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	Esek Hopkins - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		ESEK HOPKINS (1718-1802), the first admiral of the United States navy, was born at Scituate, Rhode Island, in 1718.
		At the outbreak of the War of Independence, Hopkins was appointed brigadier-general by Rhode Island, was commissioned, December 1 775, the Continental Congress, commander-in-chief of the navy, and in January 1776 hoisted his flag as admiral of the eight converted merchantmen which then constituted the navy of the United States.
		Hopkins and two of his captains were tried for breach of orders, and, though ably defended by John Adams, were censured by Congress.
	49.1911encyclopedia.org /Esek_Hopkins (396 words)

	Esek Hopkins - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Esek Hopkins (26 April 1718 – 26 February 1802), was Commander in Chief of the Fleet throughout the American Revolutionary War.
		Hopkins' little fleet was mostly blockaded in Narragansett Bay by the superior British seapower for the rest of Hopkins' tenure as Commander-in-Chief of the Continental Navy.
		Because of the continuing debacle, on 2 January 1778, Hopkins was relieved of his command permanently.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Esek_Hopkins (457 words)

	Esek Hopkins Summary
		Esek Hopkins (1718-1802), first commander of the American Navy, was a Revolutionary patriot whose abilities were not equal to his important task.
		Though a loyal officer, Hopkins was "an old-fashioned, salt horse sailor" who was probably too old and too set in his ways by the time of his appointment to adjust to his new duties as a fighting officer and administrator.
		Hopkins took command of eight small merchant ships that had been hastily altered as men of war at Philadelphia, then sailed south 17 February 1776 for the first U.S. Fleet operation that took the fleet to Nassau in the Bahamas.
	www.bookrags.com /Esek_Hopkins (825 words)

	Military.com Content
		With those vessels and Hopkins at their head, “an embryonic American navy was officially born,” according to historians Frances Diane Robotti and James Vescovi in their "The U.S.S. Essex and the Birth of the American Navy.
		Both Hopkins and his navy would need these traits as they faced the strongest naval power on earth; however, these same traits would be the new commander’s undoing.
		Hopkins left his family farm at 20 to follow the salt air not far away, and he soon worked as a seaman and trader of great ability.
	www.military.com /Content/MoreContent?file=ML_ehopkins_bkp (457 words)

	Hopkins Family of Eastern NC & Beyond (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hopkins: English Patronymic name...At the time of the conquest, the Normans brought the name Robert to England, and it had several pet forms that became the basis for surnames.
		The Hopkins name is connected on both sides of the Atlantic as prominent in the Ministry, Legal Bar, Navy and Army circles and in civic matters.
		The first ranking official of the US Navy was a commodore (no Admirals then) named Esek Hopkins of Scituate, Rhode Island, was a fearless, firey temper and at one time damned Congress for dilitoriness in preparing for a raid upon the English commerce and was demoted.
	www.vergie.com /hopkins.html (531 words)

	Hopkins III dd 249
		The third Hopkins (DD-249) was launched 26 June 1920 by the New York Shipbuilding Corp., Camden, N.J.; sponsored by Miss Sarah Babbitt, a descendant of Esek Hopkins; and commissioned 21 March 1921 at Philadelphia, Lt. Comdr.
		Hopkins departed the Philippines 15 January 1945 for a brief rest at Eniwetok, then swept the transport areas and channels off Iwo Jima to prepare for invasion 19 February 1945.
		Hopkins had to ride out two typhoons with winds raging to 125 knots before her departure from Tokyo Bay 10 October 1945 for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States.
	www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/HopkinsIIIdd249.html (836 words)

	Governor Stephen Hopkins
		Stephen Hopkins, Esq., Chief Justice of said Colony, also appeared before the commissioners and assured them he was ready and willing to aid and assist the commissioners in the exercise of the power and authority with which they are invested for discovering the persons who destroyed the Gaspee schooner, andc.
		Stephen Hopkins was born on March 7, 1707 in Cranston, Rhode Island, the son of William and Ruth (Wilkinson) Hopkins.
		Esek Hopkins was a mariner who often sailed for the Brown family, and commanded the disasterous slave trading voyage of the Sally in 1764, during which most of his cargo of 140 African slaves died.
	www.gaspee.org /StephenHopkins.htm (4121 words)

