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_ t I, »'H? was aprf or. is the church in 1732. _ _ Re was a f I . ‘ , m:“er of the Irgislature _ ' -- of Conn; F i' z _ _‘ T '_, . Lo was a ' 5c of the _ T County anr1 f: _ ‘2 f ", ly for five years. He. served _ as agent of the its: ti wraibhhh in $751M52 in the movement to have the ",r,rry1, . I:lci from hitchfield to Fairfield County. ., _ .'rr.'i' l; ?vi=-i "r'cirvr; C "r ancestors from Fe _ T Edward Hinman to loses his" 4, "rr ". :~dfather. He was born , forty years if? “- .2; I; ‘4 :‘me to America and within 1 _ eight year; c, _ 1 -. . 1 ‘, .3 tc'pcu1tempora.ry for eleven' l years with LA: rl tx-n, Ft a‘ ‘Ifither, who lived ten years ,' in my time. 5 my father us;d to tell many things about Noah ( Hinman from what he learned of his father. One thing, I ' remember that he used to relate about Noah who saw a large t _ hog of his running off with a live lamb in its mouth which 1 he vainly tried to overtake and seeing his son Gideon in _ T the direction the hog was running called to him "Gideon, Kill that pig"-which he did most effectually with one blow _. of a stick that hehad in his hand when the hog came along. Noah Hinman died in 1766. y _ Gideon Hinman was the‘fffth child of Noah Hinman ' and the first child by the this-amife Hie/was born in ' “oodbury in 1725. Heémarried Hannah aurtis on the and of September, 1?45, whoVEaised a family of eleven children . of whom Moses, my grandfather was the sixth child and the pioneer of that name in Canada. " Moses married Mary Shaw in 1777. She was a sister 3 of Geno Samuel Shaw of Revolutionary fame. She was born at Stonington on the fifth of May 1758. _ T Mbses Hinman moved into vermont soon after he was V married, to a place called Clarendon, which is situated near ' T T Rutland where a family of eight children was born, which _ T included my father, Aaron Einman.." F This country is very hilly and mountainous of ', which my father used to speak but I did not realize what it ', is like until I saw a portion of it a. few years ago on my T Nova Scotia trip. Gideon and Moses both lived in the time _ of the Revolutionary Rar but I never heard anything about; ' _ Moses, my grandfather, having anything to do with the war. w', . He was married when the war had been going on for two years and three of his children, viz. Olive, hary (Brintnell) and Anna (Warren) were born in the time of the war. _ _ l my father, Aaron, was born about six years after _ the close of the war, so, if Moses had been engaged inthe war, my father Would have told something about it from what _ he heard in his young days. _ Gideon's name appears among a list of army T _ officers in the 1ftssaetiasattst Militia.chosen by election , . q of the Company as Captain of the 21st o., 2nd Berkshire Reg. (as the following official record showsjyordered to be (3OW- missioned.in circuit, May 4th, 1776. t f . 1'Rtridilenee, Lanesborough, Tol. 18, P. 171, _ 3 Boston, Sept. 16th, 1895. ( _ I certify the foregoing to be a true' abstract F . from the Record Index to the Revolutionary War _ r _ ' Archives deposited in this office. i _ =‘3; Witness the seal of Commonwealth, _ " _ , -h7 V _ F ,Sd, Herbert H. Boynton, Deputy Secretary". ee _ w" The coat of arms for Inman and Hinman in Berry's _ ,5 Heraldry, which is infallible, and in a book of Crests found , R -in some libraries show the two names to hare been originally " ", the same with and without the H. prefixed. Mbses Hinman was born on the 29th day of June, 1755, . _ _.,, _ _ at Woodbury and moved from there to Augusta or Pompey Eo1lrows