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Grandpa Cody's Stories and why I searched for Joseph Hicks
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My grandfather Cody Hicks would tell people when they asked him where his grandchildren got their red hair from (Note Grandpa Cody & most of his brothers & sisters had black hair and grey eyes a noted Fitzwater trait which came from their mother Mildred Fitzwater Hicks.) then grandpa would tell them " Well my grand dad Hicks was Tall, Skinny, Redheaded and came from Irish people and his dad Joseph Hicks of Gad was named after a grand dad way on back named Joseph." This has turned out true about many of them being Irish as John Boggs came from Ireland as did the Drennen family. So with this knowledge in hand I set out to find all the records of any Joseph Hicks/Hix. Spelled Hix on my greatgrandfather Joseph Hicks marriage record of 1877. Grandpa Cody was pretty sharp old guy as he also said that he had another grand dad way back who when they came over on the ship that his wife and some of his children died on the ship. I nearly fell out of my chair years ago at the McClung Genealogy Library in Knoxville. When I found his ancestor Thomas Fitzwater on board the Ship Welcome with William Penn. This Thomas did have a wife Mary, daughter Mary and son Josiah Fitzwater who died on board ship of smallpox. So grandpa Cody and his old stories have turned out to hold a lot of valuable information. If more people would just set down and take the time to listen to their older family members and not just take what they have to say as the ramblings of an old person. Years ago I made it my first task to talk with a lot of these wonderful old people and their generosity in sharing their memories, stories, old letters, photos's and obituaries has been a blessing for which I will always be grateful as someday they will no longer be hear to listen to.
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Records for Joseph Hicks
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Virginia's Guide To Colonial Soldiers - Page 106 - The Necessary Roll of Major Andrew Lewis's Company August 29, 1757 - of the many names given is Joseph Hicks.
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Virginia's Guide TO Colonial Soldiers Pages 117-118 Size Roll of Major Andrew Lewis's Company Dated 1757 - this list gives the Soldiers Name - Age - Description -occupation - County or Country of Birth - on this list is the following - Joseph Hicks - Age 20 - 6 feet 21/2inchess tall - Fair - Spare - Not Well Limbed - Thin Sized - Brown Hair - Planter - Hanover. ( Note this describes most of my tall skinny Hicks's)
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Chronicles Of The Scotch -Irish Settlement In Virginia - Extracted From The Original Court Records OF Augusta County 1745 - 1800 - By Lyman Chalkey - Complete In Three Volumes. Records for Hicks - Hix
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November 15, 1768 (472) - Constables; Joseph Hicks, vice Saml. Pepper; Andrew Calvin, on Little River of New River; James Curry, vice John Clark.
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Maxwell vs Pickens, & c.---O.S. 129; N. S. 45----Bill,1807 - Orator is James Maxwell of Tazewell County. In 1772 orator went from Botetourt where he lived, to present Tazewell County to make a settlement. It was then a wilderness. He was in Company with Samuel Walker. Found a tract with some improvements, viz; The foundation of a cabin, some rails split, and some trees deadened. That night they fell in with a party of hunters, among them Uriah Stone, who claimed to have made the improvement. and orator purchased it, and the same year moved his family there and lived until 1784. In that same time two of his daughters were killed by the Indians. William Ingles set up claim to the land and devised it to his daughter, Rhoda, who married Bird Smith. Thomas Peery deposes in Tazewell County in 1809, that in 1772, when deponet went to that country. James Maxwell had made improvements on the land and had corn growing in May. In 1781 or 82 Indians murdered two of James Maxwell's daughters, and Maxwell removed his family. James Peery deposes that he went to Tazwell with Major Maxwell. John Peery deposes that John Tollett moved from Georgia to New River. Thomas Witten deposes that he was on the land in 1771. Samuel Walker is about to remove out of the country and William Wynne is aged and infirm in 1807. Matthais Harman deposes, 1809 that when he came to this country the land in dispute was called Ingles's Crab Orchard and there was an old improvement on it. This was in 1760. Henry Marrs deposes that he first knew Maxwell on the land in 1773 or 74. About three weeks after murder of Maxwell's daughters, two of Robert Moffit's sons were taken prisoner by Indians and about a week after that the family of Capt. Thomas Inglis was taken out of Burk's Garden by Indians and depredations were committed until 1793. Daniel Harman Sr. deposes 22d June, 1809, that about 49 years ago he was on a hunting expedition and camped on the land in dispute and took shelter in a small cabin built there, said to be Inglis's. Col. Inglis did not himself make the settlement, but it had been made by his uncle John Inglis. Joseph Hix deposes as above that 44 years ago Col. William Inglis told him that the land was his and he claimed it under his uncle John Ingles. Lawrence Murry deposes as above that 33 years ago he was in Wright's Valley at Uriah Stones cabin. William Cecil deposes as above that in or about 1771 he, in company with his brother and father, was on the disputed land. Deed dated 24th September, 1805, by John Tollett and Maragret of Tazewell County to thomas Pickens; 200 acres by survey in 1753, part of Loyal Company's Grant. Recorded in Tazewell 24th September, 1805
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Abstracts of Tazewell County Will Book#1 - 1800 to 1832 - Joseph Hix (Page 178) December 9, 1812 - Appraisement. "Lavina's Saddle". "Negro--Abraham". "Returned by W. Richerson,one of legatees".; Peter and Frederick Helvey bond Due July 15, 1796, Mathias Fox & Gose bond, William Halls note. John Hix note due July 19, 1804. Robert Kearrs note. Robert Robertson and Abraham Stanley note. By Hez Harman, Peter Dills and John Lambert, " Given to Wm.Richerson".
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Early Adventures On The Western Waters Volumes 1& 2 - By Mary B. & F,B. Kegley. Vol. 1. Page 46 - 1763 Joseph Hicks served as constable with Samuel Pepper on New River. --Page 51 In March 1767 a petion by the various settlers west of New River to view the road . Some names on this list that link with the Hicks family Henry Skeggs, Joseph Hix, John Draper, Viewers were appointed for a road From Vause's by Ingles Ferry to Peak Creek on the North side of New River. ---Page 74 Joseph Hicks, 200 acres, March 12, 1774; Warrant received May 22, .
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