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THE 
 
 Privateer Providence 
 
 of Providence ; 
 
 Her Unfortunate Cruise "During the War of 1812-15, together 
 with an account of her Commander , 
 
 CAPT. NICHOLAS HOTKINS, 
 
 Genealogical and otherwise, with an appendix, briefly 
 
 illustrating, genealogically, the line of Hopkinses 
 
 of which he tvas a member. 
 
 Hy a Near Relative. 
 
 
 "PROVIDENCE, % I.: 
 
 1 893^ 
 
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To the Descendants of Captain Nicholas Hopkins, 
 this Little Volume is Respectfully Dedicated by 
 their Friend and Relative, 
 
 e/tf. H. 
 
THE PRIVATEER. 
 
 Family tradition, unsupported by any record, written or 
 printed, then known to the writer of this, prompted an 
 investigation, either to substantiate its truth or dispel its 
 illusion. The story ran thus : An uncle of the writer, a 
 seafaring man, was master of a Privateer that sailed out of 
 Providence, to prey upon the commerce of Great Britain, 
 with which the United States was then at war. 
 
 The expedition was said to have been planned immediately 
 after the war was declared, which event occurred June 18th, 
 1812, and in order to promote success, it was decided to 
 build a small craft, fit her out with her armament while she 
 lay upon the stocks, engage her complement of officers and 
 crew, have all on board at the launching, and immediately 
 set sail in quest of the enemy. The cruise was said to have 
 been short and decisive. A capture of the craft followed 
 the next day after she reached the outlet of Narragansett 
 Bay, the vastly superior force of her antagonist rendering 
 opposition useless. 
 
b THE PRIVATEER. 
 
 The captain, with more or less of the crew, were sent to 
 England as prisoners of war, and confined in Dartmoor 
 Prison, noted for its being the place where sixty-four 
 American prisoners were massacred by the British, April 
 6th, 1815. 
 
 The Arnolds, mercantile men, of Providence, were named 
 as projectors of the scheme, furnishing the financial means 
 to carry it forward. Daniel McFoy was said to have been 
 1st* Lieutenant, and Doctor Samuel Ward King, surgeon. 
 (This latter was afterwards, in 1841 to 1843, Governor of 
 Khode Island). The foregoing covers the traditionary 
 features of the story as it was handed down to subsequent 
 generations of the families identified with the original parti- 
 cipants in the transaction. 
 
 Information was sought by consulting the venerable 
 Anthony B. Arnold (since deceased) , knowing him to have 
 been engaged, at that period, in mercantile and maritime 
 pursuits. He thought he had facilities for giving information 
 if the name of the vessel could be given him. This could- 
 not be done, and the event proved that the " Arnolds " were 
 not parties to the transaction. Then followed inquiries of 
 the descendants of Governor King, which resulted in the 
 first tangible development of facts tending to a solution. 
 The Governor was said to have been very reticent upon his 
 
THE PRIVATEER. 7 
 
 early career in his intercourse with his family, but there was 
 found among his papers, after his decease, a paroel 
 document, dated at Barbadoes, October 4th, 1812, signed 
 by " John Barker, Lieut. Royal Navy, Agt. for prisoners." 
 This released the surgeon from restraint except such as was 
 implied by obligations resting upon recipients of such favors 
 to remain quiescent in the contest then going on. Probably 
 others connected with the expedition received similar favors 
 and were saved a transfer to Dartmoor Prison, in England, 
 where, without doubt, more or less of the sixty men, com- 
 prising the officers and crew, were sent. 
 
 It seems a little singular that so little information of those 
 comprising the actors in the unfortunate cruise can be given, 
 but the disastrous sequence of the affair would rather prompt 
 reticence when a counter achievement, where glory is 
 inspired, would induce to a promulgation of the names of 
 the participants. Only -Nicholas Hopkins, Master ; Daniel 
 McFoy, 1st Lieutenant ; Samuel Ward King, Surgeon ; 
 Sylvanus Martin and George Disley, all of Providence and 
 vicinity, have been named as being parties connected with 
 the expedition. 
 
 Information was solicited at the Custom House in Provi- 
 dence relative to the Privateer's name, which was necessary 
 to furnish data in further developing facts needed for a full 
 
o THE PRIVATEER. 
 
 understanding of the case. Edward M. Flynn, Esq., of 
 the storekeepers' department, kindly volunteered to make a 
 search, which resulted in finding the vessel's register, which 
 the writer was permitted to copy, and is here given as 
 follows : 
 
 Copy of the register of the Privateer Schooner Providence 
 at the Custom House in Providence, transcribed July 10th, 
 1889, by A. H. 
 
 "No, 16." 
 
 " 'In pursuance of an Act of Congress of the United States 
 of America, entitled, 'An Act concerning the registering and 
 recording ships or vessels.' Henry Smith, Samuel James 
 and Samuel P. Allen, all of Providence, in the State of 
 Rhode Island, merchants having taken or subscribed the 
 oath required by the said act, and having sworn that they 
 are the only owners of the ship or vessel called the 
 Providence, of Providence, whereof Nicholas Hopkins is 
 at present, master, and is a citizen of the United States, as • 
 he hath sworn, and that the said ship or vessel was built at 
 Providence in the present year, eighteen hundred and 
 twelve. And John B. Barton, Deputy Surveyor, having 
 certified that the said ship or vessel has one deck and two 
 masts, and that her length is sixty feet — her breadth 
 
THE PRIVATEER. 9 
 
 nineteen feet — her depth, eight feet, eight inches, and that 
 she measures ninety-four tons and sixty feet, that she has a 
 square stern and is a schooner with no gallies and no figure- 
 head. And as the said Henry Smith having agreed to the 
 descriptions and measurements above specified, and suffi- 
 cient security having been given according to said act, the 
 said schooner has been duly registered at the Port of 
 Providence. 
 
 Given under my hand and seal at the Port of Providence 
 this eighth day of August, in the year one thousand eight 
 hundred and twelve — 1812.'" 
 
 The signature to the above (for some reason) is omitted 
 in the Custom House record. A. H. * 
 
 The following notices, copied as shown, gives all that 
 could be gleaned from the newspapers of the time regarding 
 the career of the Providence, and incidents pertaining to the 
 officers and crew : 
 
 1st — From the Newport Rhode Island Republican of 
 August 13th, 1812. "Arrived in the inner harbor, 
 Monday, [August 10th] Privateer Schooner Providence, 
 Captain Hopkins, from Providence, 14 guns and 60 men, 
 bound on a cruise." 
 
10 THE PRIVATEER. 
 
 2nd. From Providence Gazette of October 17th, 1812. 
 " The new Privateer Providence of this port was captured 
 soon after she sailed and sent to St. Thomas." 
 
 3rd. From the Newport Rhode Island Republican of 
 November 18th, 1812. "The Captain and first Lieutenant 
 of the Privateer Providence were on shore at Barbadoes on 
 parole ; the other officers on board the prison ship and the 
 cre^w were on board the Admiral ship at the Saints." 
 
 Subsequent to transcribing the foregoing relative to the 
 career of this unfortunate cruiser, on further investigation 
 the writer luckily found very full particulars of the incipient 
 and progressive details of the affair ; which follows, tran- 
 scribed from the " Providence Phenix" a newspaper then 
 published in the town. 
 
 1st. — Paper of Saturday, July 11th, 1812. 
 
 ' ' A contract for the building of a privateer of 5 1 feet 
 keel, in this port was yesterday entered into — she was to 
 be completed in thirty days." 
 
 2nd. — Paper of Saturday, August 8th, 1812. 
 
 Launch — " On Monday last was launched from the ship 
 yard at Eddy's Point, in this town, the beautiful Privateer 
 Providence, pierced for 14 guns, 51 feet, 19 beam and 66 
 
THE PRIVATEER. 11 
 
 deck, and nearly 100 tons burthen. This is the same 
 vessel that we mentioned in our paper of the llthult. to 
 have been contracted for to be completed in 30 days. She 
 was launched on the 21st day after her keel was laid, the 
 workmen having been employed on her only seventeen, by 
 reason of the intervention of the Sabbath, fast day and 
 stormy days. Such dispatch we believe, is unparalleled in 
 the annals of ship building here, and both the contractor, 
 Col. Eddy, and his assistants deserve the highest encomiums, 
 not only for the speed with which they have toiled, but for 
 the masterly manner in which they have executed the work- 
 manship of the vessel. Every requisite being prepared for 
 her departure. It is expected the Providence will sail on a 
 cruise to-morrow. May she rival her revolutionary name- 
 sake in successful cruises and valient exploits ! " 
 
 1 * We understand it is in contemplation of a number of 
 patriotic gentlemen of this town, immediately to contract 
 for the building of a much, larger cruiser, say from 2 to 
 300 tons." 
 
