Thomas Hinckley

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Thomas Hinckley (1618 - April 25, 1706) was the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and held several other governmental positions during his lifetime, including that of a representative, a deputy, magistrate, and assistant, among others. A monument, created in 1829 at the Lothrop Hill cemetery in Barnstable, Massachusetts, attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."

Hinckley was born in England and migrated to Scituate with his parents, Samuel and Sarah Hinckley, in 1635. In 1639, he moved from Scituate to Barnstable, where he assumed multiple positions in the government of Plymouth colony. The following is a list of his roles in government and the time he occupied each:

Deputy (1645)
Representative (1647)
Magistrate and assistant (1658 - 1680)
Deputy governor (1680)
Governor (1681 - 1692)
Commissioner on the central board of Plymouth and Massachusetts colonies (1673 - 1692)
Councillor (1692 - ?)

Hinckley married twice; first on December 6, 1641 to Mary Richards, and again to Mary Glover (nee Smith) on March 15, 1659. He may have had as many as 17 children; different sources disagree on the exact number.

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