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< Eunice Cole
birt: 27 APR 1742
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)
deat: ABT 1777
plac: Dutchess Cty, New York
marr: ABT 1760

  
 Samuel Burgess 
 birt: 8 MAR 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 26 SEP 1753
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
 Remember Burgess 
birt: 23 JUN 1714
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1772
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)


Israel Cole
marr: 11 MAR 1737
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)
birt: 1712
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 1792
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)
 
  Nicholas Hopkins 
  marr:
  Stephen Hopkins 
  birt: 29 OCT 1581
plac: Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England|Origin: London|Migration: 1620 Mayflower|First Residence: Plymouth|Occupation: Trader and Merchant|Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth|Education: Signed his will. Owned books.|Offices: Assistant, Pequot War|Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray|cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers,|butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights,|two pails.|Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins|of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.||Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea|Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The|ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed|ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors|were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels|which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen|Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the|Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in|Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he|was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and|sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made|so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie|his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage,|that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor.|The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence"|arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of|Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his|family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very|religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed|enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.||Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris|came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward|Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived|at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He|was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to|Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in|the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an|Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and|danger to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared|on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with|him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably|deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of|1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a|friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen|entertained at his home.||Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records,|also as a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the|Pequot War of 1637.||Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June|1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he|was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of|intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found|in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple,|an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with|selling a looking glass at an excessive price.||
deat: 17 JUL 1644
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
marr: 1611
marr: 19 FEB 1617/18
plac: St. Mary's, Chester, England
 
   Unknown 
  marr:
  Giles Hopkins 
  birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
 
   Constance Dudley 
  marr: 1611
  Stephen Hopkins 
  birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
    Gabriel Wheldon 
    birt: ABT 1590
plac: England
deat: 11 FEB 1653
marr:
   Catherine Wheldon 
  birt: ABT 1610
plac: England
deat: 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
 Elizabeth Hopkins 
birt: 28 JUN 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
 
  John Merrick 
  birt: 1513
plac: Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
  William Merrick 
  birt: 1546
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 1546
plac: Rector, St. David's, England
marr:
 
   Unknown 
  marr:
  John Merrick 
  birt: 1579
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: 26 JUN 1650
plac: Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma.
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
   Janet Verch Ienen 
  birt: 1550
plac: Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
  William Merrick 
  birt: 1602 OR 1603
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 6 MAR 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
    Matthew Bishop 
    birt: 1534
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
   Dorothy Bishop 
  birt: 1570
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
   Elizabeth Young 
  birt: 1538
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 Mary Merrick 
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
 Rebecca Tracy 
birt: ABT 1623
plac: Leyden, South Holland, Holland
deat: 3 DEC 1686
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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Samuel Burgess


< Remember Burgess
birt: 23 JUN 1714
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1772
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)
marr: 11 MAR 1737
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)

  
 Samuel Burgess 
birt: 8 MAR 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 26 SEP 1753


Elizabeth Hopkins
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: 28 JUN 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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Elizabeth Hopkins


< Remember Burgess
birt: 23 JUN 1714
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1772
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)
marr: 11 MAR 1737
plac: Washington Cty, VA (Abingdon)

  
 Nicholas Hopkins 
 marr:
 Stephen Hopkins 
 birt: 29 OCT 1581
plac: Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England|Origin: London|Migration: 1620 Mayflower|First Residence: Plymouth|Occupation: Trader and Merchant|Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth|Education: Signed his will. Owned books.|Offices: Assistant, Pequot War|Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray|cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers,|butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights,|two pails.|Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins|of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.||Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea|Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The|ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed|ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors|were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels|which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen|Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the|Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in|Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he|was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and|sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made|so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie|his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage,|that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor.|The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence"|arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of|Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his|family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very|religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed|enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.||Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris|came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward|Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived|at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He|was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to|Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in|the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an|Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and|danger to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared|on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with|him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably|deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of|1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a|friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen|entertained at his home.||Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records,|also as a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the|Pequot War of 1637.||Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June|1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he|was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of|intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found|in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple,|an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with|selling a looking glass at an excessive price.||
deat: 17 JUL 1644
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
marr: 1611
marr: 19 FEB 1617/18
plac: St. Mary's, Chester, England
 
  Unknown 
 marr:
 Giles Hopkins 
 birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
 
  Constance Dudley 
 marr: 1611
 Stephen Hopkins 
 birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
   Gabriel Wheldon 
   birt: ABT 1590
plac: England
deat: 11 FEB 1653
marr:
  Catherine Wheldon 
 birt: ABT 1610
plac: England
deat: 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
 Elizabeth Hopkins 
birt: 28 JUN 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.


