Early Hicks (Hix) NY, New England pre1800
[This appears to be a different Robert m. Margaret with different children coming in 1623:
The English Ancestry and Homes of the Pilgrim Fathers: Who Came to Plymouth- by Charles Edward Banks
Robert Hicks (Hix) born about 1570 was a fellmonger, of London, residing in Southwark in 1616. He had married before emigration but drew only one lot for himself in the 1623 division. In 1627 his wife Margaret participated in the division. His name does not appear in the Subsidy of 1620 for Southwark but the parish registers of 1620 for St. Saviour and St. George should give some record of his family. The adjoining parish of Bermondsey furnishes the following information about his family relating to the baptisms of his children viz.: Thomas 19 Feb. 1603/4, (bur. April 1604); John 12, Oct. 1605; Sarah 25 Oct. 1607. He probably moved to Southwark after the last date.
Clement Briggs, also in Southwark in 1616, was a fellmonger and fellow passenger with Hix in 1623.]
(The Hicks Line Robert).
Robert Hicks, or Hix, was the immigrant ancestor of the Hicks and Hix families of Rhode Island and southeastern Massachusetts. He came from Southwark, county Surrey, England, to Plymouth, in the ship "Fortune" in 1621. His wife Ann followed in the ship "Ann" in 1623, with several children. He drew land for himself, wife and two children in 1623 and was admitted a freeman in 1633. He died March 24, 1647. Children: Samuel, married Lydia Doane, lived1 at Plymouth, Barnstable and Dartmouth, and had children: Dorcas, Margaret and Thomas, founder of the family at Portsmouth, Rhode Island; Ephraim; Lydia, married Edward Banks; and Phebe, married George Watson.
(I) Hezekiah Hicks, was born about 1715.
He married Desire —t . Children, born at Rehoboth: Hannah, May 17, 1740; James, April 21, 1742; Hezekiah, August 10, 1744; Mary, March 17, 1746-47; Desire, December 27, 1750; Gideon; and Jotham, mentioned below, May 26, 1752.
(II) Jotham, son of Hezekiah Hicks, was born at Rehoboth, May 26, 1752. He married there, March 26, 1775, (Elder John Hix officiating), Chloe Wheeler.
(III) Jotham (2), son of Jotham (1) Hicks, was born about 1780. He married at Rehoboth, August 21, 1800, Nancy Kent (by Elder Sylvester Round). Children, born at Rehoboth: Ransom, mentioned below ; Nancy, March 28, 1804; Jotham, March 13, 1806. Betsey, May 15, 1809; Otis Peck, September 21, 1813; Maria, January 3, 1817; Charles Nelson, February 8, 1819.
(IV) Ransom, son of Jotham Hicks, was
born at Rehoboth, January 29, 1802. He married Nancy Tompkins (see Tompkins). Their daughter Sarah Jane, married Thomas Merewether, and the latter's daughter, Sarah Ella Merewether, married Horace Arnold Kimball (see Kimball).
NY NE Hicks
HICKS, PHILIP R. of Hudson; son of JJL ELIAS P. HICKS of Hudson; son of Philip R.; son of Elias ; son of Benjamin; son of Joseph ; son of Jacob; son of Thomas of Flushing, Long Island; son of John of Flushing, Long Island, where he was granted a patent of land for the township of Flushing by Governor Kieft; son of ROBERT HICKS (m. Margaret ), who came from London to America with Robert Cushman and others in the ship Fortune, which followed the Mayflower, and landed at New Plymouth, Nov. 11, 1621. (See Hotten's Emigrants.) Robert Hicks, his brother, came to America about 1630 and settled in Scituate, Mass. (See Vol. I American Ancestry, p. 37.) They were the sons of James Hicks of London and his wife Phebe, who is supposed to have been a dau. of the Rev. Ephraim Allyne of Hertfordshire, and who was son of Baptist, b. about 1526 (m. Nancy, dau. of James Everhard); son of Thomas Hicks of Tortworth, Gloucestershire, which estate he inherited from his father, John Hicks, and on which he resided until his death (m. Joan Darney). This Thomas was the eldest son of John Hicks,who was lineally descended from Sir Ellis Hicks who was knighted by Edward the Black Prince at the battle of Poictiers, Sept. 19, 1356. In the English Baronetage (see Foster's Edition, 1881, p. 311) the lineage of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach, Bart., of Beverstone, Worcestershire, is traced to Robert Hicks, the son of John Hicks of Ton worth. [552]
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Samuel Hick Plymouth/ Lydia Doane
Elizabeth the Daughter of Samuel Hickes was Born the (9) of October 1674.
On December 3, 1660, the Plymouth Colony Court ordered that because Ephraim Hickes had died a violent death on Dec. 12, 1649
Name: Robert HICKS
Given Name: Robert
Surname: HICKS
Suffix: ("the Immigrant")
Change Date: 15 DEC 2008
Birth: ABT 1580 in London, Middlesex, England, UK
Note:
from GREAT MIGRATION:
ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1621 on Fortune
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
OCCUPATION: Fellmonger (in England).