 3rd — Paper of Saturday, August 15th, 1812. 
 
 " Sailed from this port on Tuesday last, on a cruise, the 
 private vessel Providence. Captain Hopkins, with a brave 
 crew." 
 
12 THE PRIVATEER. 
 
 4th Paper of Saturday, October 17th, 1812. 
 
 "An arrival at Newport, from St. Thomas, brings the 
 unpleasant intelligence that the privateer schooner Provi- 
 dence, Hopkins, of this port, carrying 5 guns and 70 men 
 was captured on the 20th of August by a three masted 
 lugger from St. Thomas, after having thrown overboard part 
 of her guns in the chase." 
 5th — Paper of Saturday, November 25th, 1812. 
 
 "Dr. King, the surgeon of the Providence privateer, 
 recently captured and carried into Barbadoes, arrived in a 
 cartel at Newport on Saturday last. He states that the 
 captain and the first lieutenant were paroled at Barbadoes 
 and the other officers and crew were on board the prison 
 ship, all in good health and tolerably well treated." 
 
 The preceding narrative is intended to satisfy, to a certain 
 extent, the desires of those descendants of the parties who 
 were subjected to the critical issues pertaining to the 
 situation in which they were involuntarily placed. A. H. 
 
 Synopsis of IDates. 
 
 1812.— July 10th, Contracted to build. 
 " August 3d, Launched. 
 11th, Sailed. 
 " 20th, Captured. 
 " November 18th, Surgeon (Doct. King), under 
 parole, arrived in a cartel at Newport. 
 
Captain Nicholas Hopkins. 
 
 This picture of Captain Hopkins was copied from a photographic representation of 
 a portrait painted by an artist in Paris, France, while on one of his tours abroad, 
 supposed to be about the year 1816. 
 
 The portrait is now in the possession of the family of one of his deceased sons, 
 and the writer of this recalls it as a parlor ornament frequently seen by him more 
 than seventy years ago. 
 
NICHOLAS HOPKINS 
 
 1. NICHOLAS HOPKINS* was descended from Thomas 
 Hopkins, who settled in Providence , about the year 1641, 
 through Thomas, 2 Amos, 3 Uriah 4 . He was the sixth and 
 youngest son of Uriah and Lucy (Lanksford) Hopkins, born 
 at the North End, in Providence, March 14, 1783, and died 
 October 22nd, 1823, at Lower Sandusky, Ohio, in his 
 41st year. He early showed a predilection for a seafaring 
 life, a profession followed by two of his elder brothers, 
 Captains Thomas and Stephen Hopkins, who early in life 
 engaged in that pursuit. Impatient for a proper age to 
 arrive when he could expect to receive the consent of his 
 parents to enter upon his contemplated life work, at twelve 
 years of age he ran away from home to Boston, where he 
 shipped, (probably as a cabin boy) on board of a vessel 
 for a short cruise. On his return to port he met Dexter 
 Brown, of Providence, an acquaintance of his father's family, 
 informed him of his adventure and of his intention to sail 
 again when the vessel on which he had served was ready 
 for another voyage. These facts were communicated by 
 Mr. Brown to his father, and he immediately went to 
 
16 NICHOLAS HOPKINS. 
 
 Boston and brought the truant boy home. It was, however, 
 only for a brief period that he could be detained, and he 
 soon entered upon his chosen calling, in which he was 
 eminently successful, and attained a high rank in the 
 command of first-class mercantile vessels. What was then 
 considered a fair competence followed his efforts, and at the 
 age of forty years he bought a tract of land in Lower 
 Sandusky, Ohio, with a view to an abandonment of a 
 seafaring life, and working for the development of the 
 resources of the then sparsely populated region of that 
 section of the country, but he was soon prostrated by 
 sickness, which terminated fatally, as before noted. 
 
 He was twice married, first, October 11th, 1807, to 
 Cecelia Miller, daughter of John and Anne (Gladding) 
 Miller, who died November 12th, 1815, aged 34 years. 
 Married second, March 12th, 1818, Elizabeth Miller, sister 
 to Cecelia, who died in Providence at the home of George 
 Disley, one of the crew of the Privateer Providence here- 
 tofore alluded to, January 25th, 1852, aged 78 years. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 All by first ivife, Cecelia. 
 2. I. GEORGE HENRY 6 , b. August 3d, 1808, d. March 
 29th, 1871. 
 
NICHOLAS HOPKINS. 17 
 
 3. II. MARYS, b. March 30th, 1814, d. March 2d, 
 
 1875. 
 
 4. in. ELIZABETH^, b. March 30th, 1814, d. June 
 
 25th, 1815. 
 
 5. IV. EDWARD ABRAHAMS, b . j n i y 2 7th, 1815, 
 
 d. Nov. 29th, 1860. 
 
George Henry Hopkins. 
 
GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 (2.) GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS, son of Captain 
 Nicholas, was by profession a printer. First, in Provi- 
 dence, where he was prominent in the office of the Provi- 
 dence Journal, as an assistant to John Miller, its publisher, 
 in office work and other responsible duties connected with 
 its management. About the year 1839 he removed to 
 Newark, N. J., with his family, and after a short residence 
 there, located in New York where a larger field was pre- 
 sented for a man ambitious to push forward to success in his 
 chosen calling, and continued his labors there until ad- 
 vanced age and impaired health called for its discontinuance. 
 He died, as before noted, March 29th, 1871, at the home 
 of his daughter, Mrs. Hut chins, in West Hoboken, N. J. 
 His remains were removed to Providence and interred in 
 the North Burial Ground, where his wife, who had preceded 
 him to the spirit land, with the remains of some of the 
 earlier members of his family, rested. He married, Septem- 
 ber 6th, 1829, Sophia, daughter of John and Alice (Jones) 
 
22 GEOKGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 Newman, of Providence. She. died in New York, May 
 21st, 1861, in her 55th year.* 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 6. I. Maria Elizabeth*, b. Dec. 4th, 1830, d. April 
 
 2d, 1836. 
 
 7. II. Nicholas?, b. June 13th, 1832, d. Jan. 28th, 
 
 1886. 
 '8. III. John Newman?, b. March 27th, 1834. 
 9. IV. George Henry 7, b. June 29th, 1836, d. Nov. 
 5th, 1837. 
 
 10. V. Caroline Alice 7 , b. Oct. 30th, 1838, d. Nov. 
 
 18th, 1838. 
 
 11. VI. Ellen Maria 7 , b. July 5th, 1840. 
 
 12. VII. George Henry 7 , b. Jan. 23d, 1844. 
 
 13. VIII.Charles Augustine 7 , b. Feb. 22d, 1847, d. 
 
 March 19th, 1847. 
 
 14. IX. William Greenleaf 7 , b. March 6th, 1849. 
 
 *Note.— John Newman, father of Sophia, was an architect, carpenter and builder 
 a man of much mechanical ability and of considerable scientific attainments. He 
 devoted much of his time to the study of astronomy. The Rev. E. M. Stone wrote 
 concerning him, when giving notes on the prominent early members of the Mechanics 
 Association of Providence, as follows: "He furnished, for some years, the tables 
 for the Bickerstaff Rhode Island Almanics," and concludes by saying, " had Mr. 
 Newman been allowed the advantages of early education he might have attained a 
 high rank in the annals of science. He became a member of the Association in 1818, 
 and died March 4th, 1831, aged 59 years, having to the close sustained the character of 
 an honest, industrious and deserving man." 
 
GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 23 
 
 (3 & 4.) MARY E. 6 , represents with her own birth- 
 name, that of her twin sister Elizabeth, who died in infancy. 
 This was adopted by the family after the death of the latter, 
 hence she was called Mary E. She married, May 15th, 
 1833, Seth Baker, son of Jonathan and Nancy Baker, who 
 died Dec. 10th, 1855, aged 49 years. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 15. I. Mary E. 7 , b. June 10th, 1835, d. Sept, 24th, 
 
 1836. 
 
