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

Abraham HOWE Spouse: Sarah A. HOPKINS Marriage: 09 Dec 1846, Detroit, Wayne, Michigan Source: patron submission

2.  1850 Census Index/Images (online at Ancestry.com; Image #16 of 24):  Town of Chesterfield, Macomb Co., MI, Roll M432_357, p. 100B, 1391/1406, enumerated 5 Sept 1850, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1850 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Abraham Howe	28	M		Farmer	300	Canada
Sarah A   "	24	F				Mich
George W  "	3	M				"
Norman C Hopkins	60	M		Carpenter		Vermont

Norman C. HOPKINS is Sarah's father.

3.  1860 Census Images (online at Genealogy.com; Image #9 of 35):  Utica P.O., Town of Macomb, Macomb Co., MI, Roll 553, p. 840, PN 10, 94/82, enumerated 5 Jun 1860, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1860 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Abram Howe	38	M		Farmer	1800	310	Canada West
Sarah    "	34	F		Domestic			Michigan
George W "	13	M					"
Ida E    "	7	F					"

This enumerator called all the wives "domestics."

4.  1870 Census Index/Images (online at Genealogy.com, Image #239-240 of 362):  Detroit P.O., City of Detroit (Ward 6, Precinct 24), Wayne Co., MI, Roll 713, pp. 447A-447B, PN 67-68, 571/613, enumerated 23 Jun 1870, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1870 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

Howe Abraham	47	M	W	Sailor	2000	500	Canada
"  Sarah A	44	F	W	Keeping house			Michigan
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Howe Ida	17	F	W	At Home			Michigan

5.  1880 Census (indexed at FamilySearch.org; page image online at Ancestry.com, Image #68 of 68):  280 Montcalm [St./Ave.], Detroit, Wayne Co., MI, Roll T9-0613, p. 321C, PN 23, SD 1, ED 305, enumerated 8 Jun 1880, official enumeration date 1 Jun 1880 (extracted by Diana Gale Matthiesen):¤•

1880:  for an explanation of the column headings, please see What the Numbers in the Federal Census Mean (missing columns contained no data).
		1	2	3	4	5	6	8	10	13	24	25	26
*	280	282	242	Howe Abraham	W	M	58		/	Sailor	Canada	England	Mass
				"  Sarah	W	F	55	Wife	/	Keeping house	Michigan	New York	New York
*Montcalm

Sarah's father was born in Vermont, and unless her parents moved back and forth between Canada and Michigan, Sarah was born in Canada.

6.  1890 Census:  the 1890 Census Population Schedules were destroyed.

7.  Timothy Hopkins.  1932.  John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants. Stanford Univ. Press, Stanford, CA.

p. 345

SARAH MIRANDA,8 b. 11 Sepember 1825; m. John Abraham Howe. She d. at Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1899; he d. there May or June 1896. He was a sailor of Detroit and Grand Rapids, Michigan, and a Methodist. Children surname Howe:   I. GEORGE W., b. 15 January 1847; d. 25 April 1863.  II. HENDRICK H., b. 27 February 1848; d. 29 February 1848. III. OTIS T., b. 9 May 1850; d. 9 June 1850.  IV. IDA, b. 22 August 1852, at Detroit; m. there 19 December 1871, Charles Henry Winchester. He d. 1923.   V. FRANK A., b. 8 July 1854; d. 19 August 1854.