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Hinckley, Thomas

statesman, was born about 1618, in England. He was a deputy in 1645; a representative in 1647; and a magistrate and subsequent governor of Plymouth. He died April 25, 1706, in Barnstable, Mass.

HINDMAN, THOMAS CARMICHAEL, soldier, congressman, was born in November, 1818, in Tennessee. He served as second lieutenant of the Mississippi volunteers in the Mexican war; was a representative from Arkansas to the thirtysixth congress; and was re-elected to the thirty-seventh congress, but when the rebellion broke out he entered the confederate service; and was at once made a brigadier-general, and subsequently a major-general. He died Oct. 22, 1868, in Helena, Ark.

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