| Sources:
1. Marriage Record:
2. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1790 (Broderbund
CD-311): not found.
3a. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1800 (Broderbund
CD-312). Please see my WARNING
regarding use of this database (the numerical data have the genders switched).
| 1800 |
Hopkins, Ebenezer |
VT |
Rutland Co. |
Pittsford |
31111-2201100 |
3b. 1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#5 of 10; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1800 |
VT |
Rutland Co. |
Pittsford |
p. 170 |
Ln. 6 |
Hopkins Eben |
22011-31111-00 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 2 males |
9 or under |
1790-1800 |
= Timothy (b. 1800)
= Bradley (b. 1798) |
| 2 males |
10-15 |
1784-1790 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1787) |
| 1 male |
26-44 |
1755-1774 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1763) |
| 1 male |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1755 |
= Nehemiah (b. 1730) |
| 3 females |
9 or under |
1790-1800 |
= Minerva (b. 1794)
= Achsah (b. 1792)
= Charlotte (b. 1790) |
| 1 female |
10-15 |
1784-1790 |
= Sophia (b. 1789) |
| 1 female |
16-25 |
1774-1784 |
= ? |
| 1 female |
26-44 |
1755-1774 |
= Rachel (b. 1768) |
| 1 female |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1755 |
= Tryphena (b. ca. 1731) |
Ebenezer's elderly parents are apparently living with him. The unknown
female is too old to be Rachel's daughter, but could be the last, youngest
daughter of Tryphena.
4. 1810 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#1 of 3; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1810 |
NY |
Essex Co. |
Crown Point |
Roll 27 |
p. 48 |
Ln. 4 |
Ebnr Hopkins |
21101-31301-00 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 2 males |
9 or under |
1800-1810 |
= Son A
= Timothy (b. 1800) |
| 1 male |
10-15 |
1794-1800 |
= Bradley (b. 1798) |
| 1 male |
16-25 |
1784-1794 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1787) |
| 1 male |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1765 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1763) |
| 3 females |
9 or under |
1800-1810 |
= Hannah (b. 1807)
= Rachel (b. 1805)
= Paulina (b. 1802) |
| 1 female |
10-15 |
1794-1800 |
= Minerva (b. 1794) |
| 3 females |
16-25 |
1784-1794 |
= Achsah (b. 1792)
= Charlotte (b. 1790)
= Sophia (b. 1789) |
| 1 female |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1765 |
= Rachel (b. 1768?) |
Rachel may have been fibbing about her age later in life (assuming her
birth date came from a tombstone) or the census-taker may have tallied
her in the wrong column. More likely the former because most women
were fibbing about their by mid-life, and for that reason, tombstones (and
death certificates) are not to be trusted — and sometimes not census records.
5. 1820 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#2 of 5; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1820 |
NY |
Essex Co. |
Crown Point |
Roll 69 |
p. 401A |
Ln. 27 |
Hopkins Ebenezer |
100102-02001-0-300 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
9 or under |
1810-1820 |
= Son? B |
| 1 male |
19-25* |
1794-1801 |
= Timothy (b. 1800) |
| 2 males |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1763)
= ? |
| 2 females |
10-15 |
1804-1810 |
= Hannah (b. 1807)
= Rachel (b. 1805) |
| 1 female |
45 or over |
in or bef. 1775 |
= Rachel (b. 1768?) |
| 3 |
persons engaged in agriculture |
| *In the 1820 Census, the third column is
age class 16-18 and the fourth column is age class 16-25; therefore, any
individual in column three is duplicated in column four. By subtracting
the number in column three from the number in column four, you can create
an age class "19-25." |
Where's Paulina (b. 1802)? She survived to marry, so she should still
be at home. Also in Crown Point (list is roughly alphabetized):
sons Ebenezer HOPKINS, Jr. (Ln. 28, 100111-20101-0-200) and Bradley HOPKINS
(Ln. 29, 000100-00100-0-100).
