both Mayflower passengers. I suspect that the younger brother of the middle Solomon is the Samuel Cook who married someone named Jane (apparently Nickerson) and had Betsey Cook, who married Robert's Soper grandfather (one of the Samuels.) There may be a third Hopkins line due to a Smalley-Soper marriage. Image from a display at the Provincetown Museum in Provincetown, MA (where the pilgrims REALLY landed in 1620.) Be sure to visit in 2020 (or any time.)
My guess is the "C." is for "Cook" as he has at least two Provincetown-Truro Cook ancestors (not descendants of Francis.) There is a lot of endogamy in this family, which I just learned is the official name for people marrying within the same families multiple times in small communities, islands, ethnic or religious groups, etc. Robert (1838-1915) and his family had a decent paper trail and there are probably several more Mayflower lines but let's start with this Hopkins line. Beginning with his father, his Gen 9 line runs: Mary Bryant (Cook) Soper, Solomon Cook/Cooke, Solomon, Solomon, Josiah, Deborah (Hopkins) Cook/Cooke, Giles Hopkins, Steven Hopkins, the latter two both Mayflower passengers. I suspect that the younger brother of the middle Solomon is the Samuel Cook who married someone named Jane (apparently Nickerson) and had Betsey Cook, who married Robert's Soper grandfather (one of the Samuels.) There may be a third Hopkins line due to a Smalley-Soper marriage. Image from a display at the Provincetown Museum in Provincetown, MA (where the pilgrims REALLY landed in 1620.) Be sure to visit in 2020 (or any time.)
SOULE, WILLIAM
Dr. William Soule formerly graced the "Mystery/Fun Photos" page. Eventually with the help of the NEHGS and some guesswork I figured out his Gen. 7 Soule lineage and in the process learned he had Hopkins, Cooke, Allerton, Standish (2) and Alden-Mullins (2) lines as well. William's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Ivory Soule, Zerviah (Cushman) Soule, Isaiah Cushman, Josiah, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Hopkins silver book leaves off with Gen 3, the birth of Martha Cooke, and refers readers to the Cooke volume. It leaves off with Gen 4, Josiah Cushman and refers the reader to the Allerton silver book, which gets to the birth of Zerviah Cushman. Ultimately the Soule pink books get you to the birth of William. Some books noted the Hopkins link (Jacob Cooke married Damaris Hopkins) but did not also note the Cooke link, either assuming the reader could readily get her/his hands on all the Silver Books or knew about the marriage. No. Remember, there is not a 100% overlap in these books; they are written by mere mortals. Always check back up the line in reverse. (More generations may be added to these volumes in the future as the Silver Book series expands to generations 6 & 7.) See William's Soule writeup on this site for more details on solving this mystery. Image credit: Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, CT (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1905), pp. 52-53, digitized by the Brigham Young University Libraries.
Dr. William Soule formerly graced the "Mystery/Fun Photos" page. Eventually with the help of the NEHGS and some guesswork I figured out his Gen. 7 Soule lineage and in the process learned he had Hopkins, Cooke, Allerton, Standish (2) and Alden-Mullins (2) lines as well. William's Gen 8 Hopkins line runs: Ivory Soule, Zerviah (Cushman) Soule, Isaiah Cushman, Josiah, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The Hopkins silver book leaves off with Gen 3, the birth of Martha Cooke, and refers readers to the Cooke volume. It leaves off with Gen 4, Josiah Cushman and refers the reader to the Allerton silver book, which gets to the birth of Zerviah Cushman. Ultimately the Soule pink books get you to the birth of William. Some books noted the Hopkins link (Jacob Cooke married Damaris Hopkins) but did not also note the Cooke link, either assuming the reader could readily get her/his hands on all the Silver Books or knew about the marriage. No. Remember, there is not a 100% overlap in these books; they are written by mere mortals. Always check back up the line in reverse. (More generations may be added to these volumes in the future as the Silver Book series expands to generations 6 & 7.) See William's Soule writeup on this site for more details on solving this mystery. Image credit: Genealogical and Biographical Record of New London County, CT (Chicago: J. H. Beers, 1905), pp. 52-53, digitized by the Brigham Young University Libraries.
