Martha (Hicks) Aldrich (1771 - abt. 1862)

Born 20 Oct 1771 in Massachusetts Bay

Ancestors

Wife of Royal Aldrich — married about 3 Jul 1792 in Jericho, Long Island, New York, United States

Died about 9 Sep 1862 at about age 90 in Jericho, Long Island, Queens, New York, United States

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Biography

Martha was a Friend (Quaker)

Martha Hicks, daughter of Elias Hicks and Jemima (Seaman) Hicks, married Royal Aldrich, son of Stephen and Mary of Northbridge, Massachusetts, on 3rd of 5 mo 1792 at Jericho, Long Island, New York.^[1][2] The couple did not have any children.^[3]

In the first years following Royal's death in 1839,^[4] Martha lived alone at Oysterbay, Queens, New York.^[5] but was living with two other women by 1850.^[6] Martha died on 9 September 1862 in Jericho, Long Island.^[7] Her death notice was published in the New York Times three days later.^[8] She was laid to rest in the Jericho Friends' Burial Grounds near her parents and beside her husband.^[9]

Research Notes

Martha, and her sister Elizabeth, may have lived with the Willet Robbins family in 1860.^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ 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 J 451; Volume 3.4; Page 9; ID 102155.
2. ↑ Frost, Josephine C. Quaker Records.Jericho, Long Island, N.Y. (Brooklyn, New York: self published, 191- AD), page 2, Royal Aldrich and Martha Hicks; Library of Congress (http://hdl.handle.net/2027/loc.ark:/13960/t88g8tv6c : accessed 10 September 2019).
3. ↑ Ancestry.com, database with images, "New York, Wills and Probate Records, 1659-1999" > Queens > Real Estate Wills, Vol F-G, 1827-1835 > Elias Hicks, Vol G, pgs 13-15, Last Will and Testament; "Wills and Probate Proceedings, 1787-1881," New York, Surrogate's Court (Queens County), Real Estate Wills, Vol F-G, 1827-1835. Ancestry Record 8800 #4509619 with attached Image; shared image of page 14 on which heirs are named.
4. ↑ Frost, page 11, Royal Aldrich, 28 3mo 1839, Jericho.
5. ↑ "United States Census, 1840," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XHT4-HM4 : 16 August 2017), Martha Aldrich, Oysterbay, Queens, New York, United States; citing p. 21, NARA microfilm publication M704, (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.), roll 330; FHL microfilm 17,203.
6. ↑ "United States Census, 1850," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC14-KLQ : 12 April 2016), Martha Aldridge, Oyster Bay, Queens, New York, United States; citing family 253, NARA microfilm publication M432 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.).
7. ↑ 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 J 451; Volume 3.1; Page 15; ID 102154.
8. ↑ "Died - HICKS," The New York Times, 12 September 1862, sec. Archives (https://www.nytimes.com/1862/09/12/archives/died.html : accessed 10 September 2019).

   HICKS. -- At Jericho, L.I., on Tuesday evening, Sept. 9, MARTHA ALDRICH, daughter of the late Elias Hicks, in the 92d year of her age.

9. ↑ Friends’ Intelligencer (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA: Friends’ Intelligencer Association, 1910), Volume LXVII (67), Number 53, page 800, column 1, paragraph 1.
10. ↑ "United States Census, 1860", database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MC4J-PH1 : 12 December 2017), Martha Aldrich in an entry for Willet Robbins, household 1556, page 217, Town of Oyster Bay, Queens, New York; U.S. National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), micropublication M653, roll 844.

See Also:

• Whitman, Walt, The village of Jericho, handwritten, ca 1865, includes notes about Martha Aldrich; "Catalog of the Walt Whitman Literary Manuscripts in The Charles E. Feinberg Collection of the Papers of Walt Whitman, 1839-1919, Library of Congress, Washington, DC. - The Walt Whitman Archive." (https://whitmanarchive.org/manuscripts/finding_aids/Library_of_Congress-Feinberg.html : accessed 10 September 2019).

• Unsourced, picture requested 8 Sep 2019 - Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 08 September 2019), memorial page for Martha Hicks Aldrich (20 Oct 1771–1862), Find A Grave: Memorial #24591610, citing Jericho Friends' Burial Ground, Jericho, Nassau County, New York, USA ; Maintained by Donna (contributor 46910450).
  • FindAGrave volunteer 50532870 Reported Problem to McGee-1611 20:12, 17 October 2020 (UTC): "I searched the entire cemetery and could not find the grave"