Become a registered voter at the only surviving home of a Rhode Island signer of the Declaration of Independence, Stephen Hopkins.
For the first time, the Colonial Dames and the League of Women Voters have teamed up in a collaboration of historic and modern-day patriotism. From 10am to 4pm on Saturday the 29th of September, the League will register voters at the 1707 home of Stephen Hopkins, Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Current election information will be available, registered voters may make changes of address, and the Stephen Hopkins House regular guided tours will be offered throughout the day.
Hopkins figures prominently in the book “Sons of Providence” by Charles Rappleye — brother to TV’s Bill Rappleye — where Hopkins is described as an “. . . iconoclast, a complex and often contradictory figure who loomed large in the life of the colony, of Providence, and of the Browns.” In 1775 John Adams joined him on the Naval Committee at the Continental Congress, and noted in his diary.
“He kept us in conversation till eleven and sometimes twelve o’clock. His custom was to drink nothing all day nor til eight o’clock . . . and then his beverage was Jamaica spirit and water. It gave him with, humor, anecdotes, science and learning. He had read Greek, Roman and British history . . . and the flow of his soul made all his reading our own.”
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10am to 4pm, Saturday, September 29, Benefit Street at the foot of George Street (next to the Superior Court House) map