Ancestry of
Mark Hopkins, Jr.

Co-founder, Central Pacific R.R.

John Hopkins

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• • 3rd Great-grandfather of Mark Hopkins, Jr. — 6th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 32 
  • Father:
  • Stephen Hopkins 
  • Mother:
  • Dorcas Bronson   
  • Birth Date:
  • ABT 1665 
  • Birth Location:
  • prob. Hartford, Hartford Co., Connecticut 
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  • Death Date:
  • 4 Nov 1732 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Hannah Strong
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1683 
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  Stephen Hopkins

  Timothy Hopkins (Ahnentafel No:16 )

  Hannah Hopkins

  Dorcas Hopkins

• Sources for John Hopkins

  • ¹ American Ancestors Magazine, 2011, Vol. 12.2, p. 41.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Waterbury, p. 150, Birth record for son Stephen Hopkins.
  • ³ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, Waterbury, p. 148, Birth record for daughter Dorcas Hopkins.
  • ⁴ New England Historical and Genealogical Register, 1982, Vol. 136, p. 311.
  • ⁵ The American Genealogist, 1962, Vol. 38, p. 204.
  • ⁶ American Ancestors, "Boris Johnson: Strong Ancestry", (accessed 04/15/2020).
  • ⁷ Barbour, Lucius Barnes, Families of Early Hartford, Connecticut, Baltimore, Maryland: Reprinted for Clearfield Co., Inc. by Genealogical Publishing Co. (2001), 314.
  • ⁸ Hopkins, Timothy, John Hopkins of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1634, and Some of His Descendants, Stanford, California: Stanford University Press (1932), 12, 17-20.
  • ⁹ Prichard, Sarah J., et. al., The Town and City of Waterbury, Connecticut, From the Aboriginal Period to the Year Eighteen Hundred and . . ., Vol. 1, New Haven, Connecticut: The Price & Lee Company (1896), Appendix p. 105.
  • ¹⁰ Webster, William Holcomb and Rev. Melville Reuben Webster, History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut: With Numerous Portraits and Illustrations, Rochester, New York: E. R. Andrews Printing Company (1915), 47.