Stephen Hinds
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1794 Christening: Death: Abt 1844 - Pulaski Co., Ky Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Joseph Hinds (Bef 1765-Abt 1814) Mother: Margaret ( -After 1815)
Spouses and Children
1. *Sarah Reese (Abt 1798 - Abt 1849) Marriage: 29 Oct 1813 - Wayne Co., Ky 1 2 Children: 1. Scynthia Hinds (Abt 1814-Abt 1836) 2. Mary Ann Hinds (1815-1868) 3. Nancy Hinds (Abt 1818-Bef 1845) 4. Margaret Hinds (Abt 1820-Bef 1874) 5. Samuel Hinds (1823-1880) 6. Chilton Hinds (Abt 1827-1850/1860) 7. Joel H. Hinds (Abt 1827-1859) 8. Stephen Hinds (1834-1860/1870) 9. James Hinds (1836-1863) 10. John C. Hinds (Abt 1839-1887/1897) 11. Benjamin Hinds (1839-1850/1860)
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1820 Madison Co., Kentucky; pg 106
Stephen Hinds 000100 -- 30100; 1 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
<10 3
10-16
16-18
1 16-26 1
26-45
>45 </pre>
He is next to his mother-in-law Nancy Reace.
<pre>1830 Pulaski Co., Kentucky; pg 41
Stephen Hines 210001 -- 011001; no slaves
male female
2 < 5
1 5-10 1
10-15 1
15-20
20-30
1 30-40 1 </pre>
The next entry is his son-in-law Washington Gregg.
<pre>1840 Pulaski Co., Kentucky
Stephen Hines 2221001 -- 0000001; 3 in agriculture; no slaves
male female
2 < 5
2 5-10
2 10-15
1 15-20
20-30
30-40
1 40-50 1 </pre>
CHILDREN OF STEPHEN HINDS:
Because Stephen Hinds and his wife died before the 1850 census and because he did not leave a will, we have no list of his children. From the 1820, 1830, and 1840 censuses, however, we have a good idea about their age and sex distribution. A striking feature of the 1850 census in Pulaski County is the large number of children named Hinds dispersed among other families. Joel, age 23, and James, age 16, are with Samuel Hinds, who is 28 years old and just married. Chilton, 23, Stephen, 16, Benjamin, 11, and John, 11, are in households whose surname is not Hinds. It seems highly likely that all of them are orphans of Stephen and Sarah Hinds, recently deceased. Why have Chilton, Stephen, Benjamin and John not been taken in by other Hinds households, who presumably are their relatives? Why have they been separated and are living here and there with people who don't seem to be their relatives? The answer probably lies in the fact that Stephen Hinds is related to the Hinds of Wayne County, who came to Kentucky from North Carolina via Tennessee, whereas the two older men in Pulaski County, William and Thomas Hinds, are from Virginia. Thus they are unrelated to Stephen or only very distantly related to him.
We have the names and ages of the 7 younger children, all boys, from the 1850 census. The four older children, all girls, are gone by 1840, presumably to marry. Scynthia Hines married Washington Gragg in 1829, and the surety is Stephen Hines. In the 1830 census Washington Gragg is living next to Stephen Hinds. It seems inescapable that Scynthia is Stephen Hinds' daughter, and thus the eldest daughter. Mary Ann Hinds, born in May 1815, married about 1830. Nancy Hinds married Lewis Ping in 1835. In 1860 Margaret Hinds (38, Ky, day laborer) is living with the widow of Joel, one of Stephen's sons. In 1865, at the age of 46, she married for the first time. She is the right age to be Stephen's youngest daughter. Unfortunately she is not findable in the 1850 census, and neither she nor her husband can be found in the 1870 census.
