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"Thus matters remained until about two weeks after the affair with Col. Humphreys, when old Hicks, a graver
if not a wiser man, was seen on his pony alone approaching the house of the agent. Dismounting at the gate, he
entered the enclosure and walked quietly up on the piazza fiom which he had so recently taken his headlong flight.
As Col. Humphreys issued from the door, Hicks, with a serious and subdued look, extended his hand in token of
friendship. It was promptly grasped by Col. Humphreys, who was about to speak, when Hicks interrupted him.
'* 'Col. Humphreys, how do! how do!'
"After the usual response from the Colonel,"' Hicks continued, without changing the demure and serious ex-
pression of his face:
" 'Col. Humphreys, me big Ingin heap— got sense plenty— get drunk, damn fool too much. Your house, my
land— your land, my house!'
" The Colonel, laughing, gave the old chief a hearty shake of the hand and invited him to take a seat in his
arm-chair, which honor he promptly declined, preferring a less elevated seat, on a cowhide-bottomed chair which
stood near.
"A long conversation ensued over a friendly glass and pipes, during which Hicks e.\pressed his deep con-
trition for his uncivil conduct, for which he confessed that he had been justly punished, and took much pains to
convince the Colonel of his perfect understanding of the nature of their joint occujiancy of the Reservation. As he
shook hands at parting he repeated, with marked emphasis —'Col. Humphreys— your house, my land— your land—
my house !
'
" Hicks lived to be a very old man, his health being very feeble during his latter years. To the day of his
death he retained his friendship for Col. Gad Humphreys, a feeling which was warmly reciprocated by the Colonel,
and which found expression in many acts of kindness to the old chief of the Seminoles."*
Children:
2585. I. Mary Jane,? b. 11 May, 1818, Bridgeport, Vt. ; died in Washington, D. C, 5 Jan.,
1876, ce. 57 3-ears. She married, in Detroit, Mich., 10 Nov., 1841, Thomas
Jefferson Hulbert, of Detroit, b. 8 Nov., 1801, in the State of New York; died
in Washington, D. C, 23 Mch., 1883, ?p. 81 years. Children:
2586. i. Frances Allen, » b. 23 .Sept. 1842, St. Augustine, Fla.; married, in Detroit, Mich., I June,
1863, Henry Prentice (third child of Henry Kirklandf and Caroline Prentice) Sanger,
b. 21 Nov. 1832, Utica, N. Y. P. O. address (1884) No. 234 East Woodbridge St.,
Detroit, Mich. Children (born in Detroit, Mich., excepting the fifth) : (i) May Larned"
(Sanger), b. I May, 1864. (2) Henry Hubbell » (Sanger), b. 21 Sept. 1866. (3) Louise
Annie' (Sanger), b. 28 Aug. 1870; died in Washington, D. C, 5 Mch., 1873, x.
2 years, and six months. (4) Caroline Frances ' (Sanger), b. 28 Dec. 1872. (5) Annie
Hulbert' (Sanger), b. 27 Feb. 1875, Cleveland, O.; d. 14 May, 1875, x. 2 months.
(6) Hulbert Macrae' (Sanger), b. 28 June, 1878. (7) Kate Humphreys' (Sanger), b.
I Aug. 1880; d. 16 Sept. 1881, a;. I year, and I month.
2587. ii. Kellogg Humphreys,^ b. 26 Feb. 1847, Detroit, Mich.; died there, in infancy.
2588. iii. Annie Humphreys,* b. 22 Aug. 1848, Detroit, Mich.; married, in Cleveland, O., 18 Jime,
1874, Nathaniel Mason Macrae, b. 28 Apr. 1834, at Jefferson Barracks. No children.
P. O. address (1884) No. 1745 F St., N. \V., Washington, D. C.
2589. iv. May Larned,' b. 26 June, 1853, Kalamazoo, Mich.; died in Detroit, Mich., in the
summer of 1854.
2590. II. Anna Eliza, 7 b. 25 Jan., 1821, Pittsfield, Mass.;—unmarried. Res. (1884) on her
fttlier's homestead in St. Augustine, Florida.
2591. III. Frederick Clinton, ' b. 6 Oct., 1822; married Sarah Gates Drysdale. Family 379.
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t Richard Sanger, b. 26 Dec. 1769; d. 8 Aug. 1843. He married, at Whiteslown, Oneida Co., N. V., 31 Dec. 1797, Rach.iel Hutler,
b. 10 Apr. 1774; d. 2 Mch. 1854. Their second child, Henry Kirkbnd Sanger, was born 11 Nov. 1799, New H.artford, Oneida Co.. N. Y.;
married, 15 Oct. 1826, Caroline Prentice. They had eight children. He died at Detroit, Mich,, 14 June, 1864, x. 63 years. His widow
is (1884) with her oldest daughter, Mrs. Benjamin H. Paddock, who is the wife of the Rl. Rev. Bishop of Massachusetts, residing in
Boston. Mrs. Caroline P. Sanger was the oldest child of Rev. Joseph Prentice, who married at Preston, Ct., in 1815, Sally Morgan.
He died at Coxsackie, N. Y., in 1836. She died at Charlestown, Mass., 10 May, 1865.
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