Samuel Hicks Jr. (abt. 1651 - abt. 1704)

Born about 1651 in Dartmouth, Bristol, Massachusetts [uncertain]

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Died about 1704 at about age 53 in Gloucester, Virginia [uncertain]

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Biography

Samuel Hicks was born in 1651 in Plymouth, Massachusetts, the son of Samuel Hicks and Lydia Doane.^{[citation needed]}

Samuel Hicks, the son, was reported to have married Ruth Haskins in 1678 in the city of Rochester, Massachusetts, located in Plymouth County. ^{[citation needed]}

In 1685, he was reported to own land in Dartmouth where his father spent his last years. ^{[citation needed]}

In 1688, he served as a witness to the administration of the estate of George Watson, his uncle and husband of his father’s sister, Phebe.^{[citation needed]}

Sometime later he apparently moved to Gloucester, Virginia, which began the family migration farther south.^{[citation needed]}

Ancestry.com family trees show Samuel (2) and Ruth were the parents of two sons: Samuel (3), b. 1680, d. 1772, m. Diana Willis; and Daniel, b. 1695.^{[citation needed]}

Sources

• Bluegrass Messengers.
• Indentures- transcripts of the records of the Plymouth Colony court located in the city of Plymouth, Massachusetts. Records are of the deeds for 1653-1657. Focus is on John and Alice Shaw, Thomas and Annis Savory, John Winslow, Philip Delano, John Churchill, Benajah Pratt, John Jourdaine, John Barnes, Samuel Hicks, Robert Bartlett, and William Harlow; continued from vol. IV, p. 86, to be continued.

Acknowledgements

• WikiTree profile Hicks-1666 created through the import of Nelson Family Tree.ged on Jun 6, 2011 by Gregory Nelson.