Mercy HICKOCK

Other Events and Attributes:

• Death: Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
• Birth: Abt 1688, Waterbury, Connecticut
• Baptism: 08 Apr 1689

Mercy married John BOUTON, III about 1704. John (son of John BOUTON, Jr. and Sarah GREGORY) was born about 1684 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died after 02 Nov 1752 in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Mercy BOUTON was born about 1705; died in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
2. Daniel BOUTON was born about 1708 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 14 Nov 1740 in Sharon, Litchfield Co., Connecticut.
3. Mary BOUTON was born about 1709 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.
4. John BOUTON, Jr. was born about 1711 in Norwalk, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 29 Jan 1801 in Salem, Westchester Co., New York.
5. Eunice BOUTON was born about 1712 in Danbury, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died on 12 Nov 1778; was buried in Pound Ridge Cemetery, Pound Ridge, Westchester Co., New York.
6. David BOUTON was born about 1722 in Stamford, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA; died in New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA.

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• Death: Bef 05 Mar 1694, Waterbury, Connecticut

Notes:

Notes from "Connectictu Genealogy": Samuel was in Farminton 1673, removed to Waterbury where he was one of th4e original ettles about 1677. He was one of the assinees of the first Indian deeds and is named in all fence divisions and properties lists.
Inventory, 28 Feb 1694/1695, taken by Tmothy Stanley, John Hopkins, and Thomas Judd; children ages: Samuel 26, William 22, Thomas 20, Joseph 17, Stephen 11, Benjamin 9, Ebenezer 2, Hannah 24, Mary 14, Elizabeth 12, and Mercy 6.

Name:
Samuel Hickox, proprietor, with twenty-five men, all of Farmington, sent a petition to the General Court of Hartford on October 9, 1673, asking that Mattatuck (Waterbury) be made a plantation. On May 31, 1680, he and John Welton were made the selectmen of the new settlement. He was one of the assignees of the first Indian deed. He was appointed sergeant when the first train-band was organized. "Connecticut Probate Records" show that on June 21, 1681, Samuel Hickox, as the husband of hannah Upson, "discharged Father Scott on account of Father Upson's estate."

He was in Farmington 1673, removed to Waterbury where he was one of original settlers about 1677. She admitted to full communion of Church of Farmington 1 March 1679/80. He was one of the assignees of the first Indian deeds and is named in all Fence divisions and proprietors lists. "So far as appeared he never once halted in the the work he had undertaken"; called Sergeant in 1686, Townsman 1682. "He was one of the leading men of the settlement and died at his post, at a critical time when men of the right stamp could be poorly spared."...



Samuel was in Farmington, CT in 1673, removed to Waterbury CT, where he was one of the original settlers about 1677. He admitted to full communion of the Church of Farmington, 1 Mar 1679/80. He was one of the assignees of the first Indian deeds.

Samuel's parents William Hickox who was born on 10 Dec 1609 in Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire, England and died before 1645 in Farmington, Hartford, CT. William married Elizabeth Cole in 1631 in Stratford On Avon England. Elizabeth was born in 1612 in Stratford On Avon, Warwickshire, England. She died on 3 Aug 1655 in Farmington, CT. They immigrated 11 Aug 1635, leaving London on the ship the Batchelor.

Samuel married Hannah UPSON about 1667. Hannah was born about 1648; died in 1704. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Other Events and Attributes:

• Fact: Daughter of Thomas Upson of Farmington.
• Religion: 01 Mar 1679; Admtted to full communion of the church
• Death: 20 Jul 1707, Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut