Thomas Hinckley, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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governor of the Plymouth Colony
Date of Birth: 19-Mar-1618
Place of Birth: Tenterden, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 25-Apr-1706
Zodiac Sign: Pisces 
About Thomas Hinckley
- Thomas Hinckley (bapt.
- March 19, 1618 – April 25, 1706) was the last governor of the Plymouth Colony.
- Born in England, he came to North America as a teenager, and was a leading settler of what is now Barnstable, Massachusetts.
- He served in a variety of political and military offices before becoming governor of the colony in 1680, a post he held (excluding the interregnum of the Dominion of New England 1686-1689) until the colony was folded into the Province of Massachusetts Bay in 1692.
- A monument, created in 1829 at the Lothrop Hill cemetery in Barnstable, attests to his "piety, usefulness and agency in the public transactions of his time."
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