 16. n. Edwin H. 7 , b. August 22d, 1841, d. July 9th, 
 
 1875; married April 28th, 1869, Eliza J., 
 widow of Henry Spooner and daughter of 
 Josiah and Ruth D. Luther, b. March 25th, 
 1843. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Charles Albert*, b. March 28th, 1870, d. Sept. 17th, 1870. 
 
 17. III. Emma E. 7 , b. April 7th, 1845, d. Sept. 13th, 
 
 1877. 
 
 18. IV. Charles Albert 7 ,!). May 16th, 1849, d. July 
 
 26th, 1850. 
 (5.) EDWARD ABRAHAM found employment early 
 in life at the calico printing establishment of Philip Allen 
 & Son, in hand block printing, which business was 
 
24 GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 superced edby machine work, which set aside a large force 
 of operatives engaged in the old method. He then pur- 
 chased an estate in Johnston, R. I., on which was a small 
 water privilege, which he utilized by operating machinery 
 adapted to wood turning of various kinds until his death. 
 He married, Oct. 29th, 1838, Ruth Baker. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 19. I. Edavin Baker 7 , b. March 2d, 1842. 
 
 20. II. Cecelia Elizabeth 7 , b. July 18th, 1844. 
 
 21. III. Joanna 7 , b. April 30th, 1846, d. Oct. 14th, 
 
 1848. 
 
 22. IV. Thomas J. 7 , b. July 8th, 1849. 
 
 23. V. Mary 7 , b. July 26th, 1855, d. Sept. 29th, 1883 ; 
 
 married Asa F. Roberts. 
 
 24. VI. Sarah 7 , b. June 13th, 1857. 
 
 (7.) Nicholas 7 , born in Providence, was by occupa- 
 tion a printer, first in New York, followed by its con- 
 tinuance in New Haven, Conn., and Manchester, N. H., 
 which places have been, severally, the residences of his 
 family. Ill health, of Bright's disease, induced him to try 
 a milder climate than the bleak hills of New Hampshire 
 afforded and a tour south found him at Norfolk, Va., where 
 the crisis came and he passed away. 
 
GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 25 
 
 He married December 26th, 1852, Sarah Augusta, 
 daughter of William and Maria Ann (Tompkins) Clark, 
 who was horn in New York city, June 4th, 1834. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 25. I. Ida Augusta 8 , horn in Williamsburg, Long 
 
 Island, June 12th, 1853. Is now residing 
 with her mother, in Lynn, Mass. 
 
 26. II. Nicholas 8 , born in New York city, March 8th, 
 
 1855, died October 25th, 1861. 
 
 27. III. Thomas Jefferson Stafford 8 , was born in 
 
 New Haven, Conn., February 15th, 1857. 
 Occupation , a printer . Married , August 11th, 
 
 1886, at Manchester, N. H., Grace Ann Fos- 
 ter, daughter of Thomas B. and Jane Ann 
 (Deal) Foster. She was born at Eaton, P. 
 Q., May 10th, 1863, died at Lynn, Mass., 
 October 1.6 th, 1891. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Bessie Flazel 9 , born in Manchester, January 23d, 
 
 1887, died February 15th, 1887. 
 
 2d. Harry*, b. and d. at Manchester, January 25th, 
 
 1888. 
 
26 GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 3d. Thomas J. S., Jr. 9 , born at Hartford, Conn., March 
 13th, 1889. 
 
 4th. George 9 , born at Lynn, Mass., July 23d, 1890, 
 died August 12th, 1890. 
 
 5th. Jane Eliza Foster*, born at Lynn, Mass., October 
 5th, 1891. 
 28. IV. Charles Henry Andrew 8 , born in New 
 Haven, Conn., November 30, 1858. Occu- 
 pation, a printer. Employed first, in Man- 
 chester, N. H., followed by about a ten years 
 period in Woonsocket, 11. I., and at the 
 present writing, (1893) we find him at the 
 Journal office in Providence, an outgrowth 
 from the office where his grandfather, George 
 Henry, was first initiated into the Faustinian 
 art. He married, October 14th, 1884, at 
 Woonsocket, R. I., Isadore L., daughter of 
 Sylvester J. and Mary Sweet. She was born 
 at Woonsocket, March 10th, 1859. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Raymond Charles 9 , born in Woonsocket, January 
 13th, 1890. 
 
GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 27 
 
 2d. Howard Edwin 9 , born in Providence, K. I., 
 November 27th, 1891. 
 
 V. Frank Easton 8 , born in New York, March 30th, 
 
 1863. By early occupation, a printer, but 
 at the present writing, connected with the 
 publishing house of Theodore L. De Vinne 
 & Son, of New York. He married, Decem- 
 ber 10th, 1890, Caroline Tucker Day, 
 daughter of Francis William and Mary Eliza- 
 beth (Fuller) Day, born in New York, Decem- 
 ber 27th, 1864. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 1st. Marion Day 9 , born in Brooklyn, N. Y., May 5th, 
 1892. 
 
 VI. Sarah Maria Newman 8 , born in New York, July 
 
 7th, 1865. Married June 20th, 1887, at 
 Brooklyn, Walter B. Humphrey, son of Bax- 
 ter and Elizabeth Humphrey, born June 20th, 
 1862, at Bar nst ead, Que. 
 
 children. 
 1st. Augusta Hopkins 9 , born at Lynn, Mass., June 
 
 10th, 1888. 
 2nd. Mia May 9 , born at Lynn, March 21st, 1890. 
 
28 GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 VII. Cornelia Frances Easton 8 , born in New York, 
 
 September 22d, 1867, died April 28th, 1869. 
 
 VIII. William Easton 8 , born in New York, April 28th, 
 
 1869. Occupation, printer. Married, Sep- 
 tember 4th, 1889, at Manchester, N. EL, 
 Laura Etta Holcomb, daughter of John H. 
 and Harriet L. (Downing) Holcomb*. She 
 was born at Manchester, February 7th, 1869. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 1st. Fay Easton*, born August 29th, 1890. 
 
 IX. Edward Augustus 8 , born in New Haven, Conn., 
 
 November 20th, 1870. Married at Lynn, 
 Mass., March 30th, 1893, May E. Gray, 
 daughter of John N. and Mary E. (McFar- 
 land) Gray. She was born in New London, 
 Conn., September 16th, 1872. 
 
 X. Pearl Edna 8 , born in New Haven, Conn., Sept. 
 
 22nd, 1872, died about April 25th, 1873. 
 (8.) John Newman Hopkins 7 , son of George H. and 
 Sophia, married October 10th, 1860, Frances M., daughter 
 of Capt. E. Stannard, of Westbrook, Conn. No issue. 
 He resides in New Haven and follows the family avocation 
 of a printer. 
 
GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 29 
 
 (11.) Ellen Maria 7 , daughter of George H. and 
 Sophia, was born in Newark, N. J., July 5th, 1840. Mar- 
 ried in New York city, April 6th, 1865, Henry Clinton 
 Hutchins. Subsequent residence, West Hoboken, N. J. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Harry Clinton*, born July 6th, 1866. 
 
 II. Ella Sojjhia 8 , born February 12th, 1868, married 
 
 October 9th, 1888, George N. Syms, of West 
 Hoboken. 
 
 III. Lillian Florence 8 , born June 9th, 1875, d. June 
 
 8th, 1877. 
 
 IV. George Iiennard 8 , born May 17th, 1881. 
 
 (12.) George Henry", son of George H. and Sophia, 
 was also a printer. He married September 13th, 1876, 
 Adah, daughter of John H. and Frances South worth, born 
 in New Haven, May 31st, 1857. Residence in New Haven. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 1. Edward Carrington 8 , born October 16th, 1877. 
 
 (14.) William Greenleaf 7 , son of George H. and 
 Sophia, married October 14th, 1875, Florence J., daughter 
 of William E. and L. J. Kanney. It seems almost super- 
 fluous to note that he adds one to the almost unbroken line 
 
30 GEORGE HENRY HOPKINS. 
 
 of printers, running among the male members of the 
 descendants of George Henry Hopkins, whose example, 
 set before them, they seem to have studiously followed. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Jennie Isabel*, born in Hartford, November 1st, 1876, 
 
 died September 12th, 1877. 
 
