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It was amusing and entertaining to converse with her upon olden times. It carries one back to the days of the ancient fathers, and many of their peculiari- ties. No history can portray them, with the same interest with her relation of incidents and facts, of the days of yore. She made her hearers imagine they were themselves in company with the cocked hats, small clothes and powdered heads of the aristocracy of the Puritans wigged to the shoulders. Col. Joel and Sarah, had children, viz .:
1. DANIEL, eldest son of Col. Joel, was b. Oct. 9, 1779, and d. Jan. 16, 1816, aged 36; m. widow Susan Scott, aged 23, dau'r of Agur Wheeler, Jan. 11, 1806 ; Susan his widow, m. Thomas Smith, of Salisbury, Conn., her third husband. Daniel and Susan, had children :
1. Sidney, b. May 30, 1807, d. June 14, 1815.
2. Adaline, b. March 19, 1809, d. June 11, 1817.
3. Elawsa W., b. July 6, 1813 ; m. Col. Benjamin H. Shelton.
4. Daniel W., b. July 30, 1815, d. Oct. 30, 1825.
Elawsa W., whom Col. Shelton m. Dec. 17, 1838, is the only living child of Daniel and Susan, and she has an only dau'r named Susan S. Shelton, b. Oct. 21, 1839. He was a member of the General Assembly one session, in 1836.
2. IRENA, b. April 24, 1781, m. Eli Hall, May 8, 1806, and had four dau'rs and one son ; all d. except two dau'rs ; one dau'r m. and one single ; Mr. Hall and his wife are both living in Southbury, both aged.
3. JASON, Esq., son of Col. Joel Hinman, of Southbury, was b. at South- bury, Conn., Nov. 13, 1782, and removed to Holland, Vermont, where he m. Lucy Robinson, June 23, 1808. Though a farmer in that community he has figured in many offices in the town of his residence, and has several sessions been a member of the General Assembly, of the town of Holland, Vermont, a magistrate more than 50 years, and yet officiates as a justice of the peace. He was a delegate also to amend the constitution of that State. He is a man of superior judgment, and his liberal views of men and the world, has led him to adopt the rule, " that the dollar, after all, is not almighty," when men are governed by principle. His children have been,
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1. A son b. June 1, 1810, d. 1810.
2. Roger Sherman, b. Feb. 9, 1811, d. Feb. 5, 1813.
3. Lucy Pierce, b. Dec. 9, 1812.
4. Joel, b. Jan. 27, 1815, d. Feb. 10, 1815.
5. Nancy Wheeler, b. Feb. 19, 1816 ; m. Lewis Wilson, Oct., 1844.
6. George Adam, b. Nov. 29, 1817 ; m. Mary P. Robbins, 1842.
7. Sarah Curtis, b. Oct. 19, 1819; m. George Rosebreck, April, 1848.
8. Maryetta, b. Jan. 1, 1822; m. Amariah C. Joslyn, Oct., 1851.
9. Charles S., b. Sept. 22, 1823, d. Feb. 22, 1845.
10. Phebe Maria, b. July 19, 1825, d. July 5, 1854.
11. Harriet Adassalı, b. Aug. 30, 1828.
12. Clarissa Robinson, b. Jan. 25, 1830 ; m. Isaac Marsh, Jan. 1, 1854.
13. Laura, b. Nov. 16, 1831, d. July 10, 1832.
14. Joel, b. June 7, 1833, d. in New York, March 28, 1855. Parents both living in Holland, Vermont.
DR. GEORGE A. HINMAN, above, son of Jason, who m. M. P. Robbins, May, 1842, had children, viz., Charles Sherman, b. Feb. 19, 1846; Lydia C., b. March 28, 1850; Lucy, b. July 2, 1853; Lucy, d. Sept. 25, 1854. George A., the father, is a physician and lives in Holland, Vermont.
Jason's sons, have all d. except Dr. George, who is a physician in Holland, and eminent in his profession.
