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# Hopkinton Historical Association

-  Learn more about Hopkinton, RI's rich New England legacy

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- [Henry Maryott](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/henry-maryott/) - Henry Maryott was a Revolutionary Soldier, who lived in the village of Rockville, RI. This article includes information from a very tattered, well-worn Bible given to HHA from a local family.
- [The Diary of Simon Palmer](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-diary-of-simon-palmer/) - His name was Simon Noah Palmer and although he is long gone, his life still feeds our imagination. For at least one year of his life, he kept a diary, an everyday task for him, a treasure trove of information for the historian. The diary intrigues us to look further into his life and the
- [Freemen of Hopkinton](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/freemen-of-hopkinton/) - This monument sits in front of the Hopkinton Town Clerk’s Office. In 1982, for the 225th anniversary of town, the Hopkinton Historical Association paid to have the monument made at Bonner Monument, which was located in Ashaway at the time. The title of the monument is very misleading. The individuals listed on the monument were
- [Ashaway School 1904 Building](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/ashaway-school-1904-building/) - Built in 1904, it’s classrooms eased the overcrowding in the smaller schools around the Ashaway area. The school day was centered around farm work, for this town had many farms and all the children had chores to do before and after school. School started after harvest time in September...
- [A Crandall Family Reader](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/a-crandall-family-reader/) - The Crandall Family Association is happy to announce new material, including information about the origins of the Crandall family in England. Valuable as the initial book has been, genealogical standards and tools....
- [Hopkinton Men in the Spanish American War](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-men-in-the-spanish-american-war/) - Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda Spanish American War TC 12:251, 2 May 1898 - In accordance with Section 1 - Chapter 296 of the General Laws of Rhode Island you are hereby required to cause to be prepared an alphabetical list of all persons living in you town between the ages of 18 years
- [Hopkinton, RI Births 1727 – 1902 S – Z](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-births-1727-1902-s-z/) - Below are Hopkinton birth records from 1727 – 1902 with last names S-Z. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See Also Birth Records: A-C • D-K • L-R • S-Z SAUNDERS, William, of Henry and Aphannah (?) Saunders, 19 February 1774 [TC 1:75] Mary, 27 March 1776 Susannah, 3 February 1780
- [Hopkinton, RI Births 1727 – 1902 L – R](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-births-1727-1902-l-r/) - Below are Hopkinton birth records from 1727 – 1902 with last names L-R. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See Also Birth Records: A-C • D-K • L-R • S-Z LAMB, Joseph, of Nathan and Lydia Lamb, 22 May 1763 [TC 1:37] Nathan, 15 January 1765 LANGWORTHY, Mary, of Samuel and
- [Hopkinton, RI Births 1727 – 1902 D – K](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-births-1727-1902-d-k/) - Below are Hopkinton birth records from 1727 – 1902 with last names D-K. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See Also Birth Records: A-C • D-K • L-R • S-Z DAURGHTY, Francis, 5th child of Francis and Mary Daurghty, 21 September 1857 [V 1:4] Father’s occupation-carder, FBP-Scotland, MBP-Scotland DAVIS, Bethiah, of
- [Hopkinton, RI Births 1727 – 1902 A – C](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-births-1727-1902-a-c/) - Below are Hopkinton birth records from 1727 – 1902 with last names A-C. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See Also Birth Records: A-C • D-K • L-R • S-Z ALBRO, unnamed male, 26 July 1860, 4th child of Benjamin and Emily Albro, FO-teamster, parents birthplace not given [V 1:15] ALLEN,
- [List Of Hopkinton’s Freeman Who Took The Oath Or Affirmation Against Bribery And Corruption – June 18, 1787](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/list-of-hopkintons-freeman-who-took-the-oath-or-affirmation-against-bribery-and-corruption-june-18-1787/) - List Of Hopkinton’s Freeman Who Took The Oath Or Affirmation Against Bribery And Corruption – June 18, 1787 Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda Allen, Gideon Babcock, Hezekiah Babcock, Samuel Barber, Benjamin Barber, Levi Barber, Moses Barber, Nathan Barber, Thomas Bramen, James Bramen, James Jr. Brightman, Henry Brightman, Thomas Brown, Christopher Brown, John Brown, Zephaniah
- [The Benjamin Taylor House](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-benjamin-taylor-house/) - In the 1700’s the Hill family owned much of the land that was to become the village of Hopkinton City. In May of 1789 Major Benjamin Taylor bought a small house lot from Josiah Hill. The lot was only 13 sq. rods and was on the north side of the road going from Hopkinton City to Woodville.
