Thanks!
John
On Friday, April 28, 2017 12:19 PM, nancy jean baptiste
<fishsongf...@hotmail.com> wrote:
#yiv7901047842 #yiv7901047842 --p
{margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;}#yiv7901047842 Thank you for sharing this with
us! I always learn a great deal from your historical postings!
Best regards,Nancy Jean BaptistaFrom: 'John Raposo' via Azores Genealogy
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Subject: Re: [AZORES-Genealogy] THOMAS HICKLING AND HIS WIFE SARAH FALDES - S.
Miguel - Ponta Delgada Actually, Marilyn, you probably do but just haven't
found him/her yet. Keep digging.
John Miranda Raposo
On Friday, April 28, 2017 11:46 AM, Marilyn Thompson <mari...@jmtmlt.com> wrote:
Thank you John for this wonderful and informative article. I wish I had someone
important enough to have such a rich history of their lives.
Call me green with envy
Marilyn
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 9:43 AM, Margaret Vicente<margaretvice...@gmail.com>
wrote:
John,
Wonderful article and so complete. I will take me a while to digest it.
May I email you privately as you may have the answer for my question with
having all this background on the family?
Thank you so much!
Margaret
On Fri, Apr 28, 2017 at 10:40 AM, 'John Raposo' via Azores
Genealogy<azores@googlegroups.com> wrote:
Margaret,
This is from an article I wrote many years ago.
Yankee Azoreans John Miranda Raposo This is not a work about the thousands of
immigrants who have come to New England from the nine islands of the Azores.
Rather, this work is primarily concerned with the descendants of Thomas
Hickling, a Boston Yankee who settled on São Miguel and became the patriarch of
a large clan on both sides of the Atlantic. Thomas Hickling was born in Boston
on 21-2-1744 into the prosperous merchant family of William Hickling of
Nottingham, England and Sarah Townsend Sale. At the age of eighteen, his father
arranged an apprenticeship for him with the prosperous Green brothers and in
1764 he married their sister, Sarah Emily Green, fifteen years his senior, in
Boston's old Trinity Church.[1] There is some speculation that it was a
marriage of convenience, arranged either for social or economic reasons, or
both. In any event Hickling fulfilled his marital duty becoming the father of
two children by his first wife. Catherine Green Hickling was born in Salem in
1768 and William Green Hickling was born in 1765. Their father soon left his
family and located to the Caribbean where he traded in molasses which he
shipped back to his father's distillery in Boston.[2] He must have been an
enterprising sort, for he perceived the commercial possibilities in the Azores
because in 1769 be was living in Ponta Delgada. Thomas Hickling never returned
to America and never lived anywhere else. He became one of the principal
developers of the orange trade, the export of oranges to England, which became
the basis for the colossal fortunes of many of São Miguel's socially prominent
families and paid for the construction of many apalácio, those grand manor
houses with their lovely English and French gardens still seen throughout the
island. In 1820 Hickling exported nearly 5,700 crates or oranges and 2,000
crates of lemons from Ponta Delgada. But the firm of his sons-in-law Ivens &
Burnett exported over 11,000 crates.[3] At the height of the orange age 93% of
the oranges produced in São Miguel were exported. But the Hicklings and many
other "gentlemen farmers" were brought to financial ruin at the end of the
century when the orange trade came to an end, victim of a blight that first
attacked the orange groves in 1834, again in 1860 and finally destroyed the
remaining groves at the end of the century. The financial ruin resulted in a
reduced standard of living for these "gentlemen farmers", many of whom could no
longer afford the upkeep on their lovely homes and gardens. Many can still be
seen in the suburbs surrounding Ponta Delgada and Lagoa, their dilapidated
state a silent witness to both the greatness and the misery of the age.[4] News
traveled slowly and it must have been months before Hickling learned that Sarah
Green, the wife he had last seen twelve years earlier, had died in Boston in
May of 1774. He could not have mourned her death very much for not long after,
in February 1778, the young widower married Suzanne Sarah Falder of
Philadelphia, fifteen years his junior. It must have been love at first sight
since the young Sarah just happened to be passing through Ponta Delgada in the
company of her father, Thomas Falder. Between the time of their marriage and
1808 they produced 16 children, all born in São Miguel, including two sets of
twins.[5] Thus, came into being the first generation of Yankee Azoreans.
