John Hinsdale, Jr. (1738-1788) was born into a prominent Deerfield, Massachusetts, family in 1738. HIs parents were John and Hannah (Arms) Hinsdale. John, Jr. served in the French and Indian War (1754-1763) and the Revolutionary War (1775-1783), including marching with other Deerfield men to Boston in April, 1775. He married a widow, Eleanor Munn, in 1782; the couple had no children before John's death in 1788.
In 1774 and 1775, entries in John Russell's account book show that Hinsdale paid Caleb Sharp's (Sharp Caleb) debt. Russell was a tailor and retailer. Sharp was of mixed African and Indigenous parentage. He had gained his freedom in about 1754 and settled in Conway, Massachusetts, where he operated a sawmill and a gristmill.
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