Forwarding more early "H" surnames ......all over Conn River Valley area.......check them out Cynthia Moderator of : Ct-River-Valley-L@rootsweb.com VTWindso-L@rootsweb.com CTHartfo-L@rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Pat Mount <pmount@fnr.umass.edu> Sent: Saturday, December 18, 1999 8:28 PM Subject: [MAHAMPSH-L] Had Fam H continued > 1. HOPKINS, REV. SAMUEL, D. D., s. of Rev. Samuel of West Springfield, was b. > Oct. 31, 1729, grad. Y. C. 1749. Tutor in Y. C. 1751-4, ord. as pastor of > church in Had., Feb. 26, 1755, received the degree of Doctor of Divinity from > Y. C. in 1802, and d. March 8, 1811, ae. 81. He m. (1) Feb, 17, 1756, Sarah, > wid. of his predecessor, Rev. Chester Williams, and dau. of Eleazar Porter, > Esq., of Had. She d. Feb. 5, 1774; (2) Oct. 1776, Margaret, dau. of Rev. > Sampson Stoddard of Chelmsford. Children--Samuel, b. Oct. 31, 1756, d. in > Martinico, July 11, 1782, ae. 25; Mabel, b. Aug. 28, 1758, m. Oct. 28, 1779, > Moses Hubbard, and d. April 19, 1829, ae. 70; Hannah, b. Aug. 10, 1760, m. > Nov. 4, 1779, Rev. Samuel Spring, D. D. of Newburyport, and d. June 11, 1819, > ae. 58; Jerusha, b. July 14, 1762, m. Sept. 14, 1788, Rev. Samuel Austin, D. > D., of Worcester, and d. March 26, 1841, ae. 78; Stephen, b. June 1, 1764, m. > (1) Nancy Turner, was a joiner in Hanover, N. H., Brookfield, Vt., and > Peacham, Vt.; Polly, b. March 6, 1766, m. Dec. 15, 1785, Benjamin Colt, and d. > Sept. 14, 1813, ae. 47; Lucy, b. Feb. 6, 1768, m. Sept. 4, 1797, Rev. William > Riddel of Bristol, Me.; John, b. Jan. 17, 1770; Elizabeth, b. June 12, 1772, > m. Nov. 1, 1793, Rev. Leonard Worcester of Peacham, Vt. > > 2. JOHN, s. of Rev. Samuel, (1) a merchant, rem. April, 1814, from Hadley to > Boston, and thence in Oct. 1824 to Northampton, where he d. Jan. 9, 1842, ae. > 71, leaving a very large estate. He m. 1797, Lydia, dau. of Thomas Thompson of > Newburyport. She was b. April 17, 1773, and d. in Newburyport, April 10, 1842, > ae. 68. Children--Sarah Ann Wait, b. Jan. 20, 1799, m. Sept. 23, 1822, Rev. > John Wheeler, then of Windsor, Vt., but afterwards President of University of > Vermont at Burlington. She d. in Burlington, Nov. 2, 1847; Elizabeth, b. May > 18, 1802, d. Aug. 1, 1802; Thomas Thompson, b. Dec. 13, 1804, d. June 27, > 1805; Samuel, b. April 11, 1807, grad. D. C. 1827, was ordained and installed > over the 1st church in Montpelier, Vt., Oct. 26, 1831, and dismissed May, > 1835, was installed over 1st church in Saco, Me., Feb. 1836, and dismissed > 1841, reinstalled over the same church in 1842, and dismissed 1845. He now > resides in Nh. and is an author of note. He m. May 29, 1832, Caroline W., dau. > of Josiah Dwight of Nh.; Erastus, b. April 7, 1810, grad. D. C. 1830, was > settled May, 1835, in the ministry at Beech Island, Edgefield District, S. C., > and dismissed 1837. He was settled in the fall of 1837 over the 2d > Presbyterian church in Troy, N. Y., and dismissed in the fall of 1841. He has > since resided in Nh., and has represented that town in the Legislature. As a > political speaker, he has in the State few superiors. He m. (1) June 25, 1835, > Sarah H. Benedict of Charleston, S. C., who d. May 3, 1838; > (2) Nov. 18, 1841, Charlotte Frelinghuysen, dau. of Rev. William Allen, D. D., > of Nh.; George, b. Sept. 13, 1812, d. at the Santa Cruz, West Indies, March > 16, 1830, ae. 17, while a member of Yale College; Lewis Spring, b. Sept. 18, > 1815, entered in 1831 the University of Vermont, but left before graduation, > pursued his medical studies at Northampton, and in Boston, New Haven, Ct., and > Philadelphia, Pa., and graduated at Med. Col. at Charleston, S. C. About the > year 1840, he commenced the practice of his profession in Northampton, but > after two years was compelled by failing health to abandon the same. His > residence has since been at Northampton. He m. Oct. 14, 1846, Fanny J. > Washburn of Boston. > > HOPKINS, TIMOTHY, deacon, b. April 9, 1762, s. of Timothy and nephew of Rev. > Samuel, D. D., came from West Springfield, and d. March 17, 1840. He m. Aug. > 9, 1792, Rebecca, dau. of Eliakim Smith. She d. Aug. 17, 1848. > Children--Charles, b. June 13, 1793, grad. Y. C. 1814, and d. Dec. 28, 1816; > Mehitable, b. April 30, 1795, m. (???) Hunt; Emily, b. Jan. 19, 1805, m. Sept. > 12, 1838, Sherman Peck; William Smith, b. Feb. 4, 1807, a farmer in New Salem, > m. Sept. 3, 1848, Adeline Fitts. > > HOVEY, JOSEPH, s. of Daniel of Ipswich, settled in Had., but rem. perhaps > (says Savage) to Cambridge, d. in Milton, May or June, 1690. He m. May 31, > 1677, Hannah Pratt, perhaps dau. of John of Hartford, Ct. Children--Joseph, b. > Feb. 28, 1678; Ebenezer, b. Nov. 5, 1680; Hannah, b. Nov. 21, 1682; John, b. > Aug. 21, 1684; Caleb, b. June 4, 1687; Thomas, b. June 6, 1681, says record, > perhaps a mistake for 1689. > > > ============================== > Free Web space. ANY amount. 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