- Pawtuxet River near where the Arnolds settled
Those settlers who left Providence to settle on the north side of the Pawtuxet River about 1638, putting themselves under the jurisdiction of Massachusetts from 1642 to 1658[21][22][23][24]
William Arnold
Benedict Arnold, moved to Newport in 1651
William Carpenter
Thomas Hopkins, did not stay long
William Mann, did not stay long
Robert Cole
William Harris, did not stay long
Zachariah Rhodes (married Joanna, daughter of William Arnold), did not stay long
William Field, did not stay long
Stukeley Westcott, moved to Warwick about 1643
Signers of Providence agreement for a government, 1640
Those 39 Providence settlers who signed an agreement to form a government on 27 July 1640:[25]
Chad Brown
Robert Cole
William Harris
John Throckmorton
Stukely Westcott
Benedict Arnold
William Carpenter
Richard Scott
Thomas Harris
Francis Wickes X his mark
Thomas Angell X his mark
Adam Goodwin X his mark
William Burrows X his mark
Roger Williams
Robert West
Joshua Winsor
Robert Williams
Matthew Waller
Gregory Dexter
John Lippitt X his mark
John Warner
John Field
William Arnold
William Field
Edward Cope
Edward Manton X his mark
William Man
Nicholas Power
William Reynolds X his mark
Thomas Olney
Richard Waterman
William Wickenden
Edward Hart
Hugh Bewit
Thomas Hopkins X his mark
Joan Tiler (widow)
Jane Sears X her mark (widow)
Christopher Unthank
William Hawkins X his mark
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_early_settlers_of_Rhode_Island#Signers_of_Providence_agreement_for_a_government.2C_1640
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- Thomas Hopkins was baptized in Yeovilton, county Somerset on 7 April 1616, the son of William Hopkins and Joane Arnold.[1] His mother was the sister of early Providence settler William Arnold, and the daughter of Nicholas and Alice (Gully) Arnold of Northover and Ilchester in Somerset.[1][2] Hopkins' mother died when he was five years old, after which he and his sister Frances were likely taken into the family of their Uncle William Arnold, and most writers on his early history agree that he, aged 19, sailed to New England with his uncle's family in 1635.[3] Also on the same ship was his first cousin, Benedict Arnold, also aged 19, the future governor of the Rhode Island colony.
The Arnolds first settled in Hingham in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, but in less than a year, in April 1636, they joined Roger Williams, and were among the first settlers of Providence. Soon thereafter they were the first English settlers on the Pawtuxet River, the southern edge of Williams's Providence purchase.[4] Hopkins was not yet of age when they settled here, but soon reached his majority, and in 1640 he was one of 39 signers of an agreement to form a government in Providence, he signing his name with a mark.[5]
From 1652 to 1672 Hopkins served in a number of civic positions in Providence, including Commissioner, Deputy, and member of the Town Council.[5] In 1676 King Philip's War raged in Rhode Island, and all of the Pawtuxet settlement, and most of Providence was destroyed. While Hopkin's two oldest sons, William and Thomas, either remained in Providence or returned there shortly after the war, Hopkins and his youngest son (whose name has not been discovered) moved to Oyster Bay, on Long Island in the Province of New York, and remained there.[5] Hopkins' son predeceased him, and his daughter-in-law, Elizabeth, then married Richard Kirby. It was in the home of Kirby that Hopkins was living when he died in 1684.[5]
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