Hopkins, Samuel, Sen

Hopkins, Samuel, Sen.

a Congregational minister, son of John Hopkins, of Waterbury, Connecticut, graduated from Yale College in 1718; was ordained pastor in West Springfield, Massachusetts, June 1, 1720, and died suddenly in October, 1755, in the sixty-second year of his -age. He published Historical Memoirs Relating to the Housatonic Indians (1753). See Sprague, Annals of the Amer. Pulpit, 1:519.