My Family
Phipps-Kendrick Family
of Dickenson County, VA
Eliza A. HAGERShe was married to George M.
KENDRICK in 1855 in Wayne Cty, WV.
Catherine
HALL was born in 1831 in Kentucky.Children were:
Wash R. PHIPPS, Willis H. PHIPPS,
Mary C. PHIPPS, Tura PHIPPS,
Urcie PHIPPS, Leah PHIPPS.
Electra
Esmeralda HAMILTON. Parents: Michael HAMILTON
and EROS.
Michael
HAMILTON was born on 29 Jan 1961 in St. Louis, Missouri. He died in Jan
1990 in San Francisco, California. Cremated ashes with Eros..
(15) Parents: James Ray CARTER and
Mary Marie RADFORD.He was married to EROS in
Fort Bragg, California. Children were: Electra Esmeralda
HAMILTON.
Andrew
HANDSHEWHe was married to Margaret KENDRICK
in 1854 in Floyd Cty, KY.
Valeria
HARDENShe was married to William Drayton KENDRICK
.
Carolyn
Ann HARDIMAN (Private). Parents: Paul HARDIMAN
and Jean Lui BURKE RN.
Katherine
Joyce HARDIMAN (Private). Parents: Paul HARDIMAN
and Jean Lui BURKE RN.
Paul
HARDIMAN (Private).Children were: Carolyn Ann HARDIMAN
, Katherine Joyce HARDIMAN.
Ann
HARRELSON. Parents: Paul?Peter HARRELSON and
Rebecca BURGESS.
Mary
HARRELSON. Parents: Paul?Peter HARRELSON and
Rebecca BURGESS.She was married to
Nathaniel MCCLURE Sr. Children were: Nathaniel MCCLURE
Jr..
Paul?Peter
HARRELSONHe was married to Rebecca BURGESS
. Children were: Mary HARRELSON,
Ann HARRELSON.
Catherine
HARSANNT was born about 1566.She was married to
Thomas PAYNE. Children were: Thomas PAINE.
Charity
HART(16) was born on 6 Jun 1839.
She Pension in 1915 in Russell Cty, VA.(17)
Confederate Pension She resided J. B. Smith about 1915 in Castlewood,
Russell Cty., VA. She died on 25 Oct 1925 in Hart's Creek, Russell Cty, VA.
Charity is buried in the family cemetary
her husband may also be Parents: Isaac HART and
Celia COMBS.She was married to Reverend Joseph
Browning KENDRICK on 27 Apr 1859 in Russell Cty, VA. married by E. D. Sherman
Children were: Evan E. KENDRICK,
Nancy Jane KENDRICK, Julia Belle KENDRICK,
William Drayton KENDRICK, Selina Frances KENDRICK
, Ada KENDRICK, Cora KENDRICK
, Mary KENDRICK, Isaac KENDRICK
, Carrie KENDRICK, John Pollard
KENDRICK.
Isaac
HARTHe was married to Celia COMBS. Children
were: Charity HART.
Elizabeth
HARWOOD was born in 1535 in England.She was married to
Nicholas SNOW. Children were: Nicholas SNOW
.
Redding
HATLEY was born in 1863.He was married to Della
PHIPPS on 8 Jan 1884 in Randolph County, Arkansas.
(18)
Mary
HAVERSShe was married to James SLONE.
Myrtie
HAWKINSShe was married to John Smith KENDRICK
. Children were: Snoda KENDRICK,
Leah KENDRICK, Mary KENDRICK,
John KENDRICK Jr., Hayes KENDRICK,
Mavis KENDRICK, Judy KENDRICK,
Betty KENDRICK, Burns KENDRICK,
Faye KENDRICK, Barbara KENDRICK,
James KENDRICK.
Kenneth
HEADY
HENDRICKSON
. He was married to Mary JOHNSON. Children were:
Christina HENDRICKSON.
Christina
HENDRICKSON Parents: HENDRICKSON and
Mary JOHNSON.She was married to Cornelius VANOVER
II. Children were: Cornelius VANOVER III.
Sophia
HERALDShe was married to David Y. KENDRICK
in 1849 in Floyd Cty, KY.
Elizabeth
HERSHEYShe was married to William KENDRICK
in 1863 in Jefferson Cty., MO.
Sarah
HILL was born in 1797 in North Carolina. She died on 12 Dec 1888 in Dickenson
Co., VA. Parents: William HILL and
UNKNOWN.Children were: Lucy VANOVER.
William
HILL. He was married to UNKNOWN. Children
were: Sarah HILL.
Mattie
HILLMAN was born on 4 Jan 1907. She died on 31 Dec 1985 in Jarrat, VA.
Parents: William Houston HILLMAN and
Mary Jane Hall POWERS.She was married to James H.
BURKE ~1921. Children were: Jack Houston BURKE Chief
, Robert Franklin BURKE, Andrew
Jackson BURKE, Flo Ellen BURKE,
Billie Jo BURKE, Margaret BURKE,
James BURKE.
Thomas
HILLMAN was born in 1801.He was married to Martha
. Children were: William Houston HILLMAN.
