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John Hicks

John Hicks

Male 1607 - Abt 1672  (64 years)


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  • Name John Hicks  [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11] 
    Birth 25 Oct 1607  Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location  [2, 12, 13] 
    Gender Male 
    FSID M2JL-6CT  [14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26] 
    Death Abt 14 Jun 1672  Hempstead, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location  [3, 4, 5, 6] 
    Person ID I23446  footsteps
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

    Father Robert Hicks,   b. 1583, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 24 May 1647, Massachusetts, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 64 years) 
    Relationship natural 
    Mother Elizabeth Morgan,   b. 1583, Surrey, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. Yes, date unknown 
    Relationship natural 
    Marriage 1600  Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F2490  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Herodias Long,   b. 1623, Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 1722, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 99 years) 
    Married 1636 
    Marriage 14 Mar 1637  Middlesex, England Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Divorce 1643 
    Children 
    +1. Thomas Hicks, Judge ,   b. 27 Jul 1640, Providence, Rhode Island, United States Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 26 Jan 1741, New York, New York, United States Find all individuals with events at this location (Age 100 years)  [Father: natural]  [Mother: natural]
    Family ID F12923  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 1 Jul 2025 

  • Notes 


    • John Hicks came to New England soon after he married Herodias Long in England. He first settled in Weymouth, Massachusetts where he was granted land in 1637. Thence they removed to Newport, Rhode Island where he was one of those admitted an inhabitant since 1March 1638, and on 14 September 1640 he was made a Freeman. He removed to Flushing, Long Island, then in the governement of New Netherland, where on 19 October 1645 he was designated as one of the Patentees to settle Flushing in a Patent granted by Governor William Kieft.

      When John Hicks went to New Netherland, his wife Herodias remained in Rhode Island. On 12 December 1645 John hicks wrote from Flushing to John Coggeshall at Newport the following: Now for parting what way there is seeing she have carried the matter so subtilly as she have I know nt, but if there be anyway to bee used to untie the Knott, wch was at first by man tyed that so the world may be satisied I am willing thereunto, for the Knot of affection on her part have been untied long since, and her whoredome have freed my conscience on the other part, so I leave myself to your advice being free to condissend to you advice if ther may be such a way used for the final parting for us. Seversmith states that she obtained a divorce from John Hicks in Rhode Island on 2 December 1543. On 1 June 1655, John Hicks was granted a divorce from Herodias in the Court at New Amsterdam, by Governor Peter Stuyvesant. The original of the decree is in the state archives at Albany.

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      The Testamt. of Jno. Hicks late of Hempstead, Justice of the Peace. ~~
      The Last Will & Testamt of Jno. Hicks of Hempstead being weak in Body, but sound in Understanding & Memory. In the first Place Committing my Soul to God in Christ my Redeemer, & in the next place I dispose of my Estate as followeth.

      First I doe make my Sonn Thomas Hicks Executor. of all my Estate, Housing, Land, Moveables, & Immoveables, Debts & Creditt, upon this Condition of paying those Legacies following.

      Forasmuch as there was an Agreement heretofore between mee & my Wife upon our Entering into Marriage of certaine Revenues thereby to bee pd. to my wife dureing the time of her Widdow-hood, if it pleasd God to take mee away first, Shee now being desireous to ectinguish those condicons; & that former Agreemt. (upon a considerable sume propounded by herself) for her own Satisfaction; My Will is that my Sonn Thomas pay to my Wife Rachel Hicks one hundred pounds in Neat Cattle according to wheat at five shillings p Bushill & the Bed & Bedding that shee usually lyeth on, with all its furniture, & one Brass-Kettle, & the Lesser Iron Pott, besides her own wearing Cloaths, and what Goods my said Wife brought with her to mee. Also I give to every one of my Daughter Hanna Havilands Children, a yearling Colt or a two yeare old Heiffer to each of them as the Executor. shall see meet, to pay with in Heyfers or Colts.

      Also I give to my daughter Hannah one hundred pounds to bee paid two third parts in Neat Cattle, & one third part in Horse kinde; Also I give to my son Thomas his Children, to each of them a yearling Colt, or two yeare old Heyfers, which of them the Executor. shall see Cause to pay to them.

      Also I give to my Son in Law Josyas Starr one Mare come two yeare old, one Heiffer come three yeare old; And for the Confirmacon of this my said Will in all the aforemenconed Particulars I doe hereunto sett my Hand & Seale this 29th of Aprill Anno Dom. 1672.
      John Hicks
      Rachell Hicks {seals}

      Also in Testimony of her Resignation of the former Agreemt & Satisfaction wth. this Rachell Hicks doth hereto subscribe her Hand the Day & Date abovesaid.
      Witnesses Jonah Hordham
      Richd. Valentine.

      This Will proved in the Court of Sessions at Jamaica June the 14th Enterd by Ordr. of Court by mee
      Anthony Waters Clerk.

      Administracon granted unto Mr. Thomas Hicks of Hempstead of the Estate of Mr. John Hicks his ffather deceased.

      Whereas Thomas Hicks did at the Court of Sessions held at Jamaica upon Long Island this prsnt Month of June 1672 make Proofe of the Last Will & Testament of Mr. John Hicks his ffather late of Hempstead (upon Long Island aforesaid) deceased, wherein hee the said Thomas Hicks was nominated sole Executor., & did also give in Security to the Court for performing the Particulars in the said Will exprest, according to the La in such Cases provided, The Originall Will & Testament remaining in the Office of Records; These are to Certify all whom it may concerne, that the said Thomas Hicks is admitted and confirmed to all Intents & Purposes Executor. of the Last Will & Testament of him the said John Hicks his ffather deceased; Hee haveing ehreby full Power & Lawfull Authority to doe & execute all things whatsoever in the said Will and Testament is required, of which hee is to return an Acct. within one yeare and a day after the Date hereof & thereupon take out a Quietus as in the Law is sett forth. SEaled with the Seale of the Office, & Dated at New Yorke this 17th day of June in the 24th yeare of his Maties. Reigne, Annoq Domini 1672.

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      Record for Robert Brent

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      Record for Olive M Stewart

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      Partial transcription
      "14 March 1636
      Which day appeard personally John Hicke of parish of St in Southwark Salter and a bachelor aged about 23 years and alledged that he intendeth to marrie Miss Harwood Long Spinster aged about 21 years the daughter of William Long Husbandman who giveth his consent to this intended marriage … license to be married in the parish church of St ffaith London.
      John Hickes"

      An examination of the films of the original [on Ancestry] shows that 1636 is an old style date.
      Date on record is 14 March 1636 and is on p. 93.
      It is old style because image 3 (p. 53) is dated Dec 1636, and p. 56 is dated Jan. 1636.
      Images 1 and 2 (pages 159-160) were filmed or bound out of sequence.

      That her father gave permission is probably a lie as is her age. She stated in a RI court that after her father's death, she went to London and married John Hicks. If her father is the Robert Long as is sometimes alleged, who emigrated in 1635 (Great Migration, Vol. 4) to Massachusetts then he could not have given his permission. The only signature on the original is that of John Hicks.

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