Hickling Name Study

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Hickling Name Study

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The goal of this project is to write a genealogy of the Hickling Family. There is none in print. They are an interesting family. And their story includes some very wealthy families and also a murder.

I'd like to welcome José Manuel Bela Morals of Lisbon, Portugal to the project. He is a direct descendant of Thomas Hickling. I am David T Robertson.

Here are some of the tasks that I think need to be done. I'll be working on them, and could use your help. I have a 32 page report on the Hickling Family of Boston and the Azores. Which includes Thomas Hickling the Vice Consul of Saint Michael, Azores, Portugal for the New United States of America. Appointed by George Washington. The line starts with his father William Hickling of Boston. This report is sourced but I could always use more sources. It is a very rich and interesting family.

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High Society in Boston and the Azores A Genealogy of the Thomas Hickling Family

The story of the Hickling Family of Boston and the Azores starts with a man who becomes influential in the development of both Boston and the Azores through hard work, good business sense and marriage to some of the most prominent families in Massachusetts. He and his children shaped the future of these areas in which they resided and the countries they represented and through commerce and development and nurtured cooperation between nations in the early days of our nation.

Despite their prominent position in the development of these two nations, no comprehensive history exists of this American Family. They have been often overshadowed by the Dabney Family, who in Thomas Jefferson’s presidency captured the consulship of the Azores. That loss of prestige and position would be regained in future years as these two families would intertwine as one through marriage.

One account of the Hickling’s is contained in Francis Millet Rogers, “Atlantic Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras.” ^[1]Mr. Rogers had previously published a portion of this work, including much of the information on the Hickling and Dabney families in a paper published in 1978 entitled “The Isolated – Boston Brahmans in the Azores.” Another account of the family can be found within the manuscript holdings of the New England Historic Genealogical Society in the papers of Alice F. Howland. ^[2]The Society also has another handwritten account of the family purchased in 1914, but this account is unpaged, undated and no author is attributed. A bible record of Births and Deaths, presumably written by Ann Hickling appears in the Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.^[3]As is true of most of the genealogies prepared in the mid to late 19th century, both the manuscript and the handwritten compilations are undocumented. There were two accounts of the family published in Portugal. Joāo Hickling Anglin, “Tomás Hickling” ^[4]and “Thomas Hickling,” Insulana. ^[5]Both of these articles emphasized the efforts of Thomas Hickling, The First Vice Consul to the Azores from the new country, The United States of America. But the real story of this families rise to power and prestige began the generation before with Thomas’ father.

1. William Hickling is the earliest member of this family who has been identified. He was a tailor and is known to have settled in Boston by 1730. It has been suggested that he was perhaps born in the town of Sutton Bonnington, St. Michael, Nottinghamshire, England 25 March 1704. ^[6]But Peter Wilson Coldham ^[7]states in his book that he was the William Hickling of Leicestershire that was a Midland Circuit prisoner reprieved 22 February 1692 to be transported to America. William was married 21 November 1734, by the Rev. Thomas Foxcroft of the First Unitarian Church of Boston, to Sarah Sale. ^[8]

Sarah Sale was the daughter of Captain John Sale and his wife Ann (Townsend) Sale of Boston and Chelsea and had been born in 1714. Sarah’s mother, Ann Townsend, had been born 10 November 1690,^[9]the daughter of Judge Penn Townsend, the Chief Justice, and his wife Sarah Addington. ^[10]Ann Townsend and John Sale were married 5 June 1712 in Boston.^[11]John Sale was a well-known innkeeper in Boston. He was the son of Obadiah and Sarah Sale and was born 23 July 1680. He was third sergeant of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston in 1714 and its ensign in 1719.

Judge Penn Townsend had been born in Boston, 20 December 1651, the son of William & Hannah (Penn) Townsend. He had been made freeman in 1674, was a member of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Boston and served as ensign, lieutenant and colonel of militia. He was a deputy to the General Court in 1686, the last year prior to the revocation of the charter of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and after the overthrow of Governor Andros, Penn was reestablished as a deputy every year for a considerable number, and became speaker of the House and Counsel for many years and was Chief Justice of the Superior Court for Suffolk County. He married first, Sarah Addington, the youngest daughter of Dr. Isaac Addington (the first) and his wife, Anne Leverett. Sarah Addington was born 11 February 1652.^[12]She died 11 March 1692, aged 39 and Penn married secondly, Mary (Leverett) Dudley, the daughter of Governor Thomas Leverett and the widow of Paul Dudley, the son of Governor Thomas Dudley, the Royal Governor of Massachusetts. Mary was buried 5 July 1699 ^[13]and Penn married thirdly, Hannah (Unknown) Jaffrey, widow of George Jaffrey, Esquire of New Hampshire, whom he married in 1709. Her maiden name has not yet been ascertained. Her will made 6 April 1736, proved 23 November 1736, mentions kinswomen Elizabeth and Lydia Watts, the latter of whom had lived with her many years and was then with her. Her friend James Pemberton, merchant, was appointed executor. ^[14]Penn died in Boston, 21 August 1727. ^[15]His widow died in the end of October and was buried 1 November 1736. ^[16]

Judge Townsend’s will, dated 10 August 1721 and witnessed by Jeremiah, Mary and James Allen, was proved 26 August 1727. [8] The estate of the Honorable Penn Townsend amounted to £6768.18.6. He was survived by his third wife Hannah (Unknown) Jaffrey and his two daughters by his first wife, Mrs. Sarah Thayer, wife of Ebenezer Thayer and Mrs. Ann Sale wife of John Sale and their husbands who became executors. Hannah was to get the use of the house, a place to live until her death and then the house would revert to the estate. The two daughters and their husbands could enjoy the residue of the estate until their deaths. Or in other words, any funds generated by the estate would be distributed between the two daughters and their husbands as long as they shall live. His daughters and their husbands were to ask the counsel of “their kinsman Addington Davenport Esquire,” in case they found it necessary to sell any of the real estate to settle his debts. Other legatees were his sister Hannah Way, Revd Mr. Benj. Wadsworth, the Revd Mr. Thomas Foxcroft, the widow of the late Revd Thomas Bridge, the poor of the church, etc. Penn left his entire estate to his grandchildren, and named two of them, Sarah Sale, then under age, and Penn Townsend Sale but the wording was such that if his daughters were to have other children, they too would receive a portion of the estate. He even made provision so that the daughters got as much as the sons. His daughters and their husbands were to jointly manage the estate and to receive the income from it. And were only allowed to sell that portion needed to pay bills.

