Ancestry of
Cokie Roberts

Author and TV Journalist

Sarah Jones Hinman

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• • 4th Great-grandmother of Cokie Roberts — 7th Generation
  • Ahnentafel No:
  • 123 
  • Father:
  • Noble Hinman 
  • Mother:
  • Catharine Green   
  • Birth Date:
  • 14 Oct 1779 
  • Birth Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Christening Date:
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  • Christening Location:
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  • Death Date:
  • 14 Jul 1840 
  • Death Location:
  • St. Helena Parish, Louisiana 
  • Burial Date:
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  • Burial Location:
  • Killian Chapel Cemetery, Hillsdale, St. Helena, Louisiana 
  • Spouse Name:
  • George Packwood
  • Marriage Date:
  • 1 Dec 1799 
  • Marriage Location:
  • New London, New London Co., Connecticut 
  • Child:

  Juliann Green Packwood (Ahnentafel No:61 )

  • Notes: 

  • Sarah Hinman's given name is also seen as Sally.

    Sarah's tombstone in Louisiana gives her birth date as 1781, however the New London vital records has it as 1779.

• Sources for Sarah Jones Hinman

  • ¹ Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 226, Marriage record for George Packwood and Sally Hinman.
  • ² Connecticut: Vital Records (The Barbour Collection), 1630-1870, New London, p. 154, Birth record for Sarah Jones Hinman.
  • ³ Gravestone image at FindAGrave.com, (accessed 09/17/2019).
  • ⁴ The People's Advocate (New London, Connecticut), 16 SEP 1840, Vol. 1, Iss. 4, p. 3, Obituary for Mrs. Sarah Packwood.
  • ⁵ O'Gorman, Ella Foy, Descendants of Virginia Calverts, Los Angeles, California: n. p. (1947), 525.
  • ⁶ Roberts, Gary Boyd, The Mayflower 500: Five Hundred Notable Descendants of the Founding Families on the Mayflower, Boston: New England Historic Genealogical Society (2020), 87.

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