| 2. | Colonel Mark Hopkins (1.Mary1) was born on 18 Sep 1739 in Waterbury, New Haven County, Connecticut; died on 26 Oct 1776 in White Plains, Westchester County, New York. Other Events:
- FamilySearch ID: L7L5-FHF
- FindaGrave Memorial ID: 150197399
- Group: Head of Line - Elder John Strong
- Group: Head of Line - John Hopkins
- Group: Veteran - Army
- Group: Veteran or Patriot of Revolutionary War
Notes:
From FindaGrave:
Son of Capt. Timothy Hopkins, Sr. & Mary Moss.
Husband of Electa Sergeant.
Father of:
Capt. Archibald Hopkins
Henry Hopkins
Sewall Hopkins
John Sergeant Hopkins
Louisa Hopkins Woodbridge (Mrs. Joseph Woodbridge)
Effingham Hopkins b1776
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About Col. Mark Hopkins
From The Official Website of the River-Hopkins and Saemann-Nickel and related families:
http://josfamilyhistory.com/htm/hopkins/hopkins-john-3.htm
Colonel Mark Hopkins (1739-1776), the youngest brother, was left fatherless at the age of 10 but was eventually fitted for Yale College and ended up at the bar for the first session of the Berkshire (Massachusetts) Court in 1761. He was the first of almost everything at Great Barrington, Mass.; i.e., Town Clerk, County Treasurer, Registrar of Deeds, also a Selectman at his death in 1776. Also King's Attorney and a representative to the General Court in 1773 and 1774.
Before the commencement of hostilities with Great Britain, he espoused the cause of the Colonies, was a delegate in the county convention held at Stockbridge in July 1774, and one of the committee that drafted the patriotic resolutions adopted by the convention. This was the first of the county conventions that assembled in Massachusetts to consider the encroachments of Great Britain, and the resolutions adopted by the committee of which Mark Hopkins was a member struck the keynote of loyalty to the King, but of devotion to the maintenance fo the rights of the Colonies which influenced subsequent conventions and led to the Revolution.
With the breaking out of the war, Mark became prominent as a member of the Committee of Safety, influential in the committees, and was also active in organizing the First Regiment of Berkshire County Militia, of which he was the Colonel under commission dated 30 August 1775. In 1776, commanding a detachment of Berkshire militia as Brigade Major, he was taken sick, and in a retreat of the Americans, suffered from exposure in being removed to a place of safety, which so increased his illness that it terminated fatally at White Plains, New York on 26 Oct 1776 – two days before the battle at that place.
FamilySearch ID:
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/L7L5-FHF
FindaGrave Memorial ID:
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/150197399
Group:
Descendants of Elder John Stong
Group:
Descendants of John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts and Hartford, Connecticut
Group:
Veteran of the United States Army
Group:
Revolutionary War Patriot or Soldier.
Mark married Electa Sargeant on 31 Jan 1765 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. Electa was born on 2 Aug 1742 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; died on 11 Jul 1798 in Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]
Children:
- 3. Captain Archibald Hopkins
was born on 23 Mar 1766 in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts; died on 25 Jan 1839; was buried after 25 Jan 1839 in Stockbridge Cemetery, Stockbridge, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
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