Everything went according to plan. The executors did sell some property to generate cash which was spread over the four of them. There is no mention of the grandchildren receiving anything from the estate other than a place to live. But the grandchildren were not supposed to receive anything until the last of the executors had died. And that is how it lay in 1739. At that point they had gone along with the program for twelve years. Now, the only surviving executors, John Sale and his wife Ann, wished to sell the old house situated at the corner of Beacon and Tremont Streets, which Penn had inherited from his uncle, Elder Penn and the Townsend farm in Chelsea. I might add that this Boston house was where Sarah Sale grew up with her grandfather. She, and her husband William Hickling, objected to the sale. By that date, Sarah was the last of the surviving grandchildren. The executors had no more children and Penn Townsend Sale had died leaving only Sarah (Sale) Hickling. So, she saw the estate as hers eventually. So, she and her husband objected, and the Probate Court upheld their objection. This displeased the executors, especially John Sale, who put the matter into the hands of the Governor and Council who were the applet court of its day. [9]And there is sat for 24 years. The law was defiantly on the side of William & Sarah Hickling, and the Governor did not want to pit father against daughter so a compromise was reached between the two parties, that left William and Sarah Hickling as very wealthy people.

Both Mrs. Sarah Thayer and her sister Mrs. Ann Sale, had received £10 each, by the will of their uncle Judge Addington. [10]Eben Thayer, John Sale and their wives, executors of the estate of Penn Townsend, sold 25 August 1729, a parcel to John Ruston and his wife, for £825. On 3 July 1734 they sold a messuage or tenement with land situated in the south end of Boston, fronting on Marlborough Street, for £1,070 to Sylvester Gardiner.

William and Sarah (Sale) Hickling objected to this additional sale. They forced John Sale to make improvements on the property prior to its sale to increase the value of the property, and to share with them the greater part of the profits. [11]Following this settlement of the case the heirs of the Townsend estate sold the property to Samuel Sturgis 12 November 1753. [12]The proceeds of this sale gave William and Sarah capitol in which to invest in other ventures and Boston Real Estate. He became an accomplished merchant and trader in Boston. William was already a noted distiller in Boston. He joined the Old South Church 17 January 1730.[13]

William Hickling was active in establishing new churches in Boston. On 20 January 1762, he was one of the signers of a petition concerning the formation of a religious society. [14] A small brick church had been erected on School Street in Boston for the use of French Protestants of the “Reformed Religion” in 1716. The minister died before it was completed and for some years it was unoccupied until 1784 when Stephen Boutneau, the only surviving Elder, Andrew Le Mercier Clerk, Minister of the Church, Zachariah Johonnot, John Arnault, John Brown, Andrew Johonnot, James Packenett, William Bowdoin, and Andrew Sigourney, proprietors of said Church, made over their right and interest to Thomas Fillebrown, James Davenport, Wm. Hickling, Nathl. Proctor, and Thomas Handyside Peck, Trustees for the new Congregational Church, whereof Mr. Andrew Croswell was to be Pastor, for the sum of £3000, in good bills of public credit of the old tenor, for the sole use of a Protestant Church from henceforth and forevermore.[15]

Sarah Sale, the daughter of John and Sarah Sale died the 12th day of the 10th month of 1756 in Chelsea, Massachusetts. [16]William Hickling died 10 December 1774 in Boston.[17]

The children of William Hickling and Sarah Sale are: (* means family continued)

2. Penn Townsend Hickling Penn Townsend Hickling was the first child of William Hickling and his wife Sarah Sale, born 5 November 1735 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[17][18]

The ship sunk and the Captain and all the crew perished except one passenger on 10 January 1753. Penn was aged “17 years, 2 months, and 5 days old.”^[19]

3.*Anna Townsend Hickling was the second child, and first girl, of William Hickling and his wife Sarah Sale. She was born 5 January 1737 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. ^{[20] [21]}She was the writer of the Hickling Bible and recorded events as late as 1787.^[22]

4. Sarah Hickling was born 19 September 1739 in Boston. She died Friday, 22 June 1750, at four of the Clock in the morning after 5 days Illness of Pleurisy fever Aged 11 years 9 months & 3 Days.^[23]

5.*Susannah Hickling was born 6 February 1740 in Boston. She married 14 April 1763 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Lemuel Cox. Susan Cox died 5 July 1813 probably in Boston, aged 73, and was buried in Granary Burying Ground.

6.* William Hickling was born 21 May 1742 in Boston.^[24]He was the son of William Hickling and Sarah Sale.

7. John Hickling was born 14 August 1743 in Boston.^[25]He was the son of William Hickling and Sarah Sale. John was baptized 14 August 1743 at the Church in Brattle Square known as the Manifesto Church^[26]"John died on board Captain Ozier's ship coming from Newfoundland nine days before he arrived" in 1772, aged 29 years.^[27]

8.* Thomas Hickling was born 21 February 1744 in Boston.^[28]

9. *Mary Hickling was born 8 February 1746 in Boston.^[29]

10. Ephraim Hickling was born 7 August 1748 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[30]He died without a wife or children in 1775.^[31]On 8 September 1786, his estate was administered by his brother William Hickling, gentleman.^[32]

11. Sarah Hickling was born 11 August 1751 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[33]She was lost at sea in 1775, aged 27 years, on a voyage from South Carolina to Philadelphia.^[34]

12. *Rebecca Cline Oliver Hickling (also known as Rebekah) born 4 December 1752 in Boston. She married Ezekiel Decoster (or Ezra), they submitting their intentions 11 November 1787 in Boston.

3. Anna Townsend Hickling was the second child, and first girl, of William Hickling and his wife Sarah Sale. She was born 5 January 1737 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. ^{[35] [36]}She was the writer of the Hickling Bible and recorded events as late as 1787.^[37]

She is said to have married Jesse Cox. Ancestry,com says that Anna married Jesse Cox of Dorchester, but supplies no date or record. Jesse is not mentioned in the Howland Mss. Nowhere in any database have I found the marriage of Anna Townsend Hickling and her death is unknown, although we still know she is alive by the dates of the entries in the Hickling Bible. It is curious that she did not add the names and birth dates of her own children. Yet, Ann, the wife of Jessie Cox is credited with the births of six children all born in Boston, all recorded as the children of Jesse and Ann Cox.

Never-the-less, I believe this marriage took place.^[38]Jessie was the son of William Cox and his wife Thankful Maudsley and the brother of Lemuel Cox who married Anna’s sister Susannah Hickling. Lemuel and Jessie is the last person mentioned, in that line, in the Cox Genealogy. He was born 2 November 1734 in Massachusetts.^[39]Ann, the wife of Jessie Cox is credited with the births of six children all born in Boston, all recorded as the children of Jesse and Ann Cox. In 1810, there is a Jesse Cox living in Boston, ward 2, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[40] His death is unknown.

He is not the Jessie Cox buried in Granary Burial Ground in Boston who died 9 August 1814. The inscription says 48 yrs which would make him born 1766, closer to the ages of our Jessie's children.^[41]

The children of Jessie Cox and Anna Townsend Hickling probably are:

13. Sally Cox born 9 December 1762 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[42]She was the daughter of Jessie Cox and Anna Townsend Hickling. There are several possibilities for husbands.

