"CAPT. GEORGE HOPKINS, the youngest child of the Governor, it seems almost superfluous to state, was a seafaring man, and was early engaged in duties of a responsible nature.
R. I. Colonial Records, vol. vi., page 7, gives the following: " The Assembly do vote mid resolve, mid it is voted and resolved that 200 pounds he allowed and paid out of the general treasury unto Mr. George Hopkins, for his time, trouble, and expense in going to and fetching from New York the silver and gold granted by His Majesty to this colony."
This service must have been performed by George before he was eighteen years old, as the resolve passed at the January session in 1757 and his eighteenth birth-day occurred January 22 of the same year.
He was master of a vessel that sailed from Providence for Surinam Nov. 20, 1774, and on the return voyage stopped at Charleston, S. C, and sailing thence for Providence Aug. 25, 1775, was never afterwards heard from.
He married, March 14, 1773, Ruth Smith, a daughter of his father's second wife by her first husband, Benjamin Smith. She survived, until March 25, 1812, and died at the age of 66 years and 6 months. They had no issue."
Genealogy of one line of the Hopkins family, descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692 by Holbrook, Albert, 1813-1897
Published 1881 Publisher Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers
George is referred to in a letter from Stephen Hopkins to his daughter-in-law Ruth in the same source above, 2 months before his disappearance:
"Copy of a letter written by Governor Hopkins written in attendance at the first session of the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, to his son's wife, kindly furnished by Charles W. Hopkins, of Norwich.
Philadelphia, June 21, 1775.
Beloved Ruth.
I wrote you on the 25th of May and gave you an account of our journey hither. Since then I have had an ill turn and two or three fits of fever and ague, but am now well. Your
mother has not been well for several days and is now quite poorly. I hope she will soon be better.
George, I expected to have seen here but believe he has gone to South Carolina.
Col. Washington will set out from here in a day or two for New England to take the command of the Continental Army
of which he is appointed Commander in Chief. He will be accompanied by Gen. Lee, who also has a command in the
army which is taken into the pay of all America.
I can give no guess yet when we shall leave this place, certainly not very soon, unless we adjourn to the Northward,
which is talked of but not agreed to yet.
Give my love to all parts of the family, and respects to all who may ask after me. Should be glad to hear from you, and
remain your
Affectionate Father
Stephen Hopkins"
R. I. Colonial Records, vol. vi., page 7, gives the following: " The Assembly do vote mid resolve, mid it is voted and resolved that 200 pounds he allowed and paid out of the general treasury unto Mr. George Hopkins, for his time, trouble, and expense in going to and fetching from New York the silver and gold granted by His Majesty to this colony."
This service must have been performed by George before he was eighteen years old, as the resolve passed at the January session in 1757 and his eighteenth birth-day occurred January 22 of the same year.
He was master of a vessel that sailed from Providence for Surinam Nov. 20, 1774, and on the return voyage stopped at Charleston, S. C, and sailing thence for Providence Aug. 25, 1775, was never afterwards heard from.
He married, March 14, 1773, Ruth Smith, a daughter of his father's second wife by her first husband, Benjamin Smith. She survived, until March 25, 1812, and died at the age of 66 years and 6 months. They had no issue."
Genealogy of one line of the Hopkins family, descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692 by Holbrook, Albert, 1813-1897
Published 1881 Publisher Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers
George is referred to in a letter from Stephen Hopkins to his daughter-in-law Ruth in the same source above, 2 months before his disappearance:
"Copy of a letter written by Governor Hopkins written in attendance at the first session of the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, to his son's wife, kindly furnished by Charles W. Hopkins, of Norwich.
Philadelphia, June 21, 1775.
Beloved Ruth.
I wrote you on the 25th of May and gave you an account of our journey hither. Since then I have had an ill turn and two or three fits of fever and ague, but am now well. Your
mother has not been well for several days and is now quite poorly. I hope she will soon be better.
George, I expected to have seen here but believe he has gone to South Carolina.
Col. Washington will set out from here in a day or two for New England to take the command of the Continental Army
of which he is appointed Commander in Chief. He will be accompanied by Gen. Lee, who also has a command in the
army which is taken into the pay of all America.
I can give no guess yet when we shall leave this place, certainly not very soon, unless we adjourn to the Northward,
which is talked of but not agreed to yet.
Give my love to all parts of the family, and respects to all who may ask after me. Should be glad to hear from you, and
remain your
Affectionate Father
Stephen Hopkins"
"CAPT. GEORGE HOPKINS, the youngest child of the Governor, it seems almost superfluous to state, was a seafaring man, and was early engaged in duties of a responsible nature.
