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Esek Hopkins (Commodore)

BIRTH: 26 Apr 1718, Scituate, Providence, Rhode Island
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TITLE: Commodore

Father: William Hopkins (ABT 1682 - 1738)
Mother: Ruth Wilkinson (31 Jan 1685/1686 - 1731)

Family 1: Desire Burroughs (____ - ____)

MARRIAGE: 29 Nov 1741, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island

John Hopkins (25 Aug 1742 - ____)
Heart Hopkins (1 Sep 1744 - ____)
Abigail Hopkins (25 Oct 1746 - ____)
Samuel Hopkins (19 Feb 1748 - 22 Sep 1750)
Amey Hopkins (26 Jan 1751 - ____)
Stephen Hopkins (6 Mar 1753 - ____)
Susanna Hopkins (10 May 1756 - ____)
Esek Hopkins (21 Jun 1758 - ____)
+Samuel Hopkins (____ - Dec 1782)
+Desire Hopkins (17 May 1764 - ____)

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                                             _Thomas Hopkins ______|
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                       _William Hopkins ____|
                      | (1647 - 1723) m 1682|
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 _William Hopkins ____|
| (1682 - 1738)       |
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|                     |                      _John Whipple ________|
|                     |                     | (1617 - 1685) m 1638 |
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|                     |_Abigail Whipple ____|
|                       (1657 - 1725) m 1682|
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|                                           |_Sarah _______________|
|                                             (1624 - 1666) m 1638 |
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|--Esek Hopkins 
|  (1718 - ....)
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|                                            _Lawrence Wilkinson __|
|                                           | (1620 - 1692)        |
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|                      _Samuel Wilkinson ___|
|                     | (.... - 1727) m 1672|
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|                     |                     |                       _Christopher Smith __|__
|                     |                     |                      | (1600 - 1676) m 1625   
|                     |                     |_Susanna Smith _______|
|                     |                       (1625 - 1662)        |
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|                     |                                            |_Alice ______________|__
|                     |                                              (1600 - 1681) m 1625   
|_Ruth Wilkinson _____|
  (1685 - 1731)       |
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                      |                      _William Wickenden ___|
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                      |_Plain Wickenden ____|
                         m 1672             |
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                                            |_Eleanor Sherringham _|
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Notes

!NOTE: Commander in Chief of the Continental Navy. His niece, Sarah Hopkins, married Abraham Whipple, the first Commodore of the American Navy. (Abraham Whipple was great-grandson of Samuel, Captain John Whipple's son.)

!SOURCE: Charles M. Whipple, Jr., Sons and Daughters of Jesse: A 360 Year History of the Whipple Family (Oklahoma City: Southwestern Press, 1976), p. 13.

!SOURCE: Israel Wilkinson, _Memoirs of the Wilkinson Family in America_ (Jacksonville, Ill.: Davis & Penniman, 1869), p. 83.

!SOURCE: Email from Hugh Hudson (email hidden) to Weldon Whipple, 2 Jul 2012: Gives marriage 29 Nov 1741 (previously entered as 28 Nov 1741), citing Vital record of Rhode Island 1636-1850: First Series: births, marriages and deaths: a family register for the people, by James N. Arnold. Providence, RI: Narragansett Historical Publishing Company.

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