4. SALLY, dau'r of Col. Joel, m. Jedediah Hall, Esq., April 21, 1806 ; he was many years a merchant at Southbury, member of the legislature and mag- istrate, both deceased ; left two sons, Charles H., and Newell C. ; Charles H. Hall, Esq., is a merchant and postmaster at Southbury ; he m. Harriet Rose, dau'r of Frederick and Fanny Hinman, April 5, 1836. He took charge of the post-office in Southbury, 1827, and now is postmaster. (27 years.) Charles H. and Harriet R., have issue, viz. :
1. Catharine E., b. June 3, 1837.
2. Jay N., b. Jan. 4, 1839, d. June 24, 1839.
3. Curtis N., b. Sept. 23, 1840.
4. Sarah E., b. June 28, 1843.
5. An infant, b. and d. Aug. 27, 1845.
6. Harriet A., b. Oct. 14, 1846.
7. Mary Emma, b. Nov. 3, 1849.
8. Fanny Mitchell, b. Aug. 1, 1852.
NEWELL C., b. April 16, 1814, son of Sally and Jedediah, is a merchant in New York ; m. Elizabeth Mansfield, of New Haven, Sept. 14, 1835 ; she was b. April 27, 1814 ; children, viz., Charles M., b. Jan. 21, 1837 ; Mary Louisa, b. April 20, 1547. Jedediah Hall, the father d. Dec. 3, 1849, aged 66; Sally lis widow, d. Aug. 24, 1854, aged 69.
5. HON. CURTIS HINMAN, son of Col. Joel, was by profession a lawyer, he read law under the instruction of Judge Chapman, late deceased of Newtown, and became one of the most efficient and powerful advocates at the New Haven bar of his age, astute in the management of his cases, and proved himself a gentleman of superior talents. He d. when a member of the State Senate, 1820, aged 34 years. He was b. Aug. 30, 1786, and d. Dec., 1820 ; he m. Sally, dau'r of Dr. Bennet Perry, of Newtown, Conn., Sept. 10, 1809, she was b. Sept. 3, 1790, and d. Aug. 26, 1844. Children :
1. Charles Sherman, b. July 12, 1810, d. May 28, 1832.
2. Caroline Perry, b. March 20, 1812.
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3. Robert Curtis, b. March 4, 1814, d. May 25, 1836.
4. Catharine Elizabeth, b. April 11, 1816, d. Aug. 16, 1835.
HERMAN P., b. Oct. 20, 1818, and went to Vermont, where he m. Saralı M. Balch, of Derby, Vermont, and d. in Schoolcraft, Michigan, where he d. Dec. 19, 1844, and left his widow Sarah, who m. 2d, a merchant, and yet resides in the house erected by her first husband. Here we see three sons and one dau'r and the mother, all taken by that fell destroyer consumption, which originated with the mother. Caroline P., the only survivor of Hon. Curtis Hinman's family, m. Barnabas W. Root, then of Woodbury, Sept. 23, 1829, and had children, viz .:
1. Charles H., b. June 16, 1832.
2. Edward Curtis, b. Feb. 27, 1842.
3. Howard Perry, b. April 17, 1846, d. March 24, 1852.
Mr. Root, removed to Plymouth, Conn., in 1832, where he yet resides, one of its most respected citizens, captain of a military company and honorably dis- charged ; legislator in 1845 ; judge of probate in 1848 ; deacon, town clerk and justice of the peace, in 1854, and yet serves in the three last offices. These sons of Mr. Root and his wife, show strong and evident marks of the talents of their grandfather, Hon. Curtis Hinman, who was a member of the General Assembly, in May, 1815, 1819, and senator 1820, and d. when senator.
6. ROBERT, d. in April 13, 1813, aged 21 years, son of Col. Joel.
7. PHEBE, never married, resides at the old domicile, received of her father and grandfather, with her sister Nancy, and is a lady of superior mind like her mother.
8. NANCY, unmarried, lives at Southbury, with her sister Phebe.
9. ALBERT, also son of Col. Joel, was a farmer, never m. ; was several years postmaster at Southbury ; d. May 12, 1842, aged 46.
