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Facts and Events
Revolutionary War Service
(from son Edmund Hinkley's affidavit regarding Edmund's Hinkley's service:)
"...states from documentary evidence from the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, his said father, Edmund Hinkley, served nine months or more at Fish Kills - in the years 1778 & 1779 - and five months & 28 days in 1781, as by certificate of Secretary of State will appear and at the time he was enrolled on the muster Roll of Capt. Jordan Parker of Georgetown, in Col. Samuel McCobb's Regiment, and was mustered to go into the Continental Service, and served nine months. That after his said Service as before stated, and that afterwards his said father performed other service; for the proof of which he refers to the proofs annexed to and accompanying his declaration. He further states that there are now living, this applicant the only son of Edmund Hinkley his father and Mary Hinkley his mother, and that said Mary was the only wife of my said Father Edmund Hinkley, and that myself, Elizabeth Hinkley living in Lisbon in the County of Lincoln, Mary Mitchell of Bath, Rebecca Blithen, and Sarah Hinkley of Bath are the only surviving children born to Edmund Hinkley and Sarah [stet- presumably should be Mary?] Hinkley and that neither of them have any other surviving children. Wherefore this [illegible] asks the benefits that may & do belong to him and his surviving brothers and sisters above named, to which they may be entitled by any of the acts of Congress granting pensions as before stated."[2]
Biographical Notes
Served as Selectman in Georgetown, Maine in 1781 and 1786 to 1797.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Massachusetts: Hinkley, Edmund, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.)
p.2 of file, 9 Mar 1846.
"Mary Hinkley, deceased, widow of Edmund Hinkley, who died on the 18 August 1807 of Lincoln in the State of Maine, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Parker of the Regt commanded by Col McCobb in the Massachusetts line for 14m 28 days. Inscribed on the Roll or Portland at the rate of 49 Dollars 77 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 [illegible] 26 April 1839. Certificate of pension issued the 9th day of March 1846 and sent to James Lennan, Bath, Maine. $405.18" http://www.footnote.com/image/23995546/#23995521
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Massachusetts: Hinkley, Edmund, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.)
p. 5-7, 18 Nov 1845.
Affidavit of son Edmund Hinkley regarding father's service in Rev. War. See below.
- Massachusetts: Hinkley, Edmund, in United States. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application Files. (Washington D.C.)
p.9, 4 Nov 1845.
Cert. of Service from the Secretary of State of Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Attests to service from June 12 1778 at Fishkill for 9 months as a private. Also on roll of Capt. Jordan Parker's company in Col. Samuel McCobb's regt as a private from June 2 1781 5 months and 28 days. Roll sworn to on 3 May 1782 in Georgetown.
- ↑ Pettingell, John Mason; Charles I. (Charles Ireland) Pettingell; and Charles Henry Pope. Pettingell Genealogy: Notes Concerning Those of the Name. (Boston, Massachusetts: The Fort Hill Press, c1906)
p. 44.
"Mary [Pettingell]...m., at Georgetown, Me., Aug. 14, 1767, Edmund Hinckley, b. June 29, 1745, d. Aug. 18, 1807; she d. there April 27, 1839."
- ↑ Edmond Hinckley, in Hill, Mary Pelham. Vital records of Phippsburg, Maine, to the year 1892. (Published under the authority of the Maine Historical Society, 1935)
Online database, FamilySearch Record Search, Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900, Accessed 26 Aug 2010.
Name: Edmond Hinckley
Gender: Male
Birth Date: 29 Jun 1745
Birthplace: PHIPPSBURG,SAGADAHOC,MAINE
Father's Name: Samuel Hinckley
Mother's Name: Sarah Miller
Indexing Project (Batch) Number: C50317-1
System Origin: Maine-ODM
Source Film Number: 1033823
Collection: Maine Births and Christenings, 1739-1900
Note: in 1745, Phippsburg was part of Georgetown. This citation appears in the collection of Phippsburg vital records, but is not from town records.
- ↑ "Town Officials", in Mitchell, Harry Edward. The town register: Phippsburg, Georgetown, Arrowsic, West Bath, Westport, 1906. (Brunswick, Maine: H E Mitchell Co, 1906)
p. 118, 1906.
Selectmen of Georgetown:
"1781 - E. Drummond, Edmund Hinckley, Francis Wyman."
"1786-88 - John White, Nath'l Wyman, Edmund Hinckley."
"1789 - Wm. Lee Jr., Edmund Hinckley, Chas. Couilard."
"1790-91 - John White, E. Hinckley, Wm. Lee, Jr."
"1792 - Wm. Butler, E Hinckley, Henry Totman."
"1793-94 - Wm. Butler, E. Hinckley, Wm. Lee, Jr."
"1795 - E. Hinckley, Wm. Butler, Henry Totman."
"1796-97 - E Hinckley, Wm. Butler, Mark L. Hill, Esq."
- ↑ "Mary Hinkley, deceased, widow of Edmund Hinkley, who died on the 18 August 1807 of Lincoln in the State of Maine, who was a private in the company commanded by Captain Parker of the Regt commanded by Col McCobb in the Massachusetts line for 14m 28 days. Inscribed on the Roll or Portland at the rate of 49 Dollars 77 cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March 1831 [illegible] 26 April 1839. Certificate of pension issued the 9th day of March 1846 and sent to James Lennan, Bath, Maine. $405.18" http://www.footnote.com/image/23995546/#23995521
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