1. Doctor Thomas Hinde was Northern Kentucky's first physician, a member of the British Royal Navy, an American Revolutionary, personal physician to Patrick Henry, and treated General Wolfe when he died in the 1759 Battle of Quebec in Quebec, Canada.
Thomas Hinde is the patriarch of the Hinde family in the United States.
Thomas Hinde's youngest son, Thomas S Hinde, was a notable Methodist minister and businessman, Charles T Hinde, his grandson, was a shipping magnate, and Edmund C Hinde, another grandson, was an adventurer.
Thomas Hinde was northern Kentucky's first physician, and a memorial was erected in Campbell County, Kentucky to honor his services to the state.
Thomas Hinde died in 1828 aged 91, which was unusually old for the time.
Thomas Hinde received a classical education in Oxfordshire and, after completing his studies, was sent to London, England to study medicine.
Thomas Hinde studied physics and surgery under Dr Thomas Brooke at Saint Thomas Hospital in London and, at the age of nineteen, was presented to the Company of Surgeons for a licence.
Thomas Hinde spent the winter of 1758 in Halifax and assisted Amherst with the reduction of Louisburg.
Thomas Hinde was attached to the ship which bore the commander in chief, General James Wolfe, on his way to Quebec.
Shortly after, Thomas Hinde was promoted and remained as a physician for a warship after the peace of 1763.
Peace with France was reached in 1763, and Thomas Hinde then returned to Virginia and settled.
Thomas Hinde formed a close friendship with an unnamed Virginian who persuaded him to settle in a place called Hobbs Hole in Essex County, Virginia and practice medicine.
Thomas Hinde accepted, but moved soon after to settle in Newton, now in West Virginia, where he met his wife.
In 1765, after he settled in Virginia, Thomas Hinde became acquainted with Patrick Henry, one of the founding fathers of the United States, Samuel Davis, and Lord Dunmore.
When Thomas Hinde first met Hubbard, he found her to "possess a great flow of animal spirits, full of humor, gay and lively inner temperament and disposition, with strong powers of mind, and at the same time active and sociable".
Thomas Hinde took an active part in the American Revolutionary War, serving as a surgeon with Patrick and in various campaigns and battles.
At the time of the 1775 Gunpowder Incident, Thomas Hinde was Chief Surgeon for Patrick Henry.
Thomas Hinde originally planned to take a front-line post in Henry's regiment, but when Henry was elected Governor, Thomas Hinde was instead appointed to inoculate all members of the continental service.
One source states that Thomas Hinde amputated limbs during the war by the "cart-load".
Thomas Hinde gave Taylor half of the lands for this service.
One biographer stated that for a time Thomas Hinde "took pride and pleasure in ridiculing Christianity".
Susanna, one of Thomas Hinde's daughters, converted, causing distress to the family.
Thomas Hinde banished her from his home, and she went to live with her aunt forty miles away.
However, this failed because the aunt had already converted, and Thomas Hinde's wife converted soon after.
Thomas Hinde became convinced that the disorder was in their heads, and treated them with medical procedures of the day, such as a "blistering plaster to the whole length of the spine, which he left on for several days".
Thomas Hinde later felt guilt for having banished his daughter and performed medical operations on his wife, and he converted to Methodism.
Thomas Hinde's daughter returned home and his wife began attending Methodist gatherings regularly.
Thomas Hinde married Mary Todd Hubbard, the daughter of Benjamin Hubbard, an English merchant, and they were married for 61 years.
One of Hinde's sons was Thomas S Hinde, who was a cofounder of Mount Carmel, Illinois, and became a well-respected Methodist minister.
Hinde's grandson Captain Charles T Hinde was a successful businessman and riverboat captain.