Roswell Hopkins

Roswell Hopkins (born May 17, 1757 in Amenia , New York Province, † September 5, 1829 in Chazy , New York ) was Lieutenant Colonel in the American Revolutionary War and Secretary of State of Vermont from 1788 to 1802 .

Life

Roswell Hopkins was born on May 17, 1757 in Amenia, New York, to Roswell Hopkins and Mary Cook Hopkins. He took part as Lieutenant Colonel in the Battle of Bennington and in two battles in West Point , New York and the surrounding area. There he was captured and imprisoned near Newport , Rhode Island . After he was released from British captivity at the end of the war, he moved to Arlington , Vermont. He lived there until he was elected Secretary of State. He then moved to Bennington , which at that time was the capital of Vermont. There he opened a drug store. He was also Justice of the Peace , Clerk of the Addison County Court.

In 1786 he received a grant on land in Caledonia County . He moved there in 1803, the town was named after him Hopkinsville, now Kirby . In Hopkinton he also exercised the office of justice of the peace and judge at the civil court. From 1810 to 1813 he had a seat in the House of Representatives from Vermont for the Federalist Party .

Roswell Hopkins was married first to Lidia Dewey (1761-1816) and second marriage to Mary Armstrong (1767-1850). He had seven children. Hopkins died after falling from a buggy on September 5, 1829 in Chazy, New York.

Web links

• Roswell Hopkins in the database of Find a Grave (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Secretaries of State, located on the Vermont government website , accessed February 13, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Roswell Hopkins in History of Addison County, 640 ( August 16, 2014 memento on the Internet Archive ), accessed February 13, 2015
3. ↑ Kirby, Vermont - Town History.Retrieved February 13, 2015
4. ↑ Town History by Kirby , accessed February 13, 2015.
5. ^ Roswell Hopkins in Early History of Vermont at Archive.org.Retrieved February 13, 2015