 II. William £. 8 , born in H., March 30th, 1879, died 
 
 November 12th, 1885. 
 
 III. Nicholas i?J, born July 23d, 1885, died February 
 
 25th, 1886. 
 
 IV. Frank W. 8 , born July 27th, 1888, died August 29th, 
 
 1888. 
 
The Uriah Hopkins Homestead. 
 
 Copied from " Ancient North End Land-marks, No. 2," 
 published in the Providence Journal, in the early part of the 
 year 1881 : 
 
 " April 27th, 1708, Henry Adams, had set off to him by 
 the Proprietors of Providence, a house lot of land on Bury- 
 ing Hill, fifty feet square," which he improved by building 
 upon it a modest cottage, seventeen by twenty-five feet, yet 
 (1880) standing after the lapse of one hundred and seventy- 
 two years. Not being an aspiring individual, he contented 
 himself with a moderate and unpretentious home. The 
 proprietors probably considering the paucity of his domain 
 and the real wants of his growing family, which seemed to 
 increase by couplets, granted him the privilege of cultivat- 
 ing surrounding land as a garden, which was ultimately 
 enclosed by a fence, giving to it the appearance, at least, of 
 fair proportions. 
 
 In process of time the little cottage and its environs 
 changed owners, and with it, the rights and privileges of 
 the garden. Deed followed deed, and various transfers 
 
32 URIAH HOPKINS HOMESTEAD. 
 
 designated the lot as fifty feet square, until November 10th, 
 1840, when the then owner assumed to give a warranty 
 deed of the whole enclosure, two hundred feet by one hun- 
 dred and twenty-live feet, thus swelling its proportions from 
 twenty-five hundred to twenty-five thousand square feet. 
 
 Quiet possession to the grantee and his successors con- 
 tinued until the City of Providence, by its agents, in recon- 
 structing Sexton street, appropriated a portion of the south 
 end of the garden to that purpose, claiming the right, as 
 successors of the original proprietors to hold and control all 
 but the original fifty feet square granted to Adams. A law 
 suit followed and a trial before Judge Potter resulted in a 
 triumph of " Squatter Sovereignty ," the city lost the case 
 and was mulcted in damages to the value of the land taken. 
 
 Early in its history, probably about the year 1738, an 
 addition was built upon the west end of the house, making 
 its dimensions, seventeen by forty feet. To this was added, 
 in 1817, the back kitchen or projection on the north side. 
 This last was built by Nicholas Hopkins, son of Uriah who 
 owned the property, having purchsed it of his father, 
 November 5th, 1807, subject to the reservation of a life lease 
 to his father and mother. 
 
 Examination of records made with a view to trace owner- 
 ship of the estate failed to show any trasfer of it by Adams, 
 
URIAH HOPKINS HOMESTEAD. 33 
 
 but a sale by Jonathan Sprague, to Lieutenant William 
 Harris, made July 13th, 1720, represents that Sprague 
 bought of Henry Adams but gives no date of such purchase. 
 Neither could any record be found of Adams or any of his 
 family at a much later date than that noted at the commence- 
 ment of this article. He probably moved from the Colony 
 soon after the sale of his house to Sprague. The births of 
 his children are thus entered in the town records. 
 
 Children of Henry and Ruth Adams. 1st, Solomon, 
 born April 23d, 1699 ; 2d, Henry, born October 11th, 
 1700; 3d, Ruth, April 10th, 1702; 4th and 5th, Ebenezer 
 and Patience, February 11th, 1704 ; 6th, Joseph, July 28th, 
 1706. 
 
 Title to the property was vested in the following persons 
 in the order named : Henry Adams, Jonathan Sprague, 
 William Harris, Robert Currie, William Smith and others, 
 John Salisbury, Thomas Sayles, John Wilkinson, John 
 Anthony Angell, John Andrews, Moses Brown, Uriah 
 Hopkins, Nicholas Hopkins, Edward A. Hopkins, Richard 
 and John Gannon. It is probable that no owner, from 
 Adams to Uriah Hopkins, entered upon the premises as an 
 occupant, excepting probably John Salisbury. 
 
 Moses Brown bought it November 16th-, 1784, and Uriah 
 Hopkins became his tenant, and probably he was a tenant 
 
34 UEIAH HOPKINS HOMESTEAD. 
 
 of the preceding owner. Brown sold to Uriah, May 24th, 
 1793, and Nicholas bought of his father, as before noted, 
 November 5th, 1807. The life lease to his parents termina- 
 ted on the death of his father, but the death of the son 
 preceded his own demise, consequently possession by the 
 heirs of Nicholas was only received on the last death noted. 
 In the division of Nicholas' estate this homestead property 
 came into the possession of his son, Edward A., who sold it 
 to Richard and John Gannon, November 10th, 1840. Alice 
 Gannon, widow of John, sold it to the City of Providence, 
 December 15th, 1876, and it became a part of the North 
 Burying Ground, to be used for cemetery purposes. The 
 old house was demolished about the year 1882. 
 
APPENDIX, 
 
 In presenting the foregoing, particularly in the interest 
 of the descendants of Capt. Nicholas Hopkins, its brevity 
 prompts to a little consideration of its connection with 
 earlier branches of the family and a continuance down to 
 the present time, genealogically, of the line to which he was 
 directly allied, starting from the first emigrant ancestor. 
 
 1. Thomas Hopkins 1 , was the son of William and Joanna 
 (Arnold) Hopkins, born in England, April 7th, 1(516, died 
 at Littleworth, Oyster Bay, Long Island, in the summer or 
 early fall of 1684, while residing with Richard Kirby of 
 that place, whose wife, Elizabeth, is supposed to have been 
 a widow of a son of Thomas, of whom no record is known to 
 exist. This is assumed from the fact that she had, previous 
 to her marriage with Kirby, two children, Ichabod and 
 Anne Hopjdns. 
 
 The name of Thomas' wife is still a matter not definitely 
 settled, and it is yet an open question to be answered by 
 future invesigators. His children were : 
 
 2. I. Name Unknown 2 , born died 
 
 Note. — The idea of pricing the family reeord of (2) "Name unknown," before 
 that of his brothers, William and Thomas, results from a belief that he was of anterior 
 birth. The proof lying in the fact that his son Ichabod, according to the inscription 
 on his grave stone/" died January 25th, 1731, aged 62 years." And as only twenty-live 
 days of 1731 had elapsed at his death, it would be fair to presume that the year of 
 his" birth was 1(368, and as he is represented to have been younger than his sister Ann, 
 his father's marriage must have antedated either of his brothers, at least ten or twelve 
 years. 
 
36 APPENDIX. 
 
 3. n. William 2 , b. 1647, d. July 8th, 1723. 
 
 4. III. Thomas 2 , b. about 1G50, d. April 1st, 1718. 
 (2). Name Unknown 2 , married Elizabeth 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 5. I. Anne 2 , b. d. Circumstances connected 
 
 with probate records of Oyster Bay, lead 
 to the opinion that she married Thomas Kirby, 
 son, by an earlier wife than Elizabeth Hop- 
 kins, of her stepfather, Richard Kirby. 
 Had four sons, William, Thomas, Richard 
 and Daniel, and two daughters, Mary, who 
 married a Valentine, and Elizabeth, who mar- 
 ried a Thorney craft. 
 
 6. H. Ichabod 3 , b. 1668, d. January 25th, 1731 ; 
 
 married Sarah, daughter of Daniel and Maher- 
 shallalhashbaz (Gorton) Cole. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 Thomas 4 , b. d. May 3d, 1774. 
 
 Daniel 4 , b. d. June 10th, 1766. 
 
 Elizabeth 4 , b. d. married February 
 
 26th, 1734, Benjamin Birdsall. 
 10. IV. Sarah 4 , b. d. January 22d, 1737; mar- 
 ried February 22d, 1736, Joseph Merritt. 
 
 7. 
 
 I. 
 
 8. 
 
 II. 
 
 9. 
 
 Ill 
 
APPENDIX. 37 
 
 11. V. Dinah 4 , b. d. married Nehemiah, son 
 
 of Joseph Merritt. 
 
