Hopkins (1742–1796), a participant in the Gaspee Affair, who later became a captain in the Continental Navy; and Susannah Hopkins (1756–1850), who married Jonathan Maxcy, a Baptist minister and second president of the formerly Baptist-affiliated Brown University, which was then known as the College of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations. Hopkins was the brother of Rhode Island governor Stephen Hopkins, a signer of the Declaration of Independence and first Brown chancellor in conjunction with the tenure of president James Manning. Hopkins was buried in the North Burial Ground of Providence, Rhode Island. References Bibliography Further reading Charles H. Miller, Admiral Number One, some incidents in the life of Esek Hopkins, 1718–1802 First Admiral of the Continental Navy. The William-Frederick Press, 1962 James C. Bradford, Quarterdeck and Bridge: Two Centuries of American Naval Leaders, (Annapolis, Maryland: U.S. Naval Institute, 1997) Sheldon S. Cohen, Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy (Gainesville; University Press of Florida, 2010) Craig L. Symonds, The Naval Institute Historical Atlas of the U.S. Navy (Annapolis, Maryland: Naval Institute Press, 2001) Kenneth J. Hagan, In Peace and War (Westport, CT: Praeger Security International, 2008) Edward L. Beach Captain, The United States Navy: 200 Years (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1986) The Complete Book of U.S. Naval Power (Publications International, Ltd.,1991) 1718 births 1802 deaths Continental Navy officers People from Scituate, Rhode Island Continental Navy American privateers American slave traders People of colonial Rhode Island People of Rhode Island in the American Revolution American military personnel of the Seven Years' War People of Rhode Island in the French and Indian War Burials at North Burying Ground (Providence)