Thomas Chick (or Quick)

            On 13 Apr 1671 Thomas Wills received a grant of land in Kittery (later Berwick) "for the use of Thomas Chick's family" (Berwick TR, 24 Mar 1719/20, 75).  The Chicks were in Essex Co MA with three children 1678-9 during the Indian unrest and ordered returned to Newichawannock from Manchester in 1679 (LND, 783).

            Thomas Chick gave bond on 12 June 1666 that he would be "of good behavior towards all persons, espetially towards the wife of Davie Hamelton" (MPC I:273).  His wife, Elizabeth, confessed to "abuseing of her Aunt Wells [Lucy Treworgy Chadbourne Wills] by slanderous and groundless accusations" and was ordered to publicly acknowledge her offense twice or be whipped (MPC II:491, 12 May 1674).

Links

• http://www.chadbourne.org/Gen3.html

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Immigrated to Berwick, Maine circa 1666, and his name may have been spelled Cheek or Cheke in England.

This leads to speculation that we are descended from Sir John Cheke (b. 1514, knighted 1551 d. 1557) who was a distinguished classics scholar and brought to court by King Henry VIII to tutor Edward VI. From what I have seen, letters I have read, etc.there is lots of data to support this theory and just as many gaps to thwart it.