14 Jonathan French Cox

15. Thankful Cox born 10 July 1765 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[43]She was the daughter of Jesse Cox and his wife Anna Townsend Hickling Thankfull married Jacob Whittermore 19 January 1786 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[44]He was called Jacob Whitemore when he was born 20 August 1766 in Chelsea, Suffolk, Massachusetts the son of Abraham Whitemore and his wife Hannah Whitemore.^[45] Jacob died 23 May 1801 in New York, United States.^[46]

16. Ann Cox born 4 November 1767 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[47]Many possibilities for a husband.

.17. Mary Cox born 4 November 1768 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[48]

17. Jesse Mosely Cox born 5 February 1772 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^{[49] [50]}

18. Margaret Cox born 1 February 1774 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[51]

5. Susannah Hickling was born 6 February 1740 in Boston. ^[52]

She married 14 April 1763 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts Lemuel Cox. (Also called Samuel).^[53]Lemuel waa born 1736 in Dorchester, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He was the son of William Cox and Thankful Maudsley.

Susan Cox died 5 July 1813 probably in Boston, aged 73, and was buried in Granary Burying Ground. ^[54]

Lemuel Cox was born 1736 in Lynn, Essex, Massachusetts. Based on the location of his parents when he was born. Cox, Rev. Henry Miller A.M. "The Cox Family in America", New York 1912 From Archive.org: https://archive.org/stream/TheCoxFamilyInAmerica_201304/The%20Cox%20Family%20in%20America#page/n15/mode/2up pg. 68</ref>He was the son of William Cox and his wife Thankful Maudsley.^[55]Lemuel was also the brother of Jesse Cox who married Susannah (Hickling) Cox, the sister of Anna (Hickling) Cox who married Jesse Cox, Lemuel's brother. Lemuel was probably the same as the person of that name sometimes referred to as an eminent English engineer, appointed 20 March 1788, to build the Essex Bridge at Salem, Massachusetts. He began the work but soon got into trouble with the directors and was discharged 19 July. He was probably a British sympathizer and may have lived in England for a time.^[56]

We know that Lemuel was living in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts in 1777 when his daughter Sally Hickling Cox was born.^[57]

It appears that Lemuel Cox moved to Portland, Cumberland, Maine by 1790. He had six persons in his family.^[58]

The known children of Lemuel Cox and his wife Susannah Hickling are:

19. Eliza Barney Cox was the daughter of Lemuel Cox and Susanna Hickling. She was born about 1771. She married George Dudley 7 January 1795 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[59]

 

Eliza died 2 October 1860 according to one Massachusetts record. A Connecticut Record says she died 1 April 1890 in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut. The Connecticut record would make her age 119 while the Massachusetts record makes her a more reasonable 89 years old. One death record does not give the town of death, just Massachusetts. (I believe that the use of the name Samuel rather than Lemuel was a mistake. But, it appears in both Massachusetts Records and the Connecticut Record. She does give her mother's name.)^[60][61]

The Connecticut record gives us her middle name and I presume that she was living in Portland, Middlesex, Connecticut when she died. But she was probably buried in Boston.

The Massachusetts records give a different date of death for Eliza B. Cox Dudley giving the date 2 October 1860. But in this record the Event Place and the Residence are given and both are Charlestown, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She is Widowed and still says her father is Samuel Cox and was born in Malden, Massachusetts and her mother, Susanna was born in Boston, Massachusetts.^[62]

20. Sally Hickling Cox was the daughter of Lemuel Cox and his wife Susannah Hickling. She was christened 15 December 1777 in Andover, Essex, Massachusetts.^[63][64]

21. Jonathan French Cox

22. Harriet Ann T. Cox born about 1784 in Massachusetts. She was the daughter of Lemuel Cox and his wife Susannah Hickling Harriet married Isaiah Lewis. Harriet died 9 February 1861 in Massachusetts.^[65]

6. William Hickling was born 21 May 1742 in Boston.^[66]He married Elizabeth Hudson.^[67]She was born 30 July 1749 in Marblehead, Essex, Massachusetts. She was the daughter of John and Sarah Hudson.The marriage took place sometime before 1765. It was this William and not his father that served in the American Revolution. He was paymaster of Colonel John Brooks Regiment in the Continental Army from 1 January 1777. He is known to have been in camp at Stillwater, New York in 15 August 1777, following General Burgoyne's defeat. William continued to serve until 1 October 1778.^[68]

On 16 November 1790, Elizabeth Hickling, widow; Bill Nose, Gentleman; and William Hickling, mast maker, all of Boston petitioned that Elizabeth be appointed executrix of the estate of her husband, William Hickling, distiller of Boston and submitted his will to the court, It reads: I, William Hickling, distiller of Boston, bequeath to my dear beloved wife, Elizabeth, all my real and personal estate after the payment of my just debts, for her use during her life, while she remains unmarried. Should she remarry, then she is allowed the income of one third of my real and personal estate, the remaining two thirds to be placed in trust until my youngest child shall arrive at lawful age. The interest arising from my estate to remain to their mother until her death and afterwards divided amongst my four children in equal portion. Signed 1 January 1783.^[69]

His inventory was valued at £413.17.8 and included a house and land in New Gloucester and land in West Boston and a pew in the First Baptist Meeting House in Boston.

Mrs. Elizabeth Hickling was born about 1742. She died 28 December 1827 in Duxbury, Massachusetts aged 85. Her death was reported in the Columbian Centinel 9 January 1828.^[70]

The children of William Hickling and Elizabeth Hudson are:

21. William Hickling's death, aged 29, in Boston, was reported in the Boston newspaper on 13 September 1794. (Making his birth about 1765).^[71]

22. Elizabeth Parker Hickling was the daughter of William Hickling and Elizabeth Hudson. She was married, 5 August 1792, by Rev. Samuel Parker of Trinity Episcopal Church of Boston, to Gamaliel Bradford of Duxbury, Massachusetts.^[72]

23. Sarah Bradford Hickling (also known as Sally). She was the daughter of William Hickling and Elizabeth Hudson. Sarah was born 17 March 1772 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[73] Sally married Gersham Bradford 3 October 1802 in Boston.^[74]He was the son of Col. Gamaliel Bradford and his wife Sarah Alden. Gersham was born 3 February 1774 in Duxbury, he died 8 August 1844 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts.^[75]Sarah died 10 October 1851 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts^[76]

24. Charlotte Hickling was born about 1782. She was married 12 December 1802 in Boston, to James Ellison.^[77]

8. Thomas Hickling was born 21 February 1744 in Boston.^[78]He married first, 16 August 1764 in Boston, Sarah Greene the daughter of Rufus Greene a merchant of Boston, and his wife Katharine Stanbridge.^[79](sometimes Green) in what appears to have been an arranged marriage. Sarah was born 7 December 1743 in Boston.^[80]The family story that she was 15 years his senior is not backed up by the records. Sarah was no more than 15 months his senior. Young Thomas Hickling was a clerk in Rufus’ employ.^[81] Sarah died 23 May 1773 in Boston.^[82]

Thomas was a strong supporter of the American Revolution movement. His father, William Hickling was a devote loyalists. The two men clashed over their beliefs His father feared that his son would be imprisoned. William feared that his son "might get the whole family into trouble" with his political leanings and sent Thomas to San Miguel. At his father's insistence Thomas went to the Azores on what was stated to be a trade mission for his father's trading business. He left his wife and children behind. Little was it realized then that he would never return. At the age of 25, he left Boston in 1769. Nearly a year before the Boston Massacre in 1770 and four years before the Boston Tea Party in 1773, six years before the battle of Concord and Lexington in 1775 and five years before his father'd death in 1774.

