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  Samuel W. Hopkins and Nancy Rollin Brough
Samuel W. Hopkins and Nancy Rolin Brough were the parents of William Thaddeus Hopkins, husband of my great-grandfather's sister Sarah Orillia Tillotson.
Hopkins was a true and consistent christian, a faithful and true wife and mother, who has the love and respect of all who knew her.
Hopkins was manifest to the last at the time of his death at ten o'clock, as the family stood around the bed he said "I am going now" and expressed several wishes as to his funeral arrangements and then passed out of this life without a struggle.
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 A Place for Truth Essays
Samuel Hopkins was born in a wealthy family in Waterbury, Connecticut, the eldest of his father's sons.
Hopkins avoided teaching a doctrine of imputation of Adam's sin to humanity, because for him it was enough to know that all men sin and this is revealed in their actions; or the "sin is in the sinning".
Hopkins explained that if nations and individuals were truly Christian, then they would abolish such a practice but as it were, they are really the "emissaries of Satan" in disguise, fooling themselves that they are bringing the slaves to a Christian land and teaching them the gospel.
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 Samuel Hopkins: Holder of the First U.S. Patent: Notable Pittsburgh Inventors: Reference Services: Carnegie Library of ...
Potash was the designation of a crude form of potassium carbonate derived as residue from the repeated boiling of wood ashes in a cauldron (or in 18th century parlance, a pot—hence, the name “potash”).
Samuel Hopkins would eventually die in obscurity, a condition in which he has lingered until the publication of these two recent articles.
In “Samuel Hopkins, Holder of the First U.S. Patent,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 122 (1998), 3-27, the author develops in detail Hopkins’s personal history, while putting his entrepreneurial venture in the context of his social position, his religious convictions, and the nascent state of American patent law.
www.carnegielibrary.org /locations/reference/ptdl/pgh/samhopkins.html   (757 words)

  
 §3. Samuel Hopkins. XXII. Divines and Moralists, 1783–1860. Vol. 16. Early National Literature, Part II; ...
Hopkins was born of Puritan stock at Waterbury, Connecticut.
In Newport, too, Hopkins became acquainted with the Channing family: William Ellery Channing, then a boy, heard him preach and was repelled by his harsh doctrine.
For with him the willingness to be damned is not merely the acme of mystical devotion, but an indispensable evidence of grace—a necessary, though not a sufficient, condition of salvation.
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Samuel Hopkins was born on September 17, 1721, to a reasonably established and comfortable family in Waterbury, Connecticut.
Samuel was well on his way to becoming an important part of the community like his forefathers, but as he grew older several factors combined to change his mind about staying home.
Hopkins was also a patriot from the beginning of the rebellion from England, which brought the anger of those loyal to the crown upon him.
www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/chamberlainbiosamuelhopkins.doc   (1972 words)

  
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Hopkins himself was aware of shortcomings in the pulpit, to the point that he often considered removing himself from his position as a minister permanently.
Hopkins' intense patriotism and this view of God's providence and sovereignty combined to produce yet another unpopular belief of his: the belief that slavery is wrong.
Hopkins views became the basis for a very important series of American revivals between 1791 and 1858, helped spark Puritans to follow the abolitionist cause, and generally gave the Congregationalist world a deeper and richer understanding of Edwardsean theology and its logical derivatives.
www.hillsdale.edu /academics/downloads/kollerbiosamuelhopkins.doc   (1205 words)

  
 Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins became a promoter, conceiving and starting many good things for the new town and county of Henderson.
So, Hopkins was presented before the Commissioners and upon being examined, he confessed his crime and paid a fine of five shillings to the Court.
General Hopkins was quite a rich man in his time and "Spring Garden" his beautiful plantation, located about two miles east of Henderson, on the Zion road, was among his landed possessions.
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 “Regeneration and Conversion” by Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803)
Hopkins denies the Catholic and Lutheran sacramental concept of the Bible’s role.
Samuel Hopkins was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, 17 September 1721 and was set apart by his father for the ministry.
During his ministry Hopkins was criticized for many things: for reading Scripture portions in the Sunday services in addition to preaching; for delivering his sermons without notes; for evangelizing the Indians; for advocating strong Calvinistic doctrine; and for forbidding non-Christians to take communion.
www.the-highway.com /regcon_Hopkins.html   (5934 words)

