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Thomas Hinckley was born in Tenterden, Kent, England in 1618.
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A monument, created in 1829 at the Lothrop Hill cemetery in Barnstable, Massachusetts, attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."
They settled in the Plymouth Colony community of Scituate. In 1637 he was made a freeman of the colony, and in 1639 he followed Lothropp to Barnstable, where he began to assume positions of responsibility in the colonial government. The following is a list of his roles in government and the time he occupied each:
Deputy (1645)
Representative (1647)
Magistrate and assistant (1658–1680)
Deputy governor (1680)
Governor (1680–1692)
Commissioner on the central board of Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies (1673–1692)
Councillor (1692 – ?)
Hinckley married twice.
First on December 6, 1641 to Mary Richards, and again to Mary Glover (née Smith) on March 15, 1659.
He may have had as many as 17 children. Different sources disagree on the exact number.
Thomas Hinckley"s sister, Susannah Hinckley, is an ancestor of President Barack Obama, which means that Thomas Hinckley"s father, Samuel Hinckley, is the ancestor of three United States. presidents.
