↑ "Records of the Society of Friends of the City of New York and Vicinity, from 1640 to 1800", in The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. (New York, New York: New York Genealogical and Biographical Society) Vol. 4, p. 194.
The Births of ye children of Benjamin and Elizabeth Hicks of ye township of Hempstead: ... Benjamin there son ye 15 of ye 12 mo., 1747. [Note: In old-styles dates, the twelfth month is February. For comparison to the modern calendar, it corresponds to the following year. More info may be found here.]
