Thomas Hinckley

Thomas Hinckley
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,^[1] attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."