Mr johns hopkins biography channel

One of the challenges of studying the family of Johns Hopkins in Maryland is its enormity. The Hopkins family reaches back generations to the very founding of Maryland as a British proprietary colony.

Nuclear family units are often very large, including in many cases ten or more children. By the mid-eighteenth century the family held lands in the northern, central and southern regions of the Province of Maryland, making the geographic distribution of family members extensive.

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To complicate the genealogy even more, there were families with the surname Hopkins living in Maryland during the same period that appear to be unrelated, or least very distantly related, to the Quaker family of Johns Hopkins. Below I provide very brief sketches of key members of Johns Hopkins' paternal family line as well as of his ten sisters and brothers, all of whom lived to adulthood.

More information about these individuals can be found elsewhere on this blog and in the Hopkins