Eastham, Wellfleet and beyond


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picture Joshua Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 25 Jul 1777 - Falmouth, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 15 Aug 1806
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Captain Barnabas Hinckley (1742-1814)
         Mother: Abigail Allen (1737-1825)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Apphia Freeman Lombard (6 Dec 1779 - 9 Jan 1854)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Mercy Hinckley (1804-1891) 1
                2. Franklin Hinckley (1806-      ) 2



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Joshua Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 4 Oct 1815 - Truro, Massachusetts 3
        Baptism: 
          Death: 30 Jul 1824 - Truro, Massachusetts 4 5
         Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Joshua Hinckley (1780-1816)
         Mother: Thankful Baker (1785-      )



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Joshua Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 25 Mar 1780 - Truro, Massachusetts 6
        Baptism: 21 May 1780 - Truro, Massachusetts 7
          Death: 7 Apr 1816 - Truro, Massachusetts 8
         Burial: in Old North Cemetery, Truro 9
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Benjamin Hinckley (1744-1824)
         Mother: Dinah Sweat (1751-1824)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Thankful Baker (4 Nov 1785 -       )
       Marriage: 20 Dec 1804 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 10
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Ruth Baker Hinckley (1810-After 1910) 11
                2. Betsey Hinckley (1813-1834)
                3. Joshua Hinckley (1815-1824)
                4. Thankful Hinckley (1806-      )



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Joshua Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 29 Mar 1707 - Harwich, Massachusetts 12
        Baptism: 22 Apr 1711 - Harwich, Massachusetts 13
          Death: in Oblong, New York
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Thomas Hinckley (1681-1710) 13
         Mother: Mercy Bangs (1682-Bef 1747) 13
Spouses and Children 
1. *Lydia Snow (24 Jul 1707 -       )
       Marriage: 21 Mar 1726 - Harwich, Massachusetts 14
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Benjamin Hinckley (1744-1824)
Notes
Marriage Notes (Lydia Snow)
Dismissed from Harwich Church to unite at Oblong, New York Church in 1753.

Children
Thomas HINCKLEY b: 4 MAR 1726/1727
Joshua HINCKLEY b: 15 AUG 1728
Josiah HINCKLEY b: 5 MAY 1730
Elkanah HINCKLEY b: 1 JUL 1732
Nathan HINCKLEY b: 1 JUN 1734
Lydia HINCKLEY b: 1 APR 1736
Ruth HINCKLEY b: 2 FEB 1737/1738
Isaac HINCKLEY b: 5 FEB 1739/1740
Benjamin HINCKLEY b: 8 JUN 1744
Reuben HINCKLEY b: 1749
Thankful HINCKLEY b: 1746

picture Joshua Thomas Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 5 May 1832 - Provincetown, Massachusetts 15
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Franklin Hinckley (1806-      ) 2
         Mother: Huldah Watkins (Est 1810-      )



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Josiah Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 24 Jan 1695 - Barnstable, Massachusetts 13
        Baptism: 15 Jan 1727 - Truro, Massachusetts 16
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Hinckley (Abt 1653-1697) 13
         Mother: Sarah Pope (1658-Between 1727) 13
Spouses and Children 
1. *Lydia Paine (4 Dec 1700 -       )
       Marriage: 3 Feb 1720 - Truro, Massachusetts 13 17
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Phebe Hinckley (1720-1722) 18
                2. Solomon Hinckley (1722-      )
                3. Sarah Hinckley (1724-      )
                4. Lydia Hinckley (1726-      )
                5. Phebe Hinckley (1728-1799)
                6. Enoch Hinckley (1730-1730) 18
                7. Abigail Hinckley (1731-      )
                8. Enoch Hinckley (1733-      )
                9. Moses Hinckley (1735-1736) 18
                10. Hannah Hinckley (1738-      )
                11. Josiah Hinckley (1742-      )
Notes
General:
He was a blacksmith in Truro.
Marriage Notes (Lydia Paine)
Josiah and Lydia joined the Truro church on 15 Jan 1726/7, the same day he was baptized 13

picture Josiah Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 
        Baptism: 6 Jun 1742 - Truro, Massachusetts 16
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Josiah Hinckley (1695-      )
         Mother: Lydia Paine (1700-      )