William
Houston HILLMAN was born on 1 Jul 1862. He died in 1918. Parents:
Thomas HILLMAN and Martha.He was married to
Mary Jane Hall POWERS. Children were: Mattie HILLMAN
.
Mary
HOGUE was born about 1697.She was married to John
JUSTICE. Children were: Simeon (Simon) JUSTICE
, William JUSTICE, John JUSTICE
, Thomas JUSTICE.
Melissa
HONAKERShe was married to William James KENDRICK
in 1855 in Russell Cty, VA.
Constance
HOPKINS was born about 1607 in London, Middlesex, England. She died on 25
Oct 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.. Notes for CONSTANCE HOPKINS:
Constance Hopkins had come to this country on the ship "Mayflower".[Brøderbund
WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1060, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996]
RELATIONSHIPS: "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", pp, 4-5; published
1988 by the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow St., Plymouth,
MA 02361. Parents: Stephen HOPKINS and
Constance DUDLEY.She was married to Nicholas SNOW
on 22 May 1627 in Plymouth, Ma.. Children were: Stephen
SNOW, Mary SNOW.
Elizabeth
HOPKINS was born on 28 Jun 1678 in Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.. Parents:
Stephen HOPKINS and Mary MERRICK.She was married
to Samuel BURGESS about 1702 in Yarmouth, Barnstable,
Ma.. Children were: Remember BURGESS.
Giles
HOPKINS was born in 1609 in London, Middlesex, England. He died on 15 Mar
1688/89 in Eastham, Barnstable, Ma.. Notes for GILES HOPKINS:
Came on the Mayflower with his family. Volunteered with his father and brother
Caleb to go against the Pequot Indians in 1637. He moved from Plymouth to Yarmouth
in late 1638 or early 1639 and probably met his wife there. They occupied the
first house traditionally built by the English on Cape Cod below Sandwich. Giles
took the oath of fidelity at Yarmouth and was named a surveyor of highways there
March 7, 1642/43. Giles Hopkins was conveyed 100 acreas by his brother Caleb
10/28/1644 and not long after, Giles moved to Eastham where he served as highway
surveyor in 1660, 1662 and 1671. He was successful in a defamation suit against
William Leverich on 10/3/1654 and served on juries in 1667-68.
The will of Giles dated January 19, 1682 and a codicil, dated March 1688/89 were
admitted to probate 4/16/1690. Mentioned were wife Catorne and sons Stephen,
William, Caleb and Joshua in the main will and the wife and Stephen in the codicil.
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1060, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996]
RELATIONSHIPS: "Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", pp, 1-2; published
1988 by
the General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow St., Plymouth, MA
02361. Parents: Stephen HOPKINS and
Constance DUDLEY.He was married to Catherine WHELDON
on 9 Oct 1639 in Plymouth, Ma.. Children were: Stephen
HOPKINS.
Nicholas
HOPKINSHe was married to UNKNOWN. Children
were: Stephen HOPKINS.
Stephen
HOPKINS was born in Sep 1642 in Yarmouth, Barnstable, Ma.. He died on 10
Oct 1718 in Harwich, Barnstable, Ma.. Parents: Giles
HOPKINS and Catherine WHELDON.He was married
to Mary MERRICK on 22 May 1667 in Eastham, Barnstable,
Ma.. Children were: Elizabeth HOPKINS.
Stephen
HOPKINS(19) was born on 29 Oct 1581
in Wortley Parish, Wotten-under-Edge, Gloucester, England. Origin: London
Migration: 1620 Mayflower
First Residence: Plymouth
Occupation: Trader and Merchant
Freeman: 1633 List of Plymouth
Education: Signed his will. Owned books.
Offices: Assistant, Pequot War
Inventory: yellow rug, green rug, flanell sheets, white cap, gray cloak, breeches,
frying pan, funnels, fireshovel and tongs, feathers, butter churn, two wheels,
cheese rack, four skins, scale and weights, two pails.
Parentage has not been proved but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins of Wortley,
Parish of Wotton Underedge, Gloucester, England.
Stephen probably served as a Minister's clerk on the vessel "Sea Venture"
which sailed from London 6/2/1609, bound for Virginia. The ship was severely
damaged in a hurricane and the company was washed ashore on the Bernudan "Ile
of Divels" on July 28th. The 150 survivors were marooned on the island for
nine months, building two vessels which ultimately took them to Virginia. During
the sojourn Stephen Hopkins encouraged an uprising by his fellows upon grounds
that the Governor's authority pertained only to the voyage and the regime in
Virginia, not to the forced existance in Bermuda. For his remarks, he was placed
under guard, brought before the company in manacles and sentanced to death by
court-martial. "But so penitent hee was and made so much moane, alleadging
the ruine of his wife and Children in thie his trespasse", according to
William Strachey's record of the voyage, that friends among his cohorts procured
a pardon from the Governor. The two newly built vessels, the "Patience"
and the "Deliverence" arrived at Jamestown on 5/24/1610, but no evidence
has been found of Hopkin's residence there and it is presumed he soon returned
to his family in England. Strachey noted that while Hopkins was very religious,
he was contentious and defiant of authority and possessed enough learning to
undertake to wrest leadership from others.