Samuel Burgess
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: 8 MAR 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 26 SEP 1753
 
  John Merrick 
  birt: 1513
plac: Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
  William Merrick 
  birt: 1546
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 1546
plac: Rector, St. David's, England
marr:
 
   Unknown 
  marr:
  John Merrick 
  birt: 1579
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: 26 JUN 1650
plac: Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma.
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
   Janet Verch Ienen 
  birt: 1550
plac: Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
  William Merrick 
  birt: 1602 OR 1603
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 6 MAR 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
    Matthew Bishop 
    birt: 1534
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
   Dorothy Bishop 
  birt: 1570
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
   Elizabeth Young 
  birt: 1538
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 Mary Merrick 
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
 Rebecca Tracy 
birt: ABT 1623
plac: Leyden, South Holland, Holland
deat: 3 DEC 1686
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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Stephen Hopkins


< Elizabeth Hopkins
birt: 28 JUN 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 Nicholas Hopkins 
 marr:
 Stephen Hopkins 
 birt: 29 OCT 1581
plac: Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England|Origin: London|Migration: 1620 Mayflower|First Residence: Plymouth|Occupation: Trader and Merchant|Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth|Education: Signed his will. Owned books.|Offices: Assistant, Pequot War|Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray|cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers,|butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights,|two pails.|Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins|of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.||Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea|Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The|ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed|ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors|were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels|which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen|Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the|Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in|Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he|was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and|sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made|so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie|his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage,|that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor.|The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence"|arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of|Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his|family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very|religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed|enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.||Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris|came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward|Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived|at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He|was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to|Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in|the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an|Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and|danger to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared|on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with|him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably|deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of|1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a|friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen|entertained at his home.||Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records,|also as a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the|Pequot War of 1637.||Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June|1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he|was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of|intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found|in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple,|an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with|selling a looking glass at an excessive price.||
deat: 17 JUL 1644
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
marr: 1611
marr: 19 FEB 1617/18
plac: St. Mary's, Chester, England
 
  Unknown 
 marr:
 Giles Hopkins 
 birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
 
  Constance Dudley 
 marr: 1611
 Stephen Hopkins 
birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.


Mary Merrick
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694
 
  Gabriel Wheldon 
  birt: ABT 1590
plac: England
deat: 11 FEB 1653
marr:
 Catherine Wheldon 
birt: ABT 1610
plac: England
deat: 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.

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Mary Merrick


< Elizabeth Hopkins
birt: 28 JUN 1678
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: ABT 1702
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 John Merrick 
 birt: 1513
plac: Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 William Merrick 
 birt: 1546
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 1546
plac: Rector, St. David's, England
marr:
 
  Unknown 
 marr:
 John Merrick 
 birt: 1579
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: 26 JUN 1650
plac: Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma.
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
  Janet Verch Ienen 
 birt: 1550
plac: Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 William Merrick 
 birt: 1602 OR 1603
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 6 MAR 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
   Matthew Bishop 
   birt: 1534
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
  Dorothy Bishop 
 birt: 1570
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
  Elizabeth Young 
 birt: 1538
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 Mary Merrick 
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694


Stephen Hopkins
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.
 
 Rebecca Tracy 
birt: ABT 1623
plac: Leyden, South Holland, Holland
deat: 3 DEC 1686
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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Giles Hopkins


< Stephen Hopkins
birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 Nicholas Hopkins 
 marr:
 Stephen Hopkins 
 birt: 29 OCT 1581
plac: Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England|Origin: London|Migration: 1620 Mayflower|First Residence: Plymouth|Occupation: Trader and Merchant|Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth|Education: Signed his will. Owned books.|Offices: Assistant, Pequot War|Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray|cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers,|butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights,|two pails.|Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins|of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.||Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea|Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The|ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed|ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors|were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels|which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen|Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the|Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in|Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he|was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and|sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made|so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie|his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage,|that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor.|The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence"|arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of|Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his|family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very|religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed|enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.||Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris|came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward|Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived|at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He|was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to|Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in|the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an|Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and|danger to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared|on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with|him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably|deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of|1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a|friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen|entertained at his home.||Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records,|also as a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the|Pequot War of 1637.||Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June|1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he|was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of|intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found|in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple,|an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with|selling a looking glass at an excessive price.||
deat: 17 JUL 1644
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
marr: 1611
marr: 19 FEB 1617/18
plac: St. Mary's, Chester, England
 
  Unknown 
 marr:
 Giles Hopkins 
birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.


