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Stephen Hopkins owned at least seven slaves who are named in two wills: Adam, Bonner, Fibbo, Primus, Priamus, Prince and St. Jago. For multiple decades, Hopkins had resisted pressure and threats of expulsion from his Quaker 'brethren' to free his slaves. [8] Like Backus, Hopkins was a self-made man with little formal education.
Stephen Hopkins (March 7, 1707 – July 13, 1785) was a Founding Father of the United States. [2] He served as governor of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, chief justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and was a signer of both the Continental Association and Declaration of Independence.
He is a pastor for the Pasadena, Texas, church where Dyson worships as a newer member and Wilmore is a longtime elder. ... Hopkins secured permission to take a pyx of consecrated hosts. He ...
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 ...
Vincent Harding (1931–2014) – former African American Seventh-day Adventist pastor who became a Mennonite pastor; civil rights author, and associate of Martin Luther King Jr. who wrote the main draft of King's 1967 speech "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence".
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 (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 Sweet of Paramus NJ, a church pastor, ... Stephen Sweet, 74, of Paramus, is a reverend at Grace Evangelical Church in River Edge, according to the church's website.