I’m descended from Hopkins the signer too
Ole Hopkins must have been been a randy dude!
Hi Cousin!
There is a great book available from Amazon.
“Here shall I die ashore!”, by Caleb Johnson.
It tells about our original Stephen Hopkins stranded on Bermuda after their ship and party left Jamestown looking for food. The book isn’t that big. Still I could not put it down when I started reading it until I finished it.
Reading that and later watching Saints and Strangers, I had a chill go up my back with the realization if he had died, I and my family would not be here.
Later I wondered how much of America would be here if not for the Jamestown and Pilgrim survivors? A distant cousin gave me a heads up on a Faux News special on Jamestown. One of the head historians at Jamestown stated that very fact/question. He wondered if/when America would have been really discovered and be what it is today if not for the Jamestown and Pilgrim survivors finding and setting the foundations of our civilization in those areas.