Stephen, his wife Elizabeth, and children Giles, Constance and Damaris came on
the Mayflower with two servants: Edward Doty and Edward Leister. Son Oceanus
was born during the voyage. The Mayflower arrived at Cape Cod on 11/11/1620.
Stephen signed the Mayflower Compact. He was one of three men designated to provide
counsel and advice to Captain Myles Standish on the first land expedition of
the Pilgrims in the new world. During the third day out, the company chanced
upon an Indian deer trap, and stephen was able to explain its function and danger
to his fellows. In february 1620/21, when the Indians appeared on a neighboring
hilltop, Captain Standish took Stephen Hopkins with him to negotiate with the
"savages". Therafter, Stephen was invariably deputized to meet the
Indians and act as an interpreter. In July of 1621, he served as envoy to friendly
Chief Massasoit, and he made a friend for the solonists of Samoset, another Indian
whom Stephen entertained at his home.
Stephen was referred to as a merchant and planter in Plymouth records, also as
a "Gentleman" and "Master". He served as a voluntary in the
Pequot War of 1637.
Stephen found himself on accasion in official difficulty. In June 1636, he was
fined for battery of John Tisdale. In 1637 and 1638 he was charged with various
indescretions involving the sale of intoxicants and other items at his dwelling.
In 1638/39 he was found in contempt of court for refusing to deal fairly with
Dorothy Temple, an apprentice girl, and in December of 1639, he was charged with
selling a looking glass at an excessive price.
He died on 17 Jul 1644 in Plymouth, Ma.. Notes for STEPHEN HOPKINS:
Stephen Hopkins was one of the original Pilgrim. He was a prominent man in Plymouth
Colony, and one of the few passengers of the Mayflower who came to this country
with servants. Governor William Bradford, in his enumeration of the passengers
of the Mayflower thus describes him in his History of Plymouth Plantations:
Mr. Steven Hopkins and Elizabeth, his wife, and two children, called Giles and
Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife, and two more by this wife, called
Damaris and Oceanus, the last was born at sea, and two servants called Edward
Dotey and Edward Lister.
In 1650, Governor Bradford writes:
Mr. Hopkins & his wife are now both dead, but they lived about 20 years in
this place & had one son and four daughters born here. Their son became a
seaman and dyed at Barbadoes, one daughter died here & two are married, one
of them hath three children and one is yet to marry. So their increase which
still survive are 5, but his son Giles is married & has 4 children. His daughter
Constanta is also married & hath 12 children all of them living & one
married. One of these children was Mary Snow, who married Thomas Paine.
Stephen setteled in the part of Eastham now included in the town of Orleans,
on the place at the head of the Cove, called by the Indians "Kesscayoganseet."
and later owned and occupied by James Percival.
Steven Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made
a prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown,
in Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island, where the 150 passengers
were stranded for nine months. Hopkins led an uprising challenging the governor's
authority and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin
of his wife, and so was pardoned. The company built two vessels and escaped the
island. Hopkins returned to England.
Steven Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children
Giles and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage.
A son Oceanus was born while the Mayflower was at sea. He participated in the
early exploring missions and was an "ambassador" along with Myles Standish
for Indian relations.
In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, and in 1638 he was
fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. He was
also charged with several other crimes, including selling glass at too high a
price, and selling illegal intoxicants.
Will of Stephen Hopkins
The last Will and Testament of Mr. Stephen Hopkins exhibited upon the Oathes
of mr Willm Bradford and Captaine Miles Standish at the generall Court holden
at Plymouth the xxth of August Anno dm 1644 as it followeth in these wordes vizt.
The sixt of June 1644 I Stephen Hopkins of Plymouth in New England being weake
yet in good and prfect memory blessed be God yet considering the fraile estate
of all men I do ordaine and make this to be my last will and testament in manner
and forme following and first I do committ my body to the earth from whence it
was taken, and my soule to the Lord who gave it, my body to b eburyed as neare
as convenyently may be to my wyfe Deceased And first my will is that out of my
whole estate my funerall expences be discharged secondly that out of the remayneing
part of my said estate that all my lawfull Debts be payd thirdly I do bequeath
by this my will to my sonn Giles Hopkins my great Bull wch is now in the hands
of Mris Warren. Also I do give to Stephen Hopkins my sonn Giles his sonne twenty
shillings in Mris Warrens hands for the hire of the said Bull Also I give and
bequeath to my daughter Constanc Snow the wyfe of Nicholas Snow my mare also
I give unto my daughter Deborah Hopkins the brodhorned black cowe and her calf
and half the Cowe called Motley Also I doe give and bequeath unto my daughter
Damaris Hopkins the Cowe called Damaris heiffer and the white faced calf and
half the cowe called Mottley Also I give to my daughter Ruth the Cowe called
Red Cole and her calfe and a Bull at Yarmouth wch is in the keepeing of Giles
Hopkins wch is an yeare and advantage old and half the curld Cowe Also I give
and bequeath to my daughter Elizabeth the Cowe called Smykins and her calf and
thother half of the Curld Cowe wth Ruth and an yearelinge heiffer wth out a tayle
