The daily gazette., 1878-01-21
MFRS. LohD.s FAMILY.
HER RELATIVES RELIEVE THAT HER IN
COME Is NOT LESS THAN FROM
100000 TO $4,000.

HER RELATIVES RELIEVE THAT HEX IN
COME Is NOT LESS THAN FROM
100000 TO $4,000.
From the Ameid Times.
Mrs. Hicks came from very good stock.
Away back In the colonial times Sir
Francis Rumbout obtained patent for .
very large tract of land lying on both
sides Of FishhIl, extending ten or dozen
miles along Hudson river and nine miles
back into the country. This tract has
since been cut up into farms. Fishkill
Village, Matteawan and other villages
have grown up on 1t. Among the families
who have parts of this property are the
Hips, Van Cortlandts, and Verplanchs.-
Sir Francis Rumbout had a daughter,
Katerine, and in course Of time-whether
In New York or Mt Fishkill the story Is
not quite clear Katerine was married to
Roger Brett. Roger Brett and his wife
lived somewhere on the tract, and IL seems
probable that they occupied manor near
the present town of Matteawan. Robert
BRETT, their son, married Hannah Schenck
daughter of Henry Schenck, Abner II.
Schenck, the son OF this couple married o
Miss Wiltse, and their daughter was
Adeline Schenck, the mother OF Mrs.
Hicks. About fifty years ago there came
to Matteawan a handsome foreigner, who
was generally known as an East Indian
merchant, though 1t can be only ascer-
tanned that he was a man retired from
business, who had amassed considerable
fortune in Surinam, in the East Indies,
where he was known AZ planter, and
not as merchant This was Wilko Peter
Wilkens. He was a Hollander, "Dutch
of the Dutch" but man Of fine bear
ing. sa
When he captured or was captivated
by Adeline Schenck, that lady was in a
fair way of inheriting property. Her
grandfather, Peter Schenck, brother Of
| Henry Schenck, was possessed OF large
manufactures AZ Mateawan. These mills
| were the first wooilcn mills established in
this country, and were set up about the
! time of the war of 1912. They have since
given way te the well-known Glenham
Mills, which were purchased by Mr. A.
T. Stewart, ara now owned by the Stew
art estate.
| Annette Wilhelmina Wilkens was born
Mt Matteawan about fifty years ago. Un-
| ill she was nine or ten years of age she
lived with her mother and father at Mat
teawan, or Fishkill Landing. Her father
died and was buried in the graveyard be-
side the old Dutch church just above the
Fishkill depot About that time Mrs
Wilkens and her daughter left Fishkill
and but little was known of them TO their
relatives or friends in that neighborhood
They became az strangers to their native
place. Miss Wilkens became Mrs. Hicks
and about twenty years ago Mrs. Schenck
died She was taken to Fishkill for bur
ial, and her daughter reappeared in the
place as chief mourner.
She sought out all the old servants, 9
host of colored people who had served. N
her mothers house, and she bestowed
upon each of them substantial gift Of
Remembrance of their faithful services
An old woman, Ellen Patterson, nov
seventy years of age, remembers witt
the keenest gratitude, the occasion o.
this generous gift-making,. and tells II
Itones of heartfelt admiration how gra
ciously Mrs. Hicks called each Of the ser
wants to her and gave to each of them 500
Long before this time Mrs. HICKS hat
cut all her relatives and friends at Fish
kill. They knew her only by reputation
When Mr. Hicks died he left her little
except some property in undevelopet
towns in the West, that has since become
productive. Some of the property may
have been in Toledo, but all of 1t was not
1t Is thought, however, that 1t brought.
IRood income in late years. Mr.. Hicki
had two sisters, and Mrs. Hicks also in
herited their property when they died
They had great deal more to leave thar
Their brother, and their legacy increased
her income materially. 1t is not believed
by the relatives who furnished this infor
nation that Mrs. Hicks has been without
a good income, and they express the be
lief that 1t is not far from S60,0OO or $50,
000