Havilah Burritt Hinman of Stratford, New Hampshire
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Ancestors and Descendants of Havilah Burritt Hinman of Stratford, New Hampshire with lineage back to Edward Hinman, the youngest son of Sergt Edward Hinman of Stratford, Connecticut with Barrett Family Notes Compiled by Gertrude B. Wright Privately Printed Hanover, New Hampshire 1966 Copyright © 1966 by John Holmes Hinman Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 66-16657 End papers from .New England Automobile Guide-Colored Pole Routes, L. V. Crocker, Topographer yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy CONTENTS .. Hinman Coat-of-Arms Vll Harold Hinman's Foreword IX Introductory Notes Xl The Connecticut Story First Generation 5 Second Generation 14 Third Generation 32 Fourth Generation 34 The North Country To the North Country 39 Fifth Generation 42 Sixth Generation 47 Seventh Generation 64 Eighth Generation Harvey Levi Hinman 79 Harriette Hannah Hinman 89 Burritt Havilah Hinman 92 John Holmes Hinman 98 Harold Purman Hinman 116 Mary Hugh Hinman 137 Hazen Beecher Hinman 139 Alice Hamilton Hinman Ruch 149 Family Notes and Sketches Our Home 155 The Farm 161 Old Bill 162 Mother 164 Education 166 Marriage 168 "Cramp" Barrett 168 Harriette 169 Odd Items of Interest 171 Gleanings 175 Barrett Family Notes The Barrett Family 219 First Generation 223 Second Generation 224 Third Generation 225 Fourth Generation 226 Fifth Generation 228 Sixth Generation 229 Seventh Generation 231 Addenda 245 References 251 Index 253 yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy HAROLD HINMAN'S FOREWORD HIS is essentially a history of Sergeant Edward Hinman's descendants through his son, Edward2, with details con T centrated on the eighth generation which has assembled and published the facts. The history prior to this generation was assembled and au thenticated by Mrs. Gertrude Wright, widow of William K. Wright, a noted Dartmouth professor. Mrs. Wright is an able genealogist with memberships in the New England Historic Genealogical Society and a number of state historical societies. Some twenty-five years of following family trails into the distant past via dates, places, events and periods of emigration from one part of this country to another, have given her a seemingly un quenchable thirst for facts. A delightful person to work with, she through her energy and interest, generates enthusiasm in others. Space and time do not permit the delving into and publication of the multitude of ramifying branches produced by the marry ing and resulting progeny of a large and multiplying family. The major work in this history was done in joint sponsorship by John and Harold Hinman who have spent six years on the project with Mrs. Wright, involving untold hours. They were always ably assisted by Mary, Alice, Jennie and, to a lesser degree, by the brothers and the ninth generation mem bers. What is published herein about each individual and his fam ily is that which was furnished by them to the sponsors. HAROLD HINMAN lX yyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy INTRODUCTORY NOTES ESCENDANTS of Sergeant Edward1 Hinman of Stratford, Connecticut (1650-1652), are fortunate to have had ]D one of their own kin keenly interested in family history and the preservation of old records of all kinds a century ago. Royal R. Hinman (1785-1868), sixth in line by direct descent from Sergeant Edward1, through his third son, Benjamin, be came an eminent antiquarian and genealogist. Graduating from Yale in 1804, he studied law and was ad mitted to the bar in Connecticut in 1807. During the next twenty-five years, he was appointed or elected to various public offices which gave him access to a great variety of state papers and private documents invaluable as reference data while he served for seven years as Secretary of State of Connecticut (1835-1842) and continued his writing in the following years. During the Connecticut bicentennial year of 1835, the legis lature seemed to be reviewing the past and evaluating the printed records then available to the general public. There were very few printing presses in the early colonial days, so laws enacted at each session of the General Court were made known to the inhabitants of each town after handwritten copies, made out by the Secretary of the colony, were sent to the constables of each town to be read at public meetings. Later the laws were pub lished in a small volume with blank pages for those enacted in following years. From time to time so-called revisions were or dered and published, the first of which was in charge of a com mittee of three, Royal R. Hinman as chairman. Xl XU HINMAN FAMILY But the latter was engaged on two other important projects, one of which was described as a history of the part taken by Con necticut in the War of the Revelation, an historical collection from official records, files, etc., published in 1842. This book of 644 finely