Thomas Hinckley

Thomas Hinckley
14th Governor of Plymouth Colony
In office
1680–1686
MonarchCharles II
LieutenantJames Cudworth (1681-82)
William Bradford the Younger (1682-86)
Preceded byJosiah Winslow
Succeeded byJoseph Dudley (as President of the Dominion of New England)
In office
1689–1692
MonarchsJames II
William III and Mary II
LieutenantWilliam Bradford the Younger
Preceded byEdmund Andros (as Governor of the Dominion of New England)
Succeeded bySir William Phips (as Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay)
Personal details
BornMarch 19, 1618
Tenterden, Kent, England
DiedApril 25, 1706 (age 88)
Barnstable, Province of Massachusetts Bay
Spouse(s)Mary Richards
Mary Glover
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Thomas Hinckley (bapt. March 19, 1618 – April 25, 1706) was the last governor of the Plymouth Colony. Born in England, he arrived in New England as a teenager, and was a leading settler of what is now Barnstable, Massachusetts. He served in a variety of political and military offices before becoming governor of the colony in 1680, a post he held (excluding the interregnum of the Dominion of New England, 1686–1689) until the colony was folded into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692. A monument, created in 1829 at the Lothrop Hill cemetery in Barnstable,[1] attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."

  1. ^ "Thomas Hinckley 1706". www.capecodgravestones.com. Retrieved March 15, 2013.