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 byJoseph Platt,
Samuel Comstock
Succeeded bySamuel Comstock
Personal details
Born1686[2]
Waterbury, Connecticut Colony[2]
DiedNovember 17, 1745[2][3]
Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Resting placeSharp Hill Cemetery,
Wilton, Connecticut
Spouse(s)Sarah Lockwood Hickox[3] (m. February 3, 1714)[2] (previously married to Nathaniel Selleck and then after being widowed by Benjamin Hickox married Samuel Kellogg at the age of seventy-eight)[3]
ChildrenSilas Hickox,[3] Ezra Hickock, Abigail Hickock, Bethel Hickock, Sarah Hickock[2]
Residence(s)Wilton parish, Norwalk, Connecticut Colony
Occupationdeacon, miller[4]

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 Upson.

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

  1. ^ An Historical Discourse in Commemoration of the Two-hundredth Anniversary of the Settlement of Norwalk, Connecticut
  2. ^ a b c d e "Ancestral File," database, FamilySearch (http://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.2.1/9HR9-F46 : accessed 2014-05-23), entry for Benjamin Hickox (Hickocks).
  3. ^ a b c d e Norwalk[usurped]
  4. ^ a b Hubbard, G. Evans. Annals of Wilton, Volume III, Wilton Village: A History. Wilton, (1971)