16. SOPHIA, m. Truman Mitchell, of Southbury, they removed and settled at Camillus, New York ; have children.
11. SHERMAN, EsQ., son of Joel, b. April 20, 1795, read law in Conn., wliere he was admitted to the bar as attorney and counselor at law ; he went to Mississippi to pursue his profession, where his future prospects were brilliant, and his business lucrative, but a few years in that climate, terminated his promising career ; he d. in Vicksburg, unmarried, 1832. -
12. HINMAN, HON. JOEL, b. Jan. 27, 1802, son of Col. Joel, read law, and was admitted to the bar in the County of New Haven, and settled at Waterbury, where he successfully followed his profession for several years, until 1842, wlien he was honored with an appointment of side judge of the Superior Court in Conn., which office he holds, and there are few if any of his fellows, of sounder judgment or better qualified for that important office. He m. in early life Maria Scovill, a sister of Lampson Scovill, Esq., of Waterbury, where he first settled as a lawyer. He removed to New Haven, after his appointment to the bench, and has since removed to Cheshire. He has four children, viz., Caroline, who m. Henry Goodwin, a merchant in Hartford ; William, Eunice S., and Mary Clark. Judge Hinman, now resides in Cheshire, New Haven County, on a farm.
13. MARIETTA, dau'r of Col. Joel, m. Isaac Johnson, resides at Southbury ; (a farmer ;) has one child Marietta, single.
14. MARIA, dau'r of Col. Joel, m. Eliot Pulford, Oct. 6, 1834; resides in
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Southbury, and has two daughters, Julia Maria and Grace Sophia, single. Col. Joel Hinman, had other children d. young.
15. A son d. aged 18 months.
HINMAN, SHERMAN, EsQ., son of Col. Benjamin, of Southbury, was b. Oct., 1752, graduated at Yale College, in 1776, but became a merchant and farmer in his native town. He built the brick house in Southbury, where David Hinman now lives. He lived in dashing splendor for a few years, and d. Feb. 19, 1793, aged 40. He m. Molly or Mary Hinman, dau'r of Capt. Timothy, Feb. 9, 1777 ; she d. April 30, 1791, aged 34 ; had two daughters, viz., Mary or Sarah, who m. William Forbes, of New Haven, Nov. 18, 1794, who afterward removed and settled in Vermont; Forbes left a son Sherman Hinman Forbes, perhaps others b. in Vermont ; also, Clarissa, dau'r of Sherman.
HINMAN, CLARISSA, 2d dau'r of Sherman, m. Jared Hawley, a merchant Oct. 20, 1805, and had children :
1. Robert, b. Nov. 24, 1806, d. 1808.
2. Benjamin Blagg, b. April 30, 1809 ; m. Clarissa Carr, of the State of Maine ; he d. June 23, 1839.
3. Mary, b. July 2, 1811.
The mother d. in Oxford, Conn., March 11, 1818, aged 33; Jared, the father d. Jan. 27, 1822, at Oxford, aged 41. Their dau'r Mary, m. Dr. Anthony Bur- ritt, of Southbury, and has several children.
(It appears from the above record that Sherman and Mary Hinman, above, had a son Sherman R., d. aged 5, Nov. 13, 1793 ; and Martha, aged 11, Aug., 1790; and Betsey, aged 9, d. Oct., 1790.)
HINMAN, DEA. DAVID, b. 1722, son of Benjamin, Jr., and Sarah Sherman, and brother of Col. Benjamin Hinman, was a farmer in Southbury ; he m. Sarah Hinman, a dau'r of Titus, Jr .; they had children, viz. :
1. Asa, m. Annis Hinman, dau'r of Ebenezer Hinman.
2. Annis, m. Daniel Hinman, son of Ebenezer Hinman, of Woodbury.
3. Gen. Eph'm, bap. 1753; m. Sylvania French, dau'r of Wm.
4. David, Jr., m. Mary Ann, dau'r of Dr. Graham ; he d. Jan. 5, 1820, aged 65.
5. Capt. Benjamin, m. Anna Keysor, of the State of New York.
DEACON DAVID, d. July 19, 1758, aged 36 years, and his widow Sarah, (Gingle) m. for her 2d husband, Deacon Daniel Curtis, of Southbury, Sept. 22, 1760, or 61. Deacon Curtis, was of the Stratford Curtis's, and had two dau'rs, Sarah and Mary, by this marriage.
