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Francis Hopkinson, Esq[1]

Male 1737 - 1791  (53 years)


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  • Name Francis Hopkinson  [2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23] 
    Suffix Esq 
    Born 21 Sep 1737  Philadelphia, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 11, 12, 14, 18, 21, 22, 23] 
    Gender Male 
    Baptism 12 Nov 1737  [18] 
    Residence 1790  Water Street East Side, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [19] 
    Died 9 May 1791  Spruce Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 7, 14, 16, 21, 22] 
    • Only a few years into his service as a federal judge, Hopkinson died in Philadelphia at the age of 53 from a sudden apoplectic seizure.
    Buried Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [6, 13, 21] 
    Person ID P2021  Woelfel Family Tree
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2020 

    Father Thomas Hopkinson, Jr,   b. 6 Apr 1709, St James, Westminster, London, England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 5 Nov 1751, Philadelphia County, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Mary Johnson (Hopkinson),   b. 4 Aug 1718, Appequinimink Hundred, New Castle, Delaware, Colonial New England Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 9 Nov 1804, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 86 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Married 9 Sep 1735  Philadelphia County, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location  [5, 10, 24] 
    Family ID F398  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Ann Nancy Borden (Hopkinson),   b. 9 May 1747, Bordentown, Burlington, Colonial New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 31 Aug 1827, Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 80 years) 
    Married 1 Sep 1768  Christ Church Episcopal Church, 130 Prince Street, Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  [10, 14, 23] 
    Children 
    +1. Joseph Hopkinson, Sr,   b. 12 Nov 1770, Philadelphia, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 15 Jan 1842, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 71 years)  [natural]
     2. Elizabeth Hopkinson (Condy),   b. 26 Jul 1772, Philadelphia, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 8 Apr 1840, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 67 years)  [natural]
     3. Mary Hopkinson,   b. 28 Nov 1773, Philadelphia, Colonial Pennsylvania Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 6 Oct 1806, Baltimore County, Maryland, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 32 years)  [natural]
     4. Thomas Hopkinson,   b. 31 Dec 1775, Bordentown, Burlington, Colonial New Jersey Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 1 Jul 1776, Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 0 years)  [natural]
     5. Ann Hopkinson,   b. 19 Oct 1777, Bordentown, Burlington, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Sep 1868, Bordentown, Burlington County, New Jersey, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 90 years)  [natural]
     6. Francis Hopkinson, Jr,   b. 13 May 1781, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 29 Sep 1823, Georgetown, District of Columbia, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 42 years)  [natural]
     7. Sarah Johnson Hopkinson,   b. 26 May 1784, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location,   d. 19 Aug 1785, Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA Find all individuals with events at this location  (Age 1 years)  [natural]
    Last Modified 15 Jun 2020 
    Family ID F367  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  • Notes 
    • (father of Joseph Hopkinson), a Delegate from New Jersey; born in Philadelphia, Pa., September 21, 1737 (O.S.); was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1757; the first native American composer of a secular song in 1759; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1761 and commenced practice in Philadelphia; secretary of a commission of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania which made a treaty between the Province and certain Indian tribes in 1761; appointed collector of customs at the port of Salem, N.J., in 1763, and at New Castle, Del., in 1772; settled in Bordentown, N.J., in 1774 and resumed the practice of law; member of the Provincial Council of New Jersey 1774-1776; member of the executive council from January 13 to November 15, 1775; was admitted to practice before the bar of the supreme court of New Jersey on May 8, 1775; elected an associate justice of that court in 1776 but declined the office; Member of the Continental Congress from June 22 to November 30, 1776; a signer of the Declaration of Independence; elected on November 18, 1776, to serve on the Navy Board at Philadelphia; returned to Philadelphia in 1777; treasurer of the Continental Loan Office in 1778; judge of the Admiralty Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 and reappointed in 1780 and 1787; member of the constitutional convention in 1787 which ratified the Constitution of the United States; judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania 1789-1791; died in Philadelphia, Pa., May 9, 1791; interment in Christ Church Burial Ground.|Bibliography: Hastings, George E. The Life and Works of Francis Hopkinson. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1926.

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