Hopkins, Edward, 1600 - 1657

Edward Hopkins was the son of Edward Hopkins and Katherine Lello of Shrewsbury, County Salop, England..  He married Ann Yale, the stepdaughter of Theophilus Eaton, New Haven Colony’s first governor.  He immigrated with John Winthrop, Jr. in 1635 and settled at the town of New Haven, Connecticut.  He removed shortly thereafter to Hartford and was elected as an assistant to the Connecticut General Court (1639).  He and John Haynes alternated as governor (1640-1655).  In order to insure the colony’s security against Dutch and Native forces, Hopkins promoted the idea of a confederation of the New England English colonies.  He returned to England in 1652, where Cromwell commissioned him a naval appointment.  He later served in Cromwell’s Parliament.  Hopkins died in London in 1657.  http://www.cslib.org/gov/hopkinse.htm