Mary Hinckley

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF STONINGTON, County of New London, Connecticut, from its first settlement in 1649 to 1900, by Richard Anson Wheeler, New London, CT, 1900, p. 429

(3a) Mary (9) married Ensign John Hinckleyt as shown by the following extract taken from the Sandwich records: "Serjant John Hinckley and Mary Goodspeed were married 24 November, 1697, by J. T. Howes." She was his second wife and was within about three months of being thirty years old. She bore him three children: 1, Mary; 2, Abigail; 3, Mercy. Ensign John died December 7, 1709, leaving his estate to his wife Mary and to his children. His daughter Mercy died in 1718, and named her sisters Abigail and Mary as still living. Mary daughter of Ensign John and Mary, married Nov. 9, 1721, Samuel Jenkins and had 1, Experience, born 1722; 2, Mary, born 1725; 3, Samuel, born 1727; 4, Nathaniel, born 1728; 5, Simeon, born 1733; 6, Lot, born 1738. Mercy and Abigail probably died unmarried. In the Hamlin Genealogy it is stated that the Mary Goodspeed above who married Ensign John was Mary (Davis) Goodspeed, widow of Benjamin Goodspeed. If so, as that Mary was born in 1653, she was past forty-four years old at the time of her marriage in 1697, and yet bore him three children as above named, at least one of whom was no doubt born after she was fifty years old. It is much more probable that the Mary who married Ensign John was the daughter of Nathaniel (2) deceased. This Mary was past twenty-nine years old in 1697. Both she and Ensign John lived at "West Barnstable. Mary had been reared there by her step-father Increase Clapp.

"Increase Clapp was the son of Thomas, son of Bichard, of Dorchester, Eng. Increase went to West Barnstable about 1661-2 and bought land of the Rowleys. He lived on the south side of the road a little east of Dexter lane. About the year 1700, perhaps a little earlier, he moved to Rochester, Mass.

tEnsign John was the son of Samuel and Sarah Hinckley, and the brother of Thomas, Governor of Plymouth Colony, and also the brother of Samuel who married Mary (4) daughter of Roger (1). Ensign John's first wife was Bethiah Lothrop, who died July 10, 1697. By her he had Sarah, Samuel, Bethiah, Hannah, Jonathan, Ichabod born 1680, Gershom.

Source: History of the Goodspeed Family, By Weston Arthur Goodspeed, Published 1907. Page 58-56