FREEMAN: In the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen, among those admitted before 1 January 1632/3 [ PCR 1:3]. In list of 7 March 1636/7 [ PCR 1:52]. In the Plymouth section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen, with the annotation "dead" [ PCR 8:173].
EDUCATION: His inventory included "3 books" valued at 8s. His widow, Margaret, signed her will.
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land, "Robart Hickes" was granted one acre as a passenger on the Fortune, and his wife and children were granted four acres as passengers on the Anne [ PCR 12:5, 6]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Robert Hicks, Margaret Hicks, Samuel Hicks, Ephraim Hicks, Lydia Hicks and Phebe Hicks were the sixth through eleventh persons in the twelfth company [ PCR 12:13].
Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634 [ PCR 1:9, 27]. "Robert Hickes" was thirty-seventh on the list of Purchasers [ PCR 2:177].
On 10 February 1629 Robert Hicks purchased two acres on the north side of town from Steven Dean [ PCR 12:7]. On 29 August 1638 Clement Briggs acknowledged his sale of "one acre of land in the upper fall near the second brook" to "Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks" [ PCR 12:34]. On 9 December 1639 "Mr. Rob[er]te Hicks" rented five acres at Reed Pond to John Smyth for three years, Smyth to fence the east side of the land [ PCR 12:51]. On 13 July 1639 George Sowle acknowledged his sale of two acres of land to Robert Hicks of Plymouth [ PCR 12:45]. On 20 July 1639 John Barnes of Plymouth, yeoman, acknowledged his sale of four acres of meadow at High Pynes to Mr. Robert Hicks [ PCR 12;45]. On 11 February 1639[/40] Mr. Robert Hicks of Plymouth, planter, sold to Samuell Hicks his eldest son all his house, outhouses and garden in Plymouth, together with four acres of land and eight acres of land and all the meadow at the Heigh Pynes and Iland Creek, and all his right title and interest in the land, and three cows [ PCR 12:54]. On 7 April 1642 Mr. Robert Hicks sold two acres of marsh at Heigh Pines to Mr. William Bradford [ PCR 12:79]. On 7 May 1642 Mr. Robert Hicks sold seven acres of upland at Iland Creek to William Brett of Duxbury [ PCR 12:80]. On the same day he acknowledged his deed to John Reynor of three acres of marsh meadow at Heigh Pynes [ PCR 12:80]. On 9 October 1645 Mr. Robert Hicks sold to Georg Partrich a parcel of marsh meadow consisting of two acres [ PCR 12:115].
In his will, dated 28 May 1645 and proved 15 May 1648, "Robert Hicks of Plymouth ... being full of infirmities of body" bequeathed to "my son Ephraim all that my dwelling house barn and buildings with the gardens ... in Plymouth," also "all those three fields one lying on the north side of the said town of Plymouth ..., the second which I lately purchased of Mr. John Aldin and the third called the south field"; "but my mind and will is that my executrix hereafter named shall have and enjoy three rooms in the said house during her life she keeping herself unmarried, viz. the hall and chamber over and cellar underneath, and also that my said son Ephraim shall pay her the thirds of the said lands during her life and widowhood"; to "my said son Ephraim all my lands lying at Iland Creek on Duxbery side except two lots of upland of twenty acres apiece lying next unto Mr. Kemp's lands, which I hereby give and bequeath unto John Banges my grandchild"; to "my executrix ... the rents of the said land not set and let forth for six years yet to come if she shall so long live, but all the rest of my lands ... I give unto my said son Ephraim"; "I give unto John Reyner the son of Mr. John Reyner our teacher fifty acres of the purchased lands accruing ... to me as a purchaser of my share of lands lying at Seawams or Secunck if the said Mr. John Reyner his father do remain at Plymouth"; to "Samuell my eldest son" fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" fifty acres; to "John Watson" fifty acres; to "John Bangs" fifty acres; to "the younger of Mr. Charls Chancy's sons which his wife had at one birth when he dwelt at Plymouth" fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" household goods; to the Town of Plymouth one cow calf; to "William Pontus" 20s.; to "John Faunce" 20s.; to "Nathaneell Morton" 20s.; to "Thomas Cushman" 20s.; "Margaret my loving wife" sole executrix and residue; Mr. John Howland, Mannasses Kempton and Thomas Cushman overseers; to John Howland and Mannasses Kemton 10s. each for a remembrance; to Joshua Prat "a suit of my wearing clothes with a pair of shoes and stockings"; to Samuell Eddy a pair of wearing stockings; to "my said son Ephraim ... my four oxen, paying my loving wife ... the thirds of the profits of the lands as is before mentioned ... and to draw her twenty loads of wood yearly to her house in Plymouth during her life" [ MD 8:144-46, citing PCPR 1:1:703].
The inventory of the estate of "Mr. Robert Hicks deceased the 24th of May 1647 taken the fifth of July in the year aforesaid also exhibited upon oath the 4th of May 1648" totalled £39 13s., with no real estate included [ MD 8:143-44, citing PCPR 1:1:69].
