Florence (Unknown) Hicks (abt. 1610 - bef. 1661)

Born about 1610 in England

Wife of John Carman — married about 1632 in England

Wife of John Hicks — married 1656 (to 7 Feb 1660) in New York

Descendants

Died before 1661 before about age 51 in Jamaica, Queens County, Long Island, New York colony

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Florence (Unknown) Hicks migrated to New England during the Puritan Great Migration (1621-1640). Join: Puritan Great Migration Project Discuss: pgm

Disputed Origins

A previous version of this profile, citing unsourced family trees, claimed she was daughter of Philip Robert Fordham and Elizabeth Shotbolt. Lacking solid evidence of this parentage, Florence is being detached from them, and her last name at birth changed to Unknown.

Biography

Florence (Unknown) Hicks was a New Netherland settler.

Florence married first John Carman in abt. 1632. Anderson states that Florence joined the Roxbury Church after her husband. Children were b. Roxbury. Florence married second John Hicks in 1656.

Children with her first husband:

1. John, b Roxbury 8 Ju 1633; m by 1660 Hannah _____. In his will of 14 Sep 1684 he ordered two of his sons "to take my brother Joshua Carman's estate into their hands and to provide for him, if he wishes."^[1]
2. Abigail, b Roxbury July 1635; m by 1660 Benjamin Coe (this one?)
3. Caleb, b Roxbury 1 Mar 1639/40; m by 1666 Elizabeth ______
4. Joshua, b Hempstead 9 Jan 1645/6; alive on 14 Sep 1687, apparently infirm

Florence had no children by Hicks. She died before 1661.

Within Great Migration Begins, Vol 1, A-F there is reference to Calendar of Dutch Manuscripts Vol 9 wherein an abstract of a petition dated 7 April 1661 by John Carman, Caleb Carman and Benjamin Coe, husband of Abigail Carman, praying that John Hicks who married their mother "maybe obliged to render an account of the estate." ^[2]

Research Notes

• Follow up on suggestion that Florence was a sister to Robert Fordham who was an associate of John Hicks. https://www.geni.com/people/Florence-Hicks/6000000015540715113

• Torre NEw England Marriages before 1700: Sources: HICKS, John (-1672) & Florence [CARMAN], w John; aft 1653; Hempstead, LI {Winthrop-Babcock 262; Carman-Pruden 20; Coe 83}

Sources

1. ↑ NYGBR 65:115
2. ↑ https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/2496/42521_b158318-00385/52883

• Moriarty, G. Andrews (July 1952)Herodias (Long) Hicks-Gardiner-Porter A Tale of Old Newport" Rhode Island History, Vol. 11, p. 90.

See also:

• http://www.uelac.org/Loyalist-Trails/2012/Loyalist-Trails-2012.php?issue=201204 (references John Carman and marriage to Florence, son of Richard Carman)
• "The Refugees of 1776 from Long Island to Connecticut" - Frederic Gregory Mather Following the Battle of Long Island (August 27, 1776), more than 5,000 refugees fled Long Island and New York City for Connecticut. Clearfield, Baltimore, MD, 1913, reprinted Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1995. Internet Archive.
• London, England, Baptisms, Marriages and Burials, 1538-1812. Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.Original data - Church of England Parish Registers, 1538-1812. London, England: London Metropolitan Archives. Images produced by permission of the City of London Corporation Libraries;
• Joseph Gardner Bartlett. Robert Coe, Puritan: His Ancestors and Descendants, 1340-1910, with Notices p. 83.
• Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/34868741# : accessed 06 December 2017), memorial page for Florence Fordham Carman Hicks (unknown–unknown), Find A Grave Memorial no. 34868741, ; Maintained by Linda Mac (contributor 47062703) Unknown. NOTE: No headstone; only source shown is Anderson