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R. R. HINMAN'S
CATALOGUE
OF THE
First Puritan Settlers
OF THE
COLONY OF CONNECTICUT.
HARTFORD: PRESS OF CASE, LOCKWOOD AND COMPANY. 1856.
A
FAMILY RECORD
OF
THE DESCENDANTS
OF
SERGT. EDWARD HINMAN,
WHO
first appeared at Stratford in Connecticut, about 1650.
COLLECTED FROM STATE, COLONY, TOWN AND CHURCH RECORDS : ALSO, FROM OLD BIBLES AND AGED PEOPLE.
BY R. R. HINMAN, EsQ., OF NEW YORK.
1856.
E. C.
PREFACE,
Ir is proper in this place to apologise to the public for inserting this fam- ily in No. 5, out of their proper alphabetical order, and contrary to the orig- inal design. My excuse for doing so is, first, that I find it impossible to pub- lish the work according to the original design, without such a number of regular subscribers as would remunerate me in the expense of paper, print- ing, and binding, each number as fast as issued, amounting to nearly $250, a number, which I do not feel able to do, as often as every 90 days, if the numbers should be issued as originally designed. The postage of letters, railroad charges, stage-fare, clerk's fees, and board while traveling to pro- cure the facts, when added to the expense of printing, will leave no compen- sation for the time occupied, if all the numbers were sold at present prices. being but 1000 printed. Not only so, men of wealth will often make the excuse, that they want only their own family, a single number, leaving on the author the expense of collecting and publishing those families whose names have become extinct, as many of them have in the State; and some who have not, are unable to purchase the work. And many who are of ability to pay, care so little about their ancestors, that the mighty dollar has more interest over their sordid avarice, than all their respect for a worthy ancestry. The Hinman family have agreed to take such a number of the book published, containing their name, as shall defray the expense of print- ing, paper, and binding the work, which enables the author to give Number Five to the public. Though the copy for Number Six and Seven are pre- pared for the press, should an opportunity offer to print them without involv- ing the author in debt, by doing the descendants of the Puritans of Conn. the favor of looking up their ancestors, and publishing for their benefit, not my own. Few of the Hinman family have rendered much assistance in the following imperfect collection. Uniformly dilatory in answering letters, without sending them two letters, and frequently three letters, to the same person, and then perhaps answer by sending no list of the family, or a list without dates, even of a marriage, birth, or death, or place of residence, and little or no history of their family. This has caused great trouble to the compiler, and is the reason why so imperfect a collection of the different branches of the name is now given to the public. And my own age warns me that, unless I publish what is collected, though thus imperfect, it will never find the press, and the labor already bestowed will be lost forever to the family. I am indebted to Hon. John E. Hinman, of Utica, to Miss Phebe
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Hinman, of Southbury, Charles W. Hinman, Esq., of Washington, D. C., and Mr. Samuel Hinman, of New York city, J. E. Hinman, of Vermont, for their assistance in collecting many of the facts here published, of their branches of the family ; also, to S. J. Hinman, of Verona, New York, Sidney Hinman, Esq., of New Haven, Vermont, and Samuel S. Conger, Esq., of Newark, New Jersey.
It will be noticed by the family that Sergeant Edward Hinman, who was the first of the name, and the only emigrant of the name who early came to this country, and settled at Stratford, Conn., about 1650, or soon after, had four sons, born at Stratford, and some daughters, (the latter not traced.) These sons are taken according to their ages, and the descendants of each son, as far as found, are inserted in the line of the different sons of Sergeant Edward. So that any of the name found in this collection can readily know which of the sons of Sergeant Edward was their progenitor or forefather, and readily trace back to Sergeant Edward, the first emigrant.
ROYAL R. HINMAN.
SERGEANT EDWARD HINMAN,
AND HIS FIRST SON,
CAPTAIN TITUS HINMAN,
AND DESCENDANTS.
