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Elias Hicks Biography
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Elias Hicks (March 19, 1748 - February 27, 1830) was an itinerant Quaker preacher from Long Island, New York. He promoted doctrines that embroiled him in controversy that led to the first major schism within the Religious Society of Friends. Elias Hicks was the older cousin of the painter Edward Hicks, also known then as a Quaker preacher.
Early life
Elias Hicks was born at Rockaway, Long Island, New York. Hicks's parents were not Friends themselves. He came to the Society at about the age of twenty, after being convinced by its beliefs and practices.
Hicks married Jemima Seaman January 2, 1771. They moved to her family farm, which Hicks eventually took over when his parents-in-law died. The Hickses had eleven children: Martha, David, Elias, Phebe, Abigail, Jonothan, John, Elizabeth, Sarah, and one who died at birth. Only four of his children married.
Ministry
At about the age of twenty-seven, Hicks was recognized as a preacher by the Friends in his meeting. He was regarded as a very gifted speaker, with a strong voice, great poise, and dramatic flair.
Hicks was one of the early abolitionists among the Friends. He spoke about slavery often and worked hard to persuade others to oppose it. His 'Observations on the Slavery of the Africans' (1811), which argued for a boycott of slavery-produced goods, represented one of the earliest social reform boycott efforts in the United States. The state of New York, due in part to Hicks's efforts, abolished slavery within its borders on July 4, 1827.
Hicks's reported views
Hicks considered “obedience to the light within” the primary tenet and the foundational principle of the Religious Society of Friends. He downplayed and reputedly denied the virgin birth of Christ, the complete divinity of Christ and the need for salvation through the death of Christ. He also was reported to have taught that the leading of the Inner light was more authoritative than the text of the Bible. His detractors considered these views heretical because they contradicted the traditional teachings of Christianity. He insisted at times that he believed in Christ's divinity and quoted the Bible from memory in spoken ministry. He may be seen as within the quietist tradition of John Woolman and Job Scott, whereas his followers view the Orthodox Friends as taking on evangelistic notions which were alien to original Quaker faith.
These views were consistent with a Freethought tradition already prevailing in America, particularly among Deists of Quaker heritage such as Thomas Paine. The most original aspect of Hicks's theology was his rejection of Satan as the source of human "passions" or "propensities." Hicks stressed that basic urges, including all sexual passions, were neither implanted by an external Devil nor the product of personal choice, but were aspects of human nature created by God. "He gave us passions-if we may call them passions-in order that we might seek after those things which we need, and which we had a right to experience and know," he claimed in his 1824 sermon, "Let Brotherly Love Continue." Hicks taught that evil and suffering occurred not because human nature harbored these "propensities," but rather resulted from "an excess in the indulgence of propensities."
In 1858, Walt Whitman, one of Hicks's most famous exponents, astutely assessed Hicks as "a wonderful compound of the mystic with the logical reasoner," and explained that Hicks was "destined to make a radical revolution in a numerous and devout Society, and his influence to be largely felt outside of that Society..." The Quaker theology of "God within" (another name for the Inner Light) appeared subsequently in the theory of the Free Love movement, where it was deemed compatible with the religious sociology of Charles Fourier.
Disputes among Friends
Controversy over Hicks's teachings interrupted the normal calm of Religious Society of Friends in Philadelphia. For more than five years, elders of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting had tried to prevent Hicks from propounding his views in the city's meeting houses, producing sharp differences within that yearly meeting; these differences came to a head in April 1827 when there was a division. By 1828 there were two independent groups both claiming to be the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting. Other yearly meetings split along similar lines during subsequent years, including those in New York, Baltimore, Ohio, and Indiana. Those who agreed with Hicks were generally called Hicksites, and his detractors were called Orthodox Friends. Each side considered itself the legitimate heir to the legacy of earlier Friends, such as George Fox, Margaret Fell and Robert Barclay.
The split was not purely doctrinal. It reflected tensions that had been growing between the elders-who were mostly from the cities-and Friends who lived farther away from major communities and Meetings. Hicksite Friends were mostly country Friends who perceived urban Friends as worldly. Many of the Philadelphia Friends were wealthy businessmen, and many of the country Friends kept less peculiar in matters of "plain speech" and "plain dress", which by this point in time had become a sort of jargon and a sort of uniform, respectively.
