Rash's Surname Index
Notes for Edward HICKS
From The History of Bucks Co., PA - Vol 3, p 113:
-----Edward HICKS, youngest son of Isaac and Catharine, was born at Attleboro (now Langhorne, then know as Four-Lanes-End) April 2, 1780. His mother dying when he was but eighteen months old, he was left to the care of her faithful servant Jane, a colored woman. His father’s home was entirely broken up by the confiscation of all the property belonging to his father, Gilbert HICKS, and this, with sickness and deaths in his family, reduced him for a season to a great strait. He later secured a home for his infant son in the family of David TWINING, where he remained until thirteen years of age. Edward HICKS in his "Memoirs" gives abundant testimony of his appreciation of the kindness received at the hands of his adopted mother, Elizabeth TWINING. In April, 1793, he was apprenticed to the coach-making trade with William and Henry TOMLINSON, at Four-Lanes-End, where he remained until 1800, when he set up business for himself. In the autumn of 1801 he entered the employ of Joshua C. CANBY, then a coach-maker at Milford (now Hulmeville) and remained a resident of that village until April, 1811, when he removed to Newtown, Pennsylvania. He became a member of Middletown Monthy Meeting of Friends in the spring of 1803, and later became a prominent minister in the Society, traveling extensively in the ministry. Like his distinguished cousin, Thomas HICKS, he possessed considerable artistic talent, and a number of his paintings of high merit are still preserved. He was an ardent temperance advocate, and claimed to have built the first house in Bucks county erected without the use of intoxicating liquors, in 1804. He married 11 mo. 17, 1803, Sarah WORSTALL, daughter of Joseph and Susanna (HIBBS) WORSTALL. He died in Newtown 8 mo. 23, 1849, and his widow died 12 mo. 30, 1855. Their children were: Mary, born 10 mo. 12, 1804, died 2 mo. 7, 1880, unmarried, Susan, born 11 mo. 9, 1806, married 5 mo. 17, 1832, John CARLE, Jr., of New York, and died in New York, 1 mo. 24, 1872; Elizabeth T., born 8 mo. 24, 1811, married Richard PLUMMER, of Baltimore, Maryland, 11 mo. 11, 1852, and died in Newtown, 3 mo. 22, 1892; Sarah B., born 12 mo. 24, 1816, married Isaac C. PARRY, of Warminister, 5 mo. 23, 1844, and died in Warminister 2 mo. 23, 1895; Isaac W., born 1 mo. 20, 1809, and died 3 mo. 28, 1898.
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