Thomas HINE
Abt 1621 - 1698 (77 years)-
Name Thomas HINE Birth Abt 1621 of Milford, New Haven, Conn 
Gender Male Death 15 Mar 1698 Milford, New Haven, Connecticut Person ID I1659 Coombs Last Modified 11 Aug 2023
Father Thomas HINE, b. 1580, Nazeing, Essex, England d. 1638, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 58 years) Mother Elizabeth WARD, b. 1608, Nazeing, Essex, England d. 1638, Connecticut, United States (Age 30 years) Family ID F12474 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Elizabeth LANE, b. Abt 1631, England d. 1673, Milford, New Haven, Connecticut (Age 42 years) Children 1. Thomas HINE, b. Oct 1653, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Jan 1741 OR 1742 (Age 88 years)2. John HINE, b. 17 Mar 1656, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. 1 Apr 1739 (Age 83 years)3. Elizabeth HINE, b. 3 Dec 1657, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown4. Samuel HINE, b. 26 Jan 1659 OR 1660, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown5. George HINE, b. 22 Jun 1662, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown (Age ~ 0 years)6. Stephen HINE, b. 26 Oct 1663, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown7. Alice HINE, b. 5 Oct 1666, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown8. Alice HINE, b. 16 Dec 1667, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. 4 Jan 1739 OR 1740 (Age 72 years)9. Elizabeth HINE, b. 21 Nov 1669, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. Yes, date unknown10. William HINE, b. 15 Aug 1670, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. 1697 (Age 26 years)11. George HINE, b. 29 Jun 1673, Milford, New Haven, Conn d. 7 Jan 1673 OR 1674, Milford, New Haven, Conn (Age 0 years)Family ID F305 Group Sheet | Family Chart Last Modified 2 Feb 2026
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Notes - An Act of Kindness "Some years after Milford was settled by the English, a company of Mohawks came within the borders of the town, and secreted themselves in a swamp, where they awaited an opportunity of making an attack upon the Milford Indian (the Pequots). Some Englishmen saw the Mohawks, and were friendly enough to inform their swarthy neighbors of their danger. They immediately rallied in great numbers, raised the warwhoop and rushing suddenly upon the Mohawks gained a complete victory. Among the prisoners was a stout Mohawk warrior, whom the captors decided to kill by famine and torture. They stripped him naked, and having tied him to a stake, left him in the tall grass of the salt meadows to be eaten up by mosquitoes. An Englishman named Hine, who found the poor wretch in this deplorable condition, shocked at this barbarous mode of torture, cut the thongs from his limbs and set him at liberty. He then invited him to his house, gave him food, and helped him to escape. This kind act was never forgotten by the Mohawks. They treated the English of Milford ever after with marked civility and did many kind and friendly acts that testified their gratitude towards their deliverer and his family." (from Hollister's History of Connecticut, Vol. l, page 145)
"For this act he was held in high regard by the neighboring Indians who said that when Hine or his descendants died the Great Spirit took them at once to his big Wigwam." (Baldwin's Genealogy,p 117)
- An Act of Kindness "Some years after Milford was settled by the English, a company of Mohawks came within the borders of the town, and secreted themselves in a swamp, where they awaited an opportunity of making an attack upon the Milford Indian (the Pequots). Some Englishmen saw the Mohawks, and were friendly enough to inform their swarthy neighbors of their danger. They immediately rallied in great numbers, raised the warwhoop and rushing suddenly upon the Mohawks gained a complete victory. Among the prisoners was a stout Mohawk warrior, whom the captors decided to kill by famine and torture. They stripped him naked, and having tied him to a stake, left him in the tall grass of the salt meadows to be eaten up by mosquitoes. An Englishman named Hine, who found the poor wretch in this deplorable condition, shocked at this barbarous mode of torture, cut the thongs from his limbs and set him at liberty. He then invited him to his house, gave him food, and helped him to escape. This kind act was never forgotten by the Mohawks. They treated the English of Milford ever after with marked civility and did many kind and friendly acts that testified their gratitude towards their deliverer and his family." (from Hollister's History of Connecticut, Vol. l, page 145)