Esek Hopkins - After The Revolution and Legacy

After The Revolution and Legacy

Hopkins was a founding member of the Society of the Cincinnati. He was highly respected in Rhode Island and continued to serve the Rhode Island General Assembly through 1786, then retired to his farm where he died February 26, 1802. His home, the Esek Hopkins House, is now listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

See USS Hopkins for ships named in his honor.

Read more about this topic:  Esek Hopkins

Famous quotes containing the words revolution and/or legacy:

    “Fascism was a counter-revolution against a revolution that never took place.”
    —Ignazio Silone (1900–1978)

    “What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
    —Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)