- [Hopkinton Men In the Revolutionary War](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-men-in-the-revolutionary-war/) - Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda Revolutionary War Volume IV page 138 – Narragansett Historical Register. To the Editor of the Narragansett Historical Register, Dear Sir: Thinking your readers would be interested in knowing who were the patriots of Hopkinton during the struggle for independence, we have thought best to send you the following list
- [The General George Thurston Mansion & Store](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-general-george-thurston-mansion-store/) - By HHA Member Richard G. Prescott In 2010 HHA received a photo album as a donation from a Massachusetts couple, Barbara & John Felegian. They had found the album after the death of a great aunt, while closing up her home. Inside the album was a note written by George E. Allen and dated 1940.
- [The People Before...](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-people-before/) - By HHA Member Bob Miner This is a transcribed oral history of three generations of a Tomaquag Valley Farm Family It is an excerpt taken from the book “Walking Together In Tomaquag Valley”, by Tom Helmer The incidents recorded in this history took place within the scope of this picture, or nearby, Tomaquag Valley is
- [The Sacred Landscapes and Cemeteries of Hopkinton](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-sacred-landscapes-and-cemeteries-of-hopkinton/) - By HHA Member Tom Helmer The History of Hopkinton did not begin in the 1660’s, during the European Colonial expansion. The Indigenous Peoples, predominantly of the Narragansett Tribe, had a long period of time, perhaps many millennia, to build up an extensive Oral History of the Life and Times of their lives, and their deaths,
- [The “Drive By” Cemetery](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-drive-by-cemetery/) - by HHA Member Tom Helmer Based on excerpts from Gayle Waite & Lorraine Tarket-Arruda’ book “Hopkinton, Rhode Island Historic Cemeteries” and HHA’s book “Walking Together In Tomaquag Valley” In 2003, when I first met Lorraine Tarket-Arruda and discovered that she and Gayle Waite had published their first book, the scholarly “Hopkinton, Rhode Island Historical Cemeteries”
- [Was the High Cliff Cougar Shaped by the Hand of Man?](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/was-the-high-cliff-cougar-shaped-by-the-hand-of-man/) - By HHA Member Tom Helmer In the eight years since discovering the Cougar, two significant events altered my perception. The first was surviving two heart attacks, which effectively ended my walking in the Valley. The second was meeting Bob Miner, who read my partial manuscript of “Walking” and invited me to take a little stroll
- [The High Cliff Cougar](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-high-cliff-cougar-2/) - By HHA Member Tom Helmer The “High Cliff Cougar” and it’s companion “The Man” are part of a remarkable “Monumental Sculpture”. Both are located on the same block of rock , which juts out from the top of a 22 ½ foot perfectly vertical cliff. The sculpted block is 6’ high and protrudes 4’ out
- [A Wells Family History & Uncovering The Facts.](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/a-wells-family-history-uncovering-the-facts/) - By HHA Vice President Lorraine Tarket-Arruda Email LaurJoe@verizon.net There has been little written about the Wells Family of Hopkinton and Rhode Island in general, but what had been written has had no facts to support the claims. I have spent the last 16 years compiling data on the Wells family, concentrating on Hopkinton town records.
