Hodgkins Family TreeBrothers Philip and Shemuel were two of the first three

settlers of the town of HancockThe Hodgkins branch of

the family moved to America with the arrival of William Hodgkins in 1632 and reached Hancock County in 1764 when two of William Hodgkins’ great- great-grandsons were two of the original three settlers in what became the town of Hancock.

George Thomas Little in Genealogical History of the State of Maine writes of the family: “This family is not so numerously represented in this country as many others, but it was early imported from England, and has borne its full share in proportion to numbers, in developing the civilization in the settlement of the nation. It has been conspicuous in Maine from an early period and sent out to other states from this commonwealth many worthy representatives.”

William Hodgkins1William Hodgkins1 was

born in England about 1590-1600. He apparently had married in England about 1620, but it is probable that his wife had died before William Hodgkins emigrated from England to Plymouth, Mass., about 1632 with his son, William, and a daughter, Sarah.

William Hodgkins’ sister, Elizabeth Hodgkins, who also came with him from England to Plymouth, Mass., married William

Palmer (or Parmer) of Scituate, Mass., in 1633, and later married John Wills of Bridgewater, Mass.

William Hodgkins was admitted a freeman in 1634. Court records show that he served as a juryman in Plymouth, Mass., March 16, 1636, and in September 1638.

He possibly married Anne Hynes (or Haynes) Dec. 21, 1638, in Plymouth, Mass.

Asa and Blanche (Deasy) Hodgkins with son Robert in 1914

She deposed that she had lived at the home of Mr. Derby, who was the father of John and Richard Derby.

However, what complicates the study of William Hodgkins was the arrival in Plymouth, Mass., of another individual with a similar sounding name, William Hoskins, who hailed from Ireland.

Some sources attribute certain recorded events to William Hodgkins while other sources attribute the same events to William Hoskins, as if only one individual existed. What further complicates matters is that the spellings of the names vary: Hodgkins, Hoskins, Hoskines, Hoskens, Haskins, Hodgekins, Hodgkinson.

From the evidence it seems evident that two distinct individuals, William Hodgkins and William Hoskins, existed in Plymouth, Mass., but the variant spellings make difficult assessing certain specific events to one individual or the other.

William Hodgkins arrived from England with his two children, William born in 1622—possibly the William Hodgkins recorded as having been baptized Oct. 27, 1622, at St. Giles, Cripplegate, London England—and Sarah Hodgkins.

William Hoskins, who had come from Ireland, was also listed as having had a daughter Sarah from his first marriage, and of having married Anne Hynes on Dec. 21, 1638, in Plymouth, Mass.

Having a daughter Sarah and marrying Anne Hynes appears to be the major discrepancy between William Hodgkins and William Hoskins. In The Great Migration, in discussing an agreement between Edward Doty and Richard Derby dated July 12, 1637, the book quotes “that W[illia]m Hodgkinson shall hold his time in such part of the said lands as he now occupieth for his term, which is two crops more besides this present crop now upon the ground.”

The fact is that William Hodgkinson thus could have become acquainted with Anne Hynes, a servant of Richard Derby, because Hodgkinson was renting from Edward Doty

and then, in effect, from Richard Derby. So either William Hodgkins or William Hoskins wed Anne Hynes. Further references to either gentleman’s wife appears in terms such as “Ann, his wife” without reference to her maiden name. Thus, it also is possible both William Hodgkins and William Hoskins could have married an “Anne.” The spelling “William Hodgkinson” seems to give an unsupported edge to William Hodgkins.

On Jan. 2, 1643, William Hodgkins or William Hoskins placed his daughter Sarah with Thomas and Winifred Whitney, to remain until 20 years of age.

The Whiton Family in America (also, Whitney) states: “In 1643, they adopted Sarah Hopkins (Hodgkins), aged 6 years, until she should become twenty agreeing to be a father and mother to her, to instruct her in sewing, and to find meat, drink, apparel and lodging.”

Regardless of which one married Anne Hynes and which one placed his daughter Sarah with the Whitneys, William Hodgkins had moved to Ipswich, Mass., about 1641 with his son, William, and probably died there. His son, William, born in 1622, is documented as a resident of Ipswich, Mass.

William Hoskins, who was born about 1611 [too young to be the father of a William born in 1622], remained in Plymouth, Mass., dying Sept. 7, 1695. He held several prominent positions after the 1640s, when he was consistently referred to as William Hoskins. His son William Hoskins was born in 1647.

