Thomas Hines
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: Abt 1792 - Virginia Christening: Death: 1860-1870 - (Pulaski Co., Kentucky) ( about age 68) Burial: Cause of Death:
Parents
Father: Common Father Hines ( - ) Mother:
Spouses and Children
Children: 1. Cynthia Ann Hines (1837-1866) 1. Minerva (Abt 1812 - ) Marriage: 26 Dec 1845 - Pulaski Co, Ky 1 Children: 1. Francis Marion Hines (1848-1905) 2. Elizabeth A. Hines (Abt 1849- ) 3. Louisa Hines (Abt 1852- ) 4. Laura B. Hines (Abt 1858- )
Notes
General:
CENSUS:
<pre>1810 Pulaski Co., Kentucky, Somerset
Thomas Hines 00100 -- 01000; no slaves
male female
<10
10-15 1
1 16-25
26-44
>45 </pre>
He is in the sequence James Hines, 4x, William Hynes, John Hines, Thomas Hines. All the H's are in one place.
<pre>1830 Pulaski Co., Kentucky; pg 23
Thomas Hines 001001 -- 000000001
male female
< 5
5-10
1 10-15
15-20
20-30
1 30-40
40-50
50-60
60-70 1 </pre>
<pre>1850 Pulaski Co., Ky, Division No. 1; July 23
102/102
Thomas Hinds 52 M Va $-- Farmer
Minerva " 38 F Va
Cynthia A. " 12 F Ky
Sarah " 10 F Ky
Martha " 8 F Ky
Amanda " 6 F Ky
Cathrine " 4 F Ky
Marion " 2 M Ky
Elizabeth " 1 F Ky </pre>
He is not in the Slave Schedule. Thomas married Minerva Mullins in 1845. Sarah, Martha, Amanda, and Cathrine are her children by her previous marriage.
<pre>1860 Pulaski Co., Ky, District No. 1, p.o. Somerset; July 7; pg 134
879/856
Thomas Hinds 68 MW Va --/$60 Shoemaker
Minerva " 45 FW Ky
Sarah " 18 FW Ky
Martha " 16 FW Ky
Amanda " 14 FW Ky
Mary C. " 13 FW Ky
Francis M. " 12 MW Ky
Elisabeth " 10 FW Ky
Louisa " 8 FW Ky
Laura B. " 2 FW Ky </pre>
TAX ROLLS:
Thomas first appears in the Pulaski Co. Tax Rolls in 1814. He is a white male 21 or over and owns one horse worth $20. If he turned 21 in 1814, he was born about 1793. This is consistent with his age in the 1860 census and suggests that his age in 1850 is incorrect. From 1814 onwards until 1859 (and probably later until his death) he appears continuously with a few gaps that may just be omissions on the part of the tax collector. After 1831 he is the owner of varying amounts of land on Pitman's Creek. Beginning in 1843 the tax rolls indicate the number of children between 7 and 17. Later the range changes. These numbers for Thomas are in the third column, and the numbers in the fourth column are the corresponding numbers calculated on the basis of the 1850 census. They are roughly consistent.
1843 7-17 1 0
1844 5-16 1 1
1845 5-16 2 2
1847 5-16 5 3
1848 5-16 4 3
1851 5-16 5 5
1858 6-18 6 7
1859 6-18 6 6
Thomas is old enough to have had multiple children who left home before 1850, but the numbers from 1844 indicate that there was no other child between 5 and 16 in the household apart from Cynthia, and if we assume that children don't leave home before age 16, we can conclude that he had no children between 1828 and 1837, when Cynthia was born. For example, if he had a child in 1829, that child would be 15 in 1844 and still at home, but the tax rolls indicate there is no such child. A childless gap of at least 10 years before Cynthia's birth would be unusual for a man who had already had children, which is consistent with the suggestion of the 1830 census that Thomas was unusually old when he first married. He was 38 in 1830, and there is no wife in the household and no young children.
The data from 1843 support a similar but slightly different conclusion, namely, that there is one child born between 1826 and 1836 still at home who leaves before the 1850 census.
After Thomas married in 1845 at age about 53, he had several children. He was about 66 when the youngest was born.
On the other hand the 1810 census suggests that he had a wife who was 15. It may be that she died before 1830 (probably long before) and that he waited a long time before he remarried. In this case he had 3 wives. A purely hypothetical scenario is as follows: He marries just before the 1810 census. He has a daughter in 1811, another in 1813, and then a son in 1815. His wife dies in childbirth. The 2 daughters are Elizabeth, who marries John Blankenship in 1828, and Sally, who marries Charles King in 1829, and who are otherwise unaccounted for, and the son is the male 10-15 in the 1830 census. Thomas remarries 15 years later in 1836 and has one child (Cynthia) by his second wife before she dies. He marries a third time in 1845 and has 4 more children. This scenario is purely hypothetical but not implausible.
NAME CHANGE:
The following act of the Kentucky legislature appears to authorize the adoption by Thomas Hines of Minerva's children.
CHAPTER 144.
AN ACT to change the names of Amanda Jane Hinds and others, and for other purposes.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, That the names of Sarah Ann Mullins, Amanda Jane Mullins, Martha Mullins, and Katharine Mullins, children of Thomas Hinds and Minerva his wife, late Minerva Mullins, be and the same are hereby changed to the names of Sarah Ann Hinds, Amanda Jane Hinds, Martha Hinds, and Katharine Hinds; and they are hereby legitimated and made capable, in law, to inherit as children and distributees of the estate of their father, the said Thomas Hinds, as much so as though they had been born in lawful wedlock.
Sections 2 and 3 change the names of other persons. This act was approved February 1846. It can be seen in Google Books at
https://books.google.com/books?id=ay1AAQAAMAAJ&lpg=PA143&dq=Elijah%20McWhorter&pg=PA143&ci=54%2C629%2C933%2C384&source=bookclip
BROTHERS?
William and Thomas are about the same age and were both born in Virginia. On the basis of this evidence one can conjecture that they are brothers. John Hines and James Hines may also be their brothers.
1
Pulaski Co. Historical Society, Pulaski Co. Marriage Records, Book 1, 1799-1850, pg 73. Repository: Clayton Library, Houston, Texas.
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