At the link I gave you in my previous message, three brothers are listed: Benjamin, Joseph & Daniel Hicks. Benjamin married Sarah Gerow and several people have claimed this couple as the parents of your James Hicks. Try doing a search for this couple and you'll see a lot of trees claiming James as their son. I don't know if these people are just copying each other.
I would suggest contacting some of these people to see what their source was. For example, there is this tree on Ancestry:
http://trees.ancestry.ca/tree/6093272/person/-679342766