Seth Hinshaw (1787 - 1865)

Born 11 Feb 1787 in Stokes, North Carolina, United States

Ancestors

Husband of Hannah (Beeson) Hinshaw — married 21 Jun 1809 in Center Monthly Meeting, Guilford, North Carolina

Husband of Abigail (Rich) Hinshaw — married 16 Apr 1823 in Marlborough MM, Randolph, North Carolina, United States

Descendants

Died 15 Nov 1865 at age 78 in Greensboro, Henry, Indiana, United States

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Biography

Seth was part of the Underground Railroad.

Seth was a Friend (Quaker)

Seth Hinshaw was a part of the Abolitionist Movement.

Seth Hinshaw is Notable.

Seth Hinshaw was born the 11th or 14th of 2d mo 1787, a son of John and Ruth (Pike) Weisner Hinshaw. He married first 21st of 6th mo 1809 at Centre Friends Meeting in Guilford County, North Carolina, Hannah Beeson. Hannah, daughter of Benjamin Beeson & Margaret Hoggatt, was born 5-2-1788, Guilford County, North Carolina, and died in 1822. They had five children: Armelia, Malinda, Jabez, Dianna, and Asenath.

His second wife was Abigail Rich, married on 4-16-1823. Abigail, daughter of Peter Rich & Mary Williams, was born 12-14-1791, Randolph County, North Carolina. They had five children: Hannah Jane, Mary Ellen, Ruth, and Alice and Flora (twins-died in childbirth 1833).

Abigail Rich died 8 Mar 1873 and is buried in the Greensboro Friends Cemetery, Greensboro, Henry County, Indiana, next to her husband Seth.

In 1831 Seth Hinshaw moved his family to Henry County, Indiana. He settled in the village of Greensboro, becoming a member of the Duck Creek Monthly Meeting of Friends and opening a store. In the late 1830s he was converted to the abolitionist cause and became one of the most active and open opponents of slavery in Indiana in the 1840s. He converted his store to a "free produce" store that carried nothing produced with slave labor. He was was a member of the Henry County Anti-Slavery Society, a director of the Western Free Produce Association, and a fixture at conventions of the Liberty Party. He aided fugitive slaves, sheltered the great black abolitionist Frederick Douglass after he was attacked by a mob in nearby Pendleton, and led a campaign to desegregate the school in Greensboro. A contemporary, Addison Coffin, who visited him in 1843, later wrote that: "his house was the meeting place of all grades of reformers, or setters forth of new doctrines--Mesmerism, Grahamism, Spiritualism, Socialism, Fourierism, etc., besides being headquarters for all abolition speakers and lecturers." He helped build Liberty Hall in Greensboro to be used for reform meetings. When customers complained that his "free labor" goods were more expensive than those other merchants offered, he responded: "This will test thy conscience, whether it is worth anything or not."

In 1851 Hinshaw became a convert to Spiritualism, and died in that faith. Seances were held at his home, and in Greensboro he helped construct Progress Hall for meetings of the group he had joined, the Progressive Spiritualists. He lived to see the end of slavery, although he mourned that it had required a war to end it.

Quaker Meeting Records

Name: Seth Hinshaw

Marriage Date: 21 Jun 1809

Marriage Date on Image: 21 Sixth 1809

Marriage Place: Guilford, North Carolina

Residence Place: Stokes, North Carolina

Father: John Hinshaw

Mother: Ruth

Spouse: Hannah Beeson

Spouse Father: Benjamin Beeson

Spouse Mother: Margaret

Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage)

Monthly Meeting: Centre Monthly Meeting

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Yearly Meeting: North Carolina Yearly Meeting

Meeting State: North Carolina

Meeting County: Guilford ^[1]

Find A Grave

Birth: 1787

Stokes County

North Carolina, USA

Death: Nov. 15, 1865

Greensboro

Henry County

Indiana, USA

Family links:

Spouse: Abigail Rich Hinshaw (Dec 14 1791 - 8 Mar 1873)

 : Inscription: "A Progressive Spiritualist"

Burial: Greensboro Friends Cemetery

Greensboro, Henry County, Indiana, USA ^[2]

Sources

• http://www.hcgs.net/sethhinshaw.html
• http://www.rawbw.com/~hinshaw/cgi-bin/id?235
• http://www.quakerquaker.org/profiles/blogs/seth-hinshaw-detraction
• http://www.in.gov/history/files/33.1976.1UndergroundStation.pdf
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1. ↑ Source Citation: Guilford College; Greensboro, North Carolina; Records, 1775-1903; Collection: North Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes; Source Information: Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.; Original data:
   • Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.
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2. ↑ Created by: Mary Louise Reynolds Record added: Dec 02, 2012 Find A Grave Memorial# 101611534; URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=101611534