Thomas William Hinton, Ill

Thomas William Hinton, (1736-1821) DAR Ancestor #: A204466

Thomas W. Hinton was a Patriot of the American Revolutionary War. He and his father, Thomas Hinton, Sr. both were in the Maryland Militia.

Biography

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Hinton-48

Thomas Hinton (variously Jr. or III) was born August 31, 1736, in Maryland, probably Anne Arundel County. He married Deborah (maiden name unknown) in the 1760s. He served with his father in the 5th Company of the Upper Battalion of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Militia during the Revolutionary War (Clements & Wright: Maryland Militia in the Revolution, p. 194). This new county was split off from Frederick County in 1776. Two Thomas Hintons appear in the 1790 census from Montgomery County; this Thomas is the one with six sons (William, Thomas, Philip, Levi, Seaborn, and one unknown) and three daughters (Martha*, Sarah, Rebecca), as his father's family would not have been that large at this time. He did not own slaves.

Thomas was allegedly disinherited by his father upon his death in 1792, according to Hyatt. Either way, he certainly left Maryland and established a home near Paris, Bourbon County, Kentucky. Around 1797, he moved to Colerain Township, Ross County, Ohio, in the northeastern quarter of section nine. He surveyed this land for a company, then kept 109 acres for himself. He followed the Dawson family, who were also from Bourbon County. Hinton stayed in one location for two years, but finding the land too swampy, he moved southeast to the eastern half of section ten. He died in Colerain Township, Ross County, Ohio, on June 11, 1821, and was buried in Old Methodist Cemetery in Adelphi.

Notes

• Colerain was settled nearly as early as any of the twp. of Ross Co. In 1796, Zedekiah and Thomas Dawson, brothers, left their home in VA and built a cabin on the east bank of the second stream of water east of Hallsville. Thomas Hinton settled nearby on the Northen quarter of sect. 9 at the same time. Mr. Hinton remained 2 yr., on the above mentioned place, when, owing to much sickness caused by the damps and dews of the prairies in which he was living, he moved to a place a mile to the southeast, where the land was higher and drier. There he took up the east half of sect. 10. He had 8 boys and 3 girls. He died aged 84 yr., leaving his youngest son, Elias on the farm.

Links

• http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/h/i/n/Robert-M-Hinton/GE...

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