This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Hix;Hicks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Cei.2ACEB/3628.1 Message Board Post: Hi list This is long but it gives us alot of info on this Robert Hicks of the 1700's in which there are so many "Robert's". Later Dave Hicks ============================================= April the 28th 1708. Present The honble Edmund Jenings Esqr President, Dudley Digges, Benja. Harrison, Robert Carter, John Curtis Esqrs. James Blair, Comry, Philip Ludwell, John Smith, John Lewis and William Churchill, Exqrs. . . Whereas Complaint hath been made to this Board in behalf of Robert Hix, David Crawley and other Indian Traders Inhabitants of this Colony that in the month of September last past the Sd. Complainants being out a trading with the Western Indians & having purchased a considble. quantity of Skins and furrs and left the same in the Towns of a certain nation of Indians called the Usherees, The Governmt. of South Carolina caused all the said skins with diverse other goods belonging to the said Hix and his partners to be seized and carryed to Carolina giveing orders (as the said Hix was informed) at the same time to seize the said Traders in their return and to take from them all they had and to strip them and send them back to Virginia. And that the said ! Hix haveing afterwards gone to Charles town to know the cause why the Governor had so seized their goods & to endeavour Restitution was obliged to severall weeks attendance and after a considerable expence in presents to the Governor & other persons had orders for Restitution of their goods but that a considerable quantity of the same was still detained without any redress for the same and that at best the Governor of the said province obliged the said Hix to enter into bond under the penalty of five hundred pounds Sterl never to cross Santee River again, and all this without shewing any Reason for so doing This Board takeing the said Complt into Consideration are of the opinion that a letter be written to the Gover of South Carolina to represent to him that this manner of proceeding is altogether new and unprecedented that her Majty first by her royall instructions granted and afterwards confirmed by Law a free trade to all the Inhabitants of this Colony with all Indians wh! atsoever. That the Council conceive the Government of Carolina have no authority to monopolize all the Indian trade exclusive of her Majties Subjects of her other plantations. That this attempt is so strange and surprizing that we know now what cause to assigne for it, and therefore desire the favour of him to signify to this Governmt whether there be any new authority granted them or other cause happened for intercepting our Trade that was not in being in former years when the inhabitants of this Government enjoyed it without Restraint, and to desire that the bond so extorted may be cancelled and the restriction removed till such pretensions be adjusted, wherein this Board will contribute their endeavour to bring all differences to an amicable conclusion for preserving that good Correspondence that is necessary between Colonys under the same allegiance, but if this way of seizure and interruption is continued this Government can neither in duty to her Majesty nor justice to! themselves pass it over, and hope the Government of Carolina will excuse them if they lay their case under her Majestys imediate Consideration and in the mean time use all lawfull ways for righting themselves. Executive Journals, Council of Colonial Virginia, published by The Virginia State Library, H. R. McIlwaine, Editor, 1928, Vol. III, page 177