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sey (Dimock) Eldredge, born February
6, 1816, in Willington, died April 27, 1882,
in Chicago, and was buried in Cedar Hill
Cemetery at Hartford. Ariel Eldredge
was born April 28, 1791, and died September
15, 1849. He was the son of Zoeth
Eldredge, born, it is supposed, in Will-
ington, Connecticut, about 1751, died
there March 18, 1828. He was a farmer.
He marched on the Lexington alarm in
Major Elijah Fenton's company from
Willington. Upon his dismissal from this
brief service, he enlisted in the Second
Connecticut Regiment, Colonel Joseph
Spencer, serving in the Fifth Company
under Captain Solomon Willies, from
about May 1st until the latter part of December,
1775, when the regiment was dis-
missed. He was at Roxbury during the
siege of Boston, and also saw three
months service under General Washing-
ton in New York City in Captain Joseph
Parson's company, Colonel Chapman's
regiment. He married, in Willington,
October 16, 1779, as his second wife,
Bethia, daughter of Captain Ichabod
Hinckley, born December 10, 1759, at Tolland,
Connecticut. Captain Ichabod
Hinckley was born October 13, 1735, in
Willington, and died February 23, 1807.
He was captain in the Continental Army,
and was very active in the Revolutionary
War; served two years in the General
Assembly, and was selectman for four-
teen years. He was a man of great
natural dignity, of unusual ability, and of
highest integrity. He served as first lieu-
tenant, Sixth Company, Third Battalion,
Wadsworth's brigade. This battalion was
raised in June, 1776, to reinforce General
Washington in New York City ; served
there and on Long Island, was caught in
the retreat from the city September 15,
and suffered some loss ; also engaged in
the battle of White Plains, October 28.
His time expired December 25, 1776. His
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first wife, Mary, died in Willington, January
8, 1769, aged thirty-seven years. Benjamin
Hinckley, father of Captain Ichabod
Hinckley, was born June 19, 1707, in
Barnstable, and died in Willington, Octo-
ber 11, 1749. He was a farmer and admitted
freeman in Willington, December
17, 1735. He married, in Tolland, November
6, 1733, Deborah Palmer, of Windham.
His father was Ichabod Hinckley,
born August 28, 1680, in Barnstable, died
in Tolland, May 10, 1768. He married,
January 5, 1702, Mary, daughter of Benjamin
and Mary (Davis) Goodspeed, of
Barnstable. She was born January 10,
1678, and died October 1, 1719. Having
purchased three hundred acres of land,
partly in Tolland and partly in Willing-
ton, he removed in 1732 with his family
to Tolland and served several terms there
as selectman. His father, John Hinckley,
brother of Thomas Hinckley, sixth Governor
of New Plymouth Colony, was born
May 24, 1644, and died December 7, 1709.
In July, 1668, he married Bethia, daughter
of Thomas Lothrop, and granddaughter
of Rev. John Lothrop. She was born
July 23, 1649, aR d died July 10, 1697. Rev.
John Lothrop died in Barnstable, July 10,
1687, aged forty-eight years. His son,
John Lothrop, was born about 1621, probably
at Egerton, Kent, England, and was
about thirteen years of age when he came
with his father to Scituate, Massachu-
setts. He married Sarah, daughter of
William Learned. "Ensign" John Hinck-
ley was a prominent citizen of Barnstable,
where he owned much land. His father
was Samuel Hinckley, of Tenterden,
Kent, England, who came to New Eng-
land with his wife, Sarah, and four chil-
dren in the ship "Hercules" of Sandwich,
which sailed about March, 1634. They removed
to Barnstable in 1639, where his
wife died August 18, 1656. He died there
October 31, 1662. He was prominent and