1a.  Marriage Record:

1b.  Jack & Marianne Dibean.  Index to Dibean's Michigan Marriage Collection (online at the Michigan Family History Network; note that this is a secondary source of user-submitted marriages, not extracted primary records, so caveat emptor):

Elias J SMITH	Mary HOPKINS	04 Mar 1841	Livingston Co.
Orange HOPKINS	Phoebe Ellen VLEIT	01 Jun 1852	unknown county

2.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1820 (Broderbund CD-314):  not found — in Canada, as is Philander's brother, Norman HOPKINS.

3.  Census Index:  U.S. Selected Counties, 1830 (Broderbund CD-315):  not found — in Canada, as is Philander's brother, Norman HOPKINS.

4.  1840 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #7 of 9; extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1840

MI

Livingston Co.

Unadilla Twp.

p. 215B

Ln. 10

Philander Hopkins

102 100 100 - 011 101 000

These data indicate:

No. & Sex	Age Class	Therefore Born	Individuals Inferred
1 male	4 or under	1835-1840	= Philander Jr. (b. 1836)
2 males	10-14	1825-1830	= Orange (b. 1827) = Loren (b. 1826)
1 male	15-19	1820-1825	= Elam (b. 1824)
1 male	40-49	1790-1800	= Philander (b. 1794)
1 female	5-9	1830-1835	= Martha (b. 1834)
1 female	10-14	1825-1830	= Harriet (b. 1829)
1 female	15-19	1820-1825	=
1 female	30-39	1800-1810	= Deborah (b. 1795/97)

Deborah is fibbing about her age.  List was roughly alphabetized, so no neighborhood reconstuction is possible.  Also in Unadilla Township:  Philander's brother, Samuel Lucas HOPKINS. 

5a.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #10 of 25):  Unadilla Twp., Livingston Co., MI, p. 366A, 617/619, enumerated 7 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Philander Hopkins	56	M		Farmer	3000	Vt
Deborah      "	53	F				NY
Marilla      "	16	F				"
Philander    "	13	M				"
Hiram Dray	34	M		Laborer	500	"

5a.  1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #1 of 16):  Stockbridge, Ingham Co., MI, Roll 351 (Book 1), p. 24B, 150/150, enumerated 27 Jul 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Elim Hopkins	26	M		Farmer	1000	Canada
Harriet  "	20	F				do

Harriet is Elam's sister, not his wife.  Listed two households from Silas HOLT, Elam's future father-in-law.

5b.  1850 Census Every-Name-Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #7 of 20 — indexed "Hoptcins"):  Henrietta [Twp.], Jackson Co., MI, Roll M432_352, p. 382A, 983/1003, enumerated 21 Aug 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Lorin Hopkins

23

M

Farmer

600

Canada

He's one of 16 people living with a banker and his family; the 16 appear to be the staff on his estate.

6.  1860 Census Images (online at Genealogy.com; Image #8 of 27 — indexed "Hiopkins"):  Plainfield P.O., Unadilla, Livingston Co., MI, p. 9, PN 9, 57/57, enumerated 5 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Philander Hopkins	67	M		Farmer	3700	475	Vermont
Deborah      "	63	F					N York
Philander    "	23	F		Do			Do
Emeline W    "	10	F					Do
Mellville J Titus	35	M		Farm Laborer			Do
Alpheus C    "	5	M					Mich
Martha M     "	25	F					N York

Emeline is the junior Philander's wife (they were married in January); and she is 15 (!), not 10.  Melville TITUS is Martha's husband and Alpheus is their son; I've no explanation for why Martha was listed last.  Listed next to their son, Loren HOPKINS.

