Nielsen Hayden genealogy
Stephen Hopkins
- Aft 1644-
Name Stephen Hopkins Born of Hursley, Hampshire, England 
[1] Gender Male Alternate birth 30 Apr 1581 Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England [2] Alternate birth Abt 1582 Hampshire, England [3] Died Aft 6 Jun 1644 Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts [1, 3] Person ID I8638 Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of TNH Last Modified 11 Sep 2018
Father John Hopkins, b. Abt 1550, Hampshire, England , d. Bef 4 Oct 1593, Winchester, Hampshire, England (Age ~ 43 years) Mother Elizabeth Williams, d. Aft 1593 Married 28 Jul 1579 Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England [2] Family ID F2703 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Mary, d. Bef 9 May 1613, Hursley, Hampshire, England Married Bef 13 May 1604 England [1, 4] Children + 1. Giles Hopkins, b. Bef 30 Jan 1608, Hursley, Hampshire, England , d. Bef 16 Apr 1690, Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts (Age < 82 years)Last Modified 22 Oct 2018 Family ID F6346 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Notes - Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.
Notable as the only Mayflower passenger to have previously visited the New World, as it now appears that he was the same Stephen Hopkins that served as the minister's clerk on the 1609 voyage to Jamestown of the Sea Venture. This ship was caught in a storm and ran aground at Bermuda, marooning its passengers. Sir Thomas Gates, who had been travelling to Jamestown as its newly-appointed governor, organized the passengers to build new boats to complete the voyage. Hopkins vocally dissented against Gates's authority, and was charged with mutiny and sentenced to death, but ultimately pardoned after many other passengers pled for clemency toward him. The boat-building project was successful and the passengers of the Sea Venture ultimately made it to Jamestown, from whence Hopkins ultimately returned to England in 1614. A written narrative of the Sea Venture's story was in circulation in England by late 1610 and is known to have been read by Shakespeare, whose The Tempest, first performed in November 1611, concerns a group of passengers shipwrecked by a storm, and includes a comic-relief drunk named Stefano who attempts to take over as their leader.
- Emigrated 1620, on the Mayflower, with his second wife Elizabeth Fisher and his children Elizabeth, Constance, and Giles. He was a tanner, merchant, and tavern-keeper.
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Sources - [S496] Caleb Johnson, "The True Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, With Evidence of His Earlier Presence in Virginia." The American Genealogist 73:161, July 1998.
- [S497] Ernest Martin Christensen, "The Probable Parentage of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower." The American Genealogist 79:241, October 2004.
- [S635] Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: Volume Six, Third Edition, Family--Stephen Hopkins, by John D. Austin. Plymouth, Massachusetts: General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 2001.
- [S1647] The Pilgrim Migration: Immigrants to Plymouth Colony 1620-1633, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New York Historic Genealogical Society, 2004., year only.
- [S496] Caleb Johnson, "The True Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower, With Evidence of His Earlier Presence in Virginia." The American Genealogist 73:161, July 1998.