Constance Hopkins
Constance Hopkins (baptized May 11, 1606 – October 1677), also sometimes listed as Constanta, was a passenger on the "Mayflower" in 1620. Biography. Hopkins was probably born in Hursley, England since her baptism record is there along with older sister and younger brother. Constance was the second daughter of Stephen Hopkins, by his first wife, Mary. Some believe she was named in honor of Constance (Marline) Hopkins. Constance, at the age of fourteen, along with her father and his second wife Elizabeth (Fisher), accompanied by brother Giles, half-sister Damaris as well as two servants by the name of  Edward Doty and Edward Lester were passengers on the "Mayflower" on its journey to the New World in 1620. Along the way her half-brother Oceanus was born, the only child born on the Mayflower journey. Her memorial plaque, in the Cove Burying Ground in Eastham, Massachusetts, placed in 1966 by descendants, states in part "Wife of Nicholas Snow, Eastham's first town clerk 1646 – 1662". We do not know the exact location of their graves. Constance married Nicholas Snow According to Governor William Bradford, who wrote between March 6 and April 3, 1651: "Constance is married, and has 12  children all of them living, and one of them married". Children of Constance and Nicholas Snow. Josiah Paine, a Town Clerk and historian of Harwich wrote "Nicholas and Constance had a dau. named for her mother who was the first wife of Daniel Doane of Eastham…" Constance Hopkins had 72 grandchildren! Legacy. A beaver hat, reputed to have belonged to Constance Hopkins, is in the collection of the Pilgrim Hall museum in Plymouth. Fictional representations. Constance Hopkins is the central character in Patricia Clapp's young adult novel "Constance: A Story of Early Plymouth." Clapp herself was a descendant of  Hopkins. References. 1. Caleb Johnson, "The American Genealogist" 73:161-171, "The True English Origins of Stephen Hopkins of the Mayflower", July 1998. His first wife was not Constance Dudley, though this erroneous name is given by older references with no citations 2. "Mayflower Families Through Five Generations," Volume Six, Third Edition, Stephen Hopkins