Catherine Wheldon
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
birt: ABT 1610
plac: England
deat: 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
 Constance Dudley 
marr: 1611

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Notes:

Notes for GILES HOPKINS: Came on the Mayflower with his family. Volunteered with his father and brother Caleb to go against the Pequot Indians in 1637. He moved from Plymouth to Yarmouth in late 1638 or early 1639 and probably met his wife there. They occupied the first house traditionally built by the English on Cape Cod below Sandwich. Giles took the oath of fidelity at Yarmouth and was named a surveyor of highways there March 7, 1642/43. Giles Hopkins was conveyed 100 acreas by his brother Caleb 10/28/1644 and not long after, Giles moved to Eastham where he served as highway surveyor in 1660, 1662 and 1671. He was successful in a defamation suit against William Leverich on 10/3/1654 and served on juries in 1667-68. The will of Giles dated January 19, 1682 and a codicil, dated March 1688/89 were admitted to probate 4/16/1690. Mentioned were wife Catorne and sons Stephen, William, Caleb and Joshua in the main will and the wife and Stephen in the codicil. [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1060, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996] RELATIONSHIPS: "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", pp, 1-2; published 1988 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow St., Plymouth, MA 02361.

Catherine Wheldon


< Stephen Hopkins
birt: SEP 1642
plac: Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: 10 OCT 1718
plac: Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 Gabriel Wheldon 
 birt: ABT 1590
plac: England
deat: 11 FEB 1653
marr:
 Catherine Wheldon 
birt: ABT 1610
plac: England
deat: 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.


Giles Hopkins
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.
birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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William Merrick


< Mary Merrick
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 John Merrick 
 birt: 1513
plac: Bodorgan, Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 William Merrick 
 birt: 1546
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 1546
plac: Rector, St. David's, England
marr:
 
  Unknown 
 marr:
 John Merrick 
 birt: 1579
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: 26 JUN 1650
plac: Roxbury, Suffolk, Ma.
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
  Janet Verch Ienen 
 birt: 1550
plac: Anglesey, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 William Merrick 
birt: 1602 OR 1603
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 6 MAR 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.


Rebecca Tracy
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: ABT 1623
plac: Leyden, South Holland, Holland
deat: 3 DEC 1686
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
 
  Matthew Bishop 
  birt: 1534
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
marr:
 Dorothy Bishop 
birt: 1570
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
deat: Bristol, Gloucestershire, England
marr: Pembrokeshire, Wales
 
 Elizabeth Young 
birt: 1538
plac: St. David's, Pembrokeshire, Wales
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Rebecca Tracy


< Mary Merrick
birt: 4 NOV 1650
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
deat: ABT 1694
marr: 22 MAY 1667
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

  
 Rebecca Tracy 
birt: ABT 1623
plac: Leyden, South Holland, Holland
deat: 3 DEC 1686
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.


William Merrick
marr: 1641/42
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
birt: 1602 OR 1603
plac: Llanlleschydd, St. David's, Wales
deat: 6 MAR 1689
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.

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Stephen Hopkins


< Constance Hopkins
birt: ABT 1607
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 25 OCT 1677
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 22 MAY 1627
plac: Plymouth, Ma.


< Giles Hopkins
birt: 1609
plac: London, Middlesex, England
deat: 15 MAR 1688/89
plac: Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.
marr: 9 OCT 1639
plac: Plymouth, Ma.

  
 Nicholas Hopkins 
 marr:
 Stephen Hopkins 
birt: 29 OCT 1581
plac: Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England|Origin: London|Migration: 1620 Mayflower|First Residence: Plymouth|Occupation: Trader and Merchant|Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth|Education: Signed his will. Owned books.|Offices: Assistant, Pequot War|Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray|cloak, breeches, frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers,|butter churn, two wheels, cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights,|two pails.|Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins|of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.||Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea|Venture" which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The|ship was severely damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed|ashore on the Bernudan "Ile of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors|were marooned on the island for nine months, building two vessels|which ultimately took them to Virginia. During the sojourn Stephen|Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds that the|Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in|Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he|was placed under guard, brought before the company in manacles and|sentanced to death by court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made|so much moane, alleadging the ruine of his wife and Children in thie|his trespasse", according to William Strachey's record of the voyage,|that friends among his cohorts procured a pardon from the Governor.|The two newly built vessels, the "Patience" and the "Deliverence"|arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence has been found of|Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned to his|family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very|religious, he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed|enough learning to undertake to wrest leadership from others.||Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris|came on the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward|Leister. Son Oceanus was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived|at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620. Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He|was one of three men designated to provide counsel and advice to|Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of the Pilgrims in|the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced upon an|Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and|danger to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared|on a neighboring hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with|him to negotiate with the "savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably|deputized to meet the Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of|1621, he served as envoy to friendly Chief Massasoit, and he made a|friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian whom Stephen|entertained at his home.||Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records,|also as a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the|Pequot War of 1637.||Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June|1636, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he|was charged with various indescretions involving the sale of|intoxicants and other items at his dwelling. In 1638/39 he was found|in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with Dorothy Temple,|an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with|selling a looking glass at an excessive price.||
deat: 17 JUL 1644
plac: Plymouth, Ma.