William Hoskins’ cousin Ann Hoskins wrote from Ireland on Jan. 13, 1637/8. With regard to the marriage of “William Palmer and Elizabeth Hodgekins,” she indicated that this bride was not related to her cousin William Hoskins. That seems to leave William Hodgkins as his sister, especially since the “Hodgekins” seems to match Hodgkins .

Thus, although the names of his wives are uncertain, William Hodgkins, as the father of William Hodgkins Jr. and the grandfather of Samuel Hodgkins, is the ancestor of the Hodgkins line that eventually settled the town

of Hancock in Hancock County, Maine.

William Hodgkins1 b. About 1590, England. d. after 1643.

m.1. Sarah, Nov. 2, 1620, England.

1. William Hodgkins Jr.2 b. 1622, England. d. Dec. 26, 1693, Ipswich, Mass.

2. Sarah Hodgkins2 b. 1624, England.

m.2. possibly Anne Hynes, Dec. 21, 1638, Plymouth, Mass.

3. ( ) Hodgkins.2 b. Nov. 30, 1647, Ipswich, Mass.

4. Samuel Hodgkins 2 b. Aug. 8,1654, Ipswich, Mass. d. 1660.

William Hodgkins2William Hodgkins Jr. (son of William1), who

was born in England in 1622 according to a deposition he made Sept. 29, 1691, when he gave his age as about 69 years old. In the deposition he also stated that he had occupied beach privileges at Little Neck Beach in Ipswich, Mass., for a period of 50 years.

William Hodgkins Jr. had moved from Plymouth, Mass., to Ipswich, Mass., with his father about 1641, and he or his father was at one period a resident of Gloucester, Mass.

William Hodgkins Jr. married Grace Dutch, a daughter of Osmond and Grace (Pratt) Dutch of Gloucester, Mass. Osmond Dutch died at the age of 100 in December 1684. His wife, Grace Dutch, was a mid-wife for years.

Grace Dutch Hodgkins’ brother, Robert Dutch, took part in the Bloody Brook battle, was wounded and left for dead on the field, and found by Captain Moseley’s men when the Native Americams were stripping the dead the day afterward. Robert Dutch recovered from his wounds.

William Hodgkins Jr. built a house in

Ipswich, Mass., in 1668. Town records indicate that he was one of nine to see that the town orders were observed.

“In 1684 when his (William Hotchkins Jr.) son-in-law Robert Cotes and daughter Mary came from Lynn to reside in Ipswich, William Hotchkins furnished a bond of £50 and submitted a signed and sealed document that they would not be burdensome to the town.” (Abraham Hammat, The Hammat Papers: The Early Inhabitants of Ipswich, Mass., pp. 135-139.)

“It is such a creditable piece of work,” Eben B. Hotchkins wrote in his Genealogy of the Hotchkins Family, “that it is still one of the treasures of the Ipswich Historical Society.”

William Hodgkins Jr. died Dec. 26, 1693, and Grace Dutch Hodgkins died Oct. 10, 1694, both in Ipswich, Mass.

Eben Hotchkins also says that Abraham Hammett (or Hammat) of Ipswich, in his history and genealogy of the town, cites many interesting facts about the older generation of the Hotchkins family, while speaking very highly of them.

William Hodgkins2 b. 1622, England. d. Dec. 26, 1693, Ipswich, Mass.

m. 1. Grace Dutch (d. Oct. 10, 1694), m. 1657.

1. John Hodgkins3 b. about 1650. d. January 20, 1690. m. Elizabeth ( ), 1683.

2. Hannah Hodgkins3

b. 1654 ,Ipswich, Mass. m. John Berry (1654-Dec. 26, 1693) of Ipswich, Mass.

3. William Hodgkins3 b. 1656, Ipswich, Mass. d. Dec. 26, 1693, Ipswich, Mass. m. Elizabeth Browne (b. May 15, 1664, daughter of John and Mary (Woodman) Brown of Ipswich or Newbury, Mass., -- – d. Dec. 2, 1706), Nov. 11, 1687.

4. Samuel Hodgkins 3 b. Nov. 2, 1658/9, Ipswich, Mass. d. Gloucester, Mass. m. 1. Anna Gee (b. 1660, daughter of John and Hazelponi (Willix) Gee of Exeter, N.H.,---d. July 28,1724, Gloucester, Mass.), 1683. m. 2. Mary Stockbridge, May 3, 1725.

