Found on http://www.familytreemaker.com/_glc_/ A Family Record of the Descendants of Sergt Edward Hinman Author: R. R. Hinman Call Number: R929.2 H663h A history and record of the descendants of Sergt. Edward Hinman, who first appeared at Stratford in Connecticut around 1650. Bibliographic Information: Hinman, R. R. A Family Record of the Descendants of Sergt. Edward Hinman. Hartford: Press of Case, Tiffany and Company, 1856. It has been supposed by many of the family that Edward Inman, an early settler of Providence, in Rhode Island, was identical with Edward Hinman, of Stratford Conn., which has been an erroneous opinion, proved so by a letter from the Hon. Mr. Updike, of South Kingston, Rhode Island, and another from Chief Justice Wm. A. Staples, of Providence, Rhode Island, both historians and genealogists of a high order, by which it appears that Edward Inman was received a purchaser of Providence after January, l646; that his share in the purchase was one-quarter of a full right, such a share as many of the 101 original purchasers had. He was a commonwealth man. But enough for the present purpose is that he died at Providence, August 17, 1706, where he left a widow, Barbara, and two sons, Edward and John, named in his will; while Edward Hinman died in Stratford, Conn., in 1681, and left children,