The first sign of Vincent I’ve found is his marriage in 1812.2173 He is then present in the 1813 tax lists of Bullitt County, where he is titheable with the possession of one horse.2174 He is on the same page as John, Joseph and Jacob Hoskins, a clan notable for their later move to Spencer County, Indiana, where they were neighbors of the young Abraham Lincoln. I haven’t identified a relationship between the two groups of Hoskins, though their continual intersections make me believe that there is one. He appears in Washington County tax lists for 1820 immediately next close to Aquilla (the elder, his brother) and Joseph R. Hoskins.2175

In the tax records of 1836, Vincent Hoskins is noted to have 175 acres on the Otter Creek watershed in Hardin County, and 234 acres in Daviess County.2176

He and his family were living in Hardin in 1840, near the family of Ellen Carrico (a widow by then), whose sons two of his daughters married.2177

A number of the children of Vincent and James M. Hoskins are buried in Saint Rafael Cemetery in West Louisville.