R. I. Colonial Records, vol. vi., page 7, gives the following: " The Assembly do vote mid resolve, mid it is voted and resolved that 200 pounds he allowed and paid out of the general treasury unto Mr. George Hopkins, for his time, trouble, and expense in going to and fetching from New York the silver and gold granted by His Majesty to this colony."
This service must have been performed by George before he was eighteen years old, as the resolve passed at the January session in 1757 and his eighteenth birth-day occurred January 22 of the same year.
He was master of a vessel that sailed from Providence for Surinam Nov. 20, 1774, and on the return voyage stopped at Charleston, S. C, and sailing thence for Providence Aug. 25, 1775, was never afterwards heard from.
He married, March 14, 1773, Ruth Smith, a daughter of his father's second wife by her first husband, Benjamin Smith. She survived, until March 25, 1812, and died at the age of 66 years and 6 months. They had no issue."
Genealogy of one line of the Hopkins family, descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692 by Holbrook, Albert, 1813-1897
Published 1881 Publisher Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers
George is referred to in a letter from Stephen Hopkins to his daughter-in-law Ruth in the same source above, 2 months before his disappearance:
"Copy of a letter written by Governor Hopkins written in attendance at the first session of the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, to his son's wife, kindly furnished by Charles W. Hopkins, of Norwich.
Philadelphia, June 21, 1775.
Beloved Ruth.
I wrote you on the 25th of May and gave you an account of our journey hither. Since then I have had an ill turn and two or three fits of fever and ague, but am now well. Your
mother has not been well for several days and is now quite poorly. I hope she will soon be better.
George, I expected to have seen here but believe he has gone to South Carolina.
Col. Washington will set out from here in a day or two for New England to take the command of the Continental Army
of which he is appointed Commander in Chief. He will be accompanied by Gen. Lee, who also has a command in the
army which is taken into the pay of all America.
I can give no guess yet when we shall leave this place, certainly not very soon, unless we adjourn to the Northward,
which is talked of but not agreed to yet.
Give my love to all parts of the family, and respects to all who may ask after me. Should be glad to hear from you, and
remain your
Affectionate Father
Stephen Hopkins"
R. I. Colonial Records, vol. vi., page 7, gives the following: " The Assembly do vote mid resolve, mid it is voted and resolved that 200 pounds he allowed and paid out of the general treasury unto Mr. George Hopkins, for his time, trouble, and expense in going to and fetching from New York the silver and gold granted by His Majesty to this colony."
This service must have been performed by George before he was eighteen years old, as the resolve passed at the January session in 1757 and his eighteenth birth-day occurred January 22 of the same year.
He was master of a vessel that sailed from Providence for Surinam Nov. 20, 1774, and on the return voyage stopped at Charleston, S. C, and sailing thence for Providence Aug. 25, 1775, was never afterwards heard from.
He married, March 14, 1773, Ruth Smith, a daughter of his father's second wife by her first husband, Benjamin Smith. She survived, until March 25, 1812, and died at the age of 66 years and 6 months. They had no issue."
Genealogy of one line of the Hopkins family, descended from Thomas Hopkins, in Providence, from 1641 to 1692 by Holbrook, Albert, 1813-1897
Published 1881 Publisher Providence, J.A. & R.A. Reid, printers
George is referred to in a letter from Stephen Hopkins to his daughter-in-law Ruth in the same source above, 2 months before his disappearance:
"Copy of a letter written by Governor Hopkins written in attendance at the first session of the Continental Congress, at Philadelphia, to his son's wife, kindly furnished by Charles W. Hopkins, of Norwich.
Philadelphia, June 21, 1775.
Beloved Ruth.
I wrote you on the 25th of May and gave you an account of our journey hither. Since then I have had an ill turn and two or three fits of fever and ague, but am now well. Your
mother has not been well for several days and is now quite poorly. I hope she will soon be better.
George, I expected to have seen here but believe he has gone to South Carolina.
Col. Washington will set out from here in a day or two for New England to take the command of the Continental Army
of which he is appointed Commander in Chief. He will be accompanied by Gen. Lee, who also has a command in the
army which is taken into the pay of all America.
I can give no guess yet when we shall leave this place, certainly not very soon, unless we adjourn to the Northward,
which is talked of but not agreed to yet.
Give my love to all parts of the family, and respects to all who may ask after me. Should be glad to hear from you, and
remain your
Affectionate Father
Stephen Hopkins"
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