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=Biographical Sketch=

=Biographical Sketch=

{{anchor|birth}}{{Individual links first and last  |First_Name =David |Last_Name =HICKOX  |TNG_ID =700117802198}} is the father of the large [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/register.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon&generations=4 Hickox family] in Southeast Georgia. David was born [[13 January 1798]] in Connecticut. ^{[[#Birth Sources|[A]]]}^{[[#Parents Discussion|[Note ??]]]}^{[[#1880 Census Note|[Note ??]]]}

{{anchor|birth}}{{Individual links first and last  |First_Name =David |Last_Name =HICKOX  |TNG_ID =700117802198}} is the father of the large [http://crewsgenealogy.com/tng/register.php?personID=I700117802198&tree=Jason-Shannon&generations=4 Hickox family] in Southeast Georgia. David was born [[13 January 1798]] in Connecticut. ^{[[#Birth Sources|[A]]]}^{[[#Parents Discussion|[Note ??]]]}<ref group="note">The "[[United States Census, 1880]]", list David's place of birth as Georgia, and his wife Sarah (profile | [[Sarah Altman | wiki]]) as Connecticut<ref group="census" name="fed1880" />. The 1880 census is inconsistent with the 1850-1870 censuses along and other primary sources. The error is probably a transcription error made by the census worker.</ref>

^{[[#1880 Census Note|[Note ??]]]}

According to family histories, David and his brother traveled to Georgia from Connecticut to purchase lumber to sell back in Connecticut. During his visit David became quite ill with a fever, while his brother returned to Connecticut with the lumber. David stayed with a local family while he was nursed back to health.^{[[#Family History Note|[Note ??]]]}

According to family histories, David and his brother traveled to Georgia from Connecticut to purchase lumber to sell back in Connecticut. During his visit David became quite ill with a fever, while his brother returned to Connecticut with the lumber. David stayed with a local family while he was nursed back to health.^{[[#Family History Note|[Note ??]]]}

=Appendices=

=Appendices=

==Appendix A: Parents Discussion==

==Appendix A: Parents Discussion==

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{{anchor|pd paragraph 1}}Many [[:Category:Online Genealogies|online genealogies]] list [[David Hickox|David's]] parents as Ruben Hickox (15 Dec 1760 - 1850) and Elizabeth Sickels (1760 - 1845). I have been unable to locate any [[:Category:Primary Sources|primary sources]] linking David to these individuals. So far, all documented links appear to be circumstantial (same name, about the same time, in the same state).

 

 

 

 

{{anchor|pd paragraph 5}}In 1842 {{Notes links first middle last  |First_Name = James | Middle_Name =Henry |Last_Name =HICKOX |TNG_ID= 700117802297}}, eldest son of Reuben and Elizabeth, gave a deposition naming his siblings, including a brother David. <ref group="note">I would like to locate the actual deposition.</ref> Further, as is shown below, a bible from the family of a woman who married their son Benjamin Hickox (1793/5-?) also lists a David Hickox as a family member, along with the other siblings of her husband. I received a responce, need to update. While a number of other David Hickoxes of the right approximate age have been found, no clear connection to Reuben and Elizabeth has been established with any of them.

 

{{anchor|pd paragraph 6}}Despite the lack of a clear paper trail our David is a probable candidate for the elusive son of [[Reuben Hickok]] and [[Elizabeth Sickels]]  . He would have been the right age at the right time, and he fits neatly into the chronological list of their children mentioned above. While he is not found in the 1820 census, we know he moved to southern Georgia about that time then because he married {{Notes links first and last |First_Name=Elizabeth |Last_Name=Knowles |TNG_ID=I700117802203 }} in 1821 (who died soon thereafter).  In 1830 the census taker recorded that David was born in Connecticut in 1798. That statement shows up in several later census records<ref group="note">See also [[#1880 Census Discussion|1880 Census Discussion]]</ref>, including those of some of his children. He also drew land in North Georgia in the 1832 land-lottery<ref group="note">See also [[#Land Lottery Discussion|Land Lottery Discussion]]</ref>, possibly as a result of his father’s Revolutionary War service, in which Reuben Hickox was a veteran. Finally, our family lore records that our David came to Georgia with a brother looking for timber to buy for northern interests, got sick, was taken in by a local family, and met and married a local girl (Knowles) while the brother returned to the north.  Family lore also relates that he communicated with relatives in Pennsylvania for some time before the Civil War, and we know that [[Reuben Hickox II]] moved there in 1823. None of this identifies the the relative with whom David was communicating, nor does it prove a connection with Reuben and Elizabeth, but it is consistent with both the established facts and family lore.

