John Hickman

John Hickman

• Charts: Benson Ancestry

• Birth*: say 1765
• Marriage*: say 1790, Bride=Nancy Wallace
• Census 1820*: 7 August 1820, Greenbrier Co, VA¹
• Death*: 1827, Greenbrier Co., VA
• Research Note*: 13 July 2007, John Hickman, Meadow Bluff District, Greenbrier County, Virginia was the first to discover the Indians in force at Point Pleasant, Virginia on Oct 10, 1774. Hardesty's Encyclopedia of Greenbrier, Pocahontas, and Monroe Counties, p.362
  
  1799 Greenbrier County, Virginia Tax List:
  
  1799 Apr 18 Hickman John 1 Tithable 7 horses 2 negros
  
  1815 Greenbrier County, Virginia Tax List:
  
  Hickman John 3 Tithables 6 horses 10 cows
  
  --Taken from Family Tree Maker, file of Tamra Monroe
  http://familytreemaker.genealogy.com/users/m/o/n/Tamra--W-Monroe/GENE3-0008.html?Welcome28946973
  
  "Grandfather Hickman was an Englishman who came to America in the year of 1775 and settled in the colonies of Virginia. He later fought in behalf of the colonies during the Revolutionary War. Not for sure if she is talking about John or his father." (source: Evelyn Fern Humiston--email of Phyllis Long)
  
  
  John Hickman's will: I, John Hickman, of the county of Greenbrier and State of Virginia hereby make my last Will and Testament in manner and form following court.
  1rst. I will all my moveable and perishable Estate to my much beloved Wife Nancy.
  2nd. I will to my Daughter Sarah Young the sum of One Dollar.
  3rd. I will to my daughter Peggy the sum of One dollar and one bed and bedding.
  4th. I will to my daughter Betsy Sheaves One dollar.
  5th. I will to my son William the sum of one dollar.
  6th. I will to my son Lewis the sum of One dollar.
  7th. I will to my son Thompson the sum of one dollar.
  8th. I will to my daughter Abigail the sum of one dollar Bed and Bedding.
  9th. I will to my Daughter Jane Benson the sum of One dollar.
  10th. I will to my Daughter Ann the sum of one dollar and one Bed and Bedding.
  11th. I will to my Daughter Polly the sum of One Dollar and one Bed and Bedding.
  12th. And lastly I do constitute and approve my sons William and Thompson Executors of this my last Will and Testament
  Signed: John Hickman (his signature is on the will.)
  
  --Above pieces of info from Phyllis Long, via email, 8/11/02²