Throughout his lifetime on São Miguel, the Protestant Hickling was very
ecumenical; whenever a Protestant minister was unavailable at the frequent
arrivals of new Hicklings, he had them baptized in the Catholic Church.[6] In
1776 Thomas Hickling was appointed American Vice Consul in Ponta Delgada, a
post he held until his death some fifty years later. Hickling became socially
prominent and popular for his sincerity and friendliness. His diplomatic and
social positions on the island made him a natural good will ambassador who
often received and entertained visiting foreigners. Over the years his business
ventures made him a fabulously wealthy man and he built three magnificent
estates on the island. In 1792 he was living onRua da Misericórdia. His first
manor house with a curved northern side and curved outer steps leading to what
must have been a magnificent lawn, was built in Rosto do Cão in the parish of
São Roque on the outskirts of Ponta Delgada.[7] In 1812 he began building the
Palácio de São Pedro. Built in the Georgian colonial style, it cost Hickling
nearly $30,000.00, a huge fortune at the time and it was considered the
grandest private residence on the island well into the second half of the 19th
century.[8] It still stands today at the water's edge in the eastern end of
Ponta Delgada as the Hotel São Pedro, thegrand dame of hotels, lovingly
preserved and filled with period furniture, by its late proprietor, Vasco
Bensaúde. But it is Hickling’s Terra Nostra park and botanical gardens in
Furnas that stands as a perpetual monument to his memory. Hickling chose the
Furnas valley to build his summer home in 1782, which he appropriately
namedYankee Hall. Furnas is blessed with thermal springs of warm water and
Hickling built his home on high land facingo Tanque, a natural pool fed by
these warm springs. All around the house Hickling began developing what
eventually became a magnificent botanical garden, planting many specimens from
America and from other lands where he maintained commercial interests. For the
rest of his life, Hickling divided his time among his three estates. Thomas
Hickling died in Ponta Delgada on 31 August 1836 and lies buried in the
protestant Cemetery. He was succeeded as vice-consul by his son Thomas, Jr.
(1781-1875). Sarah Falder died in 1849 and was buried beside her husband. In
1848, with the financial crisis caused by the first attack of blight to the
orange groves,Yankee Hall and the gardens were sold to the Marquês da Praia who
restored and expanded Hickling’s masterpiece.[9] So grand an estate did it
become, that his descendant put the house and estate at the disposal of the
King and Queen during their visit to the island in 1901. In 1970 the island's
government formally recognized Thomas Hickling’s place in Azorean history and
horticulture by erecting a monument to his memory close by the entrance of his
belovedYankee Hall. The Azorean Hicklings: the descendants of Thomas Hickling
§1 1 - Thomas Hickling was born in Boston on 21-2-1744 to William Hicking and
Sarah Sale. He was married in Boston on 22-8-1764 to Sarah Emily Green,
daughter of Rufus King and Katherine Stanbridge, who died in 1774. In
February 1778 in Ponta Delgada, he married Sarah Falder, daughter of Thomas
and Elizabeth Falder. He was Vice Consul of the United States in Ponta
Delgada from his appointment in 1776 until his death on 1 Sept 1834. Sarah
Falder died in Ponta Delgada in 1849.[10] By his first wife he had: 2 -
Catherine Green Hickling (1768-1852) , visited her father and his estates in
São Miguel from 1786 to 1788 and it is from her diaries, portions of
which were published in Insulana[11] that we know about her father's
activities and his projects as well as what the island's gardens
looked like in 1786. She married William Prescott and they became the
parents of several children, three of whom survived infancy. Among them
was the celebrated author and historian William Hickling Prescott
(1796-1859) who visited with his grandfather in 1815.[12] 2 - William
Hickling was born in Boston on 14 June 1765. He died in 1794. Thomas
Hickling and his second wife Sarah Falder were the parents of[13]: 2 -
Mary Hickling (c. 1778-1805) married John Anglin of County Cork. After her
death, John Anglin married his sister-in-law Ana Joaquina. 2 -
Elizabeth Flora Hickling (1783-1832) married William Breakspeare Ivens, an
armigerous English gentleman, in 1805, who was in the Azores with his
friend William Shelton Burnett on a business venture. George III
granted him a coat of arms in 1816. Both men fell in love with
Hickling sisters. By the time he died in 1851, the orange blight
and a financial scandal left him and his family in financial
ruin.[14] They were the parents of eight children, among them:
3 - Robert Breakspeare Ivens was born in Ponta Delgada on 9 Mar 1822
and died in Lisbon on 20 Feb 1889. He was married to Luisa
Soares Borralho by whom he had two children.