On 23 January 1648 John Rogers of Duxbury bought the rent of lands improved by Mr. Robert Hicks now deceased from Ephraim Hicks of Plymouth [ PCR 12:155-56].
On 1 May 1660 "Gorge Watson," on behalf of his son John Watson and nephew John Banges, requested that, because "Samuel Hickes" was mistakenly entered in the court records as purchaser of lands at Cushenah and Accoaksett, etc., and it should have been "Mr. Robert" Hickes, it be corrected; the matter was referred to a later court [ PCR 3:186]. On 3 October 1662 "Samuell Hickes" was offered an equal division with others in the lands of Mr. Robert Hickes at Accushena, Coaksett, etc., but he declined [ PCR 4:27]. Margaret and Samuel could not agree on the division of goods in Robert's estate and the matter was taken to court 7 June 1661 [ PCR 3:217].
On 7 October 1662 "Margarett Hickes of Plymouth, widow, as sole executrix to my husband Mr. Robert Hickes," confirmed his bequest of fifty acres to "Elnathan Chauncye the younger of the twins of Mr. Charles Chauncye" [ MD 17:240-41, citing PCLR 2:2:107].
On 22 March 1663[/4] "Mistris Hickes" and "Sam[uel] Hickes" were granted Lot 7 in the Plymouth lands at "Puncateesett Necke" [ PTR 1:64].
In her will, dated 8 July 1665 and proved 6 March 1665/6, "Margarett Hickes widow of the town of Plymouth" bequeathed to "my son Samuell Hickes" £5; to "my daughter-in-law Lydia Hickes" 30s.; to "my son Samuell's children" 10s. each "there being seven of them"; said legacies to be paid by "son Samuell Hickes" from his debt "he having already received a large portion of that which God hath given me not only in lands but also in goods and chattels which was not only my husband's and son Ephraim's estate formerly but also given to me by will at my son Ephraim's death"; to "my grandchild John Banges" 40s.; residue to "the children of my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my loving daughter that is deceased Phebe Watson," also said estate to be "at the dispose of my son-in-law Gorg Watson"; "my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my friend Captain Southworth" overseers [ PCPR 2:2:32, abstracted in MD 16:157-58].
The inventory of Margaret Hickes, taken 5 March 1665[/6], totalled £53 12s. 6d. and included no real estate [ PCPR 2:2:33, abstracted in MD 16:158]. On 6 March 1665/6 "Gorge Watson" was granted administration on the estate of "Mistris Margarett Hickes, deceased" [ PCR 4:117].
BIRTH: By about 1578 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Plymouth 24 May 1647 (from inventory). (Savage and Pope both give this date as 24 March, apparently based on the abstract of the inventory published in 1850 [ NEHGR 4:282]. On the original the month of death is in the upper right corner of the page, and is worn, so that only "Ma" can now be read on microfilm. Bowman saw this as May, and his reading is followed here.)
MARRIAGE: By 1603 Margaret _____; she died at Plymouth between 8 July 1665 (date of will) and 6 March 1665/6 (probate of will).
CHILDREN (first eight baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey [ TAG 51:58]):
i THOMAS, bp. 19 February 1603/4; bur. 23 April 1604.
ii JOHN, bp. 12 October 1605; no further record.
iii SARA, bp. 25 October 1607; bur. 24 February 1617/8.
iv RICHARD, bp. 17 September 1609; no further record.
v SAMUEL, bp. 18 August 1611; m. Plymouth 11 September 1645 Lydia Doane [ PCR 2:88], daughter of JOHN DOANE .
vi LYDIA, bp. 6 September 1612; m. by about 1633 EDWARD BANGS .
vii PHOEBE, bp. 15 March 1614/5; m. by about 1636 George Watson (their daughter Phebe m. Jonathan Shaw on 22 January 1656 [ PVR 662]).
viii MARY, bp. 11 May 1617; bur. 14 September 1619.
ix EPHRAIM, b. Plymouth about 1625; m. Plymouth 13 September 1649 Elizabeth Howland [ PCR 8:8], daughter of JOHN HOWLAND ; Ephraim Hicks d. 12 December 1649 "a violent death" [ PCR 3:202] and his widow m. (2) Plymouth 10 July 1651 John Dickenson [ PCR 8:13].
COMMENTS: The major breakthrough on this family was made when Robert S. Wakefield discovered additional baptismal entries in the St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, register [ TAG 51:57-58].
Several sources give Robert Hicks two wives: Elizabeth Morgan and Margaret Winslow. No record has been found of any marriage for Robert Hicks, and his only known wife was Margaret; the argument that Margaret was a Winslow has little basis [ TAG 54:31-34].
