Hinton Family Line of Ancestry

The Hinton family line is part of our ancestry line that participated in key historical events of our nation’s history. We had a grandfather that played a part in developing Jamestown, Virginia. We had a grandfather that fought in the American Revolution. Then a grandfather that fought in the War of 1812. The War of 1812 opened the settling into what would become Indiana. Terri and I visited gravesites of these early ancestor gravesites that moved into Clinton County.

My 10th Great Grandparents - Thomas Hinton Born 1574 - 1635 came to the Colonies but returned to England and invested large sums of money in the Virginia Company, which came to be called the Jamestown Colony. He was Knighted by King James I in 1619. He has several children; we are descendants of his son Thomas Hinton born 1600 – 1683

9h Great Grandfather - Thomas Hinton (B)-1600 (D)20-9-1683, son of Sir Thomas Hinton and Catherine Palmer. Thomas returned to the Virginia Colony to join his sons sometime between 1653 and 1666. (Date not known.) In 1666 he moved to Maryland from Virginia. He died leaving a will in Cecil County, Maryland. Volume 1, Page 135. It is believed he had another son after he returned to the New World because he was still living with his father when they moved to Maryland.

8th Great Grandparents - William Hinton Sr. (1662 – 1695) / Mary Neal Edgerton (1688 – 1732)

6th Great Grandparents Thomas Phillip Hinton Jr. (1719 – 1792) / Rebecca Wilson Craven (1725 – 1792)

Thomas Hinton was born in Maryland around 1719. The DAR lists his year of birth as c. 1715, He served with his namesake son in the 5th Company of the Upper Battalion of the Montgomery County, Maryland, Militia, during the American Revolution. Montgomery County was formed from Frederick County in 1776. The 1790 Census shows him with his wife, one other adult man, and one adult woman. He died shortly after this.

4th Great Grandparents Michael Linton Hinton Jr. (1795 – 1857) / Rachel Poffenberger (1798 – 1883)

Michael Linton Hinton Jr.

Michael Linton Hinton Jr. served in the Ohio Militia in 1813 of the War of 1812. He lived in Ross Co, OH and was an early settler of Perry Twp, near Colfax, Clinton Co, IN, in 1834 he was commissioned Justice of the Peace, 1838 he was elected Associate Judge of the Circuit Court for Clinton County.

He is buried at Shiloh Cemetery, Colfax, Clinton, IN It shows 2 tombstones one large one and one small one. We visited the cemetery in 2021.

3rd Great Grandparents - Greenberry B, Blacker (1822 – 1910) / Isabella Adeline Mary Hinton. Brush Creek Cemetery, Thorntown, Boone, Indiana, United States. Visited cemetery in 2021.

• 10th Great Grandparents - Thomas Hinton (15 Oct 1574 – 1 Feb 1635) / Catherine Palmer (1579 – 1609)

• 9th Great Grandparents Thomas Hinton (1600 – 1683) / Alice or Anne Busher or Bosier to Virginia and then moved to Maryland

• 8th Great Grandparents - William Hinton Sr. (1662 – 1695) / Mary Neal Edgerton (1688 – 1732)

• 7th Great Grandparents - Thomas Phillip Hinton Sr. (1693-1792) / Rachel Howard (1700 – 1764)

• 6th Great Grandparents - Thomas Phillip Hinton Jr. (1719 – 1792) / Rebecca Wilson Craven (1725 – 1792) (Revolutionary War Veteran)

• 5th Great Grandparents – Michael Linton Hinton Sr. (1743-1824) / Sarah Kenney (1751 – 1815)

• 4th Great Grandparents Michael Linton Hinton Jr. (1795 – 1857) / Rachel Poffenberger (1798 – 1883)

• 3rd Great Grandparents - Greenberry B, Blacker (1822 – 1910) / Isabella Adeline Mary Hinton

• 2nd Great Grandparents - Henry Benton Grant (1840 – 1893) / Louisa Jane Blacker (1843 – 1915)

• Great Grandparents John Henry Bombei (1868 – 1948) / Francis Jane Gant (1870-1949)

• Grandparents - John Henry Bombei (1908 – 1977) / Rose Lavada Calbert (1911-1979)

• Parents - Robert Darrell Bombei (1934 – 2018)/Betty jean Cline (1936 – 2010)