Thomas Hicks 
Thomas was born on May 2nd, 1706.1 Thomas' father was Jacob Hicks and his mother was Hannah Carpenter. His paternal grandparents were Thomas Hicks and Mary Butler; his maternal grandparents were Joseph Carpenter and Hannah Carpenter. He had six brothers and three sisters, named Samuel, Stephen, Jacob, John, Benjamin, Joseph I., Sarah, Elizabeth and Hannah. He was the third oldest of the ten children. He died at the age of 69 on March 10th, 1776 in Hempstead, NY.1 General Notes
[Caleb Hicks.ged]
Abstract of Will Filed in Surrogate's Office, City of NY, Liber 34, p 135 - (NY Historical Society Collection, Vol 10, 1780-1782, p 140-141):
"On the 10th day of June 1772, I, Thomas Hicks, of Hempstead in Queens Couty on Nassau Island. All my just debts to be paid out of my moveable estate. I leave to my loving wife my "Ridng Cheer and ye best Hors or Mare that I nay have at ye time of me Deth" ; to my son Thomas the best cow and calf that I shall Have; to my sons, Jacob and Silas, my two negro men called Luke and Ceser, also the two best working horses that I shall have that is not already given, together with my utensils for farming. I leave to my wife and to my daughter Elizabeth as much of my moveable estate as to make each of them equal with what I have given to my daughter Hannah. All the rest of my moveable estate to my wife and my daughter Elizabeth and to my grandson, Charles Cornell. I give to my wife and daughter Elizabeth the use of the best roon that I have in my house, the use of the bedroom adjoining my chamber, and my cellar, and the liberty of "appels or fruts" out of my orchard for their own use till they marry. I leave to my two sons, Jacob and Silas, all my lands and meadows with all my buildings and improvements thereon, but Jacob and Silas shall pasture three cows and one horse for my wife and Elizabeth, and to bring them firewood to the door and to cut it fit for the "fier", and to find hay for three cows and one horse for them as long as they shall remain unmarried; and Jacob and Silas shall find my wife her "Bred" corn and meat as long as she remains my widow, and to pay her L 2 yearly during her widowhood. My said sons shall let my son Thomas cut six load of grass in my meadow a year. They shall pay to my son Austin L 300, in six equal payments, and board him till they pay him the last payment. If either shall refuse to pay the legacies, I order my executors to sell as much of myland and meado that I have given to the said Jacob adn Silas as will pay the L 300 to my son Austin, with all the other legacies. I make my brother, John Hicks, my cousin Silas Hicks, and my two sons, Jacob and Silas, executors.
Note - All the lands and meadows that I have above given to Jacob and Silas is given equally betweeen them.
Witnesses, Charles Hicks, yeoman, Stephen Hicks, John Mott, yeoman. Proved Mar 25, 1776.
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Seversmith, p 1332, claims his wife Temperance died Feb 12, 1738. That is an error as she is clearly mentioned as Temperance Hicks in her father's will of 1747/8 . Thomas's will above clearly states he had a wife in June 1772,
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Ancestor Pedigree Chart
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*There are earlier generations for the ancestor(s) indicated. See their page(s) for details (click name)
- b.~ 1612 in Southwark, London, England d.~May 1672 in Long Island, New York
- b.~ 1642 in Newport, RI d.BEF 28 JAN 1741/42 in Flushing, NY
- b.~ 1623 in Southwark, London, England d.1722 in Rhode Island
- b.~ 1670 in Flushing, NY d.02 Mar 1755 in Rockaway, NY
- b.1612 in Braintree, Essex, England d.06 Aug 1684 in Weathersfield, Hartford County, Connecticutt
- b.1635 in Hartford, Hartford County, Connecticut d.12 Sep 1689 in Weathersfield, Hartford County, Connecticutt
- b.~ 1556 in Ollerton, Suffolk, England d.04 Nov 1582 in Knutsford
- b.~ 1578 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England d.17 May 1626 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England
- b.1550 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England
- b.~ 1608 d.11 Sep 1691
- b.~ 1582 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England d.01 May 1626 in Wrentham, Suffolk, England
- b.02 May 1706 d.10 Mar 1776 in Hempstead, NY
- b.~ 1554 in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1580 in Nettlecomb, Somerset, England d. in Ilchester, Somerset, England
- b. in Wrington, Somerset, England
- b.23 May 1606 in Nettlecomb, Somerset, England d.07 Sep 1685 in Providence, RI
- b.~ 1592 in Nettlecomb, Somerset, England
- b.1635 in Amesbury, Wilts, England d.1683
- b.~ 1550 in Northover, Somerset, England d.24 JAN 1621/22 in Ilchester, Somerset, England
- b.24 Jun 1587 in Ilchester, Somerset, England d.1675 in Providence, RI
- b.27 Sep 1553 in Northover, Somerset, England d.25 Apr 1596 in Ilchester, Somerset, England
- b.23 Nov 1611 in Ilchester, Dorsetshire, England d.~ 1683 in Pawtuxet, RI
- b.~ 1558 in England
- b.15 FEB 1582/83 in Muchelney, Dorset, England d.1659 in Providence, RI
- b.~ 1671 in Musketo Cove, L.I., NY
- b.~ 1554 in Nettlecombe, Somerset, England
- b.~ 1576 in Hampshire, England
- b.23 May 1605 in Wiltshire, England d.7 FEB 1658/59 in Massachusettes
- b.03 Apr 1640 in Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusettes d.1673 in Oyster Bay, Nassau, NY
- b.1580 in Harwell, Lincolnshire, England
- b.27 May 1606 in Of, Wherwell, Hampshire, England d.22 FEB 1686/87 in W.P., Rehoboth, Bristol, Massachusetts, USA
- b.1567 in Chesham, Bucks, England d.14 Aug 1634 in Chesham, Bucks, England
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