Clement Briggs of Weymouth, fellmonger, deposed 29 August 1638 that
about two and twenty years since this deponent then dwelling with one Mr. Samuell Lathame in Barmundsey Streete in Southwarke a fellmonger and one Thomas Harlow then also dwelling with Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks in the same street a fellmonger the said Harlow and this deponent had often conference together how many pelts each of their master pulled a week. And this deponent deposeth and saith that the said Rob[er]te Heeks did pull three hundred pelts a week and diverse times six or seven hundred & more a week in the killing seasons, which was the most part of the year (except the time of Lent) for the space of three or four years. And that the said Rob[er]te Heeks sold his sheep's pelts at that time for 40s. a hundred to Mr. Arnold Allard, whereas this deponent's Mr. Samuell Lathame sold his pelts for 50s. per hundred to the same man at the same time and Mr. Heeks pelts were much better ware [ PCR 12:35].
On 13 July 1639 Robert Hicks of Plymouth, "citizen & leatherseller of London," by a bill dated 6 July 1618 was indebted to Thomas Heath, citizen & cooper of London for £180, which amount was demanded by letter of attorney made by Hannah Cugley but Hicks showed an acquittance of all debts to Heath, having paid it long ago [ PCR 12:43].
On 6 March 1649[/50] administration of the estate of Ephraim Hickes was granted to Margaret Hicks and Thomas Willet [ PCR 2:148]. The nuncupative will made by Ephraim to Mr. Thomas Southworth was set aside, Ephraim being "not in a capacity in regard of his said manner of death to make a legal will" [ PCR 3:202]. The court ordered that Ephraim's estate be set aside for the benefit of his mother, "Mistris Margaret Hickes," but the order was not recorded and Margaret had to go back to court many years later to insist it be recorded, 3 December 1660 [ PCR 3:203].
BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1938 Louis Effingham deForest compiled a comprehensive summary of all that was known about Robert Hicks at that date [ Moore Anc 295-308]. (This summary includes children Elizabeth and Daniel, for whom there is no evidence.)
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from SAVAGE:
"ROBERT, Plymouth, came in the Fortune 1621, and his w. Margaret came in the Ann 1623, with her ch. wh. are presumed to have been 2 s. Ephraim, and Samuel, and 2 ds. of wh. Lydia m. Edward Bangs, and Phebe m. perhaps 1635, George Watson. He was, in 1618, a leather-dresser at London, or rather Bermondsey str. Southwark; and d. 24 Mar. 1647. His will, made 28 May 1645, in wh. his gr. ch. John Bangs, and John Watson are ment. is abstract. in Geneal. Reg. IV. 282, as also is that of his wid. Margaret in VI. 187."
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from Mary Beth Wheeler:
Robert Hicks arrived in New England in 1622, one of 35 on the ship "Fortune." His wife and daughter Phebe arrived in 1623 on the "Ann." "Hickes/Heekes" was apparently a fellmonger, a dealer pelts & hides. According to a deposition taken in early Plymouth, he had lived on Bermondsey Street, Southwark, London about 1616.
Robert and his family lived in Duxbury before settling in Plymouth, where he died. His will is dated 28 May 1645; the inventory, taken 5 July 1647, was valued at 39 pounds, 13 shillings. In it he mentions wife Margaret, sons Ephraim, eldest Samuel and grandson John Bangs; no mention of Phebe Watson or her children, although a "John Watson" is mentioned, perhaps the only child of Phebe & George born at the time.
Could a first wife have been Elizabeth (Morgan) Hicks (see NEHGS "Register," Vol. 91, p. 288) who died in England? He is said to have had 2 children by her who were left in England. Thomas who took over his father's business in London, and John who came later to New England. However, this is disputed by Hicks researcher Arthur Connolly: [arcpmc@worldnet.att.net] who has son Thomas dying 1604. He MAY have first married Elizabeth Morgan who was definitely the mother of John Hicks, b. 1605-07; according Connolly. This marriage is, apparently not proven as being THIS Robert Hicks.
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from GREAT MIGRATION:
ROBERT HICKS
ORIGIN: London
MIGRATION: 1621 on Fortune (His wife Margaret, and 3 children followed on the Anne in 1623)
FIRST RESIDENCE: Plymouth
OCCUPATION: Fellmonger (in England)
FREEMAN: In the "1633" list of Plymouth Freeman, among those admitted before Jan 1 1622/3 (PCR 1:3). In list of Mar 7, 1636/7 (PCR 1:52) In the plymouth section fo the 1639 Plymouth colony list of freeman, with the annotation "dead" (PCR 8:173)
EDUCATION: His inventory included "3 books" valued at 8s. His widow, Margaret, signed her will.
ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land, "Robart Hickes" was granted one acre as a passenger on the Fortune, and his wife and children were granted 4 acres as passengers on the Anne (PCR 12:5,6). In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Robert Hicks, Margaret Hicks, Samuel Hicks, Ephraim Hicks, Lydia Hicks, and Phebe Hicks were the sixth through eleventh persons in the twelfth company (PCR 12:13)
Assesed 18s in the Plymouth Tax list of Mar 25, 1633, and 12s in the list of Mar 27, 1634 (PCR 1:9, 27) "Robert Hickes" was thirty-seventh on the list of purchasers (PCR 2:177).
