Person:Joshua Hicks (5)

All information from Norman Zezula

!BIRTH: Paid taxes on land in 1792 (Surry Co., N.C.) Thus he was at least 21 then. Census records of 1830 & 1840 for Clermont Co., Ohio indicate he was born between 1760-1770

!MARRIAGE: Rowan Co. marriage bond (Benjamin Hicks also signs) North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741-1868

          Bride: Diana Adams
          Groom: Joshua Hicks
          Bond Date: 19 Sep 1794
          County: Rowan
          Record #: 01 195
          Bondsman: Benjamin Hicks
          Witness: J Troy, Deputy Clerk
          Bond #: 000125857

!DEATH: His son, Joshua, his son's wife, Sarah, and his wife (or widow) sold 73.5 acres in 1845. This was apparently the family homestead that he and Diana sold to Joshua Jr. in 1840. It is concluded that Diana held a mortgage on it as Joshua's widow. The death of Joshua Sr. is concluded from the fact that he didn't sign. Administration papers for Joshua are indicated for the year 1848 in Clermont Co., Ohio. The actual papers are missing except for a few receipts. (Orville Jones' Notes)

CHILDREN: Surmised from study of the Hicks family in Clermont Co., Ohio. Records correlated include marriage, land, census, and death records of the children.

CHRONOLOGY:

  1792-1797:  taxes paid in Surry Co., NC
  1793:  First taxed specifically on land in Surry Co., NC
  1794:  Marriage in Rowan Co., NC -- Benjamin Hicks witnessed
  1798: taxed on 250 acres of land in Surry Co.
  1799-1800: taxed on 300 acres of land in Surrey Co.
  1800: Census--Surry Co., NC (same page as Samuel, James, Benjamin, and Laban Hicks)
  1800:  Witnessed land transaction in Surry Co.
  1804:  Witnessed land transaction in Surry Co.
  1805:  Probable date of move to Ohio
  1806:  Daughter (Mary Hicks Robinson) born in Ohio according to her death  record. (14 Feb)
  1810:  Not in the NC census.  The 1810 census for Ohio was destroyed.
  1815:  bought 126 acres from Jas. Kerr in Clermont Co., Ohio    One of 4 families mentioned by Everts as having settled in Fra. twp.  "early after the War of 1812"--HIST OF CLERMONT CO., OHIO, Everts.
  1816,1817,1819:  taxed on 100 acres (John Neville, orig. proprietor)
  1820:  Census--Clermont Co., Ohio
  1826:  landowner in Fra. twp., Clermont Co., Ohio--Everts, ibid.
  1827:  land sale to Henry Hicks of 59 acres (fron Joshua and Diana Hicks)
         (In 1843, Henry sold this same land to William Hicks.)
  1830:  Census--Clermont Co., Ohio
  1840:  Census, Clermont Co.
  1840:  land sale of 73.5 acres to Joshua Hicks Jr. (Joshua and Diana Hicks
         both sign)  (Platting done by Orville Jones shows that this is the
         remaining portion of the 1815 purchase of 126 acres)
  1845:  land sale of this 73.5 acres ("Joshua and Sarah Ann and Diana Hicks
        sign--Sarah Ann apparently is the wife of Joshua Jr. and his mother,
        Diana is apparently a widow who held a mortgage as the survivor of
        Joshua Sr.
  1845:  Probable date of death of Joshua Hicks.
  1848:  administration papers of Joshua's estate are indicated for this 
         date.  However, the papers are missing.
  1854:  land sale (sheriff's sale) of 8 acres belonging to Joshua Hicks and
       others not named.  This was sold by the sheriff as a result of a suit
      (no details given)  Only a few receipts survive, one of which is a
      receipt for court costs in a suit brought by Elijah Hicks against
      Alex Johnson, Joshua's administrator (and son-in-law). The sheriff
      described the land as 10 acres less 2 acres previously sold to Elijah.

