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Patience Hopkins

Generation 8 back

Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans ← John Seamans ← Patience Hopkins

In brief

Born 1734. She died May 1, 1791.

Family

Father

Ezekiel Hopkins

Mother

Elizabeth Jenks

Spouse

John Seamans

Children

John Seamans · in this line
b. Abt. 1749 in Swansea, Massachusetts
m. Sarah Westcott
d. 1838 in Eaton, Madison County, New York
Priscilla Seamans
b. 1753
d. October 16, 1832
Charles Seamans
b. May 6, 1764, in Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Mehitable Osborn, September 25, 1786, in Clarendon, Vermont
d. April 21, 1847, in Clarendon, Vermont
Oliver Seamans
b. January 6, 1771, in Killingly, Connecticut
m. Mary Harrington in Clarendon, Vermont
d. 1861
Elijah Seamans
Arie Seamans
d. Over 100 years old
Mary Seamans
m. Oliver Howland
Rhoda Seamans
m. Oliver Westcott
Anna Seamans
d. 100 years old
Amy Seamans
m. Reuben Blanchard

Siblings

Daniel Hopkins
Ezekiel Hopkins
Charles Hopkins
Nicholas Hopkins
Mary Hopkins
m. Robert Baxter
Catherine Hopkins

Life story

A Providence Descendant

Patience Hopkins was born in 1734, daughter of Ezekiel Hopkins, and inherited five pounds from her father in 1762. She married John Seamans and moved with him from Scituate, Rhode Island, to Killingly, Connecticut, and finally to Clarendon, Vermont. Patience descended from Thomas Hopkins, an original settler of Providence, Rhode Island, and was a second cousin, several generations removed, of Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. She died May 1, 1791.

Sources (3)

John Julian Lawton, The Seamans Family in America (Syracuse, New York: Charles Seamans Brown, 1933).
Providence County, Rhode Island, “Probate and Council Records, Vol 1-3, 1731-1799,” 242-244, estate of Ezekiel Hopkins, 1762; images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649084_00242 : accessed 25 August 2026), Rhode Island, District and Probate Courts.
Providence County, Rhode Island, “Probate and Council Records, Vol 1-3, 1731-1799,” 323-325 & 372, estate of Elizabeth Hopkins, 1762; images, Ancestry (https://www.ancestry.com/imageviewer/collections/9079/images/007649084_00324 : accessed 25 August 2026), Rhode Island, District and Probate Courts.