Copyright USGenNet Inc., 2014
                           All Rights Reserved
                        USGenNet Data Repository

        Please read USGenNet Copyright Statement on this page:
                <http://www.us-data.org/fineprint.html>

Transcribed and submitted by Linda Talbott
for the USGenNet Data Repository http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================
Formatted by USGenNet Data Repository Chief Archivist, Linda Talbott
All of the above information must remain when copied or downloaded.
===========================================================================
History of Wake County, North Carolina
by Hope Summerell Chamberlain
Pub. Edwards & Broughton Printing Co.
     Raleigh, N.C., 1922

         [72 - 75]

                               JOHN HINTON

           The first name that appears in the Colonial Records showing
        active service and prominence in the new county of Wake was JOHN
        HINTON, who lived on Neuse River near Milburnie.  He owned enormous
        tracts of land along the Neuse under grant from LORD CARTERET, and
        when in course of time Wake County was divided from Johnston
        County, his residence fell within its boundaries.  His residence
        was called Clay-Hill-on-the-Neuse.
           He had moved from Chowan (the part now Gates County), about the
        middle of the eighteenth century, and his father's name before him
        was JOHN HINTON.  He married GRIZELLE KIMBROUGH, and had eight or
        nine children who reached maturity.  JOHN HINTON was Major in the
        provincial troops of Johnston County, as was thus called to aid
        GOVERNOR TRYON in the expedition against the Regulators.  He was
        made Colonel of the Wake County troops in 1771, and was in command
        of his men at the battle of Alamance.  GOVERNOR CASWELL mentions
        that he was an eye-witness of COLONEL HINTON'S gallant behavior on
        this occasion.
           COLONEL HINTON lived near the home where his descendants still
        live.  He was a prominent man in the Revolutionary struggle, offer-
        ing himself at once to the American cause.  He served in the first
        Provincial Congress at New Berne, was appointed Colonel of North
        Carolina troops, was present at the Battle of Moore's Creek Bridge,
        was a member of the Council of Safety for Wake County, and acted
        always the part of the brave patriotic gentleman he was.
           He died in 1784, leaving several minor children, and besides his
        own personal service two of his sons were in the Revolutionary
        Army.  JOHN HINTON the third, his eldest, was commissioned as
        Major, and JAMES HINTON was Colonel of a troop of horse.
           JAMES HINTON above, married DELILAH HUNTER, daughter of THEO-
        PHILUS HUNTER of HUNTER'S Lodge.  Two of the daughters of COLONEL
        HINTON successively became wives of JOEL LANE, one dying quite
        young.  Thus the HINTON family was connected with those few other
        families which seem to have shared with them the first possession
        of the broad acres of pristine Wake County wilderness, and the
        moulding of the little community by their service and examples.
           The descendants of these people are here with us today, and
        their blood runs in the veins of many who never have traced out
        their pedigree sufficiently to be proud as they justly may be of
        their fine old Revolutionary ancestry.
           HINTON JAMES (sic), the first student that registered at the
        newly opened University of North Carolina, and another HINTON who
        graduated with him in the first class, were both grandsons of
        COLONEL JOHN HINTON of Wake.  JUDGE HENRY SEAWELL married a daugh-
        ter of JOHN HINTON, son of COLONEL JOHN HINTON, Second, the first
        of the name to settle in Wake.

===========================================================================
If you've reached this file through a SEARCH, you can access more
of our growing collection of FREE online information by going to
the following URL: http://www.us-data.org/
===========================================================================