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Stephen Hopkins (fl. 1579 – d. 1644) [2] was an English adventurer to the Virginia Colony and Plymouth Colony.Most notably, he was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636. [3]
Hopkins helped to found the Providence Library Company in 1753, and he was a member of the Philosophical Society of Newport. [51] [52] The town of Hopkinton, Rhode Island was named after him. The SS Stephen Hopkins is a liberty ship named in his honor, and it was the first U.S. ship to sink a German surface warship in World War II. [18]
Stephen Hopkins-(Name per Morton, 1669: Stevin Hopkins) He was apparently a prosperous man who boarded the Mayflower with his wife, four children (with one son born later at sea), and two servants. He was the only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, being shipwrecked with others in Bermuda in 1609 for 9 months; they had built ...
A man on the Mayflower, Stephen Hopkins, had tried to settle in the New World 10 years earlier but got shipwrecked in Bermuda. Shakespeare’s renowned play “The Tempest” was allegedly based ...
Leister, Edward also spelled Leitster, (possibly vicinity of London), aged over 21, servant to Stephen Hopkins. [ 36 ] Thompson (or Thomson), Edward*, age under 21, in the care of the William White family, first passenger to die after the Mayflower reached Cape Cod .
Curtin told Janney, "We have a hat that descended through your ancestor, Stephen Hopkins's daughter, Constance. It is from the early 17th century." Janney was blown away by the hat as she joked, "Wow.
Stephen Hopkins or Steve Hopkins may refer to: Stephen Hopkins (merchant) (c. 1581–1644), passenger on the Mayflower and one of forty-one signatories of the Mayflower Compact; Stephen Hopkins (politician) (1707–1785), Rhode Island governor and signer of the Declaration of Independence SS Stephen Hopkins, a 1942 World War II Liberty ship ...
The Mayflower Compact, originally titled Agreement Between the Settlers of New Plymouth, was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was written by the men aboard the Mayflower , consisting of Separatist Puritans , adventurers, and tradesmen.