 12. VI. Ann 4 , b. 1717 d, September 11th, 
 
 1734. 
 (3) William 2 married, January, 1H82, Abigail, widow 
 of Stephen, son of Gregory Dexter, and daughter of John 
 and Sarah Whipple. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 13. I. William 3 , b. d. 1738 ; married Ruth 
 
 Wilkinson, daughter of Samuel and Plaine 
 (Wickenden) Wilkinson. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 14. I. William 4 , b. about 1705, d. February 17th, 
 
 1755. 
 
 15. II. Stephen 4 , b. March 7th, 1707, died in Provi- 
 
 dence, July 13th, 1785 ; Governor of Rhode 
 Island and one of the signers of the Declara- 
 tion of Independence, as a member of 
 Congress. 
 1(3. III. Rurus 4 , b. d. 
 
 17. IV. John 4 , 1). d. February 1st, 1745. 
 
 18. V. Hope 4 , b. March 3d, 1717, d. July 20th, 1803. 
 
38 
 
 APPENDIX. 
 
 19. VI. Esek 4 , (Commodore) b. April 26th, 1718, d. 
 
 February 26th, 1802. 
 
 20. VII. Samuel 4 , b. d. September — 1744. 
 
 21. VIII. Abigail 4 , b. 1727, d. January 30th, 1772. 
 
 22. IX. Susanna 4 , b. 1728, d. November 8th, 
 
 1745. 
 
 (3.) Thomas 2 , married 1678, Mary, daughter of 
 
 John and Elizabeth Smith. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 23. I. Thomas 3 , I). d. after 1746 ; married Eliz- 
 
 abeth, b. d. February 1st, 1751. 
 
 24. II. William 3 , b. d. married Deborah 
 
 Allen, daughter of Isaac Allen, who was born 
 May 7th, 1691, d. April 11th, 1781. 
 
 25. III. Joseph 3 , b. d. July 19, 1740; married 
 
 Bethiah Allen, sister to his brother William's 
 wife ; married 2d. Martha, b. d. 
 
 26. IV. Elizabeth 3 , b. d., unmarried, February 
 
 26th, 1731. 
 Mary 3 , b. d. married Robert Davis, 
 
 27. V. 
 
 28. VI. 
 
 March 8, 1716. 
 Rachel 3 , b. d. 
 
APPENDIX. 39 
 
 29. VII. Zebedee 3 , b. February 22d, 1697, d. March 
 
 4th, 1789; married Susannah Jenckes, 1). 
 May 24th, 1700, d. March 18, 1755. 
 
 30. VIII. Elisha 3 , b. d. married Mercy Waide, 
 
 July 13, 1722. 
 
 31. IX. Ezekiel 3 , b. d. married Elizabeth, 
 
 b. d. 
 
 32. X. Amos 3 , 1). d. 1769. 
 
 33. XL Jeremiah 3 , b. d., unmarried, Arpil 26th, 
 
 1733. 
 
 34. XII. Ann 3 ,!). d. 
 
 (32.) Amos 3 married, October 29th, 1727, Sarah, 
 daughter of Joseph and Elizabeth (Hawkins) Smith. This 
 Joseph was a son of Thomas and Plaine (Wickenden) 
 Smith ; Plaine being the daughter of the Rev. William 
 Wickenden, an early minister of the First Baptist Church 
 in Providence. Joseph and Elizabeth were married April 
 4th, 1699. Amos and Sarah's children, as far as known, 
 were as follows : 
 
 35. I. Amos 4 , b. d. about 1770. 
 
 36. II. Jeremiah 4 , b. d. 
 
 37. III. Uriah 4 , b. December 26, 1738, d. April 3d, 
 
 1825. 
 
40 APPENDIX. 
 
 (35.) Amos 4 married , January 18, 1761, Sarah , daughter 
 of Jeremiah and Ruth Smith, of what is now (1893) known 
 as North Providence, her maiden name being' the same as 
 that of his mother. He was, a mariner and supposed to 
 have been lost at sea about the year 1770. His widow, 
 Sarah, married, May 30th, 1779, Levi Whipple, as his second 
 wife. As far as known but one child was born to Amos 4 
 ancl Sarah, Amos 5 , who died January 18th, 1808, in his 38th 
 year. 
 
 (36.) Jeremiah 4 married, December 10th, 1769, Avis, 
 daughter of Daniel Mathewson, of Johnston. About the 
 year 1777, he removed to Killingly, Conn., and the writer 
 has been unable to obtain any information concerning him of 
 a subsequent date. 
 
 (37.) Uriah 4 , son of (32) Amos 3 , was born in Scituate 
 and removed to Providence with his father's family in 1752, 
 when about 14 years old. He married Lucy, daughter of 
 William and Martha Lanksford. She was born July 26th,. 
 1745, and died December 5th, 1816. She was the youngest 
 child of her parents, her father, William, died May 19th, 
 1745, a little more than two months previous to her birth, 
 at Paramaribo, Surinam, whither he went to engage for a 
 season in pursuing his occupation, which was that of a 
 cooper. His widow, Martha, survived him about 52 years, 
 
APPENDIX. 41 
 
 dying in 1797. Besides Lucy, they had a daughter Mary, 
 who married Ezra Olney, of North Providence, and a son, 
 Capt. William, who married Elizabeth Jackson, the young- 
 est child of Stephen Jackson, whose family and descendants 
 have been prominent in the annals of Providence. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 38. I. Jesses, b. April 5th, 1765, d. September 11th, 
 
 1826. 
 
 39. II. Thomas*, b. August 25th, 1770, d. March 20th, 
 
 1846. 
 
 40. III. William 5 , b. December 6th, 1772, d. unmar- 
 
 ried, May 26th, 1796. 
 
 41. IV. Mary 5 , b. August 7th, 1774, died November 
 
 21st, 1838. 
 
 42. V. Stephen 5 , b. November 12th, 1776, d. July 
 
 8th, 1823. 
 
 43. VI. Abraham 5 , b. January 24th, 1779, d. August 
 
 15th, 1796. 
 
 44. VII. Amey 5 , b. November 12th, 1780, d. July 27th, 
 
 1841. 
 
 45. VIII. ^Nicholas 5 , b. May 14th, 1783, d. October 
 
 22d, 1823. 
 
 *For Family of Nicholas, see page 15. 
 
42 APPENDIX. 
 
 40. IX. Martha 5 , b. February 8th, 1786, d. December 
 16th, 1792. 
 
 47. X. Sarah Smith 5 , b. July 26th, 1788, d. January 
 
 11th, 1825. 
 
 (38.) Jesse 5 was by occupation a tanner and currier. 
 He married Rachel, daughter of John and Rachel (Bullock) 
 Anthony, born June 5th, 1765, died June 4th, 1850. Most 
 of their married life was passed in Pawtucket. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 48. I. Henry 6 , b. May 1st, 1791, d. February 25th, 
 
 1863. 
 
 49. II, Mary 6 , b. August 1st, 1794, d. February 11th, 
 
 1802. 
 
 50. III. Martha 6 , b. April 18th, 1797, d. September 
 
 14th, 1849, 
 
 51. IV. Jesse 6 , b. July 17th, 1799, d. June 3d, 1820. 
 
 52. V. Eliza A. 6 , b. November 5th, 1801, d. June 
 
 7th, 1890. 
 53! VI. Mary A. 6 , b. January 3d, 1804, d. unmarried, 
 
 August 23d, 1881. 
 54. VII. William Allen 6 , b. July 24th, 1806, d. July 
 
 31st, 1883. 
 
APPENDIX. 43 
 
 55. VIII. Abby Dean 6 , b. August 29th, 1808, d. January 
 
 22d, 1893. 
 
 56. IX. John A. 6 , b. February 11th, 1812, d. May 20th, 
 
 1889. 
 
 (48.) Henry 6 was twice married. First, June 28th, 
 1812, to Nancy, daughter of Leonard Pettengale, who was 
 born January 7th, 1791, died November 1st, 1847. Married 
 second, at Taunton, Mass., January 29th, 1850, Lydia Allen, 
 born May 22d, 1813, died November 15th, 1878. Child, 
 
 by first wife, Ann Eliza, born July 10th, 1813, died 
 
 married, December 5th, 1831, Albert W. Snow, son of 
 JosiahSnow, who died December 20th, 1869, aged 57 years. 
 