STROUT, JAMES JR.
Father of Revillo M. Strout and a more distant relation of Emery S. Warren, both below, James, Jr. was a Gen. 8 Hopkins descendant. Born 1816 in Durham, ME, he held office in the town and was active in politics so there may be other photos that look less artificial. (Sorry, James.) He died in 1871. See Revillo's writeup for the lineage. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 257. Digitized by Boston University.
Father of Revillo M. Strout and a more distant relation of Emery S. Warren, both below, James, Jr. was a Gen. 8 Hopkins descendant. Born 1816 in Durham, ME, he held office in the town and was active in politics so there may be other photos that look less artificial. (Sorry, James.) He died in 1871. See Revillo's writeup for the lineage. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 257. Digitized by Boston University.
STROUT, JONATHAN
An uncle of James, Jr. (above) and great uncle of Revillo (below), Capt. Jonathan Strout (1779-1863) would be a Gen. 7 Hopkins. His line would run: Joshua Strout, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The author names 12 children, most of whom lived to marry and have children. One, Harrison B. emigrated to Indiana and had a son who moved further west to Iowa, so if you are a Midwestern Strout, these might be your people. Given that this book names so many people, it might be useful if you need to show naming patterns as corroborative evidence. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 256. Digitized by Boston University.
An uncle of James, Jr. (above) and great uncle of Revillo (below), Capt. Jonathan Strout (1779-1863) would be a Gen. 7 Hopkins. His line would run: Joshua Strout, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. The author names 12 children, most of whom lived to marry and have children. One, Harrison B. emigrated to Indiana and had a son who moved further west to Iowa, so if you are a Midwestern Strout, these might be your people. Given that this book names so many people, it might be useful if you need to show naming patterns as corroborative evidence. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 256. Digitized by Boston University.
STROUT, REVILLO M.
Born in Maine in 1843, Revillo was the son of James, Jr. and a Gen. 9 Hopkins descendant. The Hopkins book fizzles out after Gen. 4 but a new edition is being published "any day now" and hopefully will include some of her descendants. Revillo's line runs: James Strout, Jr., James Strout, Joshua, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Revillo was essential a stagecoach driver, also carrying the U.S. Mail through the wilds of Androscoggin County, Maine. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), pp. 255, 257, 258. Digitized by the Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, my mother's alma mater.
Born in Maine in 1843, Revillo was the son of James, Jr. and a Gen. 9 Hopkins descendant. The Hopkins book fizzles out after Gen. 4 but a new edition is being published "any day now" and hopefully will include some of her descendants. Revillo's line runs: James Strout, Jr., James Strout, Joshua, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Revillo was essential a stagecoach driver, also carrying the U.S. Mail through the wilds of Androscoggin County, Maine. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), pp. 255, 257, 258. Digitized by the Mugar Memorial Library, Boston University, my mother's alma mater.
TALLMAN, WILLIAM
Seen here on a Fairhaven High School senior trip to George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon, VA in 1910, when a high school education was extremely rare. This image comes from a group portrait owned by the New Bedford Public Library and online courtesy of Digital Commonwealth. Here is a link to the photo, which was a newspaper clipping identifying each individual student. A look at the NEHGS site quickly turns up William's birth record and his parents' marriage. Seeing that his mother's maiden name was Delano sent me to the Delano "green books" published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. There they were, William's parents. I will leave the details to your investigation, but William's paternal grandparents were both Delanos and the writeup in the green book claims Hopkins, Cooke, Alden-Mullins, and Warren descent from the grandmother alone. The grandfather added another Warren line, an Allerton, and a Priest. You can enlarge this photo with decent results, as you can see on the left.
