Hopkins was a great founding father--established the committee of correspondence in Rhode Island, post office, etc. and was highly respected in the Second Continental Congress, because he was the second oldest member.
Governor Hopkins himself, later in life, identified himself very completely with that body of Christians, even to the extent, to quote from Moses Brown, his constant co-laborer, (and himself a Friend), of his having the Friends' meetings sometimes held in the winter at his dwelling-house.
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