Hannah Minthorne Tompkins (August 28, 1781 – February 18, 1829) 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 (1740–1824), a prominent Democratic-Republican Party member in New York City, by his second wife, Aryet Constable Minthorne (1743–1830), 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 grow old of the marriage, her father was Assistant in the Common Council, and teenager Tompkins had designs on a political career. Hannah was sick the year previously her husband became Vice-President, and did not attend his inauguration.
From 1800 to 1814, the couple had eight children, including Arietta Minthorn Tompkins (born July 31, 1800), who married a son of Smith Thompson in 1818, and (Mangle) Minthorne Tompkins (December 26, 1807 – June 5, 1881), 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 far ahead named for them.
Hannah died on February 18, 1829, in Tompkinsville, Staten Island. She and her husband are buried in the Minthorne associates vault at St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie, in humiliate Manhattan.
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