Thomas Hopkins
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In brief
Born about 1616 in Providence, Rhode Island. About 1635: Came from England to America. He married about 1648. He died 1684 at Littleworth Plantation, Oyster Bay, New York.
Family
Children
- William Hopkinsb. 1647m. Abigail Whipple in January 1682d. July 8, 1723, in Providence, Rhode Island
- Thomas Hopkins · in this lineb. 1650 in Providence, Rhode Islandm. Mary Smith, 16781/16982d. April 21, 1718 · Providence, Rhode Island
- ____ Hopkinsm. Elizabeth ____d. 1685 in Rhode Island
Siblings
- Frances Hopkinsb. Abt. May 1614
- Elizabeth Hopkinsb. Abt. July 1619
Life story
A Rhode Island Founder
Thomas Hopkins was baptized April 7, 1616, in England and emigrated to America around 1635; when his mother died in 1622 he and his siblings had already gone to live with their uncle, William Arnold. Thomas was among the thirty-nine signers of the 1640 agreement establishing a government for the colony of Rhode Island, and settled in Providence, where he became a freeman in 1655 and went on to serve repeatedly as a commissioner, a deputy to the colony's General Court, and a member of Providence's town council through the 1650s to the early 1670s. Around 1675 he moved to the Littleworth Plantation at Oyster Bay, New York, where he died in 1684, living out his final years in his daughter-in-law's household.
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).