Shortly after his arrival in the Azores, Thomas perceived the commercial opportunists to enterprising merchants on St. Michael and he moved to Ponta Delgada. He entered into a partnership with a member of an English family, the Anglins. Thomas Senor proved to be anything but an embarrassment to his family and indeed ended up on the winning side of the American colonies' bid for independence. He introduced the cultivation of orange trees to Sáo Miguel after the American Revolution and initially thrived as a merchant. Oranges soon became the island's mainstay export with some seventy thousand boxes dispatched during the 1830s.^[83]

In 1770, Thomas Senior visited the Vale das Furnas on nearby Pico Island where the volcanism of the Azores is manifested in the form of caves, cauldrons, and hot springs of iron and sulfur. Thomas was so taken with the natural beauty of the area that he built a summer residence there, called variously Yankee Hall or Tanque, near the hot springs known as "the baths." This started the wealthy, such that "all the nobs of the island must and do pass a month there yearly".^[84]

Immediately upon hearing his wife's death in 1774, he married again. His second wife was fifteen years his junior. She was Sarah Faulder born in 1760 and had come from Philadelphia on her father's ship. Her mother had become ill, and she and her daughter had stayed behind expecting to be picked up on her husband's return trip. Her husband's ship sank with the loss of the whole crew, and never returned. Her daughter was love struck upon meeting Thomas. They were married 5 February 1774. Sarah died 13 May 1849 in Sáo Miguel.

LETTER FROM THOMAS HICKLING TO PRESIDENT GEORGE WASHINGTON

Thomas Hickling St. Michaels Jany 10th 1790

To His Excellency George Washington Esquire President of the United States of America, The memorial of Thomas Hickling of the Island of Saint Michaels one of the Azores or Western Islands Merchant, Humbly Sheweth.

That your memorialist is a native of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay, but had resided for several Years past in the Island of St Michael aforesaid, That upon the acknowledgment of the Independence of the United States by her Majesty the Queen of Portugal, your memorialist being the only subject of the said States residing in the said Islands, applied to the Chief Judge of her faithful Majesty to be appointed Consul for the protection of American Trade to the Western Islands aforesaid who was pleased, by virtue of the power invested with him by his Court, to nominate your memorialist to act that Capacity until the pleasure of the United States could be known.1.

Your memorialist begs leave further to represent that he had acted in that Character for several years past, during which time He flatters himself that he has conducted so as to give general satisfaction, but your memorialist hath not yet received a Commission from the United States and is advised that an application therefor must be made to your Excellency.

When your Excellency takes into consideration the increasing commerce between the United States & the Western Islands, & Your memorialist doubts not your Excellency will judge it for the trading interest of the States over which you preside to establish a Consul at Saint Michaels. And as your memorialist is a natural born subject of America to whose interest he hath ever been attached, & is well versed in the Portuguese language and in their laws & Customs so far as they respect trade, he humbly takes the liberty of requesting your Excellency to do him the honor to nominate him to the Office of Consul-for the Islands aforesaid.2. And your memorialist will ever pray &ca.

1. Enclosed in Thomas Hickling’s letter was an undated petition to the Portuguese authorities requesting he be named United States Consul on St. Michael and a commission from John Da Costa, chief judge of the Island, making the appointments in June 1790. On his list of candidates for various Consular posts was Thomas.

2. Hickling was still a candidate for the post at St. Michaels when the administration considered consular appointments in June 1790. On his list of candidates for various consular posts Thomas Jefferson noted that “Thomas Hickling of Boston, asks for the consularship of the Azores or Western Islands. He sets forth that he has resided several years at St. Michael’s, is well versed in the Portuguese language and in their laws and customs respecting trade; that on the acknowledgement of our Independence, he being the only American residing in those Islands, was appointed by the Chief Judge Consul for the protection of our commerce to the Western Islands in which he has acted since 1783. Mr. [Robert] Yates of New York says that Hickling is a respectable man of property, and that he has long corresponded with him.

Thomas was duly rewarded for his support of the revolution by being made the first U.S. diplomatic representative at the rank of U.S. Vice consul on Sáo Miguel in 1776. He prospered, built three magnificent homes on the island, had sixteen children by his second wife including two sets of twins, and lived to the age of ninety-three. His home was located in the parish of Sao Pedro (St. Peter) toward the eastern end of Ponta Delgada at the water’s edge. “Qu. if this appointment might not be left in its present state till some good native can be found who will settle in Angra which is central to all these Islands” In August 1790 John Street was appointed vice-consul for the Azores.^[85]

Thomas died a widower, 10 October 1875 in Sáo Miguel, aged 93 years.

The children of Thomas Hickling by his first wife Sarah Green were:

27.* William Hickling was born 14 January 1765 in Boston and was buried 11 January 1825, aged 57 years (sic) in Tomb 197 in the Granary Burial Ground in Boston.

28.* Catherine Green Hickling was born in 1767 in Boston. She died in 1852. Catherine married Judge William Prescott of Salem by Rev. Samuel Parker, 18 December 1793 in Boston.^[86]William Prescott was born 19 August 1762 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 8 December 1844 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.

The children of Thomas Hickling by his second wife Sarah (Faulder) Hickling were:

29. Mary Hickling was born 4 November 1779 on Sán Migual, Azores.^[87]She married John Anglin of Cork, Ireland.^[88]Mary died in St. Michael 16 November 1805, aged 27 years.^[89]They had one son, John Anglin.^[90]

30. *Thomas Hickling Junior was born 5 November 1782 on Sán Migual, Azores.^[91]He died 10 October 1875 aged 93 years.^[92]

31.* Elizabeth Flora Hickling was born 5 September 1783 a twin, and died 1832.^[93]She married, as his first wife, William Ivens. He married secondly, her sister Mary Hickling. (See below.)

