Andrew Hynes

Andrew Hynes (February 28, 1749 – September 1800) was the founder of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, which town was named for his wife, Elizabeth Warford Hynes. The son of William and Hannah Hynes, Andrew was born in Hagerstown, Maryland, and died September 1800 in Bardstown, Kentucky.

Colonel Hynes served as one of the delegates that formed the first Constitution of Kentucky in 1792. Andrew & Elizabeth's son, also Colonel Andrew Hynes, was a veteran of the War of 1812, serving as the Adjutant General for the State Militia of Tennessee. [1][2] Their daughter, Nancy, married the Honorable William Pope Duval, first territorial governor of Florida.[3][4]

References

  1. ^ Hynes papers
  2. ^ Historical New Orleans collection
  3. ^ Caswell, Meranda L. (2005). Elizabethtown. Arcadia Publishing. p. 7. ISBN 978-0-7385-1786-5. 
  4. ^ Denham, James M.; Brown, Canter (2003). Cracker Times and Pioneer Lives: The Florida Reminiscences of George Gillett Keen and Sarah Pamela Williams. Univ of South Carolina Press. p. 135. ISBN 978-1-5700-3512-8.