Willet Hicks

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Other Names: Willet Hicks

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1765

Birth Place: Long Island

Death Date: 1845

Death Place: New York City

Affiliations: New York Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee , New York Friends meeting , Society of Friends

Notes: Born in Westbury in 1765, the son of Silas and Mary. Transferred to New York Monthly Meeting in 1789, and married Mary Matlack in 1792. Died in 1845 in New York. NY Indian Committee 1801-1824; appointed to visit Oneida. At the seperation Willett Hicks kept with Race St Friends. Was called "Bishop of the Quaker Church."

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