On Feb 10, 1829 Robert Hicks purchased two acres on the north side of town from Steven Dean (PCR 12:7). On Aug 29, 1638 Clement Briggs acknowledged his sale of "one acre of land in the upper fall near the second brook" to "Mr. Rob(er)te Heeks (PCR 12:34). On Dec 9, 1639 "Mr. Rob(er)te Hicks" rented five acres at Reed Point to John Smyth for three years, Smyth to fence the east side of the land (PCR 12:51). On July 13, 1639 George Sowle acknowledged his sale of two acres of land to Robert Hicks of Plymouth (PCR 12:45). On July 20, 1639 John Barnes of Plymouth, yeoman, acknowledged his sale of four acres of meadow at High Pynes to Mr. Robert Hicks (PCR 12:45). On Feb 11, 1639/40 Mr. Robert Hicks of Plymouth, planter, sold to Samuell Hicks, his eldest son, all his house, outhouses and garden in Plymouth, together with four acres of land and eight acres of land and all the meadow at Heigh Pynes ad Iland Creek, and all his right, title and interest in the land, and three cows (PCR 12:54) On April 7, 1642 Mr. Robert Hicks sold seven acres of upland at Iland Creek to William Brett of Duxbury (PCR 12:80) On the same day he acknowledged his deed to John Reynor of three acre of marsh meadow at Heigh Pynes (PCR 12:80) On Oct 9, 1645 Mr. Robert Hicks sold to Georg Partrich a parcel of marsh meadow consisting of two acres (PCR 12:115)
In his will, dated May 28,1645 and proved May 15, 1648, "Robert Hicks of Plymouth...being full of infirmities of body" bequeathed to "my son Ephraim all that my dwelling house barn and buildings with the gardens...in Plymouth", also, "all those three fields one lying on the north side of the said town of Plymouth...,the second which I lately purchased of Mr John Aldin and the third called the south field": "but my mind and will is that my executrix hereafter named shall have and enjoy three rooms in the said house during her life she keeping herself unmaried, viz. the hall and chamber over and the cellar underneath, and also that my said son Ephraim shall pay her the thirds of the said lands during her life and widowhood"; to "my said son Ephraim all my lands lying at Iland Creek on Duxbury side except two lots of upland of twenty acres apiece lying next to Mr. Kemp's lands, which I hereby give and bequeath unto John Banges my grandchild"; to "my executrix... the rents of the said land not set and let forth for six years to come if she shall so long live, but all the rest of my lands... I give unto my said son Ephraim"; "I give unto John Reyner the son of Mr. John Reyner our teacher fifty acres of the purchased lands accruing...to me as a purchaser of my share of lands lying at Seawams or Secunck if the said Mr. John Reyner his father do remain at Plymouth"; to "Samuell my eldest son" fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" fifty acres; to "John Watson" fifty acres' to "John Bangs" fifty acres; to "the younger of Mr. Charls Chancy's sons which his wife had at one birth when he dwelt at Plymouth fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" household goods; to the Town of Plymouth on cow calf; to "William Pontus" 20s; to "John Faunce" 20s' to "Nathaneell Morton" 20s' the "Thomas Cushman" 20s; "Margaret my loving wife" sole executrix and residue; Mr. John Howland, Mannasses Kempton, and Thomas Cushman, overseers; to John Howland and Mannasses Kemton 10s each for a remembrance; to Joshua Prat "a suit of my wearing clothes with a pair of shoes aand stockings"; to Samuell Eddy a pair of wearing stockings; to "my said son Ephraim...my four oxen, paying my loving wife... the thirds of the progits of the lands as is before mentioned...and to draw her twenty loads of wook yearly to her house in Plymouth during her life" (MD 8:144-6, citing PCPR 1:1:703)
The inventory of the estate of "Mr Robert Hicks deceased the 24th of May 1647 taken the fifth of July in the year aforesaid also exhibited upon oath the 4th of May 1648" totalled L39 13s; with no real estate included (MD 8:143-4, citing PCPR 1:1:69)
On January 23, 1648 John Rogers of Duxbury bought the rent of lands improved by Mr. Robert Hicks now deceased from Ephraim Hicks of Plymouth (PCR 12:155-6)
On May 1, 1660 "Gorge Watson". on behalf of his son John Watson and nephew John Banges, requested that, because "Samuel Hickes" was mistakenly entered in the court records as purchaser of lands at Cushenah and Accoaksett, etc., and it should have been "Mr. Robert" Hickes, it be corrected; the matter was referred to a later court (PCR 3:186). On Oct 3, 1662 "Samuell Hickes" was offered and equal division with others in the lands of Mr. Robert Hickes at Accushena, Coaksett, etc., but he declined (PCR 4:27). Margaret and Samuel could not agree on the division of goods in Robert's estate and the matter was taken to court June 7, 1661 (PCR 3:217)
On Oct 7, 1662 "Margarett Hickes of Plymouth, widow, as sole executrix to my husband Mr. Robert Hickes" confirmed his bequest of fifty acres to "Elnathan Chauncye the younger of the twins of Mr. Charles, Chauncye" (MD 17:240-41, citing PCLR 2:2:107)
On Mar 22, 1663/4 :Mistris Hickes" and "Sam(uel) Hickes" were granted Lot 7 in the Plymouth lands at "Puncateesett Necke" (PTR 1:64).