HINMAN, SERGEANT EDWARD, of Stratford, was the first of the name in this country, yet the exact time he came to New England is not discovered, or the ship in which he arrived. The name is not found in Massachusetts, as most of the first settlers were. The first found of the name in this country was at Sratford, in Connecticut, between 1650 and 1652. There has been a tradi- tion in the family from the early settlement of New England, that Sergeant Edward Hinman had belonged and constituted one of the body-guard of King Charles I., as sergeant at arms, and escaped in the days of Oliver Cromwell, the Protector, to save his life from the halter, by Cromwell, as his vengeance was wreaked upon all such as favored the crown of Charles I. This, if true, proves him to have been a most trustworthy loyalist and an honest man, for no others could have received the confidence of the crown at that critical period of the British government. It would also appear from this fact, that he must have been not only true and trusty, but a respectable Englishman, for no others were selected to be of the life-guard of the king, and as undoubted in his military powers as in his loyalty. Not only so, but as he held the title of Sergeant at Stratford, from his first settlement there, he probably acquired his title of Sergeant in the life-guard of King Charles I. Most of his descendants have been prompted since, by a military spirit, and fond of military glory, as is proved by there hav- ing been thirteen of the name from the town of Woodbury, including Captain Elisha Hinman, of New London, who was born at Woodbury, and held military commissions in the war of the Revolution, and did efficient service, as Whigs, for their country, at that period, of all others, which tried the faith> courage, and loyalty, in favor of the settlers and the republican form of gov- ernment for which they contended. From the Dutch records at Albany it ap- pears that Sergeant Edward had some connection with Captain John Underhill, in offering their military services to Governor Stuyvesant to fight the Indians, when Stuyvesant, having as much confidence in the good will of the Indians toward the Dutch as he had in that of the English, rejected the offer. Tradi- tion says Captain. Underhill disbanded his company at Stamford soon after, and from the latter place Sergeant Edward went to Stratford and located, being
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then unmarried, (but the first ten years of the record at Stratford, having been destroyed by fire, about 1649,) no record shows the time of Sergeant Edward's first arrival in Stratford with perfect accuracy ; perhaps in 1650, or before. He married Hannah, daughter of Francis and Sarah Stiles, of Windsor, and had his first child Sarah, born at Stratford, in 1653.
About 1651-2, Sergeant Edward had a house-lot in Stratford, " which house- lot lyeth for 2 acres, be it more or less, butting east upon the street, (now Main street in Stratford,) butting west uppon ye home-lot, at present, of Francis Hall, bounded south-west, John Tomson, senior, and north-west, Mr. Joseph Haw- ley." (Stratford Rec., 19th of 9th month, 1668.) This house of Sergeant Ed- ward's was located upon the west side of the present Main street in Stratford, a little south-west of that noble old Episcopal church, the beauty of which is its antiquated structure and plainness. At a town-meeting in Stratford, held March 7, 1654, it was voted " that Edward Hinman should have for his use that parcel of meadow which lyeth west of Mr. Stile's house, on this side of the further Milne river," for his own use, so long as he stays or will make improve- ments, only to list it and to," (obliterated on record.) Sergeant Edward sold his interest in the above meadow, (June 10, 1659,) on the west side of Mr. Stile's house on " this side of Milne river." February 2d, 1664, he had 22 acres of the last division of land laid out to him on the east, and another piece on the west side, of 8 acres.
Sergeant Edward purchased land in Stratford, June 18, 1662, near the har- bor, which he sold to John Beach, and another tract situated on the neck. He also sold another tract of land on the neck to John Beach in 1662. He sold land on Quimby neck to Samuel Hawley. He had several lots of land by di- vision of the town lands, and by purchase, as the record shows. He was a farmer while at Stratford, and an extensive land-holder, a man of good judg- ment, and acted firmly and liberally in the controversy between the Rev. Mr. Walker and his opponents in the church quarrel at Stratford, which terminated in the final settlement of the Rev. Mr. Walker, and a part of his church, at Woodbury in 1672. He was the first owner of the old tide-mill between Strat- ford and what is now Bridgeport, and some of his descendants have owned and been concerned in milling since. Ebenezer removed to Woodbury at an early period to take charge of a corn-mill and farm at Southbury for his cousin Tim- othy Hinman. Sergeant Edward had an ear-mark for his cattle at Stratford, recorded there the 18th day, 9th month, 1662, viz., " A slit right down the first q'r of the off ear, and a little slit across on the upper side of the same ear." His son Edward, Jr., took his father's mark, Sept. 25, 1698.
