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1716-1740 Isaac Hicks was a state representative to the State Assembly meeting at Fort George in New York [1] [2]. [List, Legislation introduced by Isaac Hicks and his son.] [Photocopy, 1740 painting of Fort George, New York.] [3] [Map, 1790 map of Fort George, New York, Wikipedia.]

1716-26 Isaac Hicks and Thomas Willet and Benjamin Hicks (admitted September 13, 1725 in place of Thomas Willet, deceased) were representatives from Queens County to the 17th Colonial Assembly. [4]

1717 Elizabeth's father, Samuel Moore, named his grandson Samuel, son of his daughter Elizabeth Hicks, in his will dictated on July 25.

1717 On 2 April, the town meeting records for Hempstead reported that a highway would be laid out at the request of Coll Isaac Hicks and Capt Joseph Thorn. [5]

1718 Isaac Hicks was a boundary commissioner for the Connecticut boundary. [6]

1722 Isaac Hicks witnessed the will of Thomas Willett, of Flushing. [7]

1723-1734 Isaac Hicks was a judge in Long Island. [8]

1723 Isaac Hicks was appointed to lay out the lands in Hempstead: "Whereas att a General Town Meeting Held At Hempstead ye 14th Day of October 1723 It was Voted and agreed by ye Major part of the freeholders and Inhabitance of ye sd Town To Divide and Lay Out their Lands In Manner as is Expressed In sd Tote, and for the Effecting their sd Division ye persons Hereafter Named were Appoynted To Wit Coll. Hicks, James Searing, James Jackson, William Willis Sen, Benjamin Seaman Jur, Joshua Carman and Abel Smith. To Whome the freeholders and Inhabitance afore'sd Gave full power and Authority to Divide their Lands In Manner and forme as is set forth" [9] [Photocopy] of Isaac Hicks signature. [10] [11]

1723 Isaac Hicks was the judge at the will of James Denton, in Hempstead. [12]

1725 Isaac Hicks was a boundary commissioner for the Connecticut boundary. [13]

1726-27 Isaac Hicks and Benjamin Hicks were representatives from Queens County to the 18th Colonial Assembly. The assembly was dissolved August 21, 1727, in consequence of the death of George I. [14]

1727 On 25 November, the Journal of the General Assembly reported "Col Hicks, from the Committee on Grievances reported that as well by the complaints of several people as by the general cry of his Majesty's subjects inhabiting this Colony. they find that the Court of Chancery, as lately assumed to be set up here, renders the liberties and properties of the said subjects extremely precarious: and that by the violent measures taken in and allowed by it, some have been ruined, others obliged to abandon the Colony, and many restrained in it, either by imprisonment or by excessive bail exacted from them, not to depart even when no manner of suits are depending against them; and therefore are of opinion that the extraordinary proceedings of that Court, and the exorbitant fees and charges countenanced to be exacted by the oficers and practitioners thereof are the greatest grievance and oppression this Colony has ever felt, and that for the removal of thc fatal consequences thereof, they had come to several resolutions which being read were approved of by the Hous? and are as follows to wit:
Resolved. That the erecting or exercising in this Colony a Court of Equity or Chancery however it may be termed without consent in General Assembly is unwarrantable and contrary to the Laws of England, a manifest oppression and grievance to the subjects and of pernicious consequence to their liberties and properties.
Resolved. That this House will, at their next meeting prepare and pass an act to declare and adjudge all Orders, Ordinances, Decrees, and Proceedings of the Court so assumed to be erected and exercised as above mentioned to be illegal, null and void, as by Law and Right they ought to be.
Resolved. That this House at the same time will take into consideration whether it be necessary to establish a Court of Equity or Chancery in this Colony, in whom the jurisdiction thereof ought to be vested, and how far the powers of it shall he prescribed and limited.
The Governor inimediately dissolved the General Assembly and "ruffly used" several members, placing one under confinement which proceedings were strongly condemned by the succeeding Assembly. On the 6th of November, 1735, the first resolution above given was again adopted with the following:
Resolved. That a Court of Chancery within this Colony in the hands or under the exercise of a Governor without consent in General Assembly, is contrary to law, unwarrantable, and of dangerous consequence to the liberties and properties of the People.
The position of the Assembly was set forth at length in an address to Acting Governor Clarke, September 7, 1737" [15]

1730 Isaac Hicks was appointed judge in Queens County. [16]

1730-39 Isaac Hicks, eldest son of the Judge [Thomas] by his second marriage with Mary Doughty was, like his father, a prominent man in public affairs. He was judge of Queens county, Long Island for the years 1730-1738, and a member of the colonial assembly of New York from that county 1716 to 1739. [17]

1745 Isaac Hicks wrote his will, abstracted as follows, "In the name of God, Amen. I, Isaac Hicks, of Hempstead, in Queens County, Gent., August 3, 1745, being sick. My executors are to sell all my salt meadow in Flushing and all my movable estate to pay debts. All the rest of my real estate I leave to my sons, Benjamin, Gilbert, and James. I leave to my wife Elizabeth £20 yearly, to be paid by my sons, Thomas, Henry, Benjamin, Gilbert, and James. I leave to my sons, John and Isaac, each 5 shillings, I having already given them certain tracts of land. My executors are to sell all my messuage, tenement, and lands whereon I now live in Hempstead, containing 300 acres. The proceeds to be paid to my sons, Thomas, Henry, Benjamin, Gilbert, and James, and I make my sons executors. Witnesses: Richard Cornell, Benjamin Hicks, Jr., S. Hicks. Proved September 30, 1745."[18]


Footnotes:

[1] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 2nd edition, Vol. 2 (1843), 34, [GoogleBooks].

[2] Silas Wood, Alden J Spooner, A Sketch of the First Settlement of the Several Towns on Long Island (Brooklyn: Alden Spooner, 1828; Reprint 1865), 158, [InternetArchive].

[3] NY website, [URL].

[4] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 448, [GoogleBooks].

[5] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 487, [InternetArchive].

[6] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 326, [GoogleBooks].

[7] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 2, 1708-1728 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1894), 258, citing liber 9, page 336, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[8] Charles Werner and Benjamin F. Thompson, History of Long Island, 2nd edition, Vol. 2 (1843), 33, [GoogleBooks].

[9] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 8 (1904), 270, [InternetArchive].

[10] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 8 (1904), 272, [InternetArchive].

[11] Alfred Henry Bellot, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917 (Far Rockaway, New York: Bellot's Histories, 1917), 16, right column, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].

[12] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 2, 1708-1728 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1894), 375, citing liber 10, page 373, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[13] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 326, [GoogleBooks].

[14] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 448, [GoogleBooks].

[15] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 373, footnote 1, [GoogleBooks].

[16] Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner, Civil List and Constitutional History of the Colony and State of New York (Albany, New York: 1891), 539, [GoogleBooks].

[17] William W. H. Davis, with Warren S. Ely and John W. Jordan, ed., History of Bucks County Pennsylvania, 2nd ed., Vol. III (1905), 111, [GoogleBooks], [HathiTrust].

[18] William S. Pelletreau, Abstracts of Wills on file in the Surrogate's office: city of New York, Vol. 4, 1744-1753 (New York: The New York Historical Society, 1896), 55, citing Liber 15, 447, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].