5. Mary Hodgkins3 b. April 6, 1661, Ipswich, Mass. m. Robert Cotes of Lynn, Mass.

6. Edward Hodgkins3 b. about 1663, Ipswich, Mass. m. Martha ( ).

7. Hezekiah Hodgkins3 b. about 1665, Ipswich, Mass. d. before 1727. m. Hannah ( ) , (d. March 15, 1727), before 1684.

8. Thomas Hodgkins3 b. 1668, Ipswich, Mass., d. Nov. 16, 1719. m. Abigail Hovey (b. about 1670, daughter of David and Esther Hovey, – d. Nov. 28, 1754), Dec. 12, 1689.

9. Christopher Hodgkins3 b. 1670. d. April 4, 1724 (drowned). m. Tabitha Howard (b. Jan. 21, 1669 , daughter of William and Tabitha (Kinsman) Howard– d. Sept. 1735), Jan. 22, 1689.

10. Martha Hodgkins3 b. about 1672. m. William Howard, 1695.

11. Abigail Hodgkins3 b. about 1675. d. Nov. 13, 1720. Not married.

Samuel Hodgkins3Samuel Hodgkins (William2, William1) was a

shoemaker and cordwainer. Samuel moved to Gloucester, Mass., in 1684. In 1694, he was appointed to keep the ferry at Tyndall Cove, where he already had built a house.

A discrepancy exists between the two major genealogical sources used on the name of his first wife. Ruby Hodgkins Callender in her more recent Hodgkins Genealogy: Chiefly the Descendants of David and Mary Spiller Hodgkins of Ipswich, Massachusetts, updated in 1980, has Samuel marrying Anna Gee, a daughter of John and Hazel (Willix) Gee of Exeter, N.H. The earlier Genealogy of the Hotchkins Family (1927) by Eben B. Hotchkins lists Samuel’s first wife as Hannah Pilkington.

Callender, however, lists a Hannah Pelkington as the first wife of Samuel’s son, Samuel Hodgkins Jr., which likely seems more accurate. Regardless of her name, Samuel

Hodgkins Sr. and his wife had 15 children, all in Gloucester records, according to Eben B. Hotchkins. Samuel then married a Mary Stockbridge May 3, 1725.

Babson in his history of Gloucester says that Samuel’s sons Philip and Jedidiah went down the coast to Falmouth, Maine, according to Eben B. Hotchkins.

Samuel Hodgkins3 b. Nov. 2, 1658/9, Ipswich, Mass. d. Gloucester, Mass. m.1. Hannah Gee (b. January 1660, Gloucester, Mass., daughter of John and Hazelponi (Willix) Gee – d. July 28, 1724, Gloucester, Mass.), 1683.

1. Samuel Hodgkins 4 b. Oct. 24, 1684. m.1. Hannah Pelkington (d. Sept. 16, 1753), Sept. 30, 1708. m.2. Lydia Stanwood, Nov. 27, 1756.

2. Hannah Hodgkins4

b. May 18, 1686/7.

3. John Hodgkins4

b. Jan. 16, 1688/9.

4. Phillip Hodgkins4 b. Jan. 25, 1690. m. Sarah Griffin (b. March 8, 1696) (wife also listed as Jedidiah).

5. William Hodgkins4 b. Feb. 2, 1691. m. Mary Chase.

6. Solomon Hodgkins4 b. July 30, 1692. m. intentions, Mary Chase (Aquilla) Jan. 21, 1715.

7. Jedediah Hodgkins4 b. March 8, 1695. m. Sarah Millett, 1722, in Gloucester, Mass.

8. Patience Hodgkins4

b. Aug. 21, 1697.

9. Abigail Hodgkins4

b. June 11, 1699.

10. Mercy Hodgkins4 b. July 28, 1700.

11. David Hodgkins4 b. April 14, 1702. m. Abigail Haskell, (daughter of William and Abigail (David) Haskell), 1735.

12. Martha Hodgkins4 b. Jan. 4, 1704.

13. Anna Hodgkins4 b. April 5, 1705.

14. Jonathan Hodgkins4 b. July 1, 1706. m. Mary Stockbridge, Aug. 9, 1735.

15. Experience Hodgkins 4 b. Jan. 31, 1708. m. 2. Mary (Harding) (Villars) Stockbridge May 3, 1725.

Phillip Hodgkins4Phillip Hodgkins (Samuel3, William2, William1) and

his brother Jedediah Hodgkins went down the coast to Falmouth, Maine, according to Babson in his history of Gloucester, Mass. Phillip Hodgkins had two sons, Phillip and Shemuel Hodgkins, and a daughter, Anna, born in Falmouth (now Portland).

