David Hines Jr. was born in Surry County, Virginia in about March 1749. In 1769 he, along with his father and brother, became a resident of Edgecombe County, North Carolina. In about 1778 the Hines moved to Pitt County, North Carolina, where they became near neighbors of Jehu Tyson. Hines gave a deposition regarding the death of Jim Bowser, an enslaved boy who had died at the Tyson household. Hines later moved to Effingham County, Georgia, where he died in about February 1793.