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Lavina Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 1 Apr 1821 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 19
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Deacon Moses Hinckley (1772-1854)
         Mother: Martha Chipman (1778-1850)
Spouses and Children 
1. *William Ward (29 Apr 1827 - 12 Aug 1896) 20 
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Josephine E Ward (1856-1925) 21
Notes
Marriage Notes (William Ward)
1880 US census, Wellfleet
Willaim Ward, self, 52, depot master
Lavina Ward, wife, 58 keeping house
Josephine Ward, dau, 23, at home
all b Mass.

picture Lemuel Hinckley 
      Sex: M
Individual Information 
          Birth: 17 Dec 1762 - Maine
        Baptism: 
          Death: 6 Jun 1853
         Burial: in Lisbon Ridge Cemetery, Lisbon Falls
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Edmund Hinckley (1712-1793)
         Mother: Sarah Smith (1723-1798) 22
Spouses and Children 
1. *Elizabeth Clark Hinckley (7 Jan 1768 - 30 Sep 1846)
       Marriage: 
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Rebecca H Hinckley (1809-1885)
Notes
General:
Children
Lois HINCKLEY b: 2 Jan 1802
Enoch HINCKLEY b: 25 Jun 1803 in Lisbon, Maine
Lucy HINCKLEY b: 10 Sep 1805
Mariann HINCKLEY b: 8 Jun 1807
Rebecca H. HINCKLEY b: 21 Oct 1809 in (1820?) (may have had dau. Mary E. b. 1844, died 1847 see Lisbon Ridge Cem info)
Jeremiah HINCKLEY b: 4 Mar 1811

[unless they were divorced, the subsequent marriage listings make no sense for this man. Another Lemuel, probably]
Marriage 2 Lois RIDEOUT b: Abt 1753
Married: 27 Nov 1787 in Brunswick, Lincoln Co., ME
Children
Mary HINCKLEY b: 4 Nov 1788 in Lisbon, Lincoln Co., ME

Marriage 3 Mary BLAKE b: 1763 in of Harpswell, ME
Married: 6 Mar 1798
Children
Lois HINCKLEY b: 2 Nov 1790
Charles HINCKLEY b: 11 Dec 1799 in Lisbon Falls, Androscoggin (Lincoln) Co., ME
(:3043103 - Jean Weddle, very well documented)


picture Louisa Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 15 Nov 1834 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Chipman Hinckley (1803-      ) 19
         Mother: Polly Jenkins Holbrook (1810-1838)



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Lydia Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: Est 1750 - (Chatham, Massachusetts)
        Baptism: 25 Aug 1771 - Truro, Massachusetts 24
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Ebenezer Hinckley (1712-Abt 1780)
         Mother: Mehitable Sturgis (1723-1773)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Moses Paine (11 Sep 1737 - 15 Sep 1794)
       Marriage: 18 Dec 1770 - Chatham, Massachusetts 25 26
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Jesse Paine (1771-1849)
                2. Margery Paine (1773-      )
                3. Molly Paine (1776-      )
                4. Lydia Paine (1778-1850)
                5. Moses Paine (1781-Bef 1837)



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Lydia Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 24 Sep 1755 - Truro, Massachusetts 27
        Baptism: 11 Jan 1756 - Truro, Massachusetts 16
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Solomon Hinckley (1722-      )
         Mother: Jerusha Rich (1718-      ) 28
Spouses and Children 
1. *Joshua Atkins (21 Jun 1761 - 1794) 29 
       Marriage: 20 May 1794 - Truro, Massachusetts 30
         Status:
Notes
Marriage Notes (Joshua Atkins)
tentative couple, from process of elimination. There are no other Lydia Hinckleys in Truro VR or baptisms.

picture Lydia Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 11 Jun 1726 - Truro, Massachusetts 18
        Baptism: 29 Jan 1727 - Truro, Massachusetts 16
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Josiah Hinckley (1695-      )
         Mother: Lydia Paine (1700-      )