In her will, dated July 1665 and proved March 1665/6, "Margarett Hickes widow of the town of Plymouth" bequeathed to "my son Samuell Hickes" L5: to "my daughter-in-law Lydia Hickes" 30s; to "my son Samuell's children" 10s each, "there being seven of them"; said legacies to be paid by "son Samuel Hickes" from his debt "he having already received a large portion of that which God hath given me not only in lands but also in goods and chattels which was not only my husband's and son Ephraim's estate formerly but also given to me by will at my son Ephraim's death"; to my "grandchild John Banges' 40s' residue to "the children of my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my loving daughter that is deceased Phebe Watson", also said estate to be "at the dispose of my son-in-law Gorg Watson","my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my friend Captain Southworth" overseers (PCPR 2:2:33, abstracted in MD 16:158)
The inventory of Margaret Hickes estate, taken Mar 5, 1665/6, totaled L53 12s, 6d, and included no real estate (PCPR 2:2:33, abstracted in MD 16:158) On Mar 6, 1665/6 "Gorge Watson" was granted administration on the estate of Mistris Maragrett Hickes, deceased" (PCR 4:117)
BIRTH: By about 1578 based on estimated date of marriage.
DEATH: Plymouth May 24, 1647 (from inventory) Savage and Pope both give this date as Mar 24, apparently based on the abstract of the inventory published in 1850 (NEHGR 4:282) On the original the month of death is in the upper right corner of the page, and is worn, for that only "Ma" can be read now on microfilm. Bowman saw this as May and his reading is followed here.)
MARRIAGE: By 1603 Margaret __________; she died at Plymouth between July 1665 (date of will) and Mar 6, 1665/6 (probate of will)
CHILDREN: (first eight baptised at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey
(TAG 51:58):
i. THOMAS, bp 19 Feb 1603/4; bur 23 Apr 1604
ii. JOHN, bp 12 Oct 1605; no further record
iii. SARA, bp 25 Oct 1607; bur 24 Feb 1617/8
iv. RICHARD, bp 17 Sept 1609; no further record
v. SAMUEL, bp 18 Aug 1611; m Plymouth 11 Sept, 1645 Lydia Doane (PCR 2:88), daughter of John Doane.
vi. LYDIA, bp 6 Sept 1612; m. by about 1636 Edward Bangs
vii. PHOEBE, bp 15 Mar 1614/5, m. by about 1636 George Watson (their daughter Phebe m. Jonathan Shaw 22 Jan 1656 (PVR 662)
viii. MARY, bp 11 May 1617; bur 14 Sept 1619
ix. EPHRAIM, b. Plymouth abt 1625; m Plymouth 13 Sept 1649, Elizabeth Howland (PCR 8:8), daughter of John Howland. Ephraim Hicks d 12 Dec 1649 "a violent death' (PCR 3:202} and his widow m. (2) at Plymouth, John Dickenson (PCR 8:13)
COMMENTS: The major breakthorough on this family was made when Robert S. Wakefield discovered additional baptismal entries in the St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey register. (TAG 5l:57-8).
Several sources give Robert Hicks two wives: Elizabeth Morgan and Margaret Winslow. No record has been found of any marriage for Robert Hicks, and his only known wife was Margaret; the argument that Margaret was a Winslow has little basis (TAG 54:31-34)
Clement Briggs of Weymouth, fellmonger, deposed Aug 29, 1638 that about two and twenty years since this deponent then dwelling with "one Mr. Sanuell Lathame in Barmundsey Streete in Southwarke a fellmonger and one Thomas Harlow then also dwelling with Mr. Rob(er)te Heeks in the same street, a fellmonger, the said Harlow and the deponant often conferenced together how may pelts each of their master pulled a week. And this deponent deposeth and saith that said Rob(er)te Heekds did pull three hundred pelts a week and diverse times six or seven hundred & more a week in the killing seasons, which was the most part of the year (except the time of Lent) for the space of three or four years. And the said Rob(er)te Heeks sold his sheep's pelts at that time for 40s a hundred to Mr. Arnold Allard, whereas the deponents Mtr. Samuell Lathame sold his pelts for 50s per hundred to the same man at the same time and Mr. Heeks pelts were much better ware." (PCR 12:35)
On July 13, 1630 Robert Hicks of Plymouth, "citizen & leatherseller of London", by a bill dated July 6, 1618 was indebted to Thomas Heath, citizen and cooper of London for L180, which amount was demanded by letter of attorney made by Hannah Cugley, but Hicks showes an acquitance of all debts to Heath, having paid it long ago. (PCR 12:43)
On Mar 6, 1649/50 administration of the estate of Ephraim Hicks was granted to Margaret Hicks and Thomas Willet (PCR 2:148). The nuncupative will made by Ephraim to Mr. Thomas Southworth was set aside, Ephraim being "not in a capacity in regard of his said manner of death to make a legal will" (PCR 3:202) The court ordered that Ephraim's estate be set aside for the benefit of his mother, "Mistris Margaret Hickes", but the order was not recorded and Margaret had to go back to court many years later to insist it be recorded, Dec 3, 1660 (PCR 3:203)
BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE: In 1938 Louis Effingham deForest compiled a comprehensive summary of all that was known about Robert Hicks at the date ("Moore and Allied Families", pp 295-308) (This summary includes children Elizabeth and Daniel, for whom there is no evidence)
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Occupation: leather-dresser 1618 Southwark, London, Middlesex, England, UK 1 6
Immigration: 1621 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA U. S. A.