Constance Dudley
marr: 1611


Elizabeth Fisher
marr: 19 FEB 1617/18
plac: St. Mary's, Chester, England
 
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Notes for STEPHEN HOPKINS: Stephen Hopkins was one of the original Pilgrim. He was a prominent man in Plymouth Colony, and one of the few passengers of the Mayflower who came to this country with servants. Governor William Bradford, in his enumeration of the passengers of the Mayflower thus describes him in his History of Plymouth Plantations: Mr. Steven Hopkins and Elizabeth, his wife, and two children, called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife, and two more by this wife, called Damaris and Oceanus, the last was born at sea, and two servants called Edward Dotey and Edward Lister. In 1650, Governor Bradford writes: Mr. Hopkins & his wife are now both dead, but they lived about 20 years in this place & had one son and four daughters born here. Their son became a seaman and dyed at Barbadoes, one daughter died here & two are married, one of them hath three children and one is yet to marry. So their increase which still survive are 5, but his son Giles is married & has 4 children. His daughter Constanta is also married & hath 12 children all of them living & one married. One of these children was Mary Snow, who married Thomas Paine. Stephen setteled in the part of Eastham now included in the town of Orleans, on the place at the head of the Cove, called by the Indians "Kesscayoganseet." and later owned and occupied by James Percival. Steven Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made a prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown, in Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island, where the 150 passengers were stranded for nine months. Hopkins led an uprising challenging the governor's authority and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin of his wife, and so was pardoned. The company built two vessels and escaped the island. Hopkins returned to England. Steven Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children Giles and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage. A son Oceanus was born while the Mayflower was at sea. He participated in the early exploring missions and was an "ambassador" along with Myles Standish for Indian relations. In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, and in 1638 he was fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. He was also charged with several other crimes, including selling glass at too high a price, and selling illegal intoxicants. Will of Stephen Hopkins The last Will and Testament of Mr. Stephen Hopkins exhibited upon the Oathes of mr Willm Bradford and Captaine Miles Standish at the generall Court holden at Plymouth the xxth of August Anno dm 1644 as it followeth in these wordes vizt. The sixt of June 1644 I Stephen Hopkins of Plymouth in New England being weake yet in good and prfect memory blessed be God yet considering the fraile estate of all men I do ordaine and make this to be my last will and testament in manner and forme following and first I do committ my body to the earth from whence it was taken, and my soule to the Lord who gave it, my body to b eburyed as neare as convenyently may be to my wyfe Deceased And first my will is that out of my whole estate my funerall expences be discharged secondly that out of the remayneing part of my said estate that all my lawfull Debts be payd thirdly I do bequeath by this my will to my sonn Giles Hopkins my great Bull wch is now in the hands of Mris Warren. Also I do give to Stephen Hopkins my sonn Giles his sonne twenty shillings in Mris Warrens hands for the hire of the said Bull Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Constanc Snow the wyfe of Nicholas Snow my mare also I give unto my daughter Deborah Hopkins the brodhorned black cowe and her calf and half the Cowe called Motley Also I doe give and bequeath unto my daughter Damaris Hopkins the Cowe called Damaris heiffer and the white faced calf and half the cowe called Mottley Also I give to my daughter Ruth the Cowe called Red Cole and her calfe and a Bull at Yarmouth wch is in the keepeing of Giles Hopkins wch is an yeare and advantage old and half the curld Cowe Also I give and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth the Cowe called Smykins and her calf and thother half of the Curld Cowe wth Ruth and an yearelinge heiffer wth out a tayle in the keeping of Gyles Hopkins at Yarmouth Also I do give and bequeath unto my foure daughters that is to say Deborah Hopkins Damaris Hopkins Ruth Hopkins and Elizabeth Hopkins all the mooveable goods the wch do belong to my house as linnen wollen beds bedcloathes pott kettles pewter or whatsoevr are moveable belonging to my said house of what kynd soever and not named by their prticular names all wch said mooveables to be equally devided amongst my said daughters foure silver spoones that is to say to eich of them one, And in case any of my said daughters should be taken away by death before they be marryed that then the part of their division to be equally devided amongst the Survivors. I do also by this my will make Caleb Hopkins my sonn and heire apparent giveing and bequeathing unto my said sonn aforesaid all my Right title and interrest to my house and lands at Plymouth wth all the Right title and interrest wch doth might or of Right doth or may hereafter belong unto mee, as also I give unto my saide heire all such land wch of Right is Rightly due unto me and not at prsent in my reall possession wch belongs unto me by right of my first comeing into this land or by any other due Right, as by such freedome or otherwise giveing unto