See also
| Husband: | Robert * HICKS (1583-1647) | |
| Wife: | Margaret * (1589-1665) | |
| Children: | Thomas HICKS (1603- ) | |
| John HICKS (1605- ) | ||
| Sarah HICKS (1607- ) | ||
| Richard HICKS (1609- ) | ||
| Samuel HICKS (1611- ) | ||
| Phebe * HICKS (1614-1663) | ||
| Lydia HICKS (1614- ) | ||
| Ephraim HICKS (1615- ) | ||
| Mary HICKS (1617- ) | ||
| Marriage | 16031 | |
| Name: | Robert * HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Father: | James * HICKS (1550-1601) | |
| Mother: | Phebe * ALLYNE (1557-1657) | |
| Birth | 1583 | Southwark, Surrey, England |
| Immigration | 1621 (age 37-38) | to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US2 |
| Arrived on the vessel Fortune | ||
| Occupation | felmonger | |
| Immigration | 1621 (age 37-38) | |
| Immigration | 9 Nov 1621 (age 37-38) | to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US |
| Arrived on the vessel "Fortune" | ||
| Will | 28 May 1645 (age 61-62) | |
| Death | 24 Mar 1647 (age 63-64) | Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US |
| Probate | 15 May 16483 | |
| beq to wife Margaret; sons Samuel and Ephraim, gr son John Bangs; to John Watson and other persons. | ||
| Name: | Margaret * | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Father: | Edward +* WINSLOW (1560-1620) | |
| Mother: | Eleanor * PELHAM (1566-1589) | |
| Birth | 1589 | Droitwich, Worcestershire, England |
| Death | 1665 (age 75-76) | Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US4 |
| Name: | Thomas HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 19 Feb 1603 | |
| Name: | John HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 12 Oct 1605 | |
| Name: | Sarah HICKS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 25 Oct 1607 | |
| Name: | Richard HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 17 Sep 1609 | |
| Name: | Samuel HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 8 Aug 1611 | |
| Name: | Phebe * HICKS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Spouse: | George * WATSON (1602-1689) | |
| Birth | 15 Mar 1614 | Bermondsey, London, England |
| Baptism | 15 Mar 1614 (age 0) | St. Mary Magdaline5 |
| Bermondsey, Surrey, England | ||
| Immigration | 1623 (age 8-9) | to Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US from England |
| Vessel: The Anne | ||
| Death | 22 May 1663 (age 49) | Plymouth, Plymouth, MA, US |
| Name: | Lydia HICKS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 6 Sep 1614 | |
| Name: | Ephraim HICKS | |
| Sex: | Male | |
| Birth | 1615 | |
| Name: | Mary HICKS | |
| Sex: | Female | |
| Birth | 11 May 1617 | |
General Notes: Robert arrived in America on the ship Fortune at Plymouth in 1621. His wife Margaret arrived on the ship Anne in 1623. He is listed as a Felmonger, a dealer in hides and leather.
Sources
Rep Men & Old Families of Rhode Island V. 3, pg 1609
Sir Ellis Hicks and descendants pg 77
Morman Microfeche - Co Surrey, England Lists as children of Robert & Margaret (Winslow) Hix
From Little Comptons Families vol 1 page 338;
The Hicks Family
For additional information on the Hicks family see the Pearce papers in the New Bedford public library, the Woodworth Genealogy, the Leonard papers, the Tabor collection at the Rhode Island Historical Society.
1. Robert Hicks, son of James and Phebe (Allen) Hicks of England, born in England about 1575, died in Plymouth 24 May 1647. Residence: Plymouth, Duxbury (before 1631) and Scituate, Mass.
He married first about 1596 Elizabeth Morgan, daughter of John Morgan of London, England. He married second about 1610 Margaret Winslow.
He was a felmonger, a dealer in hides in Southwark, New London, England, and was a leather dresser. He came to America in the ship Fortune, landing at Plymouth 11 Nov. 1621. His second wife with all her children reached Plymouth in the ship Ann in June 1622.
In his will made 28 May 1645, he left to his son Ephraim his house at Plymouth and land lately purchased of John Alden and also land at Island Creek on the Duxbury side; and also his oldest son Samuel. . . his wife Margaret to have three rooms in his house during her lifetime and to be executrix. . .