It has been supposed by many of the family that Edward Inman, an early settler of Providence, in Rhode Island, was identical with Edward Hinman, of Stratford Conn., which has been an erroneous opinion, proved so by a letter from the Hon. Mr. Updike, of South Kingston, Rhode Island, and another from Chief Justice Wm. A. Staples, of Providence, Rhode Island, both histo- rians and genealogists of a high order, by which it appears that Edward In- man was received a purchaser of Providence after January, 1646 ; that his share in the purchase was one-quarter of a full right, such a share as many of the 101 original purchasers had. He was a commonwealth man. But enough for the present purpose is that he died at Providence, August 17, 1706, where he left a widow, Barbara, and two sons, Edward and John, named in his will ; while Edward Hinman died in Stratford, Conn., in 1681, and left children,
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born in Stratford between 1653 and 1672, viz., Titus, Samuel, Benjamin, and Edward, and four daughters. There are now Inmans at Smithfield and Cum- berland, who are supposed descendants of Edward, of Providence, who pur- chased a large tract of land in that quarter, of the Indians, where one or more of his sons probably settled ; while all the sons of Edward Hinman settled at Woodbury, Conn., except his youngest son, Edward, Jr., who remained at Strat- ford. The name of Hinman is found in England, Ircland, Scotland; and in Germany, ending with two ns, (Hinmann.) The name is now found in Liver- pool, Derby, and other parts of England. If the name was originally spelled with an H, it is difficult to determine whether they were Scotch, German, or English, as it is not a frequent name in either country. There are several mer- chants in the city of Derby at this time of the name of Hinman.
The coats of arms for Inman and Hinman in Berry's Heraldry, which is in- fallable, and in a book of crests found in some libraries, one of which is in the Congress library at Washington, D. C., which shows the two names to have been originally the same name, with and without the H prefixed. In England the H in Hinman is often not pronounced, as they pronounce horse, orse, with the li silent, and would soon perhaps spell Hinman, Inman. Hynd- man and Hindman were originally a different name and family, and reside in different parts of England; their arms are unlike the Hinmans and Inmans, and the Hindman arms has only a crest, and that "a stag trippant." Hynd- men and Hindman, are of Scotch origin, yet the names are found at this time in Ireland as well as England, Scotland and America. The first of them found in the United States were in Virginia and Maryland ; it yet continues there. Lower, in his book of surnames, gives the origin of Hinman and Inman, where the H is considered only as a cockney prefix.
The coat of arms of Hyndnian, by Burke, viz., az. a saltire or. Crest .- A sun-dial, and the sun shining thereon. Motto .- True as the dial to the sun.
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Coat of arms of Inman, by Burke, viz., vert, on chev. or., three roses gu. slipped and leaved of the first. Crest .- On a mount vert a wivern ppr. ducally gorged and lined or.
Edward, sen'r, sold his homestead in Stratford in 1681, to Richard Bryan, of Milford, and about this time made his will at Woodbury, in which he calls him- self of Woodbury, and soon after died, Nov. 26, 1681. It is supposed he died at Stratford, as his will was proved and his estate settled in the probate court at Fairfield, in 1632, where his will is recorded. He gave his lands at Wood- bury to his son Titus. He notices his sons Benjamin, his daughter Sarah Rob- erts, his son Samuel, and daughters Hannah, Mary, and Patience, and his youngest son Edward, Jr., his brother Ephram Stiles, and directed in his will that his son Edward, Jr., should be brought up to a trade with Jehial Preston, of Stratford.
