Hi:
Since many of our Hines, Hinds, Haines, Haynes lines up end in New England where it is usually spelled Haines or Haynes - I though I would send this along.
If you want a good read - I didn't find it a bit boring - read this book. Or if you have a Rev. War buff in your family - they'll love this book.
I'm putting below just the mentions of the name Haynes - there were no other spellings of the name in the book - just Joshia Haynes Sr. & Jr.

Regards
Nan Wolf
71532.734 at compuserve.com
========================
From the book:
PAUL REVERE'S RIDE by
David Hackett Fischer, Oxford University Press, New York Oxford (Large paperback $18.95)

(This is about the night of the Lexington/Concord alarm - the night before the confrontation at the bridge - "the shot heard 'round; the word.")

page: 158
Chapter Head: The Muster
"Older men joined their sons and grandsons as volunteers. In Lexington, Moses Harrington was sixty-five years old. Robert Munroe was sixty-three. Sudbury's Deacon Joshia Haynes was eighty years old, but turned out with the militia and set a rapid pace on the road that left the young minutemen panting behind him. The militia were joined by large numbers of these "un-enlisted volunteers" as they were called in Littleton. In Dedham, after the militia marched, "The gray-haired veterans of the French wars, whose blood was stirred anew by the sights and sound of war, resolved to follow their sons into battle," Many of these older man had much military experience. They would be among the most dangerous adversaries on the field that day." (End of paragraph)

page 253:
Chapter Head: A Circle of Fire - Lord Percy's Long Retreat
"The American officers were prominent in the fighting, keeping their men dispersed but engaged. This was dangerous work. Many company officers were killed or severely wounded in the course of the day: Bedford's Captain Jonathan Wilson, Concord's Captain Nathan Barrett and Captain Charles Miles, Needham's Captain Eleazer Kingsbury and Lieutenant John Bacon, and others. Casualties also occurred among town elders who attached themselves as volunteers, and became battlefield leaders by reason of the social standing. Sudbury's Deacon Joshiah Haynes was killed while leading his townsmen from the front. His example, and that of others like him, was remembered by men who fought that day.

page 321:
Appendix P
"American Casualties, April 19, 1775, by town:

Sudbury: killed (2) Deacon Josiah Haynes (aet.80), Asahael Reed; died of wounds (1), Thomas Bent (1); wounded (1) Joshua Haynes, Jr."