Constance Hopkins

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Constance Hopkins Headstone, Cove Burying Ground in Eastham, MA.
Constance Hopkins Headstone, Cove Burying Ground in Eastham, MA.

Constance Hopkins (May 11, 1607 – October 1677), also sometimes listed as Constanta. She was probably born in Hursley, Hampshire, England. Constance was a daughter of Stephen Hopkins, by his first wife, Mary, last name unknown. Constance, at the age of fourteen, along with her father and his second wife Elizabeth (Fisher), accompanied by brother Giles, half-sister Damaris as well as two servants by the name of Edward Doty and Edward Lester were passengers on the Mayflower on its journey to the New World in 1620. Along the way her half-brother Oceanus was born. Her headstone marker, placed in 1966 by descendants, states in part “Wife of Nicholas Snow, Eastham’s first town clerk 1646 – 1662”.

Constance married Nicholas, sometime before the 1627 division of cattle, probably May 22, 1627. Nicholas came to Plymouth on board the ship Anne in 1623 and was made a freeman at Plymouth in 1633.

According to Governor William Bradford, who wrote between March 6 and April 3, 1651:

“Constanta is also maried, and hath 12 children all of them living, and one of them married”.

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[edit] Children of Constance and Nicholas Snow

  • Mark b. Plymouth, May 9, 1628, married (1) Ann Cooke daughter of Josiah Cooke, married (2) Jane Prence, daughter of Thomas Prence
  • Mary b. Plymouth, 1630, married Thomas Paine
  • Sarah b. Plymouth, 1632, married William Walker, who came to the colony on the ship Elizabeth, in 1635
  • Joseph b. Plymouth, 1634, married Mary, last name unknown, she was possibly the daughter of Richard and Mary (Yates) Higgins
  • Stephen b. Plymouth, 1636, married (1) Susanna Rogers (Deane), former wife of Joseph Rogers, and daughter of Stephen Deane, married (2) Mary Bigford (Cottle, Bickford), daughter of Edward Cottle and Judith, last name unknown
  • John b. Plymouth, December 11, 1638, married Mary Smalley, a twin daughter of John Smalley and Ann Walden
  • Elizabeth b. Plymouth, 1640, married Thomas Rogers, son of Joseph Rogers, the son of Pilgrim, Thomas Rogers
  • Jabez b. Plymouth, 1642, married Elizabeth, last name unknown, she was possibly the daughter of Ralph Smith
  • Ruth b. Plymouth, 1644, married Lieutenant John Cole Sr., son of Daniel Cole and Ruth Chester

Josiah Paine, a Town Clerk and historian of Harwich wrote “Nicholas and Constance had a dau. named for her mother who was the first wife of Daniel Doane of Eastham…”

  • Constance, b. Plymouth, married Daniel Doane
  • unnamed
  • unnamed

[edit] References

1. Caleb Johnson, The American Genealogist 73:161-171, “The True English Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower”, July 1998. His first wife was not Constance Dudley, though this erroneous name is given by older references

2. Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Six, Third Edition, Stephen Hopkins ISBN 0-930270-03-7

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