6. 1830 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#7 of 28; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1830 |
NY |
Essex Co. |
Crown Point |
Roll 114 |
p. 264 |
Ln. 2 |
Ebenezer Hopkins |
001 000 001 - 000 000 001 |
These data indicate:
| No. & Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 male |
10-14 |
1815-1820 |
= Son? B |
| 1 male |
60-69 |
1760-1770 |
= Ebenezer (b. 1763) |
| 1 female |
60-69 |
1760-1770 |
= Rachel (b. 1768?) |
Listed next to son, Bradley HOPKINS (list was not alphabetized).
7. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1840 (Broderbund
CD-316): Ebenezer HOPKINS not found, as expected, but no Rachel HOPKINS,
except one in Cincinnati, OH. Bradley HOPKINS and Samuel SUNDERLAND
are in neighboring Portage Co., OH, but neither has an elderly woman living
with them.
8. Timothy Hopkins. 1932. John Hopkins of
Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford
Univ. Press, Stanford, CA.
| p. 208 |
In boyhood, Ebenezer removed
with his father's family from West Stockbridge, Massachusetts, to Pittsford,
Vermont, which at the beginning of the Revolution contained thirty-eight
families. He enrolled in the militia, and in May 1779 was sent on
a scouting party of four on Lake Champlain. They were surprised by
the Indians, one killed, and Ebenezer and the others sent to Quebec [footnote]
where they were held prisoners for a little over three years before being
exchanged on 9 June 1782. The state of |
| p. 209 |
Vermont allowed him £73-17-4 (forty shillings
a month) for the term of his imprisonment, and also five dollars for the
loss of his gun. (Vermont Rolls of Soldiers in the Revolution,
pp. 751, 775.) He was placed on the Pension Roll in 1831.
He married in the year following his return
from Canada, and built a house near that of his father, whom he assisted
in the mill, and cultivated some land. On 12 May 1789, he and his
brother Ashbel bought the mill and about twenty-seven acres adjoining it,
and carried on the business until the death of Ashbel in 1793. In
1795 he sold these properties, and in 1802 purchased a farm in Pittsford.
He was fined for participating in the Rutland Riot. (Caverly's History
of Pittsford, pp. 197, 708; Vermont Histl. Gazetteer, Vol. 3.)
It is not known when he removed to Ohio,
but when granted a pension 9 February 1834, he was of Geauga County in
that state, and died four years later at Troy (now Welshfield) Ohio. |
| footnote |
[p. 208] In May 1779,
the British coming down Lake Champlain in considerable numbers, a scouting
party was sent out from Fort Mott, consisting of Ephraim Stephens commanding,
Benjamin Stevens, Jr., Ebenezer Hopkins, Jr. (sic), and Jonathan Rowley,
Jr. They were forbidden to cross the lake, but procuring a canoe
they passed over to Fort Ticonderoga, where finding no trace of the enemy
they ventured farther north and made a landing at Basin Harbor. Still
seeing no signs of any enemy, they in bravado discharged all of their guns
and were surprised at the appearance of a party of fifteen or sixteen Indians.
They pushed out into the lake, but were pursued, and after Rowley was killed
they surendered.
The captors took their prisoners to the
St. Lawrence in the vicinity of Montreal, and from there they were sent
to Quebec, where their keepers thinking they could not escape removed their
fetters. In the following fall they were taken out to labor in harvesting
grain and corn. They eluded the guard, crossed the river in a boat,
and pushed into the wilderness; after fourteen days' wandering with
little to eat except roots and the bark of trees, they came in sight of
the Green Mountains, but, as they were fishing in the head waters of the
Connecticut, they were recaptured and taken back to Quebec.
Another attempt was made to escape, but
it was not successful. In the winter of 1781 the prisoners were more
fortunate in digging their way out of the prison, and [p. 209] proceeded
up the St. Lawrence upon the ice; when about a day's journey from Vermont
they were again recaptured and returned to their prison.
Meanwhile their friends in Pittsford,
receiving no word from them, supposed they were dead and employed Elder
Elisha Rich to preach their funeral sermon. In June 1782, Benjamin
Stevens, Sr., hearing that some prisoners were to be exchanged at Whitehall,
made the journey thither hoping to hear something of the fate of his son
and his companions. While they were standing on the wharf the vessel
came, and the first to disembark was his son Benjamin. Ephraim Stephens
and Ebenezer Hopkins were exchanged at the same time.
