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i,.Vv'/,s f ; T I To my Nephew, _ 'ss'"ts1itj':?i'ftiiistt" Mr- W.K.Balcer, , _ g5??? Cyaspe'peaa, Goldsmith chard v . ' i"ittiiiiiiiil, Acton, London West, England. - _ 1fiiEt%,'l'tt7 _ _ 'i',i2ii,titi!,'i; In response to arm-n 'c:" l :rcs/yrcrr'c lo me bearing _:2i'iii?,'ii'ii'il late of Oat. 27th, 189?, (liy,' “a ",c, v;:.-:it in a hate book 'ii3s':ss'ii'j'ii'r'i" T and send to you what I have .1, .7 or can cecollect' or have We} had dates-of from my father, of 9h“; "ilVisct)sc,r Iristory and con- I ?'-',"’v'?“v mentions, including incidents or any particulars that I can E2,iiisji, give of the family in the way which would be of increasing 5afsiliie" interest as time passes away, owing to the removal by death Niki of all that could throw any light upon the early history of Mtl, those times. 'td?iii'r I intended to comply with your request much sooner jlillBli' than the present time by furnishing the Information that you {fife wished, as far as I could do it, and I had made considerable 1y; progress in the work when, unfortunately, I had an attack of -aiii the disease called La Grippe, from the effects of which I felt 3‘3? quite unable, for a long time, to do the subject justice, or “is", to do any mental work in addition to what I had to do, but 'lllig now I am feeling so much better that I am trying ta proceed "tlt ' with the work. Mai As I intend to keep a copy of the work for the 'rRiili'it, information of my descendants here, I will begin with the MR" first of the name of Hinman of whom we have an account as Mig' . having come to this country from England to live, ’which fang, information; perhaps may be, as you remarked, of increasing Mid interest in the future as the actors of the scenes Eiiil represented will soon be all away. $lliirii _ Edward Himan left London, England, about the year Rillig T 1649 for America and settled in Stratford, in the State of _ 'f2aii q Connecticut, which lies a few miles east of New York on the aitlf T Dang Island Sound. Soon after he came, he married Hannah $3.} Styles of Windsor, by whom he raised a family of eight :31}, chi ldren . ititlilll: He took up land there in 1651. He was the first Bitt? owner of the old Tide Mill between Stratford and what is NIE! V now Bridgeport. (This is the place where P.T.Barnum lived.) il'iilll Some ofyhis descendants haveowned or have been connected MIN with it from that time up to the present time. In 1681, he ' iiitliit' sold his homestead and died in the same year. His death iitiiil was recorded on the 26th of November, 1681. tall' Benjamin Hinman, the fourth child of Edward ", who Hinman, was born in 1652 in Stratford, Conn. He was a farmer itllB and a man of some repute as he represented the town of? Wood- Bi, bury in thegeneral court of the Colony twice in 1711 and gtlt& died two years later at the age of 61 years. a“)? V . He married Elizabeth Benn, of Woodbury, on the 16th NI' of July, 1684,. this being the first marriage recorded upon I ulilll the Woodbury records- it was performed by Justice Rickbell. ' a: He lived at~White oak in Southbury. His wife, Elizabeth, Milllll ' united with the church at Woodbury on the 14th, of Jane, 1691. FC' 4‘: By this marriage, he raised a family of? 15 children. His h' he _ grandson, Benjamin Hinman, became a general in the Colhnial , tilliR, _ Army and served under General Wolfe when Quebec was taken. _ ,1 / _ Noah Hinm‘an was the fourth child of Benjamin and g $lllli Elizabeth Hinman who was born in July 1689 at Woddbury, _ q l iii" _ o' r" .Gonn- He was married three, times, first to Anna Knowles on T _ , " Feb. 28th, 1710, who died Feb. 10th, 1780; second to Sarah I " _ scoville of Waterbury, who died in the 23rd of April 1742; g - then to the Widow Wildman’by m if? raised a family of , " fourteen children. He wag a man of distinguished ability ' lllrill; and of. some renown. _ (j, 1x Big , E . . ti . Ilttl i' , may J _ it