32.*Sarah Clarissa Hickling, a twin born 5 September 1783 on Sáo Migual, Azores.^[94]She married William Shelton Burnett.^[95]

33.*Ann Joaquina Hickling born 4 August 1785 on Sáo Migual, Azores. She died 1824.^[96]

34.Charlotte Sophia Hickling born 13 April 1787 on Sáo Migual Azores.^[97]She died 14 March 1877 nearly ninty years old.^[98]She married Jacinto Soares de Albergaria. They left issue: Joao Soares, Thomas Soares, Francisca Soares, Joaquime Soares, and Maria Soares.^[99]

35. John Hickling born 18 June 1788 on Sáo Migual, Azores. He died 1795 on Sāo Migual.^[100].

36. Frances Hickling, a twin, born 27 December 1789 on Sáo Migual, Azores.^[101]She died in 1863.^[102]She married in 1813, Joaquim Antonio de Paula Meideiros of Sáo Migual.

37. Mary Ann Hickling, a twin, born 27 December 1789 on Sáo Migual, Azores.^[103]She died in 1799.^[104]

38. Frederick Hickling born 1 October 1791 on Sáo Migual, Azores.^[105]He died in 1794 on Sáo Migual, Azores.^[106]

39. Harriet Fredericka Hickling was born 22 March 1793 and died 10 October 1853 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[107]She married 16 March 1818 in Porta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores to John White Webster. This marriage was reported in a Boston newspaper.^[108]

40. [Hickling-|John Hickling was born 18 June 1795 on Sāo Migual, Azores.

41.* Amelia Clementina Hickling was born 7 August 1796.^[109]She died in 18 October 1872.^[110]

42, Samuel Weddle Hickling was born 13 August 1798 in Sáo Migual, Azores.^[111]He died in 1799.^[112]

43.* Mary Ann Hickling was born 12 October 1800 in Sáo Migual, Azores.^[113]She married, as his second wife, William Ivens. His first wife was Mary's sister, Elizabeth Flora Hickling. (See above.). Mary and William lived in Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores. Mary died 18 February 1888.^[114]

44.William Anglin Hickling was born 13 August 1803 in Sáo Migual, Azores.^[115]

9. Mary Hickling was born 8 February 1746 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[116]

William Burton was the son of James Burton and Jane Burton, He was born in Boston and was baptized 12 September 1762 in Christ’s Church in Boston.^[117]

William was married 3 December 1772 by Mr. Walter of Trinity Church in Boston, Massachusetts, to Mary Hickling the daughter of William Hickling and his wife Sarah Sale.^[118]

William Burton was a merchant in Boston.^[119]In 1765, William filed as Plaintiff in Suffolk County Court of Common Pleas against Belthazar Bayard, yeoman of Roxbury, for damages.^[120]William Burton was a merchant in Boston with a business on the Town Dock in 1774 and was described as “an Addresser and Protestor.”^[121]The next record will give us a better understanding. On 8 September 1774, Capt. John Gore, Mr. Henry Leddle, Mr. Edward Cox, Mr. Jas. Asby, William Burton, Mr. Wm. McAlpine and Mr. Wilson are expelled from the Fire-Societies to which they respectfully belong for signing the Address to the late Governor Hutchinson.^[122]This group of men were talking against the rising tide of Revolution, When the Royal Governor was unceremoniously put on a ship and sent back to England. These men had signed a letter to his majesty expressing their loyalty to the Crown and gave the letter to the Governor Their only crime was that they wished to remain loyal to the Crown.^[123]

Boston, in that day, was a city under seige. The British solders could not get out of the city and the revolutionaries could not get in. General George Washington came up with a brilliant plan to force the British out of Boston. In the night he had his men build barricades and defensive positions on top of a hill over looking Boston, This hill, known as Dorchester Heights, put Washington's cannons in a position where they could fire on the British ships in the Harbor. Their defenses were so strong that the British Commander knew his men would be slaughtered if they attacked the hill. So, he accepted Washington's offer not to fire on the ships if his soldiers got on those ships and leave Boston. For three days they loaded those ships and prepared to leave Boston. The loyalists in Boston knew that things were going to get worse for them when the British left so they asked for permission to come with the soldiers and were allowed to. On the morning of 17 Mar,ch 1776 the British and their ships left Boston. Not a shot was fired but Washington won one of the biggest battles of the War.

The Burtons, William and Mary, left Boston aboard the British Ships. They had two children in Boston. A daughter named Marion was born in Boston, and baptized 5 December 1773 in the Brattle Square Church in Boston.^[124]And a son named William born in Boston, and baptized 6 October 1775 in the Brattle Square Church.,^[125]The son William had died on Sunday September 3d 1775 and was buried on the Tuesday following.^[126]The Burtons knew their daughter would be safe with relatives.

The loyalist on the ships were brought to Nova Scotia.^[127]But the town of Boston was not satisfied that they left the city. The estates of Loyalists were sold under an Act passed April 30, 1779, entailed "An Act to confiscate the estates of certain notorious Conspirators against the Government and liberties of the inhabitants of the late Province, now State, of Massachusetts Bay"^[128]These estates are one hundred and fifty-nine in number, and they belong to forty-nine different owners.</ref>The Confiscated Estates of Boston Loyalists by John T. Hassam, A.M., Cambridge; John Wilsson And Son University Press 1895. pg. 5.</ref>William and Mary were among those Loyalists that were proscribed and banished.^[129]The Suffolk County Probate Court has a list of the names of absentee’s, on that list is Burton, William 1779 Docket number 17462.^[130].

William Burton was buried in 1817, in the Old Burial Ground, Halifax, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Plot 2C 1130.^[131] The children of William Burton and Mary Hickling were:

45. Marion Burton was born on Sunday November 28, 1773 in Boston, and was baptized December 5, 1773 in the Brattle Square Church in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[132]

46. William Burton was born 1 June 1775 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. He died 3 Sep 1775 in Boston.

12. Rebecca Cline Oliver Hickling (Rebekah) was born 4 December 1752 in Boston.^[133]Rebecca was married 11 November 1787 to Ezekial Decosta (or Ezra).^[134]Ezekiel was born 39 June 1725 in Boston, the son of John Decoster and his wife Elizabeth.^[135]Rebecca was Ezekial's second wife. His first wife was Mary Parry whom he married 15 March 1743 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[136] In 1810, Ezekiel was seen living in Charlestown, then Middlesex, Massachusetts with a household of two persons.^[137]And he still had a family of two in 1820.^[138]He died 26 August 1821 in Boston, and was buried in Granary Burying Ground in Boston.^[139]

23. William Hickling born 14 January 1765 in Boston and was buried 11 January 1825, aged 57 years (sic) in Tomb 197 in Granary Burying Ground in Boston.^[140]The inscription on this tomb reads: “This tomb is the property of Elizabeth Hickling and Mary Hooton heirs of Deacon John Lee.” Elizabeth Hickling who owned this tomb was probably his aunt by marriage, Elizabeth (Hudson) Hickling, the wife of his Uncle William. Mary Hooton died 21 October 1828, aged 78, and was buried in the same tomb. Deacon John Lee was the father of Elizabeth (Hudson) Hickling's mother or in other words Elizabeth grandfather.

