Part of Clif Hinds collection of New England Hinds families. Regards, Nan [email protected] ============================== Boston Marriages 1700-1809 listed the following: "Hind, Hinde, Hindes, Hinds, Hines, Hynds" John Heines (Hinds) married Mary Doak - Rev Sam Stillman 22 Mar 1781 John Hinds married Elizabeth Cotton - Rev Sam Stillman 4 May 1794 John Hind & Mary Henderson - Rev Samuel Mather (This is probably the Mather family associated with the Samlem Witchcraft trials.) 25 Oct 1739 John Hinds & Eleanor Dorris 4 Sep 1742 * John Hinds & Eleanor Davis 25 Sep 1742 * John Hinds & Ruth Summers 15 Aug 1742 * Similar names could be different accounts of the same marriage. A book entitled Massachusetts Officers and Soldiers in the French and Indian Wars 1755-56 by D. Goss and D. Zarowin gave the following HINDS: NAME RANK AGE RESIDENCE LOCATION COMPANY REGIMENT Thomas Pvt 45 Scituate Edward Abel Keen Thacher Israel Pvt Abel Pvt Ithamar Hubble The following account was extracted from a book entitled American Ancestry. "Hinds, Franklin Allen of Watertown, N>Y> b. there Nov. 17, 1843, educated at the Sheffield engineering school of Yale Coll., followed the profession of civil engineering, served as city engineer of Watertown, also as water commissioner and commissioner of public works and is one of the vestrymen of Trinity Church of Watertown (M. Dec. 25 1867 Mary R. Thomson, only daughter of William Thomson and Mary T. Peabody, 5th generation descendants from William Peabody of Plymouth Mass. who M. Elizabeth, daughter of John Alden and Priscilla Mullins of the "Mayflower" as told in Longfellow's poem "Courtship of Miles Standish," she, Mary (R. Thomson-Nan) had son Earl William Hinds, b. Oct. 22, 1871, d. June 3, 1873); son of Earl B. Hinds of Watertown N.Y., in Denmark N.Y. Oct 25, 1811. d. in Pamelia, N.Y. May 18, 1894, farmer, life spent in the vicinity of Watertown, a respected citizen, a good business man, avoiding public notice (m. Feb. 26, 1843 Almira M. Allen, b. in St. Lawrence Co. N.Y.Feb 26, 1821 ------------: son of Thomas Hinds of Denmark N.Y., b. in Barre, Mass. in May 1780, d. in Adams N.Y. 1846, served in the war of 1812, with his bro. Joseph Buckminster Hinds were in the battle of Sackets Harbor May 29, 1813 (m. 1800 Phoebe, dau. of David Bent of Mt. Holley Vt.; son of Corlis of Barre Mass., b there 1748, d. in Petersham, Mass. 1832 (m. 1st a Brownell, had son Samuel, m. 2d Susannah Henry, of English descent, her father was taken prisoner at Oswego during the French war and sent to France, where he died on a prison ship, she Susannah had 8 ch., viz: Corlis [emigrated to Black River Country in northern New York State, and was the first supervisor of Watertown 1805-9] Thomas, William, Jonas, Henry, Joseph Buckminster [m. Rebecca Allen], Adah and Susan Hinds); son of Corlis Hinds of Barre, b. in Barre 1716, d. there 1821, m. Janet McMaster, and had 9 children, cornelius, 1743, Anna, 1744. Rachel, 1746, Corlis, 1748, Susannah, 1750, Submit, 1752, Howard, 1755, Forbes, 1759, Catherine, 1760, m. 2d Jennie McCuller, and had Jesse and Samuel; son of John, b. at Lancaster Mass. in 1683. m. Hannah (Whittaker) Corlis of Haverhill, Mass. had 13 ch., Anna, Hohn Frances, Mary, Seth, Jonathan, Dinah, Corlis, Rachel, Tryphener, Cornelius, Submit, Susannah; son of John, b. 1639. m. for 2d wife Mary Butler in 1681, and had 7 ch: son of James who had 8 ch., John the oldest."