For Glen & Pam Hopkinson, their children, and all their posterity
Five ancestors are listed here because FamilySearch records Revolutionary War service for them on the tree of Todd Hopkinson (KWH7-P9F). Three are on Glen’s line. Two are on Pam’s. Two of the five carry a dispute, and those disputes stay in the open. This is not a pension-file transcription. It is the tree as it was read for this page.
Researching FamilySearch, and stopping where it stops. A name is here only when the tree lists service. Living in New England in 1775 is not service. A surname match to a famous soldier is not service. Where the tree’s own notes disagree, or where FamilySearch flags the identity, this page says so and does not choose a side.
Great-grandfather counts are Glen’s or Pam’s, as FamilySearch gave them. Their children, including Todd, sit one generation further down. The same count is used on the other family pages.
| Name | Life | Line | What FamilySearch records | FamilySearch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barnabas Hamblin | 1747–1799 | Glen’s 5th great-grandfather | Service events, 1775–1777. Unit not shown. | LLQZ-7H9 |
| Dr. Thomas Haynes | 1735–1789 | Glen’s 6th great-grandfather | Surgeon at Ticonderoga, 1776–1779. | LZL2-3S3 |
| David Stoddard | 1737–1820 | Glen’s 6th great-grandfather | Revolutionary service is listed. No unit in the notes used here. | LHZR-D7D |
| Thomas Kent Sr | 1748–1835 | Pam’s 5th great-grandfather | Private. Flying Camp, 1776–1777, and later notes of 1780–1781. The notes are inconsistent.Dispute | LZ63-JHS |
| Ninian N. Beall | 1761–1836 | Pam’s 5th great-grandfather | Private, Maryland Line, Captain Jones, Colonel William Washington. Identity and spelling are flagged on the tree.Dispute | L7V9-7X1 |
On the family history map, only two service places are marked: Ticonderoga for Haynes, and the Maryland Line for Beall. They are places of service, not proved homes. Hamblin, Stoddard, and Kent are not dropped on a town.
FamilySearch has service events for 1775 through 1777. The unit is not shown on those events, so this page does not name a regiment, a company, or a rank. He is on Glen’s line. The Hamblin line is the same line as Hannah Duston and Augustine Bearse, further down. That is context, not a claim that those seventeenth-century people were soldiers.
FamilySearch records him as a surgeon at Ticonderoga from 1776 to 1779. “Dr.” is the tree’s styling of the name. Ticonderoga, on Lake Champlain, is the service place named in that record. It is not evidence of where he was born or where he died, and those towns are not stated here. The map mark is that fort, not a house.
Revolutionary service is listed for him. The notes used for this page do not name a unit, a rank, or a year of service inside the war. Nothing is filled in to make the line look finished. He stays on Glen’s side of the roster, and he is not given a pin on the map.
The rank recorded is private. The service notes are inconsistent, and this page does not pick one. One account is the Flying Camp, 1776–1777. Another places service in 1780–1781. Both are left visible because they contradict each other. No town is marked. John Milton Kent, on the Civil War page, is also on Pam’s line. This page does not assert that one Kent is the other’s ancestor. That chain is a separate question.
Dispute · service years
The service attached to this FamilySearch person is private in the Maryland Line, under Captain Jones and Colonel William Washington. FamilySearch also raises identity and spelling flags on L7V9-7X1. Until those flags are settled, the Maryland service belongs to this tree identity and is not a finished identification of the man. The map marks the Maryland Line, meaning the unit’s state, not a proved home. The spelling used here is the one on the roster we were given. It is not a ruling on which spelling is right.
Dispute · identity and spelling
The civil-war roster is separate. One direct ancestor with explicit Civil War service is on that page. The earlier stories, Mayflower, Hannah Duston, and Augustine Bearse, are not military service.