in the keeping of Gyles Hopkins at Yarmouth Also I do give and bequeath unto
my foure daughters that is to say Deborah Hopkins Damaris Hopkins Ruth Hopkins
and Elizabeth Hopkins all the mooveable goods the wch do belong to my house as
linnen wollen beds bedcloathes pott kettles pewter or whatsoevr are moveable
belonging to my said house of what kynd soever and not named by their prticular
names all wch said mooveables to be equally devided amongst my said daughters
foure silver spoones that is to say to eich of them one, And in case any of my
said daughters should be taken away by death before they be marryed that then
the part of their division to be equally devided amongst the Survivors. I do
also by this my will make Caleb Hopkins my sonn and heire apparent giveing and
bequeathing unto my said sonn aforesaid all my Right title and interrest to my
house and lands at Plymouth wth all the Right title and interrest wch doth might
or of Right doth or may hereafter belong unto mee, as also I give unto my saide
heire all such land wch of Right is Rightly due unto me and not at prsent in
my reall possession wch belongs unto me by right of my first comeing into this
land or by any other due Right, as by such freedome or otherwise giveing unto
my said heire my full & whole and entire Right in all divisions allottments
appoyntments or distributions whatsoever to all or any pt of the said lande at
any tyme or tymes so to be disposed Also I do give moreover unto my foresaid
heire one paire or yooke of oxen and the hyer of them wch are in the hands of
Richard Church as may appeare by bill under his hand Also I do give unto my said
heire Caleb Hopkins all my debts wch are now oweing unto me, or at the day of
my death may be oweing unto mee either by booke bill or bills or any other way
rightfully due unto mee ffurthermore my will is that my daughters aforesaid shall
have free recourse to my house in Plymouth upon any occation there to abide and
remayne for such tyme as any of them shall thinke meete and convenyent &
they single persons And for the faythfull prformance of this my will I do make
and ordayne my aforesaid sonn and heire Caleb Hopkins my true and lawfull Executor
ffurther I do by this my will appoynt and make my said sonn and Captaine Miles
Standish joyntly supervisors of this my will according to the true meaneing of
the same that is to say that my Executor & supervisor shall make the severall
divisions parts or porcons legacies or whatsoever doth appertaine to the fullfilling
of this my will It is also my will that my Executr & Supervisor shall advise
devise and dispose by the best wayes & meanes they cann for the disposeing
in marriage or other wise for the best advancnt of the estate of the forenamed
Deborah Damaris Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins Thus trusting in the Lord my will
shalbe truly prformed according to the true meaneing of the same I committ the
whole Disposeing hereof to the Lord that hee may direct you herein
June 6th 1644
Witnesses hereof By me Steven Hopkins
Myles Standish
William Bradford
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 1, Ed. 1, Tree #1060, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996]
Arrived at Plymouth in 1620 aboard the MAYFLOWER. RELATIONSHIPS: "Stephen
Hopkins of the Mayflower", pp, 1-2; published 1988 by the General Society
of Mayflower Descendants, 4 Winslow St., Plymouth, MA 02361.
[Brøderbund WFT Vol. 2, Ed. 1, Tree #5352, Date of Import: Dec 15, 1996]
Came in the Mayflower 1620; as Commissioner with Gov. Winslow, made Treaty of
Peace with Massasoit, 1621; Mem. Expdn, which crushed Neponset's conspiracy,
1623; Asst., 1633-36; in Pequot War, 1637; served in the Colonial War.
The Mayflower was the vessel in which Steven Hopkins and the other Pilgrims crossed
the Atlantic Ocean to the New World in 1620. As originally conceived, the expedition
included another vessel, the Speedwell, but the latter proved unseaworthy. The
Mayflower, about 180 gross tons and carrying 102 passengers, finally got under
way from Plymouth, England, on September 16, 1620. The ship was headed for Virginia,
where the colonists had been authorized to settle. As a result of stormy weather
and navigational errors, the vessel failed to make good its course, and on November
21 the Mayflower rounded the end of Cape Cod and dropped anchor off the site
of present-day Provincetown, Massachusetts.
The Mayflower remained anchored for the next few weeks while a party from the
ship explored Cape Cod and its environs in search of a satisfactory site for
the colony. Peregrine White, the first European child born in New England, was
delivered on the Mayflower in the interim. On December 21, an area having been
selected, the Pilgrims disembarked from the Mayflower near the head of Cape Cod
and founded Plymouth Colony, the first permanent settlement in New England.
The Pilgrims were probably more than 800 km (500 mi) northeast of their intended
destination in Virginia. The patent for their settlement in the New World, issued
by the London Company, was no longer binding, and some among the passengers desired
total independence from their shipmates. To prevent this, 41 of the adult male
passengers, including John Alden, William Bradford, Steven Hopkins, William Brewster,
John Carver, Miles Standish, and Edward Winslow, gathered in the cabin of the
Mayflower and formulated and signed the Mayflower Compact; all adult males were
required to sign. The Mayflower Compact was the first constitution written in
America. It consolidated the passengers into a civil body politic,
which had the power to frame and enact laws appropriate to the general good of
the planned settlement. All colonists were bound to obey the ordinances so enacted.
This compact established rule of the majority, which remained a primary principle
of government in Plymouth Colony until its absorption by the Massachusetts Bay
Colony in 1691.
