Samuel
Hicks
Sr.
Born before in St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England
Son of Robert Hicks
and Margaret (Unknown) Hicks
Brother of
Thomas Hicks, John Hicks, Sarah Hicks, Richard Hicks, Lydia (Hicks) Bangs, Phebe (Hicks) Watson, Mary Hicks and Ephraim Hicks
Husband of
Lydia (Doane) Hicks
— married
11 Sep 1645 in Plymouth, Massachusetts Bay Colony
Descendants 
Father of
Sarah (Hicks) Churchill, Henry Hicks, Martha (Hicks) Springer, Thomas Hicks, Ephraim Hicks, Samuel Hicks Jr., Dorcas Jane (Hicks) Sherman, Margaret (Hicks) Jenney, Elizabeth (Hicks) Small, Joseph Hicks and Joanna (Hicks) Young
Died after
after age 60
in Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony [uncertain]
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Contents |
Biography
Samuel Hicks Sr. immigrated to New England as a child during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640).
Birth and Origins
Samuel was the 5th child of Pilgrims, Robert & Margaret Hicks, and was baptized 18 August 1611 at St. Mary Magdalene, Bermondsey, Surrey, England, the son of Robert and Margaret (Unknown) Hicks.[1][2][3]
Immigration
He emigrated with his mother and siblings on the Anne in 1623, two years after his father, Robert Hicks, arrived on the Fortune, in November, 1621.[4]
Marriage and Children
Samuel married Lydia Doane, daughter of Deacon John Doane and Ann ? Perkins, on 11 Sep. 1645 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.[5] According to the will of Samuel's mother, Margaret Hicks, by 1655 Samuel and Lydia had at least seven children children.[6] Children:
- Sarah Hicks was born in 1649 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts.
- Thomas Hicks was born about 1650 in Plymouth, Plymouth, Massachusetts and died in 1698 in Portsmouth, Newport, Rhode Island, about age 48.
- Joseph Hicks was born in 1650 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachussets5 and died on 6 Aug 1709 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts at age 59.
- Samuel Hicks was born in 1651 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.
- Dorcas Hicks was born on 14 Feb 1652 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.
- Margaret Hicks was born on 9 Mar 1654 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.
- Joan Hicks was born in 1667 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts.
Life in New England
Samuel was proposed to be made a freeman of Plymouth at the next court, on 7 Sep. 1641.[7] and was listed as a freeman at Plymouth Court on 1 Mar 1643.[8] He appeared on 7 Jun 1670 when he was listed as a Selectman for Dartmouth[9]; also on 29 May 1670 when he was listed as a freeman of Dartmouth.[10]
Death & Estate
Samuel's last known appearance in records found to-date is 1 Jul 1672 in a court record where he was listed as a "manager" of the various pleas related to land purchases, indicating it was most likely Samuel Sr. and not his son who would have been only 21 and would probably not have held a position with that authority.[11]
His estate at Dartmouth was appraised on 29 June 1677 and exhibited in court at Plymouth on 7 July 1677 on the testimony of Lydia Hicks, widow.[12]
A search of the Plymouth colony records beginning 1678 does not find mention of Hicks so it seems very likely he was dead or had moved by that date.
A death record for Samuel or his wife has not yet been found.[6]
Sources
- ↑ Robert S. Wakefield, "The Children of Robert Hicks," in The American Genealogist, 51(1975): pages 57-58.
- ↑ London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812; originally Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London Metropolitan Archives and Guildhall Library Manuscripts, London.
- ↑ St Mary Magdalene Parish Register image 50 by subscription at: https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1624/31280_199007-00084?pid=2885883#?imageId=31280_199007-00064
- ↑ Robert Charles Anderson, Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33, Boston, MA: NEHGS 1995, p. 924
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vols. 1 & 2, 2 (1641-1651):88, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image 312 of 434, p. 88 available HathiTrust.org.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 Alfred Alder Doane, The Doane Family: 1. Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth, 2. Doctor John Done, of Maryland, and Their Descendants. With notes upon English families of the same name (Alfred Alder Doane, 1902); https://archive.org/details/doanefamily1deac00doan/page/20/mode/2up image of p. 20] at InternetArchive.org.
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vols. 1 & 2, 2 (1641-1651):88, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image 248 of 434, p. 24 available HathiTrust.org.
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vols. 1 & 2, 2 (1641-1651):88, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image 257 of 434, p. 33 available HathiTrust.org.
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 5, 1668-1678, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image 51 of 338, p. 35 available HathiTrust.org.
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 5, 1668-1678, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), image 295 of 338, p. 279 available HathiTrust.org.
- ↑ Nathaniel Bradstreet Shurtleff and David Pulsifer, Records of the Colony of New Plymouth in New England: Court Orders, Vol. 5, 1668-1678, ed. Nathaniel B. Shurtleff, Plymouth Colony Records (Boston: William White, 1855), (p. 97, image 103 of the source).
- ↑ "Massachusetts, Plymouth County, Probate Records, 1633-1967," images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3QS7-897D-V38C : 13 March 2023), Wills 1633-1686 vol 1-4 > image 440 of 616; State Archives, Boston. Bottom of Page 89 on the left-hand side of image, not a list as other inventories.
See Also
- Haxtun, A. Arnoux. (189799). Signers of the Mayflower compact. New York: Reprinted from the Mail and express. p.19
- Passengers of the ships Anne and Little James 1623
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Also, the source (#6) in the Biography above for Samuel's list of kids is an article on his father's children. I assume the sourcing is in error or I'm reading the article wrong.
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"CAUTION: Unfortunate merges have combined people of different identities and information but of the same names. This PID is an early submission with LDS data so am trying to restore him to his correct data as per professional scholarship in "The Great Migration Begins" by NEHGS. And from "The Doane Family," pages 19–20 about Samuel Hickes and his wife Lydia Doane. This source documents that they went to Eastham (or Nauset) by 1646–1649. He returned to Plymouth where two children were born and was constable in 1654. He was an inhabitant sometimes of Barnstable. By 1662 he was of Dartmouth, Plymouth Colony, British Colonial America. "The Doane Family" pp. 19–20 states that "No record appears of the deaths of Samuel and Lydia Hicks. They had at least seven children, two of whom, Dorcas born Feb. 14, 1652 and Margaret born Mar. 9, 1654, were born at Plymouth. Davis says, there was a son Samuel born 1651 and Austin's Dictionary of Rhode Island Families gives a son Thomas, a carpenter of Dartmouth, Mass., and Portsmouth, R. I., who married Mary, daughter of John and Dorothy Albro. Margaret Hicks' will, dated July 8, 1655, bequeaths to her son Samuel and his family as follows: "I give unto my son Samuel hicks five pounds; Item I give unto my son Samuels children ten shillings apiece; there being seven of them; all the above said legacies my will is shall bee payed by that which is owning to meet from my above said son Samuel hikes which debt is ten pounds Really and truly owing to meet from my sad son; the above said legacies being what I can doe for him and his; her having already Received a large portion of that which god hath given meet; not only in lands but also in goods and chattels which was not only my husbands and son Ephraims estate formerly but also given to meet by will att my son Ephraims death." See Alfred Alder Doane, "The Doane Family, I. Deacon John Doane, of Plymouth;" (Boston, Ma.: 1902), 19–20.
https://archive.org/stream/doanefamily1deac00doan#page/20/mode/2up"
https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/LTWX-XYK
Plymouth Colony Church Records, Part I, Col. Soc. Mass. 22 (1920), p. 92.