In a message dated 6/26/98 1:26:24 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
rkg1(a)ix.netcom.com writes:
<< The place seems wrong -- and I don't know about your dates -- and I
don't
have much
information (all of which was supplied to me by someone else) BUT for what
it's worth,
I have a Lydia Hopkins b. (place and time unknown) married William Carr, b.
11 May
1763 in Jamestown, RI, d. 1804 in South Kingstown, RI. (I have no information
about
when or where Lydia died.) >>
Lydia lost her husband and four unnamed children in an epidemic of yellow
fever in 1804. She survived to pay off her house and raise three young
children. She relocated to Otego, NY, and lived with her son Rowland. She
died in Rhode Island while on a visit from NY State, according to Arthur Carr
book.
Lydia is reputed to be the daughter or a close relative of Stephen Hopkins,
one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, according to Arthur
Carr, who cites his source as a genealogy of the Sheldon family.
pp 89-90 The Carr Book, by Arthur A Carr