SNOW, Mehitable

Stephen — DEANE, Susanna. Susanna (daughter of DEANE, Stephen and RING, Elizabeth) was born Bef 1634, Plymouth, Massachusetts; died Bef Jan 1700/1, Eastham, Barstable County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Nicholas is possibly the son of Nicholas Snow, baptized St. Leonard's Shoreditch, London, 25 January 1599/1600. He immigrated in 1623 aboard the " Anne" and took up residence in Plymouth Massachusetts, he later removed to Eastham, Massachusetts. Nicholas was married by 1627 to Constance Hopkins, daughter of Stephen Hopkins. She died at Eastham in the middle of October 1677. Nicholas was a carpenter per his will inventory begining with a list of cooper's and carpenter's tools. He made freeman in "1633" Plymouth list of freemen in close proximity to those admitted on 1 January 1632/3; in list of 7 March 1636/7. In Plymouth section of 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen, then erased and moved to Eastham section of list. In Eastham section of lists of freemen of 1658 and 29 May 1670. Nicholas was likely educated because his wiil inventory included "a parcel of old books" valued at 4s., "a psalm book" valued at 1s., and "1 book" valued at 1s. He held various positions of resposibility including:
Deputy (from Eastham), 3 June 1652, 3 June 1657 [PCR 3:9, 115];
Committee to lay ou t highways, 23 July 1634 [PCR 1:31];
Surveyor and supervisor of highways, 3 March 1639/40, 2 June 1640, 1 June 1647, 7 June 1653, 5 June 1671 [PCR 1:141, 155, 2:115, 3:33, 5:58];
Committee to layout lands, 5 May 1640 [PCR 1:151];
Plymouth grand jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR1:87];
Coroner's jury, 5 June 1638 [PCR 1:88];
Jury, 2 October 1637, 6 March 1637/8, 3 March 1639/40, 1 September 1640, 1 June 1641, 3 August 1641, 7 March 1642/3, 6 June 1643 [PCR 7:7, 8, 16, 17, 20 , 23, 34, 35];
Lot layer, 1 February 1640/1 [PCR 2:7];
Excise collector, 7 June 1648[PCR 2:125 ];
Committee member, 7 June 1648, 4 June 1650 [PCR 2:123, 154];
Eastham selectman, 7 June 1670 , 5 June 1671, 5 June 1672, 3 June 1674, 1 June 1675 [PCR 5:35, 57, 92, 143, 164];
Constable , 3 June 1662 [PCR4:15];
In Plymouth section of 1643 Plymouth Colony list of men able to bear arms [PCR 8:189].
Records of Nicholas' property dealing include: In the 1623 Plymouth land division granted an unknown number of acres (but almost certainly one) at Hobes Hole near the Eel River as a passenger on the Anne [PCR 12:6]. In the 1627 Plymouth cattle division "Nickolas Snow" and Constance Snow were the sixth and seventh persons in the seventh company (headed by Stephen Hopkins) [PCR 12:11]. Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27March 1634 [PCR 1:10, 27]. Assigned mowing ground, 20 March 1636/7 [PCR1:57]; requested more hay ground, 2 July 1638 [PCR 1:90]. H e was one ofthe purchasers [PCR 2:177]. On 7 May 1638 Nicholas Snow was one of agroup of men desiring "lands towards the Six Mile Brooke" [PCR 1:83], and on 7 August 1638 he requested " 5 or 6 acres of land lying on the north side the lands granted lately to Mr. Atwood" [PCR 1:93 ]. On 6 July 1638 Nicholas Snow acknowledged that he sold to Samuell Eddy his house and garden in Plymouth where he "now dwelleth" [PCR 12:31]. Granted ten acres meadow in the South Meadows, 2 November 1640 [PCR 1:166]. About March 1645/6 Nicholas Snow sold his house and buildings and upland, with two acres of meadow at High Pines and ten acres of upland meadow at Colebrook meadows, totalling fifty-two acres to Thomas Morton [PCR12:134]. On 10 March 1645[/6] Nicholas Snow sold one acre to NathanielMorton [PCR 12:135]. In an account of liquors brought into Eastham, dated 28 November 1664, Nicholas Snow was responsible for one and a half gallons of liquor [PCR 4:100]. In his will, dated 14 November 1676 and proved 5 March 1676/7, "Nicholas Snow of Eastham being weak and infirm of body" bequeathed to "my son Marke Snow" all twenty acres of upland lying at Namskekitt where his house now stands, and two acres of meadow and