Robert wrote his will in 1765, and it was proved in 1767. In it he named his wife and the children above. He also referred to several "negro" people as property (Margret, Isaac, Aron, Jacob, William, Dinar, Abraham, Teat [sp?], Ann, and Hester) and bequeathed them to the above.[6]
McCracken, George E. The Fields of Flushing Long Island, published in The New England Historical and Genealogical Register, Vol. CXIII (July 1959). Boston, MA: New England Historic Genealogical Society, 1847-. (Online database: AmericanAncestors.org, New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2001-2013.), pp. 197-216, 267-289 at american ancestors.org($).
↑ James E. Hazard Index, The Records of New York Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends at Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College.; Call Number N 452; Volume 3.1; Page 136; ID 67761
↑No primary source for this marriage has been located. The first genealogist found to identify Robert's wife as Elizabeth Hicks was James Riker, in the Annals of Newtown. A much more recent work by George McCracken concluded the same. A search of the James Riker Papers at the New York Public Library may yield his source. Alternately, or additionally, it may be that her married name she was named in the will of one of her siblings or other relatives. Presently, though, circumstantial evidence supporting her identiy includes: (a) the long association of these families; (b) that Robert's uncle was an administrator of her parents' estate, raised her sister Hannah, and also devised his estate to go primarily to this Robert and his wife Elizabeth and family; (c) that names of their children (Whitehead, Abigail, Deborah) might be in honor of her family; and (d) that no other contradictory evidence of Elizabeth Hicks' destiny has been found by the genealogists who followed Riker.
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