printed pages was so well received that the Legislature in 1853 voted that each town and village in the state was to re ceive a copy, also each state and territory in the United States, and the Congressional Library in Washington. Two hundred fifty extra copies were to be reserved for future needs. While Mr. Hinman was gathering this vast amount of data, "wading through an immense number of records, old files of petitions, letters, depositions and reports, somewhat poorly pre served, mutilated, torn, or difficult to decipher" ( thus he de scribes his efforts to get all possible information), he amassed many notes regarding early settlers of that region including those of his Hinman family. These so-called notes led him to the second project, that of publishing a volume made up of six parts, entitled A Catalogue of the Na mes of the Early Puritan Settlers of the Colony of Connecti cut; with the Time of their arrival in the Country and Colony, their standing in society, place of residence, condition in life, where from, business, &c., as far as is found on record. This project was to take five years, during which the parts, consisting of one hundred pages each, were to be published every two months until all names, A-Z, had been included. He busied himself for five years as he npursued facts by exam ining town, court, probate and church records, often badly written two hundred years since, frequently difficult to decipher, and old books with many obliterated margins, with family rec ords in ancient tattered Bibles and on tombstones with many words and figures obliterated by time, journals with dates culled from old numbers and broken volumes", etc. Only then did he decide that not five years but twenty might be the length of time for the task zf subscriptions were forthcoming, his span of life long enough, and full cooperation given by those whose ances tors were among the early settlers listed. A CATALOGUE OF THE NAMES OF THE EARLY PURITAN SETTLERS OF THE COLONY OF CONNECTICUT; WITH THE @:imt nf t~rir nninnl in t~r <tnnntq nnu <tnlnn~, THEIR STANDING IN SOCIETY, PLACE OF RESIDENCE, CONDITION IN LIFE, WHERE FROM, BUSINESS, &C., AS FAR AS 18 FOUND ON RECORD. COLLECTED FROM RECORDS, BY ROY AL R. HINMAN, OF HARTFORD. HARTFORD: PRESS OF CASE, TIFF ANY AND COMP ANY. 1852. HINMAN FAMILY Finally five numbers (Abbe-Danielson) were published but the original design was abandoned. Even these might not have been available today had not the Hinman family agreed to take a certain number of published volumes containing their name, to defray the expense of paper, printing and binding so that the first five numbers might be given to the public. Therefore, the Hinman name was included as "Part v1", even though the "se ries" ended with "Danielson". This part consists of eighty pages, published in 1856. Discouraged by seeming indifference to his appeals, he had this to say of the Hinmans, "Few of the Hinman family have rendered much assistance in the following imperfect collection. Uniformly dilatory in answering letters without sending two let ters ... ". But the fact that he mentions eight different members of the Hinman families in Connecticut, New York, Vermont and Washington, D. C., to whom he is indebted, gives proof that he did receive considerable assistance towards leaving to future generations this last important section. Bound as a separate pamphlet, it has been copied as source material by Cutter and Stearns in Connecticut and New Hampshire genealogies, family and county histories and used in many other types of publica tions. On the first three pages of this Hinman section, he gives an account of Sergeant Edward1 Hinman of Stratford, Connecticut, "the first of the name, and the only emigrant of the name who came early to this country and settled at Stratford about 1650 who had four sons and some daughters ...". The next sixty pages record the descendants of his eldest son, Titus, Titus' son, Benjamin, from whom Mr. Royal Hinman himself descends, and a few facts about Sergeant Edward's daughters. Turning to page 863, one finds the genealogical line of the youngest son, Edward2 Hinman, Jr., also of Stratford, Connecti cut, whose great grandson, Solomon5 Chatfield Hinman (1779- 1861), settled in Vermont. One of his three sons, Harvey6 Hin man, chose it as his permanent home, spending the last thirty-five INTRODUCTORY NOTES xv years as one of the prominent citizens of North Stratford, New Hampshire, not far from Brunswick and Canaan, Vermont, where he resided for a few years. His son, Havilah7 Burritt Hinman, born in Canaan, Vermont, and reared in North Stratford, New Hampshire, married in 1873, Kate May Barrett of Canaan, Maine. It is worth noting that while the Hinmans were moving north from Connecticut to New Hampshire, her ancestors were finding land and business opportunities and, eventually, homes in Maine to which they journeyed from the older settled areas of Massachusetts, namely Concord and Chelmsford.