all that broken marsh at Namscekett and two thirds of "my great lot at Satuckett"; to "my son Joseph Snow I give that other third part of my great lot at Satuckett, and two acres and an half of meadow lying at Namscekett near the head and an neck of upland"; to "my son Steven Snow I give twenty acres on the southside of my great lot at Pochett, and ten acres of my little lot at Satuckett ... an acre and an half of meadow at the boat meadow ... and that part of my meadow at the great meadow that lyeth between Josiah Cooke and the Eel creek"; to "my son John Snow I give all that my land at Paomett purchased or unpurchased ... and all my right and title or privilege there"; to "my son Jabez Snow I give all this my land lying between my house and my son Thomas Paine's, and seven acres at the Bass pond ... and an half acre of marsh at the end of it and six acres of upland at the Herring pond, and an acre and half of meadow at Silver spring ... and that part of my house he lives in as long as my wife or I do live .. . and two acres of meadow at the Great Meadow"; to "my son Jabez I give that my four acres of meadow at Billinsgate due to me yet unlaid out"; "my meadow about my house I give to my son Jabez"; to "my loving wife Constant Snow all my stock of cattle, sheep, horses, swine, what soever, to be at her disposal for the comfort and support of her life, with all the moveable goods I am possessed of and after her decease, stock and movables to be equally divided amongst all my children... the use and disposal of the part of my house she now dwells in during her lifetime, and after her decease to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "my loving wife that ten acres of upland at Pochett and twenty on Billinsgate land, for her disposal for the comfort of her life, but if she need it now, and leave it undisposed, I give it then to my son Steven Snow"; "twenty acres of upland at Billingsgate if my wife leave it undisposed, then to be my son Jabez Snow's"; to "the church of Eastham for the furniture of the Table of the Lord, with pewter or other necessaries, I say I do give 10s. out of my estate after my wife's decease" [MD3:167-6 9, citing PCPR 3:2:71-72]. The undated inventory of the estate of Nicholas Snow of Eastham totalled �102 10s. 9d., with no real estate included [MD 3:169-74, citing PCPR 3:2:73-77]. On 6 March 1676/7 letters of administration were granted to Constant Snow, Mark Snow and John Snow, on the estate of Nicholas Snow, deceased [PCR 5:220]. Nicholas died in Eastham 15 November 1676.
The couple's children were:
i MARK, b. Plymouth 9 May 1628 [MD 7:14]; m. (1) Eastham 18 January 1654[/5] Anna Cooke [MD 7:14], daughter of JOSIAH COOKE; m. (2) Eastham 9January 1660[/1] Jane Prence [MD 7:14], daughter of THOMAS PRENCE [MF6:14-15].
ii MARY, b. say 1630; m. say 1650 Thomas Paine (called "my son" in Nicholas Snow's will; she was probably the "one married" in 1651 as described by Bradford).
iii SARAH, b. say 1632; m. Eastham 25 February 1654 William Walker [PCR8:15].
iv JOSEPH, b. say 1634; m. say 1670 Mary _____ [NEHGR 47:83].
v STEPHEN, b. say 1636; m. (1) Eastham 28 October 1663 Susanna (Deane) Rogers, widow of Joseph Rogers and daughter of STEPHEN DEANE [MD 8:15,31:37-41 (as George Bowman notes, the alternate marriage date for this couple must be in error); TAG 42:200]; m. (2) Eastham 9 April 170 1 Mary Bigford [MD 6:14].
vi JOHN, b. say 1638; m. Eastham 19 September 1667 Mary Smalley [MD7:17], daughter of JOHN SMALLEY.
vii ELIZABETH, b. say 1640; m. Eastham 13 December 1665 Thomas Rogers [MD 6:14], son of Joseph Rogers and grandson of THOMAS ROGERS [MF 2:160].
viii JABEZ, b. say 1642; m. say 1670 as her first husband Elizabeth_____ [NEHGR 47:83].
ix RUTH, b. say 1644; m. Eastham 10 December 1666 John Cole [PCR 8:57].
x Child, b. say 1646; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.
xi Child, b. say 1648; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.
xii Child, b. say 1650; living 1651 [Bradford 445]; no further record.
