THIRD GENERATION

10. Jacob HINDS ⁽⁴⁾⁽⁵⁾ was born about 1688. He died on 15 Sep 1751 in Shrewsbury, Mass @ age 63. He came from Marlboro, MA,( where his name was written Hins) in 1720. Because he rendered service to the colony in the Indian Wars, the General Court awarded him a tract fo land located off the present Worcester St. near Potter's greenhouse. It ws here he built his home. He was living on house lot#33 in 1729. David Child was the adminstrator of his will.

His residence was 70 rods south of the common.The section of West Boylston where these old houses are situated is the earliest portion of the town settled by the white pioneers, about eighty rods distant southeast from the old Bigelow-Temple house, Jacob Hinds the first settler made his home, the old well supplying water to his house is or was a few years ago to be seen. During the Indian times, Jacob Hinds house was a garrison for protection against the savages and while it is not kown that any serious attacks were ever made upon the place it is said that the door of this garrison still bearing the scars of the Indians tomahawk was still in use as a wood-shack door at the Asa E. Knight place, where the old house there burned several years ago, and was probably destroyed in that fire. Nearly opposite the old Hinds property, and across Temple street on land now owned by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is now a part of the Wachusetts Reservoir ____ and once a part of the Dea.Amariahs Bigelow Farm is the entrance to the__ The History of Worcester County issued in 1874 and 1889 says, "It has the appearance of a natural amphitheater. The area is as nearly level as art could make and in the spring and early summer its green carpet of short wild grass made it a very pleasing picture to the eye. It has been a place of great resort for parties of pleasure and to travelers and strangers was ever one of the objects to be shown and visited in West Boylston. It has not wanted for poets to sing its praises nor for artists to sketch its beauties."

A notice of this spot with accompanying cut? and lines? was published one hundred yearsago, in the American Traveller of July 14, 1826,
"Sweet vale of West Boylston how c___? a retreat
From the sorrows and cares of this cold world of woe,
With thy thick covered banks where the wild floweriest meet,
And they so---tie paths where _____ evergreens grow.

Lieut. Jacob Hinds is supposed to have been the first person of the name who settled on the territory of West Boylston and who is also considered as one of the first if not the very first white settler in West Boylston. He settled on House Lot No. 33 and was in possession of this Lot as early as DEC, 30 1718 and the lot is described as lying at the
southeast angle of the ministerial Lot which Lot was later in the possession of Dea. Amariel Biglo or Bigelow as the name is now spelt and was _____ otherwise by undivided land __ __ the lot laid out on the northwest of the 34th House Lot was where first laid out Dec 30 1719 in the possession of David Haynes of Sudbury and which lay __the northeast angle of the so called Mel chase? Farm this lot was possession of Isaac Temple
February 17, 1729 and it is supposed that it was first settled by _____, the northern corner bound of the Malden Grant was found and located _____ Pierce and George L. Wright while surveying and running out the boundry of the Isaac Temple farm for George A. Flagg this northeast corner bound of the Malden Grant was at the northerly and westerly corners of the roads leading form the Worcester Road to the present West Boylston Common and the town road ___ to the present Hartwell Street in West Boylston and at the foot of Sand Hill. This point is now at the margin of the Wachusett Resevoir. Lieut. Jacob Hinds had for his division of Malden Land the sixth lot in Malden Meadow and this lot is also now under the waters of the reservoir. The House Lot of Lieut. Jacob Hinds is the land that was owned by Warren Herthan? and which he divided up into house lots and is situated beyond the town line in West Boylston and nearly opposite the entrance to the cart road leading to the region known as Pleasant Valley. The well on the premises that was dug by Lieut. Hinds is still in existence and now in use. The original house erected by Lieut. Jacob Hinds, was a garrison during the late Indian times and the door of the house scared by the Indian hatchets and tomahawks was long in use as a wood shed door and was destroyed by fire when the old house on the Cyrus Knight place in West Boylston was burned. When the religious denomination now known as the Seventh Day Adventists first came into existence in this vicinity and before they established their present headquarters as South Lancaster, they held for a time their annual camp meetings at this old Hinds place, using the water at the Dover Mill Pond about a half mile easterly for baptismal purposes.

The Hinds family was connected with the Temples, Hollands, Childs, and Goodales Families all of whom figured among the early settlers of Shrewsbury in the sections now comprising both the towns of Boylston and West Boylston- the only one of the Hinds now bearing the name, Albert W. Hinds, son of Albert and g.s of Joseph. He is a (crossed out) graduate of Brandis(?)University.

He was married to Grace MORSE on 6 Dec 1716 in Marlborough, Mass. Grace MORSE was born PRE 1701 in Marlborough, Mass ???. Jacob HINDS and Grace MORSE had the following children:

29 i. Tabitha HINDS was born in 1718 in Marlborough, Mass. ⁽⁴⁾ She died in infancy.⁽⁴⁾
30 ii. Sarah HINDS was born in 1719 in Marlborough, Mass. ⁽⁴⁾
+31 iii. Abigail HINDS.
32 iv. Daniel HINDS was born in 1722 in Shrewsbury, Ma. ⁽⁴⁾ He died on 2 Jun 1740 in Shrewsbury, Ma. ⁽⁴⁾
33 v. Joseph HINDS was born in 1724 in Shrewsbury, Ma. ⁽⁴⁾
+34 vi. Benjamin HINDS.
+35 vii. Mary HINDS.
36 viii. Tabitha HINDS was born on 14 Nov 1727 in Shrewsbury, Ma. ⁽⁴⁾
37 ix. Jason HINDS was born on 8 Dec 1728 in Shrewsbury, Ma. ⁽⁴⁾ He died before 1751.⁽⁴⁾
+38 x. Elizabeth ( Betty ) HINDS.
+39 xi. Jacob HINDS.

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