 (50.) Martha Hopkins 6 , daughter of Jesse 5 , married 
 James, son of Lucas and Betsey Wheaton. He was born 
 in Rehoboth, Mass., January 24th, 1794, and died in Paw- 
 tucket, November 25th, 1880. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Jesse Hopkins 7 , b. September 21st, 1816, d. 
 
 August 6th, 1820. 
 
 II. James Lucas 7 , b. March 14th, 1823, married, 
 
 May 15th, 1850, Anna Maria, daughter of 
 Charles B. Jenks of Grafton, Mass. 
 
44 APPENDIX. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Martha JenJcs 8 , b. February 12th, 1851. 
 
 2d. Anna Frances*, b. February 27th, 1853. 
 
 3d. Jessie*, b. December 30th, 1860, d. July 20th, 
 
 1864. 
 4th. James Lucas, Jr. s , b. July 9th, 1868. 
 
 III. Martha Elizabeth 7 , b. October 28th, 1825, d. 
 
 August 9th, 1828. 
 
 IV. Martha Maria 7 , b. June 27th, 1836, d. October 
 
 4th, 1855. 
 (52.) Eliza A. 6 , married first, Grafton Sears, second, 
 Warren Holmes. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Daniel A. Hopkins 7 , b. April 11th, 1823. 
 
 (54.) William Allen 6 , married first, Sarah, daughter 
 of Jonathan and Nancy Baker, b. November 8th, 1803, d. 
 November 8th, 1850. Married second, November 23d, 
 1851, Susan, daughter of John and Eunice Lassell. She 
 was born May 3d, 1812, d. November 23d, 1861. 
 
 CHILDREN BY FIRST WIFE. 
 
 I. Ann Fisher 7 , b. February 15th, 1829, d. July 21st, 
 1880. Married Theodore, son of George and 
 Phebe Rutherford, b. March 10th, 1825. 
 
APPENDIX. 45 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Frank Albert 8 , b. June 16th, 1847, d. January 
 
 15th, 1864. 
 2d. Sarah Hopkins 8 , b. December 1st, 1850, d. 
 
 August 6th, 1852. 
 3d. Sarah Hopkins 8 , b. December 17th, 1854, 
 
 married Frank W. Haselwood. 
 4th. George William 8 , b. February 2d, 1859, d. 
 
 June 13th, 1890. 
 5th. Frances Fales 8 , b. March 2d, 1865, married, 
 
 September 15th, 1886, Charles F. Hill, of 
 
 Methuen, Mass. 
 
 II. Sarah Amanda 7 , b. March 8th, 1832, d. February 
 
 5th, 1833. 
 HT. Jesse Baker 7 , b. April 23d, 1837, married Ellen 
 
 Frances Dana. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Arthur G. 8 , b. November 24th, 1863, married, 
 
 June 16th, 1888, Sarah E. Hill. 
 2d. William 8 , b. July 4th, 1866. 
 3d. Jesse Dana 8 , b. April 17th, 1869. 
 4th. Ellen 8 , b. March 8th, 1874. 
 5th. Frank Wheaton 8 ,b. May 23d, 1875. 
 
46 APPENDIX. 
 
 (55.) Abby Dean Hopkins 6 , daughter of Jesse 6 and 
 Rachel, married Jacob S. Pervear, born in Kensington, N. 
 EL, February 20th, 1807, died in Pawtucket, R. I., October 
 27th, 1878. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Mary Elizabeth 7 , b. May 6th, 1833, d. June 
 
 18th, 1880. Married, October 20th, 1860, 
 George H., son of Hiram and Mary A. Hill, 
 b. November 29th, 1833. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Frank Webster 8 , b. November 4th, 1861, d. 
 November 23d, 1802. 
 
 2d. Mary Isabel 8 , b. November 13th, 1862. 
 
 3d. Lena Harris 8 , b. February 14th, 1868. 
 
 4th. Edith 8 , b. June 14th, 1872. 
 
 n. Infant son 7 , b. and d. May 12th, 1836. 
 
 in. Infant daughter 7 , b. and d. January 15th, 1838. 
 
 IV. Ellen Frances 7 , b. February 2d, 1339. Married 
 first, William Frank Webster, who died Nov- 
 ember 12th, 1860. Married second, October 
 22d, 1867, Benjamin D. Sweet. 
 
APPENDIX. 47 
 
 V. Jacob Stevens 7 , b. April 26th, 1841, died at 
 
 Miners Hill, Va., December 2 2d, 1862, while 
 on service in the Medical department of the 
 11th, Regiment, R. I. Volunteers during the 
 Rebellion of 1861-1865. 
 
 VI. Henry Newell 7 , b. March 20th, 1843, Married, 
 
 December 19th, 1866, Mary Ellen, daughter 
 of Benjamin F. and Mary P. Goff. Had one 
 daughter, Grace 8 , born June 8th, 1869, died 
 December 17th, 1877. /S/,r 
 
 VII. Abbie Annie 7 , b. February 8th, "£&##, married 
 
 Osborn P. Nash. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1. Gilbert Stevens 8 , b. April 21st, 1870, d. August 
 
 1st, 1871. 
 
 2. Howard Pervear 8 , b. December 8th, 1871. 
 
 Vni. Charles Emmons 7 , b. December 9th, 1850, mar- 
 ried, October 19th, 1876, Ellen Louisa, 
 daughter of Periffrine Bruce and Elizabeth 
 Goddard Gilbert, b. May 29th, 1850. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Ethel Stevens 8 , b. **^31st, 1879. 
 
48 APPENDIX. 
 
 2d. Charles Emmons 8 , b. February 26th, 1880. 
 
 3d. Gilbert Goddard 8 , b. February 7th, 1886. 
 (56.) John A. Hopkins 6 , son of Jesse 5 , married, Feb- 
 ruary 11th, 1833, Caroline W., daughter of John and Hope 
 Spencer, b. July 17th, 1810, d. September 17th, 1871. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Martha E. 7 , b. December 15th, 1833, d. October 
 
 1st, 1837. 
 
 II. Caroline A. 7 , b. December 19th, 1836, married, 
 
 December 8th, 1857, William S. Burgess, b. 
 June 14th, 1837. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Annie X. 8 , b. November 7th, 1858. 
 
 2d. William H. 8 , b. July 31st, 1864, d. December 
 
 17th, 1888. 
 3d. Caroline M. 8 , b. February 11th, 1868, married 
 
 Edward G. Hough. 
 
 III. John Spencer 7 , b. August 18th, 1840, married, 
 
 November 29th, 1864, Lydia M., daughter of 
 Alfred S. and Maria P. Clarke. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 1. Fanny X. 8 , b. August 9th, 1865, married, Novem- 
 ber 15th, 1887, Fred R. Smith. 
 
APPENDIX. 49 
 
 (39.) Thomas 5 , son of Uriah 4 , was in early and middle 
 age of life a seafaring man, and at a later period, a mem- 
 ber of the night police of Providence. He married first, 
 Hannah Rhodes, and second, Nancy (Scamans) Smith. 
 Issue by first wife : 
 
 57. I. Thomas 6 ,!). April 28th, 1793, lost at sea, unmar- 
 ried, 1813. 
 
 (40.) William 5 , son of Uriah 4 , a young man of sterling 
 character ; d. unmarried, of smallpox, which he took while 
 on a visit to New York. 
 
 (41.) Mary 5 , married Lawton Taber, son of Deacon 
 Isaac Taber, of Pawtucket. The union was not a happy one 
 and divorce followed. 
 
 (42.) Captain Stephen 5 , by profession a mariner, sail- 
 ins: out of Providence until circumstances called for a change, 
 when he entered upon the career of a hotel keeper in the 
 westerly part of the town, where he died as before noted. 
 He married, October 19th, 1801, Nancy, daughter of Stephen 
 Brownell. She died, March 2d, 1848, aged 75 years. 
 
 children. 
 I. Eliza Holden 6 , b. December 5th, 1808, d. August 
 22d, 1871, married, November 22d, 1835, 
 Arnold Franklin. 
 