Phillip Hodgkins served as a sergeant in Col. William Pepperell’s expedition in taking Louisburg, a strong fortress on Cape Breton Island, from the French in 1745 during the French and Indian Wars. Two of his sons,

Samuel and Moses Hodgkins, were with him in 1745, and Samuel Hodgkins, in addition, was in the fourth French and Indian War in 1758. Samuel and Shemuel Hodgkins also served as sergeants in Capt. Daniel Sullivan’s company of militia during the Revolutionary War. There is no mention of Samuel after this.

In 1759, Phillip’s son Phillip Hodgkins lived in Kennebec (now Georgetown), when only twelve dwellings existed on the Kennebec side. In 1764, three of Phillip Hodgkin’s sons, Samuel, Phillip, and Shemuel Hodgkins settled on the east side of the Skillings River, in what later became Hancock, Maine. Some sources have only Philip and Shemuel settling, but Samuel Hodgkins’ serving with Shemuel in Captain Sullivan’s militia company puts him in the vicinity, because when Hancock was incorporated in 1828, the town was carved out of parts of Sullivan and Trenton.

Sons Phillip and Shemuel Hodgkins soon

Judge Luere Deasy, Blanche (Deasy) Hodgkins with son Robert Hodgkins, and Daniel Deasy

moved to the west side of the Skillings River, now called Marlboro, Hancock, Maine. Phillip and Shemuel were very prolific, leaving numerous progeny.

Phillip Hodgkins4

b. Jan. 25, 1690. m. Sarah Griffin (b. March 8, 1696). Wife also listed as Jedidiah. 1. Samuel Hodgkins 5 2. Moses Hodgkins5

3. Phillip Hodgkins5 b. Dec. 12, 1735 Falmouth, Maine. d. Hancock, Maine. m. Hannah Robinson (b. July 4, 1737,Georgetown, Maine), April 13, 1756.

4. Shemuel Hodgkins5 b. Falmouth, Maine. d. Hancock, Maine.

5. Anna Hodgkins5 b. June 2, 1772, Falmouth, Maine.

Phillip Hodgkins5Phillip Hodgkins (Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1)

and his brother Shemuel are listed as two of the first three settlers in 1764 of what became the town of Hancock when it was incorporated in 1828.

Alfred B. Crabtree and Hattie B. Martin in Hancock 1828-1928 tell how Capt. Agreen Crabtree in 1764 built a cabin on a point afterward known as Crabtree Point, now Old Point. Phillip Hodgkins built on the point to the south, Fish Point, and further south Shemuel Hodgkins settled at Pettingill’s Point.

Crabtree and Martin also indicate that Shemuel’s father settled nearby. These first settlers built a saw mill and also a grist mill.

The Hodgkins brothers moved to the west side of the river and reared large families, and that side of the river became known as the Hodgkins’ side. Phillip owned 165 acres, 56 rods wide at Frenchman’s Bay at the mouth of the Skillings River in what is now Marlboro.

At the first town meeting in 1789, Samuel Hodgkins was collector of taxes and Capt. Philip Hodgkins was surveyor of roads, according to Leila A. Clark Johnson in Sullivan and Sorrento Since 1760.

“The early settlers of Hancock had to undergo all the trials and hardships incident to pioneer life,” Crabtree and Martin write. “It required a vast amount of toil to clear the forests which for centuries had been the haunt of wild beasts and the home of the Red Man, and at times their stock of provisions got very low. One year it was so cold in June that a large number of small birds perished. Many persons lived on clams and fish; in some instances potatoes were dug up in the spring after being planted.”

Phillip Hodgkins5 b. Dec. 12, 1735, Falmouth, Maine. d. Hancock, Maine. m. Hannah Robinson (b. July 4, 1737, Georgetown, Maine), April 13, 1756.

1. Phillip Hodgkins6 b. Falmouth, Maine. d. Hancock, Maine.

2. Edward Hodgkins 6 b. March 23, 1757/8, Kennebec, Maine. d. 1839. Lamoine, Maine. m. Mary ( ) (b. March 6, 1761, Harpswell, Maine – d. Lamoine, Maine)

3. Moses Hodgkins6 b. Aug. 6, 1764. d. April 4, 1855, Hancock, Maine. m. Betsey Hodgkins (b. March 2, 1765, his cousin, daughter of Shemuel and ( ) Hodgkins. 4. Samuel Hodgkins 6 b. about 1769, Hancock, Maine. d. 1863, Hancock, Maine. m. Sally Smith or Flagg, Sept. 20, 1796.

