Elizabeth Hopkins1
#11851, (7 October 1610 - 1658)
Citations
- [S1155] Robert P. Wakeman, Wakeman Genealogy 1630–1899 (Meriden, Conn.: Journal Publishing Co., 1900), p. 159.
- [S1155] Robert P. Wakeman, Wakeman Genealogy, p. 159, no birth date given.
- [S1156] Society of the Descendants of the Founders of Hartford, online www.foundersofhartford.org, [Based on the earliest record in New England- VWH]. John's brother, Samuel Wakeman is prob. the one who "came in the Lion in Nov. 1631 ; freeman, Mass., Aug. 7, 1632 ; prob. removed to Cambridge; deputy, May, 1635 ; constable for Newtown, April, 1636 ; an original proprietor at Hartford, 1639, when his home-lot was on the south bank of the Little River ; chosen townsman, 1638; appointed with George Hubbard, Senr., and Ancient Stoughton, in 1636, “to consider the bounds and survey the breadth of Dorchester (Windsor) to, wards the Falls, and of Watertown (Wethersfield) towards the mouth of the River.” He was killed in 1641 by a shot from the Spanish fort at Providence in the Bahamas, where he had been sent “to buy cotton.” His widow, Elizabeth, m. (2) Nathaniel Willett, of Hartford, before Jan. 1643, and the estate of Wakeman wag settled on him Dec. 4, 1645, on condition that he pay £40 to the son when he reached the age of 21, and £20 to each of the den's at the age of 18. -Ch.: i. Ezbon, freeman at Stratford, 1669; m. Apr. 1, 1669, at Guilford, Hannah Jordan; removed to Fairfield before 1671, where he d. in 1683. ii. Elizabeth; m. Joseph Arnold, of Haddam. iii. Grace; m. John Kelly, of Hartford. iv. Joanna; m. Francis Hackleton, of Hartford. v. Hannah."
- [S1155] Robert P. Wakeman, Wakeman Genealogy, p. 160.
- [S1155] Robert P. Wakeman, Wakeman Genealogy, 160–161.