50 APPENDIX. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Louisa Knight 1 , b. August 15th, 1836, married 
 
 Henry C. Whipple. 
 2d. Charles Henry'' b. July 12th, 1838, d. May 5th, 
 
 1840. 
 3d. William Arnold 1 , b. July 1st, 1840, d. August 
 
 20th, 1841. 
 , 4th. George F. Hill 1 , b. October 26th, 1841, d. 
 
 May 27th, 1865. 
 5th. Horace Harrison 1 , b. October 26th, 1843. 
 6th. Charles Arnold 1 , b. June 26th, 1848, married, 
 
 September 16th, 1869, Olive H. Sweet. 
 7th. Edwin Angell 1 , b. June 16th, 1852. 
 
 57. II. Williams, b. March 15th, 1812, d. August 12th, 
 
 1813. 
 
 58. III. William Lanksford6, b. May 28th, 1815, d. 
 
 February 3d, 1880, married, November 24th, 
 1836, Elizabeth, daughter of William and 
 Elizabeth Smith, b. at North Kingstown, 
 March 10th, 1815. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Stephen Brownell 7 , b. March 9th, 1838, d. Sep- 
 tember 8th, 1852. 
 
APPENDIX. 51 
 
 II. Josephine Adelaide 7 , b. September 17th, 1839, 
 
 married, June 14th, 1860, Calvin P. Thurber. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. George Calvin*, b. December 29th, 1862. 
 2d. Alvo Burton*, b. June 1st, 1871. 
 3d. Lena Josephine*, b. Aug. 15th, 1873, d. Septem- 
 ber 24th, 1878. 
 
 III. Cleora Narzet 7 , b. January 12th, 1844, married, 
 
 December 24th, 1866, William H. Hall, son 
 of James S. and Eleanor R. (Snow) Hall, b. 
 June 12th, 1837. 
 
 IV. William Smith 7 , b. January 20th, 1849, married, 
 
 May 1st, 1878, Lucy Martin Briggs, b. 
 October 2d, 1854. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Willie Albert 8 , b. November 5th, 1884. 
 2d Alice Briggs 8 , b. June 13th, 1889, d. June 
 14th, 1889. 
 
 V. Mary Elizabeth 7 , b. April 21st, 1852. 
 
 VI. Stephen Frederick 7 , b. February 12th, 1854; 
 
 married, July 12th, 1877, Hannah G. Hawkes. 
 Have one son, Frederick Russell, b. August 
 2d, 1878. 
 
52 APPENDIX. 
 
 59. IV. Rebecca A. B. Hopkins 6 , daughter of Captain 
 Stephen, b. April 4th, 1817 ; married Baxter 
 M. Hill, b. March 31st, 1812, d. April 24th, 
 
 1880. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. George Francis 7 , b. January 14th, 1837, d. Octo- 
 ber 3d, 1883. 
 
 IT. Louisa Dexter 7 , b. August 4th, 1843, married, 
 October 9th, 1872, John L. Arnold, b. July 
 14th, 1842. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Lena Dexter*, b. July 23d, 1873. 
 
 III. James Henry 7 , b. February 28th, 1846, d. May 
 
 12th, 1846. 
 
 IV. Charles Albert 7 , b. March 12th, 1847, d. 
 
 November 11th, 1851. 
 
 V. Edwin Mason 7 , b. May 30th, 1849, d. June 6th>- 
 
 1882 ; married, April 29th, 1874, Anna F. 
 Lothrop, b. March 27th, 1852. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Curtis Earnest, b. February 2d, 1875. 
 2d. Walter Evarts*, b. September 14th, 1878. 
 
APPENDIX. 53 
 
 3d. Ethel Sanford 8 , b. November 6th, 1880, d. 
 April 10th, 1882. 
 VI. Emily Martin 7 , b. August 16th, 1852, married, 
 September 11th, 1877, Rev. Albert George 
 Upham. 
 
 (44.) Amey Hopkins 5 , married, 1805, David E. 
 
 Mann, son of George and Susanna (Everett) Mann, born in 
 Wrentham, Mass., April 23d, 1778, d. in Providence, 
 October 29th, 1837. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. Mary Hopkins 6 , b. December 2d, 1805, d. Decem- 
 
 ber 5th, 1874 ; married Benjamin Lewis, 
 August 15th, 1824. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Sarah Holbrooke , b. August 1st, 1825, d. May 
 
 25th, 1826. 
 2d. Henry Hopkins'*, b. March 10th, 1827. 
 3d. Martha Lanksford 7 , b. February 7th, 1829, d. 
 
 April 13th, 1845. 
 
 II. George Hawes 6 , b. March 19th, 1807, d., unmar- 
 
 ried, August 12th, 1838. 
 
 III. Lucy Lanksford 6 , b. January 14th, 1809, d. unmar- 
 
 ried, September 18th, 1861. 
 
54 APPENDIX. 
 
 IV. Susan Everett 6 , b. June 7th, 1811, d., in Ackworth, 
 
 N. H., December 13th, 1888, married Asa 
 Dodge, son of John and Hannah Dodge, b. 
 January 19th, 1809. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Asa Mann 1 . 
 
 2d. Susan Albree 7 . 
 
 3d. Amey Andrews 1 . 
 
 4th. David Everett Mann 1 . 
 
 5h. George Henry 1 . 
 
 V. Amey Randall 6 , b. January 9th, 1813, d. December 
 
 26th, 1871 ; married John P. Cornell, b. June 
 13th, 1803, d. July 13th, 1875. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Sarah Townshend 1 . 
 
 2d. Charles Holbrook 1 . 
 
 3d. Emily Howard 1 . 
 4th. Charles Everett 1 . 
 
 (47.) Sarah Smith Hopkins 6 , married, June 13th, 
 1812, Abel, son of Nathaniel and Ruth (Mann) Holbrook; 
 born in Braintree, Mass., April 5th, 1788, d. in Providence, 
 May 30, 1819. 
 
APPENDIX. 55 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1. Albert 6 , b. in Providence, February 5th, 1813; 
 married, January 8th, 1838, Abby O. Angell, 
 daughter of Charles and Susan (Westcott) 
 Angell, b. June 23d, 1811, d. December 
 24th, 1886. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 I. George Abel 7 , b. October 14th, 1838, married, 
 May 18th, 1869, Mary Helen, daughter of 
 Sanford B. and Ann Smith, b. in Ledyard, 
 Conn., October 9th, 1843. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Sarah Helle?i 8 , b. December 27th, 1876, died 
 August 7th, 1891. 
 
 2d. Helen Westcott*, b. September 16th, 1878. 
 
 II. Frank Pinckney 7 , b. May 14th, 1842, d. July 
 
 28th, 1844. 
 
 III. Albert 7 , b. October 7th, 1845, married November 
 
 2 2d, 1871, Clara Josephine, daughter of 
 Joseph and Mary Ann (Bailey) Olney, b. 
 February 6th, 1848. 
 
56 APPENDIX. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Herbert Ohiey* , b. April 2d, 1878. 
 
 IV. Charles William 7 , b. September 10th, 1848, 
 
 married, March 2 2d, 1876, Sarah D., daughter 
 of Joseph C. and Sarah C. King. 
 
 V. Uriah Hopkins 7 , b. November 10th, 1850, died 
 
 May 8th, 1884. Married, September 3d, 
 1877, Annie Augusta, daughter of Joseph and 
 Mary Ann Olney. She was born Jul} 7 23d, 
 1852, and died January 17th, 1879. 
 
 CHILD. 
 
 Annie Olney Holbrook* , b. January 12th, 1879. 
 2. Harriet Smiths, b. June 23d, 1814, died November 
 23d, 1669. Married, in Providence, Sep- 
 tember 10th, 1833, Jonas Bartlett, son of 
 Perley and Lucy Bartlett, born in Wilming- 
 ton, Vt., April 10th, 1803, died in Brooklyn, 
 N. Y., March 27th, 1877. 
 
 CHILDREN. 
 
 1st. Saralt Holbrooh 1 , b. June 10th, 1834, married 
 Addison B. Gates, January 15th, 1857. 
 
 2d. Jonas Jams' 1 , born July 5th, 1836, d. January 
 15th, 1844. 
 