COMPARISON OF CENSUSES:
<pre>
1820 1830 1840 1850,1860,1870
<5 (1) John C. (11,20)
<5 (1) Benjamin (11)
5-10 (6) James (16,23)
5-10 (6) Stephen (16,25)
<5 (3) 10-15 (13) Chilton (23)
<5 (3) 10-15 (13) Joel (23)
5-10 (7) 15-20 (17) Samuel (28,35,45)
16-26 (26) 30-40 (36) 40-50 (46) Stephen [56]
5-10 (10) Margaret (--,38,52)
<10 (2) 10-15 (12) Nancy [32]
<10 (5) 20-30 (25x) Mary Ann (35,45)
<10 (6) 15-20 (16x) Scynthia [36]
16-26 (25) 30-40 (35) 40-50 (45) Sarah [55]
</pre>
The numbers in parentheses in the last column are the ages of the person in 1850, 1860, and 1870. Brackets indicate that the person died before 1850, and the number is how old he would be if he were still alive. The parenthesized numbers in previous columns represent real ages to be compared with the age categories that appear in the census. An 'x' after the age indicates that a child no longer lives in his parents' household. The ages of Stephen and Sarah are just guesses. Margaret appears in the census for the first time in 1860. Assume that Margaret was born after the census in 1820 and that Mary Ann married before the census in 1830. Nancy's birth year is just a guess. Margaret's age of 52 in 1870 is based on her age of 46 when she married in 1865.
LONGEVITY OF STEPHEN'S CHILDREN:
The census indicates that 10 children survived childhood, but as adults they were typically quite young when they died. Samuel lived the longest, and he was only 57 when he died.
<pre>
Scynthia 1814 - 1836 22
Mary Ann 1815 - 1868 53
Nancy 1818 - 1840-45 22-27
Margaret 1820 - 1870-80 50-60
Samuel 1823 - 1880 57
Joel 1827 - 1858 31
Chilton 1827 - 1850-60 23-33
Stephen 1834 - 1860-70 26-36
James 1836 - 1863 27
Benjamin 1839 - 1850-60 11-21
John C. 1839 - 1887-97 47-57 </pre>
TAX ROLLS:
Each year from 1801 onward there are several men named Hinds on the tax roll of Wayne Co. Stephen is never there, suggesting that when he married in Wayne Co. in Oct 1813, he was under 21. Since he first appears in the Madison Co. tax roll in 1814 as a white male over 21 years of age, it seems likely that he became 21 about 1814. Thus he was born about 1793. He is in Madison Co. in 1814, 1815, and in 1816. In 1817 he is in Pulaski Co., and in 1821 and in 1822 he is back in Madison Co. In the interim 1818 to 1820 he is unlocatable. By 1824 he has moved to Pulaski Co., where he remains until his death. He is on the tax roll for the last time in 1844, and in 1845 Sarah appears for the first time. This suggests that he died about 1844 or 1845. She is on the tax roll in 1848 but not in 1851. 1849 and 1850 are missing as is 1846. 1847 is very hard to read. She is not in the 1850 census, and her children have been dispersed. One presumes that she died between 1848 and 1850.
In the Pulaski Co. tax rolls Stephen Hinds is sometimes the owner of land but more commonly not. He generally has a horse or two and a few cattle. In comparison with other men in the county, he doesn't seem to be very prosperous.
REAL PROPERTY:
On October 14, 1826 Stephen Hinds and his wife Sally sell to her brother-in-law John Richardson their interest in a tract in Madison Co., Kentucky inherited from her father. See notes under her father for details.
On July 14, 1830 John Richardson and Elizabeth, his wife, of Pulaski Co. sell to Stephen Hynes of the same place for $260 a tract of 64 acres in Pulaski Co. on the banks of a large Branch. It is described by metes and bounds. (Bk 7-1, pg 280)
On September 8, 1830 Stephen Hinds and Sarah, his wife, of Pulaski Co. sell to John Richardson of the same place for $255 the same 64-acre tract that they purchased in July. (Bk 7-1, pg 492)
On June 17, 1836 William Baugh of Pulaski Co. sold to Stephen Hines of Pulaski Co. for $40 a tract of 48 1/2 acres on Clifty Creek. It is described by metes and bounds. (Bk 8, pg 457)
On August 26, 1837 William Ping and Mary, his wife, of Pulaski Co. sold to Stephen Hynes of Pulaski Co. for $100 a tract on Buck Creek Sinking Valley, which was part of an original survey of 263 acres. There is a suggestion that it adjoins land already owned by Stephen Hynes. (Bk 9, pg 501)
On May 17, 1841 Stephen Hines and Sary Hines, his wife, of Pulaski Co. sold to Granville Dowell for $50 a tract of about 25 acres in Pulaski Co. It is described by metes and bounds but not very precisely. (Bk 11, pg 309)
There is another Stephen Hinds in Pulaski Co. who was born in 1810 and died in 1901 and whose wife Sarah died in 1899. The last 3 land transactions may correspond to him. In 1849 and in 1850 he purchased land on Clifty Creek (14/102, 14/352). In 1830 he was only 20 years old and not yet married.