Stephen HOPKINS married Constance (DUDLEY?) in 1604, the year of the HamptonCourt
Conference that kicked out Richard Clyfton and John Robinson, as ministers of
the Church of England, for being Puritans, and also made Separatists out of William
Brewster and William Bradford, who had been "pure-life-Puritan" members
of Clyftons congregation at Babworth. These four ceased to be Puritans
sixteen years before the Mayflower sailed, and the Puritan movement, originally
founded for pure living, was taken over by the Anglo-Catholic element in the
Church of England and turned into a reign of terror, to "purify" the
church of heretics. This Protestant Puritan Inquisition ultimately killed 100,000
people as "witches" in Europe, and reached across the Atlantic Ocean,
for its victims, to Bermuda, and to Salem, Massachusetts. As opposed to the mass
slaughter of witches in Europe, it is to the credit of the New World that only
41 were victims on this side of the Atlantic: 22 in Salem, and 19 in Bermuda.
The following year, 1605, Stephen and Constance HOPKINS had a daughter, Constance,
born; and two years later a son, Gyles, two years after that a second son, Stephen,
Jr., was born. That was the year 1609, in which HOPKINS went as a Ministers
assistant with the delegation that Baron De La Warr had commissioned as the newly
appointed Governor of Virginia. Lord De La Warr dispatches Sir Thomas GATES with
an fleet of ships for the colony of Jamestown.
From p.3 of "THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607-1660" by Peter Wilson
Coldham: 1610 7 July. The Governor and Council of Virginia Report that on 1 April
the De la Warr accompanied by the Blessing of Plymouth and the Hercules of Rye
left Cowes with 150 persons to go as planters to Virginia and arrived at Cape
Henry on 6 June.
A fleet of nine ships (or seven ships and two pinnaces) escorted the new Governor
to Virginia. Stephen HOPKINS was on the flagship, the Sea Venture, (300 tons;
Captain, Christopher Newport) with Sir George Summers, "Admiral of the Seas",
and Sir Thomas GATES, Deputy Governor for Lord De La War, who preferred to stay
in England, and govern by proxy. Also aboard were two writers: Silvanus Jourdain,
and William Strachey. Stephen HOPKINS, about age 21, who had been raised on Tyndales
translation of the Bible was a clerk to the private chaplain of the Gover or,
and delegated to read the psalms and scriptures, at the Sunday services, on board
the ship. William Stracheys account says he was: "a fellow who had
much knowledge of the Scriptures and could reason well therein." So, if
he did not actually preach also, he most certainly took part in discussions on
religion.
The fleet had set sail from Plymouth on June 02, 1609. On July 28, a terrible
tempest blew up, and the Sea Venture was separated from the other ships. Silvanus
Jourdains account says that there were three days of perpetual horror,
and that 2,000 tons of water were pumped out of the ship, between Tuesday noon
and Friday noon. On the afternoon of Friday, July 28, the ship stuck fast on
a coral reef, and 150 men, women and children were successfully landed ashore,
in small boats. They found themselves on the island of Bermuda, and the only
other inhabitants, except for sea birds and turtles were thousands of wild hogs,
descendants of domesticated swine, from Spanish ship-wrecks of years before.
This island had caused so many wrecks, it was marked, on contemporary maps as
the Isle of Devils, or Ya de demonios.
(Sebastian Cabots). Bermudan
Six months later-on January 28, 1610, the fiery Stephen HOPKINS was tired of
working on two ships, which were to take the Governor, and the other ship-wrecked
passengers, on to Virginia. He persuaded some of the new crew to plot to make
him Governor, and to stay in Bermuda, where there was food in plenty, and later
perhaps to complete the ships and go exploring. Stephen was convinced that Thomas
West authority was only on the ship and the regime in Virginia, not to the forced
existence in Bermuda. A couple of tattletales named Samuel SHARP and Humphrey
REED told Governor Sir Thomas GATES, and Stephen HOPKINS found himself in irons,
and on trial before the whole company. He was convicted of mutiny and condemned
to die.
The other rebels, single men, were executed, and the only life spared was that
of Stephen HOPKINS, who had made so much moan about the ruin of wife and children,
that he was, at last, set free. On May 10, 1610, the two new boats with about
150 passengers then set sail for Virginia, and arrived there May 24, 1610.
Probably because the uprising had not made him very popular, Stephen HOPKINS
sailed back to London. He then became, however, the first of the Pilgrims to
rebel against the civil and religious tyranny of England, for which he deserves
a special honor among us, and a special place in our societys affections.
This was the ship-wreck of the century, and when William Shakespeare read the
first-hand account of it, by author William Strachey, he wrote the only one of
his 38 plays with an original plot: The Tempest. Some 12 speeches are paraphrases
of Stracheys book. On November 1, 1611, The Tempest was presented at Whitehall
on Hallow-mass night, or, as we would say, All Saints Day night, the night after
Halloween. Stephen HOPKINS may have gone to see it, for we know he was living
in London six years later, in 1617. His first wife, Constance [DUDLEY?], and
his son, Stephen Jr., had died, and he now married Elizabeth Fisher at the Church
of St. Mary Matfellon, or White Chapel.