Many scholars have written about various aspects of these controversies. A good short summary is Larry Kuenning's Quaker Theologies in the 19th Century Separations, but for more depth see H. Larry Ingle, Quakers in Conflict: The Hicksite Reformation (Philadelphia: Pendle Hill, 1998).
Later life
At age 80, Hicks went on his final ministry trip. He covered 2,400 miles and was harassed and shunned by Orthodox Friends along the way. He suffered a stroke that left him partially paralyzed and died soon afterward in his home in Jericho, New York. People say that when he was on his deathbed, someone put a cotton blanket on him. He tried to remove it with his unparalyzed left hand, as it was a product of slavery. When they replaced the cotton blanket with a woolen one, Hicks relaxed and nodded in approval.
Hicks remained a controversial figure long after his death, with his name a pejorative label used by opponents to tarnish his memory. In the final analysis he was one of the last of the 18th century's quietist Quakers, although his combative personality marked him as quite different from most others who bore that title. Despite the fact that he was certainly not a modern "liberal," that title has stuck to him.
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Quaker Minister and Abolitonist
Quaker minister. He began preaching when he was twenty-seven-years-old. Disinterested in religion when young, he turned to it as an adult. He spoke on religious subjects as he travelled throughout the United States. As a result of his work, the New York legislature passed a law freeing every slave within its borders on July 4, 1827. He preached "obedience to the light within," as the foundation of authentic Quakerism. His followers, called "Hicksites," minimized the importance of the Bible. A schism occurred in Quakerism as a result of his teaching. Some Quakers rallied around the Bible; other perceived it as a hindrance to reaching the http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=HI&GSfn=e&GSpartial=1&GSbyrel= all&GSdyrel=all&GSst=36&GScntry=4&GSob=n&GSsr=241&GRid=11855407&df=all& Spirit.
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Name: Elias Hicks
Birth - Death: 1748-1830
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Third Floor of the Brooklyn Post Office, 1800's , Brooklyn, Queens, New York, USA
A History of the City of Brooklyn. Including The Old Town And Village Of Brooklyn, The Town Of Bushwick, And The Village And City Of Williamsburgh. Vol. III. Cha pter XII. Other Educational Establishments. The Post Office was also located here, and the large room, on the third floor was used as a police court, and frequently for religious and other public meetings. Here, also, Elias Hicks , the celebrated Quaker, often preached when visiting in Brooklyn .
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The Old Town and Village of Brooklyn Post Office. Elias HICKS would visit here and preach on the third floor.
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Isaac HICKS Family Papers, 1798-ca. (bulk 1798-1818)
1867-1820 , New York, USA
Isaac Hicks Family Papers, 1798-ca. 1956 (bulk 1798-1818)
(Approx. 100 items; 1 box)
RG 5/197
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Abstract
Isaac Hicks (1767-1820) was a New York Quaker merchant. He established a large fleet of international trading vessels and financially helped to support his cousin, Edward Hicks (1780-1849), the Pennsylvania Quaker folk artist. Isaac Hicks traveled extensively with his cousin, Elias Hicks (1748-1830), the New York Quaker minister. The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias Hicks; some letters concerning the Separation of 1827-28; and business letters. Correspondents include: John Comly (letters about Edward Hicks, the primitive painter), Elias Hicks, John Murray, Jr., Thomas Rotch, William Rotch, Thomas Sturge. The letters provide insight into Quaker family life on Long Island and the travels of a Quaker minister. Also of interest is a letter concerning the disownments of Isaac T. Hopper, James Gibbons, and Charles Marriott, as well as an anecdote conveying the Quaker attitude towards music in the late 19th century.
Background note
Scope and content Arrangement
Administrative information Restrictions
Preferred citation
Provenance
Processing info
Related materials
Bibliography
Added entries
Contact information
Inventory Ser. 1. Correspondence sent by Isaac Hicks, 1802-1818
Ser. 2. Correspondence received by Isaac Hicks, 1798-1819
Ser. 3. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1806-1854
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Background note:
Isaac Hicks was born in 1767, the son of Samuel and Phebe (Seaman) Hicks in a Quaker farming community on Long Island, New York. A birthright member of Westbury Monthly Meeting, he was part of a prominent and extended Quaker family that included distant cousins primitie artist Edward Hicks (1780-1849) and Quaker minister Elias Hicks (1748-1830). In 1789 he went to New York City to start a career in business, and in 1790 he married Sarah Doughty. They had six children: John D., b 1791;, Robert, b. 1793; Benjamin, b. 1798; Isaac, b. 1802; Elizabeth, b. 1805; and Mary, b. 1807. In 1796, Isaac Hicks established a shipping and commission business. Benefiting from his extended Quaker connections in America and England, he soon became a wealthy ship owner. In 1806, he retired from business, returning to Westbury, Long Island, and became increasingly involved in Quaker concerns.
