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siege of Charleston, S.C., and when Col. Richard Parker was killed, he commanded the regiment and was made prisoner with the other officers on the surrender of the city. May 20, 1780. His bold threat to raise a mutiny while on board a vessel en route for Virginia as a prisoner of war, secured for the prisoners proper food and treat- ment, hitherto denied them. He settled in the Green River country, Kentucky, in 1797. and Hop- kins county, in which he lived, was named for him. He was a representative in the Kentucky legislature for several years. In October, 1813, he led 2000 mounted volunteers against the hostile Kickapoo Indians and in November with & band of infantry undertook to suppress Indian hostilities on the Wabash. Both expeditions were unsuccessful as to immediate results but served to cause the Indians to make peace. General Hopkins was a representative from Ken- tucky in the 13th congress, 1813-15. He died in Henderson, Ky., October, 1819.

HOPKINS, Samuel Miles, representative, was born in Salem, Conn., May 9, 1772; .son of Samuel and Molly (Miles) Hopkins. He was matriculated at Yale in the class of 1791, but did not graduate because denied the first honor. He was admitted to the bar in 1793, and practised in Oxford, N.Y., for one year. He then removed liis law office to New York city, where he conducted a successful practice. He was married in 1800 to Sarah Elizabeth Rogers, of New York. He was repre- sentative from New York in the 13th congress 1813-15; removed to Albany, N.Y., in 1831, and was a member of the state assembly, 1831-27. He received his A.B. degree and that of LL.D, from Yale in 1838. He was a judge of the New York circuit court, 1832-37, and a trustee of Auburn Tlieological seminary, 1832-39. He pub- lished: Chancery Rejwrts (1827); Temperance (183i5). He died in Geneva. N.Y., March 9, 1837.

HOPKINS, Samuel Miles, clergyman, was born inGeneseo, N. 5^., Aug. 8, 1813; son of the Hon. Samuel Miles and Sarah Elizabeth (Rogers) Hopkins. He was graduated at Amherst, A.B. 1833; A.M., 1835, and at Yale A.B. 1835; A.M., 1838. He studied theology at Auburn, N.Y., 1834-36, and at Princeton, 1836-37. He was mar- ried, May 15, 1838, to Mary Jane Hanson Ileacock, of Buffalo, N.Y. He was ordained in 1839; was pastor at Corning, N.Y., 1839-43; at Fredonia, N.Y., 1834-46, and professor of ecclesiastical history and church polity at Auburn Tlieological seminary, 1847-95. He was moderator of the general assembly at St. Louis, Mo., 1866. He received the degree of D.D. from Amherst in 1854. He published: Mamial of Church Polity (1878); Liturgy and Book of Common Prayer (1883). and contributed to church periodicals. He died in Auburn. N.Y.. Oct. .29. 1901.

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HOPKINS, Stephen, signer of the Declaration of Independence, was born in Chapumiscook, Scituate,R.I., March 7, 1707; son of William and Ruth (Wilkinson) Hopkins and great-grandson of Thomas Hopkins who came to America with Roger Williams and was one of the first settlers in Providence Plantations in 1640. He was an elder brother of William Hopkins, a shipping merchant, and of Esek Hopkins, com- mander in-chief of the U.S. navy. 1775- 78. His family were wealthy farmers and he was brought up on the farm. He was town clerk of Scitu- ate, 1732-41; justice

of the peace, 1736; president of the town council, 1735-42; justice of the court of common pleas, 1736-39; representative in the general assembly of Rhode Island fourteen terms, 1732-52, and 1770-75; speaker of the house, 1741-43; assistant justice of the supreme court of the state. 1747-51; chief justice, 1751-55; delegate to the Colonial congress at Albany, N.Y. 1754-55; delegate to the Colonial congress at Boston, Mass.. 1757, and governor of Rhode Island, 1755-57, 1758-62, 1763- 65, 1767-68. He was a delegate to the Continental congress, 1774-76, and as a member of that body was a signer of the Declaration of Independence of July 4, 1776, on which occasion he remarked: "My hand trembles but my heart does not." He was a member of the Rliode Island council of war, 1776-78; a trustee of Brown university, 1764-85, and chancellor of that institution, 1764- 85. He laid out the town of Providence in streets and lots in 1731 and made the place his residence, engaging in ship-building and as a merchant. At the Albany convention he was a member of the committee that drafted the plan of colonial union adopted by the convention, but rejected by the colonies and by the crown. In 1765 he was one of the committee to draw up the instructions presented to the general assembly, relative to the stamp act. These resolutions went farther than those offered to the House of Burgesses of Virginia, prepared by Patrick Henry, as the resolution rejected by that body was adopted by the general assembly of Rhode Island, the resolution reciting: " We are not bound to yield obedience to any law or ordinanc€ designed to impose any internal taxation wliat- ever upon us. other than the laws and ordinances of Rhode Island." In the Continental congress