Dr. Joseph Hinchman 1730-1775
THE DR. JOSEPH HINCHMAN FAMILY
5. DR. JOSEPH HINCHMAN: was born about 1730 Flushing, Queens Co., Long Island, New York and died 8-18-1775 Southold, Suffolk Co., New York, about 45 years. He was the son of Dr. Joseph and Mary Bloodgood Hinchman. Joseph married (1) 6-11-1752 NY, Mary Sleigh (d 11-16-1756). Res:Jamaica, NY; Southold, Suffolk Co, NY
Dr. Joseph married (2) ANNAR GRIFFING 2-24-1757 Mattituck Parish, Southold, Suffolk Co., Long Island, NY. Anna was born 11-3-1741 and died about 1835 Denville, Morris Co., NJ. She was buried at Rockaway, NJ. Anna was the daughter of John and Sarah Paine Griffing of Riverhead, LI. She married (2) [Arthur B.] Nugent. Frederic G. Mather writes that after the Battle of Long Island in 1776, Annar and her six children – ages 2 through 14 – fled from Southold to Guilford, New Haven, Connecticut. Her father and several brothers were refugees.
Sources for this family include The Refugees of 1776; Log of Dr. Joseph Hinchman; Dr. Hinchman’s Memo Book; and History of Morris Co., NJ. Charlotte Hinchman Oselador contributed to this family and their descendants.
History of Morris County:[1] “Joseph married Anna Griffing. Their children were John, James, Nathaniel, William and Joseph. The last named was born in Jamaica, Long Island, August 28th 1762. At that place his father established a hospital for poor persons afflicted with the smallpox, and attended them himself. He died when his son Joseph was quite young.
Log of Dr. Joseph Hinchman:[2] During the French and Indian War, Dr. Joseph served as Surgeon and his brother James as Surgeon’s Mate on the privateer brig Prince George. Dr. Joseph wrote of their experiences. This log became the property of his great-granddaughter Mrs. Charles Noble of Morristown, NJ (Pasadena, CA in 1913). After being wrecked on the coast of Haiti on 8-18-1757, the brothers were among those captured by the French and held until a prisoner exchange in November 1757. Several entries from the log covering the first few days after the wreck and later a way home follow.
August 19, 1757: “But at length we found her between the fore mast and main mast and after About an hours fateigue with her, and with a Vast Deal of Dificulty we Got her on the main top Gallant Yard and bailed her Dry with two half furkings which we had save, and the mean time we Saved four Oars and the boat hook and got them in the Yawl And being Now Dry twenty five of Us Got Into her And After Gitting a few fathum of Roap from the Wrack we left here about One a’Clock in the morning with between 20 and thirty Alive on the Masts. When we first Struck the Captain Ordered the Dorrey Out to try what water we had to Leward and two of our people Seeing our Condition Stept into her and put of to Sea and ware taken Up two or three Days after by a N: York Privateer.”
August 20, 1757: “Being out of the Cryes of the Destresed our Cheaf thoughts was for Some thing to make a Sail of, for being two thirds of Us Naked we had Scare Any thing to make a Sail off but After Some time we Got two frocks and a Pare of trawses And the boatswain Converteed them Into a Sail And As soon as it was Day light we Got one of our Oars and the boat hook and made a mast And Yard of them and fixt our Sail to them And so Run Down before
the wind In hopes of falling In with turks Islands And haveing No Sea Instruments we mist the Islands. The Brease Continuing fresh And the Seas Running high we kept two hands Continual Bailing the Yawl And two at the Oars for One of the Oars we whare Oblidged to Steer with the Rudder being lost.
August 21, 1757: “The Brease Continued fresh And the Seas Runing Vastly high And the weather Squally we Exspected Every hour when She would fill and Sink And Our people low Spireted for haveing nothing to Easte Nor to Drink Since we left the wrack we whare All Very faint many of our people ware forsed to Drink theire own Urin to Squench their thirst Night coming on And the Seas Running higher and high and many of our people Growing Delirious was for Gumping Over board to Goe home to Get Drink So that we whare Afraid they woul Over Set the Yawl So that we Could See nothing but Destruction before Us., And the Sea Breaking Continually into Us, that all our hopes of bing Saved was over.
