Col. John Jack Hinton, II

DAR Ancestor #: A055437

Family

John Hinton, born about 1718– died 11 May 1784. Son of Col. John Hinton of Chowan County and Mary (Hardy) Holladay.

From The North Carolina Historical and Genealogical Register, Volume 1. edited by James Robert Bent Hathaway., page 464. < GoogleBooks >

See page 464, John Hinton and his wife, Grizzell Kimbrough, mentions the following children in his will:

1. John (m. Pheribee Smith) - oldest son and oldest child.
2. James (m. Delilah Hunter)
3. Sarah (m. Needham Bryan)
4. Mary (2nd wife of Col Joel Lane)
5. Alice (m. John James)
6. Elizabeth (m. Thomas James)
7. Kimbrough
8. David (m. Jane Lewis)
9. daughter Martha (d. 1771) is not mentioned in will. She was 1st wife of Col Joel Lane who later married her sister Mary.

Biography

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John Hinton, colonial and Revolutionary pioneer, planter, patriot, legislator, and soldier, was born in Chowan Precinct (now Gates County). He was the son of "Col." John Hinton, an emigrant from England to Virginia who had come to North Carolina in 1700 by way of Nansemond County, Va. His mother, Mary Hardy Hinton, arrived in North Carolina from Virginia in 1695 with her parents, John and Charity O'Dwyer Hardy. …
About 1745, Hinton married Grizelle Kimbrough, the daughter of Buckley and Elizabeth English[?] Kimbrough who had arrived in Edgecombe County in 1735/36 from New Kent County, Va. They had four sons and five daughters, all of whom married and had descendants. Hinton and his wife lived to see their second son, James, serve as colonel of the Wake County militia in 1780, after that commission had been declined by their oldest son, Major John Hinton, in 1777.
Hinton's unmarked grave is at the site of his river plantation home, The Square Brick House, which burned two years after his death. It appears that his wife, who survived him by fourteen years and was buried beside him, lived with their son Kimbrough at his home, The Red House, after her home burned. Following her death, Kimbrough Hinton went to Tennessee where he died.

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"In 1730, John Hinton settled in what would one day be called Knightdale in an area near the Neuse River, not far from where Hodge Road and Old Faison Road now intersect.

As more settlers arrived, the colonial government appointed Hinton to be the Justice of the Peace for Craven County. Eventually, Johnston County was carved out of Craven County in the 1750s and Wake County carved out of Johnston County in 1771.

When the American Revolution began, Hinton switched his allegiance to the colonials. He became a military leader and played a key role in the first battle of the American Revolution fought on North Carolina soil, the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge. Hinton owned seven plantations in the Knightdale area, of which three are still intact: The Oaks, Midway, and Beaver Dam." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knightdale,_North_Carolina

"Panther Rock House (cir 1743) is probably the first home of Col John Hinton and wife Grizelle Kimbrough. The house was located on the east side of the Neuse River some 2 miles south of the present Hwy 64 on land granted by the Earl of Granville.... The Square Brick house, home of Col John Hinton II & Grizelle Kimbrough. The Square Brick house (cir 1750) was built on the east bank of the Neuse River approximately 3.5 miles South of the Hwy 64 or Milburnie area. The general location was just north of the bend in the river and south of Poole Rd., across from his original first grant of land. The house burned down in 1786." http://www.knightdalehistoric.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/planta...

Will of John Hinton:

In the name of God Amen, I John Hinton, Senr. of Wake County and State of North Carolina, being of a sound mind and disposing memory, tho in low state of Health, and knowing that it is appointed for all men once to die, do make constitute & ordain this my last Will and Testament in manner and form following:

IMPRIMIS, It is my earnest will & desire that my Wife Grizeal Hinton shall after my death have the sole use and occupation of all my Estate Real and personal that I shall be possessed of at that time, during her natural life and no longer; and after here decease to be disposed of in the following manner, and that no Legacies be paid in money unless by the consent of my Wife, till her Death--

ITEM, I give and bequeath to my son John Hinton all the lands lying above Farmer's Creek that I am possessed of, to him, and his Heirs and assignees forever--And that my said Son John Hinton may enter upon, and take possession of said Land whenever he pleases--

ITEM, I give and bequeath to my Son James Hinton Ten pounds current money of the State of North Carolina--

ITEM, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Sarah Bryant Wife of Needham Bryrant a Negro fellow called Abraham or to her heirs and assignees forever--To receive him at my Death.