SARAH, m. Col. Joel Hinman, of Southbury, and had a large family. Mary Curtis, m. Capt. Park Brown, of Horse-Neck, in Greenwich, Conn., also had a large family. Sarah, the widow of Deacon David Hinman, and after- ward widow of Deacon Daniel Curtis, d. at Southbury, Jan. 12, 1807, aged 78 years ; Mary, wife of Park Brown, d. June 30, 1825, aged 57, and Capt. Brown, m. widow Buck, of New Haven, where he d. Sept. 23, 1840, aged 81, no issue by his 2d marriage, and his widow now lives in New Haven.
HINMAN, ANNIS, only dau'r of Deacon David above, m. Daniel Hinman, son of Ebenezer, Sept. 22, 1773; they lived many years at Southbury, but removed to Charlotte, Vermont, and reinoved from thence to Bennington, Vt., where they both died ; they had Betsey, an only child, b. in Southbury ; she m. Samuel Brown, Sept. 30, 1793, a brother of Capt. Park Brown ; Betsey had but · one child, Samuel Hinman Brown, Esq., the only heir to a large estate from his grandfather and his mother, who inherited her father's estate. He is now a
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gentleman of fortune, and now Judge of the County Court, and resides at Ben- nington ; he m. Sarah Brown, dau'r of Park, a cousin, and has children, Samuel H., Jr., m. widow Minor, of Roxbury, Conn., and had one child; Sarah, d. 1855 ; Francis, single ; Helen, single.
Park Brown and Mary his wife, had children ; Harry, Charlotte, d. ; Daniel, m. and d .; one m. Gay R. Sanford, Esq., and has a promising family of sons and one dau'r. One dau'r m. Samuel H. Brown ; Daniel, m. left children, and d. in Penn. ; Samuel, m. had children, d. at New Haven, Conn .; Eph'm, m. in Woodbury, and had one son who is a merchant in Wisconsin ; Eph'm, d. ; Mary also had other children, d. single. He represented Southbury, in the Legislature, Oct., 1812.
HINMAN, LIEUT. ASA, the eldest son of Deacon David and Sarah, his wife, was bap. Aug., 1750. He served during the war of the Revolution. He m. Annis Hinman, dau'r of Ebenezer, of Woodbury, Feb. 1, 1775, and had chil- dren : 1. David, who sailed for China, in 1802, and was never heard from afterward ; 2. Selinda, his eldest dau'r, m. Nathan Rumsey, March 2, 1796, and had several children, and moved to the West; 3. Rhoda, m. Elisha Pierce, of Southbury, April 28, 1799, and had a son and two daughters. Lieut. Asa Hinman, d. Nov. 8, 1798, aged 48 years. His wife long survived him, and d. his widow.