(Abridged form Caverly's Pittsford, pp. 136-145.) |
For Caverly's full rendition of this remarkable story, follow the link
given below.
9. A.M. Caverly. 1872. History of the Town of Pittsford,
Vt. Tuttle & Co., Printers, Rutland. A transcription
of the full story is to be found at: "The
Saga of the Four."
| p. 198 |
Ebenezer Hopkins, son of Nehemiah, another of
the returned captives, married Rachel, daughter of Stephen Mead, December
2d, 1783, and located in a house which he had built, about ten rods east
of his father's residence. It stood on the bank of the brook about
one rod north of the present residence of John Stevens and near the bridge.
It would appear that for a few years he assisted his father in the care
of the mill and culti- |
| p. 199 |
vating some land in the vicinity; but on the
12th of May, 1789, his father sold to him and his brother, Ashbel, the
grist-mill and twenty-seven acres and forty-nine rods of land, and the
two brothers, having a joint interest in the property, labored together
till the death of Ashbel, about the year 1793, when Ebenezer bought his
brother's share of the property. In 1795, he sold the mill and other
real estate to John Penfield, and May 4th, 1802, bought the Morse farm
-- so called -- of Robert Brown and Peter Ludlow. This farm
at that time consisted of one hundred and forty acres, and included the
land now owned by Capen Leonard and William P. Ward. The house into
which Mr. Hopkins moved, stood on the east side of the road and about twenty-five
rods north of the present residence of Mr. Leonard. |
p. 708
[capsule
bios] |
HOPKINS, EBENEZER 2d s of Dea. Nehemiah, m December
2, 1783, Rachel Mead. Children--1, Josiah b April 18, 1786; 2, Ebenezer,
Jr., b August 16, 1787, located in the West; 3, Sarah b January 27, 1789,
m ___ Chipman; 4, Charlotte b. October 24, 1790, m ___ Durphy; 5, Achsah
b July 19, 1792; 6, Minerva b April 22, 1794, m ___ Grenelle, d of small
pox in New Haven; 7, Matthew b April 7, 1796, d May 13, 1796. Ebenezer
Hopkins d in Troy, Miami county, Ohio,
in 1838. |
Ebenezer died in Troy Township, Geauga Co., OH (email from
Jane Shaw — see below).
10. U.S. Secretary of War. 1835. Report from the
Secretary of War in Obedience to Resolutions of the Senate of the 5th and
30th of June, 1834, and the 3rd of March, 1835, in Relation to the Pension
Establishment of the United States. 3 vols. Senate Document 514,
Serial Nos. 249-51. (republ. 1992 as The Pension Roll of 1835,
Indexed Edition by Genealogical Publ. Co., Baltimore, MD; Broderbund
CD-145). Vol. IV, p. 250, under the heading "Statement, &c. of
Geauga county, Ohio":
| Name |
Rank |
Annual
allowance |
Sums
received |
Description
of service |
When placed on
the pension roll |
Age |
| Ebenezer Hopkins |
Private |
80 00 |
240 00 |
V't State troops |
Feb. 9, 1834 |
71 |
9. John E. Goodrich, ed., for Vermont General Assembly.
1904. Rolls of the [Vermont] Soldiers in the Revolutionary War,
1775-1783. Tuttle Co., Tutland, VT (online at Ancestry.com):
| p. 751 |
| [383] |
[Benj. Stevens and Ebenr Hopkins, Prisoners] |
State of Vermont, Clarendon, Aug. 14th 1783.
To The Pay Table,
This is to certify that Benjn Stevens and Ebenr
Hopkins were taken prisoners when in the State Service upon Lake Champlain,
on the 12th of May A.D. 1779, & carried to Canada, with Ephraim Stephens,
and at the same time lost their guns and accoutremnts,—were exchanged 9th
of June last.
Thos Sawyer, Capt.
Bennington Aug. 17th 1782.
This may certify, that the within named prisoners were exchanged
on or about the 9th of June as mentioned within.
Jos. Fay C. T. P.
State Vermont.
