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Thomas Hicks

Birthdate:
Birthplace: Hempstead, Queens County, New York
Death: July 08, 1776 (79-80)
Hempstead, Queens County, New York, United States
Immediate Family:

Son of Thomas Hicks and Deborah Hicks
Husband of Margaret Hicks
Father of Catherine Hicks; Whitehead Hicks, 42nd Mayor of New York; Mary Suydam; Sarah Van Wyck; John Brevoort Hicks and 3 others
Brother of Abigail Throckmorton; Deborah Hicks; Mary Lawrence; Elizabeth Hicks; Hannah Stevenson and 3 others

Managed by: Paul Douglas Van Dillen
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About Thomas Hicks

Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)

 2/1. Thomas Hicks, date of birth unknown, but a minor in 1712, died
    in 1777. He was a Judge of Queen's County, Long Island from 1738
    until his death in 1777. He married in 1755, his cousin Margaret Hicks, 
    daughter of his uncle Judge Isaac Hicks,     see page 10.

Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hick genealogy)

    3/1. Catherine Hicks, born May 8/1726, died November 12/1804.
       She never married.
    3/2. Whitehead Hicks, born August 24/1728, died October 4/1780.
       He was admitted to the Bar in 1750 and became a distinguished
       judge. He was Mayor of New York from 1766 to 1776. When he was
       appointed a judge to the Supreme Court of New York, he soon
       resigned, as he was called a traitor by the British and a Tory
       by the patriots of the Continental Congress. He married on
       October 15/1757, Charlotte Brevoort, born in New York City, May
       22/1740, died February 28/1790, the only surviving of the three
       daughters of John Annes and Louisa Abigail (Kockerthal)
       Brevoort, and by this marriage became possessed of the Brevoort
       fortune.
       Issue:- (from the Benjamin D. Hicks genealogy)
       4/1. John Brevoort Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761, died
          March 23/1762.
       4/2. Margaret Hicks, (twin), born December 18/1761, died
          May 16/1763.
       4/3. Louisa Hicks, born January 8/1763, died July 19/1766.
       4/4. John Brevoort Hicks, born January 7/1765, died February
          7/1828 of apoplexy. He married on January 18/1789, Sarah
          Moore Titus, born July 29/1769, died January 1798, daughter
          of David Titus of Newtown, L.I. Four children.
       4/5. Charlotte Hicks, born February 28/1770, died February
          12/1775
       4/6. Thomas Hicks, born January 14/1771, died July 5/1815.
          He married on March 10/1794, Martha Buchanan, born October
          26/1771, died September 26/1844, daughter of Thomas and Almy
          (Townsend) Buchanan, see subject 308, page 4.
          Issue :-
          5/1. Almy Townsend Hicks.
          5/2. Charlotte Brevoort Nicks.
          5/3. Margaret Louisa Hicks, born August 23/1807, died
             February 26/1873. She married on November 20/1838, Henry
             Rogers Winthrop, whose grand daughter Alice Winthrop
             married Robert Gardner Payne, son of William Thomas and
             Alice (Gardner) Payne of Yokohama and New York.
       4/7. Elias Hicks, born December 25/1771, died April 19/1844.
          He married on May 29/1815, Mary Pemberton Lewis, born July
          25/1777, died December 16/1859, daughter of Nathaniel and
          Lucy (Lawrence) Lewis of Philadelphia. Three children.
       4/8. Margaret Hicks, born August 4/1773, died in childbirth,
          January 2/1799. She married on November 29/1797, Samuel
          Titus.
    3/3. Amelia Hicks, born October 12/1731, died 1779. She married
       in 1777, John Thorne. They had no children.
    3/4. Gilbert Hicks, born September 4/1736, died 1776. He married
       on May 26/1765, Mary Allen, born January 18/1746, died Septem-
       ber 27/1826, daughter of Henry and Phebe Allen: five children.
    3/5. Mary Hicks, born April 16/1737. She married on June 8/1781,
       Jacob Suydam. They had no children,
    3/6. Sarah Hicks, born March 22/1738, died May 13/1810. She
       married 1st, on June 3/1769, her cousin Cornelius Van Wyck, who
       died in July 1784, son of Cornelius and Mary (Hicks) Van Wyck,
       by whom she had four children. She married, 2nd, James Burling,
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Thomas Hicks's Timeline

1696
1696
Hempstead, Queens County, New York
1726
May 8, 1726
1728
August 24, 1728
Flushing, Queens County, New York
1736
September 4, 1736
1737
April 16, 1737
1738
March 22, 1738
1761
December 18, 1761
1763
January 8, 1763
1765
1765
New York, New York