HINMAN, GEN. EPH'M, son of Deacon David and Sarah, was b. April 5. 1753; when a young man he was a captain of a military company, quarter- master, and an assistant commissary general of issues in the war of the Revo- lution, and served to the close of the war, in 1783, as did two of his brothers, Lieut. Asa, and Capt. Benjamin. After the close of the war, he was promoted by regular grades to the office of Major, Colonel, and Brigadier General, and served in the last post for 13 years. He was a man of quick perception, and of great originality of thought and expression. (Cothren, has given his biogra- phy in his late liistory of Woodbury.) He was a merchant for about thirty years, at Roxbury, (then a society of Woodbury,) where he at one period owned 1000 acres of land, which he held on to with a singular tenacity, yielding him but a trifling profit, while he was paying heavy taxes, and at last proved an unprofitable investment He was a gentleman of the old school, in the dressing of his hair, with pomatum and powder, and his attire was also that of former days, until within a few years of his decease. He was a member of the Gen- eral Assembly several sessions, and received other appointments from the town. He d. Dec. 11, 1829, aged 77. His wife d. at Hartford, Feb. 13, 1839, aged 77 years 11 months and 13 days. He m. while he resided at Southbury, Feb. 3, 1779, Sylvania, dau'r of William French, of Southbury ; she was b. March 1, 1761, and had four children, viz., John, b. and d. June 18, 1781 ; Laura, b. May 14, 1783, m. and had a dau'r, (Henrietta,) both of whom soon after d. Oct. 2, 1816, aged 33 ; Royal R., was b. with the two above, in Southbury ; Mary, was b. at Roxbury, Nov. 6, 1792, d. there July 16, 1820, single.
HINMAN, ROYAL R., son of General Ephraim and Sylvania Hinman,
* The name of Royal, (to this name,) was acquired in the following singular manner. Mr. Hinman was a classmate in college, with John Chester, D. D., now late deceased of Albany, and they were intimate friends, before and after they entered college. A catalogue of the freshnian class, as was the custom, was to be collected by a committee of the class, and published alpha-
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grandson of Deacon David Hinman, of Southbury, who was son of Ben- jamin, Jr., son of Benjamin, sen'r, who was the third son of Edward, sen'r, the Puritan, of Stratford, was b. in Southbury, then in Litchfield County, Conn.
He prepared for entering college, with Azel Backus, D. D., of Bethlem, Conn., and graduated at Yale, in 1804, in the class with Hon. John C. Calhoun, Hon. Henry R. Storrs, Dr. John Pierpont, Dr. Abel McEwen, D. D., Lansing, and others of that prominent class. He taught an academy in Virginia, a part of 1804 and 5, when he returned and entered as a law student in the office of Hon. D. S. Boardman, of New Milford, Conn., where he continued about one year, and then entered the office of Hon. Tappin Reeve, and J. Gould, Esqrs., at Litchfield, and was admitted to the bar in 1807, in Conn., and commenced the practice of law at Roxbury, Conn., soon after, where he continued for about 20 years, when he removed to Southington, in Hartford County, where he continued in the practice of law about two years in 1833, '34, and part of 1835, and on being elected Secretary of State of Conn., in April, 1835, as suc- cessor of Hon. Thomas Day, LL. D, he removed to Hartford, in May, 1835, to execute the duties of the office to which he had been elected, and to which he was elected by the electors for seven years in succession. After which he abandoned the practice of his profession. He acted while at Southington, about two years as Judge and Clerk of Probate for that Probate District, was about ten years postmaster at Roxbury, magistrate over 25 years. One year Brigade Major and Inspector of the 6th Brigade of Infantry in Conn., 1819; four sessions a member of the General Assembly, nominated for a member of Con- gress, upon the first Jackson ticket in Conn. The ticket being changed, the next year he was nominated for Secretary of State, and in 1835, was elected to the latter office ; member of the Linonian Society in Yale College ; Honorary mem- ber of Parthenon Society in Trinity College, Dec. 2, 1843; Notary Public for Conn., in 1842; Commissioner of Deeds, &c., for State of Maine and some other States, 1837; admitted a counselor at law in the Supreme Court in the State of New York, in 1827; nominated for postmaster at Hartford, in 1844, and rejected for being neither a Van Buren or Clay adherent. In 1844, was ap- pointed by the President of the United States, military store keeper, attached to the ordinance department, and connected with the Springfield Armory, which he declined. In 1844, was appointed Collector of Customs for the port of New Haven, and superintendent of light houses in said district which he held to the following 4th day of March ; he was a member of the National Convention at Baltimore, in 1844 ; an original member of the Connecticut Historical So- ciety in its formation ; an Honorary or Corresponding member of the " New. England Historic Genealogical Society," in May, 1847; elected an honorary member of the New Jersey Historical Society, in 1852; elected an honorary member of the Pennsylvania Historical Society, May 9, 1853 ; also an honorary member of the Iowa Historic Society, &c. In 1835, and '36, was appointed by the Legislature of Conn., chairman of two committees with Hon. Elisha Phelps and Leman Church, Esq., first to revise and publish the public statutes of the State, and secondly, to prepare and publish the acts of incorporation or private
betically. Dr. Chester, was one of this committee, and wishing to pay his friend a compliment and without his knowledge, published the name of Royal, as his first Christian name which has ever since been used as one of his names, when before it was only Rafe.
