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Mystery solved. The Bickfords of Hopkinton, NH were originally from Newburyport, MA. Google books has digitized "Transactions of the New Hampshire Medical Society" published in 1895. It has an article about a grandson of Thomas Bickford, founder of the Hopkinton line of Bickfords:
"Charles Pinckney Gage was born in the adjoining town of Hopkinton on the 5th of April, 1811, on the same farm on which, in 1780, his father, John Gage, had been born. His mother was Sally Bickford, a daughter of Thomas and Abigail (Eastman) Bickford. Dr. Gage's paternal grandparents, John and Elizabeth (Fowler) Gage, came to Hopkinton from Bradford, Mass., sometime prior to the year 1750, and at about the same time his maternal grandparents, Thomas and Abigail (Eastman) Bickford, came to the same town from Newburyport, Mass. It is recorded of Thomas Bickford that he was a Revolutionary soldier. He whose ancestors dwelt on American soil so far back as in the time of the Revolution, especially if any of them took part in that grand uprising on which so much of what is best in the world's subsequent history hinges, does not usually concern himself about his remote ancestry ; he is content that his title to be called a genuine American is indisputable."
The magazine Granite Monthly has a similar, shorter article, which contains the additional information that Abigail Eastman came from the Roger Eastman family.
The only problem I have with the information is that Thomas's wife is given as Abigail Eastman and not Elizabeth Eastman. In a printed genealogy on the Roger Eastman family, there was a Thomas Eastman, b. abt. 1691 who married Eunice Chase. They moved to Hopkinton, N.H. in 1758. They had a daughter Elizabeth Eastman, born Dec. 26, 1752, in Concord, NH, who married an unnamed Bickford of Hopkinton. She had a sister Abigail, born Feb. 15, 1765, but Abigail married Benjamin Kimball in 1789.
Furthermore, the New Hampshire Patriot and State Gazette from June 22, 1829 has the following death notices:
"In Hopkinton, Oct. 17, 1827, Thomas Bickford, aged 76 years, also June 5, 1829, Elizabeth Bickford, aged 74, wife to the late Thomas Bickford.--Printers in Vt. Canada, &c."
So, we have either Thomas and Elizabeth (Eastman) Bickford of Newburyport moving to Hopkinton, or Thomas and Abigail (Eastman) Bickford of Newburyport moving to Hopkinton.
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