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"Direct Descendants of HICKSONs through one thousand years
An entry for William de Hustedone in Staffordshire can be found under "Hixon" in the Domesday Book
There is a village in Staffordshire called Hixon. It is thought that the origin of this name was Hustedon which seems to be taken from the Old English, Hyht's Dunn, meaning hill. The spelling of the name changes as the generations pass. The oldest known ancestor of this line was William de Hustedon (William of Hustedon) born in England about 1040 and died there in 1105. He is recorded in the Domesday book in 1086 as living there, in Staffordshire.
The Domesday book was commissioned in December 1085 by William the Conqueror, who invaded England in 1066. The first draft was completed in August 1086 and contained records for 13,418 settlements in the English counties south of the rivers Ribble and Tees (the border with Scotland at the time).
William de Hustedon ca 1040 - ca 1105 - he is recorded in the Domesday Book in 1086 and lived in Staffordshire
William de Hustedone 1065 - ca 1130
Henry de Huchtesdona 1095 - 1150 - he was listed on the Pipe Rolls in 1130
William de Huchtesdona 1120 - ca 1175
Roger de Huchtesdona 1152 - 1205
William de Huchtesdona 1175 - 1235
Richard de Huchtesdona 1205 - 1262 - he was listed on the Assize Rolls in 1239
Richard de Huhtesdon 1232 - 1300
William de Huyhtesdon 1254 - 1310
Robert de Huyhtesdon 1288 - 1345
William de Hixon 1310 - 1375
John de Hixon 1340 - 1405
Thomas de Hixson 1365 - 1425
John de Hixon 1400 - 1465
Richard Hixon 1425 - 1490 - he dropped the de from the name and moved to Cambridgeshire
Ralph Hixon 1448 - 1505
Richard Hixon 1472 - 1530
William Hixon 1495 - 1565 - he moved to Kent
Thomas Hixon 1520 - 1580
William Hixon 1545 - 1610
Richard Hixon 1575 - 1630
John Hixon 1595 - 1650
William Hixson 1625 - 1695
William Hixson ca 1650 (1647?) - 1722, moved from Cheshire, England to New Jersey, USA
"Page: 230Name: William Hixson Date: 03 Dec 1722Location: Maidenhead, Hunterdon Co. draft of will of (incomplete, lacking signatures of testator and witnesses). Wife Phebe. Children--John, Joseph, Benjamin, Presillah; wife's children--Mathew and Mary Giels (Giles). Real and personal estate. Executors--sons John and Benjamin. Proved 24 Jan 1722-3, by the testimony of Joseph Worth, a Quaker, who received this draft from testator to be put in proper shape.
Lib. 2, p. 209 03 Dec 1722 Inventory of the personal estate, £166.18.3, new currency; made by Benjamin Clarke and Joseph Worth, both of Stoney Brook, Middlesex Co.
"The earliest record of William Hixson is in the New Jersey Archives, Calendar of Records, 1664-1703: Jno Pattison and wife Mary of England gave land to their daughter Mary and her husband, William Hickson, in 1686. All the family lived at Crosswicke Creek, West Jersey.
(Ibid 367) On 3 May 1690 William Hixson acquired 160 acres adjoining his settlement at Crosswicks making a total of 300 acres. (Ibid 391) 4 Apr 1694 he received 150 acres above the Falls. April 1696 he added an adjoining 100 acres.
(New Jersey Archives, Abstract of Wills, Vol 33). In 1691 William Hixson made the inventory of the estate of Thomas Robinson. (Ibid 433) In 1702 he was the executor of Thomas Smith's estate. Pioneers of Old Hopewell, Ege, p 115 states that William Hixson was a witness to the will of Andrew Smith, made 16 Jan 1703. It was the more literate and respected men of a community who were called upon to be executors, make inventories, and to serve as witnesses.
(Ibid 127); In 1704 Wm Hixson prepared the inventory of the Andrew Davis estate. In 1711 he was a witness to the will of Matthew Giles. It was proved in 1712. (Later he married the widow, Phebe (Hendricks) Giles.)
In 1971 Jeanette Pearson sent me an abstract of a xerograph of William Hixson's will:
I, William Hixson, of Maidenhead in Co of Hunterdon, New Jersey, this 3rd day of December 1722... I give to my wife's son Matthew Giels and her dau Mary Giels, each 20 shillings apiece, ould currency...
Mentions
Phebe, my wife and ... shall be equally divided between all my sons and daughters, that is to say between my 3 sons viz: John, Joseph, and Benjamin and my daughter, Prisillah...
Executors:
well beloved sons John and Benjamin.
Proved: 24 Jan 1722/23. This will is quoted in the Giles Family of Piscataway and Woodbridge, N.J.
William Hixson, born England by 1665; died between 3 Dec 1722 and 24 Jan 1723; at Maidenhead in Hunterdon Co New Jersey; married (1) Mary Pattison, daughter of John Pattison and wife Mary. She died by 1712. William Hixson and his first wife, Mary Pattison, had the following children:
John Hixson
Benjamin Hixson
Joseph Hixson
Prissilah Hixson
William Hixson married (2) to Phebe Hendricks the widow of Matthew Giles after 1712. They had no known children.
Nothing is known now of William's children except Joseph. His will made 24 Apr 1764 is found in New Jersey Arch Vol 24, p 246. It names sons William and Joseph Jr, daughters Grace Boman, Mary Reed, Margaret Prall, and Elizabeth Corwine, and grandson Andrew Hixson. Andrew was to receive
the plantation I live on and 31 acres more ... and he is to let my eldest son William have ½ the benefits during his lifetime.
Capt Timothy Hixon, born in Hunterdon Co., New Jersey moved to Virginia ca 1764, is said to be the granson or great grandson of William who died in 1722. He is the ancestor of Jeanette Hixon Pearson, and the best known Hixon patriot of the Revolution.
After several years of research to discover Timothy's father, he was a mystery, until ca 1975. Someone in cleaning a Virginia courthouse discovered a box of old unrecorded wills. Among them was Timothy's father's will. He is the first known Matthew Hixon, possibly named for Matthew Giles, step son of William the immigrant.
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Also settled in Crosswicks and then Hopewell, NJ
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1650 - 1722 (72 years)