COMMENTS: Bradford, in describing the family of STEPHEN HOPKINS in 1651,stated that "His daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living and one of them married" [Bradford 445]. (In1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden suggested that two of the children who are implied by Bradford's accounting but do not otherwise appear in the records were Hannah and Rebecca "on the authority of Davis's Landmarks of Plymouth. Both married Rickards" [NEHGR 47:83 ]; she cites no evidence.) In January1634/5 the Plymouth court noted that "The servant of Nicolas Snow was willing to serve out his time with John Cooper, according to the tenor of his indenture" [PCR 1:33]. This servant was not the same as Twiford West who, after brief service with Nicholas Snow, agreed on 12 February 1635/6 to return to Edward Winslow, with whom he had originally made his indenture [PCR 1:37]. Nicholas Snow and others were presented 1 December1640 for failing to mend the highways [PCR 2:5].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1893 Mrs. M.L.T. Alden published a substantial article on Nicholas Snow and his children [NEHGR 47:81-84, 186-89,48:71-73]. In 1948 Donald Lines Jacobus prepared an account of Nicholas Snow and a line of descent through his son Stephen [Brainerd Anc 270-72] .

Nicholas married HOPKINS, Constance Bef 1 Jun 1627, Plymouth, Massachusetts. Constance (daughter of HOPKINS, Stephen and MARY) was born 30/30 Jan 1607/1608, England; died Oct 1677, Eastham, Barstable County, Massachusetts. [Group Sheet]

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Stephen was born by about 1605 based on estimated date of marriage. He immigrated in 1621 on the "Fortune," living first in Plymouth. He was married by about 1630 to Elizabeth Ring, daughter of daughter of William & Marie Ring, baptized at Ufford, Suffolk, 23 February 1602/3; she married (2) Plymouth 16 September 1635 Josias Cooke. Stephen was a miller by trade as indicated in the following: on 7 January 1632/3 he was granted permission by the General Court to set up his corn mill "upon the brook adjoining to the town of Plymouth" and to receive as a toll one pottle of each bushel ground; from the terms of the agreement, it is clear that Deane already had a functioning mill farther from town. Stephen was admitted freeman in "1633" according to the Plymouth list of freemen, ahead of those admitted on 1 January 1632/3. He signed deeds of 1627 and 1630; the inventory included "a Bible & other books" valued at �1, indicating he had some education. Stephen was on the committee to assess taxes, 27 March 1634. Records of his land ownership includes: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land, granted one acre "beyond the first brook to the wood westward" as a passenger on the Fortune. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle, Stephen Deane was the twelfth person in the twelfth company. Assessed 9s. in the 25 March 1633 Plymouth tax list, and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634. In 1627 "Phillip De lanoy" sold to Stephen Deane for �4 "one acre of land lying on the north side the town between the first and second brook"; on 10 February 1629[/30?] "Steven Dean" sold to "Robart Hixe" for �4 " 2 acres of land lying on the north side of the town between the first & second brook, the one being his own inheritance, the other was that he bought of Philip De lenoy". (These would be the lots granted in 1623.) On 10 March 1633/ 4 William Bradford (as administrator of Godbert Godbertson) sold to "Steven Deane" for �20 "the late dwelling house of the said Godbert, with the misted, inclosures & outhousing thereunto belonging". The inventory of the estate of "Steven Deans" was taken 2 October 1634 by Stephen Hopkins and Robert Hicks, and totalled �87 19s. 6d. of which �42 was real estate: "the house and fens at Fresh Lake," �2; "dwelling house & garden," �20; and the mill, �20. On 5 April 1669 "Willam [sic] Twining of Eastham ... for himself and Merriam Deane his sister and for Sussanna Snow sister to his wife; which three are the proper and joint heirs of their father Steven Deane his land" sold to Peter Warden for �8"all the lands that belongs unto and were the purchase lands of Stephen Dean deceased". Stephen's death occured in Plymouth between 10 March 1633/4 (purchase of Godbert Godbertson's house) and 2 October 1634 (date of inventory), and probably closer to the latter date. Secondary sources claim that he died in September 1634, which is reasonable but not proved.
