• Stephen Hopkins came over in the Mayflower with his wife Elizabeth and one child by her and two children by his first wife.1825, p 270

• His parentage has not been proved, but he may be the son of Stephen Hopkins of Wortley, Parish of Wotton Under Edge, Co. Gloucester, England, bp. there 29 Oct. 1581.2380, p 1

• Stephen Hopkins’ first wife was not Constance Dudley. Stephen’s first wife will be correctly identified in an article authored by myself in the upcoming July 1998 issue of The American Genealogist.2129, p 3

• He most likely was the Stephen Hopkins who sailed on the Seaventure to Virginia in 1609, but was shipwrecked in Bermuda, where he was almost hanged for mutiny. He spent two years in Jamestown, where he learned much of later use to the Plymouth colonists. See the excellent account of his family in Dawes-Gates 2:443-51, which includes the reasoning for believing that the Stephen Hopkins of Virginia was identical with the one of Plymouth.2114, p 308

• The name of the Scripture-quoting, treason-plotting, loud-bemoaning “Clarke” was Stephen Hopkins.
If this was not the Stephen Hopkins on the Mayflower, then several other curious things have to be explained. The matter of name, of course, may have been a mere coincidence, though a remarkable one under the circumstances. But was it also coincidence that the Mayflower rebels echoed the arguments, even the very phrases, of the Bermuda mutineers? Again, it is plain from the record that Stephen Hopkins, alone of the passengers on board, had been in the New World before. When the Pilgrims sent ashore their first exploring party, he was one of three named as a sort of general staff to assist Captain Standish with their “counsel and advise.” As the Leyden group exercised command and was not at all disposed to share it, the only Stranger so honored was Hopkins, presumably because he knew the wilderness and ways of the Indians. This he did, obviously. Tramping through the woods one day, the party came upon a clever contrivance which none could puzzle out until Hopkins came up and showed them how it worked, explaining that it was an Indian trap “to catch some deer.” If not with the company that finally reached Virginia after surviving the shipwreck and “disquiets” at Bermuda, when had Hopkins acquired such knowledge? There is good reason to suppose that the argumentative clerk who so providentially escaped the hangman lived to become one of the ablest and apparently the most prolific of the Pilgrim Fathers, for his posterity is legion if one can credit the claims of all who profess to be his descendants.2105, pp 140-41

• I looked at your site for my ancestor Stephen Hopkins and some of the information for Stephen, his wives, and his children, is missing or incorrect. Stephen’s death date range of 06-Jun to 27-Jul-1644 should have a later limit of 17-Jul, not 27-Jul. His inventory was taken 17-Jul-1644 [Old Colony Wills 1:72; Simmons 131; MD 2:14] – “27” is likely a typo, as a quick check of other dates given on your site for the family shows them to be correct.2379

• Of course, the definitive sources of information about the early generations of Mayflower families are the publications of the Five Generations Project of the General Society of Mayflower Descendants. Those volumes need to be supplemented by the most recent published research, including articles published in the scholarly journals such as MD and TAG. A good example (cited above as "TAG 73:161-171") is by Caleb Johnson, currently the editor of MD - it is entitled "The True Origin of Stephen^1 Hopkins of the Mayflower, With Evidence of His Earlier Presence in Virginia."2379

• Planter recruited by Thomas Weston, of London merchant adventurers.2110, p 2