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Hines Joshua [Male] b. 1750 Surry, Virginia, USA - d. 1779 Southampton, Virginia, USA

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second of nine children of John (1713) and Elizabeth Hines. In John Hines' (1713) Will it states "Item: I give and bequeath to my son Joshua Hines the other half of the land I now Live on after the death of my wife, also I give my said son Joshua the first foal that the old mare shall bring to him and his heirs together. On November 9, 1774 Joshua bought 83 acres from William and Sarah Scoggin on the south side of the Assamoosok Swamp, bought by William Bosman in 1772, adjacent to John Kirby, John Brown, David Cotton. In 1755 there were 2009 people listed as subject to tithe in Southampton which represented a population of about 4000 whites and 2000 Blacks. Except for a few whose occupation was flour miling or coopering, virtually every family's occupation was farming. Many of these supplemented their family income seasonally by collecting tar, pitch, and turpentine from the abundant pine forests. The only formal educational institution known to have existed in Southampton during the colonial era wsa the boarding school operated at Broadwater by Samuel Nelson. His advertisement in the Virginia Gazette in 1771 boasted that the school offered Latin, Greek, and French along with geography and astonomy. Some of the wealthier planters had the services of tutors or else sent their sons away to schools at Williamsburg or elsewhere.

Joshua was married in 1775 to Lucy Foster, born 1755, a daughter of William and Elizabeth Brown Foster. The will of Jean Brown, dated September 5, 1789 in Southampton County mentions Benjamin (born 1776) and Henry (born 1778) Hines, both said to be sons of Joshua and Lucy Foster Hines. The will of Olive Brown, dated October 9, 1794 in Southampton County mentions Lucy Brown Hines, Olive Brown being her grandmother. The will of John Brown, dated October 23, 1780, apparently Lucy's grandfather, was witnessed by Lucy Hines.

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