- [A Micro-History of Hopkinton’s Turbulent First Years](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/a-micro-history-of-hopkintons-turbulent-first-years/) - By HHA Vice President Lorraine Tarket-Arruda Back Then In the year 1669, the town of Westerly was in its infancy. The Town Council records refer to what would become Hopkinton as the “vacant lands”. The area was in turmoil, for although the white man had legally purchased land from Native Americans, neither party realized what
- [The High Cliff Cougar](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-high-cliff-cougar/) - By HHA Members Tom Helmer and Lorraine Tarket-Arruda This is the second of four stories in chronological order, based on locations in Tomaquag Valley The Bothum Home’s Fall Preparations The winter of 1665-66 was unusually cold. The blessing was the temperatures plunged in late January, not in November or December. Garner Bothum was a thrifty
- [Hopkinton, Rhode Island Death Records 1788 – 1922 A - C](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-death-records-1788-1922-a-c/) - Below are Hopkinton death records from 1788 – 1922 with last names A-C. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See also death records A-C • D-L • M-Z ABBY, Esther died 13 November 1883, age 58/11/28. Female, white, married. Born in Exeter, RI, d/o Joseph and Sally Richmond. cod-pneumonia. 1:39 ABBY, Infant died 13
- [Finding John Porter](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/finding-john-porter/) - By Donna G. Littleford Ramos, April, 2013 An account of the culminating year of searching, going out of the Archives, and into the forests of Tomaquag Valley The Wish John Porter once had a farm in a strange and distant land called Hopkinton, Rhode Island. I read about it in a family history book as
- [Tomaquag, a Place of Indigenous History, Past, Present and Future](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/tomaquag-a-place-of-indigenous-history-past-present-and-future/) - by Lorén Spears, Narragansett/Niantic Tomaquag Museum Executive Director Please note that this article is used by HHA with permission of the Author. No other use is granted without permission by Lorén Spears, who may be reached via the link to the Tomaquag Memorial Indian Museum on this site, or at: www.tomaquagmuseum.com The Tomaquag Indian Memorial
- [Record of Hopkinton’s Freemen, 1757 thru 1839](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/record-of-hopkintons-freemen-1757-thru-1839/) - Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda Men were voted to “be admitted free of the Town and are allowed to vote, these persons who have taken the oath against Bribery and Corruption.” 1726-1794 page 16 21 June 1785 – (the men took the oath very seriously as ---Personally appeared Mr. Benjamin Barber & was duly
- [Hopkinton, Rhode Island Death Records 1788 – 1922 M – Z](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-death-records-1788-1922-m-z/) - Below are Hopkinton death records from 1788 – 1922 with last names M-Z. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See also death records A-C • D-L • M-Z MacGONEGAL, William S. died 16 February 1921 in Ashaway, age 43/5/0. Male, white, married, farmer. Born in East Lyme, CT, s/o Edward J. and Isabelle (Gadbois)
- [Hopkinton, Rhode Island Death Records 1788 – 1922 D - L](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/hopkinton-rhode-island-death-records-1788-1922-d-l/) - Below are Hopkinton death records from 1788 – 1922 with last names D-L. Compiled By HHA Member Lauri Arruda See also death records A-C • D-L • M-Z DAIGNEAU, Ephraim Azda died 6 April 1912 in Hope Valley, age 53/5/25. Male, white, married, boot, shoe and harkness maker. Born in Vermont, s/o Andrew J.
- [Probate Records 1757–1850, A-B](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/probate-records-1757-1850-a-b/) - Below are probate records for the Town of Hopkinton for the years 1757 - 1850, with the last names beginning A-B. See also probate records A-B • C-H • I-R • S-Z ALLEN, Gideon TC 4:110 , It has been presented to the Council that Gideon Allen is non-composmentis, or in
- [Probate Records 1757–1850, C-H](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/probate-records-1757-1850-c-h/) - Below are probate records for the Town of Hopkinton for the years 1757 - 1850, with the last names beginning C-H. See also probate records A-B • C-H • I-R • S-Z CASWELL, Elizabeth - TC 6:75, 25 May 1835, Edward Barber is appointed Guardian. There is property that has fallen
- [Probate Records 1757–1850, I-R](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/probate-records-1757-1850-i-r/) - Below are probate records for the Town of Hopkinton for the years 1757 - 1850, with the last names beginning I-R. See also probate records A-B • C-H • I-R • S-Z IRISH, George – PR 3:231 Will written, 7 October 1801 Proved (in Middletown, RI) 19 October 1801 He states
- [Probate Records 1757–1850, S-Z](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/probate-records-1757-1850-s-z/) - Below are probate records for the Town of Hopkinton for the years 1757 - 1850, with the last names beginning S-Z. See also probate records A-B • C-H • I-R • S-Z SABINS, Mariba (nee Lanphere) - TC 15:132, 7 June 1920, was requested to surrender a savings account No. 390
