As he described in his Civil War pension application, Thomas “served about one year on the Tin Clad Steamer Nuamia in the West Gulf Squadron.

Hicks (1843-1894), who enlisted as a seaman in the U.S. One member of the Hicks family who served in the Civil War was Thomas L. Nathaniel Bearse and two men in the Hicks article appear as names planned for the new Veterans’ War Memorial in Mashpee. Bearse (1842-1928), a native of Cape Cod who moved to Mashpee and married a Wampanoag woman, Olive Gould Pells. All of Dove’s Mayflower descents were through his white great-great-grandfather Nathaniel D.S. Dove’s stepfather was also a member of the Hicks family in the earlier article.

(1945-1983), who was born on Cape Cod, the son of a Wampanoag mother and African-American father. basketball player Lloyd Leslie “Sonny” Dove, Jr. This issue also included another one of my articles, “ Notable Mayflower Descendants: Sonny Dove,” which outlined the numerous (Hopkins, Howland, Rogers, and Tilley, see chart) Mayflower descents of N.B.A. The Hicks family was in the ancestry of Julia’s husband and was the earliest intermarriage that I am aware of between Mayflower descendants and Wampanoag people. Last year I co-authored, with Julia Colden-Walker, an article, “ The Hicks Family of Mashpee, Massachusetts, Wampanoag Descendants of Pilgrim Richard Warren,” which chronicled descendants of Deliverance (Bump) Hicks (1753-1850), a double Richard Warren descendant who married Brawn Hicks, of African descent, by whom she had two sons Francis and Abner, who lived in Mashpee, married Wampanoag women, and left descendants.

Another genealogical connection to these regiments concerned Civil War soldiers from Mashpee, Massachusetts treated in recent articles in the Mayflower Descendant. My recent post on the 29th Connecticut Colored Infantry Regiment also touched upon the 54th Massachusetts Regiment and a recent book I had read – Thunder at the Gates – about the black regiments of Massachusetts that served in the Civil War.

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