7.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com; Image #10-11 of 28):  Brighton P.O., Unadilla Twp., Livingston Co., MI, pp. 248B-249A, PN 10-11, enumerated 12 Aug 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

80	85	Hopkins Philander	33	M	W	Farmer	5500?	2200	New York
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		_______ Emeline	25	F	W	Keeping house			New York
		_______ Sarah A	3	F	W	at home			Michigan
		_______ James A	?/12	M	W	at home			Michigan	Aug
	86	Hopkins Deborah	75	F	W	retired			New York

8.  Michigan Department of Community Health.  GenDIS: Genealogical Death Indexing System (online at the michigan.gov web site):

Name:	HOPKINS, Deborah
Date of Death:	18 May 1872
Ledger Page:	157
Record Number:	63
Place of Death:	Unadilla
County of Death:	Livingston
Sex:	female
Race:	white
Marital Status:	widowed
Age:	77 years
Cause of Death:	inflammation of bowels
Birthplace:	New York
Occupation:	not recorded
Father's Name:	unknown
Father's Residence:	unknown
Mother's Name:	unknown
Mother's Residence:	unknown
Date of Record:	31 May 1873

9.  Livingston County Clerk.  Livingston County, Michigan, [Partial] Death Index, 1867-1948 (online at the Livingston County MIGenWeb site; extracted from LDS microfilm by Dianne Richards — the index is not complete for the period covered):

Last Name	First Name	Vol	Page
HOPKINS	Deborah	1	35

10.  Livingston County, Michigan, Cemetery Resident Index (online at the Livingston County MIGenWeb site):

Last Name	First Name	Cemetery Name	Location	Pg#	Vol#
HOPKINS	Philander	Williamsville	Unadilla Twp.	127	I

11.  U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management. The Official Land Patent Records Office.

Date	Certificate No.	Land Office	Patented By	Acres	Location	State	County*
2 Nov 1837	762	Ionia	Philander C. Hopkins of Eaton County, Michigan	80	E½ NE¼ S32.T3N.R5W	MI	Eaton
2 Nov 1837	2722	Ionia	Philander C. Hopkins of Eaton County, Michigan	40	NW¼ SW¼ S35.T1N.R5W	MI	Eaton
1 Jul 1848	28891	Detroit	Philander Hopkins and David D. Bird of Livingston County, Michigan	40	NE¼ NE¼ S35.T1N.R2E	MI	Ingham
*The county is not given on the original certificate, which describes the location of the land solely in terms of Aliquot, Section, Township, and Range.  The county names must have been added to the database at some later time, probably when the certificate data were computerized.

Philander C. HOPKINS may not be our subject.

12.  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):

p. 345

Philander ... b. probably at Pittsford, Vermont, 1792 (a family record says 1 September 1794); m. (1) Mary Marsales, b. 1797, who d. about 1834; m. (2) at Lockport, New York, Deborah Townsend.  He d. at Unadilla, Michigan, 20 April 1861; she d. there 23 May 1872. A farmer, and also an expert carpenter and builder, who worked far and wide at his trade, leaving the clearing of the homestead to his sons.  His father had removed from Vermont in about 1802 and settled near where Rochester, New York, now stands, and it is probable that here it was that Philander grew to manhood.  After his marriage he removed to

p. 346

Ontario Province, Canada, [footnote] where some, if not all, his children by his first marriage were born, and from there to Unadilla, Michigan.  Loren related to his son, Frank Dunn Hopkins, that while on their way to Michigan across Lake Erie the family were (sic) shipwrecked.  The team was allowed to swim ashore, the eldest son, Elam, on the back of one; as soon as land was reached the frightened horse ran miles into the country with the boy. In early life Mr. Hopkins was a Democrat, but he voted for Abraham Lincoln. [footnote] Possibly it was Philander who was a member in 1819 of the Masonic Lodge at Stoney Creek, Ontario.  This place is on Lake Ontario about six miles from Hamilton and was the scene of the defeat of the Americans by the British in 1813.

13.  WorldConnect / Ancestry World Trees (online at RootsWeb.com/Ancestry.com).

14.  LDS.  Family Search: Internet Genealogy Service:  IGI - International Genealogical Index (online at FamilySearch.org).