Elizabeth Hinckley

NOTE: Elizabeth Hinckley, daughter of Thomas Hinckley & Ann Katherine Hinckley is not the same as Elizabeth Sturgis, the wife of Edward Sturges, of Yarmouth. Recent research (2020) has disproven this relationship. Please refer to Research Notes below for further insight. Thank you.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hinckley-30

Elizabeth Hinckley's parents were Thomas and Anna Hinckley.[1] She was baptized at Harrietsham, County Kent, England on September 20, 1617.[2][3]

Being enrolled at Sandwich, Elizabeth immigrated to New England on the Hercules with the family of Samuel Hinckley (bef.1589-1662) of Tenterden as "El[i]zab[eth] a kinswoman."[4][5][6] Samuel Hinckley was her uncle, a brother of her father. Elizabeth's parents did not immigrate to New England.[1]

The family of Samuel Hinckley first resided in Scituate and then moved to Barnstable in 1639; Elizabeth is believed to have continued in this household.[2] Her uncle Samuel died in Barnstable at the end of October 1662.[5]

Research Notes

Not the wife of Edward Sturges:

• In 1914, Roger Faxon Sturgis in "Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth, Massachusetts and His Descendants" made a "compelling case that Elizabeth, Wife of Edward Sturgis was Elizabeth Hinckley. Based on naming patterns,[2] the identity was accepted until Robert Charles Anderson "pointed out conflicts in his Great Migration Sketch of Edward Sturgis." Mrs. Elizabeth Sturges had been harassed by one Daniel Patrick of Watertown, in her complaint to Governor John Winthrop she mentioned going to her father's house; but her father had never migrated to New England and did not live in Watertown, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Samuel Paine Sturgis III reviewed Watertown families for the correct Elizabeth, finding only two who were unmarried, born before 1625; Elizabeth Munnings, baptized at Rattlesden, Suffolk on January 27, 1621/2, whose family resided in Watertown from 1634-1639 & 1641 "is a likely candidate" as the wife of Edward Sturgis.[1]
• 1641 Elizabeth Sturgis "made a plain statement of the assaults made on her by Captain Patrick, first at the time when she was a servant to Mr. Cumines and later after her marriage."[7][8]
• She was also a cousin of Governor Thomas Hinckley.[citation needed]

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References

1. WikiTree contributors, "Elizabeth Hinckley (bef.1617-)," WikiTree: The Free Family Tree, (https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hinckley-30 : accessed 28 February 2024)
   1. The New England Historic Genealogical Register, The Journal of American Genealogy. Samuel Paine Sturgis III. "Elizabeth Sturgis of Watertown, Massachusetts" Winter 2020, Vol. 174, pp 36-39. < PDF >; (document attached)
   2. Roger Faxon Sturgis, "Edward Sturgis of Yarmouth, Massachusetts, 1613-1695 and His Descendants." Stanhope Press of Boston (1914) p. 11. see at familysearch.org
   3. Nora E. Snow, "The Snow-Estes Ancestry" Hillburn, New York (1939). Vol. 1, p 478. see at Hathitrust.org
   4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register. Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2018.) Eben Putnam. "Two Early Passenger Lists 1635-1637" July (1921). Vol. 75 p. 219. subscription
   5. Great Migration 1634-1635, G-H. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume III, G-H, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2003. Sketch of Samuel Hinckley. subscribers
   6. Eben Putnam. "Two Early Passenger Lists." The New England Historical Genealogical Register. (1921) Vol. LXXV, p. 219. see at google.com
   7. The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2010), (Originally Published as: New England Historic Genealogical Society. Robert Charles Anderson, The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England 1620-1633, Volumes I-III, 3 vols., 1995). Sketch of Daniel Patrick. p. 1407. subscription
   8. Great Migration 1634-1635, R-S. (Online database. AmericanAncestors.org. New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2012.) Originally published as: The Great Migration, Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volume VI, R-S, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009. Comments in the sketch of Edward Sturges. p. 593, 594. subscription