In 1804, his brother Valentine (1782-1850) married Abigail Hicks, the daughter of Elias Hicks, uniting even more closely a family already tied by kinship and Quaker belief. Elias and Isaac Hicks were both descended from Jacob and Hannah (Carpenter) Hicks, and Edward Hicks, the artist, was descended from Jacob's brothers, Isaac and Thomas. Isaac supported Edward Hicks financially as well as accompanied Elias Hicks on a number of his ministerial travels, including the visits to Philadelphia Yearly Meeting in 1813 and Rhode Island Yearly Meeting in 1816. Isaac Hicks died in 1820.
Scope and content
The collection contains primarily the correspondence of Isaac Hicks, including letters from Isaac Hicks to his wife describing religious journeys taken with Elias Hicks; some letters concerning the Separation of 1827-28; and business letters. Correspondents include: John Comly (letters about Edward Hicks, the primitive painter), Elias Hicks, John Murray, Jr., Thomas Rotch, William Rotch, Thomas Sturge. The letters provide insight into Quaker family life on Long Island and the life of a Quaker minister. Also of interest is a letter concerning the disownments of Isaac T. Hopper, James Gibbons, and Charles Marriott, as well as an anecdote conveying the Quaker attitude towards music in the late 19th century.
Arrangement
The collection is divided into three series:
- Correspondence sent
- Correspondence received
- Miscellaneous
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Administrative and Other Descriptive Information
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Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to Friends Historical Library All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in to the Director. Permission for publication is given on behalf of Friends Historical Library as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by reader.
Preferred citation
[Indicate the cited item or series here], RG 5/197, Isaac Hicks Family Papers, Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College
Acquisition Information
Accession information
Donor: Marietta Hicks, 1956
The donor was a descendent of Isaac Hicks. She was the daughter of Edward and Emma (Jarvis) Hicks. Edward was the son of Isaac (1815-1900) and Mary (Willis) Hicks. Isaac Hicks was the grandson of Isaac Hicks (1767-1820) and Sarah Doughty Hicks and the son of John Doughty and Sarah (Rushmore) Hicks.
Processing information
The collection was fully catalogued in the manuscript card catalogue in 1956. In 1961, four photostats of survey maps, given by Bliss Forbush, were added to the collection. They have since been removed. In 2001, the collection was described and catalogued.
Related material
See also:
Elias Hicks Manuscripts
FHL RG5/042, Fisher-Warner Papers
Isaac Hicks Papers at the New York Historical Society.
Bibliography
Davison, Robert A. Isaac Hicks, New York Merchant and Quaker, 1767-1820. Harvard University Press, 1964.
Forbush, Bliss, Elias Hicks, Quaker Liberal. Columbia University Press, 1956.
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Subjects
Hicks family
Ministers -- Quaker
Music --Quakers
Quaker abolitionists
Quaker businesspeople
Quakers -- New York-- Westbury
Quakers --Music
Quakers --Social Life and customs
Society of Friends -- Doctrines.
Society of Friends -- New York (State) -- Nassau County.
Society of Friends --Ministers
Additional Authors and Contributors
Comly, John, 1773-1850.
Fisher, Miers, 1748-1819
Fisher, Samuel Rowland, 1745-1834
Gibbons, James Sloan.
Hicks, Edward, 1780-1849.
Hicks, Elias, 1748-1830.
Hicks, Isaac, 1767-1820
Hopper, Isaac T. (Isaac Tatem), 1771-1852.
Marriott, Charles, 1811-1858.
Rotch, Thomas, 1767-1823.