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laws of Conn., particularly the acts of incorporation for a given period, the last composed a volume of over 1,600 pages ; and also prepared and published the volume of publie aets. He was a few years after appointed in company with Hon. Thomas C Perkins, of Hartford, to again revise the public acts of Conn., which was principally performed by Mr. Perkins. He has also eolleeted and published on his own account several works, to preserve and perpetuate the history of his native State, and that noble body of men, the first Puritan settlers of Conn,, while he has not failed also, to preserve their chivalry and daring . exploits in the war of the Revolution, and the part taken by them in that war, in a volume of 643 pages, and other works to keep in remembrance the persons of the Puritans and their descendants by their valorous deeds in peace and in war. (See Cothren's Ancient Woodbury.)
The history of the part taken by Conn., in the war of the Revolution, pub- lished in 1842, was complimented by the Legislature of Conn., in 1853, by a unanimous vote of both Houses, to purchase 250 eopies, to distribute one vol- ume to each town in the State, one to each State and Territory in the United States; 25 volumes to Mr. Vattemare, for foreign distribution, one to the Con- gress Library, &e., &c. He also published a volume of 372 pages, composed of official letters (many of them never before published) between the Kings and Queens of England, and the different first Governors of the Colony of Conn. He m. Lydia, youngest dau'r of Major General John Ashley, of Shef- field, Mass., Sept. 14, 1814; she d. in the City of New York, Aug. 27, 1853, at 15 minutes after nine o'clock, A. M. ; their children are, viz. :
1. Jane Ashley, b. March 11, 1816 ; m. John Bigelow, of Mobile, Alabama, Oct. 18, 1838.
2. Royal A., b. March 7, 1818, a farmer, unmarried.
3. Lydia Ann, b. April 17, 1820 ; m. Charles E. Babcock, of New York.
4. Mary Elizabeth, b. March 20, single, lives in New York.
5. Catherine E., b. Sept. 15, 1826 ; m. F. V. Hamlin, of New York.
The above children, are descendants by their mother, of Gov. John Winthrop, sen'r, of Boston, of Robert Ashley, of Springfield; of Wm. Whiting, Esq., of Hartford ; also of Gov. George Wyllys, by his daughter Amy, who m. Col. John Pynehon, son of Wn., of Springfield; of Wm. Pynehon, of Springfield ; of William Ballantine, a Seotehman of Boston, from Ayr, in Scotland, as early as 1653, and of the Gays of Dedham, all of whom were early Puritan settlers in New England.
HINMAN, JANE A., dau'r of Royal R., m. John Bigelow, of Mobile, Oct. 18, 1838, where he was then a merchant, afterward at St. Louis, Missouri, and Boston, Mass., and now a merehant in Northampton, Mass. Children, viz. : 1. Jane Frances, b. Oet. 11, 1839; 2. John H., b. Aug. 8, 1841, d. Sept. 22, 1844, at Hartford, aged 3 years, 1 month and 14 days ; 3. Wm. H., b. Aug. 19, 1845, d. at Boston, June 9, 1846 ; 4. George Ashley, b. Feb. 12, 1848; 5. An infant son, b. and d. 1850.
