Hannah Tompkins
Hannah Minthorne Tompkins was the wife of Daniel D. Tompkins, Governor of New York, and Vice President of the United States during the administration of James Monroe.
Born on August 28, 1781, Hannah Minthorne was the second child of Mangle Minthorne, a prominent Democratic-Republican Party member in New York City, by his second wife, Aryet Constable Minthorne, of New York City. On February 20, 1798, 16-year-old Hannah married Daniel D. Tompkins, a 23-year-old lawyer of the City. At the time of the marriage, her father was Assistant in the Common Council, and young Tompkins had designs on a political career. Hannah was ill the year before her husband became Vice-President, and did not attend his inauguration.
From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins, who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and Minthorne Tompkins, who was the Free Soil Party candidate for Governor of New York in 1852. Their children Hannah and Minthorne were named after their mother, and Hannah and Minthorne streets in Staten Island were later named for them.
Hannah died on February 18, 1829, in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. She and her husband are buried in the Minthorne family vault at St. Mark's-in-the-Bouwerie, in lower Manhattan.