  
 Gen Samuel Hopkins Henderson
Samuel Hopkins was given his preference of the ten acre lots laid out around the town of Henderson and the thanks of the Company for the faithful and complete manner in which her performed his duties of his appointment.
Hopkins commented on this state of affairs in a letter written to Colonel Thomas Hart of Lexington, Kentucky: - "I hear your town and neighborhood are deeply engaged in politics - the subject of the approaching election will cause the explosion off much wind and shedding of much ink.
General Samuel Hopkins was certainly an extraordinary man. He was the first person of the Episcopalian faith in Henderson and often read services in the Union Church, located on a hill in Transylvania (now Central) Park.
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 Hopkins
Arthur HOPKINS became a major Virginia landowner, holding over 30,000 acres; became one of Goochland County's Gentlemen Justices; held a Commission as a "Colonel of Horse"; gave bond as High Sheriff of Goochland County; was a member of the House of Burgess 1739-41; was commissioned a captain; and a Vestryman of St. James Northam Parish.
The HOPKINS homestead and graveyard were situated on a beautiful rolling hill overlooking the James River which allowed a splendid view of the surrounding country for miles.
General Samuel HOPKINS, through his mother Isabella TAYLOR, was a descendant of many prominent and distinguished leaders of the early United States, namely Patrick Henry, President Zachary Taylor and James Madison.
webpages.charter.net /pepbaker/hopkins.htm   (652 words)

  
 Sarah Orillia Tillotson and William Thaddeus Hopkins
Hopkins was married to Miss Viva Angle, daughter of Judge Angle, chairman of the board of park commissioners, June 16, 1909.
Hopkins has been managing the City Market property at Sixth street and Tauromee avenue, keeping regular office hours in the back of the block-long property from 8 o'clock in the morning until 4 o'clock in the afternoon.
Hopkins was active in electing two governors on the old Populist ticket, L. Lewelling and John W. Leedy; one congressman on the same ticket, W. Vincent, and one congressman from the Greenback party, John Davis.
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 December 20: Samuel Hopkins' theology
Samuel Hopkins was a Connecticut farm boy of the eighteenth century who might have been content to stay on the land as a farmer had not the farm began to fail about the same time that he became interested in books.
One evening he had an experience in which the presence of God was strong to him, and he thought that was his conversion, but to the end of his life he admitted that he wasn't quite sure he was saved.
A republic, such as the United States, would work well only if its high officials sacrificed their own interests for what he called "the public interest." He also envisioned a future in which the church would usher in the Millennium, Christ's thousand year reign on earth (which he said was not to be taken literally).
chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2003/12/daily-12-20-2003.shtml   (804 words)

  
 Samuel Hopkins
Samuel Hopkins ministered to the less conservative "New Light" congregation.
Hopkins and Stiles had collaborated on a plan to send two fl men to Africa to evangelize the continent.
He published the anti-slavery pamphlet, A Dialogue Concerning the Slavery of the Africans, which was addressed directly "To the Honorable Members of the Continental Congress, Representatives of the Thirteen United American Colonies." (34) Later, in 1784, Hopkins led the members of his church to vote to exclude all slaveholders from the congregation.
www.yaleslavery.org /Abolitionists/hopkins.html   (236 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Samuel Hopkins (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
He was a leading disciple of Jonathan Edwards, whose theology was the foundation for his own system, later known as Hopkinsianism.
For 60 years Hopkins held pastorates at Great Barrington, Mass., and at Newport, R.I. His preaching, noninspirational and severely logical, was less influential than his writings, notably his System of Doctrines (1793).
Hopkins was one of the first New England ministers to denounce slavery and the slave trade.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HopkinsSa.html   (210 words)

  
 Adams, Samuel Hopkins - HighBeam Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
Politicizing Samuel Johnson: the moral essays and the question of ideology.
Johns Hopkins Pancreas Specialist and Alimentary Tract Surgeon Joins Jefferson as Chair of Surgery.
Hopkins is nominated for 'Boxer of the Year'
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 Samuel Hopkins Adams - Biography and Works
Samuel Hopkins Adams (1871-1958), American muckraker and author best known for his investigative journalism wrote The Great American Fraud (1906).
Samuel Hopkins Adams was born in Dunkirk, New York State on 26 January 1871, the son of Minister Myron Adams and Hester Rose.
Samuel Hopkins Adams died on 16 November 1958 at his Beaufort, South Carolina home.
www.online-literature.com /samuel-hopkins-adams   (762 words)

