Hopkins, Samuel, 1721-1803

Author and clergyman.

From the description of Letter of Samuel Hopkins, 1759. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 79450325

Samuel Hopkins, American clergyman and theologian, founder of Hopkinsianism. He graduated from Yale in 1741, and afterwards studied with Jonathan Edwards for two years. Afterwards Hopkins settled at Housatonic (later Great Barrington). In 1769, the privation of his congregation and an opposition to his intransigent doctrine led to his dismissal. He then accepted a call to the First Congregational Church at Newport where he remained until his death in 1803.

From the description of Papers of Samuel Hopkins, 1740-1800 (bulk 1744-1756). (Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens). WorldCat record id: 122383373

Rev. Samuel Hopkins (1721-1803) was born in Waterbury, Ct., the son of Timothy (1691-1748/49) and Mary (Judd) Hopkins (1701-1744). He graduated from Yale College in 1741, and spent much of 1742 studying theology with Jonathan Edwards (1703-1753) in Northampton, Mass. He was minister of a Congregational church in Great Barrington, Mass., from 1743 to 1769, and pastor of the First Congregational Church in Newport, R.I., from 1770 to 1776 and 1780 to 1803. He lived in Connecticut and Massachusetts from 1776 to 1780 when the British occupied Newport. Hopkins wrote numerous published works and is known both as a proponent of the New Divinity and as an early opponent of slavery. His anti-slavery writings include _A Dialogue, Concerning the Slavery of the Africans_ ... (Norwich, Ct., 1776) and _A Discourse upon the Slave-Trade, and the Slavery of the Africans_ ... (Providence, 1793).

From the description of Discourse, ca. 1776. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259433

Samuel Hopkins, theologian and reformer; Congregationalist minister in America.

From the description of Samuel Hopkins manuscript material : 1 item, 1793 (New York Public Library). WorldCat record id: 429777923

Congregational minister.

From the description of Papers, 1750-1802. (Andover Newton Theological School). WorldCat record id: 12031565

Brown University Class of 1790.

From the description of Letters, 1857-1861. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122491498