Samuel HINCKLEY

Father: Unknown
Mother: Unknown

Family 1: Sarah SOOLE [?]

  1. Sarah HINCKLEY
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Notes

Updated April 2, 2023. Compiled by Howder (www.howderfamily.com) from the following source(s):

(1) Otis, Amos. Genealogical Notes of Barnstable Families. Barnstable, Massachusetts, United States, F. B. & F. P. Goss, 1890. Hinckley chapter (pages 30-48).

"Samuel HINCKLEY, the common ancestor of all the name in this country, is the type of the race. He was a dissenter, though on the 14th of March, 1634-5, in order to escape out of his native country, he was obliged to swear that he 'conformed to the order and discipline of the church of England.' He was honest, industrious and prudent, qualities which have been transitioned from father to son down to the present time... He was not a distinguished man or prominent in political life. To be a juryman or surveyor of highways, filled the measure of his political aspirations. He appears to have been a man of good estate for the times, and all his children were as well educated as his means would permit... In the spring of 1635 Mr. TILDEN, Samuel HINCKLEY, John LEWIS, and James AUSTIN, of Tenterden, in the County of Kent, in England, and several other families from that County, making a company of 102, counting men, women, children and servants, resolved to emigrate to New England. In the latter part of March they sailed from Sandwich in the ship Hercules, 200 tons, Capt. John WITHERLY. Circumstances make it probable that they intended to join the Rev. John LOTHROP, who, with several members of his church, had taken passage in the Griffin for Boston the preceding summer. More than half of the passengers who came over in the Hercules were afterwards inhabitants of Scituate. Samuel HINCKLEY brought with him his wife Sarah and four children, and immediately after his arrival in Boston went to Scituate and built a house which Mr. LOTHROP calls No. 19... Samuel HINCKLEY continued to reside in Scituate till July, 1640, when he sold his house, farm and meadows, and removed to Barnstable... As a church member he does not appear to have been intolerant. The fact that he was twice indicted for 'entertaining strangers' indicates that he belonged to the liberal party, of which his friends CODWORTH, HATHERLY and ROBINSON, and his son-in-law, Rev. John SMITH, were prominent members. He married his first wife in England, and she and his four children came over with him... Mrs. Sarah HINCKLEY died Aug. 18, 1656, and Samuel HINCKLEY married Dec. 15, 1657, for his second wife, Bridget BODFISH, widow of Robert of Sandwich... Samuel HINCKLEY died Oct. 31, 1662."

(2) New England, The Great Migration and The Great Migration Begins, 1620-1635 via Ancestry.com; Pages 331-335.

- ORIGIN: Tenterden, Kent
- MIGRATION: 1635 on the Hercules
- FIRST RESIDENCE: Scituate
- REMOVES: Barnstable 1639
- CHURCH MEMBERSHIP: "On 30 August 1635, 'Goody HINCKLEY' was admitted a member of the Scituate church [NEHGR 9:280]"
- FREEMAN: "On 2 January 1637/8, 'Samuell HINCKLEY' was admitted a freeman of Plymouth Colony"
- BIRTH: "Baptized Harrietsham, Kent, 25 May 1589, son of Robert HINCKLEY [NEHGR 65:315-17]"
- MARRIAGE: "(1) Hawkhurst, Kent, 7 May 1617 Sarah SOOLE [NEHGR 68:186], baptized there on 8 June 1600, daughter of Thomas SOOLE [NEHGR 68:186-89]"; Children: Thomas; John; Susanna; Mary; Sarah, Mary, Elizabeth, John, Elizabeth, Samuel, Samuel, daughter, child (twin), child (twin), Samuel, John
- MARRIAGE: "(2) Barnstable 'about the 15 of December 1657' Bridget BOTFISH... widow of ROBERT BOTFISH"
- COMMENTS: "Thomas HINCKLEY, the eldest son of this immigrant, attained great prominence, serving as the last governor of the Plymouth Colony, from 1681 to 1692"