November 22, 1757: “In the Afternoon I met with Cap: Joseph Smith and Cap Thos Stevenson who Gave me An Envitation to Goe home to New York with them and being well Acquainted with Capt Stevenon I beged the favour of a Passage for my Brother James with him And ConCluded to Goe with Capt: Smith my Self.” [William M. Mervine, “The Log of Dr. Joseph Hinchman.”]
Will of Joseph Hinchman:[3] dated 7-24-1775, proved 9-12-1775. “In the name of God, Amen. The twenty-fourth day of July, 1775, I, Joseph Hinchman, of the Town of Southold in the County of Suffolk, “cirgeion,” being weak in body. All my just debts and funeral charges to be paid out of my book debts or accounts; and if they should be deficient, some of my creature and household goods and outlands be sold by my executors. All the remainder of my Estate I give the use thereof to my wife Annar and my children until they are brought up; then all my estate is to be sold and the proceeds are to be equally divided between my wife Annar and all our children; only to my oldest son ten shillings more than his equal proportion. I make my wife sole executrix, and her brother, John Griffing, and Mr. Daniel Osmonjrher, Assistants to execute this Will and Testament. Wit: Joseph Griffing, yeoman, Prudence Downs, spinstress, Israel Youngs.
Children:[4]
6. Mary Hinchman, b 8-4-1760, d 7-9-1764, age 3-11-5
6. Dr. Joseph Hinchman,*
b 8-28-1762, mar Zerviah Seely, res: Chemung Co., NY
6. Capt. James Hinchman,*
b 4-22-1765, mar Diademia Redding, res: Morris Co., NJ
6. William Hinchman,*
b 3-31-1767, mar Phebe … res: Flanders, NJ
6. Capt.Major John Hinchman,*
b 4-22-1769, mar Deborah Tooker, res: Morris Co., NJ
6. Mary Hinchman, b 6-27-1771
6. Nathaniel Hinchman,*
b 4-28-1774, mar Sally Rose, res: Flanders, NJ
SOURCES – DR. JOSEPH HINCHMAN
The History of Morris County, New Jersey 1739-1882. Published by W.W. Munsell, 1882.
[Also www.rootsweb.com, www.familytreemaker.com]
Mather, Frederic G. The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut. Albany, NY: 1913.
[Page 400 - Sources - Sophronia Hinchman Noble and Mortimoer L. Hinchman].
[Mather names six children; copy provided by Robert Hinchman, Jr. of Dallas, TX.]
Mervine, William M. “The Log of Dr. Joseph Hinchman, 1757.” The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. Vol. 29, No. 115, pgs 268-282, July 1905. [Quoted by Mather p-400].
Tami, Chris. Abstract of New York Wills, Vol. X, 1780-1782. New York Historical Society. Orem, UT: Ancestry, Inc., 1999. [Dr. Joseph 5].
UNPUBLISHED SOURCES
Evaul, Rev. Philip O. “The Hinchman Line’ Newland, NC, 1993. [provided copy of “Dr. Joseph Hinchman’s Memo Book.”].
Oselador, Charlotte Hinchman. Beachwood, NJ. [Dr. Joseph Hinchman 5 and family information].
Hinchman, Dr. Joseph. “Copy of Dr. Joseph Hinchman’s Memo Book 1748.” [provided by Vickey Hinchman, Los Osos, CA].
[1] The History of Morris County 1739-1882, published by W.W. Munsell, 1882, p 324.
[2] The Log of Dr. Joseph Hinchman, 1757, The Pennsylvania Magazine, Vol. XXIX, No. 115, July 1905.
[3] Abstracts of New York Wills, Vol. X 1780-1782, p-388, www.ancestry.com, www.familytreemaker.com.
[4] “Dr. Joseph Hinchman’s Memo Book.” The History of Morris County, New Jersey 1739-1882, p 324.
