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Samuel Hinckley

Male Bef 1589 - 1662  (> 73 years)

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  • Name Samuel Hinckley 
    Birth Bef 25 May 1589  [1, 2
    Baptism 25 May 1589  Harrietsham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Gender Male 
    Death Oct 1662  Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 2
    Person ID I36638  Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others
    Last Modified 7 Aug 2025 

    Father Robert Hinckley   d. Bef 27 Mar 1606 
    Mother Katherine   d. Bef 1605 
    Marriage 10 Feb 1575  Harrietsham, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2
    Family ID F21540  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family 1 Sarah Soole,   b. Bef 8 Jun 1600   d. 18 Aug 1656, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 56 years) 
    Marriage 7 May 1617  Hawkhurst, Kent, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [1, 3
    Children 
    >1. Thomas Hinckley, Governor of the Plymouth Colony,   b. Bef 19 Mar 1620   d. 25 Apr 1705, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 85 years)
    +2. Susanna Hinckley,   b. Bef 6 Nov 1625
    +3. Sarah Hinckley,   b. Bef 22 Nov 1629   d. Bef 2 Mar 1680, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age < 50 years)
    +4. John Hinckley,   b. Bef 26 May 1644   d. 7 Dec 1709, Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location (Age > 65 years)
    Family ID F21538  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 29 Sep 2025 

    Family 2 Bridget 
    Marriage Abt 15 Dec 1657  Barnstable, Barnstable, Massachusetts Find all individuals with events at this location  [1
    Family ID F21558  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Nov 2021 

  • Notes 
    • He came with his family to New England in 1635 on the Hercules. First at Scituate, then Barnstable in 1639.

      Samuel Hinckley (1589-1662) = Sarah Soole (1600-1656)
      Susannah Hinckley = John Smith
      Samuel Smith = Elizabeth Pierce
      Shubael Smith = Prudence Fitzrandolph
      Mary Smith = Jonathan Dunham
      Samuel Dunham = Hannah
      Jacob Dunham = Catherine Goodnight
      Jacob Mackey Dunham = Louisa Eliza Stroup
      Jacob William Dunham = Mary Ann Kearney
      Ralph Waldo Emerson Dunham = Ruth Lucille Armour
      Stanley Armour Dunham = Madelyn Lee Payne
      Stanley Ann Dunham = Barack Hussein Obama
      Barack Hussein Obama (1961- )

  • Sources 
    1. [S101] The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1633, Volumes 1-3 and The Great Migration: Immigrants to New England, 1634-1635, Volumes 1-7, by Robert Charles Anderson. Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1996-2011.

    2. [S5403] Elizabeth French, "Genealogical Research in England." The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 65:314, 1911.

    3. [S8248] The American Descendants of Rev. John Smith, Who Married 13 June 1643 Susanna Hinckley by Martha J. F. McCourt. Torrington, Connecticut, 1997.