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Signature: Stephen Hopkins (March 7, 1707 – July 13, 1785) was a Founding Father of the United States, [2] a governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence ...
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 ]
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 ...
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 memorial is a gift from the American Revolution Bicentennial Administration and consists of 56 stone blocks, each with a facsimile of the signer's actual signature, his occupation, and his home town. It was dedicated on July 4, 1984, exactly 208 years after the Congress voted to approve the Declaration of Independence.
1. Elizabeth Cooke by 1668 and had nine children. Her mother was a daughter of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins and her father was a son of Mayflower passenger and pilgrim Francis Cooke. 2. Sarah Jones on November 22, 1694 in Plymouth and had three children. Thomas was born about 1640 and died in December 1678 in Plymouth.
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Similarly, Trumbull painted Rufus Hopkins, who resembled his father Stephen Hopkins, for whom no portrait was available. As the Declaration was debated and signed over a period of time when membership in Congress changed, the men featured in the painting never were in the same room at the same time.