  
 Samuel Hopkins
HOPKINS, Samuel, theologian, born in Waterbury, Connecticut, 17 September, 1721; died in Newport, Rhode Island, 20 December, 1803.
Hopkins was an exceedingly modest and devout man, and exemplified the disposition of unselfishness and benevolence which he regarded as the basis of a Christian life.
His "Dialogue Showing it to be the Duty and Interest of the American States to Emancipate all their African Slaves" appeared in 1776.
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 Samuel Hopkins of the Class of 1827 of Dartmouth
Samuel Hopkins of the Class of 1827 of Dartmouth
His father was the late John Hopkins, Esq., of Northampton, Mass.
Hopkins was prepared for college at Phillips Academy, Andover, Mass.
genealogyfinds.com /dartmouth/hopkinss.htm   (162 words)

  
 TIME.com: Hopkins Centenary -- Oct. 19, 1936 -- Page 2
By the time Williams elected him President at 34 Mark Hopkins was beginning to get a reputation as a homely, eloquent defender of orthodox religious principles.
When his mother told him that he was distantly related to the great Mark Hopkins, the late Samuel Hopkins determined to go to Williams College.
Samuel Hopkins' benefactions must be used for the improvement of teaching "and for no other purpose." With them Williams plans to increase its teaching staff, make faculty promotions, finance a faculty pension plan.
www.time.com /time/magazine/article/0,9171,756790-2,00.html   (680 words)

  
 Samuel HOPKINS & Naomi __?__
On the other hand, there is a Prince HOPKINS in Ohio in the 1830 census.
Samuel is the only HOPKINS in Barry County.
Samuel should be 61, not 60, but even so, Henry is almost too old to be Samuel's son, so he may be Samuel's brother.
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 Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794: Electronic Edition.
Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794: Electronic Edition.
Title: Samuel Hopkins's Bond for Building the President's House, January 25, 1794: Electronic Edition.
The Condition of this obligation is such that Whereas the above bonden Samuel Hopkins
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 Samuel Miles Hopkins
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HOPKINS, Samuel Miles, jurist, born in Salem, Connecticut, 9 May, 1772; died in Geneva, New York, 9 March, 1837.
He was graduated at Yale in 1791, admitted co the bar in 1793, and began practice in Oxford, New York In 1794 he removed to New York city, where he became a successful lawyer.
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 Samuel Hopkins (inventor) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hopkins had petitioned for a patent on an improvement "in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Process."
The statute did not create a Patent Office.
According to the present-day Canadian Office of Intellectual Property, Hopkins also received the first Canadian patent, in 1791, from "the Governor General in Council to Angus MacDonnel, a Scottish soldier garrisoned at Quebec City, and to Samuel Hopkins, a Vermonter, for processes to make potash and soap from wood ash."
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 Samuel Hopkins - LoveToKnow 1911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
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SAMUEL HOPKINS (1721-1803), American theologian, from whom the Hopkinsian theology takes its name, was born at Waterbury, Connecticut, on the 17th of September 1721.
He graduated at Yale College in 1741; studied divinity at Northampton, Massachusetts, with Jonathan Edwards; was licensed to preach in 1742, and in December 1743 was ordained pastor of the church in the North Parish of Sheffield, or Housatonick (now Great Barrington), Massachusetts, at that time a small settlement of only thirty families.
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 Samuel Hopkins — FactMonster.com
For 60 years Hopkins held pastorates at Great Barrington, Mass., and at Newport, R.I. His preaching, noninspirational and severely logical, was less influential than his writings, notably his
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 Samuel Hopkins Adams
Samuel Hopkins Adams was a friend of the investigative reporter, Ray Stannard Baker.
Baker suggested that Adams should write a series of articles on the subject and introduced him to Samuel McClure, the owner of McClure's Weekly.
In October, 1905, Samuel Hopkins Adams began a series of eleven articles
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 Samuel Holt HOPKINS & Emma FAY
Samuel's father was from New York, but he was born in Vermont (see 1900).
Hopkins" at Genealogy.com]): Chelan Pct., Chelan Co., WA, Roll T623_1742, p.
Samuel's mother was born in New York, not Ohio (see 1880).
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 Samuel Hopkins — Infoplease.com
Semantic counterpoint, Hopkins, and The Wreck of the Deutschland.
(Essays).(Gerard Manley Hopkins' The Wreck of the Deutschland)(Critical Essay)
The Road Not Taken: Harry Hopkins and New Deal Work Relief.(Federal relief administrator under President Franklin Roosevelt)
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 Letter from Samuel Hopkins to John Haywood, November 11, 1799: Electronic Edition.
Letter from Samuel Hopkins to John Haywood, November 11, 1799: Electronic Edition.
Title: Letter from Samuel Hopkins to John Haywood, November 11, 1799: Electronic Edition.
Title of document: Letter from Samuel Hopkins to John Haywood, November 11, 1799
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