- [The Thurston Cemetery Tree Removal](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-thurston-cemetery-tree-removal/) - The Thurston Cemetery “Time Lapse” Tree Removal, 10/4/2013 By HHA Member Tom Helmer The gratifying Community response to the Hopkinton Historical Association’s recent request for donations to save General Thurston’s Grave produced the required funds to allow Rocky Harkness, of Rocky’s Tree Service, teaming up with Jim Thompson, of James Thompson Native Lumber, to progress
- [The Avondale Oyster Shell Burn](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-avondale-oyster-shell-burn/) - By HHA Member Tom Helmer In modern construction, interiors are finished with sheet rock, exterior stonework is held together with concrete. These products have one thing in common: you buy them. They are available “Off The Shelf” at most building supply stores. Our historical ancestors, living in the 17th and 18th centuries, also had one
- [How To Cut Stone](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/how-to-cut-stone/) - By HHA Member Tom Helmer Prior to the mid 1700’s, the Colonials and Indigenous Peoples depended on finding stone that was already near to the shape they wanted. The Indigenous developed techniques for refining the shape and adding realistic detail, sculpting the rock for their ceremonial purposes. The Colonials were concerned with staying alive, and
- [The Historic Stones of Woodville Culvert](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-historic-stones-of-woodville-culvert/) - By HHA Members Tom Helmer & Rick Prescott Photos By Bob Miner, Tom Thompson, Tom Helmer & RI DOT In Hopkinton, the stats for this web site on the Home Page attest to the popular interest generated by illustrating the historic legacy that surrounds us. Our Web Pages do this with their many informative photographs,
- [Building Route 95 - Part 1](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/building-route-95-part-1/) - In 2010 Richard Wolke, president of the Richmond Historical Society, and I met to discuss our mutual interest in local history. As a result of that meeting we decided to engage in a joint project that would be of interest to people in both of our towns. We decided to research the construction and impact
- [Walking Together In Tomaquag Valley](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/walking-together-in-tomaquag-valley/) - By HHA Member Thomas A Helmer Two years ago, when I completed the first edition of “Walking Together”, I knew the best Stewards of this book would be the Hopkinton Historical Association. This Non Profit organization has, for 57 years, been a true friend for the Town of Hopkinton, keeping who we were, and what
- [Building Route 95 Part II](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/building-route-95-part-ii/) - GETTING THERE – Part 2 ....... The Construction & Impact of I-95 in Richmond, RI By HHA Member Richard G. Prescott with Richard Wolke, President of the Richmond Historical Society Road Crew brings Wyoming into the 20th century This photo is from page 240 of the book "Driftways into the Past". The book was published in

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- [Welcome to the Hopkinton RI's Historical Association](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/) - Past generations traveled the same streets as we do, labored on farms, in the mills, or ran a business in Hopkinton, Rhode Island, they raised their families…had their hopes and dreams…they were making a life for themselves, but also forming a future for us. Whether you are new to town, or always called Hopkinton, Rhode
- [Contact Us](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/contact-us/) - Hopkinton Historical Association 2 Town House Road P.O. Box 37 Hopkinton, RI 02833 Email: hopkintonrihistory@gmail.com HOURS: Open Sundays 10:00 am until 2:00 pm from May 18 until October 12.
- [The Notebook](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/the-notebook/) - Below is a sample issue of "The Notebook," a quarterly booklet sent only to members by mail. Become a member here. Read a sample
- [Archive of Posts](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/archive-of-posts/) - Articles, genealogy records and posts from 2010 - present from the Hopkinton Historical Association website (formerly hopkintonhistoricalassociation.org). Articles, genealogy records and posts from 2010 - present from the Hopkinton, Rhode Island's Historical Association website
- [About the Hopkinton Historical Association](https://hopkintonhistorical.org/about/) - The Mission of the Hopkinton Historical Association is "Preserving the Past for the Future." The Hopkinton Historical Association provides educational materials describing the local colonial and Indigenous people's history. In addition, we provide personal assistance for help with local genealogy and cemetery research. HHA encourages our community to see the “History In The Wild” The Hopkinton Historical Association provides educational materials describing the local colonial and Indigenous people's history. In addition, we provide personal assistance for help with local genealogy and cemetery research.
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