Ancestry of
Jessica Capshaw

TV and Movie Actress

Caleb Hopkinson

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• • 7th Great-grandfather of Jessica Capshaw — 10th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 982 
  • Father:
  • Jonathan Hopkinson 
  • Mother:
  • Margaret Burbank   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Apr 1759 
  • Birth Location:
  • Pelham, Hillsborough, New Hampshire 
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  • Death Date:
  • AFT 1810 
  • Death Location:
  • prob. Manilus Township, Onondaga, New York 
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  • Spouse Name:
  • Elizabeth Williams
  • Marriage Date:
  • ABT 1783 
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  • Child:

  Eunice Hopkinson (Ahnentafel No:491 )

  • Notes: 

  • Revolutionary War and War of 1812 veteran

    Caleb Hopkinson served under General Winfield Scott and was taken prisoner at the Battle of Lundy's Lane in Canada, and held at Quebec, until by the aid of a Free Mason, of which order he was a member, he made his escape and arrived home badly frostbitten.

• Sources for Caleb Hopkinson

  • ¹ Daughters of the American Revolution Genealogical Research System, Ancestor #A058234 and #A058242.
  • ² The Detroit Society for Genealogical Research Magazine, 1943, Vol. 6, p. 72.
  • ³ Stearns, Ezra S., Genealogical and Family History of the State of New Hampshire: A Record of the Achievements of Her People . . ., Vol. 2, New York and Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company (1908), 489.

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