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Lydia Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 
        Baptism: 1 Mar 1730 - Truro, Massachusetts
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Shubael Hinckley (1690-1782)
         Mother: Mary Snow (1696-      )
Spouses and Children 
1. *Captain Simon Gross (30 May 1709 - 23 Feb 1796) 31 32 
       Marriage: 18 Sep 1755 - Truro, Massachusetts 33
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Elizabeth Treat Gross (1758-      )
Notes
Marriage Notes (Captain Simon Gross)
unreferenced. maybe wrong Simon/Simeon

picture Lydia Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 2 Apr 1788 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
        Baptism: 
          Death: 4 Mar 1863 - Barnstable, Massachusetts
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Prince Hinckley (1758-1843) 34
         Mother: Eunice Goodspeed (1764-1845) 34
Spouses and Children 
1. *Reuben Fish (1770 - 10 May 1854) 34 
       Marriage: 1820
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Eunice Hinckley Fish (1829-1874) 34



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Martha Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 13 Apr 1806 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 19
        Baptism: 
          Death: 14 Aug 1832 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 35 36
         Burial: in Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Deacon Moses Hinckley (1772-1854)
         Mother: Martha Chipman (1778-1850)
Spouses and Children 
1. *Paul Knowles (14 Sep 1808 - 18 Jun 1880)
       Marriage: 15 Aug 1832 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 37
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Patty Hinckley Knowles (1832-      ) 38
Notes
General:
stone:
"In memory of Martha, wife of Paul Knowles, 2nd., who died Aug 14., 1832 in the 25th. year of her age.
'So unaffected so composed a mind
So firm yet soft so strong yet so refin'd
Heaven as its purest gold by tortures tried
I mourn my loss but my wife she dy'd.' " 39
Marriage Notes (Paul Knowles)
There is a small problem here, with Martha dying a day before she was married, yet the records seen are in agreement.

picture Martha Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 8 Mar 1701 - Barnstable, Massachusetts 40
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Hinckley (1670-1751)
         Mother: Mary Lothrop (1677-1737)



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Martha Maria Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 23 Mar 1832 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
        Baptism: 
          Death: 26 Jul 1835 - Wellfleet, Massachusetts 23
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Chipman Hinckley (1803-      ) 19
         Mother: Polly Jenkins Holbrook (1810-1838)



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Mary Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 3 Aug 1644 - Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: 
         Burial: 
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Governor Thomas Hinckley (1620-1705)
         Mother: Mary Richards (1620-1659) 41



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Mary Hinckley 
      Sex: F
Individual Information 
          Birth: 22 Jul 1678 - Barnstable, Plymouth Colony
        Baptism: 
          Death: 7 Jan 1741 - Harwich, Massachusetts
         Burial: in Old Burial Ground, Brewster
 Cause of Death:

Parents 
         Father: Samuel Hinckley (Abt 1653-1697) 13
         Mother: Sarah Pope (1658-Between 1727) 13
Spouses and Children 
1. *Samuel Bangs (12 Jul 1680 - 11 Jun 1750) 13 43 
       Marriage: 13 Jan 1704 - Harwich, Massachusetts 13
         Status: 
       Children:
                1. Seth Bangs (1705-      )
                2. Samuel Bangs (1707-1731) 44
                3. David Bangs (1709-      )
                4. Mary Bangs (1711-1734)
                5. Joseph Bangs (1713-1757)
                6. Sarah Bangs (1716-      )
                7. Melatiah Bangs (1715-      )
                8. Lemuell Bangs (1719-      ) 45
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Sources

1 Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association).

2 George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 23:93.

3 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 221.

4 Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), #742.

5 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 242.

6 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 123.

7 John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), 28. has transcription errors

8 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 220.

9 Richard A. Haskell, editor, Truro Cemeteries (2000. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), #506.

10 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:556. Marriages.

11 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 200.

12 Louise H. Kelly and Dorothy Straw, compilers; Wynn, Rachel Linnell, author, Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850 (1982. Harwich MA: Harwich Historical Society), 11. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no Harwick.

