When Stephen Hopkins was born on 17 August 1706, in Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America, his father, Ebenezer Hopkins I, was 38 and his mother, Mary Butler, was 35. He married Jemima Bronson on 26 February 1730, in Waterbury, New Haven, Connecticut Colony, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 7 sons and 2 daughters. He died on 8 February 1767, in Amenia, Dutchess, New York Colony, British Colonial America, at the age of 60, and was buried in Old Amenia Burying Ground, Amenia, Dutchess, New York, United States.
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English and Welsh (Glamorgan): variant of Hopkin with genitival or excrescent -s. In Ireland, where the name is also frequent, it is sometimes Gaelicized as Mac Oibicín.
History: Stephen Hopkins (c. 1580–1644) was a pilgrim on the Mayflower in 1620 and one of the founders of Plymouth Colony. At his death he left seven children and eighteen grandchildren.
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