Stephen an Elizabeth had the following children:
i Elizabeth, b. Plymouth about 1630; m. about 1650 William Twining of Eastham.
ii Miriam, b. Plymouth about 1632; m. after 31 January 1692/3 John Wing.
iii Susannah, b. Plymouth about 1634; m. (1) Eastham 4 April 1660 Joseph Rogers, son of Joseph Rogers and grandson of Thomas Rogers of the Mayflower; m. (2) Eastham 28 October 1663 Stephen Snow (son of Nicholas Snow) as his first of two wives.

Stephen — RING, Elizabeth. Elizabeth (daughter of RING, William and Marie) was born 23/23 Feb 1602/1603, Ufford, Suffolk, England. [Group Sheet]

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Stephen was probably born in England about 1579 based on estimated date of first marriage. Stephen's first marriage occured by 1604 to Mary _____; she was buried at Hursley, Hampshire, England 9 May 1613. Stephen's second marriage was to Elizabeth Fisher in St. Mary Matfellon, Whitechapel, London, England on 19 February 1617/8. She died at Plymouth sometime in the early 1640s before her husband, who desired to be buried near her. He and was a Mayflower passenger in 1620. His occupation was tanner and merchant. Stephen Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made a prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown, Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island following a hurricane, and the 150 passengers were stranded for nine months. Hopkins led an uprising, challenging the governor's authority,and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin of his wife and children, and so was pardoned out of sympathy. The company eventually managed to build a ship, and escaped the island. After spending several years in Jamestown, Hopkins returned to England sometime between 1613 and 1617. Stephen Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children Giles and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage. A son Oceanus was born while the Mayflower was at sea. Stephen participated in the early exploring missions and was an "ambassador" along with Myles Standish for early Indian relations. Stephen Hopkins is mentioned in a letter written by William Bradford and Isaac Allerton on 8 September 1623, which was found in uncalendered papers at the Public Records Office in London. The letter was presented as evidence for the defense in the 1624 court case Stevens and Fell vs. the Little James. The letter is published in American Historical Review, 8 (1903): 294-301. The short section about Stephen Hopkins reads as follows (spelling modernized): About Hopkins and his men we are come to this issue. The men we retain in the general according to his resignation and equity of the thing. And about that recconing of 20 odd pounds, we have brought it to this pass, he is to have - 6 - " - payed by you there, and the rest to be quit; it is for nails and such other things as we have had of his brother here for the companies use, and upon promise of payment by us, we desire you will accordingly do it. Another little-known reference to Stephen Hopkins, which also alludes to his two servants (Edward Doty and Edward Leister), is found in the Minutes for the Council of New England, on 5 May 1623 (reprinted from Proceedings of the American Antiquarian Society, April 1867, pp. 93-94) :Touching the difference between Mr. Hopkins and Mr. Peirce, Mr. Hopkins alleadgeth that he hath paid to Mr Peirce for Transportation of himself and two persons more, and Likewise for his goods, which Peirce acknowledgeth, but alleadgeth, that by reason of his unfortunate return, the rest of the passengers that went upon the Like Conditions have been contented to allow unto 40s a person towards his loss, and therefore desireth that Master Hopkyns may do the like, which Mr. Hopkins at length agreed unto, so as Mr. Peirce and his Associates will accept of �6 for 3 passengers out of �20 his adventure which he hath in their Joint Stock. And therefore they both pray that the Council will be pleased to write to the Associates to accept thereof, which they are pleased to do. In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, in 1637 he was found guilty of allowing men to drink on a Sunday at his house, and in 1638 hewas fi ned for not dealing fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple.He was also charged with s everal other minor crimes, including selling glass at too high a price, selling illegal intoxicants, and allowing men to get drunk at his house. However, this in no way indicated he was disloyal to the Colony--in fact he was Assistant governor from 1633 until 1636, and he volunteered to fight in the Pequot War of 1637. He made freeman in the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen. He signed his will. The inventory included "diverse books" valued at 12s.
OFFICES: Assistant, 1633-36 [PCR 1:5, 21,32, 36]. Volunteered for service in the Pequot War, 1637 [PCR 1:61].
