Ephraim Hinsdale2 (Robert1), son of Deacon Robert Hinsdale and his first wife, Ann Woodward [possibly but not proven, born September 26, 1650; baptized October 27, 1650; married, September 28, 1676, Mehitabel Plympton, daughter of Sergeant John Plympton. Ephraim died Aug. 20, 1681. He was a settler in Deerfield in 1673, but did not return after King Philip's war, but settled in Hatfield, Mass. His widow Mehitabel, married, second, July 21, 1691, Joseph Cheney of Medfield, born in Roxbury, Mass., June 6, 1647; died September 16, 1704. She married, third, December 12, 1717, Jonathan Adams of Medway. Sergeant John Plympton, the father of Mehitabel, was burned at the stake by the Indians in 1677. His wife was Jane Dummer. Ephraim Hinsdale with fifty-nine others took the oath of allegiance at Hatfield, February 8, 1678. He alone of all the sons of Robert, survived King Philip's War.