 

 

==1880 Census Note==

==1880 Census Note==

The "[[United States Census, 1880]]", list David's place of birth as Georgia, and his wife Sarah (profile | [[Sarah Altman | wiki]]) as Connecticut<ref group="census" name="fed1880" />. This is inconsistent with the 1850-1870 census and other primary sources, and is probably a transcription error made by the census worker.

The "[[United States Census, 1880]]", list David's place of birth as Georgia, and his wife Sarah (profile | [[Sarah Altman | wiki]]) as Connecticut<ref group="census" name="fed1880" />. This is inconsistent with the 1850-1870 census and other primary sources, and is probably a transcription error made by the census worker.

==Appendix B: Land Lottery Discussion==

==Appendix B: Land Lottery Discussion==

{{/Land Lottery Discussion}}

Despite what some sources claim, I do not believe David won 600 acres in the Cherokee land lottery.  Beginning in 1783 a head of household living in Georgia could be granted 200 acres of land on his own head-right and fifty acres for each additional family member, including slaves, up to 1000 acres<ref group="web">{{#lsth:Digital Library of Georgia|citation}}</ref>. Currently my research shows David would have been entitled to 550 acres (200 acres for himself + 350 acres for is wife and six children as of 1832).  Given most birth date information comes from census records 1850 and later, it is possible David and Sarah had child who died between 1832 and 1850 accounting for the additional 50 acres.

 

{{#lsth:Index to the headright and bounty grants of Georgia, 1756-1909|Citation}},page 136</ref>.

 

According to WiregrassFamilies.com[[The Story of Brantley County Georgia]] states "[[David Hickox|David]] drew lot 232 in Cherokee Co., GA in the 1832 Cherokee Land Lottery of Georgia, and 600 acres in of land in Wayne County." <ref group="web" name="wiregrass">{{#lsth:Wiregrass Families|Citation}}</ref> While I have been unable to locate this text or examine it's sources myself, I don't believe this fact is completely correct. First, [[The Cherokee land lottery, containing a numerical list of the names of the fortunate drawers in said lottery, with an engraved map of each district|The Cherokee land lottery]] shows Daivd drew lot 207 on page 232<ref group="web">{{#lsth:The Cherokee land lottery, containing a numerical list of the names of the fortunate drawers in said lottery, with an engraved map of each district|Citation}}, Page 232</ref>, not lot 232. Second, Georgia held two land lotteries in 1832. The first awarded 160 acre plots<ref group = "web" name="GA1">http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/what_do_we_have/land_lottery/land_lottery_1832.htm, GA Archives</ref>, while the second lottery, or gold lottery, awarded only 40 acre lots <ref group="web">http://sos.georgia.gov/archives/what_do_we_have/land_lottery/land_lottery_1832gold.htm GA Archives 2</ref>. Individuals were granted more than one entry <ref group="web" name="GA1" />, but it isn't clear to me wither those individuals were actually allowed to win more than one time in the same lottery.  Even if they were, David would have needed to win the 1832 Land Lottery four times to win 600 acres.  Additionally, the lottery districts were awarded randomly<ref group="web" name="GA1" />, and their would be no way to guarantee multiple awards would have been contiguous.

 

 

==Appendix C: Tax Roll Discussion (maybe note)==

==Appendix C: Tax Roll Discussion (maybe note)==

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{{/Tax Roll Discussion}}

==Notes==

==Notes==

==Bibliography==

==Bibliography==