The next year a daughter was born, and they named her Damaris, a beautiful name
and meaning: "of the Sea. Two years later, Stephen HOPKINS once again decided
to take his family to settle in Virginia. The first time he had a wife Constance
DUDLEY?) and three children and sailed from Plymouth on a ship of 300 tons, (the
Sea Venture), which was wrecked. The second time he had a family of 3 & ½
children, and sailed on a ship little more than half as big: 180 tons, but it
got there. They set sail from Southampton, but came back to Dartmouth, set sail
from Dartmouth and came back to Plymouth. So he ended-up setting sail for the
second time in his life from Plymouth. And instead of landing in Virginia, he
ended-up in Plymouth in New England.
The HOPKINS family was the largest on the Mayflower. There was Stephen
HOPKINS , now 32, and second wife Elizabeth Fisher, who was pregnant. Constance
was 15, Gyles 13, and Damaris 2. Somewhere between September 16 and November
21, 1620 a son was born, on board the Mayflower, at sea, and promptly named Oceanus,
a fitting brother for Damaris.
Along with the HOPKINS Family were two fiery young men named Edward: Edward Doty,
who had left his wife Winifred at home in London, and bachelor Edward Leister,
who soon left Plymouth for Virginia, after the two Edwards fought the Pilgrims
only duel.
But before the Mayflower trip was over, guess who started another mutiny? It
is not known for sure, but Stephen HOPKINS certainly had both the precedent and
provocation. He wanted to be free from the usury of the London Merchant Adventurers;
he could not have enjoyed the sarcastic contempt of the ships crew; and
he must have been bored bythe sanctimoniousness of some of the Separatist self-styled
"saints". But cooler heads prevailed, and the rebels were thus indirectly,
if not directly, responsible for the writing of that chapter of American (and
free world) civil and religious liberty: The Mayflower Compact. Stephen HOPKINS
was the fourteenth man to sign it and later he was assistant Governor of Plymouth
for 13 years.
Poor Damaris died before 1626, for that year a HOPKINS daughter was born
who was given the same name: a replacement. Three more daughters and another
son were born in Plymouth. All the children must have heard their fathers
ship-wreck story many times, and possibly heard about that English play, The
Tempest. One of them, Jane, had decided to visit Bermuda, and was living there
alone in 1655. Whether she was a single woman, or became a widow is not known.
But the Puritans had preceded her to Bermuda. All persons who had facial moles,
which did not bleed when pricked with a pin, were declared to be witches. [No
wonder they are called beauty marks today] Most Witches
that were hanged in any colony - were mostly fetching and shapely women. The
stories of course could not allow human nature to be part of the
doctrinal divergence - perhaps these women merely rejected the Elders lusty advances
- or perhaps, horrors, pregnancy, or just plain threatened "to spill the
beans about the goings-on? The first trial and execution of
a witch had taken place four years earlier, in April 1651. Twenty-one unfortunate
victims followed. The last was on New Years day 1655. The Jury of the Commonwealth
of England doth` present Jane HOPKINS one of the passengers in the Mayflower
for that she...hath feloniously and wickedly consulted and covenanted with the
Devil...contrary to nature and the law of God and man...". She had not been
a passenger on the Mayflower, of course, but that identifies her as the daughter
of Stephen HOPKINS (the ship-wrecked mutineer of Bermuda) and a Mayflower descendant
murdered by the Puritans. She was tried and executed as a witch, by the Puritans
whom Stephen HOPKINS and our Pilgrim Separatists ancestors of Scrooby and Leiden
had come to this country to escape. But, Stephen HOPKINS never knew of his poor
daughters cruel fate. In 1655, he had been dead for eleven years, and Janes
mother, Elizabeth, had been dead for fifteen.
Stephen HOPKINS was a "mutineer." But so were all the Pilgrims
mutineers--- in politics, and heretics in religion. It is their special glory.
Above all, is this true of Elder Brewster, who published 18 seditious books,
in Leiden. His Cambridge classmate, John Penry, was hanged, drawn and quartered,
for his sermons. While Alexander Leighton, a Scottish minister who wrote only
one mild pamphlet against the Anglican church, was sentenced, by the Star Chamber,
to pay a fine of 100,000 pounds, to be whipped, pilloried before the court, have
one ear sliced off and his nose split, to have branded on his forehead the letters
"S.S." (Stirrer of Sedition), to be whipped, pilloried again, to have
the other ear cut off, and to be imprisoned for life in the stinking Fleet Street
prison. Brewster was wanted, dead or alive, and might have suffered an even worst
fate, had he been caught. He was a stowaway on the Mayflower. the men convicted
with Stephen HOPKINS in Bermuda, were merely killed.
Stephen HOPKINS did not run for assistant governor, in the modern sense. There
was no campaigns with rival candidates, in early Plymouth. It was strictly what
we would call a write-in vote, and the elected man had no choice but to accept
the responsibilities with which he was honored.
Jane HOPKINS did not claim to be a witch, or even think herself secretly as one.
As her fathers daughter, or a Separatist, she could hardly be expected
to believe in witchcraft. She was evidently unfortunate enough to have a mole.
