Deborah Hicks

Named as daughter Deborah Hicks in the 1703 will of Daniel Whitehead of Jamaica. Ref: https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=coo.31924067113450&view=1up&...

Thomas Hicks.  The Stevenson Genealogy gives his birth as 1667: he died between April and October 1712.  Bunker wrongly says he  married Deborah Valentine, born 1657, daughter of Richard Valentine, He married Deborah Whitehead, born 1675, whose will dated April 14/1712, proved July 24/1712, confirms that she was the wife of Thomas Hicks: she was the daughter of Daniel and Abigail, (Stevenson) Denton Whitehead.  Abigail was born in 1640, and was the daughter of  Edward and Anne Stevenson: she had married, 1st, about 1660, Daniel Fenton, born in Yorkshire, England, about 1628, died 1703, son of the  Reverend Richard Denton, to whom she bore two children. They were divorced in 1672, and Abigail married, 2nd, in that year, Daniel Whitehead and bore him seven children, Deborah's will mentions the same children as in her husband's will.

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