Hannah Tompkins
BIRTH
Aug 28, 1781
New York City, New York
DEATH
February 18, 1829
Tompkinsville, New York
FAMILY
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Tompkins, Hannah
(1781-1829)
Hannah Tompkins (1781-1829) was a social hostess and later first lady and the spouse of Daniel D. Tompkins. Daniel D. Tompkins was a public official and judge whose career or family position supplies an important part of this entry’s Revolutionary context. The marriage connected Hannah Tompkins to the political, military, commercial, or social developments surrounding the Revolution. This life overlapped the Revolutionary era, when war, political upheaval, disrupted trade, military service, and changing governments placed unusual demands on households and extended families. Born in New York City, New York and later dying in Tompkinsville, New York, the course of this life reflects the movement of Revolutionary-era families across colonial, national, and sometimes Atlantic settings. Including Hannah Tompkins in HistoryGPS recognizes that households, marriages, property, correspondence, hospitality, and kinship networks were essential parts of the world in which Revolutionary leaders acted.
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HUSBAND
Daniel Tompkins
(1774-1825)
Susannah MacLaren Tompkins
Minthorne Tompkins
(1781-1829)
Arietta Minthorne Thompson
(1800-1837)
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DIED:
Tompkinsville, New York
Feb 18, 1829
Hannah Tompkins was born on Aug 28, 1781 in New York City, New York. 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.
The available biographical record identifies Hannah Tompkins with work or public activity as a first lady, hostess. Those roles provide the clearest documented basis for including this person in the database and should be read in the political, military, professional, or household context of the period. Hannah Tompkins died on Feb 18, 1829 in Tompkinsville, New York. Additional claims about employment, public service, or accomplishments have been omitted where the consulted source did not support them.