Dorothea Mabee

1768 - 1847  (79 years)

• Name	Dorothea Mabee  [1]
  Birth	6 Apr 1768	Albany (later Montgomery) County, New York   [2]
  Gender	Female
  Census	1820	Pittsford Township, Ontario County, New York   [3]
  	Doratha Hopkins, One man and two women over 45, one man 16-26, and one girl 10-16
  Witness-Obituary	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.
  Reference Number	4789
  Reference Number	JP-3-3
  Death	20 Aug 1847  [5]
  Burial	Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsfield, New York   [5]
  Person ID	I4762	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Father	Cobus Maybee,   c. 30 May 1731, First Reformed Dutch Church, Schenectady, Albany County, New York d. Between 1791 and 1793, Ontario County, New York (Age ~ 59 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Mother	Christina Van de Eewaerde,   b. Between 1746 and 1747   d. Abt Mar 1821, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (Age 75 years)
  Relationship	natural
  Marriage	5 Dec 1761	Stone Arabia, Albany County, New York   [6, 7]
  	by Dominus (Rev) Johan Casparus Lappius. Inscription in family bible: "In hel Irer Confes Hec ren 1763 den 5 den Dag van December be__ch Jacobus Meebie getroribt mit myn Echte Vrouwe Christiana Van de Eewaerde Dom Johan Casparius Lappius"
  Family ID	F1248	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Colonel Caleb Hopkins,   b. 1770, Pittsford, Vermont d. 14 Jan 1818 (Age 48 years)
  Marriage	1796	Penfield, Monroe County, New York   [5]
  Children	1. Marvin Hopkins,   b. 26 Oct 1805, Pittsford, New York d. 19 Dec 1867, Pittsford, Monroe County, New York (Age 62 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
  Family ID	F1280	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

• Sources

  [S31] Pickard and Allied Families, Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite, Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Record Type: Annotated manuscript by Marilyn Ford Anderson and Anna Carpenter Waite; Subject: Pickard and Allied Families; Date: 1983. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, In Mabee Family Bible, as photocopied in "Northfield on the Genessee". It appears that Jacobus entered the information. [S1] Ancestry.com online; Url: http://www.ancestry.com/, 1820 census. [S241] Barbara Miller, Emails from Barbara Millar; Compiler Address: millarbje@sympatico.ca, from "History of Rochester and Monroe County New York From the Earliest Historic Times to the Beginning of 1907" by William F. Peck (1908) pages 503-504 transcribed by Linda H. Gutiérrez , http://www.rootsweb.com/~nymonroe/bios/biographies018.htm. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, from tombstone in Pioneer Burying Ground in Pittsfield, NY. [S23] Steve Mabie, Steve Mabie, Chronology of Records for the Descendants of Jan Pieterse Mebie ; Url: http://maybeesociety.org/steve/JanPieterse/JanPieterseMebie.htm, This data is taken from Jacob's family bible, apparently written in the first person by him. This bible record states that the marriage was performed by Dom. Johan Casparius Lappius, who was then serving as the minister for the Reformed German Church in Sand Hill (Canajoharie). The early baptism and marriage records for this church have not survived. Therefore, this bible is used to document this marriage and most of Jacob's children. This bible record, written in German, has been mis-interpreted by some as indicating that the wife of Jacob was named "Ehle Veronica Christina Van de Edward." This is an incorrect translation. It is also worth noting that nothing has been found that would indicate that Christina's surname was "Fetland", as some books indicate. [S58] Margaret Schmell MacNabb; Katherine W. Thompson; and Shirley Cox Husted, Northfield on the Genesee, (Name: Monroe County Historian's Office, Rochester, New York, 1981;), pp. 227/8.