She only claimed to be a Mayflower descendant:- new and convincing evidence that
her father survived the Bermuda tempest of 1609, and again, the only Shakespeare
play based on fact and not fiction.
Stephen HOPKINS while at Plymouth was fined for battery of John Tisdale, and
in 1638 he was fined for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy
Temple. Stephen was also charged with several other crimes at Plymouth, including
selling glass at too high a price, and selling illegal intoxicants.
However Stephen HOPKINS and Miles Standish were "ambassadors" for the
Indian relations. Without the help of, what Christopher Columbus mistakenly named
Indians, my paternal Great (Eleven times) Grandfather (Elicit, 12th therefrom]
and the others ---- may not have survived.
The Mayflower Compact drawn up by the Pilgrims and signed by STEPHEN HOPKINS
one of the forty-one men aboard, in 1620 establishes a form of government based
on the will of the colonists rather than on that of the Crown. The Pilgrims have
found that Cape Cod is outside the jurisdiction of the London Company, and they
select Plymouth as the site of a settlement.
The Mayflower Compact
The threat of James I to "harry them out of the land" sent a little
band of religious dissenters from England to Holland in 1608. They were known
as "Separatists" because they wished to cut all ties with the Established
Church. In 1620, some of them, known now as the Pilgrims, joined with a larger
group in England to set sail on the Mayflower for the New World. A joint stock
company financed their venture. In November, they sighted Cape Cod and decided
to land an exploring party at Plymouth Harbor. However, a rebellious group picked
up at Southampton and London troubled the Pilgrim leaders, and to control their
actions forty-one of the Pilgrims drew up the "Mayflower Compact,"
which was signed before going ashore. The voluntary agreement to govern themselves
was Americas first written constitution. In the name of God, Amen. We,
whose names are underwritten, the Loyal Subjects of our dread Sovereign Lord,
King James, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, France and Ireland, King,
Defender of the Faith, etc.
Having undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian Faith,
and the Honour of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in
the northern Parts of Virginia; do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually in
the Presence of God and one of another, convenant and combine ourselves together
into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance
of the Ends aforesaid; And by Virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame,
such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions and Offices, from time
to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the General good of
the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.
In Witness whereof we have hereunto subscribed our names at Cape Cod the eleventh
of November, in the Reign of our Sovereign Lord, King James of England, France
and Ireland, the eighteenth, and of Scotland the fifty-fourth. Anno Domini, 1620.
Documented by the Society of Mayflower descendants- Among the 41 signers of the
Mayflower Compact, Stephen HOPKINS was the 14th. A case could be made that indirectly
he may have been responsible for the Compact. Remember, Stephen HOPKINS had sailed
on a 1609 expedition to the New World under Governor GATES. The ship, Sea Venture,
sank and they became stranded on Bermuda. HOPKINS was the most vocal of a group
insisting that their contract was for Virginia, and as they had not gone to Virginia,
their obligation to serve under GATES was void. GATES ordered him hanged on the
spot. The pleas of HOPKINS and others persuaded GATES to spare his life and eventually
the party made it to Jamestown. It is said that Shakespeare used his adventures
to pattern the character of Stephano in The Tempest.
Lord De la Warr, Thomas West, 12th Baron, 1577-1618, 1st governor of the English
colony of VIRGINIA did never see the colony of Virginia. It was West's designated
Governor, Sir Thomas GATES, that dissuaded the colonists, who were in dire need,
from returning to England and to return to Jamestown - or else.
My native state, the 'First State' of the United States of America, Delaware,
is named for this Baron that never saw the beautiful Delaware Bay, River and
eventually my State named for him. Robert Cooper MOOR, Jr. (b 13 May 1945-
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BIBLIOGRAPHY BAEDEKERS, 1910 Great Britain p. 193 Leipzig
GREENE, Herbert E., Ph.D (Editor),1913 The Tempest (by William Shakespeare)
The Tudor Shakespeare
The MacMillan Co., New York, NY
Introduction and notes pp. XV, 103, 106, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 113, 114, 116,
117 and 120.
STODDARD, Francis E., 1952 The Truth about the Pilgrims Society of Mayflower
Descendants in the State of New York pp. 133-138 Reasons for Identifying HOPKINS
in Bermuda.
STRODE, Hudson, 1932 The Story of Bermuda Harrison SMITH and Robert Haas New
York, NY, pp. 27-30 46-51
WILLISON, George F., 1945 Saints and Strangers Reynal and Hitchcock, New York
pp. 133, 139-144, 441 and 465.
Exploration and Colonization, 1515 Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez discovers
an Atlantic archipelago that will be called Bermuda.
+P.3 of "THE COMPLETE BOOK OF EMIGRANTS 1607-1660" by Peter Wilson
Coldham:
1610 7 July. The Governor and Counil of Virginia report that on 1April the De
la Warr accompanied by the Blessing of Plymouth and the Hercules of Rye left
Cowes with 150 persons to go as planters to Varignia and arrived at Cape Henry
on 6 June.
Exploration and Colonization, 1609
The London Company chartered in 1606 obtains a new charter, receives additional
land grants, and sends out a fleet of nine ships with 800 new settlers and supplies
for the Virginia colony to be named Jamestown.