Seen here on a Fairhaven High School senior trip to George Washington's home in Mt. Vernon, VA in 1910, when a high school education was extremely rare. This image comes from a group portrait owned by the New Bedford Public Library and online courtesy of Digital Commonwealth. Here is a link to the photo, which was a newspaper clipping identifying each individual student. A look at the NEHGS site quickly turns up William's birth record and his parents' marriage. Seeing that his mother's maiden name was Delano sent me to the Delano "green books" published by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. There they were, William's parents. I will leave the details to your investigation, but William's paternal grandparents were both Delanos and the writeup in the green book claims Hopkins, Cooke, Alden-Mullins, and Warren descent from the grandmother alone. The grandfather added another Warren line, an Allerton, and a Priest. You can enlarge this photo with decent results, as you can see on the left.
THAYER, ETHEL H.
This was a tough one to untangle because of the apparent red herrings of Thayers, Bryants, and possible Washburns in the family tree. It was the Perkins lineage that did the trick. Fortunately the NEHGS site has all the vital records you need to find the Allerton lineage of Ethel, b. 1889 in Brockton, which leads you to the Hopkins & Cooke lines. The Gen 11 Hopkins line should run: Charles W. Thayer, Elizabeth A. (Packard) Thayer, Susannah (Perkins) Packard, Susannah (Perkins) Perkins, Susannah (Waterman) Perkins, Martha (Cushman) Waterman, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen & Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins of the Mayflower. This image, at about age 17, is from a photograph, taken by me, of a Brockton High School yearbook circa 1906, on the shelf at the Brockton Library.
This was a tough one to untangle because of the apparent red herrings of Thayers, Bryants, and possible Washburns in the family tree. It was the Perkins lineage that did the trick. Fortunately the NEHGS site has all the vital records you need to find the Allerton lineage of Ethel, b. 1889 in Brockton, which leads you to the Hopkins & Cooke lines. The Gen 11 Hopkins line should run: Charles W. Thayer, Elizabeth A. (Packard) Thayer, Susannah (Perkins) Packard, Susannah (Perkins) Perkins, Susannah (Waterman) Perkins, Martha (Cushman) Waterman, Josiah Cushman, Martha (Cooke) Cushman, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen & Elizabeth (Fisher) Hopkins of the Mayflower. This image, at about age 17, is from a photograph, taken by me, of a Brockton High School yearbook circa 1906, on the shelf at the Brockton Library.
Thompson, Albert Cranston
Albert Cranston Thompson had the blood of at least 7 Pilgrim ancestors, so a family resemblance to anyone on this web site is unlikely. His Generation 9 Hopkins lineage was via his great-grandmother, Molly (Tomson) Tomson. Molly and husband Amasa Tomson were also Generation 5 Cooke descendants and appear in that Silver Book. Albert was a Generation 8 Cooke twice, a Generation 9 Soule twice, a Generation 9 Standish, a Generation 9/10 Alden-Mullins, and a Generation 10 Degory Priest descendant. More information about the twists and turns of his lineage can be found in Albert's writeup on the Cooke and Soule pages. Albert's mother was a Warren from Vermont, and research there may turn up additional Mayflower ancestry. Image from Representative Men and Old Families of Southeastern Massachusetts, v. I (Chicago: J. M. Beers, 1912), p. 169, digitized by the Boston Public Library.
THOMPSON, ELROY SHERMAN
Elroy is a Generation 10 Hopkins on his father's (John T. Thompson) side. The best silver book for this line is actually the Cooke book. Mary (Cooke) Tomson's son Thomas married Mary Morton, a Generation 4 Hopkins. The Cooke book will get you as far as that Mary's great grandson, Zebediah Thompson (3rd of that name.) Elroy is additionally a Soule on his mother's side (unknown generation) and Gen 9 Cooke; Generation 10/11 Alden Mullins; and Gen 10 Soule and Standish on his father's line. For more details, see his writeup in the Cooke section. mage from Brockton Board of Trade, Brockton, a City of Enterprise (Brockton: Hollinger, 1911), p. 20. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
Elroy is a Generation 10 Hopkins on his father's (John T. Thompson) side. The best silver book for this line is actually the Cooke book. Mary (Cooke) Tomson's son Thomas married Mary Morton, a Generation 4 Hopkins. The Cooke book will get you as far as that Mary's great grandson, Zebediah Thompson (3rd of that name.) Elroy is additionally a Soule on his mother's side (unknown generation) and Gen 9 Cooke; Generation 10/11 Alden Mullins; and Gen 10 Soule and Standish on his father's line. For more details, see his writeup in the Cooke section. mage from Brockton Board of Trade, Brockton, a City of Enterprise (Brockton: Hollinger, 1911), p. 20. Digitized by the Library of Congress.