William Hickling was married 17 April 1796, by Rev. John Clarke of the First Unitarian Church of Boston. His wife was Sarah Bradford.^[141]She had been born 24 February 1768 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts, the daughter of Gamaliel Bradford and his wife Sarah Alden of Duxbury.^[142]He is probably the William Hickling, mast maker, who joined with Elizabeth (Hudson) Hickling and Bill Nose, Gentleman, in petitioning the courts to accept Elizabeth as executor of her late husband’s estate in 1790.^[143]

On 26 January 1807, George Blanchard, Gentleman; David Tilden, Merchant; and Gamaliel Bradford, Merchant, all of Boston, placed a $30,000 bond asking that George Blanchard be made guardian of William Hickling of Boston who has been adjudged by the inquisition of the selectmen of the town of Boston to be non-compos mentis and incapable of taking care of himself. Gamaliel Bradford is described as “a friend” of William Hickling of Boston, Mast Maker.^[144]

Their accounts from 1808 to 1820 include mention of Sarah Hickling (William’s wife) and also Elizabeth Hickling and says they own a pew in the First Church (Unitarian) of Boston.in a household of eight people.^[145]

In 1810, William Hickling is seen living in South Court, Boston, ward 11, Suffolk County, Massachusetts. He had eight people in his household.^[146]

On 24 April 1820, George Blanchard petitions the court asking that since William Hickling Jr., the son of William Hickling who is non-compos, has arrived at full age, that the guardianship be turned over to him. This was accompanied by the petition of William Hickling Jun, Mariner, Alden Bradford, Esquire both of Boston and Gamaliel Bradford, merchant of Charlestown also asking for the appointment. An inventory was taken at that time and included a house on Gibbs Lane, Fort Hill; an estate in South Court and a pew in the First Church on Chauncy Place and one house and land in Pembroke, Plymouth County.^[147]

On November 1821, Charles Hickling, merchant was appointed guardian of William and another inventory was taken which mentioned a three story wooden house on Gibbs Lane; another three story wooden house on South Street Court and a house and land in Pembroke, Plymouth County and a pew no. 112 in First Church. This appointment leads us to wonder if William Jr. died. On 16 December 1822, William was deemed to have returned to a sound mind and the guardianship dismissed.^[148]

His sanity was short lived, for he died by 17 January 1825 on which date his widow Sarah Hickling declined administration of the estate of William Hickling of Boston in favor of Charles Hickling, merchant of Boston. The inventory of the estate of William Hickling includes an estate on South Street Court; an estate in Pembroke, in Plymouth County, pew no. 112 in first Church. The estate totaled $7231.74.^[149]

The children of William Hickling and Sarah (Bradford) Hickling were:

57. William Hickling. He was a mariner and reached the age of majority by 1820 suggesting he was born about 1799. He was replaced as guardian of his father in 1821, suggesting he had died by that date.

58. *Charles Hickling was a merchant. He was born about 21 December 1799 (based on his age at death). He died 9 June 1888 at his home at 2512 Washington Street, Boston.^[150]

59. *Sarah Hickling was born 15 February 1802 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She married John A Webber 5 February 1821 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and again 20 March 1821 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. John was born in 1799. He was the son of Samuel Webber and his wife Rebecca Smith. John died 6 May 1855 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts. Sarah died 6 December 1885 in Cambridge.

22. Elizabeth Parker Hickling was the daughter of William Hickling and Elizabeth Hudson. She was married, 5 August 1792, by Rev. Samuel Parker of Trinity Episcopal Church of Boston, to Gamaliel Bradford of Duxbury, Massachusetts.^[151]He was the son of Colonel Gamaliel Bradford and his first wife Sarah Alden and the brother of Sarah Bradford who married William Hickling. (17). The younger Gamaliel was born November 1763 in Duxbury. He served with his father in the Army of the Revolution, and had a lieutenant’s commission at the age of 17. Elizabeth died in 1817.

The children of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford are:

60. * Sarah Alden Bradford is the daughter of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford. She was born 31 June 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She married Rev. Samuel Ripley. He was born 1783. Samuel died 1847. Sarah died in 26 July 1867 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

61. Elizabeth Bradford born 9 October 1794. She died 31 March 1796.

62. Dr. Gamaliel Bradford was the son of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford . He was born 27 November 1795. He married Sophia Rice and he died 22 October 1839.

63. Daniel N. Bradford was the son of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford . He was born 15 September 1797. He went to Kentucky and died in Mississippi 3 October 1821.

64. Martha Tilden (Bradford) Bartlett was the daughter of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford . She was born 27 April 1799 in Boston, Suffolk, MAssachusetts. She died 17 June 1860 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts. She married Josiah Bartlett. He was the son of Josiah S. Bartlett and Elizabeth Call and was born 20 Nov 1796 in Charlestown. He died 5 January 1878 in Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts.

65. Margaret Stevenson (Bradford) Ames was the daughter of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford . She was born 19 April 1805 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She died 17 Oct 1847 in Lowell, Middlesex Massachusetts. She married Seth Ames Oct 1831. He was born 19 April 1805 in Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts. He died 15 Aug 1881.

66. George Partridge Bradford was the son of Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford . He was born 16 Feb 1807. He died 26 Jan 1890.

67. [[Bradford-1548|Hannah Rogers (Bradford) Fiske was the daughter of [[Hickling-7|Elizabeth Parker Hickling and Gamaliel Bradford. She was born 7 July 1810. She married Augustus Henry Fiske the son of Isaac Fiske and Susan Hobbs. He was born 19 September 1805 in Weston, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 22 March 1865 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts. ^{[152] [153] [154] [155] [156] [157] [158] [159]}

29. Catherine Green Hickling was born in 1767 in Boston. She died in 17 May 1852 in Boston aged 84.^[160]Catherine married The Honorable William Prescott of Salem by Rev. Samuel Parker, 18 December 1793 in Boston.^[161]William Prescott was born 19 August 1762 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 8 December 1844 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.^[162]William was the son of Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill fame.

William Prescott taught for some time at Beverly to enable him to prosecute his legal studies, and it was in Beverly he began the practice of law. He soon rose to distinction in the profession in which his talents, integrity, and his industry gained him a high rank. In 1828, he retired from the bar, after more than forty years of service.^[163]

In 1850, Catherine S. Prescott (probably misnamed by the transcriber) Aged 83, born 1767 in Massachusetts, was living in Boston, ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She was female, and the family no. was 18. Living with her was: Wm H Prescott age 53 as head of household, Susan Prescott age 47 his wife, Wm G Prescott age 24 his son, Wm W Prescott age 21 his son, Elizabeth Prescott age 22 his daughter, Catherine S. Prescott age 83 his mother Catherine Green Hickling was born in 1767 in Boston. She died in 17 May 1852 in Boston aged 84.^[164]Catherine married The Honorable William Prescott of Salem by Rev. Samuel Parker, 18 December 1793 in Boston.^[165]William Prescott was born 19 August 1762 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 8 December 1844 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.^[166]William was the son of Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill fame.