5. William Hodgkins6 b. 1770 Hancock, Maine. d. 1848 Hancock, Maine. m. Susan Doane (b. June 23, 1772, East Barnstable, Mass., daughter of Seth and Elizabeth (Cole) Doane – d. June 23,1860, Hancock, Maine), 6. Mary Hodgkins6 b. about 1794, Hancock, Maine. d. June 6, 1852, Eden, Maine. m. Daniel Hamor of Eden, Maine.

7. James Hodgkins6 b. April 6, 1795, Hancock, Maine. d. Lamoine, Maine. m. Mrs. ( ) Smallidge.

8. Jane Hodgkins6 b. Aprill 6, 1796. d. Trenton, Maine. m. William Davidson of Lamoine, Maine.

9. Lucy Hodgkins6 b. Hancock, Maine. m. William Smith of Lamoine, Maine.

10. Sally Hodgkins6 b. Hancock, Maine. m. John Hamor of Eden, Maine.

Shemuel Hodgkins5Shemuel Hodgkins (Phillip4, Samuel3, William2,

William1)

Shemuel Hodgkins5 b. Falmouth, Maine d. Hancock, Maine. m. ( )

1. Betsey Hodgkins6 b. March 2, 1765, Hancock, Maine. d. Handock, Maine. m. Moses Hodgkins (b. Aug. 6, 1764 – d. April 4, 1855), her cousin.

2. Meriby Hodgkins6 b. June 30, 1773, Hancock, Maine. m. Reuben Abbott of Hancock, Maine.

3. Phllip Hodgkins6 b. 1780, Hancock, Maine. d. 1871. m. Sally Noble (1780-1857).

4. Lois Hodgkins6 b. 1786, Hancock, Maine. d. 1882, Sullivan, Maine. m. Elliott Smith, soldier, War of 1812.

5. Hannah Hodgkins6

b. Hancock, Maine. d. Hancock, Maine. m. Christopher Moon.

Female musicians in Bar Harbor. Blanche (Deasy) Hodgkins (front, second from right.

6. Agee Hodgkins6 b. Hancock, Maine. m. Hannah Young.

7. Zechariah Hodgkins6 b. Hancock, Maine. d. Lost at sea.

8. Nancy Hodgkins6 b. Hancock, Maine. d. Ellsworth, Maine. m. Morgan Jones of Ellsworth.

William Hodgkins6William Hodgkins (Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2,

William1)

William Hodgkins6 b. 1770, Hancock, Maine. d. July 22, 1848, Hancock, Maine. m. Susan Doane (b. June 23, 1772, Barnstable, Mass., daughter of Seth and Elizabeth (Cole) Doane- d. June 23, 1860, Hancock, Maine), May 25, or April 15, 1791, Hancock, Maine.

1. Samuel Hotchkins7

b. Oct. 23, 1791, Hancock, Maine.

2. Asa Hodgkins7 b. April 3, 1793, Hancock, Maine. d. 1822, murdered, Amsterdam, Holland. m. M. Jerusha Leeds of Boston, Dec. 6, 1815 .

3. William Hodgkins7 b. April 29, 1795, Hancock, Maine.

4. Nathan Hodgkins7 b. May 18, 1797, Hancock, Maine. 5. Thomas Hodgkins7 b. April, 29, 1798, Hancock, Maine. d. Oct. 11, 1879, Hancock, Maine. m. Margaret Moon (b. Jan 7, 1807—d. Jan. 6, 1897) of Hanock, Dec. 13, 1830.

6. Martha Hodgkins7 b. April 1, 1801, Hancock, Maine.

7. Barnabas Hodgkins7 b. April 10, 1806, Hancock, Maine.

8. Daniel Hodgkins7 b. 1808, Hancock, Maine.

9. Phebe Hodgkins7 b. Oct. 13, 1811, Hancock, Maine.

10. Eliza Hodgkins7 b. Oct. 10, 1813, Hancock, Maine.

Thomas Hodgkins7Thomas Hodgkins (William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3,

William2, William1) was an excellent farmer, a skillful shipbuilder, and, having a wonderful shore privilege, he established a fine fish stand, according to Eben B. Hodgkins in his genealogy.

Thomas Hodgkins’ son Asa Hodgkins was a fisherman in the 1850 census, a house joiner in 1860, a house carpenter in 1870, and a master house joiner as he worked his way up to being a contractor and builder of some of the fine cottages in Bar Harbor, Maine.

Thomas Hodgkins’ son Rowland Hodgkins was a skillful sparmaker and a lover of art, music and literature.

His son John Fairfield Hodgkins, in the 1860 census a fisherman, eventually established the Bar Harbor fish market of J.F. Hodgkins and Sons, and also did some contracting and real estate business.