By Margarida Júlia de Medeiros Castelo Branco, born in Água de Pau in
1832 to José Jacinto Raposo do Rego Castelo Branco and his wife
Ana Jacinta Matilde, he had two illegitimate children:[15]
4 - Roberto Ivens was born in Ponta Delgada on 12 June 1850
and died in Lisbon on 28 Jan 1898. He was a famous
geographer and explorer of the African continent. The
expedition to the African continent by Ivens and Brito
Capelo, ranks with the exploration of the Louisiana Purchase by the
Americans Lewis and Clark. A monument to his memory stands in Ponta
Delgada near the Esperança Convent. 4
- Duarte Ivens was born in Ponta Delgada on 31 Aug 1852. 2
- Sarah Clarissa Hickling (1783-1849) married her brother-in-law's friend,
William Shelton Burnett. 2 - Ana Joaquina Hickling (1785-1824) and
John Anglin have descendants in the United States as well as in the
Azores. A grandson, Dr. João Hickling Anglin, was the rector of the
local lyceum and was a respected researcher who published many
scholarly works. 2 - Charlotte Sophia Hickling (1787-1877) married
Jacinto Soares de Albergaria. 2 - Frances Hickling (1789-1867) married
Joaquim António de Paula Medeiros, a local physician. They have many
descendants in São Miguel, some of whom have married into the local
nobility. 2 - Frederick Hickling was born on 1 Oct 1791 and died in
August 1794. 2 - Harriet Frederica Hickling (1793-1853) married John
White Webster, a Harvard professor. He met Harriet while doing some
research on the geological formation of the island.[16] The salary
of a Harvard professor was more an honorarium in those days, than a
decent salary. Harriet aspired to social prominence and entertained
lavishly at their Cambridge, Massachusetts home, spending well
beyond her means. Professor Webster went into debt to support his wife's
lifestyle. One of his creditors, Professor George Parkman, pressed Webster
for repayment and threatened to take legal action which would have
ruined Webster. Professor Webster murdered Parkman and dismembered
and incinerated the body. Nevertheless he was discovered, tried,
condemned and was hanged in August 1850. Commonwealth of
Massachusetts vs. John White Webster, became one of the most famous
cases in American jurisprudence because of the missing corpus
delicti.[17] Two of their daughters went on to marry Dabneys from
Faial, another Yankee family established in the Azores. Harriet
Wainright Webster married Samuel Wyllys Dabney, who was United
States Consul in Horta.[18] The Consulship of Horta passed on to
succeeding Dabney generations, as did the Vice-consulship of Ponta
Delgada to succeeding Hickling generations. The Dabneys resigned their
consulship in 1891 when a new State Department rule prohibited consular
officials from engaging in commercial enterprises in their posts. Wyllys
and his family returned to the United States and established Fayal
Ranch in California.[19] 2 - Samuel Hickling (1795-1799). 2 -
Amelia Clementina Hickling (1796-1872) married Hugh Chambers in 1822 and
settled with her husband in New Bedford where he died in 1823. She was
pregnant and returned to the Azores where her daughter Emmeline was born
in 1823. Amelia then married Thomas Nye in New Bedford in 1827 and
had several more children. 3 - Emmeline married
Edward Coffin Jones of Nantucket in 1844 and they lived
in the magnificent Rotch-Jones-Duff mansion, today a house and
garden museum open to the public in New Bedford. 2 - Mary Anne
Hickling (1800-1888) married her brother-in-law, William Ivens, in
1833 in the Protestant Chapel in Ponta Delgada. They had several children. One
daughter, Catherine (1836-1933) married Ricardo Júlio Ferraz and they
are the ancestors of a very numerous Ivens-Ferraz family, including
Generals, Admirals, Finance Ministers and a Prime Minister of
Portugal.[20] Senator John Forbes Kerry: the Hickling Connection Edward
Coffin Jones and Emmeline Hickling Chambers were the parents of Sarah Coffin
Jones (1852-1891) who married John Malcolm Forbes (1874-1904), a railroad
company executive and a great-grandson of the Reverend John Forbes (1740-1783)
and Dorothy Murray. They had several children. After Sarah’s death, John
Malcolm Forbes married Emmeline’s cousin Rose Dabney (1864-1947) and they had
three children. Rose Dabney was the granddaughter of Harriet Frederica Hickling
and the ill fated Professor John White Webster. Senator John Forbes Kerry
(1943- ) is the son of Richard Kerry and Rosemary Forbes, maternal grandson
of James Grant Forbes (1879-1955), and great grandson of Francis Blackwell
Forbes (1839-1908). Francis Blackwell Forbes is also a great-grandson of the
Reverend John Forbes and his wife Dorothy. Thus, Thomas Hickling’s descendants
by his great granddaughters Rose Dabney and Sarah Coffin Jones, and the
descendants of Francis Blackwell Forbes and his wife Isabel Clark, are cousins.
