The Hillborn Farm
Painted by Edward Hicks ca. 1845

Above: *The Residence of Thomas Hillborn,* by Edward Hicks, painted ca. 1845. Image source: Colonial Williamsburg
Inscriptions on the stretcher, not in Hick’s hand, added later: "Purchased by his son Cyrus Hillborn in 1845, when/this Picture was painted, by Edward Hicks in his 66th year."
"The Residence of Thomas Hillborn in Newtown Township/Bucks County Pennsylvania, in the Year 1821."

Thomas Hillborn was a Quaker farmer whose family had emigrated from Somerset, England. The painting shows Hillborn wearing typical Quaker clothing of that era, while he plows a farm field. Wife Margaret Hillborn stands in the farmhouse doorway.
In 1845, his son Cyrus commissioned this painting from Hicks. By January 1846, Cyrus hillborn was a prosperous Philadelphia merchant. H ewrote to Hicks expressing regret at having left Bucks County. That same year Cyrus Hillborn resolved those doubts by buying back the farm.

Above: Image source: Historic Newtown, Edward R. Barnsley, 1934. Internet Archive

Above: This ca. 1792 Hillborn house is on the tract deeded to Thomas Hillborn in 1702.

Ancestral immigrant Thomas Hillborn (1655 - 1723) married to Elizabeth (Hooten) Hillborn

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WikiTree: Thomas (Hillborn) Hilborn