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Last name Hopkins
First name Gerard
Middle name T.
Display name Gerard T. Hopkins
Birth date 1769
Death date 1834
Death place balti1
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Baltimore Yearly Meeting of Friends, Baltimore Friends meeting
Bio notes Gerard T. Hopkins was a wholesale grocer with a home at 8 Pratt Street and a store on the County Wharf at the foot of Broadway in Fell’s Point in Baltimore. His nephew, Johns Hopkins, was apprenticed to him in 1812. In 1804, Baltimore Yearly Meeting sent Gerard and George Ellicott to see to the establishment of Philip Dennis, a Baltimore area farmer who would demonstrate farming methods to the Miami, Potowatami, and Wea tribes on the invitation of Little Turtle. Hopkins was the son of Johns and Elizabeth Hopkins and ws born in 1769. He died in 1834, aged 65, a member of Baltimore Monthly Meeting.

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A Brief Account of the Proceedings of the Committee Appointed by the Yearly Meeting of Friends, Held in Baltimore for Promoting the Improvement and Civilization of the Indian Natives

Baltimore Yearly Meeting Indian Committee Minutes, 1795-1815

A Mission to the Indians from the Indian Committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting to Fort Wayne, in 1804

New York Yearly Meeting Committee on Indian Concerns Scrapbook

Life of Thomas Eddy