Jamestown was founded on May 14, 1607, by a small group led by Captain Christopher
Newport, who was hired by the London Company to transport colonists. Many settlers
died from famine and disease in the winter of 1609-10.
Stephen HOPKINS arrived with the others after nine months rebuilding the two
ships in Bermuda. Jamestown was empty and so they sailed up the James River where
they came upon the settlers that were traveling away from their dissatisfaction
at Jamestown. The survivors were encouraged to return to Jamestown by the arrival
of these new settlers and supplies. It was now June. In 1612 tobacco growing
was started. Stephen HOPKINS returned to England aboard a returning trade ship
to be with his wife Constance and his two children, Constance and Gyles. The
colony prospered and became the capital of Virginia. In 1619 the first representative
assembly in America was held here. In the same year, at Jamestown, the first
black slaves were introduced into the original 13 colonies. The village was often
attacked by Native Americans. In 1622, 350 colonists were killed; 500 in 1644.
Colonists rebelling against the rule of Governor William Berkeley burned Jamestown
in 1676.
Among the new colonists are John Rolfe, 24, and his young wife, but their ship
the Sea Ventureis wrecked with the rest of the fleet on reefs off one of the
Bermuda is Parents: Nicholas HOPKINS and
UNKNOWN.He was married to Constance DUDLEY
in 1611. Children were: Constance HOPKINS,
Giles HOPKINS.
He was married to Elizabeth FISHER
on 19 Feb 1617/18 in St. Mary's, Chester, England.
Daniel
HORTON Parents: William HORTON and
Mary (Molly) KENDRICK.
Elizabeth
HORTON was born about 1782 in Stafford Cty, VA. She died on 24 May 1856
in Morgan Cty, KY. Parents: John HORTON Sr. and
Isabell KENDRICK.She was married to Elijah (Supposed)
SARGENT before 1804 in Russell Cty, VA. Children were:
Male SARGENT, Male SARGENT,
Female SARGENT, Edmund Lovel (Supposed) SARGENT
.
Enoch
HORTON was born on 22 Mar 1777 in Stafford Cty, VA. Parents:
John HORTON Sr. and Isabell KENDRICK.He was
married to Martha STINSON.
Hugh
HORTONHe was married to Sarrah RAWLINS. Children
were: John HORTON.
John
HORTON Sr. was born on 23 Dec 1749 in Stafford Cty, VA. brother of William
Parents: John HORTON and Sarah
WHEELER.He was married to Isabell KENDRICK
in 1775 in Stafford Cty, VA. Children were: John HORTON
Jr., Enoch HORTON, Travis
HORTON, Lucy HORTON, Elizabeth
HORTON, Sarah\Sally HORTON,
Lettice HORTON, Laodicia\Dicy HORTON,
Robert A. HORTON.
John
HORTON Parents: Hugh HORTON and
Sarrah RAWLINS.He was married to Sarah WHEELER
. Children were: John HORTON Sr.,
William HORTON.
John
HORTON Jr. was born in 1777 in Stafford Cty, VA. He died after 1850 in Lee
Cty., VA. Parents: John HORTON Sr. and
Isabell KENDRICK.He was married to Jane SERGENT
about 1800 in Russell Cty, VA.
Laodicia\Dicy
HORTON was born in 1794 in Stafford Cty, VA. Parents:
John HORTON Sr. and Isabell KENDRICK.She was
married to Meshack WHITE.
Lettice
HORTON was born between 1788 and 1790 in Stafford Cty, VA. Parents:
John HORTON Sr. and Isabell KENDRICK.She was
married to William HORTON.
Lewis
HORTON(20) served in the military
on 4 Jun 1811 in Upper District First Battalion.
(20) On June 4, 1811 Lewis Horton was appointed constable in the first
battalion
of militia in the county. On July 2 he took the oath of office. William
Patton and Henry Dickenson secured the $500 bond.
On June 1, 1813, Lewis Horton was appointed constable for the Upper District
a second time.
He died. Murdered by Abner Vance Lewis Horton was a handsome sturdily built
man, about six feet tall. His
hair was black and his eyes were blue. He loved good horses and took pride
in grooming his beautiful iron gray mare. Another prized posession was a 65
acre tract of land which he bought from Jeremiah and Ann Patrick on
September 7, 1813. The purchase price was $700. Only choice land sodlfor $10
per acres in the early 1800s. The survey extended fromt eh north bank of the
river to the rugged area of Stone Mountain. The west side joined the land of
John wilson. It has been assumed that Lewis had plans for a home on his
favorite property which he refused to sell.
Parents: William HORTON and
Mary (Molly) KENDRICK.
Lucy
HORTON was born in 1780. Parents: John HORTON Sr.
and Isabell KENDRICK.
Robert
A. HORTON was born in 1799 in Stafford Cty, VA. Parents:
John HORTON Sr. and Isabell KENDRICK.He was
married to Nancy STEELE on 24 Feb 1824 in Tazewell
Cty, VA.
Sarah\Sally
HORTON was born about 1786 in Stafford Cty, VA. Parents:
John HORTON Sr. and Isabell KENDRICK.She was
married to John BRADSHAW.
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