Ebenezer Hinds (1798 - 1890)

Born 17 Dec 1798 in Middleborough, Plymouth, Massachusetts, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Louisa V (Pierce) Hinds — married about Apr 1820 in Livermore, Oxford, Maine, United States

Husband of Julia Ann (Unknown) Hinds — married 15 Aug 1831 in Readfield, Kennebec, Maine, United States

Died 9 May 1890 at age 91 in Kennebec County, Maine, United States [uncertain]

Biography

In an article about his son Ebenezer found in the book " The Class of 1844, Harvard College, Fifty Years' After Graduation" by Harvard University Class of 1844, this Ebenezer and his father Ebenezer came to Maine from Middleborough, Massachusetts in 1801. This Ebenezer, the fourth of five generations with the same given name, became a master shipbuilder at Pittston, Maine.

Birth

Ebenezer Hinds was born at Middleborough, Massachusetts, on 17 Dec 1798, the son of Ebenezer Hinds and Anna (Hathaway) Hinds. ^[1]

Marriages

1. On 9 Apr 1820, the town clerk of Livermore, Maine, certified that "an intention of marriage between Mr. Ebenezer Hinds & Miss Louisa Peirce both of Livermore hath been entered with me and published as the Law directs."^[2] They married at Livermore on 3 Apr 1820 (six days after the intention was certified).^[3] Ebenezer Hinds and Louisa (Pierce) Hinds recorded a son, Ebenezer Pierce Hinds, at Livermore, Maine, on 20 Jun 1821.^[4]
2. Ebenezer Hinds married Julia Ann (Unknown) Wells at Readfield, Maine, on 15 Aug 1831. See the Research Note below.
3. Julia Hinds died in 1864.^[5] Ebenezer Hinds then married Lucinda F. (Unknown), with whom he was living at Pittston, Maine, in 1870, with Lucinda's age given as 67.^[6] An Eben Hinds married an L. W. Stinson at Gardiner, Maine, on 9 Sep 1867,^[7] and that may be the marriage of this couple.
4. Ebenezer Hinds married Jane (Unknown), with whom he was living at Pittston in 1880, with Jane's age given as 65.^[8]

Death

The gravestone of Ebenezer Hinds at the Maple Grove Cemetery in Randolph, Maine, says that he died on 9 May 1890 at the age of 93 years, 6 months.^[9][10]

Research Note

The 1899 Hinds genealogy says that the second wife of Ebenezer Hinds was Julia (Peirce) Cox, the sister of his first wife and the widow of Arthur Cox.^[11] This is disproven by the following evidence:

• The 1928 history of Livermore says that Ebenezer Hinds married, as his second wife, Julia Wells,^[12] and the marriage of Ebenezer Hinds and Mrs. Julia Ann Wells was recorded at Readfield, Maine, on 15 Aug 1831.^[13]
• The Hinds genealogy says that Julia Peirce, who married Arthur Cox, was born in 1806.^[11] But Census records and the gravestone of Julia Hinds, the second wife of Ebenezer, consistently point to a birth date in 1799.^[14] Ages in census records and on gravestones are frequently in error, but usually not consistently by seven years.
• The death record of William W. Cox at Fairhaven, Massachusetts, on 13 Jan 1874, give his age as 37 years, 19 days, and names his parents as Arthur Cox and Julia Peirce, placing his birth date in December 1836,^[15] five years after Ebenezer Hinds married his second wife. Likewise the death certificate of Arthur P. Cox, who died at Fairhaven in February 1912, says that he was born in February 1833 to Arthur Cox and Julia M. Peirce, two years after Ebenezer Hinds' marriage to Julia Ann Wells.^[16]

(Research Note by WikiTree contributor Stu Bloom, 11 Mar 2021)

Sources

1. ↑ Albert Henry Hinds. History and Genealogy of the Hinds Family (Portland, Maine, 1899), pages 112-113
2. ↑ Marriage intention of Ebenezer Hinds and Louisa Peirce, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > unpaginated > Marriages and marriage intentions, 1811-1842 > image 342 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
3. ↑ Marriage record of Ebenezer Hinds and Louisa Pierce, in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > unpaginated > Marriages and marriage intentions, 1811-1842 > image 344 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
4. ↑ Birth record of Ebenezer Pierce Hinds, in "A Record of the family of Ebenezer Hinds and Louisa Pierce his wife," in Vital Records of Livermore, Maine, FamilySearch > Vital and town records, 1797-1910 > Livermore Vital Records, 1805-1862 > page 118 > Image 272 of 718; FHL Microfilm 11332
5. ↑ Photo of gravestone of "Julia, wife of Eben Hinds (Find A Grave: Memorial #180124147)
6. ↑ Eben Hinds household, family #412, in United States Census, 1870, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Kennebec > Pittston > image 45 of 60; citing NARA microfilm publication M593 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the marriage record of Eben Hinds and L. W. Stinson, in Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch > Eben Hinds and L. W. Sinson, 1867
8. ↑ Eben Hinds household, family #303, in United States Census, 1880, database with images, FamilySearch > Maine > Kennebec > Pittston > ED 101 > image 26 of 51; citing NARA microfilm publication T9, (National Archives and Records Administration, Washington, D.C., n.d.)
9. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #180124145 for Ebenezer Hinds, with photo of gravestone of Ebenezer Hinds, and transcribing the date incorrectly as 9 May 1891
10. ↑ Transcription made in 1980 of the inscription on the gravestone of Ebenezer Hinds, in Maine, Nathan Hale Cemetery Collection, ca. 1780-1980, database with images, FamilySearch > Hill, Judith-Hinks, Hannah H > image 1515 of 1607; Maine State Library, Augusta.
11. ↑ ^{11.0 11.1} Albert Henry Hinds. History and Genealogy of the Hinds Family (Portland, Maine, 1899), pages 38-39
12. ↑ Ira Thompson Monroe, History of the Town of Livermore, Androscoggin County Maine; From Its Inception in 1735 and Its Grant of Land in 1772 to Its Organization in 1795 Up to the Present Time 1928 (Lewiston, Me., 1928), page 139
13. ↑ FamilySearch transcription of the marriage record of Ebenezer Hinds and Julia Ann Wells, in Maine Marriages, 1771-1907, database, FamilySearch > Ebenezer Hinds, 1831
14. ↑ See Julia's profile for sources.
15. ↑ Death record of Wm. W. Cox, in Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, database with images, FamilySearch > 0960204 (004221419) > image 97 of 393; State Archives, Boston.
16. ↑ Death certificate of Arthur P. Cox, in Massachusetts Deaths, 1841-1915, 1921-1924, database with images, FamilySearch > 2397888 (004283296) > image 429 of 2105; State Archives, Boston.

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