HINMAN, LYDIA ANN, dau'r of Royal R., m. Charles E. Babcock, (a mer- ehant in New York,) Sept. 1, 1845, at Hartford, and had ehildren, viz. : 1. Charles H., b. at Hartford, July 18, 1846 ; 2. Royal H., b. April 10, 1848, at New York, where he d. Sept. 15, 1849; interred at Hartford, Sept. 15, 1849, (d. of eholera ;) 3. George Elisha, b. at Stonington, Conn., July 27, 1854, (re- sides in New York.)
HINMAN, CATHERINE E., dau'r of Royal R., m. Frederick V. Hamlin, a
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HINMAN, MAJOR BENJAMIN, son of Dea. David, who was son of Ben- jamin, Jr., grandson of Benjamin, sen'r, and great-grandson of Edward Hin- man, sen'r, of Stratford, m. Anna Keyser, July 8, 1787, dau'r of Capt. John Keyser, near Little Falls, N. Y., who was a prisoner about 3 years during the war of the Revolution. Major Benjamin Hinman d. April 7, 1821, at Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania, on a journey from Utica to New Jersey. Anna, his widow, is yet living, and resides at Rushville, Illinois, in the 85th year of her age. Their children :
1. John Edward, of Utica, b. June 2, 1789.
2. Benjamin, Jr., Esq., b. Jan. 27, 1794; never m. He d. at Hinmanville, Oswego county, New York, August 9, 1844.
3. Col. John Jay, b. May 7, 1798.
4. Gen. William A., b. July 11, 1802, lives in Rushville, Illinois.
5. Maranda, b. August 4, 1806 ; d. July 11, 1807.
6. Annis, b. Dec. 10, 1815; m. at Rushville, Illinois, Dr. Thomas Monroe, Oct. 5, 184] ; (he was b. in Maryland ;) he resides at Rushville, a physician of rare eminence. They have chil- dren, viz., 1. John Hinman Monroe, b. August 14, 1842; 2. Thomas, Jr., b. Oct. 26, 1844 ; 3. James Edward, b. Jan. 34, 1947; 4. Mary Anna, b. Dec., 1848 ; 5. Ifinman, b. July 21, 1852. Dr. Monroe and his family yet reside at Rushville, Illinois.
Major Benjamin, the father of the above family, was b. at Southbury, Conn., and remained there until his manhood. He was engaged in most of the war of the Revolution, in various capacities, as captain, assistant commis- sary, waggon-master, aid to Gen. Green, &c., and in other responsible stations in the service of his country. He was one of the 13 commissioned officers from Woodbury, with two of his brothers, Asa and Ephraim, who were in the ser- vice by the name of Hinman, including Capt. Elisha, of New London, who was captain of ships of war. Major Benjamin removed from Woodbury to Little Falls, N. Y., during or soon after the war, and settled near the Mohawk river. His wife was b. on the farm where Fort Keyser was built. He after- ward purchased and removed to Utica, where he lived several years previous to his decease in 1821.
HINMAN, COL. JOHN E., of Utica, son of Major Benjamin and Anna, is now living at Utica. He is a man of strong mind, quick perception, firm, de- termined, and resolute in all liis projects, whether it be in religion, business, or politics. And if, like Gen. Jackson, he declared " by the Eternal " his project should be effected, he generally succeeded in his object. Though he has de- voted much of his life to the accumulation of wealth, he has his traits and streaks of charity, and among his family and friends he uses it often with no sparing hand. Though his father in middle life had a competency, yet toward the close of his life much of it liad passed beyond his control ; and when he died, he left his wife and five children, and not a large estate for their support at Utica. Col. John E., then about 16 years of age, and the eldest of the chil- dren, like a man of maturer years, being blessed with good sense, and a share of energy that few of his age possessed, took charge of the family, sustained his mother, educated his brothers and sister ; two of them as lawyers. He was sheriff's deputy under James S. Kipp, Esq., as high sheriff in Oneida county, from 1813 to 1820. He was quarter-master of the 134th regiment of militia in 1813, and high sheriff from 1821 until 1831, except one term. He was elected Lieut. Col. of a regiment in 1821, which he resigned, after he received the ap-
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