HOPKINS, Edward (c.1602-57), of Connecticut and London.

Family and Education

b. c. 1602, ?2nd s. of Edward Hopkins of Elton, Herefs. and Katherine, da. of John Lello of Clunton, Salop.PROB11/157/45; Vis. Herefs. 1634 (Harl. Soc. n.s. xv), 141; ‘Edward Hopkins’, Oxford DNB. educ. appr. as merchant in Levant trade, London. m. 5 Sept. 1631, Ann (d. 14 Dec. 1698), da. of Thomas Yale of Plas Grono, Wrexham, Denb., stepda. of Theophilus Eaton of London, later of New Haven, s.p. suc. bro. Henry Hopkins, 1655.St Anholin, Budge Row, London par. reg.; PROB11/243/261; Oxford DNB. d. 13 Mar. 1657.‘Edward Hopkins’, ‘Thomas Yale’, ‘Elihu Yale’, Oxford DNB; W.R. Chaplin, ‘Nehemiah Bourne’, Colonial Soc. of Massachusetts, Trans. xlii. 69-70; Jnl. of John Winthrop, 1630-49 ed. R.S. Dunn, J. Savage, L. Yeandle (1996), 570n.

Offices Held

Colonial: asst. Connecticut 1639; gov. 1640, 1644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1652, 1654; dep. gov. 1643, 1645, 1647, 1649, 1651, 1653.Public Recs. of Connecticut i ed. J.H. Trumbull (Hartford, Conn. 1850), 57; F.C. Norton, The Governors of Connecticut (Hartford, Conn. 1905), 7–8. Commr. for Connecticut, federation of utd. colonies of New England, 31 July 1644–1652; pres. utd. colonies, 1 Sept. 1644–52.Recs. of the Colony of New Plymouth ... Acts of the Commissioners of the United Colonies of New England i. ed. D. Pulsifer (1859), 16, 31, 61, 84, 109, 139, 161, 192.

Central: commr. navy, 20 Dec. 1652;CSP Dom. 1652–3, p. 44. propagating gospel in New England, ?1653.GL, MS 8011, p. 35. Trustee, maintenance of preaching ministers, 2 Sept. 1654.A. and O. Commr. admlty. and navy, 8 Nov. 1655.CSP Dom. 1655–6, p. 10.

Local: j.p. Surr. 3 Mar. 1656–d.;C231/6, p. 327; C193/13/6, f. 85v. Kent 11 Mar. 1656–d.C231/6, p. 328; C193/13/5, f. 53v.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HOPKINS, Edward (c.1602-57), of Connecticut and London.

Will

7 Mar. 1657, pr. 30 Apr. 1657.PROB11/263/523.

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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