	Sample text for Library of Congress control number 2006042320
		Hopkins is at the center, seated at a large round table wearing a tricorner hat, holding a glass of grog, and conversing with Nicholas Cooke, another Providence sea captain, who was later elected governor of the colony.
		Esek Hopkins was aware of these routines, but he relaxed them in the face of illness and fatigue among his crew.
		It may be that Hopkins was accustomed to cordial relations with his slaves at home, who had become used to their lives in bondage, or that the captain assumed his experience with the hired fls on the Guinea shore would translate to life on ship.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/enhancements/fy0640/2006042320-s.html (8691 words)

	WilliamHopkins - pafg05.htm - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Jabez HOPKINS (William, Thomas, Thomas, William) was born 15 Jul 1713 in Lincoln, RI.
		Esek HOPKINS (William, William, Thomas, William) was born 26 Apr 1718 in Providence, RI.
		Ruth HOPKINS was born 3 Oct 1729 in Scituate, RI.
	members.tripod.com /~gbeaman/WilliamHopkins/pafg05.htm (224 words)

	Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - (American Memory from the ...
		Esek Hopkins grew up on a farm in Rhode Island, but soon became a sailor like his brothers before him.
		In 1775, Hopkins was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the newly-formed Continental Navy.
		Hopkins had to compete with privateers for supplies and, more importantly, for men; privateers offered sailors higher wages and a greater share of plundered goods.
	lcweb2.loc.gov /ammem/bdsds/hopkins.html (157 words)

	Rhode Island news \| projo.com \| The Providence Journal \| Digital Extra
		As Capt. Esek Hopkins found at the height of the trade, transporting slaves was dangerous and dirty work.
		Esek Hopkins, 46, had spent years at sea, but, until now, he had never helmed a slave ship.
		Hopkins gave King Fodolgo Talko and his officers two barrels of rum and a keg of snuff.
	www.projo.com /extra/2006/slavery/day4 (2290 words)

	Brigantine: Andrew Doria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Hopkins orders called for him to take his fleet to Chesapeake Bay and, if it did not encounter markedly superior enemy forces there, to clear those waters of British warships and Lord Dunmores fleet which had been preying upon American shipping and annoying coastal settlements.
		Hopkins planned to take the city by frontal assault, slipping his landing party-which consisted of some 270 sailors and marines-into the harbor hidden on board the captured sloops.
		Hopkins sent the island's governor a message promising respect for persons and property if powder, ordnance, and military stores were surrendered.
	www.kiac-usa.com /AndrewDoria.html (3029 words)

	Stephen Hopkins (politician) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He served as the Chief Justice and Governor of colonial Rhode Island and was a Delegate to the Colonial Congress in Albany in 1754 and to the Continental Congress from 1774 to 1776.
		Hopkins was born in Providence, Rhode Island, the son of William and Ruth (Wilkinson) Hopkins.
		Hopkins helped to found a subscription library in 1754, and was a member of the Philosophical Society of Newport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stephen_Hopkins_(politician) (785 words)

	Cruise of the Continental Naval Fleet under Commodore Esek Hopkins
		Hopkins Orders were to sail "directly to Chesapeak Bay in Virginia" there to scout the enemy and if the enemy forces were not "greatly superior" to "search and attack, take and destroy all the Naval force of our Enemies that you find there".
		Hopkins had learned that a store of munitions and arms existed in the English town of Nassau, on New Providence Island in the Bahamas and considered the stores worth taking.
		Hopkin's approached the Island on March 2, and after being repulsed sent a raiding party ashore again on March 3rd.
	hometown.aol.com /tjoschultz/connavcru.html (1238 words)