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The Fortune was the first ship after the Mayflower, with almost a year’s lapse in time, a year during which many of the original pilgrims died. The remaining pilgrims were happy to see this second ship’s passengers, most of them either friends or relatives. Yet, this was a mixed blessing. It had arrived laden with few supplies and more mouths to feed. Read more at Suite101: Ship Fortune's 1621 Arrival at Plymouth: Mixed Blessings Follow Pilgrims First Thanksgiving http://www.suite101.com/content/ship-fortunes-1621-arrival-at-plymouth-a162044#ixzz17T2z1rgp
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Birth: Robert Hicks was born in England about 1578.
Death: He died in Plymouth on May 24, 1647.
Ship: Fortune, 1621
Life in England: Robert Hickes was a fellmonger (leatherseller) living on Bermondsey Street in Southwark. His first eight children were baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey.
Life in New England: Robert Hicks came to Plymouth in November 1621. His wife and three children came on the Anne or Little James in the summer of 1623. He was a freeman in Plymouth by 1633. He served the colony in several minor capacities in 1633–4 as an arbiter, appraiser, rater for taxes and as part of a committee for dividing meadow land, but apparently nothing else after that time. Margaret Hicks was educated enough to sign her name to her will. Samuel Fuller in his will requested that “ when my daughter Mercy is fitt to goe to scole that mrs Heeks may teach her as well as my sonne.” She may have taught other children.as well. Both Robert and Margaret Hicks made wills. She died in Plymouth between July 8, 1665, and March 6, 1665/6.
Family: Robert Hicks married Margaret _____ by 1603. She died in Plymouth between July 8, 1665, the date of her will, and March 6, 1665/6, the date of probate.
Children of Robert and Margaret Hicks:
Thomas was baptized on February 19, 1603/4, and buried on April 23, 1604.
John was baptized on October 12, 1605, with no further record.
Sarah was baptized on October 25, 1607, and buried on February 24, 1617/8.
Richard was baptized on September 17, 1609, with no further record.
Samuel was baptized on August 18, 1611. He married Lydia Doane on September 11, 1645, in Plymouth and had two children. He died by June 1677.
Lydia was baptized on September 6, 1612. She married Edward Bangs before 1633 and had one son. She died a year or two later.
Phoebe was baptized on March 15, 1614/5, and married George Watson by about 1636 and had seven children. She died on May 22, 1663.
Mary was baptized on May 11, 1617, and buried on September 14, 1619.
Ephraim was born in Plymouth about 1625. He married Elizabeth Howland on September 13, 1649, and died on December 12, 1649 of “a violent death.”
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ROBERT HICKSORIGIN: LondonMIGRATION: 1621 on FortuneFIRST RESIDENCE: PlymouthOCCUPATION: Fellmonger (in England).FREEMAN: In the "1633" list of Plymouth freemen, among those admitted before 1 January 1632/3 [ PCR 1:3]. In list of 7 March 1636/7 [PCR 1:52]. In the Plymouth section of the 1639 Plymouth Colony list of freemen, with the annotation "dead" [PCR 8:173].EDUCATION: His inventory included "3 books" valued at 8s. His widow, Margaret, signed her will.ESTATE: In the 1623 Plymouth division of land, "Robart Hickes" was granted one acre as a passenger on the Fortune, and his wife and children were granted four acres as passengers on the Anne [PCR 12:5, 6]. In the 1627 Plymouth division of cattle Robert Hicks, Margaret Hicks, Samuel Hicks, Ephraim Hicks, Lydia Hicks and Phebe Hicks were the sixth through eleventh persons in the twelfth company [PCR 12:13]. Assessed 18s. in the Plymouth tax list of 25 March 1633 and 12s. in the list of 27 March 1634 [PCR 1:9, 27]. "Robert Hickes" was thirty-seventh on the list of Purchasers [PCR 2:177]. On 10 February 1629 Robert Hicks purchased two acres on the north side of town from Steven Dean [PCR 12:7]. On 29 August 1638 Clement Briggs acknowledged his sale of "one acre of land in the upper fall near the second brook" to "Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks" [PCR 12:34]. On 9 December 1639 "Mr. Rob[er]te Hicks" rented five acres at Reed Pond to John Smyth for three years, Smyth to fence the east side of the land [PCR 12:51]. On 