Thomas Hinckley
Thomas Hinckley | |
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| 14th Governor of Plymouth Colony | |
| In office 1680–1686 | |
| Monarch | Charles II |
| Lieutenant | James Cudworth (1681–82) William Bradford the Younger (1682–86) |
| Preceded by | Josiah Winslow |
| Succeeded by | Joseph Dudley (as President of the Dominion of New England) |
| In office 1689–1692 | |
| Monarchs | James II William III and Mary II |
| Lieutenant | William Bradford the Younger |
| Preceded by | Edmund Andros (as Governor of the Dominion of New England) |
| Succeeded by | Sir William Phips (as Governor of the Province of Massachusetts Bay) |
| Personal details | |
| Born | March 19, 1618 Tenterden, Kent, England |
| Died | April 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, attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."