Genealogical notes of Barnstable families - citizen hylbom blog

GENKALOGIOAL NOTES OF BARNSTABLE FAMILIES. 33
gives legacies to his grandchildren Samuel, Thomas, Marj-, Bathshea,
children of his son Thomas, and to his grandsons Samuel
and Jonathan Cobb. His personal estate was apprised at £162,16,
and he had a large real estate which he gave to his three sons,
Thomas, Samuel and John.
Gov. Thomas Hinckley, son of Samuel, married for his first
wife, Dec. 4, 1641, Mary Richards,* daughter of Thomas of
Weymouth. She died June 24, 1659, and he married March 16,
1660, for his second, Mary Glover,t widow of Nathaniel Glover.
Her grandson, Rev. Thomas Prince, says "she was the only child
of Mr. Quartermaster Smith by his first wife, formerly of Lancashire,
in England, and afterwards of Dorchester, in New England,"
and "was born in Lancashire in 1630. Her parents living
under the ministry of the Rev. Mr. Richard Mather at Toxteth in
that shire, they came up and brought her with them to Bristol in
order for N. E. in April, 1635. Her father and others settling at
Dorchester, and a new church gathered there Aug. 23, 1636, the
said Mr. Richard Mather became the Teacher ; under whose ministry
she lived, unless when sent to school at Boston. She married
to Mr. Nathaniel Glover, a son of the Hon. John Glover, of
said Dorchester, by whom she had Nathaniel and Ann. And then
this husband dying she remained a widow till when she married
the Hon. Thomas Hinckley, Esq., of Barnstable." Her daughter
married July 11, 1673, William Rawson, and her son Hannah
Hinckley.
Mrs. Mary Hinckley is represented to have been beautiful in
person, and the most accomplished and intelligent woman in the
Colony. Her daughters bore a striking resemblance to the mother,
and in her grandsons seems to have been concentrated the intellectual
vigor of the grandfather, and the accomplishments of the
grandmother. This is remarkable, but perhaps not more so than
the other facts named, that the distinguished traits in the character
of the ancestor of this family have been transmitted from
father to son to the present generation.
Mrs. Hinckley died July 29, 1703, in the 73d year of her
age. To her may truly be applied the words frequently occurring
in ancient eulogies, "She lived greatly beloved and died greatly
lamented." Gov. Hinckley, then 86 years of age, wrote some
verses to her memory which have been printed. She was buried
in the ancient burying-ground in Barnstable, and a monument was
*Her sister Alice married Deputy Got. "WiUiam Bradford, making Mm brother-in-law
to Gov. Hinckley.
tMrs. Glover's friends were opposed to the marriage. She had two children and Mr.
Hinckley eight, and they urged this as a reason against the marriage. About the time of
his marriage Mr. H. earned with him some apple- tree grafts from -his own orchatd.-' These
.he set in a tree which is said to be yet in bearing in Quincy, and known as the Hinckley
apple tree.