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State of Service: MA/VT
Qualifying Service: Private
Born on August 4, 1755 in Cumberland County, Maine to parents Aaron Hinkley and Mary Larrabee, Nathaniel Hinkley served in the Massachusetts Line, from Brunswick (Maine) in Captain Richard Mayberry's Company, Colonel Ebenezer Francis's Regiment; pay Abstract for mileage from home to Dorchester Heights, sworn to August. 20, 1776. He served as Sergeant in the same company and regiment; pay abstract for travel allowance from Dorchester Heights home, etc. said Hinkley credited with allowance for 8 days (165 miles); warrant allowed in Council November 29, 1776. He served as Quarter Master in Colonel Jonathan Mitchell's Cumberland County Regiment; engaged July 6, 1779; discharged September 25, 1779; service, 2 mos. 19 days, on Penobscot expedition; roll dated North Yarmouth. He also served as Ensign in Captain Benjamin Lemont's Company, Colonel Samuel McCobb's Regiment; engaged May 6, 1781; service to December l, 1781, 6 months 24 days, near Penobscot; Roll sworn to in Lincoln County.
He married Mary Reed (1759-_); children: Rachel b. 1782, Nathaniel b. 1787 and Mary b. 1791. They Lived in Cumberland County Massachusetts (Maine) at enlistment. Moved to what is now Washington County, Ohio in September 1789.
Nathaniel was pensioned; he applied July 27, 1832 in Washington County, Ohio, (Ref.# S4377) and received an annual allowance of $168.00. His exact death date after 1832 is unknown as is his burial place, which is assumed to be somewhere in Washington County, Ohio.
References:
Virgil White, Genealogical Abstracts of Revolutionary War Pension Files, Volume 2, (Waynesboro, TN: National Historical Publishing, Co., 1900), p. 1650.
Pension Roll of 1835, Volume IV, Mid-Western States, Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1994, p. 292.
DAR, Patriot Index Centennial Edition, Part 2, p.1501.
Secretary of the Commonwealth, Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in the War of the Revolution, Volume 7 (Boston: Wright and Potter Printing Co., 1896), p. 946.
SAR Patriot Index Edition III (CD: PP2210, Progeny Publ., 2002) plus data to 2004.
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