Gen. Ephraim Hinman

Publication Number: M804

Publication Title: Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files

Publisher: NARA

Short Description: NARA M804. Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty-Land Warrant Application Files.

State: Connecticut

Veteran Surname Starts With: H

Veteran Surname: Hinman

Veteran Given Name: Ephraim

Pensioner Surname: Hinman

Pensioner Given Name: Sylvania

Service: Conn.

Pension Number: W. 17,999

Annotations: 9

Burial:

White Oak Cemetery

Southbury

New Haven County

Connecticut, USA

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HINMAN, Gen. EPH'M, son of Deacon David and Sarah, was b. April 5, 175,'); when a young man he was a captain of a military company, quartermaster, and an assistant commissary general of issues in the war of the Revolution, and served to the close "of the war, in 17?3, as did two of his brothers, Lieut. Asa, and C'apt. Benjamin. After the close of the war, he was promoted by regular grades to the orfice of Major, Colonel, and Brigadier General, and served in the last post for 13 years. He was a man of quick perception, and of great originality of thought and expression. (Cothren, has given his biography in his late history of Woodbury.) He was a merchant for about thirty years, at Roxbury, (then a society of Woodbury,) where he at one period owned 10UO acres of land, which he held on to with a singular tenacity, yielding him but a trifling profit, while he was paying heavy taxes, and at last proved an unprofitable investment He was a gentleman of the old school, in the dressing of his hair, with pomatum and powder, and his attire was also that of former days, until within a few years of his decease. He was a member of the General Assembly several sessions, and received other appointments from the town. He d. Dec. 11,1829, aged 77. His wife d. at Hartford, Feb. 13, 1839, aged 77 years 11 months and 13 days. He m. while he resided at Southbury, Feb. 3, 1779, Sylvania, dau'r of William French, of Southbury ; she was b. March 1, 1761, and had four children, viz., John, b. and d. June IS, 17S1 ; Laura, b. May 14, 1783, m. and hada dau'r, (Henrietta,) both of whom soon after d. Oct. 2, 1810, aged 33 ; Royal R., was b. with the two above, in Southbury; Mary, was b. at Roxbury, Nov. 6, 1792, d. there July 16, 1820, single.