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- An unsigned and unsourced note at familysearch.org says: "In 1677 he was fined for holding a Quaker meeting at his home and attending a Quaker meeting because at that time he was still a member of the Church of England."
With his children and second wife Isabel, he emigrated from Cleveland, Yorkshire on the Providence, one of the ships of William Penn's fleet, arriving in Pennsylvania 10 Nov 1683. The ship's records call him a "husbandman." He carried with him a signed and attested statement from his fellow Quakers in Skelton which read:
"This is to Satisfye whom it may concern yt Joshua Hoopes ye bearer here of was borne at Skelton near Gainsborough in Cleveland in Yorkesheire in old England & there descended of honest Parents and honestly demeaned himselfe from his Child hood, his ffather, brothers & relations being honest & credible inhabitants and people of account in and about ye towne of Skelton aforessaid And yt hee ye said Joshua hath not at any time to our knowledge or heareing been conversant or acquainted with any unruly or disorderly persons as in relation to any bad carriage but honestly, godly and civelly be heaved himselfe towards his neighbours & acquaintance both whilst hee Lived with his ffather & alsoe with his wife & ffamily since hee was married there away & haveing of Late years frequented many meetings of ye people called Quakers neare ye said towne of Skelton & not to our knowledge been in any way disorderly in his life practice & conversation but yet they ye said people have had a love & respect for him & unity & ffellowship with him in his course of life & dealings amongst men. This is signed & Attested to by us who are members of ye said people called Quakers in and about Skelton aforesaid & inhabitants htere abouts ye 4th day of ye 3rd month 1683."
Member of the Pennsylvania Assembly in 1686, 1688, 1692, 1695, 1696, 1697, 1700, 1701, 1703, 1705, 1708, 1709, and 1711.
Collateral Ancestry of Stephen Harris claims that he was a "cornet of cavalry in the Army of the Parliament", which is implausible. The Army of the Parliament existed until 1651. He could conceivably have been an enlisted man in its final years in his mid-teens, which would mean he was ninety or so at his death in 1724. But he would not have been a commissioned officer at that age, which is what a "cornet of cavalry" was.
Various sites to the contrary notwithstanding, the ancestry of Joshua Hoopes is unknown. The great American genealogist John Insley Coddington (1902-1991), himself a descendant of Joshua Hoopes and his first wife Anne, put much effort into identifying this couple's forebears. He believed, but was never able to completely prove, that Joshua was a son of Robert and Margaret (maiden name unknown) Hoopes of Skelton. But he expressed particular frustration at being unable to determine the origins of Anne Hoopes, because he took a special interest in direct maternal (or, as he called them, "umbilical") ancestries, and Anne was as far back as he could trace his own.
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Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Abt 1640 - 1723 (~ 83 years)
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