James Hindman (1741-1830)
MSA SC 3520-652
Extended Biography:
Born: June 20, 1741, in Dorchester County; probably eldest son.
Native: Third generation.
Resided: Talbot County, by 1744; Queen Anne's County, by 1788;
Baltimore City, by 1809.
Died: February 18, 1830, in Baltimore City.
Family Background
Father: Jacob Hindman (by 1713-1766), stepson of Francis Allen
(?-1745).
Mother: Mary (?-1782), daughter of Henry Trippe (?-ca.1723/24).
Uncle: Henry Trippe (?-1744).
Half Uncle: William Allen (?-1792).
Aunt: Elizabeth Trippe, who married second, Bartholomew Ennails
(ca. 1700-1783).
Brothers: William Hindman (1743-1822); Jacob Henderson (?-1781);
Edward (?-1781); and John (?-by 1794).
Sisters: Elizabeth (?-by 1788), who married William Perry (1746-1799);
Sarah (?-ca. 1782); and Mary (?-died young).
First Cousins: Mary Emerson Trippe (ca.1739-1811), who married
Robert Goldsborough IV (1740-1798); Ann Trippe, who married John Dickinson
(ca. 1726-1789).
Married: first, ca. 1774 Marian (?-by 1788), of Anne Arundel
County, daughter of William Anderson (?-by 1774), of Great Tower Hill,
London, England, a merchant, and wife Rebecca Covington Lloyd
(1713-ca. 1776); granddaughter of Edward Lloyd (1670-1718/19); step-granddaughter
of James Hollyday (1696-1747); niece of both Edward Lloyd (1711-1770) and
Richard Lloyd (1717-1786); half
niece of James Hollyday (1722-1786) and Henry Hollyday (ca. 1725-1789).
Her brothers were Samuel (?-by 1774), of Great Tower Hill, London, England,
a merchant; James (?-ca. 1785), of Queen Anne's County; William (?-by 1788),
of Talbot County; and Edward (?-by 1788), of Anne Arundel County. Her sister
was Harriet Rebecca, of Talbot County. Her first cousins were Edward Lloyd
(1744-1796); James Lloyd (1745-1820); and Elizabeth Lloyd (1741/42-?),
who married John
Cadwalader ( 1741/42-1786).
Married: second, in March 1797 Elizabeth Hamilton.
Children: Probably died without progeny.
Private Career
Education: Literate; a subscriber to Washington College, Chestertown,
Kent County.
Social Status and Activities: Gent., 1774; Esq., 1790.
Additional Comments: Hindman was said to be "beyond sea," ca.
1766, according to a note in his father's will.
Occupational Profile: Planter; merchant; owned a brewery.
Public Career
Legislative Service: Lower House, Talbot County, 1780-1781 (Claims
1, 2; suspended from the Assembly November 16-29, 1780, for making slanderous
statements in public), 1781-1782 (Claims
1, 2), 1782-1783 (Claims 1, 2), 1783 (Elections; Claims; Grievances),
1784 (Claims).
Additional Comments: On November 16, 1780 the Lower House voted
to reprimand and censure Hindman for some remarks he made in public against
certain members of the legislature. He said that those who had voted against
calling in the state and convention money then in circulation were scoundrels,
rascals, and fools, and that the speaker gave his vote from a nod or wink
from another member. Hindman apologized to the Lower House and the speaker,
but not to the specific members, and he was therefore ordered committed
to the custody of the Sergeant-at-arms. On November 29, 1780 Hindman was
released from custody and permitted to take his seat.
Other State Offices: Executive Council, 1777, 1778, 1786; treasurer,
Eastern Shore, 1777-1778 (resigned).
Local Offices: Committee of Observation, Talbot County, elected 1775;
deputy assistant commissary of purchases for the army, Talbot County, in
office by 1779, resigned 1780; justice, Queen Anne's County, 1788-at least
1800, Baltimore County, 1814-at least 1817.
Jury Service: Jury, Baltimore County, 1811.
Military Service: Captain, Fourth Independent Company, Talbot
County Militia, January 1776; lieutenant colonel, Fifth Maryland Regiment,
December 1776; called colonel, by 1778.
Additional Comments: While Hindman was in command of the Fourth
Independent Company of Militia at Oxford, Talbot County, he was ordered
by the Talbot County Committee of Observation to arrest some Talbot County
legislators who, against the orders of the committee, had boarded Gov.
Robert Eden's ship to bid him farewell after he had been ordered to leave
the country.
Stands on Public/Private Issues: manumitted ten slaves between
1799 and 1801; manumitted one slave in his will.
Wealth During Lifetime
Personal Property: His first wife's inheritance from her mother
was £1,500, ca. 1776; assessed value £263.0.0, including 4
slaves, 1783; 35 slaves, 1790; 31 slaves, 1798; owned a brewery on Philpotts
Point, Baltimore City, 1802-1818.
Land at First Election: 630 acres in Talbot and Dorchester counties
(inherited 720 acres from his father, but gave 620 acres of it by deed
of gift to his brother William Hindman before his first election; received
at least 300 acres by deed of gift from Edward Lloyd, which he then resurveyed).
Significant Change in Land Between First Election and Death:
Purchased 355 acres in Queen Anne's County and sold 530 acres in Talbot
County, 1793; sold at least 452 acres in Queen Anne's and Dorchester counties,
1801; bought and sold tracts and lots in Baltimore City and Baltimore County,
1793-1827.
Wealth at Death
Personal Property: Total estate value, $75,094.42 (including
extensive stockholdings, with at least 881 shares in several banks and
road companies, over $10,000 in U.S. government stock issued in 1814 and
1815 bearing 6 percent interest, and $3,700 in city corporate stock bearing
5 percent interest; and at least 4 slaves, 1 of whom he manumitted in his
will); final estate balance, $82.13.
Land: 1 dwelling house and a lot on North Calvert Street, Baltimore
City.
Additional Comments: His principal heirs were his nephews Archibald
Hindman Campbell, William Hindman Campbell, William Hindman, and Henry
Hindman, and his nieces Maria Winchester, Elizabeth Augusta Goodwin, Sophia
Campbell, and Elizabeth Barney.
Source: Edward C. Papenfuse, et al., eds. A Biographical Dictionary of the Maryland Legislature, 1635-1789. Vol I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1985, 443-444.
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