my said heire my full & whole and entire Right in all divisions allottments appoyntments or distributions whatsoever to all or any pt of the said lande at any tyme or tymes so to be disposed Also I do give moreover unto my foresaid heire one paire or yooke of oxen and the hyer of them wch are in the hands of Richard Church as may appeare by bill under his hand Also I do give unto my said heire Caleb Hopkins all my debts wch are now oweing unto me, or at the day of my death may be oweing unto mee either by booke bill or bills or any other way rightfully due unto mee ffurthermore my will is that my daughters aforesaid shall have free recourse to my house in Plymouth upon any occation there to abide and remayne for such tyme as any of them shall thinke meete and convenyent & they single persons And for the faythfull prformance of this my will I do make and ordayne my aforesaid sonn and heire Caleb Hopkins my true and lawfull Executor ffurther I do by this my will appoynt and make my said sonn and Captaine Miles Standish joyntly supervisors of this my will according to the true meaneing of the same that is to say that my Executor & supervisor shall make the severall divisions parts or porcons legacies or whatsoever doth appertaine to the fullfilling of this my will It is also my will that my Executr & Supervisor shall advise devise and dispose by the best wayes & meanes they cann for the disposeing in marriage or other wise for the best advancnt of the estate of the forenamed Deborah Damaris Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins Thus trusting in the Lord my will shalbe truly prformed according to the true meaneing of the same I committ the whole Disposeing hereof to the Lord that hee may direct you herein June 6th 1644 Witnesses hereof By me Steven Hopkins Myles Standish William Bradford [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1060, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996] Arrived at Plymouth in 1620 aboard the MAYFLOWER. RELATIONSHIPS: "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", pp, 1-2; published 1988 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow St., Plymouth, MA 02361. [Br�derbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5352, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996] Came in the Mayflower 1620; as Commissioner with Gov. Winslow, made Treaty of Peace with Massasoit, 1621; Mem. Expdn, which crushed Neponset's conspiracy, 1623; Asst., 1633-36; in Pequot War, 1637; served in the Colonial War. The Mayflower was the vessel in which Steven Hopkins and the other Pilgrims crossed the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in 1620. As originally conceived, the expedition included another vessel, the Speedwell, but the latter proved unseaworthy. The Mayflower, about 180 gross tons and carrying 102 passengers, finally got under way from Plymouth, England, on September 16, 1620. The ship was headed for Virginia, where the colonists had been authorized to settle. As a result of stormy weather and navigational errors, the vessel failed to make good its course, and on November 21 the Mayflower rounded the end of Cape Cod and dropped anchor off the site of present-day Provincetown, Massachusetts. The Mayflower remained anchored for the next few weeks while a party from the ship explored Cape Cod and its environs in search of a satisfactory site for the colony. Peregrine White, the first European child born in New England, was delivered on the Mayflower in the interim. On December 21, an area having been selected, the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower near the head of Cape Cod and founded Plymouth Colony, the first permanent settlement in New England. The Pilgrims were probably more than 800 km (500 mi) northeast of their intended destination in Virginia. The patent for their settlement in the New World, issued by the London Company, was no longer binding, and some among the passengers desired total independence from their shipmates. To prevent this, 41 of the adult male passengers, including John Alden, William Bradford, Steven Hopkins, William Brewster, John Carver, Miles Standish, and Edward Winslow, gathered in the cabin of the Mayflower and formulated and signed the Mayflower Compact; all adult males were required to sign. The Mayflower Compact was the first constitution written in America. It consolidated the passengers into a �civil body politic,� which had the power to frame and enact laws appropriate to the general good of the planned settlement. All colonists were bound to obey the ordinances so enacted. This compact established rule of the majority, which remained a primary principle of government in Plymouth Colony until its absorption by the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1691. Stephen HOPKINS married Constance (DUDLEY?) in 1604, the year of the HamptonCourt Conference that kicked out Richard Clyfton and John Robinson, as ministers of the Church of England, for being Puritans, and also made Separatists out of William Brewster and William Bradford, who had been "pure-life-Puritan" members of Clyfton�s congregation at Babworth. These four ceased to be Puritans sixteen years before the Mayflower sailed, and the Puritan movement, originally founded for pure living, was taken over by the Anglo-Catholic element in the Church of England and turned into a reign of terror, to "purify" the church of heretics. This Protestant Puritan Inquisition ultimately killed 100,000 people as "witches" in Europe, and reached across the Atlantic Ocean, for its victims, to Bermuda, and to Salem, Massachusetts. As opposed to the mass slaughter of witches in Europe, it is to the credit