Note: He arrived on the "Fortune." His wife followed two years later on the "Anne." 1 6
Will: 28 MAY 1645 Plymouth, Plymouth, MA U. S. A.
Note:
"In the name of God Amen I robert Hicks of Plymouth this xxviii day of may Anno dm 1645 being full of Infermities of body and conssidering the brevity of this mortall life but of very good and perfecte memory doe ordaine and make this my last will and Testament in maner and forme foloing
first I give and bequeath my soule to Almighty god in certaine hope and assurance of a Joyfull Reseurection and my body to bee buried in decent manner.
And as concerning all my worldly goods and estate my mind and will is as foloweth first I give and gequath unto my soon Ephraim all ye my dwelling house barn and buildings with the gardins thereunto belonging sittuate in plymouth aforsaid; and allso all those three feilds one lying on the north side of the sd towne of plymouth betwext the ffirst and second brook the second wh I lately purchased of Mr. John Aldin and the third called the south feild lying on the south side of the sd towne of plymouth both all and singuler the appurtenances to the said house and lands belonging to have and to hould unto him the sd Ephraim his heires and Asigns for ever; but my mind and will is yt my executrix heerafter named shall have and Enjoy three Romes in the sd house during her life shee keeping her selfe unmarried viz the hall and chamber over and seller underneath :and allso ht my sd soon Ephraim shall pay her the thirds of the sd lands during her life and widdowhood :and lickwise shee shall Enjoy the garden next unto the watter side with the sd Romes as aforsaid allso I give and bequeath unto my sd soon Ephraim all my lands lying at Iland creek on Duxbery side except two lots of upland of twenty acars of peece lyeng next unto Mr Kemps lands which I heerby give and bequeath unto John Banges my Grandchild to have and to hould to him and his heires for ever and allso my mind and will is yt my executrixc heerafter named shall have and Enjoy the Rents of the sd land now set and let forth for six years yet to com if shee shall so long live :but all the Rest of my lands both upland and medow there I give unto my sd soon Ephraim to have and to hould to him and his heires for ever allso I give unto John Reyner the soon of Mr. John Reyuner our Teacher fifty acares of the purchased lands acruing and coming unto mee as a purchaser :of my share of lands lyeng at Seawams or Secunck if the said Mr John Reyner his father doe Remayn at Plymouth :and fifty acares to my said soon Ephraim :and fifty to John Watson there allso and fifty acares to John bangs lyeng there and fifity acares to the yonger pf Mr Charls Chancys sonns which his wife had at one beyrth when he swelt at Plymouth :allso I give unto my said soon Ephraim the bedsted in the hall and the Table with the beather bed and flockbed two bolsters two pillows the green Rug and two blankits and my cloth gowne faced with Conny fur and the great kittle; Item I give unto the Town of plymouth one cow calfe Item to William pontus I give twenty shillings to bee payed him in the cuntry pay within six months after my decease Item I give unto John ffaunce xxs to bee payed in maner as aforsaid Item I give unto Nathaneell Morton xxs and to Thomas Cushamn xxs to bee payed them in licke manner as is before sd :allso I dow ordayne and make Margerett my loveing wife the sole Executrix of this my last will and Testament giveing and bequeathing unto her all the rest of my goods Cattels and debts deu unto mee whatsoever not heerby given and bequeathed my funerall charges and other my debts being discharged And I doe Entreat Mr John howland Mannasses Kempton and Thomas Cushman to bee my overseers to see this my last will and Testemnt performed giveing and bequeathing unto the sd John howland and Mannasses Kemton xs apeece to buy them som thing to keepe in Remembrance of mee lastly I give and bequeath unto Joshua prat a suit of my wearing clothes with a payer of shoos and stockings to delivered him by my executrix within one month next after my dessease and to Samuell Eddy a payer of my wearing stockings :and it is allso my mind and will ht my said soon Ephraim shall hae my foure oxen payeng my loveing wife my executrix the thirds of the pftts of the lands as is before mensioned and expressed :and to draw heer twenty loads of wood yearly to her house in plymouth during her life in wittnes whereof I have published and declared this to bee my last will and Testament Revoking all other wills legacies and bequests not heerin and heerwith expressed and have heerunto sett my hand and Seall the day and year abovewritten.
