John Hicks, Sr.

The following is a section of a family history compiled by Herbert

Armstrong Poole between 1905 & 1960, transcribed by AAA Maitland 1998.

Subject numbers are HAP's originals.

The following is from the following sources:-

The Hicks Genealogy, by Benjamin Doughty Hicks, 8 volumes manuscript,

the only copy extant being at the Long Island Historical Society

library in Brooklyn, New York.

From "Adam and Anne Mott", by Thomas C. Cornell, Yonkers, 1890.

From Bunker's Long Island Genealogies.

From "The Van Wyck Family", New York, 1912.

From "The Jones Family of Long Island", by John Henry Jones.

From the New York Historical Society's Abstracts of Wills, vols 1 to 3.

From "The Doughty Family", by Ethan Allen Doty, in the New York Genea-

logical & Biographical Record, vol 43, page 273.

From "Thomas Stevenson of London and his descendants", by John R.

Stevenson, Flemington, N.J., 1902.

John Hicks, born December 25/1711, died 1789. He married, 1st,

    about 1738, Martha (Smith) Mott, daughter of Gershom and Mary

    Smith, see subject 140, page 2, and widow of Samuel Mott, born

    1707, died February 15/1735, whom she had married on May 27/1728,

    son of Joseph and Miriam (---) Mott, see subject 282, page 3. They

    were Quakers. John Hicks married, 2nd, in 1765, Phebe Powell, born

    June 13/1716, daughter of John and Margaret (Hallock) Powell, a

    Quaker: they had no children.

    Issue :- (by his first wife Martha (Smith) Mott)

    3/1. Samuel Hicks, born March 29/1739.

    3/2. Joseph Hicks, born February 26/1741.

    3/3. John Hicks, born July 1/1743, died March 26/1808. He married

       on January 8/1766, Amy Willis, born August 12/1747, died March

       29/1832, daughter of Jacob Willis: they had five children.

    3/4. Elias Hicks, born at Rockaway, L.I., March 19/1748, died at

       Jericho, L.I., February 27/1829, a famous preacher. He founded

       the so called Hicksite or liberal branch of the Society of

       Friends. He married on January 2/1771, Jermina Seaman, born

       September 21/1750, died March 17/1829, daughter of Jonathan

       and Elizabeth (Willis) Seaman. They had ten children.

    3/5. Stephen Hicks, baptized September 9/1750, died December

       20/1816. He married on November 9/1777, Mary Hewlett, born

       November 17/1758, died March 30/1831, daughter of Colonel

       Richard and Mary (Townsend) Hewlett, see subject 616, page 5.

John Hicks was born on 25 December 1711 in Pleasant Valley, Dutchess County, New York, to Isaac Hicks (1678-1745) and Elizabeth Moore (1679-1748).

He married Martha Smith about 1740, and he and Martha had four children:

1. Joseph Hicks, 1741-1805
2. John Hicks, 1743-1808
3. Elias Hicks, 1748-1830
4. Jacob Hicks, 1753-1800

John died 21 February 1756 in Hempstead, New York.

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