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Seth Hinckley
b.25 Dec 1707 Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States
d.5 May 1747 Brunswick, Cumberland, Maine, United States
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m. Est 1706
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Seth Hinckley was killed 5 May 1747 by Indians near "the garrison of Joseph Smith and Tobias Ham," in the area known as New Meadows (present-day Brunswick and West Bath near the New Meadows River). Smith and Tam were tanners, and Hinckley is reported to have been there to get a strap for a cowbell. Reverend Thomas Smith in his Journal says on April 23, 1747 (with perhaps a critical tone), "We are in the most distressed circumstances. Swarms of Indians being about the frontier, and no soldiers save Captain Jordan's Company of fifty men, thirty of whom have been for some time at Topsham, guarding the government timber."S4 Seth Hinckley's death occurs in the context of King George's War, one of North American conflicts that mirrored conflicts in Europe, where French and Indian allies, with greater or lesser coordination, fought against English settlers. In 1747, there are several other attacks in the Merrymeeting Bay area. It is interesting to note that Aaron Hinckley, Seth's brother, serves a soldier in the French and Indian Wars, becoming a Lieutenant in Benjamin Larrabee's company in 1748, the year following his brother's death. See Person:Aaron Hinckley (1)
Ancestral File Number:<AFN> RP2V-16 References
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