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Jun 17, 2022 · A Newfoundland and Labrador Supreme Court justice has found Stephen Hopkins guilty of sexual assault and forcible confinement for his attack on a 17-year-old girl in her St. John's home.
Apr 12, 2024 · Sex offender Stephen Hopkins deemed high risk to reoffend, doctor says. While delivering his decision in Supreme Court in St. John's, Justice Peter O'Flaherty said that is "one of the most...
Feb 22, 2024 · Stephen Hopkins guilty of sexual assault, forcible confinement in attack on 17-year-old Hopkins, who has steadfastly refused legal representation, is at the helm of his own case.
- Early Life
- Bermuda & Jamestown
- The Mayflower Voyage & Compact
- First Winter & Native Americans
- Conclusion
Hopkins was born in Hampshire, England, to John and Elizabeth (nee Williams) Hopkins and baptized at Upper Clatford in 1581 CE before the family moved to Winchester where his father died in 1593 CE. He was the second of four children of a lower-class family (his father was a tenant farmer who worked others' lands) which was still affluent enough to...
In July 1609 CE, the armada was separated by a storm which threatened to sink the Sea Venture. Land was sighted as the ship was taking on water, and it was driven onto the reefs off Bermuda. The islands of Bermuda were known to the sailors as the Isle of Devils, first discovered in 1505 CE by the Spanish explorer Juan de Bermudez (d. 1570 CE) but w...
When Hopkins had left England in 1609 CE, he was a poor laborer but now, in 1614 CE, was an experienced colonist of status and some degree of wealth as he was able to afford servants. He may have worked as a tanner at this time before signing on to return to North America aboard the Mayflower. The Mayflower expedition was being financed by the Virg...
Between 11 November and 21 December 1620 CE, expeditions were launched from the Mayflower to find a suitable place for the new settlement, and Hopkins participated in a number of these which were usually led by Captain Myles Standish (l. c. 1584-1656 CE) and included others such as Bradford and Edward Winslow(l. 1595-1655 CE). Bradford reports that...
Although he actively participated in the development of the Plymouth Colony, Hopkins was an independent free spirit who seems to have always pursued his own course according to his own reason. In his later years, between 1636 and 1638 CE, he was fined for allowing people to drink in his tavern and play shuffleboard on the sabbath as well as for ove...
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Apr 12, 2024 · Facing the possibility of a dangerous offender designation and its accompanying indeterminate prison sentence, Stephen Hopkins was instead sentenced to six and a half years in prison for sexual...
Feb 22, 2024 · Hopkins was convicted in 2022 of breaking into a Cowan Heights home and sexually assaulting a teenager. A year before that attack, he was convicted of assault and...
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Stephen Hopkins was a signer of the Mayflower Compact, signed at Provincetown, 11 November 1620. In the 1623 land division, he received six acres. The cattle division of 1627 lists he and his wife Elizabeth, with children Gyles, Caleb, Deborah, and daughter Constance and her husband Nicholas Snow.