State of Vt. To Ebenr Hopkins, Benjn Stevens,
Soldiers in Capt. Thos Sawyer's Compy stad
at Rutland,
To their Wages when prisoners, from the 12th of May 1779 up to
June 9th 1782 as sd Certificate from Capt. Sawyer & Comr
Gd of Prisoners, being 36 months & 28 days each at 40/ pr
month.
£147.18.8
Benjn Stevens
Ebenr Hopkins
|
| p. 752 |
Pay Table Office
|
Bennington, Aug. 17, 1782 | The above acct. being approved of the
Treasurer is hereby directed to pay unto Ebenr Hopkins &
Benjn Stevens or their order, One hundred and forty seven pounds
fourteen shillings and eight pence, it being £73.17.4 ea.
£147.14.8
Isaac Tichenor
Nathl Brush |
|
| |
Come |
Sunderland, Aug. 1782. | Recd of the Treasurer, the Contents of
the within order, being one hundred and forty seven pounds, fourteen shillins
and eight pence.
£147.14.8
Nehemiah Hopkins
for Ebenr Hopkins
Benjamin Stevens |
|
11. Email from Jane Shaw, excerpts below:
Ebinizer Hopkins's Pension file #W7781
(I do not have this pension file. I have copied excerpts from documents
at the Geauga Library.)
Ebenezer Hopkins was in Geauga County on 10 Sep 1831 when
he repeated his declaration. He was issued a Certificate of Pension
9 Feb 1834 at the rate of $80 per annum to commence 4 Mar 1831.
In a Supreme Court Journal in the Geauga Court of Common Pleas:
"Tuesday, Aug 21 1838. The affidavit of Ezekiel Lamson and Leonard
Lamson is this day produced in court by which it appears that Ebenezer
Hopkins, late of the township of Troy in this county, died on the
seventeenth day of July last, that the said Ebenezer Hopkins
was a pensioner of the United States; that Rachel Hopkins was the
wife of the said Ebenezer Hopkins, at the time of his death and
is now his widow surviving him; And the court ordered that a certificate
of this Journal Entry be certified, under the seal of the Court to enable
the said Rachel Hopkins to obtain whatever balance may be due her,
on account of said pension." Rachel appeared in Common Pleas Court
in Geauga County on 9 Nov 1838, ae seventy-one years, to make application
for a pension. She declared that she was the widow of Ebenezer, gave
the date of their marriage and the date of his death. The application
was signed by her mark. Bradley, a son, attested to his father’s
death date. The next document is dated 21 Mar 1844 when Rachel repeated
her declaration and stated that the marriage proof had previously been
sent. She attached a family record with birth dates of Ebenezer and
Rachel, their marriage date that was written as 1784, and the birth of
four of her oldest children. She was placed on the roll at the rate
of $80 per annum to commence 17 Jul 1838. |
| The Journal of Emily (Nash) Patchin Halkins Pike (This is a journal
kept by Emily, a resident of Troy Township, over most of her lifetime...)
“July 16 Ebenezer Hopkins died to day with a canser on his
liver (July) 17 I went to the funeral to day at the meeting house
he leaves a widow and several children to mourn he was a Revolutionary
soldier he suffered a long time” (Pg 104-105)
“March 19 old Mrs Hopkins died to day with old age
sureley (Mar) 20 I went to her funeral to day she has brought up
a large family 2 of her sons are ministers another one is a
deacon dear pilgrim farewell the journey is ended thou
hast gone to thy rest in the temple of God hast seen the dear Lord who
for thee descended to take the at length to his blessed abode her
remains are committed to the earth by the side of her companion to rest
till the trump of God shall awake all” (Pg 129) |
Troy Township Cemetery, Geauga County, Ohio, Lot 313
{I have not seen these stones myself. I don’t know if they still
exist. Again, second hand information copied at the library}
EBENEZER HOPKINS
REVOLUTIONARY SOLDIER
DIED 16 JULY 1838
AE 77
RACHEL HOPKINS
WIFE OF E.
DIED 19 MAR 1850
AE 82 |
12. D.A.R. Genealogical Research Database (online at http://services.dar.org/Public/DAR_Research/). |
