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	Record Group Number:	900000
	Series/Collection Number:	N2020- 8
	Creator:	Hinson family.
	Title, Dates:	Hinson family papers, 1838-1950.
	Amount:	1.25 cubic ft.
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	Organization/Arrangement:	Box 1 is chronological; Box 2 is alphabetical by record type, then chronological.
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	Biographical/Historical:	Hinson is an unincorporated community in Gadsden County, Florida, located just north of Havana. It is named for the Hinson family, early pioneers of North Florida. Daniel Murphy (D.M.) Hinson was born in 1795 in North Carolina. By the 1830s, he had settled in Gadsden County and established a large labor farm for shade tobacco, cotton, and sugar cane. He married Ann Nicholson. One of their children was also named Daniel Murphy, who eventually married Melia Maxwell and had a son named Daniel Pierce. The Hinson family built a two-story farm house and a church and ran a general store. In 1838, Florida's territorial governor Richard K. Call appointed D.M. Hinson, Sr. Justice of the Peace in Gadsden County. Successive governors maintained this appointment until 1849 when Governor Thomas Brown appointed Hinson county commissioner. He remained county commissioner until he died in 1887.
	Summary:	This collection contains records documenting the Hinson family of Gadsden County, Florida, particularly Daniel M. Hinson, Sr. and his grandson Daniel Pierce Hinson. The collection contains D. M. Hinson's certificates for his appointments as Justice of the Peace and later county commissioner; property and financial records; undated photographs of the Hinson house, church, and train stop; and miscellaneous other family documents. The property records include deed and mortgage documents for the Hinsons and their extended family members in Gadsden and Lake counties, as well as properties in Minnesota. The financial records consist of bills of sale, contracts, notes, and receipts that document various goods purchased and sold, including the sale of four enslaved persons: Ann and her three children.
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	Subject Access Fields:	Hinson, Daniel M., 1795-1877 African Americans History To 1863. Florida Cotton trade Florida County government Florida Deeds Florida --Gadsden County General stores Florida Gadsden County (Fla.)
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