Person:Samuel Hinckley (2)

Probate

[II : 41]^[5] I Samuel Hinckley of Barnestable in ye County of Barnestable in New England being now very Ill and weake and Every day expecting my Great and Last Chang and yet through ye mercy and Goodnes of God of disposing mind and memory am desirous according to my Duty to Sett things in order before I goe hence and therefore do make this my Last Will and Testament In manner and form following first I Comitt my soul to God in Christ who gave it me and my Body to Decent Burial when God shall Please to call me hence: And as tuching my worldly estate which God hath beyound my desearts bestowed on me my will is to dispose of it as followeth

Imprimis I Will and Bequeath unto Sarah my wife ye one half of all my Lands and housing to be at her free and Sole disposeing

It[em] I will and bequeath unto my Son Thomas Hinckley ye other half of all my sd Lands and housing to him his heirs and assignes for ever, provided that he shall confirm ye conveyance of ye Lands which I have sold of his unto Samuel Cob and henry Cobb which wear given to my sd son by his uncle Thomas Hinckley in his Last will and Testament and that my said Son Thomas shall have all ye money now due to me from Richard Childs Eliazer Crocker and Jonathan Crocker being part of ye money which I Sold his Land for

It[em] my will is that my personal estate shall be at ye dispose of Sarah my sd wife for ye paying of my Debts and Bringing up of my Children And then if any thing shall be Left to be by her disposed of amongst all my childern as she shall see cause

It[em] I constitute and appoint Sarah Hinckley my sd wife to be Sole Executrix to this my Last Will and Testament, and Desire my trusty frinds and Bretheren Cap't Seth Pope and Josiah Crocker to be over seers to advise her and to see that this my will be performed : In witness whereof I have here unto sett my hand and Seal this 12th day of march 1696: Alias 7:

Samuel [his mark] Hinckley (Seal)

Signed Sealed and declared to be his Last Will and Testament in presence of William Bassett Shubal Smith Tho Smith

April ye 7th 1697 : then William Bassett and Shubal Smith whose hands are here to sett as witnesses appeared and made oath that they did see Samuel Hinckley above Named Signe Seal and declare ye above written Instrument to be his act and Deed and that Thomas Smith was present at ye same time and sett his hand to this Instrument as a Witness before Barnabas Lothrop Judg of probats and granting Administration

Examined and duely compared with ye origanal and entered April ye 13th day : 1697 Attest Joseph Lothrop Register

[p. 42] A true Invintory of all and singuler ye Lands goods chattels and credits of Samuel Hinckley Jur Deceased prised at Barnestable ye second day of April : 1697 : by Deacon Job Crocker Josiah Crocker and Daniel Parker [Totaled £136.16.0]

1. ↑ "Scituate and Barnstable Church Records", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol 9 p 284, July 1855.

   "Samuel, Soon of Thomas Hinckley baptizd Febru. 20, 1652"

2. ↑ ^2.0 2.1 "Hinckley", in Burrage, Henry Sweetser; Albert Roscoe Stubbs; and George Thomas Little. Genealogical and family history of the state of Maine. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company, c1909)
   1502-1503.

   "Samuel, eldest son of Governor Thomas Hinckley and his first wife, Mary (Richards) Hinckley, was born February 14. 1652, in Barnstable. and passed his life in that town, where he died March 19, 1697. He was a soldier in King Phillip's war, and was one of the grantees of the town of Gorham, in the district of Maine. He was married November 13, 1676, to Sarah, daughter of Captain John Pope, of Sandwich. After his death she became the second wife of Thomas Hutchins, of Barnstable. Children of Samuel (2) Hinckley were: Mercy (died young), Mehitable, Thomas, Seth, Samuel, Elnathan (died young), Job, Shubael, Mercy, Josiah and Elnathan."

3. ↑ Nelson, Glade Ian, "Identifying Mercy, Wife of Thomas Hinckley of Harwich, Massachusetts, as Mercy (Bangs) (Hinckley) Cole", in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. (Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society)
   Vol 162, p.101.

   Samuel Hinckley, eldest son of Thomas Hinckley, b. Barnstable 14 Feb 1652/3, bp. 20 Feb 1652/3, d. Barnstable 19 Mar 1696/7, m. Barnstable 13 Nov 1676 Sarah Pope. Will dated 12 Mar 1696/7, proved 13 Apr 1697 [sic].

4. ↑ ^4.0 4.1 "Barnstable, Mass., Vital Records", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   6:98.

   "Tho's Hinkley Married with Mary Richards ye 7 of Decem 1641
   ...
   his Son Samuel born About ye 14 of Feb 1652
   ...
   Sam'll Hinkley Son of Mr Tho's Hinkley Deceas'd ye 19 of March 1697" [footnote: death record written in margin]

5. ↑ "The Wills of Samuel Hinckley and [Sarah] Huckins", in Massachusetts Society of Mayflower Descendants. Mayflower Descendant: An Illustrated Quarterly Magazine of Pilgrim Genealogy, History and Biography
   10:12.

   Will of "Samuel Hinckley of Barnestable", dated 12 Mar 1696/97, inventory 2 Apr 1697, will proved 7 Apr 1697 [elsewhere on this page].