Benjamin Hickox Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. https://books.google.com/books?id=YCgBAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Benjamin+Hickox&pg=PA78 An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9HR9-F46 : accessed 2014-05-23), entry for Benjamin Hickox (Hickocks).
  3. http://www.ramapoughlenapenation.org/wp-docs/Norwalk.pdf Norwalk
  4. Hubbard, G. Evans. Annals of Wilton, Volume III, Wilton Village: A History. Wilton, (1971)