of the New World that only 41 were victims on this side of the Atlantic: 22 in Salem, and 19 in Bermuda. The following year, 1605, Stephen and Constance HOPKINS had a daughter, Constance, born; and two years later a son, Gyles, two years after that a second son, Stephen, Jr., was born. That was the year 1609, in which HOPKINS went as a Minister�s assistant with the delegation that Baron De La Warr had commissioned as the newly appointed Governor of Virginia. Lord De La Warr dispatches Sir Thomas GATES with an fleet of ships for the colony of Jamestown. From p.3 of "THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607-1660" by Peter Wilson Coldham: 1610 7 July. The Governor and Council of Virginia Report that on 1 April the De la Warr accompanied by the Blessing of Plymouth and the Hercules of Rye left Cowes with 150 persons to go as planters to Virginia and arrived at Cape Henry on 6 June. A fleet of nine ships (or seven ships and two pinnaces) escorted the new Governor to Virginia. Stephen HOPKINS was on the flagship, the Sea Venture, (300 tons; Captain, Christopher Newport) with Sir George Summers, "Admiral of the Seas", and Sir Thomas GATES, Deputy Governor for Lord De La War, who preferred to stay in England, and govern by proxy. Also aboard were two writers: Silvanus Jourdain, and William Strachey. Stephen HOPKINS, about age 21, who had been raised on Tyndale�s translation of the Bible was a clerk to the private chaplain of the Gover or, and delegated to read the psalms and scriptures, at the Sunday services, on board the ship. William Strachey�s account says he was: "a fellow who had much knowledge of the Scriptures and could reason well therein." So, if he did not actually preach also, he most certainly took part in discussions on religion. The fleet had set sail from Plymouth on June 02, 1609. On July 28, a terrible tempest blew up, and the Sea Venture was separated from the other ships. Silvanus Jourdain�s account says that there were three days of perpetual horror, and that 2,000 tons of water were pumped out of the ship, between Tuesday noon and Friday noon. On the afternoon of Friday, July 28, the ship stuck fast on a coral reef, and 150 men, women and children were successfully landed ashore, in small boats. They found themselves on the island of Bermuda, and the only other inhabitants, except for sea birds and turtles were thousands of wild hogs, descendants of domesticated swine, from Spanish ship-wrecks of years before. This island had caused so many wrecks, it was marked, on contemporary maps as the Isle of Devils, or Ya de demonios. (Sebastian Cabot�s). Bermudan Six months later-on January 28, 1610, the fiery Stephen HOPKINS was tired of working on two ships, which were to take the Governor, and the other ship-wrecked passengers, on to Virginia. He persuaded some of the new crew to plot to make him Governor, and to stay in Bermuda, where there was food in plenty, and later perhaps to complete the ships and go exploring. Stephen was convinced that Thomas West authority was only on the ship and the regime in Virginia, not to the forced existence in Bermuda. A couple of tattletales named Samuel SHARP and Humphrey REED told Governor Sir Thomas GATES, and Stephen HOPKINS found himself in irons, and on trial before the whole company. He was convicted of mutiny and condemned to die. The other rebels, single men, were executed, and the only life spared was that of Stephen HOPKINS, who had made so much moan about the ruin of wife and children, that he was, at last, set free. On May 10, 1610, the two new boats with about 150 passengers then set sail for Virginia, and arrived there May 24, 1610. Probably because the uprising had not made him very popular, Stephen HOPKINS sailed back to London. He then became, however, the first of the Pilgrims to rebel against the civil and religious tyranny of England, for which he deserves a special honor among us, and a special place in our society�s affections. This was the ship-wreck of the century, and when William Shakespeare read the first-hand account of it, by author William Strachey, he wrote the only one of his 38 plays with an original plot: The Tempest. Some 12 speeches are paraphrases of Strachey�s book. On November 1, 1611, The Tempest was presented at Whitehall on Hallow-mass night, or, as we would say, All Saints Day night, the night after Halloween. Stephen HOPKINS may have gone to see it, for we know he was living in London six years later, in 1617. His first wife, Constance [DUDLEY?], and his son, Stephen Jr., had died, and he now married Elizabeth Fisher at the Church of St. Mary Matfellon, or White Chapel. The next year a daughter was born, and they named her Damaris, a beautiful name and meaning: "of the Sea. Two years later, Stephen HOPKINS once again decided to take his family to settle in Virginia. The first time he had a wife Constance DUDLEY?) and three children and sailed from Plymouth on a ship of 300 tons, (the Sea Venture), which was wrecked. The second time he had a family of 3 & � children, and sailed on a ship little more than half as big: 180 tons, but it got there. They set sail from Southampton, but came back to Dartmouth, set sail from Dartmouth and came back to Plymouth. So he ended-up setting sail for the second time in his life from Plymouth. And instead of landing in Virginia, he ended-up in Plymouth in New England. The HOPKINS� family was the largest on the Mayflower. There was Stephen HOPKINS , now 32, and second wife Elizabeth Fisher, who was pregnant. Constance was 15, Gyles 13, and Damaris 2. Somewhere between September 16 and November 21, 1620 a son was born, on board the Mayflower, at sea, and promptly named