Rotch, William, 1734-1828
Contact information
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Notes
Note to Researchers: To request materials, please note both the location and box numbers shown below:
Ser. 1. Correspondence sent by Isaac Hicks, 1802-1818
to Burling, Mary
1814
(ALS)
Box 1
to daughter Hicks, Mary
1818
(ALS)
Box 1
to Hicks, Sarah
1802-1818
(32 ALsS)
Box 1
includes descriptions of religious visits while traveling
Ser. 2. Correspondence received by Isaac Hicks, 1798-1819
[Anonymous], Draft (?) letter
n.d.
Box 1
concerning conflict in the Society of Friends involving the Separation
from Benson, Robert
1802
(ALS)
Box 1
from Coffin, Mark
1805-1818
(3 ALsS)
Box 1
from Comly, John
1815-1819
(17 ALsS)
Box 1
from Eddy, Thomas
1806
(ALS)
Box 1
from Fisher, Hannah
1813
(ALS)
Box 1
from Fisher, Miers
1798
(ALS)
Box 1
from Fisher, Samuel and Miers
1798-1801
(4 ALsS)
Box 1
from Fisher, Samuel R.
1798-1808
(4 ALsS)
Box 1
from Fisher, Thomas and Joshua
1798
(ALS)
Box 1
from Frank, Arnee
1806
(ALS)
Box 1
from son Hicks, B.[Benjamin] D.
1818
(ALS)
Box 1
from Hicks, Elias
1803
(ALsS)
Box 1
photocopies; originals removed to SAFE
from Hicks, Sarah (8 ALsS)
1810-1813
(8 ALsS)
Box 1
from Hicks, Valentine (brother)
1818
(ALS)
Box 1
from Hussey, Isaiah
1800
(ALS)
Box 1
from Murray, John, Jr.
1806
(ALS)
Box 1
from Parry, Sarah
1818
(ALS)
Box 1
from Price, Philip
1813
(ALS)
Box 1
from Rotch, Thomas
1799-1803
(3 ALsS)
Box 1
from Rotch, William
1801 (?)
(ALS)
Box 1
re: Thomas Sturge
from Rotch, William, Jr.
1802-1803
(3 ALsS)
Box 1
from Rotch, Thomas
1802-1808
(6 ALsS)
Box 1
from Walmby, Benjamin
1819
(ALS)
Box 1
Ser. 3. Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1806-1854
Hicks, Robert to Samuel Griffith
1842
(ALS)
Box 1
concerning disownments of Isaac T. Hopper, James Gibbons, and Charles Marriott
Hicks, Susan to Elizabeth (Hicks) Seaman
1827
(ALS)
Box 1
describing problems relating to ownership of Buckingham Monthly Meeting, Pa.
Rotch, Thomas. Payment of bill
1806
Box 1
New York Yearly Meeting minute
1854 5mo. 29
Box 1
concerning music (copy) with note from Marietta Hicks (donor) relating family story about Rachel Seaman Hicks (1789-1878) and her disapproval of music.
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Elias Hicks headstone, died 27 February 1830, age 82; Jericho Frieds' Burial Ground, Jericho, Nassau County, NY
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Record for Maurice Clifford Swift Paul Witter letter to Susan Davis transcription, 1853 , Wellsville, NY This story is a Microsoft Word document. stuestesadded this on 6 Jan 2013 While going through my late parents' family papers I found this document. After struggling to read it I found it very interesting. These were my 2nd great grandparents on my mother's side. I am also uploading as clear a copy as I can make of the original letter. _______________________ Willing [illegible] 18th 1853[?] I now attempt to write a few lines to you to congratulate you upon your safe arrival at your parents fireside in whose sosiety [sic] you must necessarily enjoy perfect peace and happiness [?]. But you may be somewhat surprised at my presumption on so short an acquaintance but nevertheless being prompted by pure motives I have the boldness to solicit your further acquaintance hoping thereby to promote or procure that happiness which kindred spirits find in each others society. Should [it be] agreeable to you (and if it would not interfere with any previous engagements) I would like to make you a visit soon, as soon as circumstances will permit. You will allow me to say your presence at your sister's has awakened sensations to which I have hitherto been a stranger and since your absence has only increased. Will you write me an answer to this and addresss it to willing PO Allegany Co as soon as convenient. Please excuse all mistakes as I write in a hurry behind the counter in a Wellsville store by the permission and politeness of a Mr. Abbott after being heavily drenched in a severe rain storm. Yours most affectionately, Paul C. Witter Susan A. Davis
Paul Witter letter to Susan Davis transcription, 1853 , Wellsville, NY
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While going through my late parents' family papers I found this document. After struggling to read it I found it very interesting. These were my 2nd great grandparents on my mother's side. I am also uploading as clear a copy as I can make of the original letter.
