Rufus Hopkins

Rufus Hopkins painted as his father Stephen Hopkins, for whom no portrait was available, in John Trumbull's Declaration of Independence (1819).

Rufus Hopkins (February 10, 1727 – August 1809) was a sailor and businessman who served as a Deputy in the Rhode Island General Assembly from 1772 to 1775, and again from 1781 to 1785.[1]

  1. ^ Charles C. Beaman, An Historical Address, Delivered in Scituate, Rhode Island, July 4th, 1876 (1877), Appendix, p. 2.