Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Hicks, Isaac W.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Newtown Township


   ISAAC W. HICKS retired farmer, P.O. Newtown, was born in 
Hulmeville, this county, January 20, 1809.  He is a son of 
Edward and Sarah (Worstall) Hicks.  His first ancestor in 
Bucks county was his great-grandfather, Gilbert Hicks, a son 
of Col. Isaac Hicks of the English army.  In 1746 he married 
Mary, a daughter of Joseph Rodman, of Long Island, N. Y., 
and the same year settled in Bensalem township, this county. 
 He was one of the early judges of Bucks county, and on 
account of reading General Howe's proclamation during the 
revolution, though he was in sympathy with the American 
cause, he was driven from the county by the federals, and 
went to New York.  After peace was declared he went to Nova 
Scotia, where he is supposed to have been assassinated.  He 
had several children.  Isaac, the eldest, was born in 
Bensalem, April 21, 1748.  He married his cousin, Catherine 
Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, a merchant of New York 
city.  The issue of this union was three children:  Gilbert 
E., Eliza V. and Edward.  He was a prominent citizen of his 
day and held several county offices, among them justice of 
the courts.  He died October 5, 1836.  Edward Hicks, his 
youngest son, was born in Attleboro, this county, April 4, 
1780, and married Sarah Worstall in 1803, by whom he had 
five children:  Mary H., Susan W., Isaac W., Elizabeth, and 
Sarah.  He was the first of the family to join the Society 
of Friends, and afterward became a prominent minister in the 
Society.  He settled in Newtown in 1811 and embarked in the 
coach and sign painting business.  He was a natural artist 
and prominent among his paintings were "Signing the 
Declaration of Independence," and "Washington Crossing the 
Delaware."  He died in Newtown, August 23, 1849.  Isaac W. 
Hicks, his third child and only son, was reared in Newtown.  
In early life he was associated with his father in the coach 
painting business, but most of his life has been spent in 
farming.  He was married in 1857 to Hannah, daughter of 
William and Hannah (Garrett) Penrose, of Horsham, Pa., by 
whom he had four children:  Sarah W., Edward, Tacie A. 
(deceased) and William P.