“Steven Hopkins is My Name”
Written by Pam Eaton

Presented By: Toby Wilson, an actor, director, producer and a member of the Performing Company of Eventide Theatre in Dennis.

Subject:
"Stephen Hopkins is My Name" is a poem telling the story of the life of Mayflower passenger Stephen Hopkins. It starts with Hopkins’ birth and early life, his marriage and the births of his children. It continues with his decision to join the Jamestown Colony in Virginia in 1609, the hurricane which caused his ship, the Sea Venture to wreck in Bermuda (with all cast and crew surviving) and the eventual building of two small ships to escape Bermuda and sail on to Jamestown ten months later. Stephen Hopkins returned to England in 1616, learning his wife had died. He married Elizabeth Fisher a few years later and arranged to sail on the Mayflower with his whole family in 1620. The poem continues with the story of the Mayflower voyage, the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the exploration of Cape Cod and ends in Plymouth after the first winter.

Although Stephen Hopkins never settled in Eastham, two of his children did, Constance and Giles.

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