Oceanus, a fitting brother for Damaris. Along with the HOPKINS Family were two fiery young men named Edward: Edward Doty, who had left his wife Winifred at home in London, and bachelor Edward Leister, who soon left Plymouth for Virginia, after the two Edwards fought the Pilgrims� only duel. But before the Mayflower trip was over, guess who started another mutiny? It is not known for sure, but Stephen HOPKINS certainly had both the precedent and provocation. He wanted to be free from the usury of the London Merchant Adventurers; he could not have enjoyed the sarcastic contempt of the ship�s crew; and he must have been bored bythe sanctimoniousness of some of the Separatist self-styled "saints". But cooler heads prevailed, and the rebels were thus indirectly, if not directly, responsible for the writing of that chapter of American (and free world) civil and religious liberty: The Mayflower Compact. Stephen HOPKINS was the fourteenth man to sign it and later he was assistant Governor of Plymouth for 13 years. Poor Damaris died before 1626, for that year a HOPKINS� daughter was born who was given the same name: a replacement. Three more daughters and another son were born in Plymouth. All the children must have heard their father�s ship-wreck story many times, and possibly heard about that English play, The Tempest. One of them, Jane, had decided to visit Bermuda, and was living there alone in 1655. Whether she was a single woman, or became a widow is not known. But the Puritans had preceded her to Bermuda. All persons who had facial moles, which did not bleed when pricked with a pin, were declared to be witches. [No wonder they are called �beauty marks� today] Most �Witches� that were hanged in any colony - were mostly fetching and shapely women. The �stories� of course could not allow human nature to be part of the doctrinal divergence - perhaps these women merely rejected the Elders lusty advances - or perhaps, horrors, pregnancy, or just plain threatened "to spill the beans� about the �goings-on�? The first trial and execution of a witch had taken place four years earlier, in April 1651. Twenty-one unfortunate victims followed. The last was on New Year�s day 1655. The Jury of the Commonwealth of England doth` present Jane HOPKINS one of the passengers in the Mayflower for that she...hath feloniously and wickedly consulted and covenanted with the Devil...contrary to nature and the law of God and man...". She had not been a passenger on the Mayflower, of course, but that identifies her as the daughter of Stephen HOPKINS (the ship-wrecked mutineer of Bermuda) and a Mayflower descendant murdered by the Puritans. She was tried and executed as a witch, by the Puritans whom Stephen HOPKINS and our Pilgrim Separatists ancestors of Scrooby and Leiden had come to this country to escape. But, Stephen HOPKINS never knew of his poor daughter�s cruel fate. In 1655, he had been dead for eleven years, and Jane�s mother, Elizabeth, had been dead for fifteen. Stephen HOPKINS� was a "mutineer." But so were all the Pilgrims mutineers--- in politics, and heretics in religion. It is their special glory. Above all, is this true of Elder Brewster, who published 18 seditious books, in Leiden. His Cambridge classmate, John Penry, was hanged, drawn and quartered, for his sermons. While Alexander Leighton, a Scottish minister who wrote only one mild pamphlet against the Anglican church, was sentenced, by the Star Chamber, to pay a fine of 100,000 pounds, to be whipped, pilloried before the court, have one ear sliced off and his nose split, to have branded on his forehead the letters "S.S." (Stirrer of Sedition), to be whipped, pilloried again, to have the other ear cut off, and to be imprisoned for life in the stinking Fleet Street prison. Brewster was wanted, dead or alive, and might have suffered an even worst fate, had he been caught. He was a stowaway on the Mayflower. the men convicted with Stephen HOPKINS in Bermuda, were merely killed. Stephen HOPKINS did not run for assistant governor, in the modern sense. There was no campaigns with rival candidates, in early Plymouth. It was strictly what we would call a write-in vote, and the elected man had no choice but to accept the responsibilities with which he was honored. Jane HOPKINS did not claim to be a witch, or even think herself secretly as one. As her father�s daughter, or a Separatist, she could hardly be expected to believe in witchcraft. She was evidently unfortunate enough to have a mole. She only claimed to be a Mayflower descendant:- new and convincing evidence that her father survived the Bermuda tempest of 1609, and again, the only Shakespeare play based on fact and not fiction. Stephen HOPKINS while at Plymouth was fined for battery of John Tisdale, and in 1638 he was fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. Stephen was also charged with several other crimes at Plymouth, including selling glass at too high a price, and selling illegal intoxicants. However Stephen HOPKINS and Miles Standish were "ambassadors" for the Indian relations. Without the help of, what Christopher Columbus mistakenly named Indians, my paternal Great (Eleven times) Grandfather (Elicit, 12th therefrom] and the others ---- may not have survived. The Mayflower Compact drawn up by the Pilgrims and signed by STEPHEN HOPKINS one of the forty-one men aboard, in 1620 establishes a form of government based on the will of the colonists rather than on that of the Crown. The Pilgrims have found that Cape Cod is outside the jurisdiction of the London Company, and they select Plymouth as the site of a settlement. The Mayflower Compact The threat of James I to "harry them out of the land" sent a