Read sealld and published as my last will and Testament in the psence of nathaneel Sowther Robert hicks
Nathaniel Sowther Testifyeth uppon Oath that himselfe writt this will for Robert hicks and ht Robert hicks did in his presence sett his hand to it above :and did then declare it to bee his last will and Testament :taken upon Oath this 15th of May 1648.
before mee John Winthrop"
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Death: 24 MAY 1647 in Plymouth, Plymouth, MA U. S. A.
Note: Sources vary between 24 Mar 1647 and 24 May 1647. This confusion seems to be related to the old tradition of employing a Roman numeral (III) for the month, when using the old dating system (where March is the first month of the year). 1 3 10 6
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Post by Kenn; (Clearly off the mark)
Joseph Hicks and Elizabeth Bishop.
Elizabeth died and Joseph then married Bethia Conkling.
Henry Hicks had at least one brother, Stephen Hicks, whose wife's name is unknown, but they had at least one son, Daniel Hicks, who was married to Joan Hicks. They resided in St. James of Northam Parish, Goochland County, Virginia. Daniel's will of November 24, 1734 named a daughter, Winifred Hicks who married James Bates. They lived first in Goochland County, Virginia, then moved to Halifax County, North Carolina.
I also have this in my record, and the Goochland County connection makes some sense, although much too early for our discussion. My connection to this family is a STEPHEN HICKS, who was listed from the Samuel Hicks Senior household as being his youngest son born abt 1759.
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Vital Record of Rehoboth, 1642-1896: Marriages, Intentions, Births, Deaths
By James Newell Arnold
3 292 Iasiel and Bette Hix, married by Elder John Hix Feb. 1, 1776.
SKETCH OF ELDER DANIEL HIX.
CHAPTER I.
ELDER DANIEL HIX; HIS FAMILY; BOYHOOD; EDUCATION; MILITARY SERVICE; MARRIAGE; RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE; CALL TO THE MINISTRY; HIS CHARACTER AS A MAN AND A MINISTER.
Daniel Hix was born in Rehoboth, Mass., Nov. 30, 1755. The house where his father, Elder John Hix, then lived is still standing (Oct. 1879) perhaps three fourths of a mile southwest of the Oak Swamp meeting-house. Little is known of the early history of the Hix family beyond a tradition that two brothers came from England near the beginning of the eighteenth century. John Hix, father of Daniel, was bdrn May 10, 1712 (O. S.) ; his wife, Hannah Galusha, was born April 25, 1713 (O. S.)
Bliss, in his history of Rehoboth, says that John Hix formed a Baptist church in that town and. was ordained its first pastor, Nov. 10, 1762. In 1771 there was a revival in this church, and Elder Hix baptized forty persons. He was taken sick, but the revival continued under the B
labors of Elhanan Winchester, who shortly after formed another church. The new church was divided the next year on doctrinal questions, and Jacob Hix, the oldest son of Elder John Hix, was ordained pastor of the part which retained the old Baptist principles, Jan. 20, 1773.
Jacob Hix was born Jan. 1, 1740, and seems to have been a truly pious and useful man. He preached in a church situated about one and a half miles southwest from the present Oak Swamp meeting-house, and three fourths of a mile from Stillman Baker's residence and the cemetery on the old Hix homestead. He owned a farm and part of a mill, which, with some help from the church, enabled him to live comfortably. He had no children, and died March 30, 1809, after an illness of only four days, aged sixty-nine years. His wife, Submit Hix, died May 25, 1809, aged seventy years.
The other children of Elder John Hix were: Sarah, born Oct. 17, 1735, who married Daniel Carpenter, and removed in early life, perhaps to New York state; Anna married Valentine Horton, and died in Rehoboth; Nathan was born Aug. 23, 1742, and died June I, 1816. He was the father of Capt. Nathan Hix and grandfather of John Hix, now living in Rehoboth. John, another son, settled in Richmond, N. H., as appears from some nearly illegible writing in Daniel Hix's diary, dated Nov. 30, 1774. This was his nineteenth birthday, and he began a journey of four days to Richmond to see his brother John. Nothing more is known of this brother, unless the death of John Hix, Nov. 10, 1776, as recorded by Daniel, refers to him. Josiah, son of Elder John Hix, settled in Royalston, Mass. His son Josiah came to Dartmouth and married Serapta Phillips, and their children were Mary, Daniel, Jacob, Sarah, Nancy, Eliza, Amanda and Philip. Sarah and Philip are dead; Amanda removed years ago; Mary, with her husband William Allen, lives on the homestead of Elder Daniel Hix; Mrs. Eliza Briggs lives in Dartmouth; Daniel and Jacob Hix live in Westport.
From the rolls of the old military companies,, it is certain other families of the same name lived in Rehoboth, but whether they were relatives of Elder John Hix is not known.
Elder John Hix continued preaching in Rehoboth until 1785, when his health failed, and he died March 17, 1799, aged eighty-seven, having outlived his wife eleven years. There is no doubt of his sterling qualities as a man and a minister. In 1780 his church comprised 106 members.