ITEM, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Mary Lane Wife of Joel Lane ten pounds current money of the State of North Carolina.

ITEM, I give and Bequeath to my Daughter Alice James wife of John James ten pounds current money of the State of North Carolina.

ITEM, I give and bequeath to my Daughter Elizabeth James wife of Thomas James ten pounds current money of the State of North Carolina.

ITEM, The land that I have in Johnston County I leave to be sold by my Executors, to discharge the aforesaid Legacies of ten pounds, that is to say not to be sold without my Wife's consent--

ITEM, I give and Bequeath all the remainder of my Estate Real & personal to my two Sons Kimbro and David Hinton; the Land equally to be divided between them by a dividing line' no regard being had to the quality of the Land, but to the number of acres, An East and West Course to be the dividing line-- The lower part to my son Kimbro with the Manor Plantation-- The upper part to my son David Hinton-- To them and to their heirs & Assigns forever-- Also my Personal Estate to be equally divided between the said David and Kimbro after their mother's death as before mentioned-- But in case on or both of my two last mentioned sons should die without issue (viz Kimbro and David), that the Lands that I have devised to them to be equally divided among all my surviving sons in fee simple-- And the personal Estate of the aforesaid Kimbro & David Hinton should one or both die without issue to be divided in equal proportion among all my Daughters then living-- of him that died--

ITEM, I constitute and appoint my Son John Hinton and James Hinton sole executors to this my last Will and Testament Revoking by this will all my former Wills and Testaments whatsoever--

LASTLY, it is my Will and desire that should my wife die before my sons Kimbro and David Hinton arrive at the years of discretion to manage for themselves, that the lands not to be rented and negroes hired out, but to remain upon the plantation and work the Land for the Benefit of my said two Sons viz Kimbro and David Hinton-- In witness whereof I have hereunto subscribed my name and affixed my seal this 9th of January A. D. 1784

John Hinton (Seal.)

In presence of:

   JOHN BOUTIN

   THOMAS GAY (JURAT)

   MARY (her X mark) POWELL (JURAT)

Note, before signing we observed the interlineations of-- all of him that died--David & Kimbro--

       JNO. BOUTIN,

       THOMAS GAY,

       MARY (her X mark) POWELL

https://www.ncpedia.org/biography/hinton-john

John Hinton, colonial and Revolutionary pioneer, planter, patriot, legislator, and soldier, was born in Chowan Precinct (now Gates County). He was the son of "Col." John Hinton, an emigrant from England to Virginia who had come to North Carolina in 1700 by way of Nansemond County, Va. His mother, Mary Hardy Hinton, arrived in North Carolina from Virginia in 1695 with her parents, John and Charity O'Dwyer Hardy.

Hinton was among the early trailblazers who opened up the wilderness of present Wake County. He was not yet eighteen when his father wrote his will in 1730. Nine years later he was granted land in the part of Craven County that would be cut off into Johnston and then Wake County by means of a grant said to be the earliest known document identifying land now included in Wake County. The "Entry" (for less than the 640 acres this well-to-do young man could have asked for) indicated his intention of establishing a home surrounded by open grazing forest with the advantage of a "burnt marsh," a landmark left by Indian hunters. Here he built a log house on the south side of the Neuse River about six miles east of the present city of Raleigh. The dwelling was entered by a ladder to the upper portion, as protection from marauding Indians and wild beasts. Later Hinton built a house facing the river from the opposite side, called The Square Brick House because of the unusual shape of the brick used in the foundation and chimneys. One of the bricks has been preserved in the Mordecai House in Raleigh, which was built by Henry Lane, one of Hinton's grandsons whose wife was Hinton's granddaughter. Over the years Hinton took up several thousand acres of land by Granville grants and additional acreage by purchase, becoming one of the largest planters in this section. His land followed the course of the Neuse River, and in some places the property ran four miles to the east and west of the river.

A justice of the peace for Johnston County in 1759, Hinton was named with other justices to find a suitable location for the Johnston courthouse. The site selected, Hinton's Quarter, was on the property of his brother William. Hinton also represented Johnston County in the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Provincial Assemblies of Governor Arthur Dobbs in 1760–62.