little band of religious dissenters from England to Holland in 1608. They were known as "Separatists" because they wished to cut all ties with the Established Church. In 1620, some of them, known now as the Pilgrims, joined with a larger group in England to set sail on the Mayflower for the New World. A joint stock company financed their venture. In November, they sighted Cape Cod and decided to land an exploring party at Plymouth Harbor. However, a rebellious group picked up at Southampton and London troubled the Pilgrim leaders, and to control their actions forty-one of the Pilgrims drew up the "Mayflower Compact," which was signed before going ashore. The voluntary agreement to govern themselves was America�s first written constitution. In the name of God, Amen. We, whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord, King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King, Defender of the Faith, etc. Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern Parts of Virginia; do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in the Presence of God and one of another, convenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience. In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620. Documented by the Society of Mayflower descendants- Among the 41 signers of the Mayflower Compact, Stephen HOPKINS was the 14th. A case could be made that indirectly he may have been responsible for the Compact. Remember, Stephen HOPKINS had sailed on a 1609 expedition to the New World under Governor GATES. The ship, Sea Venture, sank and they became stranded on Bermuda. HOPKINS was the most vocal of a group insisting that their contract was for Virginia, and as they had not gone to Virginia, their obligation to serve under GATES was void. GATES ordered him hanged on the spot. The pleas of HOPKINS and others persuaded GATES to spare his life and eventually the party made it to Jamestown. It is said that Shakespeare used his adventures to pattern the character of Stephano in The Tempest. Lord De la Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron, 1577-1618, 1st governor of the English colony of VIRGINIA did never see the colony of Virginia. It was West's designated Governor, Sir Thomas GATES, that dissuaded the colonists, who were in dire need, from returning to England and to return to Jamestown - or else. My native state, the 'First State' of the United States of America, Delaware, is named for this Baron that never saw the beautiful Delaware Bay, River and eventually my State named for him. Robert Cooper MOOR, Jr. (b 13 May 1945- REF: The World Almanac� and Book of Facts 1995 is licensed from Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. The World Almanac and The World Almanac and Book of Facts are registered trademarks of Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. Copyright � 1994 by Funk & Wagnalls Corporation. All rights reserved. BIBLIOGRAPHY BAEDEKER�S, 1910 Great Britain p. 193 Leipzig GREENE, Herbert E., Ph.D (Editor),1913 The Tempest (by William Shakespeare) The Tudor Shakespeare The MacMillan Co., New York, NY Introduction and notes pp. XV, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116, 117 and 120. STODDARD, Francis E., 1952 The Truth about the Pilgrims Society of Mayflower Descendants in the State of New York pp. 133-138 Reasons for Identifying HOPKINS in Bermuda. STRODE, Hudson, 1932 The Story of Bermuda Harrison SMITH and Robert Haas New York, NY, pp. 27-30 46-51 WILLISON, George F., 1945 Saints and Strangers Reynal and Hitchcock, New York pp. 133, 139-144, 441 and 465. Exploration and Colonization, 1515 Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez discovers an Atlantic archipelago that will be called Bermuda. +P.3 of "THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607-1660" by Peter Wilson Coldham: 1610 7 July. The Governor and Counil of Virginia report that on 1April the De la Warr accompanied by the Blessing of Plymouth and the Hercules of Rye left Cowes with 150 persons to go as planters to Varignia and arrived at Cape Henry on 6 June. Exploration and Colonization, 1609 The London Company chartered in 1606 obtains a new charter, receives additional land grants, and sends out a fleet of nine ships with 800 new settlers and supplies for the Virginia colony to be named Jamestown. Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607, by a small group led by Captain Christopher Newport, who was hired by the London Company to transport colonists. Many settlers died from famine and disease in the winter of 1609-10. Stephen HOPKINS arrived with the others after nine months rebuilding the two ships in Bermuda. Jamestown was empty and so they sailed up the James River where they came upon the settlers that were traveling away from their dissatisfaction at Jamestown. The survivors were encouraged to return to Jamestown by the arrival of these new settlers and supplies. It was now June. In 1612 tobacco growing was started. Stephen HOPKINS returned to England aboard a returning trade ship to be with his wife Constance and his two children, Constance and Gyles. The colony prospered and became the capital of Virginia. In 1619 the first representative assembly in America was held here. In the same year, at Jamestown, the first black slaves were introduced into the original 13 colonies. The village was often attacked by Native Americans. In 1622, 350 colonists were killed; 500 in 1644. Colonists rebelling against the rule of Governor William Berkeley burned Jamestown in 1676. Among the new colonists are John Rolfe, 24, and his young wife, but their ship the Sea Ventureis wrecked with the rest of the fleet on reefs off one of the Bermuda is