Whitehead Hicks
Whitehead Hicks was the 42nd Mayor of New York City from 1766 to 1776.
Hicks came from a Quaker family which settled and lent its name to Hicksville, New York. Hicks studied law under William Smith and was admitted to practice in 1750. The son of Judge Thomas Hicks, he was a lawyer and served on the New York Supreme Court of Judicature. He married Charlotte Brevoort, the daughter of John and Louisa Brevoort.
Hicks was a Loyalist and was the first to appear in front of a committee of nine colonials formed by the New York Provincial Congress in 1776 to investigate "domestic enemies" "disaffected to the American cause". He met with this committee in June 15, 1776, indicating his loyalty to the king and was subsequently put on parole.
After resigning from the mayoralty, he served as a judge before eventually retiring to his farm on Long Island where he died at 52 years old in 1780.