MILITARY SERVICE and BOUNTY LAND:
According to "A Century of Wayne County, Kentucky" by Augusta Phillips Johnson, published in 1939, Stephen Hines was the fifer in the company of Capt. Micah Taul. In response to a requisition in June, 1813 for 5000 mounted volunteers, Capt. Taul raised a company in Wayne County. Stephen Hines is in the roster of that company.
The National Archives has an application for bounty land on behalf of the minor children of Stephen Hinds, who during the War of 1812 was a fifer in Capt. Micah Taul's Infantry Company of the 7th Regiment of Kentucky Volunteer Militia during the period of 7 months from August 23, 1812 to March 23, 1813. He was paid $7.33 per month.
Several documents were submitted in support of the application. They indicate that Stephen Hinds died about 1844 and that his widow was dead by October 1851 when John Crawford was appointed guardian for the four minor children of Stephen Hinds. On August 12, 1852 Crawford testified about Stephen Hinds's military service for the purpose of obtaining a grant of bounty land that the minor children were entitled to under the Act of September 28, 1850. They received 80 acres in August 1853. On May 4, 1855 Crawford applied for additional bounty land on behalf of three of the four minor children to which they were entitled under the Act of March 3, 1855. In February 1856 Samuel and John Hinds provided the birth dates of these 3 younger siblings.
John Richardson was security for John Crawford, and they jointly posted a $100 bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Richardson stated that Stephen Hinds died in Pulaski Co. some 8 years prior to 1852, and he said that he was a brother-in-law to Stephen Hinds. Two deeds from 1830 indicate that John Richardson's wife was named Elizabeth and a deed from 1815 indicates that Stephen Hinds did not have a sister named Elizabeth. We thus presume that Stephen Hind's wife Sarah Reece had a sister named Elizabeth and that she married John Richardson. I have not been able to find other evidence of that marriage. John Richardson is in the census for Pulaski Co. from 1830 to 1870.
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State of Kentucky
Pulaski County Sct October Term 1851
On Motion of John Stephen James & Benjamin Hinds, infant Children of Stephen Hinds Dec'd Ordered that John Crawford be and he is appointed Guardian to said infant Children of Stephen Hinds Dec'd who with John Richardson his Security entered into and acknowledged bond to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the penalty of $100 Conditioned as the Law directs.
A Copy Att' J. D. Allcorn Clerk
State of Kentucky
County of Pulaski ss
On this 12th day of August AD 1852 personally appeared before me a Justice of the Peace within and for the County and state aforesaid John Crawford Guardian for John Hinds, Stephen Hinds James Hinds & Benjamin Hinds Infant children and heirs of Stephen Hinds deceased who being duly sworn according to Law declared that he is informed and believes the aforesaid Stephen Hinds deceased is the identical person who was a fifer in the company commanded by Captain Micah Tall in the 7 Regiment of Kentucky Volunteers commanded by Col. Joshua Barbee in the war with Great Britain declared by the United States on the 18th day of June 1812, that he volunteered at Monticello in Wayne County in the state of Kentucky on or about the day of August 1812 for the Term of six months and continued in the actual service in said war for the Term of six months and was honerably discharged in Wayne County in the State of Kentucky on the day of February 1813. As will appear by the muster rolls of said Company the said John Crawford states that he is informed the said Stephen Hinds original certificate of discharge has been lost or mislaid.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the bounty land to which the said John, Stephen, James & Benjamin Hinds Infant children and Heirs at Law of Stephen Hinds deceased as aforesaid may be entitled under the act granting bounty land to certain officers and soldiers or the offspring of such officers and soldiers who have been engaged in the military service of the United States passed September 28, 1850. He proposes to furnish authentic proof of his Guardianship, the ages of his wards aforesaid at the death of the said Stephen Hinds deceased, and their identity as his only infant children and heirs at Law and that no widow survives their said father.
