Colonel Caleb Hopkins

1770 - 1818  (48 years)

• Name	Caleb Hopkins
  Title	Colonel
  Birth	1770	Pittsford, Vermont   [1]
  Gender	Male
  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.
  Immigration	1791	Ontario County, New York   [2]
  	In 1791 he (Caleb) 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	4858
  Death	14 Jan 1818  [3]
  Burial	Pioneer Burying Ground, Pittsfield, New York   [3]
  Person ID	I4831	Maybee Society
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2024

  
  

  Family	Dorothea Mabee,   b. 6 Apr 1768, Albany (later Montgomery) County, New York d. 20 Aug 1847 (Age 79 years)
  Marriage	1796	Penfield, Monroe County, New York   [3]
  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

  [S11] Maybee Society Card File. [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.