VEAZIE, SAMUEL
Founder & namesake of Veazie, ME, he was called "General Veazie" because of his militia service commencing with the War of 1812, and his eventual advancement to the position. If you are a descendant, consider honoring Samuel by joining the U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812. His 1787 birth as a Gen. 6 Samson is in the Samson silver book Part 3, as is his marriage and the birth of his three children (including son Jones P. Veazie, above) and their marriages. His father John's birth is in the Cooke silver book but the Veazies are not in the Hopkins book at all, since daughter Damaris Hopkin's line is followed ONLY in the Cooke book, Vol. 12. See Samuel's Samson writeup for more details on his life and genealogy and see the Cooke writeup for that lineage. His Gen 7 Hopkins line runs: John Veazie, Deborah (Samson) Veazie, Rebecca (Cooke) Samson, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 32, 774, 777, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Founder & namesake of Veazie, ME, he was called "General Veazie" because of his militia service commencing with the War of 1812, and his eventual advancement to the position. If you are a descendant, consider honoring Samuel by joining the U.S. Daughters of 1812 or the General Society of the War of 1812. His 1787 birth as a Gen. 6 Samson is in the Samson silver book Part 3, as is his marriage and the birth of his three children (including son Jones P. Veazie, above) and their marriages. His father John's birth is in the Cooke silver book but the Veazies are not in the Hopkins book at all, since daughter Damaris Hopkin's line is followed ONLY in the Cooke book, Vol. 12. See Samuel's Samson writeup for more details on his life and genealogy and see the Cooke writeup for that lineage. His Gen 7 Hopkins line runs: John Veazie, Deborah (Samson) Veazie, Rebecca (Cooke) Samson, Jacob Cooke, Damaris (Hopkins) Cooke, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. Image and info from History of Penobscot County, Maine with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches (Cleveland: Williams, Chase, 1882), pp. 32, 774, 777, digitized by the Library of Congress.
WARREN, EMERY S.
Emery (1819-1894) was not a Richard Warren descendant, according to the author of the book that contains this photo, rather of a James Warren of Berwick, Scotland, who settled in Maine. His Hopkins genes Emery got through his mother, Abigail Strout, a cousin of the grandfather of Revillo Strout, above. Emery's Gen. 9 Hopkins line runs: Abigail (Strout) Warren, Barnabas Strout, Joshua Strout, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He held many town and county (Androscoggin) offices so there may be other pictures of him, perhaps minus the beard. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 279, digitized by Boston University.
Emery (1819-1894) was not a Richard Warren descendant, according to the author of the book that contains this photo, rather of a James Warren of Berwick, Scotland, who settled in Maine. His Hopkins genes Emery got through his mother, Abigail Strout, a cousin of the grandfather of Revillo Strout, above. Emery's Gen. 9 Hopkins line runs: Abigail (Strout) Warren, Barnabas Strout, Joshua Strout, Rachel (Doane) Strout, Hannah (Snow) Doane, John Snow, Constance (Hopkins) Snow, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. He held many town and county (Androscoggin) offices so there may be other pictures of him, perhaps minus the beard. Image and info from Everett S. Stackpole, History of Durham, Maine with Genealogical Notes (Lewiston: Lewiston Journal Co., 1899), p. 279, digitized by Boston University.
