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Notes for Jacob Hicks

1712 Jacob Hicks witnessed the will of Johannes Brewer in Hempstead. [1]

1725 Captain Jacob Hicks was granted land on the beach "on ye south side of ye island in ye bounds of hempstead" at Rockaway. The original grant was made to Thomas Hicks and was then divided in 1680 equally between Captain John Hicks, Richard Cornell, and one Haviland. [2]


Footnotes:

[1] 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), 94, citing liber 8, page 150, [HathiTrust], [InternetArchive].

[2] Alfred Henry Bellot, History of the Rockaways from the year 1685 to 1917 (Far Rockaway, New York: Bellot's Histories, 1917), 17, [InternetArchive], [HathiTrust].