13 Glade Ian Nelson, "Identifying Mercy, Wife of Thomas Hinckley of Harwich, Massachusetts, as Mercy (Bangs) (Hinckley) Cole" (2008. NEHGR 162:101-107).

14 Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 38. Please note: Harwich, Barnstable, Massachusetts is 100 miles from Hardwick, Worcester, Massachusetts. There is no 'Harwick.'

15 George Ernest Bowman and Ethel A. Richardson, "Provincetown, Massachusetts Vital Records" (Mayflower Descendant), 23:142.

16 John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), 28.

17 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 38.

18 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 48.

19 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:68.

20 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), Family records, 161.

21 Wellfleet Town Officers, Wellfleet, Massachusetts Annual Reports (Wellfleet MA), 1925.

22 Lorelei S. Gustafson, Kendall and Allied Families (2006. http://www.gustafsonfam.com/genealogy/wc_toc.html), Groves, Malene Alma. Hinckleys of Maine - The Ancestry (both in Massachusetts and in England) and Descendants of Samuel Hinckley of Brunswick, Maine . Penobscot Press: Maine, 1993.

23 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:150. The childen of Chipman and Polly Hinckley.

24 John Harvey Treat, rearranged by Kathryn Rich, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Vital Statistics. Section Two, Truro Baptisms 1711-1800 (1969. Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Association), 42.

25 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 417.

26 Sheila M. Dann Westgate and Anna Lowell Tomlinson, Vital Records of Chatham, Massachusetts, 1696-1850. vol. 1 (1991. Chatham Mass.: Chatham Historical Society), 75.

27 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 80.

28 Evelyn Rich, "Richard Rich of Eastham on Cape Cod and some of his descendants" (New England Historical and Genealogical Register.), 83:266. in 5 parts. vol. 83: 261-278 , 394-414 (1929) and vol. 84: 34-62, 117-134, 294-304 (1930)
Numerous small mistakes.

29 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 69.

30 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 158. Rev Jude Damon.

31 Rootsweb.com, amidon.

32 New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 80:17 The Knowles Family of Eastham, Mass.

33 George Ernest Bowman, compiler, Vital Records of Truro, Massachusetts to the year 1849 (1933. Mass. Society of Mayflower Descendants. republished online), 88.

34 J. Everett, "Ancestors of Dorothy Swift Bearse" (2009. email PDf chart).

35 Stanley W. Smith, "Records from the Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Mass." (Mayflower Descendant, vols 10, 11, 12).

36 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:238. deaths (15 Aug 1832).

37 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:586. Marriages.

38 Town records of Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet, Massachusetts.), 1:154. The daughter of Paul Knowles and Martha his Wife.

39 Elizabeth Freeman, Wellfleet, Truro, & Cape Cod Cemetery Transcriptions. Section Three. Duck Creek Cemetery, Wellfleet, Massachusetts (Wellfleet MA: Rich Family Asscociation), 8.

40 Col. Leonard H. Smith Jr, Barnstable Massachusetts. in Vital Records of Southeastern Massachusetts. Volume 3. facsimile of records published in 'The Mayflower Descendant' with added index of persons (1982. Clearwater Florida: Owl Books), 31 (MD6:136).

41 M. Natale, Asa Bodfish family & ancestors (email and PDF. 2008).

42 Robert Paine Carlson, Cape Cod Gravestones, 2003. Eastham MA. CapeCodGravestones.com.

43 Smith and Smith, Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans..., 1980, 1993. Baltimore MD, 11 MD4:29-30. Col. Leonard H Smith, Jr. and Norma H Smith. Vital Records of the Towns of Eastham and Orleans. An authorized facsimile reproduction of records published serially 1901-1935 in "The Mayflower Descendant." With an added index of persons.
1980, 1993. Baltimore MD: reprinted for Clearfield Co. by Genealogical Pub. Co.

44 New England Historical and Genealogical Register (New England Historic Genealogical Society. Boston), 102:52.

45 Harwich Massachusetts vital records (http://plymouthcolony.net/barnstable/vitalrecords/harwich/harlinktable.html
pages numbers refer to "Vital records, town of Harwich, Massachusetts, 1694-1850" 1982. Harwich Historical Society), 5.

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