His son Curtis Hodgkins was a fisherman lost at sea with all his crew on Georges Banks on Christmas is 1862. His daughter Caroline Hodgkins was a teacher in the 1860 census.

His youngest son, Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins, for 15 years was a public school teacher who fished and farmed summers before becoming an accountant and then, among other pursuits, working as a bookkeeper and secretary to Jefferson Hodgkins of Chicago.

Incidentally, the Jefferson Hodgkins for whom Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins worked for as a secretary in Chicago likely was a distant cousin, Col. Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins, who was born in the same year as the other Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins, 1844. Colonel Hodgkins’ father was Phillip, who was the son of Samuel and the grandson of Phillip, one of the original settlers of Hancock.

According to Eben B. Hodgkins in his Genealogy of the Hodgkins Family and much repeated in the Brown Family Book, Colonel Hodgkins was a self-made man who had started out as a Bay of Fundy fisherman. He visited his uncle Thomas Blunt in Chicago

in search of a job. He worked first shoveling gravel (to build streets) for $1.50 a day but soon leased gravel pits and worked as a contractor, dying a millionaire.

Earlier, he farmed in California and drove the first stake for the Southern Pacific Railroad in California. His career included being a railroad engineer in 1868, a Kansas surveyor in 1870, and eventually president of Kimball and Cobb Stone in Chicago in 1881.

Eben B. Hodgkins wrote, “He told me that when he hung out his ‘shingle,’ he hadn’t money enough to pay a month’s office rent. It is said that he died a millionaire.”

Col. Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins was born in 1844 in Lamoine, Maine, and died Jan. 2, 1921, in Chicago. In November 1873 in Chicago, he married Jennie Lewis, born in 1844 a daughter of William Lewis of Orange, N.J. They had one son, William Lewis Hodgkins, born May 15, 1875. Colonel Hodgkins was the youngest son of Phillip, who had married Mary Blunt of Lamoine in 1826.

Thomas Hodgkins7 b. April 29, 1798, Hancock, Maine. d. Oct. 11, 1879, Hancock, Maine. m. Margaret Moon (b. Jan 7, 1807—d. Jan. 6, 1897, Hancock, Maine) of Hancock, Dec. 13, 1830.

1. Asa Hodgkins8 b. July 2, 1832, Hancock, Maine. d. March 17, 1905, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Elmena (or Almena) Gilpatrick (b.October 1835 – d. 1907, Lamoine, Maine) 1856.

2. Curtis Hodgkins8 b. Hancock, Maine. d. lost with all his crew on Georges Banks, Christmas 1862.

3. Caroline Hodgkins8

b. July 16, 1839. d. March 23, 1928 m. 1. Gilbert Bragdon of Hancock, Main, (b. Sept. 13, 1838 – d. Feb. 6, 1888) . 4. Rowland Hodgkins8 b. 1843, Hancock, Maine. d. 1912. m. Ellen Strout (b. 1838 – d. 1888) of Milbridge, Maine.

5. John Fairfield Hodgkins8

b. May 4, 1842, Hancock, Maine. d. July 23, 1918, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Hannah Ball of New Brunswick, Canada, (d. Aug. 8, 1914). 6. Thomas Jefferson Hodgkins8 b. Sept. 20, 1844. m.1. Lemira C. (Myra) Wooster of Hancock (d. June 11, 1920, Colfax, Wash.) Jan. 5, 1868.

Robert Hodgkins with great-grandfather Captain Daniel Deasy about 1916

Asa Hodgkins7Asa Hodgkins (William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3,

William2, William1) was the first mate of a large ship out of Boston when he was murdered in Amsterdam, Holland, at the age of 29, cutting short his rising career. He married Jerusha Leeds, the daughter of a wealthy Boston family. Eben B. Hodgkins descrbes the romance as follows:

“Once upon a time, while his ship was in Boston, he met Jerusha Leeds of a wealthy family. She was smitten by his beauty and accomplishments and unimpeachable character. He felt pleased and highly honored to be noticed by a wealthy young lady of great accomplishments. Soon their mutual esteem grew into a deep affection which ripened into a reciprocal love.

“When her parents learned of their mental attitude toward each other they forbade further associations; and assured her that if she should marry Asa Hodgkins-–a man beneath her in wealth and social standing, they would disinherit her.

“But, as love is the strongest law in the universe, Jerusha Leeds married Asa Hodgkins, my grandfather. They had three children; the youngest two had died; Jerusha Leeds Hotchkins, left a widow and cut off from her fortune and disowned by her family, brought her surviving son William E. Hodgkins, my father, down to Uncle Thomas Hodgkins, who reared him kindly.”