Former presidential candidate Senator John Forbes Kerry, like his Hickling
cousins, is a great-grandson of Francis Blackwell Forbes. If there is an after
life, Thomas Hickling must have an enormous grin on his patrician face.
[1] José Manuel Bela Morais, “Descendants of Thomas Hickling”, MS, Lisbon, n.d.
[2] Isabel Soares de Albergaria, Quintas, Jardins e Parques da Ilha de São
Miguel, Lisbon, Queluz Editores: 2000.[3]Sacuntala de Miranda, O Ciclo da
Laranja e os gentlemen farmers da Ilha de S. Miguel: 1780-1880,Ponta Delgada:
Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada: 1989.[4]Sacuntala de Miranda.[5] Francis
Millet Rogers, “Boston Brahmins in the Azores” Atlantic Islanders of the Azores
and Madeiras, North Quincy: The Christopher Publishing House: 1979.[6] Bela
Morais,“Descendants of Thomas Hickling”.[7] Francis Millet Rogers, “Boston
Brahmins in the Azores” Atlantic Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras, [8]
Bela Morais,“Descendants of Thomas Hickling”.[9] Isabel Soares de
Albergaria.[10] José Manuel Bela Morais, “Descendants of Thomas Hickling”, MS,
Lisbon, n.d. Francis Millet Rogers, “Boston Brahmins in the Azores”Atlantic
Islanders of the Azores and Madeiras, North Quincy: The Christopher
Publishing House: 1979.[11] Catherine Green Hickling, Diário: 1786-1789 in
Insulana, Ponta Delgada, Instituto Cultural de Ponta Delgada: 1993.
[12]Author of The Conquest of Mexico, The World of the Aztecs, The World of the
Incas, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, The
Conquest of Peru, The Rise and decline of the Spanish Empire. [13]These are the
children which this author has been able to document.[14] José Manuel Bela
Morais, et al, Ivens Ferraz: Origens e sua Descendência, Lisbon:
1999.[15]Francisco de Simas Alves de Azevedo, in Centenário: Hermengildo Capelo
e Roberto Ivens, Conferências e Comunicações. Comissão das Comemorações do
Primeiro Centenário da Travessa da África por Hermengildo Capelo e Roberto
Ivens, Academia Portuguesa da História. Lisbon: 19-6-1985.Carlos Maria Machado,
Genealogias,MS, Biblioteca e Arquivo Regional de Ponta Delgada, n.d. [16]John
White Webster, A description of the island of St. Michael, comprising an
account of its geological structure.Boston: 1821.[17]Helen Thomson, Murder at
Harvard, Boston, Houghton Miffin: 1971.Robert Sullivan, The Disappearance of
Dr. Parkman, Little, Brown, Boston: 1971.[18] He was the son of the second
consul, Charles William Dabney and grandson of the first consul, John Bass
Dabney. (see Joseph C. Abdo, "The Dabney Family of Faial" and Francis Millet
Rogers, “Boston Brahmins in the Azores”) [19] Bela Morais, “Descendants of
Thomas Hickling”.[20]Ibid.
On Friday, April 28, 2017 9:18 AM, Margaret Vicente <margaretvice...@gmail.com>
wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone in the list have a complete list (including deceased children) of
the well known - Thomas Hickling and of his 2nd wife Sarah Faldes? who lived
and died in Ponta Delgada, island of S. Miguel?
Mr. Hickling was from Boston, USA. His 2nd wife was from Philadelphia. Because
they were not Catholics their marriage is not in the Church records. Hoping
some savvy research may be able to help.
I'm also looking for a correct timeline of when his first wife died in Boston.
Trying to reconcile the the two marriages.
Thank you.
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