For over twenty years, Hinton served as an officer in the colonial and then state militia. Listed as captain of foot in the Johnston County militia in 1754, he held the ranks of major by 1761 and colonel by 1769; he served as colonel for eight years or longer. In 1768, just after the onset of the Regulator disturbances, Hinton—then a major in the Johnston County militia—was one of the "General and Field officers" of the army at the council of war called by Governor William Tryon at Hillsborough Camp on 22–23 September. Convinced that the Regulator dissension could not be settled peaceably, Tryon raised an army in the spring of 1771 and began an expedition against the insurgents on the western frontier on 20 April. Hinton, by now colonel of the militia in the newly formed Wake County, participated in this expedition, but Governor Tryon's journal refutes the claim of Hinton's former biographers that he and his Wake County detachment were present at the Battle of Alamance on 16 May. The detachment had been ordered to remain in Wake County to collect fines from the men who had appeared at the general muster on 6 May without arms, as well as to prevent the disaffected from joining the Regulators. It was not until 20 May, four days after the two-hour conflict, that Hinton and his men joined the army, having successfully carried out their assignments. They remained with the army until discharged at Captain Theophilus Hunter's Quarter in Wake County on 21 June, after Hinton had presided at the trial of prisoners held at Hillsborough Camp three days earlier.

When his land came under Wake County jurisdiction in 1771, Hinton served as one of the seven commissioners appointed to select a site for the Wake County courthouse. As a representative from Wake County, he attended the Second Provincial Congress at New Bern on 3 Apr. 1775 and the Third Provincial Congress at Hillsborough, beginning 20 Aug. 1775, where he subscribed to the oath of allegiance to the Association just adopted by the Continental and Provincial Congresses. At the latter Congress he was appointed a member of the Committee of Safety for the Hillsborough District and the same day designated colonel of the Wake County minutemen, thus being transferred from the colonial to the state militia. A delegate from Wake County to the Fourth Provincial Congress at Halifax, Hinton participated in the adoption of the Halifax Resolves and was named (5 Apr. 1776) a member of the Safety Committee "to enquire into and make report to this Congress of ammunition now remaining in the Province," a fitting appointment for a veteran who had commanded his regiment in the Moore's Creek expedition only a month before.

Because he was already a colonel in the Johnston County militia, it appears that Hinton, with his regiment, had simply been transferred to Wake County in 1771. The muster rolls show Hinton as colonel of the Wake militia, his son-in-law Theophilus Hunter as major in 1772 and lieutenant colonel in 1773, his son-in-law Joel Lane as lieutenant colonel in 1772, his son John, Jr., as captain in 1772 and major in 1773, and his son James as captain in 1773. When the British yoke could no longer be borne, he was as loyal to the cause of freedom as he had been to the king as a British subject and officer of the royal governor's militia forces. After a campaign of about a month's duration, the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge was fought on 27 Feb. 1776. The state comptroller's accounts show that Colonel Hinton was paid for his services for thirty days as well as for furnishing a cart, four horses, and two servants for twenty-seven days in this campaign. One of the servants was "Uncle Brisco" who, after Hinton's death, lived at The Oaks, the plantation of his youngest son David, where Brisco drove the first carriage brought into Wake County, hitched a horse to the last gig brought within its boundaries, and told many a tale about having gone off to war with his master.

In 1776, Hinton also spent five days organizing the Wake County militia regiment and collecting provisions for an intended expedition to Cape Fear. Apparently, although alerted for the expedition, Hinton and his regiment did not participate in it.

About 1745, Hinton married Grizelle Kimbrough, the daughter of Buckley and Elizabeth English[?] Kimbrough who had arrived in Edgecombe County in 1735/36 from New Kent County, Va. They had four sons and five daughters, all of whom married and had descendants. Hinton and his wife lived to see their second son, James, serve as colonel of the Wake County militia in 1780, after that commission had been declined by their oldest son, Major John Hinton, in 1777.

Hinton's unmarked grave is at the site of his river plantation home, The Square Brick House, which burned two years after his death. It appears that his wife, who survived him by fourteen years and was buried beside him, lived with their son Kimbrough at his home, The Red House, after her home burned. Following her death, Kimbrough Hinton went to Tennessee where he died.

Mentioned in his father John Hinton's will.

Biography of John Hinton Biographical History of North Carolina, Vol. 3 (1906) Of all the patriots who lived in Wake County during the Revolution, probably the most distinguished, both as a soldier and statesman, was Colonel John Hinton, who was native of the precinct of Chowan, where his father, also named John Hinton, resided, his home being in that part of Cowan which is now Gates County.