Edward, sen'r, of Stratford, and his son Samuel, were at Woodbury soon after Phillip's war, and had home-lots and division land assigned them before 1681. Capt. Titus Hinman, the eldest son of Sergeant Edward, is found by Cothren to have been one of the signers of the fundamental articles of agree- ment, in order to settle the town of Woodbury, (then Pomparague,) Feb. 14, 1672, then not more than 18 years of age, by which it appears he was an orig- inal settler, probably by his father's purchase. Titus, and his brothers Samuel and Benjamin, were land-holders in Woodbury, and heads of families there, in
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1702, and had shares in the division of the meadows on Shepaug river. It is a matter of doubt, whether Edward, sen'r, died at Stratford or Woodbury, as most, if not all, the estates of those who died at Woodbury at that time, were settled at the Fairfield probate court, and it will be noticed, also, that at that time, Woodbury was a part of Fairfield county, and he had disposed of his homestead in Stratford, and in his will, executed a short time before his death, 1681, described himself of Woodbury. His grave is not found either in Strat- ford or Woodbury ; yet his death is recorded in Stratford; at which place he died or was buried is yet uncertain.
Sergeant Edward was a man of pure character, and noted for his integrity and strict honesty in all his dealings in life, and this has been a general trait of character with most of his descendants. No one of the name has ever been publicly punished for an offence, however many of them may have deserved it.
Sergeant Edward, the pilgrim, married, after he came to Stratford, Hannah Stiles, daughter of Francis and Sarah, who removed from Windsor to Stratford, (a relative of Ezra Stiles, D. D., and former President of Yale College,) yet the time of the marriage is not found, probably in 1651 or 2, as his first child was b. in 1653. Sergeant Edward's children b. in Stratford, were,
1. Sarah, b. Sept. 10, 1653; m. Wm. Roberts, of Stratford.
2. Titus, b. June, 1655 ; settled in Woodbury.
3. Samuel, b. last of June or Jan., 1658 ; settled in Woodbury.
4. Benjamin, b. in Feb., 1662-3 ; settled in Woodbury.
5. Hannah, b. July 15, 1666.
6. Mary, b. in 1668.
7. Patience, b. in 1670; m. John Burroughs, Jan. 10, 1694.
8. Edward, Jr., b. in 1672; in. Hannah Jennings.
Sergeant Edward died Nov. 26, 1681, and his wife Hannah died.
NOTE .- The remarks made connected with the life and character of Sergeant Edward Hinman, sen'r, of Stratford, as having by tradition occupied the position of Sergeant-at-arms, and one of the Life-Guard of King Charles I., is known only by tradition as having come from himself to his children. It is a subject upon which the writer is not much informed. By the Statute I., Richard I., the number of sergeants-at-arms was reduced from a larger number to 30, with special requirements, concerning their avoiding peculation, favoritism, and bribery, under the penalty of expulsion and imprisonment. In the time of Charles I., there were only 20 ser- geants-at-arms; 16 appointed to attend on Parliament, and 4 for special duty and as guard of the king's person. Nothing is found to show from what rank these officers were chosen. Yet the importance of the office shows, of itself, it should have been noted in the Parliamentary Records. Occasionally some names are found of their displacement. It would seem that such officers, on which the life of the king depended in those times of fanaticism and favorit- ism, they would be true loyalists and of the best families, and not distrusted by the king or his council.