	Stephen Hopkins — FactMonster.com
		Hopkins, Stephen, 1707–85, colonial governor of Rhode Island and political leader in the American Revolution, b.
		In 1754, Hopkins was a delegate to the
		Stephen HOPKINS - HOPKINS, Stephen (1707—1785) HOPKINS, Stephen, a Delegate from Rhode Island; born in...
	www.factmonster.com /ce6/people/A0824161.html (279 words)

	Brown University Library, Center for Digital Initiatives
		On July 17, 1765, a letter finally arrived from Esek Hopkins on the coast of Africa, contradicting recent reports that the Sally and her crew had been lost.
		While the letter from Hopkins does not survive, it is clear from this and other letters that Hopkins had lost one crewman to disease and a substantial share of his rum cargo to leakage, reducing the chances of a profitable voyage.
		Esek Hopkins and the Sally finally reached the West Indies in October, 1765, thirteen months after departing from Rhode Island.
	dl.lib.brown.edu /slaveryandjustice/browse.php?verb=seeall (9669 words)

	AllRefer.com - Stephen Hopkins (U.S. History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		The period was one of bitter strife in the colony between Newport and Providence, with Hopkins leading the Providence faction.
		In 1754, Hopkins was a delegate to the Albany Congress, where he energetically supported Benjamin Franklin's plan of union, writing A True Representation of the Plan Formed at Albany (1755) in hope of converting the opposition in Rhode Island.
		Again chief justice of the superior court, Hopkins refused to allow the burners of the Gaspee to be prosecuted.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HopkinsSt.html (319 words)

	U.S. Navy's First Jack
		The only written description of the Continental Navy jack contemporary with the American Revolution appears in Commodore Hopkins's "Signals for the American Fleet," January 1776, where it is described as "the strip'd jack." No document says that the jack had a rattlesnake or motto on it.
		Some writers have thought that the rattlesnake flag in these prints represents the "strip'd jack" Hopkins refers to in his "Signals for the American Fleet." The appearance of a rattlesnake flag in the print by Hart, however, is not conclusive proof that the Continental Navy jack had a rattlesnake on it.
		Esek Hopkins, "Signals for the American Fleet," January 1776: "Signal for a General Attack-or the whole Fleet to Engage-The Standard at the Main top G. Masthead, with the strip'd Jack and Ensign at their proper places." Note: The "standard" refers to the Gadsden flag and the "ensign" to the Grand Union flag.
	www.history.navy.mil /faqs/faq122-1.htm (1468 words)

	The Frost Saga - Volume 1
		On 5 January 1776 the Naval Committee of the Continental Congress ordered Commodore Esek Hopkins to sortie "with the utmost diligence" the eight ships of the fledgling Continental Navy and destroy the flotilla of Lord Dunmore, former royal governor of Virginia, then cruising in the Chesapeake.
		After destroying Dunmore, Hopkins was directed to cruise off the Carolinas and clear the fledging United States’ southern coasts of British warships.
		She was duly bonded by principals of the company and appointed and contracted by Continental Agent John Langdon to bring back cannons seized by Commodore Esek Hopkins in the Continental Navy’s first amphibious assault upon the British Fort Montagu at the old pirate rendezvous of New Providence Island in the Bahamas.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~upne/geoffreyfrost/vol_1.html (340 words)

	Hopkins dd 6
		Hopkins sailed from Philadelphia 12 May 1904, and joined the Fleet at Norfolk.
		In 1907-1908 Hopkin', as part of the Torpedo Flotilla, accompanied the Atlantic Fleet on a practice cruise to the Pacific.
		On 1 June 1908 Hopkins joined the Pacific Tornedo Fleet for tactics along the West Coast, at sea training north to Alaskan waters, and south to the coast of Mexico.
	www.multied.com /navy/destroyer/Hopkinsdd6.html (310 words)

	National Park Service - Signers of the Declaration (Stephen Hopkins)
		Hopkins was a man of broad interests, including humanitarianism, education, and science, and exerted his talents in many fields.
		He served on the committees that prepared the Articles of Confederation and that created the Continental Navy and appointed Esek Hopkins as its commander in chief.
		Hopkins declined subsequent reelections to Congress, but sat in the State legislature for a time and took part in several New England political conventions.
	www.cr.nps.gov /history/online_books/declaration/bio21.htm (693 words)