It was about the year 1750 that John Hinton, then in the prime vigor of manhood, first came to Johnston County. The part of Johnston in which he settled was severed in 1771, and (with parts of the counties of Orange and Cumberland) erected into the county of Wake. In 1768, when the trouble with the Regulators was in its early stages, John Hinton, then a major of Johnston County troops, went to Hillsboro to confer with Governor Tryon as to the best means of quieting the disturbances. The efforts to quell the insurrection by peaceable means having failed, Tryon raised an army in the spring of 1771, and after scattering the Regulators at the battle of Alamance on may16th, put an end to the revolt. In Tryon's army Hinton was one of the most trusted officers, being colonel of the Wake County detachment, and he behaved with distinguished bravery in the battle.

In the war of the Revolution Colonel Hinton's efforts in the cause of colonies began early. He represented Wake County in the second independent Provincial Congress of North Carolina, which met at New-Bern on the 3rd of April, 1775. At Hillsboro, in the following August, he sat in another congress of the like character. On September 9th the Hillsboro Congress elected him colonel of the troops of Wake County and member of the Committee of Safety for the Hillsboro District, of which district Wake formed a part. In the Provincial Congress at Halifax, in April, 1776, he was once more a delegate. He was also a justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for Wake County.

At the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, on February 27th, 1776, Colonel Hinton was present, and there the same courageous spirit marked his conduct as at Alamance.

The death of Colonel Hinton occurred in the spring of 1784. His wife was Grizelle Kimbrough, and by her he left many descendants. In the South Atlantic Quarterly Durham, North Carolina) for April, 1902, there is an account of the life of Colonel Hinton written by Miss Mary Hilliard Hinton, one of his descendants. In that sketch will be found many interesting incidences in his life and career, an account of his family and also a list of his children. Two of his sons were Revolutionary officers.

Mentioned in his father John Hinton's will.

Biography of John Hinton Biographical History of North Carolina, Vol. 3 (1906)

Of all the patriots who lived in Wake County during the Revolution, probably the most distinguished, both as a soldier and statesman, was Colonel John Hinton, who was native of the precinct of Chowan, where his father, also named John Hinton, resided, his home being in that part of Cowan which is now Gates County.

It was about the year 1750 that John Hinton, then in the prime vigor of manhood, first came to Johnston County. The part of Johnston in which he settled was severed in 1771, and (with parts of the counties of Orange and Cumberland) erected into the county of Wake. In 1768, when the trouble with the Regulators was in its early stages, John Hinton, then a major of Johnston County troops, went to Hillsboro to confer with Governor Tryon as to the best means of quieting the disturbances. The efforts to quell the insurrection by peaceable means having failed, Tryon raised an army in the spring of 1771, and after scattering the Regulators at the battle of Alamance on may16th, put an end to the revolt. In Tryon's army Hinton was one of the most trusted officers, being colonel of the Wake County detachment, and he behaved with distinguished bravery in the battle.

In the war of the Revolution Colonel Hinton's efforts in the cause of colonies began early. He represented Wake County in the second independent Provincial Congress of North Carolina, which met at New-Bern on the 3rd of April, 1775. At Hillsboro, in the following August, he sat in another congress of the like character. On September 9th the Hillsboro Congress elected him colonel of the troops of Wake County and member of the Committee of Safety for the Hillsboro District, of which district Wake formed a part. In the Provincial Congress at Halifax, in April, 1776, he was once more a delegate. He was also a justice of the Court of Pleas and Quarter sessions for Wake County.

At the battle of Moore's Creek Bridge, on February 27th, 1776, Colonel Hinton was present, and there the same courageous spirit marked his conduct as at Alamance.

The death of Colonel Hinton occurred in the spring of 1784. His wife was Grizelle Kimbrough, and by her he left many descendants. In the South Atlantic Quarterly Durham, North Carolina) for April, 1902, there is an account of the life of Colonel Hinton written by Miss Mary Hilliard Hinton, one of his descendants. In that sketch will be found many interesting incidences in his life and career, an account of his family and also a list of his children. Two of his sons were Revolutionary officers.

References

• The South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 1. edited by John Spencer Bassett, Edwin Mims, William Henry Glasson, William Preston Few, William Kenneth Boyd, William Hane Wannamaker. Page 182-187 < GoogleBooks >