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• Birth	Bef 25 May 1589	Tenterden, Kent, England
  Christened	25 May 1589	Saint Johns, Harrietsham, Kent, England
  Gender	Male
  BIRT	Harrietsham, Kent, England
  IMMI	1635	Massachusetts
  Died	31 Oct 1662	Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
  Buried	Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts
  Person ID	I10312	Brainard (Brainerd) / Foster / Fish
  Last Modified	11 Jul 2004 00:00:00
  Father	Robert HINCKLEY, b. Abt 1537, Harrietsham, Kent, England
  Mother	Katherine LEESE, b. Abt 1551, Harrietsham,Kent,England
  Family ID	F4640	Group Sheet
  Family 1	Sarah SOOLE, b. Bef 8 Jun 1600, England
  Married	17 May 1617	Hawkhurst,Kent,England
  Children	> 1. Thomas HINCKLEY, b. 1618, Edgerton, England > 2. Susannah HINCKLEY, b. Abt 6 Nov 1625, Tenterden, County of Kent, England > 3. Sarah HINCKLEY, b. Abt 22 Nov 1629, Tenterden, Kent, England   4. Mary HINCKLEY, b. Abt 18 Sep 1631, Tenterden, Kent, England > 5. Elizabeth HINCKLEY, b. Abt 6 Sep 1635, Scituate, Massachusetts   6. Samuel HINCKLEY, b. 3 Feb 1637/1638, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   7. 12th child of Samuel HINCKLEY, b. 1639, Scituate, Plymouth County, Massachusetts   8. 13th child of Samuel HINCKLEY, , (twin) Twin, b. Feb 1640/1641, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts   9. 14th child of Samuel HINCKLEY, , (twin) Twin, b. Feb 1640/1641, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts > 10. Samuel HINCKLEY, b. 24 Jul 1642, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts > 11. John HINCKLEY, b. 24 May 1644, Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts   12. Samuel HINCKLEY, b. 10 Feb 1638/1639, Scituate, Plymouth County, Ma   13. John HINCKLEY, b. Abt 1 Jun 1634, Tenterden, Kent, England   14. Elizabeth HINCKLEY, b. Abt 10 Mar 1632/1633, Tenterden, Kent, England   15. Marie HINCKLEY, b. Abt 23 Mar 1627/1628, Tenterden, Kent, England   16. John HINCKLEY, b. Abt 28 Apr 1622, Tenterden, Kent, England
  Family ID	F4638	Group Sheet
  Family 2	Mrs. Bridget BODFISH, b. Abt 1594, Barnstable, , Kent, England
  Married	15 Dec 1657	Barnstable, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
  Family ID	F4639	Group Sheet

• Notes

  OVERALL: Samuel Hinkcley, children, and dates from 'Barnstable Families' a reprint of the Amos Otis Papers in the Barnstable Patriot 1888 Will: 08 OCT 1662 Note: In his will dated 8 Oct 1662, he gives his wife Bridget the use of his house, a garden and some land; his two cows, Prosper and Thrivewell, and 'all the household stuff she brought with her.' His daughters Susannah, Mary, Sarah and Elizabeth, are named and he gives to each of them and to each of their children, one shilling each. As he had large property, the presumption is that he had given a dower to each of his daughters at the time of their marriage. He gives legacies to his grandchildren Samuel, Thomas, Mary, Bathshea, children of his son Thomas, and to his grandsons Samuel and Jonathan Cobb. His personal estate was apprised at 162 pounds 16 shillings, and he had a large real estate which he gave to his three sons, Thomas, Samuel, and John. Note: Came to Massachusetts aboard ship Hercules Note: He was a dissenter, though on 14 Mar 1734/1735, in order to escape out of his native country, he was obliged to swear that he 'conformed to the order and discipline of the church' of England. In the spring of 1635 Nathania Tilden (who had purchased lands in Scituate), Samuel Hinckley, John Lewis, and James Austin, of Tenterden, in the County of Kent, in England, and several other families from that County, making a company of 102, counting men, women, children, and servants, resolved to emigrate to New England. In the latter par of March they sailed from Sandwich in the ship Hercules, 200 tons, Captain John Witherly. Samuel Hinckley brought with him his wife Sarah and four children, and immediately after his arrival in boston went to Scituate and built a house which Mr Lathrop calls No. 19. Three of his fellow passengers also built house in that town in the summer of 1635. The street on which they bult was called Kent street. He continued to reside in Scituate till July 1640, when he sold his house, farm, and meadows, and moved to Barnstable. He took the freeman's oath in 1637 and appeared on records as a juror, a surveyor of highways, and as one of the granters of the lands of Suckinesset. As a church member he does not appear to have been intolerant. The fact tha he was twice indicted for 'entertaining strangers,' indicates that he belonged to the liberal party. Samuel, in March 1635, set sail on the ship Hercules with his wife and 4children and others to make a company of 102 bound for America. Hesettled first in Scituate, Massachusetts, with his family and built ahome with Rev. John Lothrop called No. 19. About half of the 102 peoplewho came to America with the Hinckleys first settled at Scituate and werefollowers of Rev. Lothrop. In 1640 the Hinckleys moved to Barnstable,where the family name is prominent to this day. Check American Colonists in English Records. Records of Sandwich, KentYear- book C and D 1608-42 CA 4 Mar 1634. Came across on Ship "Hercules". Sam'l of Tenterden and Sara his wief.Children Susan, Sara, Mary, Elizab a kinswoman. Will 8 October 1662 proved 4 March 1663. BIOGRAPHY: HINCKLEY, SAMUEL-His English origins are shown by ElizabethFrench, "Genealogical Research in England-Hinckley," NEHGR 65:287, 314, 68:186). He was of Tenterden, Kent, and came to New England in the Hercules in March 1634/35, accompanied by his wife Sarah and four unnamed children. He lived in Scituate, but apparently did not become a member of Lothrop's church, for only his wife is shown as having joined, being recorded as "Goody Hinckley" on 30 August 1635. They had a daughter Elizabeth baptized at Scituate 6 September 1635 (NEHGR 9:281-82). Samuel became a freeman 2 January 1637/38, and on the same date he was a trial juror (PCR 1:74). On 4 December 1638 he was among several men of Scituate who were presented for receiving strangers into their houses without license from the government (PCR 1: 106). On 4 June 1639 he was a grandjuror (PCR 1:126). Since his son Samuel was baptized at Barnstable on 24 July 1642 (NEHGR 9:282), it would appear that he accompanied Lothrop in the move there. On 5 June 1644 he was a highway surveyor for Barnstable (PCR 2:72), a position he held many times, He dated his will 8 October 1662, proved 4 March 1662/63, and he named his wife Bridget (second wife, Bridget Bodfish); sons Thomas, Samuel, and John; daughters Susanna, Sarah, Mary, and Elizabeth; his son Thomas's children Samuel, Mary, Thomas, Bathsheba, and others unnamed; and Samuel and Jonathan Cobb, sons of his daughter Cobb; and he named son BIOGRAPHY: Source: Plymouth Colony Its History & People 1620 - 1691byEugene Aubrey Stratton