Thomas Hopkins
Descent: Meghan Jane Leineweber ← Catherine Raye Lobb ← Patricia Jane Loomis ← Beulah Grahm ← Anna Frances Brown ← Isaac Horace Brown ← Apema Seamans ← John Seamans ← Patience Hopkins ← Ezekiel Hopkins ← Thomas Hopkins
In brief
Born 1650 in Providence, Rhode Island. He married 1678/1698. He died April 21, 1718 in Providence, Rhode Island.
Family
Children
- Zebedee Hopkinsb. February 22, 1697m. Susanna Jenckes sister of Elizabeth Jenks (2026)d. March 4, 1789
- Ezekiel Hopkins · in this lined. July 29, 1762, in Scituate, Rhode Island
- Thomas Hopkinsm. Elizabeth ____d. Abt. 1746
- William Hopkinsb. Scituate, Rhode Islandm. Deborah Allen in Scituate, Rhode Island
- Joseph Hopkinsb. Scituate, Rhode Islandm. Bethiah Allen, July 3, 1785m. Martha____d. July 19, 1740
- Elizabeth Hopkinsd. February 26, 1731
- Mary Hopkinsm. Robert Davis, March 8, 1716
- Rachel Hopkins
- Elisha Hopkinsm. Mercy Waide, July 13, 1722
- Amos Hopkins
- Jeremiah Hopkinsd. April 26, 1733, in Scituate, Rhode Island
- Ann Hopkins
Siblings
- William Hopkinsb. 1647m. Abigail Whipple in January 1682d. July 8, 1723, in Providence, Rhode Island
- ____ Hopkinsm. Elizabeth ____d. 1685 in Rhode Island
Life story
A Providence Landholder
Thomas Hopkins was born in 1650 in Providence, Rhode Island, and was made a freeman there in 1672, the same year he was rewarded ten shillings for apprehending an Indigenous man during a period of colonial unrest. He built a substantial farm — by 1688 his taxable property included six head of cattle, two mares, pigs, and 162 acres of land, roughly a tenth of it improved. In his April 1711 will Thomas divided his considerable landholdings among his sons Thomas, William, Joseph, Zebedee, and Ezekiel, with ten pounds apiece to his daughters Elizabeth, Mary, and Rachel. He died April 21, 1718; his estate, appraised at nearly 110 pounds, included farm tools, livestock, a gun, and a sword.
Sources (2)
- 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).