William Prescott taught for some time at Beverly to enable him to prosecute his legal studies, and it was in Beverly he began the practice of law. He soon rose to distinction in the profession in which his talents, integrity, and his industry gained him a high rank. In 1828, he retired from the bar, after more than forty years of service.^[167]

In 1850, Catherine S. Prescott (probably misnamed by the transcriber) Aged 83, born 1767 in Massachusetts, was living in Boston, ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts. She was female, and the family no. was 18. Living with her was: Wm H Prescott age 53 as head of household, Susan Prescott age 47 his wife, Wm G Prescott age 24 his son, Wm W Prescott age 21 his son, Elizabeth Prescott age 22 his daughter, Catherine S. Prescott age 83 his mother. Catherine Green Hickling was born in 1767 in Boston. She died in 17 May 1852 in Boston aged 84.^[168]Catherine married The Honorable William Prescott of Salem by Rev. Samuel Parker, 18 December 1793 in Boston.^[169]William Prescott was born 19 August 1762 in Pepperell, Middlesex, Massachusetts. He died 8 December 1844 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts and was buried in Mount Auburn Cemetery.^[170]William was the son of Colonel William Prescott of Bunker Hill fame.

The children of Catherine Green Hickling and Judge William Prescott were:

67. Ruben Prescott born about 1773. The Prescott Memorial states that of the seven children had by William and Catherine four died within a year of their birth. Surely Reuben must be one of those four. No birth or death record exists for him. Catherine waited 23 years before having her second child.

68. William Hickling Prescott born 4 May 1796 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.^[171] He died 28 January 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[172] He graduated from Harvard College in 1814. He was the author of four monumental books on Spain, Mexico and Peru. He was the author of four monumental books “The life of C. B. Brown,” 1834, “History of Ferdinand and Isabella” 1838, “The Conquest of Mexico” 1843, “The Conquest of Peru” 1847.^[173]

While at Harvard an accident deprived him of the use of one eye and the other was so injured he could make but partial use of it. And yet his courage and undaunted resolution enabled him to vanquish his difficulties and establish for himself the a brilliant reputation as one of the most brilliant historical writers.

On Mr. Prescott's 24th birthday, being the 4th of May 1820 he was married to Miss Susan Amory the daughter of Thomas C. Amory, Esquire a successful merchant of Boston who had died in 1812 and of Hannah R. Linzee. Susan had been born 1802. And she died 18 October 1869 in Massachusetts.^[174]

He spent six months with his grandfather Thomas Hickling, from 1815-1816. In 1850, William Hickling Prescott was living as head of household in Boston, ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts aged 53. Living with him was his wife Susan Prescott aged 47; his son William Gardiner Prescott aged 24; Wm W Prescott (probably his son William Amory Prescott) aged 21; his daughter Elizabeth Prescott aged 22; his mother Catherine S. Hickling (probably miss transcribed) aged 83 and four servants.^[175]

30. Thomas Hickling Jr was born 4 November 1782. The records of the Boston Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety record that on November 5th, 1776, “A Son of Thomas Hickling being desirous of going to his Father who is in some foreign port, the chairman was directed to furnish him with a Certificate of his behavior. He would later on succeed his father as U.S. Vice Consul in the Azores.

The Hickling fortunes started to wane in 1847-48 and they began losing their properties, including Yankee Hall. After Catherine learned of these events, she wrote to her brother Thomas Jr. seeking an explanation. "When I left the Island, my father told me his business was very prosperous, and that he had no doubt he should leave the family very rich, but I knew he was unsuccessful in some of his business before he died," Thomas Jr. wrote to "Sister Prescott," explaining what had happened. In the 1810s, Thomas Hickling Sr. and his partner John Anglin, shipped three-fourths of the fruit produced on San Miguel. During that decade, Jacinto Inácio Rodrigues Silveira, later the first Baráo de Fonte Bela, inherited a large piece of property on the island, a lot with some oranges. Thereupon, he too entered into the fruit trade, and "his means made it tantamount to a monopoly by which all the English Merchants were ruined (some of them utterly) while others recovered as the fruit increased in quantity.^[176]

The surviving foreign merchants founded four companies and purchased fruit from the smaller producers to stay in business. The Hickling’s managed to do well during the 1820s due to "great voyages" of orange shipments to Saint Petersburg, one of the many markets that U.S. merchants were interested in tapping into after the independence. By the late 1840s, the four surviving foreign exporters were only doing about a third of their former level of business. By the 1860s, there were twenty five orange export houses in the Azores, mostly owned by the Portuguese. Somehow in the restructuring of the orange exporting business, the Hickling’s ended up with "no mercantile moneyed friends" to back them up and their business suffered as a result, despite good social connections, both English and Portuguese. They continued their association with the Anglins and later intermarried with the Ivens. Daughter Fanny married Dr. Jose Perceira Botelho, a Paris educated physician. The Botelhoes were among the wealthy landed elite and were interrelated with the Cactano Dias do Canto e Medeiros, his son Jose de Canto, and Dr. Botelho were among the founders of the Sociedade Promotora da Agricultura Micadense, whose mission was to educate planters in agronomy. The Hickling debts began to accumulate early in the century. In 1809 and 1810 two of their ships were confiscated by the Dane's (under Bonaparte's Decree). The War of 1812 between the United States and Great Britain brought additional misfortunes. Neither Hickling nor his son took any salary for their consul work.

Thomas Hickling Jr. died unmarried 10 October 1875 nearly 93 years of age.

69. Frederick Prescott baptized 19 Aug 1799^[177] and died the same year in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts. https://archive.org/stream/vitalrecordsofsa00sale#page/193/mode/2up

70. Catherine Elizabeth Prescott born 11 November 1799 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.^[178] She died 13 November 1891 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.^[179] She married in 1819 Franklin Dexter of Boston. He was born in 1793 and died in 1857. They had issue: William Dexter, Gordon Dexter, Edward Dexter, and Arthur Dexter.

71. William Hickling Prescott born 4 May 1796 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.^[180] He died 28 January 1859 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts.^[181] He graduated from Harvard College in 1814. He was the author of four monumental books on Spain, Mexico and Peru. He was the author of four monumental books “The life of C. B. Brown,” 1834, “History of Ferdinand and Isabella” 1838, “The Conquest of Mexico” 1843, “The Conquest of Peru” 1847.^[182]

While at Harvard an accident deprived him of the use of one eye and the other was so injured he could make but partial use of it. And yet his courage and undaunted resolution enabled him to vanquish his difficulties and establish for himself the a brilliant reputation as one of the most brilliant historical writers.

