EDWARD HOPKINS.

GOVERNOR OF CONNECTICUT, 1640, 1642, 1644, 1646, 1648, 1650, 1652.*

EDWARD HOPKINS was a prominent merchant of London, and came to Boston in company with Rev. John Davenport, in the summer of 1637.

Removing to Connecticut, he was chosen a Magistrate in 1639, and Governor of the State every alternate year from 1640 to 1654.

He went to England on the occasion of his brother's death, who was holding the appointment of warden of the English fleet. He expected to return to New England, but accepted the position of warden in the room of his brother, and at length became member of Parliament.

"While he governed others by the laws of God, he did himself yield a profound subjection unto those laws. It was his manner to rise early, even before day, and enjoy the devotions of his closet; after which he spent a considerable time in reading, and opening, and applying the Word of God unto his family, and then praying with them. In his neighborhood, he would kindly visit the meetings that the religious neighbors privately kept."

His charity was extensive, and he dispensed to the poor with his own hands. He bequeathed one thousand pounds of his New England estate to trustees in Connecticut for the support of grammar schools in New Haven and Hartford.

* Trumbull's "History of Connecticut "; Mather's "Magnalia "; Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Hopkins Grammar School, Appendix.

DANIEL HOPKINS.

MEMBER OF THE PROVINCIAL CONGRESS, 1775.*

JOHN HOPKINS, early ancestor of Daniel, settled in Cambridge, Mass., in 1634, and removed to Hartford, Conn., in 1636.

Daniel Hopkins, a descendant in the fourth generation from John, and son of Timothy and Mary Hopkins, was born in Waterbury, Conn., October 16, 1734; died in Salem, Mass., December 14, 1814.

When he was fourteen years of age, his father died, and the care of his education devolved on his eldest brother, Dr. Samuel Hopkins, then a settled minister in Great Barrington, Mass., afterwards a pastor at Newport, R. I. "He early devoted himself to the service of Christ by a public profession of his faith."

He entered Yale College at the age of twenty and graduated with the highest honor in 1758. Soon after graduating he was licensed to preach, having studied Theology with his brother Samuel, with whom also he prepared for College. He accepted the charge of a pulpit in Halifax, Nova Scotia, but his health. soon failed, and for eight years he devoted himself to manual labor.

In 1766, he received an invitation to preach to the Third Congregational Church and Society in Salem, Mass., then vacant by the death of the Rev. John Huntington. The doctrines he preached, and his direct, and pungent manner, procured for him. warm friends and bitter enemies. Such was the opposition awakened against him, that a committee, consisting of influential men, waited upon him at his residence, and made a formal request that, for the peace of the community, he would leave the town.

* Sprague's "Annals of the American Pulpit," v. 1; "Panoplist," v. 12.

With characteristic shrewdness, he closed his eyes, smoothed down his face, and mildly said-" Gentlemen, I smoke my own tobacco."

He made Salem his home for twelve years, before holding any pastoral charge, and established the first school ever instituted in Salem for the exclusive instruction of young ladies.

In 1775, when the Revolutionary war broke out, and the situation of the country required the wisest councils and best measures, Mr. Hopkins was elected a member of. the Provincial Congress. In 1778, he was elected a member of the Council of the Conventional Government. In both these offices, he served his country with great fidelity and efficiency, as well as with an enlightened and ardent patriotism.

On the 18th of November, 1778, Mr. Hopkins was ordained pastor of the Third Congregational Church of Salem, and continued the relation until 1804, when a colleague was appointed. Though never robust, he almost invariably preached three times on the Sabbath. The children knew him but to love him. He was accustomed to meet them once a month, to hear them repeat the Assembly's Shorter Catechism, which he made instructive by his familiar and lively illustrations. In the cause of Home Missions he was a pioneer, and took an active part in forming the Massachusetts Missionary Society.

Mr. Hopkins was eminent for self-government, humility, forgiveness of injuries, patience under trials, and a quiet, peaceable, affectionate spirit.

He understood human nature, had a large acquaintance with men and things, and was thereby a wise and sagacious counsellor.

He loved secret prayer. According to his own testimony, he had maintained the practice of daily secret devotion from his youth. "In his last sickness, he often spoke in the strongest terms of gratitude and admiration of the grace of God, and the precious blood of Christ, in which he placed all his hope. His heart at times seemed full to overflowing, in view of the love and glory of the Redeemer, and in anticipation of the blessedness of heaven."

Mr. Hopkins was married in 1771, to Susanna, daughter of

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John Saunders, a merchant of Salem. They had six children,— four sons and two daughters,

He published a "Sermon on the death of Washington," 1800; and a sermon at the Dedication of the New South Meeting House in Salem, 1805. A volume of his works, with Memoir by Professor Park, was published in 1853.

SAMUEL HUBBARD.

ASSOCIATE JUSTICE SUPREME COURT MASSACHUSETTS, 1842.*

SAMUEL HUBBARD, a descendant of the historian, William Hubbard, and youngest child of William Hubbard and Johanna Perkins, was born in Boston, June 2, 1785; died there December 24, 1847.

When twelve years old he went to Plainfield, Conn., and there prepared for college under the care of Calvin Goddard. Graduating at Yale in 1802, he studied law, first with Judge Charles Chauncey, of New Haven, afterwards with Charles Jackson, of Boston, and was admitted to the Bar in 1806.

In the summer of that year he made a tour with a friend who had studied in the same office with himself, through the district of Maine. While on this journey he wrote to a friend under date, Aug. 24, 1806, as follows: "I took Burns with me on my journey, and read him with great pleasure while sailing along the banks of the Penobscot. . . . . . There is a mellowness and accuracy in his descriptions, which I look for in vain among other poets, with perhaps the exception of Thomson."

In September, 1806, he began the practice of law in Biddeford, and at the outset of his career he said: "I determined to be so accurate in all my statements, that my word should be as good as my oath." Early in 1811, he returned to Boston, and formed a connection with his instructor, which continued until the appointment of Mr. Jackson to the Bench of the Supreme Court in 1813.

Mr. Hubbard served for eight sessions in the State Legislature;

New England Historic Society, "Memorial Biographies "; Discourse by Rev. Silas Aiken, 1848; Boston Recorder.