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JOSEPH HOPKINSON



House of Represenativies, Song Writer, State Assembly




       __FRANCIS HOPKINSON1,4
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JOSEPH HOPKINSON
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      |                   __Benjamin Borden1,3,4
      |                  |
      |              __Joseph Borden1,4
      |             |    |
      |             |    |     __James Grover1,3,4
      |             |    |    |
      |             |    |__Abigail Grover1,3,4
      |             |         |
      |             |         |__Rebecca Jaspers1,3
      |             |
      |         __Joseph Borden1,4
      |        |    |
      |        |    |          __James Grover1,3
      |        |    |         |
      |        |    |     __Joseph Grover1,3
      |        |    |    |    |
      |        |    |    |    |__Rebecca Jaspers1,3
      |        |    |    |
      |        |    |__Susannah Grover1,4
      |        |         |
      |        |         |     __William Lawrence1,2
      |        |         |    |
      |        |         |__Hannah Lawrence1,2
      |        |              |
      |        |              |__(__)2
      |        |
      |__Ann Borden1,4
	       |
	       |     __Samuel Rogers4
	       |    |
	       |__Mary Rogers4
		    |
		    |__Mary (__)4



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Biography of JOSEPH HOPKINSON

 
HOPKINSON, Joseph, (son of Francis Hopkinson), a Representative from Pennsylvania; born in Philadelphia, PA, on 12 November 1770; was graduated from the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia in 1786; studied law; was admitted to the bar in Philadelphia in 1791 where he practiced his profession, except for the period of one year at Easton, PA; wrote the anthem "Hail Columbia!" in 1798; was associated with Daniel Webster in the Dartmouth College case; counsel for Justice Samuel Chase in his impeachment trial before the United States Senate in 1804 and 1805; elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress; reelected to the succeeding Congress (4 March 1815-3 March 1819); was not a candidate for reelection in 1818; moved to Bordentown, NJ, in 1820; member of the New Jersey House of Assembly; returned to Philadelphia, PA, in 1823; judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, 1828-1842; chairman of the State Constitutional Convention in 1837; Secretary of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in 1790 and 1791; trustee, 1806-1819 and 1822-1842; died in Philadelphia, PA, 15 January 1842; interment in the old Borden-Hopkinson Burial Ground, Bordentown, N.J.
 

 


Notes and Sources


   1.  Stillwell, John E., Historical and Genealogical Miscellany:  data
       relating to the settlement and settlers of New York and New Jersey,
       Volume III.  New York:  privately published, 1914.  246-278.
   2.  Ibid., p. 393-427.
   3.  Riker, David M., Genealogical and Biographical Directory to Persons
       in New Netherland from 1613 to 1674.  CD-ROM. Cambridge: The
       Learning Company, 1999.  653.
   4.  Collections of the New Jersey Historical Society, Volume IX.  Newark:
       New Jersey Historical Society, 1916.  40-48.

 

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