Pawlet (VT) One Hundred Years
Hiel Hollister
1867
J. Munsell, Albany
HOPKINS, JAMES, from Rhode Island at a very early day, settled in the southwest part of the town on the Governor’s right.
He commanded a company in Gen. Ethan Allen’s expedition to Canada in 1776.
He married Miriam Kent, a cousin of Chancellor Kent. He removed to Hebron, N. Y., and kept a tavern on the turnpike several years.
He died in 1830, aged 82.
HOPKINS, ERVIN, only son of James Hopkins, on his father’s removal succeeded to the homestead.
He was educated at Middlebury, but on account of a personal disagreement with one of the professors, did not graduate.
He had the reputation of being the best scholar in his class, and in 1818 received the honorary degree of A. M.
He raised a large family, of whom James is an attorney; Ervin was member of the New York assembly in 1863, and Frank was secretary of Wisconsin and is now member of congress; all of whom, with their father, are in Wisconsin.