	Esek Hopkins (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		HOPKINS, Esek, naval officer, born in Scituate, Rhode Island, in 1718; died in North Providence, Rhode Island, 26 February, 1802.
		On his return off Block island, he took the British schooner "Hawke" and the bomb-brig "Bolton," and was complimented officially by the president of congress for this success.
		In June, 1776, he was ordered by congress to appear before the naval committee to reply to charges preferred against him for not annoying the enemy's ships on the southern coast.
	www.famousamericans.net /esekhopkins (461 words)

	USS Providence
		Deeming it unwise to cruise along the southern coast, Hopkins led his little fleet to Abaco in the Bahamas which they reached 1 March and staged for a raid on New Providence.
		Hopkins then brought his ships into the harbor and spent a fortnight loading captured munitions, before heading home 17 March.
		After daylight Hopkins ordered his ships to give up the chase and headed with his fleet and prizes for New London where they arrived on the 8th.
	members.cox.net /tdshiflett/ships/data/sow/providence_sow.html (1395 words)

	Commodore Esek Hopkins (1718 - 1802)
		Esek (or Essex) Hopkins was a Commodore in the fledgling U.S. Navy.
		His competition was somewhat unusual: ``Hopkins had to compete with privateers for supplies and, more importantly, for men; privateers offered sailors higher wages and a greater share of plundered goods.'' This was somewhat ironic, since he had sailed a fleet of 10 privateer vessels in the French and Indian War.
		He also got into trouble with Congress for interpreting his orders rather broadly in diverting his fleet from its announced destination of Charleston to the Bahamas, where he made a successful raid on military stores.
	www.quarterman.org /who/essexhopkins.html (213 words)

	Joseph Bucklin 4th Biography
		In November of the same year of 1760, Esek Hopkins was paying Joseph Bucklin for planking for the keel of the brigantine Providence and for wages for skilled labor (fl Prince Bucklin) in connection with the repairs.
		The brigantine Providence has a history that involves Joseph Bucklin, It was commissioned in 1757 by Stephen Hopkins, then governor of Rhode Island, as a privateer to seize goods of France.
		Esek Hopkins was the captain of the privateer ship.
	www.bucklinsociety.net /Jos_Bucklin_4_bio.htm (2271 words)

	ESEK HOPKINS (1718-18oz) - Online Information article about ESEK HOPKINS (1718-18oz)
		Hopkins was establishing his reputation as one of the leading colonial See also:
		Hopkins and two of his captains were tried for See also:
		But the difficulties and mutual distrust continually increased, and in 1777 Congress summarily dismissed Hopkins from his command, on the complaint of some of his See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /HIG_HOR/HOPKINS_ESEK_1718_18oz_.html (648 words)

	N NJ Hopkins History
		John of Hartford, Conn. it is believed to be the head of the line from which a John Hopkins of northern New Jersey who died in 1703, came.
		This John Hopkins settled in or about Hops which was at one time was called Roxbury and extended as far south as Succassunna Plains, Morris County, NJ, as late as 1784.
		Drial Hopkins was at becoming of age, a very wealthy man of those times, four thousand pounds or better, about twenty thousand dollars, he was a speculator, importer, iron monger, dealt in wool, exported and imported goods.
	members.aol.com /mschopkins/northern_nj_hopkins_line.html (813 words)

	USFlag.org: A website dedicated to the Flag of the United States of America - History of the Flag of the United States ...
		Commodore Esek Hopkins, commander of the new Continental fleet, carried a similar flag in February, 1776, when his ships put to sea for the first time.
		Hopkins captured large stores of British cannon and military supplies in the Bahamas.
		His cruise marked the salt-water baptism of the American Navy, and it saw the first landing of the Corps of Marines, on whose drums the Gadsden symbol was painted.
	www.usflag.org /history/gadsden.html (483 words)

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