13 July 1639 George Sowle acknowledged his sale of two acres of land to Robert Hicks of Plymouth [PCR 12:45]. On 20 July 1639 John Barnes of Plymouth, yeoman, acknowledged his sale of four acres of meadow at High Pynes to Mr. Robert Hicks [PCR 12;45]. On 11 February 1639[/40] Mr. Robert Hicks of Plymouth, planter, sold to Samuell Hicks his eldest son all his house, outhouses and garden in Plymouth, together with four acres of land and eight acres of land and all the meadow at the Heigh Pynes and Iland Creek, and all his right title and interest in the land, and three cows [PCR 12:54]. On 7 April 1642 Mr. Robert Hicks sold two acres of marsh at Heigh Pines to Mr. William Bradford [PCR 12:79]. On 7 May 1642 Mr. Robert Hicks sold seven acres of upland at Iland Creek to William Brett of Duxbury [PCR 12:80]. On the same day he acknowledged his deed to John Reynor of three acres of marsh meadow at Heigh Pynes [PCR 12:80]. On 9 October 1645 Mr. Robert Hicks sold to Georg Partrich a parcel of marsh meadow consisting of two acres [PCR 12:115]. In his will, dated 28 May 1645 and proved 15 May 1648, "Robert Hicks of Plymouth ... being full of infirmities of body" bequeathed to "my son Ephraim all that my dwelling house barn and buildings with the gardens ... in Plymouth," also "all those three fields one lying on the north side of the said town of Plymouth ..., the second which I lately purchased of Mr. John Aldin and the third called the south field"; "but my mind and will is that my executrix hereafter named shall have and enjoy three rooms in the said house during her life she keeping herself unmarried, viz. the hall and chamber over and cellar underneath, and also that my said son Ephraim shall pay her the thirds of the said lands during her life and widowhood"; to "my said son Ephraim all my lands lying at Iland Creek on Duxbery side except two lots of upland of twenty acres apiece lying next unto Mr. Kemp's lands, which I hereby give and bequeath unto John Banges my grandchild"; to "my executrix ... the rents of the said land not set and let forth for six years yet to come if she shall so long live, but all the rest of my lands ... I give unto my said son Ephraim"; "I give unto John Reyner the son of Mr. John Reyner our teacher fifty acres of the purchased lands accruing ... to me as a purchaser of my share of lands lying at Seawams or Secunck if the said Mr. John Reyner his father do remain at Plymouth"; to "Samuell my eldest son" fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" fifty acres; to "John Watson" fifty acres; to "John Bangs" fifty acres; to "the younger of Mr. Charls Chancy's sons which his wife had at one birth when he dwelt at Plymouth" fifty acres; to "my said son Ephraim" household goods; to the Town of Plymouth one cow calf; to "William Pontus" 20s.; to "John Faunce" 20s.; to "Nathaneell Morton" 20s.; to "Thomas Cushman" 20s.; "Margaret my loving wife" sole executrix and residue; Mr. John Howland, Mannasses Kempton and Thomas Cushman overseers; to John Howland and Mannasses Kemton 10s. each for a remembrance; to Joshua Prat "a suit of my wearing clothes with a pair of shoes and stockings"; to Samuell Eddy a pair of wearing stockings; to "my said son Ephraim ... my four oxen, paying my loving wife ... the thirds of the profits of the lands as is before mentioned ... and to draw her twenty loads of wood yearly to her house in Plymouth during her life" [ MD 8:144-46, citing PCPR 1:1:703]. The inventory of the estate of "Mr. Robert Hicks deceased the 24th of May 1647 taken the fifth of July in the year aforesaid also exhibited upon oath the 4th of May 1648" totalled £39 13s., with no real estate included [MD 8:143-44, citing PCPR 1:1:69]. On 23 January 1648 John Rogers of Duxbury bought the rent of lands improved by Mr. Robert Hicks now deceased from Ephraim Hicks of Plymouth [PCR 12:155-56]. On 1 May 1660 "Gorge Watson," on behalf of his son John Watson and nephew John Banges, requested that, because "Samuel Hickes" was mistakenly entered in the court records as purchaser of lands at Cushenah and Accoaksett, etc., and it should have been "Mr. Robert" Hickes, it be corrected; the matter was referred to a later court [PCR 3:186]. On 3 October 1662 "Samuell Hickes" was offered an equal division with others in the lands of Mr. Robert Hickes at Accushena, Coaksett, etc., but he declined [PCR 4:27]. Margaret and Samuel could not agree on the division of goods in Robert's estate and the matter was taken to court 7 June 1661 [PCR 3:217]. On 7 October 1662 "Margarett Hickes of Plymouth, widow, as sole executrix to my husband Mr. Robert Hickes," confirmed his bequest of fifty acres to "Elnathan Chauncye the younger of the twins of Mr. Charles Chauncye" [MD 17:240-41, citing PCLR 2:2:107]. On 22 March 1663[/4] "Mistris Hickes" and "Sam[uel] Hickes" were granted Lot 7 in the Plymouth lands at "Puncateesett Necke" [ PTR 1:64]. In her will, dated 8 July 1665 and proved 6 March 1665/6, "Margarett Hickes widow of the town of Plymouth" bequeathed to "my son Samuell Hickes" £5; to "my daughter-in-law Lydia Hickes" 30s.; to "my son Samuell's children" 10s. each "there being seven of them"; said legacies to be paid by "son Samuell Hickes" from his debt "he having already received a large portion of that which God hath given me not only in lands but also in goods and chattels which was not only my husband's and son Ephraim's estate formerly but also given to me by will at my son Ephraim's death"; to "my grandchild John Banges" 40s.; residue to "the children of my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my loving daughter that is deceased Phebe Watson," also said estate to be "at the dispose of my son-in-law Gorg Watson"; "my son-in-law Gorg Watson and my friend Captain Southworth" overseers [PCPR 2:2:32, abstracted in MD 16:157-58]. The inventory of Margaret Hickes, taken 5 March 1665[/6], totalled £53 12s. 6d. and included no real estate [PCPR 2:2:33, abstracted in MD 16:158]. On 6 March 1665/6 "Gorge Watson" was granted administration on the estate of "Mistris Margarett Hickes, deceased" [PCR 4:117].BIRTH: By about 1578 based on estimated date of marriage.DEATH: Plymouth 24 May 1647 (from inventory). (Savage and Pope both give this date as 24 March, apparently based on the abstract of the inventory published in 1850 [ NEHGR 4:282]. On the original the month of death is in the upper right corner of the page, and is worn, so that only "Ma" can now be read on microfilm. Bowman saw this as May, and his reading is followed here.)MARRIAGE: By 1603 Margaret _____; she died at Plymouth between 8 July 1665 (date of will) and 6 March 1665/6 (probate of will).CHILDREN (first eight baptized at St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, Surrey [ TAG 51:58]): i THOMAS, bp. 19 February 1603/4; bur. 23 April 1604. ii JOHN, bp. 12 October 1605; no further record. iii SARA, bp. 25 October 1607; bur. 24 February 1617/8. iv RICHARD, bp. 17 September 1609; no further record. v SAMUEL, bp. 18 August 1611; m. Plymouth 11 September 1645 Lydia Doane [PCR 2:88], daughter of JOHN DOANE. vi LYDIA, bp. 6 September 1612; m. by about 1633 EDWARD BANGS. vii PHOEBE, bp. 15 March 1614/5; m. by about 1636 George Watson (their daughter Phebe m. Jonathan Shaw on 22 January 1656 [ PVR 662]). viii MARY, bp. 11 May 1617; bur. 14 September 1619. ix EPHRAIM, b. Plymouth about 1625; m. Plymouth 13 September 1649 Elizabeth Howland [PCR 8:8], daughter of JOHN HOWLAND; Ephraim Hicks d. 12 December 1649 "a violent death" [PCR 3:202] and his widow m. (2) Plymouth 10 July 1651 John Dickenson [PCR 8:13].COMMENTS: The major breakthrough on this family was made when Robert S. Wakefield discovered additional baptismal entries in the St. Mary Magdalen, Bermondsey, register [TAG 51:57-58]. Several sources give Robert Hicks two wives: Elizabeth Morgan and Margaret Winslow. No record has been found of any marriage for Robert Hicks, and his only known wife was Margaret; the argument that Margaret was a Winslow has little basis [TAG 54:31-34]. Clement Briggs of Weymouth, fellmonger, deposed 29 August 1638 thatabout two and twenty years since this deponent then dwelling with one Mr. Samuell Lathame in Barmundsey Streete in Southwarke a fellmonger and one Thomas Harlow then also dwelling with Mr. Rob[er]te Heeks in the same street a fellmonger the said Harlow and this deponent had often conference together how many pelts each of their master pulled a week. And this deponent deposeth and saith that the said Rob[er]te Heeks did pull three hundred pelts a week and diverse times six or seven hundred & more a week in the killing seasons, which was the most part of the year (except the time of Lent) for the space of three or four years. And