Emily Mifflin Hopkinson
(1774-1850)
BIRTH
1774
PLACE
NAME
Emily Mifflin
DEATH
December 11, 1850
PLACE
FAMILY
FATHER
Thomas Mifflin
(1744-1800)
CHILDREN
Sarah Morris Mifflin
(1747-1790)
HOMES
RELIGIOUS VIEWS
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AWARDS
Emily Mifflin Hopkinson, daughter of Pennsylvania governor Thomas Mifflin and Sarah Morris, married jurist Joseph Hopkinson in 1794. She supported the Federalist cause during the XYZ crisis, presenting volunteers with an eagle painting on July 4, 1798. She raised a large family and died in 1850. Her letters, diary fragments from 1836 and an 1848 will survive in family archives. Portraits by Gilbert Stuart and Thomas Sully preserve her likeness; her birth year varies.
EARLY LIFE
The exact date and place of Emily Mifflin Hopkinson’s birth have not been established in the source used for this entry. The surviving biographical summary provides only limited evidence about childhood, schooling, and the daily circumstances of the household, so those details are not reconstructed here without documentation. What can be stated securely is that this person belonged to the interconnected family world from which HistoryGPS traces participants, relatives, and later descendants of the Revolutionary generation.
No distinct public profession or office for Emily Mifflin Hopkinson is established by the source summary used for this entry. The surviving record is primarily genealogical and documents family identity rather than an independent public career. Emily Mifflin Hopkinson died on Dec 11, 1850. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.
CAREER
DEATH
Emily Mifflin Hopkinson died on Dec 11, 1850. Emily Mifflin Hopkinson, daughter of Pennsylvania governor Thomas Mifflin and Sarah Morris, married jurist Joseph Hopkinson in 1794. She supported the Federalist cause during the XYZ crisis, presenting volunteers with an eagle painting on July 4, 1798. She raised a large family and died in 1850. Her letters, diary fragments from 1836 and an 1848 will survive in family archives. Portraits by Gilbert Stuart and Thomas Sully preserve her likeness; her birth year varies. The available account does not establish a medical cause or a dependable sequence of final symptoms and care.
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