John Crawford Guardian
Kentucky Pulaski County sct
John Richardson this day made oath before me that the children named in the foregoing declarations are all the children and heirs at Law of Stephen Hinds deceased who were under twenty one years of age on the 28th day of September 1850 & that no widow survives the said Stephen Hinds. He states he is a brother in Law to the said decedent and has a Knowledge of his services in the army and that he believes they foregoing declaration in that aspect is true -- that he died in the County and State aforesaid some 8 years ago. He states he has no interest whatever in the attention of this Warrant -- And further states that the children of said Stephen Hinds deceased who were under 21 years of age at the time aforesaid are correctly named by their Guardian in his declaration aforesaid.
John Richardson
Sworn to before me this 21st day of August 1852 and I certify that the said John Richardson is a person of respectability and entitled to full credit and belief on oath.
R. Graves J.P.
State of Kentucky
County of Pulaski Sct
On this 4th day of May AD 1855 personally appeared before me a justice of the Peace within and for the County and State aforesaid John Crawford Guardian for John Hinds, Stephen Hinds James Hinds and Benjamin Hinds children Heirs at law and legal representatives of Stephen Hinds dec'd aged 32 years a resident of the Town of Somerset Pulaski County Kentucky who being duly sworn according to law declares that he is the identical John Crawford who made application under the Act of Congress of the 28th of Sep. 1850 as guardian for the aforesaid John Hinds, Stephen Hinds, James Hinds and Benjamin Hinds heirs of Stephen Hinds dec'd who were then under the age of 21 years for Bounty Land and upon that application received Bounty Land Warrant No 49491 for 80 acres dated 2d day of August 1853.
He refers to the proof filed by him in the aforesaid application to show the ages of his wards at this time and such other facts as are necessary to determine who, if any of them, are entitled to additional Bounty land under the act of 3rd March 1855. He States that the aforesaid Warrant has been legally disposed of and cannot now be returned.
He makes this declaration for the purpose of obtaining the additional bounty land to which those of the aforesaid wards who were infants under 21 years of age at the passage thereof may be entitled under the Act approved the 3d day of March 1855. He also declares that the application and bounty land aforesaid are the only one ever made and obtained by him for his said wards under any act of Congress whatever.
He states that the erasures in the 9th and 29 lines of the foregoing declaration were made before this writing was signed.
John Crawford
State of Kentucky County of Pulaski Sct.
On this 5th day of February 1856 personally appeared before me a justice of the peace within and for the County and State aforesaid Samuel Hinds and John Hinds who being first duly sworn state that their brother Stephen was born on the 18th day of May 1834 their brother James on the 24th day of July 1836 and their brother Benjamin on the 14th day of June 1839 agreeably to the records of their births as kept by their parents and which they always understood to be the true dates of their births from their parents that their aforesaid brothers are the only children of Stephen Hinds dec'd who were under 21 years of age on the 3rd day of March 1855, and that their parents are both dead, they further state that they have no interest whatever in the application of their said brothers for bounty land and that the aforesaid dates of births are taken from the old family records which as they verily believe were truly and correctly made soon after the birth of each of their said brothers the same paper in like manner showing the dates of the births of affiants and of all the older members of the family and is and always has been the only means of refference to ascertain the ages of any of the family.
Samuel Hinds
John Hinds
1 June Baldwin Bork, "Wayne Co., Ky. Marriages & Vital Records 1801--1860," Vol 1, pg 141. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
2 "Kentucky, U.S., Compiled Marriages 1802 - 1850," Repository: http://www.ancestry.com.
3 Pulaski Co. Historical Society, "Pulaski Co. Marriage Records, Book 3, 1864-1886," pg 208. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
4
Pulaski County Historical Society, "Pulaski County, Kentucky Cemetery Records," 1976, vol 1, pg 488. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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