Hinckley Family

Samuel Hinckley was born c25 May 1587 at Harrietsham, Hawkhust, Kent, England and ided 31 October 1662 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  For information on his ancestry and his descendants see the Everingham Database by Kimball G. Everingham.  He married first Sarah Soole or Soule 17 May 1617 at Hawkhurst, Kent, England.  She was born 8 June 1600 and died 18 August 1656 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  Information about her parents is unknown.  Samuel Hinckley married second to Bridget 15 December 1657.  She was married first c1642 to Robert Bodfish who died 1651.  Samuel Hinckley and his first wife Sarah left Tenterden, Kent, England March 1634/5 aboard the Hercules and settled at Scituate, Plymouth Colony in June 1635.  They removed to Barnstable in May 1640.

Children of Samuel Hinckley and Sarah Soole:

  1. Thomas Hinckley
  2. John Hinckley
  3. Susannah Hinckley
  4. Marie Hinckley
  5. Sarah Hinckley
  6. Mary Hinckley
  7. Elizabeth Hinckley
  8. John Hinckley
  9. Elizabeth Hinckley
  10. Samuel Hinckley
  11. Samuel Hinckley
  12. ___ Hinckley
  13. ___ Hinckley
  14. ___ Hinckley
  15. Samuel Hinckley
  16. John Hinckley

Generation 2

Sarah Hinckley was born c22 November 1629 at Tenterden, Kent, England and died 1679.  She married Henry Cobb 12 December 1649.  He was born 1596 at Reculver, Kent, England and died 1679 at Barnstable, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  He had married first Patience Hurst (-4 May 1648) April 1631 at Plymouth, Plymouth Colony (now Barnstable Co., MA).  For further information see the Cobb Family.

Children of Henry Cobb and Patience Hurst:

  1. John Cobb
  2. Edward Cobb
  3. James Cobb
  4. Mary Cobb
  5. Hannah Cobb
  6. Patience Cobb
  7. Gershom Cobb
  8. Eleazer Cobb
Children of Henry Cobb and Sarah Hinckley
  1. Mehitable Cobb
  2. Samuel Cobb
  3. Sarah Cobb
  4. Jonathan Cobb
  5. Sarah Cobb
  6. Henry Cobb
  7. Mehitable Cobb
  8. Experience Cobb

Sources

New England Marriages Prior to 1700 by Clarence Almon Torrey, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1985

Pedigree chart prepared by Don G. Olmstead

Genealogical Register of the First Settlers of New England by John Farmer, Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1994

History of the Town of Stonington, County of New London, Connecticut, from its First Settlement in 1649 to 1900, with a Genealogical Register of Stonington Families by Richard Anson Wheeler, Lawrence Verry Inc., Mystic, CT 1966

Original Lists of Persons of Quality 1600-1700 by John Camden Hotten,  Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD 1980

John Howland of the Mayflower, Volume 1:  The First Five Generations Through his first child Desire Howland and her husband Captain John Gorham by Elizabeth Pearson White, Picton Press, Camden, ME 1990

Everingham Database by Kimball G. Everingham at http://www-cmrc.sri.com/kim/intro.html

Paul B. McBride's Genealogy Page at http://www.tiac.net/users/pmcbride/genweb.html

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6 November 1997