Hannah Robinson, beautiful and strong-willed, was the celebrated beauty of her day. Her father Rowland wanted her to marry Harry Hopkins, a war hero of the French-Indian War and the owner of hundreds of acres of land in what is now North Kingstown and South Kingstown, Rhode Island. Hannah had her own idea of who she wanted to marry and eloped with Peter Simons, her French teacher at a Newport finishing school. Hannah and Peter lived 25 miles north...