Life

In 1826, he married Almira Waldron (1805-1874), and they had five children, among them Franklin Hinds, Harrison Hinds, Mary Katherine Hinds (1832-1913) and Minerva A. Hinds (1830-1890).

About 1830, he removed to Murray

Murray, New York

Murray is a town in Orleans County, New York, United States. The population was 6,259 at the 2000 census.The Town of Murray is on the east border of the county, northwest of the City of Rochester.- History :Murray was first settled around 1809....

, Orleans County, New York

Orleans County, New York

As of the census of 2000, there were 44,171 people, 15,363 households, and 10,846 families residing in the county. The population density was 113 people per square mile . There were 17,347 housing units at an average density of 44 per square mile...

, and was among the founders of the village of Hindsburgh (now Hinsburg).

During the administration of Governor William H. Seward

William H. Seward

William Henry Seward, Sr. was the 12th Governor of New York, United States Senator and the United States Secretary of State under Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson...

, he was appointed Superintendent of Canal Repairs for a section of the Erie Canal

Erie Canal

The Erie Canal is a waterway in New York that runs about from Albany, New York, on the Hudson River to Buffalo, New York, at Lake Erie, completing a navigable water route from the Atlantic Ocean to the Great Lakes. The canal contains 36 locks and encompasses a total elevation differential of...

.

He was one of the first three Canal Commissioners

Erie Canal Commission

The New York State Legislature appointed in 1810 a Commission to Explore a Route for a Canal to Lake Erie, and Report which became known as the Erie Canal Commission...

 elected under the New York State Constitution of 1846, and drew the three-year term, being in office from 1848 to 1850. In 1850, he was accused of misadministration, but defended himself successfully before a special committee of the New York State Legislature.

Sources

• The New York Civil List compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (page 42; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) [gives "Tonawanda" as residence for Hinds]
• The New York Annual Register (1840; page 394)
• Reimbursement of his legal fees, in The Laws of the State of New York (Seventy-eighth Session, 1855; pages 1024f)
• The New York Mercantile Union Business Directory (1849; page 412) [gives "Hindsville" as residence for Hinds]
• The Pioneer History of Orleans County, NY, Chapter XXIV, The Village of Hindsburgh by Arad Thomas
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyorlean/mtalbh5.htm Burial records from Mt. Albion Cemetery, Albion NY, at RootsWeb
• http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nyorlean/cemtran2.htm Burial records from Transit Cemetery, Murray NY, at RootsWeb
• http://home.comcast.net/~t.r.valentine/riker24waldron.html Waldron genealogy