Records of Eliphalet Wickes on Ancestry

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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Eliphalet Wickes and the Wickes Family Tree

Birth, Death and Marriage records are often the best method of making the links to the Wickes Genealogy that will form part of your family tree. Although records vary from country to country, they are normally the most formal record of a person's relations. From the sources listed below it will be possible to locate a birth record and, from that record, a birth certificate may be obtainable which is likely to list the names of the parents, therefore taking you back another generation. A marriage certificate may also list the names of the respective fathers of the bride and groom which may then help you to find them earlier in life on a census record enabling you to fill out more detail in the Wickes family tree.

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Eliphalet Wickes

Eliphalet Wickes (April 1, 1769 – June 7, 1850) was an American politician and a member of the United States House of Representatives from New York.

He was born on April 1, 1769 in Huntington on Long Island in the Province of New York. During the American Revolution, he was employed as an express rider. He studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Jamaica, Long Island, New York. He was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the Ninth Congress, which met from March 4, 1805, to March 3, 1807.

He was appointed the first postmaster of Jamaica, Long Island, New York on July 1, 1797, and he served until April 1, 1806. He was re-appointed on January 1, 1807, and he served until April 27, 1835. He served as District Attorney of Queens County from 1818 to 1821; he also held a judicial appointment as master in chancery. He died in Troy, New York on June 7, 1850. He was interred in Oakwood Cemetery.

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Other names that sound a bit like Wickes

Family names can get corrupted over time, particularly where literacy was not as good. The following list contains some names that have similar sounds so you may want to also look at one or two of the more likely possibilites.

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