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Mary M. "Polly" VAN METER523 was born on 11 Feb 1757 in USA, Virginia, Berkeley Co. (now West Virginia).524 She died on 29 Jun 1832 in USA, Kentucky, Nelson Co.. She was buried in USA, Kentucky, Nelson Co., Deatsville (near), Wilson Creek Baptist Church Cemetery. Mary Van Meter was born Feb 11, 1757, Berkeley Co., Virginia (Now West Virginia), the daughter of Jacob Van Meter (Mar 1723-NOV 16, 1798) and Letitia Strode (1725-1799). She travelled to Kentucky with her husband David/John Hinton as part of her family's migration west. In 1780 she was left with two children when her husband drowned in the Ohio River during the journey. Husbandless, she settled in what was then Jefferson Co. and part of Virginia (now Hardin Co., KY), during a time of Indian unrest when many white settlers where losing their lives. She became known in the area as the Widow Hinton.
In 1781 she was living at Squire Boone's Station on Brashear Creek, sometimes called "Painted Stone" near present Shelbyville, KY. In April of that year the station was attacked around sunrise by a band of Indians led by the white renegade, Simon Girty. Squire Boone, "in his shirt tail" and ten to twelve others grabbed their guns and rushed to protect the retreat of a work party that had left early to put in the corn crop. Squire was wounded in the fray, one arm was so shattered it never healed properly. By Sept of 1781 it was decided to abandon the Station because the Indian troubles were so bad. Everyone left except Squire, who was still weak and recovering, his 12 yr old son Moses, and the widow Hinton, as there weren't enough pack horses. The travelling party was ambushed 21 miles away and still 8 miles from Linn's Station. A day or two later about 300 men from the Falls of the Ohio (now Louisville) and other nearby settlements marched out, buried the dead and rescued Squire's family and Widow Hinton's, along with the stock which had wandered back and much of the lost belongings of the moving families.
During 1779 Major William Chenoweth came to Pottenger's Creek in Kentucky and entered lands in Jefferson (now Nelson) county, adjacent to present day Hardin Co. He had been granted land for his Revolutionary service. On March 5, 1781 he was appointed administrator of the estate of John (or David) Hinton. Later he married the "Widow Hinton." They raised nine children together. They built a large stone house near Dateville, about ten miles from Bardstown in Nelson Co. where they lived until their deaths. Mary died June 29, 1832, Nelson Co., Kentucky, four years after his husband William.

523. Thompson, Jess M., The Jess M. Thompson Pike County history : as printed in installments in the Pike County republican, Pittsfield, Illinois, 1935-1939. (Pittsfield, Ill.: Pike County Historical Society, 1967, 582 pgs.), p. 384-5.
524. Ibid., p. 384.