Ricketts is also spelled Rickeots, Rickeotts, Rickett, Rickets, Ricket, Rickel, Rickle, Rickels, and
Rickles.
Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania was established on September 20, 1787 as a large region of Central Pennsylvania. It was previously part of Bedford County and the earlier Cumberland Region.
Hezekiah, Ricketts was born February 22, 1754 in Maryland. He may have been the son of Edward Ricketts.
He was a farmer and lived on the homestead in Hill Valley, Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania where he seems to have lived as early as 1784.
He married Hannah Wilcox. She was born February 3, 1754.
Hannah and Hezekiah's children included:
Sarah Ricketts (1776, married James Brady),
Mary Ricketts (1777, married Joseph Rachold or Rockhold),
Joseph Ricketts (1780),
Lydia Ricketts (1781, married Samuel Irwin),
Rachel Ricketts (1783), married Leonard Shaver),
Hannah Ricketts (1785, married William Sinkey),
Jemima Ricketts (1788. married Charles Green son of Elisha Green),
Grace Ricketts (1790, married John Patterson),
Hezekiah Ricketts (1792, married Elizabeth Clark),
Elizabeth Ricketts (1792, married William Clark),
and
David Ricketts (1796).
Hezekiah was supervisor of Shirley Township in 1799.
Hezekiah died September 16, 1816. Hannah died on September 16, 1818. They are buried in Hill Valley, Shirley Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania.
Pennsylvania is one of the 13 original states and was originally founded in 1681 as a result of a royal land grant to William Penn, the son of the state's namesake.