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Willing [illegible] 18th 1853[?]
I now attempt to write a few lines to you to congratulate you upon your safe arrival at your parents fireside in whose sosiety [sic] you must necessarily enjoy perfect peace and happiness [?]. But you may be somewhat surprised at my presumption on so short an acquaintance but nevertheless being prompted by pure motives I have the boldness to solicit your further acquaintance hoping thereby to promote or procure that happiness which kindred spirits find in each others society. Should [it be] agreeable to you (and if it would not interfere with any previous engagements) I would like to make you a visit soon, as soon as circumstances will permit.
You will allow me to say your presence at your sister's has awakened sensations to which I have hitherto been a stranger and since your absence has only increased. Will you write me an answer to this and addresss it to willing PO Allegany Co as soon as convenient.
Please excuse all mistakes as I write in a hurry behind the counter in a Wellsville store by the permission and politeness of a Mr. Abbott after being heavily drenched in a severe rain storm.
Yours most affectionately,
Paul C. Witter
Susan A. Davis
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John Hicks Info
Name: John HICKS 1
Sex: M
Change Date: 22 JAN 2000
Birth: 25 DEC 1711 in Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York 2
Death: 1789 2
Note: John Hicks was influenced by the monthly gatherings of Quakers held in his father's home and longed for the great joy which came to Friends with their certainty of the forgivness and love of God. He believed they were actually reviving the Christianity of the Apostles by removing extraneous forms and customs which had grown up. Therefore, a few years before the birth of his son, Elias, he joined the Society by convincement and became a faithful member of the Westbury Monthly Meeting. 3
Father: Jacob HICKS b: ABT 1665 in Hempstead, Nassau Co., New York
Mother: Hannah CARPENTER b: 1672
Marriage 1 Martha SMITH b: 30 SEP 1709 •Married: 2
Marriage 2 Phebe POWELL b: 16 MAR 1716 in Long Island, New York •Married: 1764 2
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Sources: 1.Title: Sir Ellis Hicks (1315) Captain John Ward (1598) John Wright (1500) Philip le Yonge (1295) and 7,812 Descendants
Abbrev: Sir Ellis Hicks et al.
Author: Hicks, Eugene C
Publication: 1982
Repository: Name: Library of Congress.
Page: p. 240
2.Title: Sir Ellis Hicks (1315) Captain John Ward (1598) John Wright (1500) Philip le Yonge (1295) and 7,812 Descendants
Abbrev: Sir Ellis Hicks et al.
Author: Hicks, Eugene C
Publication: 1982
Repository: Name: Library of Congress.
Page: page 80
3.Title: Sir Ellis Hicks (1315) Captain John Ward (1598) John Wright (1500) Philip le Yonge (1295) and 7,812 Descendants
Abbrev: Sir Ellis Hicks et al.
Author: Hicks, Eugene C
Publication: 1982
Repository: Name: Library of Congress.
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Robert Williams purchased from Pugnipan, Sachem of the Matinecock Indians, on May 20, 1648, the area known as the Williams Plantation which would be today part of Jericho, Woodbury, Hicksville, Plainview and Bethpage, for a quantity of trading (English) cloth.
Thomas Hicks, the son of John Hicks who settled in Hempstead along with Robert Williams, obtained a grant of 4000 acres of land around Great Neck in 1666. Two of Thomas’ sons are important to the Hicksville story. .
Benjamin Hicks, Thomas’ sixth son, married Phebe Titus. It was their grandson, Valentine, who was to become of the founders of Hicksville in the Plantation area. .
Jacob Hicks’ famous grandson, Elias, was born on March 10, 1748, at Rockaway, Long Island. His marriage to Jemina Seaman, January 02, 1771, brought him to live with his in-laws in the Williams Plantation. They had three daughters; it was Abigail, who married her cousin Valentine Hicks. Sarah, married Robert Seaman, and Martha, married Royal Aldrich. Each of these daughters shared in the division of Elias’ property which included the Hicksville area. The three sons-in- law were executors. The will is simple. In it, in addition to equal shares to his children and mention that Abigail’s share was to be taken from a sum owed him under bond by Valentine, he provided a life estate for David, the colored man who had long lived with him. .
