Martin Kinsley (June 2, 1754 – June 20, 1835) was a

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. Born in Bridgewater in the

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, Kinsley graduated from

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in 1778. He studied medicine. He became a purveyor of supplies in the

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. He served as Treasurer of the Town of Hardwick. He moved to Hampden, and was a representative of that town in the

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. He served as member of the executive council in 1810 and 1811, as a judge of the court of common pleas in 1811, as judge of the probate court, and served in the

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. Kinsley was elected as a

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to the Sixteenth Congress (March 4, 1819 – March 3, 1821). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1820 to the Seventeenth Congress. He died in Roxbury, June 20, 1835.

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