WESTON, THOMAS
Author of two Middleboro, MA histories, he was a lawyer living in Newton, MA in 1895, about age 60 in this image. He died in 1920 and his death certificate and the vital records of his family on the NEHGS site (I stopped in the early 1700s) confirm his parentage and birthplace. Thomas's namesake grandfather was a Soule, Howland-Tilley, Cooke, and Brown - see those lineages in the grandfather's writeups in those sections - but via his grandfather's wife and his father's wife this Thomas (#3) was a double Gen 9 Hopkins, Billington, Allerton, Samuel Fuller, and Warren descendant. See those sections for those lineages. The birth of his maternal great grandfather is in the Hopkins silver book, as is the birth of his first cousin once removed. Thomas's first Hopkins line runs: Thalia (Eddy) Weston, Lydia (Morton) Eddy, Joshua Morton, Seth, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His second runs: Thalia (Eddy) Weston, Joshua Eddy Jr., Joshua, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower again. Image and info from Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Middleboro: 1st Congregational Church, 1895), pp. 55, 120, digitized by the Library of Congress.
Author of two Middleboro, MA histories, he was a lawyer living in Newton, MA in 1895, about age 60 in this image. He died in 1920 and his death certificate and the vital records of his family on the NEHGS site (I stopped in the early 1700s) confirm his parentage and birthplace. Thomas's namesake grandfather was a Soule, Howland-Tilley, Cooke, and Brown - see those lineages in the grandfather's writeups in those sections - but via his grandfather's wife and his father's wife this Thomas (#3) was a double Gen 9 Hopkins, Billington, Allerton, Samuel Fuller, and Warren descendant. See those sections for those lineages. The birth of his maternal great grandfather is in the Hopkins silver book, as is the birth of his first cousin once removed. Thomas's first Hopkins line runs: Thalia (Eddy) Weston, Lydia (Morton) Eddy, Joshua Morton, Seth, Ebenezer, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower. His second runs: Thalia (Eddy) Weston, Joshua Eddy Jr., Joshua, Mercy (Morton) Eddy, Ebenezer Morton, Mary (Ring) Morton, Deborah (Hopkins) Ring, Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower again. Image and info from Two Hundredth Anniversary of the First Congregational Church of Middleboro, Massachusetts (Middleboro: 1st Congregational Church, 1895), pp. 55, 120, digitized by the Library of Congress.
WOOD, LYDIA
Barrington, NS was settled by Cape Cod fisherfolk and this is one of their granddaughters. Gen. 7 descendant Lydia Wood (b 1785) married Prince Doane in 1803. In the rest of this picture it can be seen that she is holding a pair of eyeglasses in one hand. This would be intended to convey to the viewer that Lydia was literate and very sharp mentally. The marriage of her parents is in the Hopkins silver book and her birth is on the NEHGS, which does have some Barrington vital records. Lydia's line runs: Mary "Molly" (Hopkins) Wood, Elisha Hopkins, Elisha, Joshua, Giles, Stephen, the latter two of the Mayflower. Image from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), p. 202, digitized by the University of Toronto.
Barrington, NS was settled by Cape Cod fisherfolk and this is one of their granddaughters. Gen. 7 descendant Lydia Wood (b 1785) married Prince Doane in 1803. In the rest of this picture it can be seen that she is holding a pair of eyeglasses in one hand. This would be intended to convey to the viewer that Lydia was literate and very sharp mentally. The marriage of her parents is in the Hopkins silver book and her birth is on the NEHGS, which does have some Barrington vital records. Lydia's line runs: Mary "Molly" (Hopkins) Wood, Elisha Hopkins, Elisha, Joshua, Giles, Stephen, the latter two of the Mayflower. Image from Edwin Crowell, A History of Barrington Township and Vicinity, Shelburne county, Nova Scotia 1604-1870 (Yarmouth, NS: author, n.d.), p. 202, digitized by the University of Toronto.
Woodward, Theron Royal
Theron Woodward (b. Clarendon, VT 1848), author of the Tristram Dodge genealogy used here detailed his Generation 11 descent from Stephen Hopkins on page 155, across from the page on which he delineated his wife (and children's) descent from pilgrim James Chilton. He was publisher and a life member of the New England Historic Genealogical Society and the Old Colony Historical Society (Taunton, MA) and author of "Nathaniel Woodward of Boston and Some of His Descendants," NEHGR 51 (April 1897):169-180. Info and image from Theron Royal Woodward, Dodge Genealogy: Descendants of Tristram Dodge (Chicago: Lanward, 1904), p. 5, digitized by the Library of Congress.