The following is copied of sergeant-at-arins, from "Dodd's Manual of Dignities," viz., " Sergeants-at-arms .- This corps was first raised by Richard I. They are 8 in number, though formerly they were much more numerous, and even at their first establishment amounted to 24. Their present duty consists in walking before the sovereign, and at a coronation in attending on the several bearers of the regalia. They are appointed by patent for life, with a salary of £100 a year. The sergeants-at-arms most frequently met with in public proceedings, how- ever, are those detached for the performance of special duties in the Houses of Parliament, and the Court of Chancery. In the House of Lords, the practical maintainance of decorum below the bar, near the throne, and in the gallery, devolves upon the Gentlemen and Yeomen
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HINMAN, CAPT. TITUS, eldest son of Sergeant Edward, was an original settler of Woodbury, (then Pomparaug,) 1672. Capt. Titus Hinman, with An- drew Hinman, and Benjamin Hicock, in behalf of the settlers of Southbury, then a portion of Woodbury, organized Southbury into a separate society, by dividing the two ecclesiastical societies by the line which " divided their Train Bands," which was incorporated in May, 1731, and named Southbury. Titus was made Captain of the " Train Band " soon after he settled at Wood- bury, a rank of military honor few could obtain at that time. He was a mem- ber of the General Assembly 7 sessions between 1712 and 1720. Capt. Titus was a gentleman of good estate, and held a high rank as a public man in Woodbury. Hannah, his wife, was a member of the church at Woodbury in 1691 ; himself, in 1697; and his wife, Mary, in 1707.
Capt. Titus Hinman had two wives. He first married Hannah Coe, (sup- posed of Stratford.) After her decease, he m., for his 2d wife, Mary Hawkins, of Woodbury or Derby, Jan, 14, 1703-4. He d. aged 80 years, April 5, 1736, at Woodbury. (Tombstone.) His will on Woodbury probate record, notices his children, but the record of births give them more fully.
1. Ephraim, bap. July 26, 1685.
2. Joseph, bap. June, 1687.
3. Andrew, bap. April, 1690.
4. Titus, Jr., bap. 1695 ; d. in infancy.
5. Ebenezer, b. January 4, 1702-3.
6. Titus, Jr., 2d, b. March, 1703-4 ; m. Sarah Noble, June 8, 1721.
7. Eleazer, b. May, 1704, or April, 1705.
8. Timothy, bap. March 4, 1708-9; d. Dec. 11, 1769.
9. Mary,* bap. Feb., 1713-14 ; m. Rev. David Bostwick, of New Milford, July 30, 1739; settled on Long Island and New York City.
Ushers, with their assistants, so that "the sergeant-at-arms attending the House of Lords has less conspicuous duties to perform than those which devolve upon the sergeant attending the House of Commons. Both, however, execute the commands of the House to which they belong, as regards the apprehension or custody of all persons committed by order of Parliament. In the House of Commons, the sergeant-at-arms is an officer of considerable importance, enjoying large emoluments, assisted by a deputy and several subordinate officers. During the sittings of the House, he occupies a chair below the bar, and he directs a large proportion of the arrangements connected with the maintenance of order in the approaches to the House and the offices adjacent. He is at once the executive and the ceremonial officer of the lower house ; but his discretionary powers are not extensive, for almost all his more important duties are performed under the immediate direction of the House itself, communicated through the Speaker. The office is usually held by a gentleman of the military profession, seldom under the rank of field-officer. The sergeant-at-arms attached to the Court of Chancery, is usually the same individual who performs the duties of sergeant-at-arms to the House of Lords. In the Court of Chancery, as in the House of Lords, his orders always proceed from the Lord Chan- cellor, and his duties mainly consist in carrying the mace, and taking peers and others into custody, by direction of the court." These few historical facts I insert, to show the standing and reputation of Edward Hinman, sen'r, in England, if his own tradition has rightly descended with his heirs in this country.
* Hinman, Mary, daughter of Capt. Titus Hinman, of Southbury, (who was son of Sergeant Edward, of Stratford,) was bap. at Southbury, Feb., 1714, m. Rev. David Bostwick, son of John, Jr., of New Milford, July 30, 1739. (Record.) His grandfather, John Bostwick, was from Stratford to New Milford. The mother of Rev. David, was Mercy Bushnell, of Danbury,
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10. Hannah, bap. March, 1720-1; b. March 12 ; m. Samuel Twichel, Dec. 13, 1739.
