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Stephan Hopkins. He married Mary.

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Stephan Hopkins- signer of mayflower compact Stephen Hopkins was one of only a few passengers on the Mayflower to have made a
>prior trip to America. He came in 1609 on the Sea Venture headed for Jamestown, in
>Virginia. But instead, they were marooned on an island, where 150 passengers were
>stranded for nine months. Hopkins led an uprising challenging the governor’s authority
>and was sentenced to death. But he begged and moaned about the ruin of his wife, and so
>he was pardoned. The company built two vessels and escaped the island. After spending
>two years in Jamestown, Hopkins returned to England.
>
>Stephen Hopkins brought with him on the Mayflower his wife Elizabeth, children Giles
>and Constance by his first marriage, and Damaris by his second marriage. A son Oceanus
>was born while the Mayflower was at sea. Stephen participated in the early exploring
>mission and was an “ambassador” along with Miles Standish for Indian relations.
>
>In 1636, Hopkins was fined for the battery of John Tisdale, in 1637 he was found guilty of
>allowing men to drink on a Sunday at his house, and in 1638 he was fined for not dealing
>fairly with an apprentice-girl, Dorothy Temple. He was also charged with several other
>crimes, including selling glass at too high a price, selling illegal intoxicants, and was often
>fined for allowing men to get drunk at his house. However, this in no way indicated he
>was disloyal to the Colony--in fact he was a prominent member, Assistant Governor from
>about 1633 until 1636, and volunteered to fight in the Pequot War of 1637)


Children of Stephan Hopkins and Mary are:
  1. +Constance Hopkins, b. Abt. 1605, England?, d. October 1677, Eastham Barnstable Mass.
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