Benjamin Hickox | |
Office: | Member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk[1] |
Term Start: | May 1728 |
Term End: | October 1728 |
Predecessor: | Joseph Platt, Samuel Comstock |
Alongside: | Joseph Platt |
Successor: | Samuel Comstock |
Birth Date: | 1686[2] |
Birth Place: | Waterbury, Connecticut Colony |
Death Date: | November 17, 1745[3] |
Residence: | Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony |
Occupation: | deacon, miller[4] |
Spouse: | Sarah Lockwood Hickox (m. February 3, 1714) (previously married to Nathaniel Selleck and then after being widowed by Benjamin Hickox married Samuel Kellogg at the age of seventy-eight) |
Children: | Silas Hickox, Ezra Hickock, Abigail Hickock, Bethel Hickock, Sarah Hickock |
Benjamin Hickox (also Benjamin Hickcox) (1686 – November 17, 1745) was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives from Norwalk, Connecticut Colony in the session of May 1728.
He was the son of Samuel Hickox, and Hannah Upson.
He operated a gristmill which was located behind the present site of the Congregational Church in Wilton where there is a waterfall over the Comstock Brook (the Falls Branch of the Norwalk River). The mill served as a gathering place where local residents organized their efforts for status as a parish.[4] He was the first deacon of the Congregational Church in Wilton.[3]