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Capt Lewis Hicks UE

Born 1751 in Province of New York

Son of [father unknown] and [mother unknown]

[sibling(s) unknown]

[spouse(s) unknown]

Father of Deborah (Hicks) Comer

Died [date unknown] in Ontario

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Biography

Lewis Hicks was born 1751 in Queens, NY, USA15, died in ON, Canada.

LEWIS HICKS, born ca. 1751, married Hannah ___. He was in Beekman during part of the Revolution and served in Col. James Vanderburgh’s regiment, but deserted, as noted following:

"DESERTED from the draughts of Col. James Vanderburgh's regiment, in Dutchess County, the following persons, LEWIS HICKS, five feet nine inches high, twenty seven years of age, brown hair and blue eyes, born in Queen’s County, Long Island, and resided in Oswego, Dutchess County; had on a blue coat, light coloured vest, linen trousers. [NYP 28 May 1778]

Lewis Hicks, late of Albany Co., NY filed a claim for losses 29 Sept. 1787 at Montreal. He stated he lived at Mashishe in ’83. Is a Native of America, lived at Saratoga. Joined Burgoyne and served till the end of the War in Major Jessup’s Regiment. He had a lease of 100 acres in Saratoga and the lease was for three lives, They had not gotten the lease but had gone on the land and cleared 8 acres. He had 2 cows, 2heifers, 6 hogs, furniture; all taken by the Rebels in 1777. Gilbert Storms was a witness and stated he knew Hicks’ farm. He had cleared 6 or 7 acres. He had 2 cows, etc.

Where Resettled : Con 4 Lots 14, 15 Ernestown

He married Hannah Storms

Children

Benjamin b. Dutchess, NY d. 9 Apr 1834 Ernestown m. Ann Lake;
Jemima b. 18 Aug 1772 Dutchess NY m. John Stover 28 Dec 1790 Ernestown; #Deborah b. abt 1774 Dutchess, NY - 14 May 1862 Ernestown m. Jacob Comer 28 Dec 1790;
Rachel b. 1786 Ernestown d. aft 185

Children:

i. Jemima, b. 1769; m. John Stover. She died 24 April 1855.

ii. Deborah, b. 1774; m. Jacob Connor who was born 1767. She died 14 May 1862.

iii. Benjamin; m. Ann Lake. He died 9 April 1834.

iv. James, bp. 10 Feb. 1789; m. Margaret Lake.

v. Rachel, bp. 10 Feb. 1793; m. Richard Perry of Ernestown.

vi. John, b. 1790, bp. 13 Nov. 1791; m. 1st Anna, dau. of James and Deborah (Cadman) Hogle. He married 2nd Elizabeth___ and he died 26 July 1832.

Genealogy of Stuart Evan Smith, detailed family chart, citing US Loyalist Links; Waller, "Sons and Daughters of American Loyalists"; Reid and Hicks Mss. at Queens University Archives, Kingston, Ontario, CN.