Judy, This is great info and I appreciate the sources. Thank you! Brenda HOpkins Clackamas, OR -----Original Message----- >From: Brooks1934@aol.com >Sent: Mar 11, 2008 5:11 PM >To: RIGENWEB@rootsweb.com >Subject: [RI] Thomas ARNOLD > >Thomas Arnold was my 9th great grand-uncle. Found this in my notes: >Thomas Hopkins, the immigrant ancestor of many of the numerous families >bearing the name of Hopkins, especially in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, was >the progenitor of Frederick Ferdinand Hopkins, of Worcester. He was the son of >William and Joanna (Arnold) Hopkins, and was born in England, April 7, 1616, >died in Providence in 1684. >His mother was a daughter of Thomas and Alice (Gully) Arnold. Joanna Arnold >was baptized November 30, 1577; her brother, William Arnold, was born June >24, 1587, the father of Bendict Arnold, not the traitor but the first governor >of Rhode Island under the royal charter of 1643 and ancestor of the Arnolds >of Warwick. Her half-brother, Thomas Arnold, is progenitor of the Arnold >families of northern Rhode Island. The wife of Thomas Hopkins is Elizabeth Arnold, >daughter of William Arnold, and sister to Governor Benedict Arnold, a cousin. >His name first appears on New England Colonial records in Providence, >Providence County, Rhode Island, where on July 27, 1640, he was one of the 39 >signers of the agreement for a form of government. His name appears once in public >records when on Sept. 2, 1650, he was taxed 13s. 4d. In 1652 he was chosen >for the office of Commisioner, indicating that he was a man of considerable >prominence in the community. He also filled this office in 1659 and 1660. In >1655 he was made a freeman and on July 19, 1665, he obtained Lot 93 in a >division of public lands. In 1665,66,67&72 he was the deputy from Providence to the >Rhode Island General Assembly in Newport, Rhode Island. In 1667 and 1672 he >was a member of the Town Council of Providence, Providence County, Rhode >Island. >At the outbreak of King Phillips War, or shortly before, when war with the >Indians became imminent, he removed to a settlement called Littleworth, in the >town of Oyster Bay on Long Island, NY. He went there with a son who >predeceased him. Thomas Hopkins died at the house of Richard Kirby in Oyster Bay in >1684. The inventory of his estate was ordered taken by the Oyster Bay >authorities on Sept. 17, 1684. >A deed given by Maj. William Hopkins, son of Thomas, bearing the last named >date, is recorded in Providence Book of Deeds, No. 4, page 11, wherein >certain lands are represented as having formerly belonged to William's honored >father, Thomas Hopkins, deceased, and as this is a gift deed from William, the >elder, to his younger brother, Thomas, prompted probably by a sense of the >injustice of the law of primogeniture which gave the property of the parent to >the eldest son, it is presumable that the conveyance soon followed the decease >of the parent, thus showing the approximate time of his decease as stated. >Savage, in his Genealogical Dictionary, gives the year of his decease as 1699. >An error without doubt resulting from the fact of a Thomas Hopkins' will >being probated Feb. 25 of that year. The details of the will referred to show >conclusively that it was one of some other person bearing the same name. >Sources: Genealogical and Personal Memoirs of Worchester County vol1 P. 823, >Ellery Bicknell Crane, Call Number: F72.W9C8vol.1 Genealogy of One Line of >the Hopkins Family, J.A.&R.A. Reid Printers, Providence, Providence County, >Rhode Island 1881 Pp. 7-8. Seventeenth Century Colonial Ancestors, 1975-79, >Page 33. New England Historic Genealogical Society, Vol. 2, p. 116. One Hundred >and Sixty Allied Families, Page 59. The American Genealogist, Vol. 20, p. >224. The History of Rhode Island & Providence Plantations by Thomas William >Bicknell, Pare 412. Guide to the Early Settlers of America, Page 266. >Topographical Dictionary of New England, Emigrants from England to New England, Page >143. The First Settlers of New England, Page 149. Ancestral Heads of New England >Families, Page 123. Genealogies of R. I. Families, Volume I, Mr. Somerby's >Genealogy of the Arnold Family, Page 11. The Home Lots of the Early Settlers >of the Providence Plantations. >Sources Title: Susan Cary >Author: _Scary@infowest.com_ (mailto:Scary@infowest.com) > >>From Judy Brooks Truchon > > > >**************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & >Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001) > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to RIGENWEB-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message