11. Patience, bap. July, 1722; the last; is not named in his will, perhaps died before her father.
of the Saybrook stock of Bushnells. Where Rev, David Bostwick was educated is not found, perhaps in New Jersey College, as he read his profession there, and was an instructor there of an academy at Newark, under Rev. Aaron Burr, (the father of Col. Aaron Burr.) He was set- tled at Jamaica, Long Island, Oct. 9, 1745, and his instructor, Rev. Aaron, preached his ordi- nation sermon ; where Mr. Bostwick continued the faithful pastor of the church, and in perfect harmony with his people more than 10 years, and where he held a high rank with his fellow- ministers, and enjoyed the affections and respect of his society and church. His reputation for eloquence and soundness in the doctrines of his order, had extended over the country. About this time, a schism had broken out in the old Wall street church in the city of New York, which was the first Presbyterian church in the city, organized about 1719. Anderson, Pemberton, Cumming, and Pemberton, the four previous pastors of the church, had been dis- posed of by death and resignation, in 1751 or 1752; and the important object of the society was to procure a pastor of talents, pacific in all his tendencies, sound in his doctrines, and one who by the amiability and force of his character would the best heal the difficulties in the church in New York. The character of Mr. Bostwick was well-known in New York, and in July, 1755, the old first church gave Mr. Bostwick an invitation to settle with them as their pas- tor. This aroused his society in Jamaica to a violent opposition to his removal. The Presby- tery referred it to a synod ; they referred it to a committee, and the committee, after a trial, referred the question of his dismissal back to the synod ; and at a special meeting of the synod at Princeton, April 14, 1756, after a full examination of the evidence of the two churches, the synod dissolved his pastoral relation with the church at Jamaica, and Mr. Bostwick accepted the call from the first Presbyterian church in New York, and removed his family to New York, and at once entered upon the duties of his office. His piety, prudence, learning, and fine pulpit oratory, rendered him at once popular with his new society, and popular with all others.
Smith, in his History of New York, 1758, speaking of the old First Church and its then pastor, says, "The congregation consists at present of twelve or fourteen hundred souls, under the pastoral charge of the Rev. Mr. David Bostwick, who was lately translated from Jamaica to New York by a synodical decree. He is a gentleman of mild, catholic disposition, and being a man of piety, prudence, and zeal, he confines himself entirely to the proper duties of his profes- sion. In the art of preaching, he is one of the most distinguished clergymen in these parts. His discourses are methodical, sound, pathetic ; in sentiment, and in point of diction, singularly ornamented. He delivers himself without notes, and yet with great ease and fluency of expression."
In addition to his salary, the society gave him the use of a parsonage in 1762.
Several of Mr. Bostwick's sermons were printed. In his " Vindication of the Right-of Infants to the Ordinance of Baptism," (the London edition,) is found some facts worth preserving of the exalted standing, as a man and a divine, which says his gifts and qualifications for the pulpit were of a high order ; as a preacher, uncommonly popular ; his appearance and deportment peculiarly venerable, with a clear understanding, warm heart, quick apprehension, lively imag- ination, solid judgment, strong voice, with a deliberate, impressive manner, with a commanding eloquence, &c. He probably ranked as high in public estimation as any of the name and family have, since John, his ancestor, came to New England. (See Jamaica Record ; Synod; Smith's History of New York ; Middleton's Ecclesiastical Biography ; Genealogy of the Family of John Bostwick, &c., &c.) His marying Mary Hinman, daughter of Capt. Titus, of Southbury, Conn., in 1739, causes this notice of him. Their children, as given by Kilbourn, in the Biography of the County of Litchfield, were Andrew, David, William, James, and daughters, Mercy, d. single ; Polly, m. General Robertson, of Philadelphia ; Hannah, m. General Alexander McDougal, of the army, and senator from New York ; Amelia, m. Mr. Plumb ; Lucretia, d. single; Nancy, m. Captain McGee, of the U. S. Army.
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