On Mr. Prescott's 24th birthday, being the 4th of May 1820 he was married to Miss Susan Amory the daughter of Thomas C. Amory, Esquire a successful merchant of Boston who had died in 1812 and of Hannah R. Linzee. Susan had been born 1802. And she died 18 October 1869 in Massachusetts.^[183]

He spent six months with his grandfather Thomas Hickling, from 1815-1816. In 1850, William Hickling Prescott was living as head of household in Boston, ward 6, Suffolk, Massachusetts aged 53. Living with him was his wife Susan Prescott aged 47; his son William Gardiner Prescott aged 24; Wm W Prescott (probably his son William Amory Prescott) aged 21; his daughter Elizabeth Prescott aged 22; his mother Catherine S. Hickling (probably miss transcribed) aged 83 and four servants.^[184]

The children of William Hickling Prescott and Susan Amory are:

68. William Gardiner Prescott 1826-1895. William Gardiner Prescott married Augusta Peabody of Salem, Massachusetts and had issue: Edith Prescott, William Hickling Prescott, Linzee Prescott, and Louisa Prescott. Edith Prescott married Roger Wolcott. Elizabeth Prescott married James Lawrence of Boston and had: James Lawrence, Gertrude Lawrence, and Prescott Lawrence.

69. Catherine Prescott, Elizabeth Prescott 1828-1864.

70. William Amory Prescott 1830-1867.

43. Mary Ann Hickling was born 12 October 1800 in Sáo Migual, Azores.^[185]She married, as his second wife, William Ivens. His first wife was Mary's sister, Elizabeth Flora Hickling. (See above.). Mary and William lived in Ponta Delgada, St. Michael, Azores. Mary died 18 February 1888.^[186]

The children of Mary Anne Hickling and William Ivens were:

71. Octavia Frederica Ivens

72. Catherine Prescott Ivens

73. Fannia Frances Ivens

74. Harriett Webster Ivens

58. *Charles Hickling was a merchant. He was the son of William Hickling and Sarah (Bradford) Hickling. Charles was born about 21 December 1799 (based on his age at death). He died 9 June 1888 at his home at 2512 Washington Street, Boston.^[187] He married Eliza Este.

The daughter of Charles Hickling and Eliza Este was"

71. Eliza Este (Hickling) Bradford It was her son who was the administrator of the estate of William Hickling his great grandfather.

69. Catherine Elizabeth Prescott born 11 November 1799 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts.^[188] She died 13 November 1891 in Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts.^[189]

She married in 1819 Franklin Dexter of Boston. He was born in 1793 and died in 1857. They had issue: William Dexter, Gordon Dexter, Edward Dexter, and Arthur Dexter.

71. Eliza Este (Hickling) Bradford It was her son who was the administrator of the estate of William Hickling his great grandfather.

117. Catherine Prescott Ivens was born 6 February 1836 in São Pedro, Ponte Delgada, St. Michaels, Azores, Portugal the daughter of William Breakspeare Ivens and Mary Anne Hickling. Catherine married Ricardo Júlio Ferraz 28 Nov 1861 in São Pedro. She died 25 Mar 1933 in Campo de Ourique, Lisbon Portugal. She was the mother of Guilermo Ivens Ferraz.

Ricardo Júlio Ferraz was born 26 May 1828 in Sé, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal. He died 24 December 1880 in Sé.

124. *Admiral Guilermo Ivens Ferraz

60, Sarah Alden Bradford born 31 June 1793 in Duxbury, Plymouth, Massachusetts. She married Rev. Samuel Ripley. He was born 1783. Samuel died 1847. Sarah died in 26 July 1867 in Waltham, Middlesex, Massachusetts. They had issue: Elizabeth Bradford Ripley 1819-1892, Mary Emerson Ripley 1820-1907, Christopher Gore Ripley 1822-1881, Phoebe Bliss Ripley 1824-1893, Lieutenant Ezra Ripley 1826-1863, Sophia Bradford Ripley 1833-1914,

The children of Sarah Alden Bradford and Rev. Samuel Ripley are:

XXX. Elizabeth Bradford Ripley 1819-1892,

XXX. Mary Emerson Ripley 1820-1907,

XXX. Christopher Gore Ripley 1822-1881,

XXX. Phoebe Bliss Ripley 1824-1893,

XXX. Lieutenant Ezra Ripley 1826-1863,

XXX. Sophia Bradford Ripley 1833-1914,

124. *Admiral Guillermo Ivens_Ferraz was born 14 September 1865 in São Pedro, Ponta Delgada, St. Michaels, Acores, Portugal. He was born 14 September 1865 in São Pedro, Ponta Delgada, St. Michaels, Acores, Portugal, He died 26 December 1956 in São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal. Admiral Ivens_Ferraz married Laura De Sacadura Freire Corte Real Mendes de Almeida 7 January 1901 in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal. She was born 4 May 1881 in São Paulo, Lisbon, Portugal the daughter of Fernando Vitor Augusto Mendes de Almeida and died 25 January 1981 in São Sebastião da Pedreira, Lisbon, Portugal. She was the mother of Guilherme Mendes de Almeida Ivens_Ferraz.

125. *Guilherme Mendes de Almeida Ivens_Ferraz

125. Guilherme Mendes de Almeida "Guy" Ivens_Ferraz was the son of Guilherme Ivens_Ferraz and Laura De Sacadura Freire Corte Real Mendes de Almeida. He was born 8 September 1901 in Oeiras, Lisbon, Portugal. He died 9 September 1986 in Alvalade, Lisbon, Portugal. He married Maria de Lurdes Da Silveira Brandão Freire Themuda Barata 25 May 1925 in Benfica, Lisbon, Portugal She was the daughter of Josè Marques Pereira Barata and Georgina da Silveira Brandão Freire Themudo de Vera. She was born 25 October 1903 in Sé Nova, Coimbra, Portugal. She died 11 November 1990 in São Francisco Xavier, Lisbon, Portugal. She was the mother of Maria Emilia Ivens Ferraz.

126. Maria Emilia Ivens_Ferraz

126. Maria Emilia Ivens_Ferraz was the daughter of Guilherme Mendes de Almeida Ivens_Ferraz and Maria de Lurdes Da Silveira Brandão Freire Themudo Barata. She married Adelino Bela_Morais and had a son José Manuel Ivens Ferraz Bela_Morais.

127. José Manuel Ivens Ferraz Bela_Morais.

127. José Manuel Ivens Ferraz Bela_Morais was the son of Adelino Bela Morais and Maria Emilia Ivens Ferraz. He was born 2 September 1951 in Campo Grande, Lisboa, Portugal. He married Maria Eugénia De Castro Henriques 26 September 1979 in Quinta dos Anjos, Porteia das Padeiras, São Salvador, Santarão Salvador, Santarém Portugal. They have two children.