Caleb Hopkins [36944]

   Another name for Caleb was Colonel Colonel.¹⁰⁰³⁰

  General Notes:

From the Maybee Society files. Not all data is verified. Say dates are estimates and are probably within 20 years. The Maybee Society keeps its data on The Master Genealogist�, and has been modified by Gary Hester?s WIT2NOTE� to form the GedCom file. This information is also available in a TMG file.

  Noted events in his life were:

• Obituary. ¹⁰⁰³¹ Colonel Caleb Hopkins, whose life history forms an integral
factor in the annals of Monroe county, was connected with many
events which shaped the policy and molded the destiny of this
part of the state. He was born in 1770 and died January 14,
1818, at the age of forty-seven years, three years before the
county of Monroe was organized. He was a son of James Hopkins
and a grandson of Ebenezer Hopkins who removed from Connecticut
to Pittsford, Vermont. Both the father and grandfather were
farmers. James Hopkins had two sons, Caleb and James, and two
daughters: Rhoda, the wife of Elisha Hopkins, Jr., and Susanna,
the wife of Elijah Kirkham.
Colonel Hopkins of this review was married, probably in 1795,
to Dorothy Mabee, a daughter of Jacobus Mabee, who came to
western New York about 1791. Her death occurred August 20,
1847, when she had reached the advanced age of seventy-nine
years. Both she and her husband lie buried in the cemetery a
mile south of the village of Pittsford and beside them are the
remains of three children: Clarissa, James and Marvin.
The life history of Colonel Hopkins, covering a period of
forty-seven years, was in many respects a notable one. In 1791
he started from Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, for western
New York in company with General Jonathan Fassett, and on
reaching the Mohawk valley they were joined by Jacobus Mabee.
They settled in the wilderness of what was Ontario county.
General Fassett caused a plot to be surveyed for a village
nearly opposite Tryonstown on Irondequoit creek but the village
never materialized and, becoming disappointed and discouraged,
he returned to Vermont, leaving Colonel Hopkins in charge of
his extensive land purchase.

• No Name. ¹⁰⁰³¹ PFP obituary read: Colonel Caleb Hopkins, whose life history
forms an integral factor in the annals of Monroe county, was
connected with many events which shaped the policy and molded
the destiny of this part of the state. He was born in 1770 and
died January 14, 1818, at the age of forty-seven years, three
years before the county of Monroe was organized. He was a son
of James Hopkins and a grandson of Ebenezer Hopkins who removed
from Connecticut to Pittsford, Vermont. Both the father and
grandfather were farmers. James Hopkins had two sons, Caleb and
James, and two daughters: Rhoda, the wife of Elisha Hopkins,
Jr., and Susanna, the wife of Elijah Kirkham.
Colonel Hopkins of this review was married, probably in 1795,
to Dorothy Mabee, a daughter of Jacobus Mabee, who came to
western New York about 1791. Her death occurred August 20,
1847, when she had reached the advanced age of seventy-nine
years. Both she and her husband lie buried in the cemetery a
mile south of the village of Pittsford and beside them are the
remains of three children: Clarissa, James and Marvin.
The life history of Colonel Hopkins, covering a period of
forty-seven years, was in many respects a notable one. In 1791
he started from Pittsford, Rutland county, Vermont, for western
New York in company with General Jonathan Fassett, and on
reaching the Mohawk valley they were joined by Jacobus Mabee.
They settled in the wilderness of what was Ontario county.
General Fassett caused a plot to be surveyed for a village
nearly opposite Tryonstown on Irondequoit creek but the village
never materialized and, becoming disappointed and discouraged,
he returned to Vermont, leaving Colonel Hopkins in charge of
his extensive land purchase.

Caleb married Dorothea Mabee [37001] [MRIN: 551605329], daughter of Cobus Maybee [37012] and Christina Van de Eewaerde [37011], in 1796 in Penfield, Monroe County, New York.¹⁰⁰³⁰ (Dorothea Mabee [37001] was born on 6 Apr 1768,¹⁰⁰³² died on 20 Aug 1847 ¹⁰⁰³⁰ and was buried in Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsfield, Otsego County, New York, USA ¹⁰⁰³⁰.)