Sir Anthony HINTON

                   Thomas Hinton, b. 1574, matriculated at Queen's College, Oxford, June 21, 1591, aged 17, graduated B. A. 1595. Knighted by James I at Oatlands 1 July, 1919, for his valuable services in procuring James I a loan of £30,000. He was M. P. [dwb: Member of Parliament] for the Borough of Bournton, Co. Berks, 1621-1622, and for the Borough of Ludgershall, Co. Wilts, 1625-26. Sir Thomas was Junior Partner in the great woolen house of Harvey and Hinton, one of the three largest of its kind in London. He was also one of the largest stockholders in the London Company for the settlement of Virginia. He was High Sheriff of Berks in 1611 and Commissioner of the wool trade while in Parliament in 1626. He introduced a bill to raise £800,000 for carrying on the Government, as he states in a letter to his friend George Villiers, Duke of Buckingham in January, 1627. Sir Thomas in another letter dated January 4, 1631 states that he had spent £20,000 in the famous lawsuit of Sir Francis Popham and his son John against Sir Thomas Hinton as Executor of his late partner, Sir Sebastian Harvey, who held back a legacy of £400 annually, to Mary Harvey, Sir Sebastian's daughter, who had married John Popham. They case was finally settled by a compromise brought about by the influence of Hinton's life long friend, Henry Pierrepont, 1st Marquis of Dorchester. Sir Thomas married (1) 1595, Catherine, daughter of William Palmer, Esqr., of Parham, County of Sussex, [Berry's Sussex Genealogies, p. 206 and Mis. Gen. Et Heraldia 1st Series, Vol. I, p. 116] son of Sir Thomas Palmer of Parham, by Catherine daughter of Sir Edward Stradling, Knt. of St. Donat's Castle, Glamorganshire. Mrs. Catherine Hinton, d. September 30, 1609, and was buried at St. Martin's Chilton Foliot, Wilts. Sir Thomas married (2) at St. James Clerkenwell, London, July 20, 1615, Mary, widow of Robert Throckmorton nephew of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth and Ambassador to Mary Stuart, Queen of Scotland, no issue. Sir Thomas married (3) October 1, 1622, the Lady Mary, widow of his late partner, Sir Sebastian Harvey, Lord Mayor of London, and daughter of Peter Tryon, Citizen and Goldsmith of London. Lady Hinton died in October, 1630, and was buried at St. John's Wanborough. Sir Thomas died February 1, 1635 and was buried at St. John's Marlborough, but reinterred at St. Martin's, Chilton Foliot October 20, 1640, where the remains of his first and best loved wife, Catherine, had also been interred. They had seven children, five sons and two daughters.*************Notes from http://www.mindspring.com/~baumbach/hinton/jhinton.htmMr. Wharton Dickinson, of New York, one of the finest authorities on English genealogy in this county, has authentically traced the line back to the Norman Conquest. "Earlscott" and "Chilton Foliot" were seats of this family in the County Wilts, England. One of the first of this name to appear in American records was that of Sir Thomas Hinton, knight; it is claimed that he visited the colony of Virginia, which is quite probable, as he was a member of the London Company. He was the first Gentleman of the Bedchamber to James I. of England and Privy Councilor to Charles I. The father of Sir Thomas was Anthony Hinton, Gentleman, born 1532, died 7 May, 1598, who married Martha, daughter of Sir Giles and Lady Estcort.2 His monument, erected by his grandson, Sir Anthony Hinton, son of Sir Thomas Hinton, is in the south aisle of St. John's Church, Wanborough, County Wilts, and bears this inscription:"Anthony Hinton Esqr OB May 7, 1598, aged 66, grandfather to Mr. Hinton Privy Councillor to Charles I"Sir Thomas Hinton was born 1574, died 1 February, 1635. By his first wife, Catherine Palmer, he had five sons and two daughters, four of whom married and left issue, viz/: Sir Anthony married Mary Gresham; Sir William married Mary Popham; Sir John (born July 10, 1603, died October 10, 1682) married Catrina Vander Ruckle; Mary married Captain Samuel Mathews afterwards governor of Virginia, and is the ancestress of the Witherspoons of Kentucky. Sir Jo
hn Hinton came to Virginia with his brother-in-law, Captain Mathews, in 1622, remaining two years; his brothers, Thomas and Sir William Hinton, came to the colony in 1634, but returned to England in 1637.In 1666 there came to Maryland the first, fifth and sixth sons of Sir John Hinton (son of Sir Thomas Hinton, of "Earlscott" and "Chilton Foliot")--Thomas, Clement and Richard Hinton. From Thomas descends the Hintons of New York and Philadelphia; Clement died unmarried and Richard, it is claimed, was the progenitor of the Hintons of Virginia and North Carolina.***********Notes from http://www.couchgenweb.com/gwinnett/hinton7.htmFirst Hinton to set foot in the New World. After a short stay, he returned to England and invested large sums of money in the colonies; primarily the Jamestown Colony