Here Shall I Die Ashore: Stephen Hopkins: Bermuda Castaway, Jamestown Survivor, and Mayflower Pilgrim.

Caleb Johnson

Nov 2007 · Xlibris Corporation

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In the spring of 1621, Plymouth Colony sent STEPHEN HOPKINS to make the first visit to Wampanoag sachem Massasoit to present a red horseman’s coat as a gift and sign of friendship. For most ordinary Englishmen, venturing off into the depths of unexplored America would have been a once in a lifetime adventure: but not for Stephen. By the time he turned forty, he had already survived a hurricane, been shipwrecked in the Bermuda Triangle, been written into a Shakespearean play, witnessed the famine and abandonment of Jamestown Colony, and participated in the marriage of Pocahontas. He was once even sentenced to death! He got himself and his family onto the Pilgrims’ Mayflower, and helped found Plymouth Colony. He signed the Mayflower Compact, lodged the famous Squanto in his house, participated in the legendary Thanksgiving, and helped guide and govern the early colonists.

Yet Stephen was just an ordinary man, with a wife, three sons, seven daughters, a small house, some farmland for his corn, and cows named Motley, Sympkins, Curled, and Red. These are the extraordinary adventures of an ordinary man.

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Without full access to this material and knowledge that it might be helpful, as an amateur researcher, in locating whether or not my personal family of Hopkins is related to this famous man, I am not interested in purchasing this book. If I had full access, not only would I buy it, but make sure that all my family members had a copy. If I find through other more generous sources that it is of value to me, I will be back.\Tiffiny Tennyson of the Lewis and Hopkins families via Josuah Hopkins of Maryland.

This was such a great book for my wife to read. She is a decent of Stephen Hopkins. She got wonderful information about him and his life.