Maria (Polly/ Mary) Hopper (#588) was the daughter of Capt. John A. Hopper (#259), a captain in the militia, in the Revolutionary War, and his wife Mary Cooper, whose house and mill were destroyed by the British. Mary was born 11 Apr 1782 (Bible), probably in Hoppertown (now Ho-Ho-Kus) and baptized as “Maria daughter of Jan and Mary Hoppe” on 11 May 1782, at the Paramus Reformed Dutch Church in present day, Ridgewood NJ, The Burhans/Hopper Bible said, “On Sunday evening 5th Jan 1852 Maria Hopper, wife of Cornelius C. Zabriskie of Paramus, died aged 68 years. She was the dau. of John A. Hopper of Hohokus,” On 6 July 1823, she and her husband, had their portraits drawn with pastels on paper by Micah Williams. A paper label on the back of her portrait reads “This portrait taken July 6, 1823 – / by Micah Williams – / Polly Zabriskie Aged 40 years.” The portraits of Polly and her husband “Cornelius C. Zabriskie aged 39 years,” can be viewed on https://monmouthhistory.emuseum.com/search/*/objectsfilter=collections:Portraits by Micah Williams See also #588 Maria (Mary/Polly) Hopper in The Hopper Family Genealogy Vol. I, for more on Cornelius, Polly and their children in
“Portrait of a Legacy: Maria Hopper Zabriskie and Micah Williams’ Art”
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