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).