Benjamin Hickox

Benjamin Hickox
Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk [1]
In office
May 1728  October 1728
Serving with Joseph Platt
Preceded by Joseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
Succeeded by Samuel Comstock
Personal details
Born 1686[2]
Waterbury, Connecticut Colony [2]
Died November 17, 1745[2][3]
Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony [4]
Resting place Sharp Hill Cemetery,
Wilton, Connecticut [4]
Spouse(s) Sarah Lockwood Hickox[3] (m. February 3, 1714)[2][4] (previously married to Nathaniel Selleck and then after being widowed by Benjamin Hickox married Samuel Kellogg at the age of seventy-eight)[3]
Children Silas Hickox,[3] Ezra Hickock, Abigail Hickock, Bethel Hickock, Sarah Hickock[2]
Residence Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Occupation deacon, miller[5]

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 Upton.

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.[5] He was the first deacon of the Congregational Church in Wilton.[3]

References

  1. An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9HR9-F46 : accessed 2014-05-23), entry for Benjamin Hickox (Hickocks).
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 Norwalk
  4. 1 2 3 Benjamin Hickcox at Find a Grave
  5. 1 2 Hubbard, G. Evans. Annals of Wilton, Volume III, Wilton Village: A History. Wilton, (1971)
Preceded by
Joseph Platt
Samuel Comstock
Member of the
Connecticut House of Representatives
from Norwalk

May 1728–October 1728
With: Joseph Platt
Succeeded by
Samuel Comstock
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