CENSUS--1800: Surry Co., NC

               Joshua HICKS  b. 1755-1774      [Joshua  b. abt 1765]
               Wife          b. 1774-1784      [Diana   b.     1768]
               Son           b. 1790-1800      [Henry   b. abt 1795]
               Daughter      b. 1790-1800      [Ruth    b.  28 Aug 1797]
               Son           b. 1790-1800      [Elijah  b. 2 Apr 1799]

CENSUS--1810: (This census no longer exists for Ohio)

CENSUS--1820: Franklin Twp., Clermont, Ohio (p 019)

                Joshua       HICKS  b. BEF 1785
                Wife                b. 1785-1794    [Diana  b.         1768]
                Son                 b. 1794-1804    [Henry  b.     ABT 1795]
                Daughter            b. 1794-1804    [Ruth   b.  28 Aug 1797]
                Son                 b. 1794-1804    [Elijah  b.  2 Apr 1799]
                Daughter            b. 1794-1804    [Lydia  b.   1 Sep 1802]
                Daughter            b. 1804-1810    [Betsy  b.         1804]
                Daughter            b. 1804-1810    [Mary   b.  14 Feb 1806]
                Son                 b. 1804-1810    [William  b.   ABT 1810]
                Son                 b. 1810-1820    [James  b.  30 Oct 1811]
                Daughter            b. 1810-1820    [Margaret b.       1812]
                Son                 b. 1810-1820    [Joshua   b.       1815]
                Daughter            b. 1810-1820    [Nancy    b.       1817]
                Daughter            b. 1810-1820    [  ?      b.   ABT 1819]
              (Note:  3 persons of this household engaged in agriculture)

CENSUS--1830: Franklin Twp., Clermont, Ohio (#258)

                Joshua      HICKS   b. 1760-1770
                Wife                b. 1770-1780    [Diana b.         1768]
                Daughter            b. 1810-1815    [Mary  b.  14 Feb 1806]
                Son                 b. 1800-1810    [William  b.  ABT 1810]
                Son                 b. 1810-1815    [James  b. 30 Oct 1811]
                Son                 b .1815-1820    [Joshua  b.       1815]
                Daughter            b. 1815-1820    [Nancy    b.      1817]
                Daughter            b. 1815-1820    [         b. ABT  1819]
            (Note:  5 older children and Margaret married prior to 1830
            according to their marriage records.  Apparently, a daughter was
            born after 1815.  She is assigned the birth year of 1819 until
            further information is obtained.

CENSUS--1840: Franklin Twp., Clermont, Ohio (#176)

                Joshua       HICKS  b.  1760-1770
                Wife                b.  1770-1780    [Diana  b.        1768]
                Son                 b.  1800-1810    [William  b. ABT  1810]
                Son                 b.  1810-1820    [Joshua   b.      1815]
                Daughter            b.  1810-1820    [Nancy   b.       1817]
                Daughter            b.  1820-1825              

(Note: Henry HICKS, Joshua HICKS, and Alexander JOHNSON are listed consectutively in the census roll-- this implies they are neighbors. James HICKS is listed 2 pages previously in the census. Henry, Mrs. Margaret JOHNSON, and James are Joshua's children.) (It is possible that the last-unnamed-daughter is in fact Joshua Jr.'s wife Sarah. Their marriage date has not been found. Joshua Jr. did buy his parents 73.5 acre homestead in 1840; presumably, his parents continued to reside there. Joshua Jr. and his wife, Sarah sold this land in 1845.

CENSUS--1850: Joshua HICKS Sr. died about 1848, but his wife, Diana Hicks

is listed at age 82 with the Nelson Newkirk family (see notes on Diana Adams and Nancy Hicks).

NOTE: Unidentified Mary Hicks d. July 1874 in Batavia, Cler., OH, age 84y.

      She was born in Wash. twp., Cler., OH.--Cler. Co. death rec, p 100.
      She probably is no relation to our family.

NOTE: Could find no record of Joshua buying or selling land in Surry Co., NC.