APPENDIX. 57 
 
 3d. Lucy Olivia 7 , b. July 10th, 1838, married Alvin 
 
 L. Holmes, June 7th, 1863. 
 4th. Harriet Emma 7 , b. December 2 2d, 1841, mar- 
 ried Leander S. Risley, November 6th, 1862. 
 5th. Henry Clay 7 , b. December 30th, 1844, married 
 
 Kate M. Daumgold. 
 6th. Mariauna 7 , b. July 22d, 1846, d. February 7th, 
 
 1872, married Luther J. Briggs, April 20th, 
 
 1870. 
 7th. Ada, Purdue 7 , b. September 24th, 1850, married 
 
 Luther J. Briggs, as his second wife, October 
 
 21st, 1873. 
 
 3. Charles Holbrook 6 , son of Abel and Sarah S., b. 
 
 July 21st, 1816, d. October 9th, 1818. 
 
 4. Charles William 6 , b. January 6th, 1819, married, 
 
 September 1st, 1842, Abby M. Tefft, b. July 
 27th, 1820, d. March 24th, 1885. 
 
Index of Hopkins names, by birth, with name of 
 husband or wife, if any. 
 
 Hopkins, 
 
 Abby D. 6 , married Jacob Pervear, 
 Abraham 5 , unmarried, .... 
 Amey 5 , married David E. Mann . 
 
 Amos 3 , married Sarah Smith, . 
 
 Amos 4 , married Sarah Smith, 
 
 Ann 3 , married Thomas Kirby, . 
 
 Ann Eliza 7 , married Albert W. Snow, . 
 
 Ann Fisher 7 , married Theodore Rutherford, 
 
 Caroline A. 7 , married Wm. S. Burgess, 
 
 Charles H. A. 8 , married Isadore L. Sweet, 
 
 Cleora Narzet 7 , married Wm. H. Hall, 
 
 Edward A. 6 , married Ruth Baker, 
 
 Edwin Baker 7 , married Julia A Salisbury, 
 
 Edward Augustus 8 , married Mary E. Gray, 
 
 Ellen Maria 7 , married H. C. Hiitchins, 
 
 Elisha 3 , married Mercy Waide, 
 
 Elizabeth 3 , unmarried, 
 
 Eliza A. 6 , married, 1st, Grafton Sears; 
 
 2d, Warren Holmes, 
 Eliza H. 6 , married Arnold Franklin, 
 Esek 4 (Com.), married Desire Burroughs, 
 
 Ezekiel 3 , married Elizabeth 
 
 Frank Easton 8 , married Caroline T. Day, 
 
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60 
 
 INDEX. 
 
 Hopkins, 
 
 George Henry 6 , married Sophia Newman, 
 George Henry 7 , married Frances Southworth, 
 Henry 6 , married, 1st, Nancy Pettengale ; 
 2d, Lydia Allen, .... 
 
 Ida Augusta 8 , ...... 
 
 Ichabod 3 , married Sarah Cole, 
 
 Jeremiah 3 , unmarried, . . . . 
 
 _ Jeremiah 4 , married Avis Mathewson, 
 Jesse 5 , married Rachel Anthony, . 
 Jesse 6 , unmarried, ..... 
 
 Jesse B. 7 , married Ellen F. Dana, 
 John A. 6 , married Caroline W. Spencer, . 
 John N. 7 , married Frances W. Stannard, 
 John S. 7 , married Lydia M. Clarke, 
 Joseph 3 , married, 1st, Bethia Allen; 
 2d, Martha , 
 
 Josephine Adelaide 7 , married Calvin P. 
 Martha 5 , unmarried, 
 Martha 6 , married James Wheaton, 
 Mary 3 , married Robert Davis, 
 Mary 5 , married Lawton Taber, 
 Mary 7 , married Asa Roberts, 
 Mary A. 6 , unmarried, 
 Mary E. 6 , married Seth Baker, 
 Nicholas 5 , married, 1st, Cecelia Miller ; 
 2d, Elizabeth Miller, 
 
 Thurbei 
 
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INDEX. 
 
 01 
 
 married Sarah Augusta Clark. 
 
 Hopkins, 
 
 Nicholas 7 
 
 Rachel 3 , , . . . . 
 
 Rebecca A. B. 6 , married Baxter M. Hill, 
 Sarah M. N. 8 , married Walter B. Humphrey, 
 Sarah Smith 5 , married A^el Holbrook, 
 Stephen 4 , (Gov.) married, 
 Stephen 5 , married Nancy Browncll, 
 Stephen F. 7 , married Hannah G. Hankes, 
 
 Thomas 1 , married , 
 
 Thomas 2 , married Mary Smith, 
 
 Thomas 3 , married Elizabeth , 
 
 Thomas 5 , married, 1st, Hannah Rhodes; 
 
 2d, Nancy Smith, .... 
 Thomas J. S. 8 , married Grace M. Foster, 
 
 Unknown Name 2 , married Elizabeth , 
 
 Uriah 4 , married Lucy Lan'ksford, 
 William 2 , married Abigail Dexter, 
 William 3 , married Deborah Allen, 
 William 5 , unmarried, .... 
 
 William A. 6 , married, 1st, Sarah Baker; 
 
 2d, Susan Lassall, . 
 
 William Easton 8 , married L. Etta Halcomb, 
 William Greenleaf 7 , married Florence J. 
 
 Ranney, ...... 
 
 William L. 6 , married Elizabeth Smith, 
 William S. 7 , married Lucy H. Briggs, 
 Zebedee 3 , married Susanna Jenckes, 
 
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Index to the names of a few persons, having inciden- 
 tal connection with the printed material of this 
 volume. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Adams, Henry, 
 Allen, Samuel P., 
 Barton, John B., 
 Brown, Dexter, . 
 Brown, Moses, 
 Dexter, Gregory, 
 Disley, George, 
 Fly nn, Edward M. , 
 James, Samuel, 
 King, Doet. Samuel 
 McFoy, Daniel, 
 Martin, Silvanus, 
 Newman, John, 
 Smith, Henry, 
 
 Ward, 
 
 Page. 
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 8 
 
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KjydcUjutas 
 
 Mr. Frank E. Hopkins, whose name appears on page 27, has de- 
 voted much time investigating in the public libraries of New York city 
 to ascertain what could be found to further elucidate the history of the 
 privateer Providence, and details regarding her capture and the disposi- 
 tion of her captured crew. 
 
 He found in Niles Weekly Register, Vol. Ill, p. 126, a brief account 
 of her capture by the British three-masted schooner Dominica, and sent 
 into St. Thomas. He also found a printed report of the commander of the 
 Dominica to his superior officer regarding her capture, which reads as 
 follows : — 
 
 "His Majesty's Ship Dominica, 
 
 at St. Thomas, Sept. 12, 1812. 
 
 Sir: I have the satisfaction to acquaint you of the capture of the 
 American schooner Providence, Privateer, of Providence, by H. M. Ship 
 Dominica, under my command, yesterday, the 11th, in latitude 19 deg. 
 and longitude 63 deg. 15 min., after an anxious chase of 10 hours. She 
 is pierced for twelve guus, but has only four, having thrown the rest 
 overboard, and a complement of sixty men. Has been out thirty days, 
 but has made no captures. 
 
 I have the honor to be, etc., 
 
 Robert Hockings, Commander." 
 Mr. Hopkins further writes : 
 
 ''In a book called the 'Navy of the United States,' re-compiled by 
 Lieut Geo. F. Emmons, IT. S. N., I find : Providence schooner, eight 
 guns, sixty men, Captain Hopkins, out of Providence, ninety-four tons, 
 captured by three-masted schooner Dominica, fourteen guns, after a 
 chase of ten hours, during which [Providence] threw overboard all but 
 four guns, September 11, 1812." 
 
 " The Dominica, in turn was captured August 5, 1813, by the Ameri- 
 can privateer Decatur, Capt. Dominique Diron, after a terrible engage- 
 ment, in which more than sixty men were killed or wounded. The Do- 
 minica was then fitted out by the Americans as a privateer, but was re- 
 captured by the British vessel Majestic, May 23, 1814." 
 
 Much credit is due to Mr. F. E. Hopkins for his perseverance in fol- 
 lowing up to success these important details of the cruise and capture of 
 the privateer Providence. They correct errors shown in the newspapers 
 of the time as to dates and other particulars. 
 
 A. H. September, 1893. 
 
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