Constance Hopkins

Also Constanta Hopkins · Constant Snow · Constance Snow

Mayflower passenger of 1620, a daughter of Stephen Hopkins by a former wife, who came with him, her stepmother Elizabeth and her brother Giles. She married Nicholas Snow and lived at Eastham, where by about 1651 she had twelve children; widowed in 1676, she died there in 1677. Probably the mother of Ruth (Snow) Cole, through whom Hope (Holdershaw) Ellingwood descends from her.

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Life

  1. c. 1677
    Died
    c. mid-Oct 1677, Eastham, Massachusetts

    "Constant Snow which was the Wife of Nicholas Snow died about the Midle of October in the year 1677" (Eastham records).

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Family

Father
Stephen Hopkins d. bef. 1651

Bradford's list of the Mayflower passengers: "Mr. Steven Hopkins, & Elizabeth, his wife, and 2. children, caled Giles, and Constanta, a doughter, both by a former wife"; and about 1651, "His doughter Constanta is also maried, and hath 12. children." That Constant Snow of Eastham was she is the editors' note to her husband's will (MD 3:167, citing MD 2:12, 118).

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Spouse
Nicholas Snow d. 1676

"Constant Snow which was the Wife of Nicholas Snow" (Eastham records); his will names "my Loveing wife Constant Snow."

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1 child

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Pedigree

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Notes

A passenger on the Mayflower in 1620, one of the two children who came with her father Stephen Hopkins, with her brother Giles and her stepmother Elizabeth; Bradford lists “Giles, and Constanta, a doughter, both by a former wife” (source). She married Nicholas Snow and lived at Eastham, and about 1651 Bradford wrote that she “is also maried, and hath 12. children, all of them living, and one of them maried.” Her husband died in November 1676, leaving her his stock and movables “for the Comfort and support of her life,” and she administered his estate with her sons Mark and John; she died about the middle of October 1677 (record).

Through her daughter Ruth, who married John Cole, she is an ancestor of Hope (Holdershaw) Ellingwood (probable).

Research: research/ellingwood/Ellingwood_Cape_Cod.md.

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Connections

Famous kin
  • Robert Treat Paine 1731-1814
    Signer of the Declaration of Independence for Massachusetts and the state's first Attorney General
    Robert Treat Paine is the third cousin, six times removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
  • Allison Janney b. 1959
    Actress, C. J. Cregg in The West Wing and Academy Award winner for I, Tonya
    Allison Janney is the ninth cousin, twice removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
  • Taylor Swift b. 1989
    Singer-songwriter, Time's Person of the Year for 2023
    Taylor Swift is the ninth cousin, twice removed, of Richard Everett Ellingwood Jr.
In her ancestry
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Every notable ancestor and famous relative that Constance's own ancestors lead to, with the lines drawn down to her.

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