This may be a long shot. I have a Hilliker family in New York City, in directory of 1789. They are butchers, Stephen is the father, and sons John and Stephen are also butchers. The son John, born in New York around 1777, married Mary Ann Wilkes in 1794 at a Lutheran church. Their children were baptized at St. Marks in the Bowery, and they lived on Stuyvesant Street until John's death in 1822. Mary petitioned for her son James to take over the butcher stall. I believe that her father was James Wilkes, and her sister Sarah Wilkes who married William Banta in 1802 (Sarah talks about a long-lived line of dutch heritage just before she died at age 102). Stephen's daughter Sarah married Conklin Seaman. I am trying to trace both the Hilliker and Wilkes families backwards. I don't think the Hillikers are the same family from Westchester, but I may have missed something. Are they from the Jacob Hellakers Swart line that arrived in NA in the 1650's? Is the Wilkes family from Albany? Any thoughts/assistance would be appreciated. Justine