Asa Hodgkins7 b. April 3, 1793, Hancock, Maine. d. 1822, murdered, Amsterdam, Holland. m. Jerusha Leeds of Boston, Nov. 30 or Dec. 6, 1815.

1. William E Hodgkins8 b. December 1819, Hancock, Maine. d. Feb. 21, 1895, Hancock, Maine.

2. Antoinette Hodgkins8 b. 1820, Hancock, Maine. 3. Charles Hodgkins8 b. 1821, Hancock, Maine.

Asa Hodgkins8Asa Hodgkins (Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4,

Samuel3, William2, William1) was a skilled carpenter and a contractor and builder of some of the grand old cottages of Bar Harbor fame.

Eben B. Hodgkins in his Genealogy of the Hodgkins Family writes: “Asa deserves special mention both as a man and as a skillful carpenter, contractor and builder. Some of the best cottages in Bar Harbor stand as monuments to the honesty and faithfulness of Asa Hodgkins. It is said that everyone has his price: but no one could buy or sell Asa Hodgkins.”

His sons Curtis H. and Harry C. Hodgkins both farmed before becoming partners in the firm of Asa Hodgkins and Sons contractors. Harry had charge of the grocery store and ships’ chandler store. Daughter Caroline Hodgkins was a teacher according to the 1880 census.

Asa Hodgkins was the contractor on the Bar Harbor Congregationalist Church built in 1889 and destroyed by fire in 1942. Asa Hodgkins and Sons also built Felsmere, a cottage designed by Grosvenor Atterbury, for Edward Cushman Bodman.

According to the Lamoine town records, Asa Hodgkins was a selectman from 1870 through 1874 while living on the family farm, but by the 1900 census they were listed both in Lamoine and at 29 Main Street, Eden (Bar Harbor).

Asa Hodgkins8 b. July 2, 1832, Hancock, Maine. d. March 18,1905, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Elmena (or Almena) Gilpatrick (b. Oct. 6, 1836, Lamoine, Maine – d.March 17,1907, Hancock, Maine) 1856.

1. Caroline R. Hodgkins9 b. Aug. 27, 1858, Lamoine, Maine. m. Alex Morrison of Mariaville, Maine, April 23,1887. Children: Cecile Morrison10

2. Curtis H. Hodgkins9 b. Mary 27, 1862, Lamoine, Maine. d. May 14, 1936. m.1. Helen L. Parks of Trenton, Maine, Dec. 3, 1892. 1. Asa H. Hodgkins10

2. Ray K. Hodgkins10

m.2. Myra Pease of Bucksport, Maine, Dec. 14, 1900.

3. Harry C. Hodgkins9 b. Sept. 2, 1865, Lamoine, Maine. d. 1946, Hancock, Maine m. Annie Salisbury of Lamoine, Maine, (b. May 12, 1866), Oct. 8, 1887. 1. Myrtle C. Hodgkins10 b, August 1891 2. Florence L. Hodgkins10 b. March 1893 3. Roscoe Neal Hodgkins10

b. Dec. 14, 1896

4. Helen L. Hodgkins9 b. Sept. 2, 1865, Lamoine, Maine. m. Arno W. Marshall of Trenton, Maine (b. Oct. 16, 1857), Dec. 10, 1916.

5. Della Hodgkins9 b. March 13, 1874, Lamoine, m. Fred Reynolds of Lamoine, Maine, November, 1900. (He became a dentist in Dover, N.H.) 1. Fred L. Reynolds10

2. Robert H. Reynolds10

3. Philip L. Reynolds10

4. William L. Reynolds10

Hoyt Curtis Hodgkins9Hoyt Curtis Hodgkins (Asa8, Thomas7, William6,

Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1) apparently had swapped his first and middle names from the time of his birth because on previous records he was listed as Curtis H. Hodgkins.

Eben B. Hodgkins in his Genealogy of the Hodgkins Family writes the following about Hoyt Curtis Hodgkins: “Curtis is remarkable for his genial disposition, and for his interesting story telling. After graduating from commercial college, he became a partner in the firm of Asa Hodgkins and Sons, contractors and builders in Bar Harbor. Many of the best cottages there testify to their ability and honesty.”

The 1900 census has Curtis living at 14 Ash Street in Eden (Bar Harbor), Maine, and working at a sawmill.

Robert, Beatrice and Marguerite Hodgkins in the 1920s

Hoyt Curtis Hodgkins9 b. May 27, 1862, Lamoine, Maine. d. May 14, 1936, Hancock, Maine. m.1. Helen L. Parks of Trenton, Maine, (b. Dec. 10, 1867 -- Sept. 7, 1904, Hancock, Maine), Dec. 3, 1892.

