Thomas Hopkins
d. Abt. 1746
m. Elizabeth ____
William Hopkins
b. Scituate, Rhode Island
m. Deborah Allen in Scituate, Rhode Island
Joseph Hopkins
b. Scituate, Rhode Island · d. July 19, 1740
m. Bethiah Allen, July 3, 1785; Martha____
Elizabeth Hopkins
d. February 26, 1731
Mary Hopkins
m. Robert Davis, March 8, 1716
Rachel Hopkins
Zebedee Hopkins
b. February 22, 1697 · d. March 4, 1789
m. Susanna Jenckes sister of Elizabeth Jenks (2026)
Elisha Hopkins
m. Mercy Waide, July 13, 1722
Amos Hopkins
Jeremiah Hopkins
d. April 26, 1733, in Scituate, Rhode Island
Ann Hopkins

In brief

He worked as town council member. He died July 29, 1762, in Scituate, Rhode Island.

Life story

A Scituate Councilman

Ezekiel Hopkins, son of Thomas Hopkins, was made a freeman of Rhode Island in May 1712 and went on to serve Scituate as a town council member in 1731 and as a deputy to the colony's General Court in 1745. In his September 1761 will, Ezekiel left his wife Elizabeth his household goods and livestock, divided his farm tools among his sons Ezekiel, Charles, and Nicholas, and left small cash bequests to his daughters and granddaughters. He died in Scituate on July 29, 1762; his substantial farm estate, appraised at nearly 322 pounds, included six cows, a flock of sheep, farming tools, and a well-stocked household.

At a glance

Work

Town Council member

Lived

Scituate, Rhode Island

Sources (4)

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.
John Osborne Austin, The Genealogical Dictionary of Rhode Island (Albany, New York: Joel Munsells Sons, 1887); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/genealogicaldict00aust : accessed 25 August 2026).
Frank Roy Kepler, Thomas Hopkins of Providence and Oyster Bay (Detroit, Michigan: Detroit Society for Genealogical Research, 1951); image copy, HathiTrust, (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/wu.89066161191 : accessed 26 August 2026).
William B. Browne, Genealogy of the Jenks Family of America (Concord, New Hampshire: Rumford Press, 1952); image copy, Internet Archive, (https://archive.org/details/genealogyofjenks00brow_0 : accessed 26 August 2026).