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Family
Marriage: Children:

  1. William Hiscox: Birth: 31 MAY 1705.

  2. Ephraim Hiscox: Birth: 02 JUN 1707 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island. Death: AFT 1778

  3. Edith Hiscox: Birth: 06 SEP 1709 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

  4. Bethiah Hiscox: Birth: 1711.

  5. Mary Hiscox: Birth: 12 JUL 1713.

  6. Thomas Hiscox: Birth: 17 MAY 1715 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

  7. Joseph Hiscox: Birth: 22 APR 1717 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island. Death: 1811 in Hopkinton, Washington Co., Rhode Island

  8. Hannah Hiscox: Birth: 22 JAN 1719/20. Death: 07 OCT 1750


Sources
1. Title:   The 'Clarke' Families of Rhode Island
Page:   26
Author:   George Austin Morrison, Jr.
Publication:   The Evening Post Job Printing House, New York, 1902

Notes
a. Note:   ather, Rev. William Hiscox. was one of the founders of the Newport Church and the first pastor of the first church in America. His wife was the daughter of Rev. Joseph Clarke and a gr. granddaughter of Samuel Hubbard and a gr. grandniece of Rev. John Clarke, the first pastor of the First Baptist Church in Newport, RI. 'Westerly and It's Witnesses', 1878, Rev. Frederic Denison, J. A. and R. A. Reid, publishers. 'Rev. Thomas Hiscox, son of Rev. William Hiscox, of Newport, was born in 1686. He was married at the age of seventeen, to Bethiah Clarke, and united with the Newport Church at the age of 20. He removed to Westerly, where he became a freeman (voter) in 1709, and town clerk in 1716. He was afterward justice of the peace and town treasurer, acting in the latter office for sixty years, till 1772. He was chosen deacon in 1716; he also served the church as clerk. Though appointed an elder in 1719, he was confirmed as such in 1727. He 'enjoyed good opportunities for study, and availed himself of them to a remarkable extent for those times.' For a time he supplied in part the pulpit of the Sabbatarian church in Newport. We have, in a former paragraph, noted his association with Joseph Maxson as an evangelist. On the death of Rev. John Maxson, 2d, in 1750, Mr. Hiscox was called to the pastoral office of the Westerly church. .............. After a wise, laborious, and honored life, 'he died on the 20th of May, 1773, in the eighty-seventh year of his age.'' He was the fourth paster of the Sabbatarian Church of Westerly, following Rev. Joseph Maxson and succeeded by Rev. Joshua Clarke. He served from 1750 to 1773. Gravestone photo Aug 2001
Note:   He was the fourth leading Elder of the Westerly Sabbatarian Church. His f
b. Note:   HP022, 1st Hopkinton Cemetery

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