that the said Rob[er]te Heeks sold his sheep's pelts at that time for 40s. a hundred to Mr. Arnold Allard, whereas this deponent's Mr. Samuell Lathame sold his pelts for 50s. per hundred to the same man at the same time and Mr. Heeks pelts were much better ware [PCR 12:35]. On 13 July 1639 Robert Hicks of Plymouth, "citizen & leatherseller of London," by a bill dated 6 July 1618 was indebted to Thomas Heath, citizen & cooper of London for £180, which amount was demanded by letter of attorney made by Hannah Cugley but Hicks showed an acquittance of all debts to Heath, having paid it long ago [PCR 12:43]. On 6 March 1649[/50] administration of the estate of Ephraim Hickes was granted to Margaret Hicks and Thomas Willet [PCR 2:148]. The nuncupative will made by Ephraim to Mr. Thomas Southworth was set aside, Ephraim being "not in a capacity in regard of his said manner of death to make a legal will" [PCR 3:202]. The court ordered that Ephraim's estate be set aside for the benefit of his mother, "Mistris Margaret Hickes," but the order was not recorded and Margaret had to go back to court many years later to insist it be recorded, 3 December 1660 [PCR 3:203].BIBLIOGRAPHIC NOTE: In 1938 Louis Effingham deForest compiled a comprehensive summary of all that was known about Robert Hicks at that date [ Moore Anc 295-308]. (This summary includes children Elizabeth and Daniel, for whom there is no evidence.) The Great Migration BeginsSketchesPRESERVED PURITAN
Margaret Hicks arrived at Plymouth in 1623 on the Anne with her children Samuel and Lydia to join her husband Robert, q.v. In her will dated 8 July 1665, exhibited 6 March 1665/66 the widow Margaret Hicks of Plymouth named her son Samuel Hicks, daughter-in-law Lydia Hicks, son Samuel's seven children, grandchild John Bangs, and the children of her loving deceased daughter Phebe, who had married George Watson (MD 16:157-58)
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The vessels parted company at sea; the ANN arrived the latter part of June, and the LITTLE JAMES some week or ten days later; part of the number were the wives and children of persons already in the Colony The ship Anne arrived in Plymouth in July, 1623 accompanied by the Little James, bringing new settlers along with many of the wives and children that had been left behind in Leyden when the Mayflower departed in 1620." EMIGRANT ANCESTORS, John Camden Hotten, 1874
Anthony Annabal, wife
Jane Annabal, and children:Sarah, HannahEdward BangsRobert BartlettFear BrewsterPatience Brewster; (daughters of Elder Brewster)Mary BucketEdward Burcher.Thomas Clarke.Christopher ConantHester Cooke (joined her husband and son, bothMAYFLOWER passengers), and children: Jane, Jacob, and MaryGodbert GodbertsonSarah (Priest) Godberston, and children: Marrah Priest, Sarah Priest, and SamuelAnthony DixJohn FaunceMr. Pierce's two servants.Joshua PrattJames RandRobert Ratcliffe and his wifeNicholas SnowAlice Southworth (Bradford)Francis Sprague, and either his wife or daughter Anna, and daughter Mercy
Barbara — (Standish)Thomas Tilden and wife Stephen TracyRalph Wallen and wife JoyceGoodwife FlavellEdmund FloodBridget FullerTimothy Hatherly.William HeardMargaret Hickes and her children (wife of Robert Hickes, who came in the FORTUNE): Lydia, Phoebe, Samuel and EphraimWilliam Hilton's wife and children: William, and Mary Edward Holman.John JennySarah Jenny, and children: Samuel,Abigail and SarahManasseh KemptonRobert LongExperience MitchellGeorge Morton and his wife Julianna, and children: Nathaniel, Patience, John, Sarah, and EphraimThomas Morton, Jr.; son of Thomas Morton, who came in the FORTUNEEllen NewtonJohn Oldham and his sister, Lucretia Frances Palmer; wife of William Palmer, who came in the FORTUNEChristian Penn
Elizabeth Warren, wife of Richard (MAYFLOWER), and children: Mary, Anna, Sarah, Elizabeth, and Abigail
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| 1 | "US and International Marriage Records, 1550-1900" (on-line, Yates Publishing, Provo, UT). |
| 2 | "Passenger and Immigrations Lists Index 1500-1900". |
| 3 | Charles Henry Pope, "Pioneers of Massachusetts, 1620-1650" (Genealogical Publishing Co, 1998). |
| 4 | Edmund West, "Family Data Collection - Death" (Generations Network, Inc 2001). |
| 5 | "London England - Baptisms Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812". |