Sgt. Samuel HICKOCK

1643 - Bef 1695  (52 years)

• Name	Samuel HICKOCK  [2, 4, 5]
  	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." [1] 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."... [2] 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. [3]
  Title	Sgt.
  Birth	14 Nov 1643	Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut   [2, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Bef 05 Mar 1694	Waterbury, Connecticut   [4]
  Death	Bef 5 Mar 1694/5	Waterbury, New Haven Co., Connecticut   [2, 5]
  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.
  Person ID	I28586	Main Tree
  Last Modified	3 May 2015

  
  

  Father	William HICKOCKS,   b. 10 Dec 1608, Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, England d. Aft 1645, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut (Age > 38 years)
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Elizabeth ?
  Relationship	Birth
  Family ID	F03660	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Hannah UPSON,   b. Abt 1648   d. 1704 (Age 56 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1667  [4]
  Children	1. Samuel HICKOCK,   b. Abt 1668, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut d. 03 Jun 1713, Waterbury, Connecticut (Age 45 years) + 2. Elizabeth HICKOCK,   b. 1682  [Birth] + 3. Deacon Benjamin HICKOK,   b. Abt 1686   d. 17 Nov 1745, Wilton, Fairfield Co., Connecticut (Age 59 years)  [Birth]   4. Mercy HICKOCK,   b. 08 Apr 1689, Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut d. 06 Sep 1729, New Canaan, Fairfield, Connecticut, USA (Age 40 years)  [Birth] + 5. Ebenezer HICKOK,   b. Abt 1692   d. 08 Jul 1774, Bethel, Fairfield Co., Connecticut (Age 82 years)  [Birth]
  Family ID	F03654	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	21 Apr 2015

  
  

• Event Map

  Birth - 14 Nov 1643 - Farmington, Hartford Co., Connecticut  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Sources

  [S7033] The Family Association of America, "The Upson Family in America", (The Tuttle, Morehouse, & Taylor Company New Haven, Conn. 1940). [S7034] Charles Nelson Hickok, Ph.B, "The Hickok Genealogy" Descendants of William Hickocks of Farmington, Connecticut, (The Tuttle Publishing Company, Inc., Rutland, Vermont - 1938). [S02329] Find A Grave Website. [S01983] Connecticut Genealogy @ babbage.clarku.edu. [S02419] Donald Lines Jacobus, History and Genealogy of the Families of Old Fairfield, Vol. 1, (Name: Name: Clearfield Company, Inc.;;), 76-3279.