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division ofland "Steven Hobkins" received six acres as a passenger on the Mayflower [PCR 12:4]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Stephen Hopkins, his wife Elizabeth Hopkins, Gyles Hopkins, Caleb Hopkins and Deborah Hopkins are the first five persons in the seventh company, and Damaris Hopkins is the thirteenth person in the eighth company [PCR 12:11, 12]. In the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1634 Stephen Hopkins was assessed �1 7s., and in the list of 27 March 1634 �1 10s. [PCR 1:9, 27]. "Steven Hopkins" was one of the Purchasers [PCR 2:177]. On 1 July 1633 "Mr. Hopkins" was ordered to mow where he had mowed the year before [PCR 1:15], followed by similar orders on 14 March 1635/6 and 20 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:41, 57]. On 5 February 1637/8 "Mr. Stephen Hopkins requesteth a grant of lands towards the Six Mile Brook" [PCR 1:76]. On 7 August 1638 "[l]iberty is granted to Mr. Steephen Hopkins to erect a house at Mattacheese, and cut hay there this year to winter his cattle, provided that it be not to withdraw him from the town of Plymouth" [PCR 1:93]. On 17 July 1637 "Steephen Hopkins of Plymouth, gent.," sold to George Boare of Scituate, yeoman, "all that his messuage, houses, tenements, outhouses lying and being at the Broken Wharfe towards the Eele River together with the six shares of lands there unto belonging containing six acres" [PCR 12:21]. On 30 November 1638" Mr. Steephen Hopkins" sold to Josias Cooke "all those his six acres of land lying on the south side of the Town Brook of Plymouth" [PCR 12:39]. On 8 June 1642 William Chase mortgaged to "Mr. Stephen Hopkins ... all that his house and lands in Yarmouth containing eight acres of upland and six acres more lying at the Stony Cove" [PCR 12:83]. On 1 June 1640 "Mr. Hopkins" was granted twelve acres of meadow [PCR 1:154, 166]. In his will, dated 6 June 1644 and proved 20 August 1644, Stephen Hopkins "of Plymouth ... weake yet in good and perfect memory" directed that he be buried "as near as conveniently may be to my wife, deceased," and bequeathed to "son Giles Hopkins" the great bull now in the hands of Mrs. Warren; to "Steven Hopkins my son Giles his son" 20s. in Mrs. Warren's hands; to "daughter Constanc[e] Snow, wife of Nicholas ... my mare"; to "daughter Deborah Hopkins" cows; to "daughter Damaris Hopkins" cows; to "daughter Ruth" cows; to "daughter Elizabeth" cows; to "four daughters Deborah, Damaris, Ruth and Elizabeth Hopkins" all the moveable goods; if any of the daughters die, their share to be divided equally among the survivors; to "son Caleb heir apparent" house and lands at Plymouth, one pair of oxen and hire of them and all the debts "now owing unto me"; daughters to have free recourse to use of the house in Plymouth while single; "son Caleb" executor; Caleb and Captain Standish joint supervisors [PCPR 1:1 :61]. The inventory of the estate of Stephen Hopkins was taken 17 July 1644 and was untotalled, with no real estate included [PCPR 1:1:62-63]. On 28 October 1644 "Caleb Hopkins son and heir unto Mr. Steephen Hopkins of Plymouth deceased" deeded to "Gyles Hopkins of Yarmouth, planter, one hundred acres of those lands taken up for the Purchasers of Satuckquett which said lands do accrue unto the said Steephen as a Purchaser".
Stephen died in Plymouth between 6 June 1644 (writing of will) and 17 July 1644 (proving of will).
Children with first wife include:
i ELIZABETH, bp. Hursley ,Hampshire, 13 May 1604 [TAG 73:170]; living on 12 May 1613 [TAG 73:165]; no further record.
ii CONSTANCE, bp. Hursley,Hampshire, 11 May 1606 [TAG 73:170]; m. Plymouth by 1627 NICHOLAS SNOW (in the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle "Nickolas Snow" and "Constance Snow" were the sixthand seventh persons i n the seventh company, which was headed by Stephen Hopkins [PCR 12:11]).
ii GILES, bp. Hursley, Hampshire, 30 January 1607/8 [TAG 73:170]; m. Plymouth 9 October 1639 Catherine Whelden [PCR1:134; TAG 48:5].
With second wife:
iii DAMARIS, b. say 1618; probably died at Plymouth before the birth of her sister of the same name.
iv OCEANUS, b. at sea on the Mayflower voyage between 16 September and 11 November 1620; died by 1627.
v CALEB, b. Plymouth say 1624; "became a seaman & died at Barbadoes" between 1644 and 1651 [Bradford 445].
vi DEBORAH, b. Plymouth say 1626; m. Plymouth 23 April 1646 as his first wife Andrew Ring [PCR 2:98; TAG 42:202-05], daughter of widow MARY RING.
vii DAMARIS, b. Plymouth say 1628; m. Plymouth shortly after 10 June 1646 Jacob Cooke [MD 2:27-8], son of FRANCIS COOKE. (Since this Damaris was still bearing children in the early 1670s, she cannot be the same as the Damaris who came on the Mayflower.)
viii RUTH, b. Plymouth say 1630;d. after 30 November 1644 and before spring 1651 [Bradford 445]; unm.
ix ELIZABETH, b. Plymouth say 1632; believed to have died by 6 October 1659 when her property was appraised "in case Elizabeth Hopkins do come no more" [MD 4:114-19]; unm.
COMMENTS: Caleb Johnson's discovery [TAG73:161-71] of the family of Stephen Hopkins in Hursley, Hampshire, eliminates at last the suggestion that Stephen Hopkins was son of Stephen Hopkins, a clothier, of Wortley, Wooten Underedge, Gloucestershire [MF 6:3, citing "[t]he Wortley historian"]. Johnson's discovery also strengthens the argument that this was the same Stephen Hopkins who was the minister's clerk on the vessel Sea Venture which met with a hurricane in 1609 while on a voyage to Virginia [TAG 73:165-66]. One of one hundred and fifty survivors marooned on a Bermuda, he fomented a mutiny and was sentenced to death, but "so penitent he was and made so much moan, alleging the ruin of his wife and children in this his trespass," that his friends procured a pardon from the Governor [MF 6:3, citing William Strachey's account]. In his listing of Mayflower passengers Bradford included "Mr. Stephen Hopkins and Elizabeth his wife, and two children called Giles and Constanta, a daughter, both by a former wife. And two more by this wife called Damaris and Oceanus; the last was born at sea. And two servants called Edward Doty and Edward Lester" [Bradford 442]. Stephen Hopkins signed the Mayflower Compact. In his accounting of this family in 1651 Bradford reported that "Mr. Hopkins and his wife are now both dead, but they lived above twenty years in this place and had one son and four daughters born here. Their son became a seaman and died at Barbadoes, one daughter died here, and two are married; one of them hath two children, and one is yet to marry. So their increase which still survive are five. But his son Giles is married and hath four children. His daughter Constanta is also married and hath twelve children, all of them living, and one of them married" [Bradford 445]. In June 1621 Steven Hopkins and Edward Winslow were chosen by the governor to approach Massasoit, and Hopkins repeated this duty as emissary frequently thereafter [Young's Pilgrim Fathers 202, 204]. Despite his social standing and his early public service, Stephen Hopkins managed to run afoul of the authorities several times in the late 1630s. In June of 1636 while an Assistant, he was fined for battery of John Tisdale, whom he "dangerously wounded" [PCR 1:41 -42]. On 2 October 1637 he was fined for allowing drinking on the Lord's day and the playing of "shovell board" [PCR 1:68] and on 2 January 1637/8 he was "presented for suffering excessive drinking in his house" [PCR 1:75]. On 5 June 1638 he was "presented for selling beer for 2d. the quart, not worth 1d. a quart" [PCR 1:87]; for this and other similar infractions he was on 4 September 1638 fined �5 [PCR 1:97]. He dealt harshly with his pregnant servant Dorothy Temple and only the intercession of John Holmes freed him from being held in contempt of court [PCR 1:111-13]. In December 1639 he was presented for selling a looking glass for 16d. when a similar glass could be bought in the Bay for 9d. [PCR 1:137].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1992 John D. Austin published an excellent and extensive account of Stephen Hopkins and his descendants as the sixth volume in the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants [cited herein as MF 6]. In 1998 Caleb Johnson published his discovery of the baptismal place of the children of Stephen Hopkins by his first wife [TAG 73:161-71].

Stephen — MARY. died Bef 1617, England. [Group Sheet]

William — Marie. [Group Sheet]