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Subject: Re: [CTMID] Re: Bethia (Bethiah) Hopkins
Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 20:37:16 EST
In a message dated 10/27/03 5:01:39 PM Eastern Standard Time,
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Surnames: Hopkins, Kelsey, Dudley
Classification: Query
Message Board URL:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/xY.2ADI/700.1
Message Board Post:
First of all, I believe that it has been proven that the wife of William
Kelsey was not Bethiah Hopkins. In Volume II of The Great Migration Begins by
Robert Charles Anderson, it is suggested that her name was possibly Hester ? On
page 1118 it has:
MARRIAGE: By 1634 ____ _____, who was "born about 1613 and liveing in
Hartford in December 1666" [TAG 68:213-14]. (Several false leads regarding the
identity of the wife of William Kelsey have been carefully examined and discarded by
George E. McCracken and Gale Ion Harris [TAG 37:38-42, 68:211-14]. Based on
onomastic evidence Harris suggests that her given name was Hester.)
The first wife of Stephen Hopkins was not Constance Dudley. The given name of
his first wife was Mary. His second wife was Elizabeth Fisher. Source:
Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six, Third Edition, Stephen
Hopkins.
With the discussion going on about Bethia Hopkins and then Stephen Hopkins, I
have to add this: There was in the 1630's in Mass-Bay-Colony, in New Towne
(Cambridge), MA, a John HOPKINS whos daughter Bethia HOPKINS married George
STOCKING and they were two of those who left with Rev. Hooker an the party of
100, to "cross the wilderness" and settle on the Connecticut River and found
Hartford. This John HOPKINS was not, as far as is known, related to Stephen
HOPKINS of the Mayflower. And in fact they would have been very close to
contemporaries. Dave from Long Island
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