Valentine Hicks purchased tracts of land from Royal Aldrich and William Willets in the Plantation. In 1834 he formed a Land Association with Robert Seaman, David Seaman and others. The land was surveyed and laid out in numbered building lots. The map of the area drawn in October 1836, by Morris M. Fosdick was filed in Queens County in December of that year. .
The problem before the associates was to encourage land purchases in small parcels. One inducement seemed to be secure a quick route to New York. The nearest road connection was the Jericho Turnpike, located several miles away. The answer lay in bringing a railroad to the area. .
In 1834 Valentine Hicks and others appeared before the State Legislature for the passage of an act to incorporate a railroad. On April 24, 1834 an act was passed incorporating the Long Island Railroad. .
Two years prior to this, the Brooklyn and Jamaica Railroad was under construction between the villages whose names it bore. The Long Island Railroad rented this line and commenced construction from Jamaica to Greenport. The tracks were extended to Hicksville in 1835. The first timetable called for two daily each way. When the railroad reached the place where the old Newbridge Road linked with the Jericho Road (now North Broadway), a new and more important crossroads community was born. .
Three years before the LIRR arrived at Hicksville, the Jackson Brothers established a livery stable here in 1834. The stable was located near today’s depot at the sight which later became the location of the famous Grand Central Hotel(built by Timothy Jackson). His business picked up after 1837 when newspaper advertisements praised the Hicksville depot as an excellent stopover for hunters and fishermen. The advertisement said that Jackson’s livery stable would provide horses and wagon for the drive toward Massapequa, Seaford and Bayshore where the marshes full of ducks were a hunter’s paradise. .
It is reported that in 1836 G. William Totten ran the first stage, which also carried the mails, between Hicksville Syosset and Cold Spring Harbor. .
With the coming of the Germans, Hicksville as a railroad terminus began to take on the appearance of a community. It was in 1844 that Hicksville had two trains passing through it each way daily, a fire broke out in the depot. It was the Fourth of July, an old time account says. When that Independence Day was over, the railroad station, engine round house and storage shed were in ruins. The first station was located north of the railroad near today’s Memorial Fountain. .
It is very likely that some of Valentine Hicks’ hopes for a community on his lands near the depot went up in smoke along with the railroad’s property. After the fire, the namesake of the village did not have too many more years to live. In 1849, just a year before his death, Valentine Hicks and the Hicksville Association sold 1,000 acres of their lands to a group of out-of-town real estate speculators, among them Frederick Heyne and John Heitz. These investors, new in the area, were German immigrants to the United States. By the middle of the nineteenth century, great numbers of German and Irish people were emigrating to America. .
1850 marked the passing of Valentine Hicks whom we remember for his farsightedness and initiative and whose name the community bears. The year was also marked by the efforts of the German-Americans to take up the task left uncompleted by Hicks. Frederick Heyne laid out streets on his property map and advertised for lot buyers among his native countrymen in New York City. Little by little, individuals and then families, came from the city to seek a new life. .
A History of Queens County, published in 1882 states that John Heitz was born in Germany in 1818. He wanted to become a minister, but gave up that desire to become a watchmaker. In 1847, with his widowed mother, he landed in America. For three years he conducted a successful watch making business in New York. It is there he may have met Heyne, and together they invested in Hicksville land. He moved to Hicksville and erected a small store. He increased his holdings in Hicksville land and laid out wide, regular streets lined with trees. In 1859, Heitz, went to Jericho woodlands and gathered hundreds of small maple and locust trees. He transplanted these trees on his acreage which included the present court house area. He went into retirement for six years, but in 1869 opened a dry-goods and clothing business. He was one of the founders of the Agricultural Society of Hicksville and was its vice-president for many years. It was he who donated land for a public school in 1852. A little later he gave the land for a union chapel. The present Methodist Church is situated on the plot today. In 1881 he died. .
* Taken from:
The Story of Hicksville Yesteday and Today
Hicksville Public Library
Hicksville's Story 300 Years of History 1648-1948 Ploughmen, Goldbeaters and Craftsmen: Hicksville's Earlier Economy 1648-1960 .
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Will, Wives and Children of Thomas Hicks
Place of birth of Thomas is dependent on whether he was born before or after 1635. 1635 his father was a resident of Mass. By 1638 they were in Newport, RI.
