1680 An original grant, made to Thomas Hicks, was divided in 1680 equally between Captain John Hicks, Richard Cornell, and one Haviland. In 1725 Captain Jacob Hicks was granted land from this grant on the beach "on ye south side of ye island in ye bounds of hempstead" at Rockaway. [1]
c 1719 (based on dates of adjacent entries, no date given) Captain John Hicks made the inventory of Thomas Cornell, of Hempstead. [2]
1720 On June 19, Thos ye son of John & Elinor Hicks was baptized at Jamaica. [3]
1725 On March 28, William son of John & Elinor Hicks was baptized at Jamaica. [4]
1727 "In the name of God, Amen. I, John Hicks, of Flushing, in Queens County, this 12 of November in the year 1727, being weak in body. I leave to my wife Ellinor all my movable estate, and my now dwelling house and all my lands and meadows in Flushing, for her use until my youngest son Thomas Hicks shall be of ye age of 21 years, for the educating and bringing up of my .children. I leave to my four sons, Robert, Ellis, William, and Thomas, my dwelling house, lands, and meadows, as soon as my youngest son comes of age, and the said house and lands are to be sold by my executors, and the money divided among my four sons. I appoint my wife, and my brother in law, Thomas Ellison, and my brother, John [sic, Isaac] Hicks, and my friends, John Tallman and Benjamin Thorne, executors. Witnesses, Samuel Stringham, William Van Wyck. Proved, April 28, 1730." [5]
[1] Alfred Henry Bellot, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917 (Far Rockaway, New York: Bellot's Histories, 1917), 17, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].
[2] 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), 189, citing liber 9, page 50, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].
[3] Thomas Poyer, "Rector Book of the Parish of Jamaica 1710-1732," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 19 (1888), 5-12, 53-59, at 10, [HathiTrust].
[4] Thomas Poyer, "Rector Book of the Parish of Jamaica 1710-1732," New York Genealogical and Biographical Record 19 (1888), 5-12, 53-59, at 12, [HathiTrust].
[5] 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), 352, citing liber 10, page 224, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].