1727 On 18 April, Hempstead town records reported that John Hicks the son of Collo Isaac Hicks his ear mark is a swallow fork on the of ear and a slipe on the fore side of the near ear entred Apreill 18. day. 1727 by me Tho Gildersleeye Clarck. [1]
[1] Benjamin D. Hicks, Records of the Towns of North and South Hempstead Long Island N.Y., Vol. 2 (1897), 276, [InternetArchive].