1. Asa H. Hodgkins10 b. Sept. 18, 1893, Bar Harbor, Maine. d. Dec. 17, 1967, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Blanche Deasy (b. June 28, 1887, Gouldsboro, Maine -- d. 1955, Bar Harbor, Maine), Nov. 30, 1912. 1.Robert Hodgkins11

b. 1913. 2. Beatrice Hodgkins11

b. 1916. 3. Marguerite Hodgkins11

b. Oct. 7, 1925, Bar Harbor, Maine.

2. Ray K. Hodgkins10 b. April 1895, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Nathalie Clark of Dover, N.H., 1917 1. Ray K. Hodgkins Jr.11 b. 1921. m.2. Myra Pease of Bucksport, Maine, Dec. 14, 1900.

Asa H. Hodgkins10Asa H. Hodgkins (H. Curtis9, Asa8, Thomas7, William6,

Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1) was listed in the 1930 census as being employed as a gardener at a private estate.

He lived at 19 Waymoure Lane, Bar

Harbor, Maine. Blanche Deasy was listed as a kindergarten teacher in the Eden (Bar Harbor) census two years before marrying Asa Hodgkins.

Asa H. Hodgkins10 b. Sept. 18, 1893, Bar Harbor, Maine. d. Dec. 17, 1967, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. Blanche Deasy (b. June 1887 -- 1955, Bar Harbor, Maine -- d. 1955, Bar Harbor, Maine), Nov. 30, 1912 1. Robert Hodgkins11 b. Sept. 6, 1913, Berkeley, Calif. d. Feb. 25, 1979, Waltham, Maine.

2. Beatrice Hodgkins11 b. 1916.

3. Marguerite D. Hodgkins11 b. Oct. 7, 1925, Bar Harbor, Maine d. April 20, 2004, Seal Harbor, Maine

Robert Hodgkins 11Robert Hodgkins (Asa H.10, H. Curtis9, Asa8, Thomas7,

William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1)

Robert Hodgkins11 b. Sept. 6, 1913, Berkeley, Calif. d. Feb. 25, 1979, Waltham, Maine. m. Fredonna (Reynolds) Bunker (b. Sept. 27, 1918 -- d. Sept. 9, 1999, Hulls Cove, Maine). 1. Deanie Hodgkins12

2. Luere Hodgkins12

3. Mary Hodgkins12 b. Oct. 2, 1944, Bar Harbor, Maine

4. Robert F. Hodgkins Jr.12

5. Katherine Hodgkins12

6. Rebecca Hodgkins12

Beatrice Hodgkins11Beatrice Hodgkins11 (Asa H.10, H. Curtis9, Asa8,

Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1)

Beatrice Hodgkins11 b. 1916. m. Ray Horner.

1. William Horner12

2. Andrea Horner12

3. Robert “Robbie” Horner12

Marguerite Hodgkins11

Marguerite Hodgkins11 (Asa H.10, H. Curtis9, Asa8,

Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1)

Marguerite D. Hodgkins11 b. Oct. 7, 1925, Bar Harbor, Maine d. April 20, 2004, Seal Harbor, Maine m. Donald A. Bryant (b. May 9, 1923, Isleford, Maine, son of Marvin L. and Aleta (Bagley) Bryant – (d. Aug. 17, 2002, Seal Harbor, Maine) Oct. 20, 1946.

1. Amy Bryant12

2. Peter Bryant12

3. Ann Bryant12 4. Marguerite “Peggy” Bryant12

Mary Hodgkins12Mary Hodgkins12 (Robert11, Asa H.10, H. Curtis9, Asa8,

Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2, William1)

Mary Hodgkins12 b. Oct. 2, 1944, Bar Harbor, Maine. m. 1. John Carter

1. Kimberly Carter13

2. Christopher Carter13

m. 2. Alfred Thomas Banfield Jr.

Kimberly Carter13Kimberly Carter13 (Mary12, Robert11, Asa H.10, H. Curtis9,

Asa8, Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2,

William1)

Kimberly Carter13 m. Shawn Devanney 1. Shane Devanney 2. Nicholas Devanney 3. Casey Devanne 4. Jack Devanney

Christopher Carter 13Christopher Carter13 (Mary12, Robert11, Asa H.10, H.

Curtis9, Asa8, Thomas7, William6, Phillip5, Phillip4, Samuel3, William2,

William1)

Christopher Carter13 m. Enya