| Sources:
1. Marriage Record:
2. 1790 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#1 of 1; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1790 |
VT |
Addison Co. |
Cornwall |
Roll M637_12 |
p. 11 |
Ln. 45 |
Nehemiah Hopkins |
1-1-1-0-0 |
These data indicate:
| Gender and Type |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 1 free white males |
16 or over |
in or bef. 1774 |
= Nehemiah (b. ca. 1766) |
| 1 free white males |
15 or under |
1774-1790 |
= Norman (b. 1790) |
| 1 free white females |
all ages |
in or bef. 1790 |
= Lucy |
Listed next to father-in-law, Joseph DURPHEY.
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, Nehemiah |
VT |
Rutland Co. |
Pittsford |
10010-2101000 |
3b. 1800 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image
#5 of 10; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•
| 1800 |
VT |
Rutland Co. |
Pitsford |
p. 170 |
Ln. 9 |
Hopkins Nehemiah |
21010-10010-00 |
These data indicate:
| No. ? Sex |
Age Class |
Therefore Born |
Individuals Inferred |
| 2 males |
9 or under |
1790-1800 |
= Samuel or Ashbel or ?
= Philander (b. 1794) |
| 1 male |
10-15 |
1784-1790 |
= Norman (b. 1790) |
| 1 male |
26-44 |
1755-1774 |
= Nehemiah (b. ca. 1766) |
| 1 female |
9 or under |
1790-1800 |
= Daughter A |
| 1 female |
26-44 |
1755-1774 |
= Lucy (b. ca. 1766) |
The youngest son may be Samuel, b. 1800, but if Samuel was b. 1801, then
the boy is either Ashbel or some unknown son.
4. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1810 (Broderbund
CD-313): not found (no Nehemiah HOPKINS on CD, anywhere) — is he
in Canada?
5. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund
CD-314): not found (no Nehemiah HOPKINS on CD, anywhere) — is he
in Canada, with his son, Philander?
6. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1830 (Broderbund
CD-315): not found (the only Nehemiah HOPKINS is in TN) — is he in
Canada, with his son, Philander?
7. Census Index: U.S. Selected Counties, 1840 (Broderbund
CD-316): not found, but as a widowed old man, he was probably living
with one of his children. Philander and Samuel Lucas are in Livingston
Co., MI, and Norman is in Detroit, MI.
8. Caverly, A.M. 1872. History of the Town of Pittsford,
Vt. Tuttle Co., Printers, Rutland, VT.
| p. 221 |
Nehemiah Hopkins, son of the Nehemiah
who has been mentioned, built a house on land given to him by his father
on the north side of the road, and a few rods east of the mouth of Ripley
Brook. He married ___ Durphy and resided here some years,
afterwards lived for a short period in a house which stood about where
L. Woolson's house now stands, then moved into a house which stood a few
rods west of the present residence of H.F. Lothrop, Esq. He was a
man of considerable business capacity and served as constable for several
years. He moved to the State of New York. |
| p. 683 |
In a list of Selectmen and Constables for 1790 to
1873, "Neh'ah Hopkins, jr." was constable in 1799, 1801, 1803,
and 1804. |
| p. 708 |
In a section of capsule biographies:
HOPKINS, NEHEMIAH, JR., 3d s of Dea. Nehemiah, m ___Durphy, and
removed to the State of New York, where he d. |
9. Timothy Hopkins. 1932. John Hopkins of Cambridge,
Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ. Press,
Stanford, CA (available as a facsimile reprint from Higginson Books and
online by subscription at GenealogyLibrary.com). On p. 212:
| Nehemiah was probably born at Stockbridge, Massachusetts,
and removed with his father's family in 1778 to Pittsford, Vermont.
In a biographical sketch of his grandson, Loren Hopkins, he is said to
have married Lucy Willard (Portrait and Biogl. Album of Clinton, Shiawassee
County, Michigan), but the Willard Memorial does not mention it.
Either he or his father served in the Revolution 23 March to 28 March 1780,
in Capt. Benjamin Cooley's Company, Col. Ebenezer Allen's Regiment.
He lost his right arm during Shay's Rebellion, being the only one shot
in the riot at Rutland 22 November 1786. One account (N.E. Register,
26: 130) is that he was swept along into the mob merely by a boy's love
of adventure, but according to family tradition his father and family had
refused to join the insurgent party which had stopped at their home, and
Nehemiah was wounded by them as he was going to the well, because they
thought he was running away.
He was constable at Pittsford, 1799, 1801-1804, removing to New
York in about 1805, and settling on the Genesee River where Rochester now
stands.
Peck's History of Rochester mentions a Nehemiah Hopkins who
was engaged by Abelard Reynolds, 16 August 1812, to build the first frame
house there. |
Amongst the stodgy, participation in Shay's Rebellion was an embarrassment,
and it appears to me the above is a snobbish rationalization for Nehemiah's
injury. As far as I'm concerned, participation in Shay's Rebellion
was admirable, so I prefer to think that Nehemiah (my 7th great-grandfather)
took an active part in the the rebellion.
10. William Farley Peck. 1884. Semi-centennial
History of the City of Rochester… D. Mason, Syracuse, NY (HeritageQuestOnline
at Genealogy.com):
| p. 100 |
… the following extracts are given from the private
diary … of the late Abelard Reynolds, who came here from Pittsfield, Mass.,
in April, 1812:— "… I engaged a carpenter by the name of Nehemiah Hopkins
to frame |
| p. 101 |
and raise the building, and on the 16th of August,
1812, said building was raised and planked. I then arranged with
Hopkins to inclose and finish the house to the extent of the joiner's work,
while I should return to Pittsfield to remove the family." |
11. LDS. Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:
IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org). |