Colonial Record shows: "Hartford 12 May 1664. For Hempstead, This Court accepts.....Thomas Hicks...to be freemen, if they accept it.".
John Rudderrow Stevenson, in 1902, says Thomas lived to be 100 years old..
In 1703 he defended Samuel Brown, a Quaker preacher, in his difficulty with the Hempstead churchmen for attacking their doctrines and ceremonies..
NY Historical Society, Abstracts of Wills, Vol 3, p 352 (copy of full text in files)
-In the name of God, Amen. I, THOMAS HICKS, of Flushing, in Queens County, Gent., being in good health. I leave to my grandson, Thomas Hicks, the eldest son and heir of my son Thomas Hicks, deceased, the sum of 5 shillings. I leave to my son Isaac "my Great History Book which is called Speeds Chronicle of England." I leave to my son Benjamin, my silver Tankard. I leave to my son Stephen, all my houses, lands, and meadows, in the bounds of Flushing or Queens County, except my right on the Great Plain in Hempstead; Also a bed and furniture and the remainder of my books, and two Hatchells, and my wearing apparell. I leave to my 6 sons, John, Jacob, Isaac, Benjamin, William, and Stephen, all my right on the Great Plain in Hempstead. To my daughter, Phebe Simmons, L100. To my daughter Charity, L250. To my daughter, Mary Rushlar (sic Rushmore), L100. I leave to my grand daughter, Mary Hicks, daughter of my son William Hicks, my silver tumbler. All the rest of my personal property to my 4 daughters, Phebe, Elizabeth, Charity, and Mary, and to my grand daughter, Sarah Everitt. My Indian and negro slaves, and my live stock, are to remain for my son Stephen. My sons Benjamin and Stephen are to be serviceable to my daughter Charity in her affairs. I make my son Stephen executor. Dated May 15, 1727. Witnesses, Cornelius Van Wyck, John Washburn, T. Whitehead. Proved, January 28, 1741/2..
Children of his marriage to Mary Butler: Thomas b 1660 in Queens, Elizabeth b 1661 in Queens, Jacob b 1663/1664 in Queens, Sarah b 1668 in Queens, Phoebe b 1672 and John b 1676..
Children of his marriage to Mary Doughty (1677 06 Jul; Thomas Hicks; Mary Doughty-from NY Marriage records): Isaac b 1678, Benjamin b abt 1680, Charles b 1683 in Queens, William b 1684/1685, Stephen b 1686 in Queens, Charity b 1688 in Queens and Mary b 1694 in Queens..
Thomas married twice, first to Mary (Butler) Washburn, widow of John Washburn, and daughter of Richard Butler of Stratford, CT. His second wife was Mary Doughty, daughter of Elias and Sarah Doughty, and grandaughter of Francis Doughty.
Different sources estimate different birth dates for the children and assign them in some cases to different mothers in different birth orders. And the usual total given is 13. However an original document has been located which clarifies this issue and also suggests there was a 14th child, a Mary born of his first wife who died prior to 1713, but left no heir or heirs. (The Mary mentioned in his will was clearly still alive at the time his will was written and was no doubt a daughter of his second wife) On February 10, 1712/13 Thomas executed an instrument for the CT Probate District of Fairfield, Estate of Mary Hicks of Cornberry Neck, NY, relinquishing all claims to the Stratford, CT property which his first wife, Mary (Butler) Washburn Hicks, had inherited from her father, Richard Butler of Stratford, in favor of her children. The instrument specifically names "ye legatys as follows: John Washburn, grandchild of the deceased; Thomas Hicks, John Hicks, Jacob Hicks, sons of the deceased; and Phebe Hicks, Mary Hicks, Sarah Hicks, and Elizabeth Hicks, daughters of the deceased." (Fairfield Probate District, File #2868) The division of property among the heirs is subsequently listed and confirmed in the Land Records of Stratford, Vol 2, p 111, as per the order of the Probate Court. (Microfilms of these original documents are available at the Ct State LIbrary in Hartford, CT) That leaves Issac, Benjamin, William, Charles, Charity, Stephen, and a second Mary as children of his second wife, Mary Doughty..
There is detailed information on Thomas and his family at http://awtc.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=j-m-hicks&id=I01900
including documented records..
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