Robinson Genealogy

                                                                             
2nd cousin once removed Sandy discovered that our mutual relatives, Heman Durkee and wife Susanna Rix were related to the famous family who sailed on the Mayflower in 1620, Stephen Hopkins and his wife Mary and three children, Constance, Elizabeth and Giles.  Surprisingly, he also had 2 servants with him.  Constance was 14 years old at the time. "Stephen Hopkins was a passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of 41 signatories of the Mayflower Compact, and an assistant to the governor of Plymouth Colony through 1636."

Mayflower Compact

"He worked as a tanner and merchant and was recruited by the Company of Merchant Adventurers of London to provide the governance for the colony and to assist with the colony's ventures. He was the only Mayflower passenger with prior New World experience, having been shipwrecked in Bermuda in 1609 and arriving at Jamestown, Virginia in May 1610. Hopkins left Jamestown in 1614 and returned to England."  I believe he was able to speak with the Indians who had learned a little of English because of his Jamestown experience.  .  

 Stephen was not a free man then but became free later. In those days men were divided between the free who were not in debt and those who were.  After Mary died, Stephen married Elizabeth Fisher on February 19, 1616/17 and had 6 more children; Oceanus, a girl,  being the first along with Caleb, Deborah, Demaris, Ruth and Elizabeth. 

Descendants of STEPHEN HOPKINS

1  [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS b: April 30, 1581 in Upper Clatford, Hampshire, England
.. +Mary "Kent" b: Abt. 1590 m: Bef. 1604
. 2  Constance Constanta HOPKINS b: May 11, 1606 in Hursley, Hampshsire, England d: 1677 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
..... +Nicholas Snow b: Abt. 1606 in London, Middlesex, England d: November 15, 1676 in Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts
. 2  Elizabeth HOPKINS
. 2  Giles HOPKINS
*2nd Wife of [1] STEPHEN HOPKINS:
.. +Elizabeth Fisher b: Abt. 1583 m: February 19, 1616/17
. 2  Oceanus HOPKINS
. 2  Caleb Hopkins
. 2  Deborah Hopkins
. 2  Demaris Hopkins
. 2  Ruth Hopkins
. 2  Elizabeth HOPKINS
                                                                       
         
Constance married Nicholas Snow.  Their son, John Snow, married Mary Smalley on September 19, 1667.  John was one of the first to start the town of Eastham, Barnstable, Massachusetts.   Their daughter, Rebecca Snow, married Benjamin  Smalley in about 1694.  .Eventually they moved on into Connecticut.

Rebecca Snow and Benjamin Smalley's son Joseph became a deacon in the church.  He had married Jemima Ordway in about 1735 in Connecticut.  Their daughter, Lucy Anna Smalley, married Timothy Lewis Durkee on May 3, 1758 in Pomfret, Windham, Connecticut who became a Colonel, and was our mutual ancestor and the beginning of the Durkees that ran so prominently in our family line.    Their son, Col. Heman Durkee, had married Susanna Rix on September 19, 1781 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont.  .  They were both sons of the American Revolution of 1776.  We can be proud of their service.  Timothy died in 1797 in Royalton, Vermont and Heman also died in 1797 also in Royalton, Vermont if my records are correct.  .
                                                                           
This family of Timothy Durkee suffered greatly through the burning of Royalton, Vermont by Canadian Indians who were accompanied by the British  on October 16, 1780. It had just become chartered the year before in 1779.  The town was in a thriving condition with cattle were still grazing in the fields.  The Indians had followed the rivers and had already gone through Chelsea and Tunbridge and onto Royalton, their destination.  Second son Adin, born in 1761, was captured by the Indians.  He was taken to Montreal, Canada where he died on December 19, 1780.

 Of all of Timothy's children, only his eldest son, Col. Heman, remained in Royalton.  Harvey remained in Vermont while several removed to New York.  The grandchildren spread out far and wide in the new lands.  They found their ways to Pennsylvania, New York, Wisconsin, Texas, Illinois, Michigan, Indiana, Odelltown, Canada, Iowa, and then Vermont, of course, where our great grandfather, Abiathar Smith Robinson and wife Julia Ann Tuller lived at first.  While our grandfather was Frank Hugh Robinson, Sandy's grandmother was his sister,

This is how Sandy got to Stephen Hopkins:
1. Heman Durkee/Susanna Rix
2. Lucy Smalley/Timothy Durkee
3. Joseph Smalley/Jemima Ordway
4. Rebecca Snow/Benjamin Smalley
5. John Snow/Mary Smalley
6. Constance Hopkins/Nicholas Snow
7. Stephen Hopkins/Mary Kent

      The amazing fact is that when I did my student teaching at Buckman Grade School in Portland, Oregon, my senior teacher for that period was Betty Smalley.  Little did we know we may have shared some genes.  She was great!  

Our great grandfather was Abiathar Smith Robinson born in 1829 possibly in Bennington, Vemont. His wife was Julia Ann Tuller probably also born in Royalton  who connected before to the Mayflower. 
Julia Ann Tuller's mother was Asinath Durkee born in 1814 in Royalton, Vermont. 
Descendants of Heman Durkee, Jr.

                                            SOME GENEALOGY OF OUR FAMILY

1  Heman Durkee, Jr. b: October 21, 1789 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: January 09, 1865 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 76
.. +Rebecca Hatch b: June 12, 1791 in Sharon, Windsor County, Vermont d: June 07, 1872 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont, age 81 m: September 15, 1813 in Vermont
. 2  [1] Lydia Durkee b: June 13, 1813 in Vermont/ Canada d: June 30, 1874 in Royalton, Tunbridge, Orange County, Vermont
..... +Oliver Farman Bates b: Abt. 1810 in Dunham, Missisquoi County, Quebec, Canada d: 1841 in Shefford, Quebec, Canada m: December 29, 1828 in Dunham, PQ, Quebec, Canada
. *2nd Husband of [1] Lydia Durkee:
..... +Reuben George b: Abt. 1821 in Tunbridge, Orange, Vermont d: March 16, 1885 in Royalton, Orange, Vermont m: March 14, 1841 in Tunbridge, Vermont
. 2  Emily Durkee b: October 26, 1814 in Royalton , Vermont d: December 12, 1891 in Royalton, Vermont
..... +William Leonard b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont d: September 22, 1879 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont m: December 11, 1839 in Royalton, Windsor, Vermont
. 2  Asenath Asinith Durkee b: 1814 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont d: 1868 in Royalton, Windsor County, Vermont/Rockwell, Illinois
..... +Alonzo Charles TullarTuller b: October 22, 1809 in St. Albans, Vermont (Franklin County) d: January 29, 1870 in Rockwell, LaSalle, Illinois m: July 05, 1834 in Royalton, Windsor County,  Vermont
. 2  Heman Herman Durkee III b: Abt. 1816 in Vermont,  Quebec, Canada d: February 10, 1877 in poss Vermont ?
..... +Fanny Mosher Mosier b: June 02, 1818 in Quebec, Canada d: July 22, 1893 in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont m: 1837 in prob. Quebec, Canada

Resource:  Durkee Family Newsletter Volume Xii, #1  Spring, 1993 The Burning of Royalton
http://mayflowerhistory.com/hopkins-stephen/
https://www.familysearch.org/search/
Assistance from cousin Sandy
https://famouskin.com/famous-kin-menu.php?name=24679+stephen+hopkins