Capt. James Cox

Capt James Cox

• Born 18 Aug 1672 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey
• Died 18 Oct 1750 in Monmouth, New Jersey
• Son of Thomas Cox and Elizabeth (Blashford) Ingraham
• Husband of Ann (Leonard) Cox — married [date unknown] [location unknown]
• Husband of Rebecca (Stillwell) Salter — married 25 Nov 1747 in Middletown, Monmouth, New Jersey

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https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-1194

Wife: 1 Anne b: 16 Jan 1672 Married: ABT 1690 in Monmouth Co., Nj

Children

1. James Cox Jr b: ABT 1694 in Monmouth Co., Nj
2. Alice Cox b: 30 May 1696 in Monmouth Co., Nj
3. Thomas Cox b: ABT 1698 in Monmouth Co., Nj
4. Elizabeth Cox b: 1700 in Monmouth Co., Nj m William Ansley
5. Rachel Cox b: ABT 1702 in Monmouth Co., Nj
6. Dorothy Cox b: ABT 1704 in Monmouth Co., Nj
7. n Ann Cox b: ABT 1708 in Monmouth Co., Nj
8. n John Cox b: 1710 in Monmouth Co., Nj
9. Joseph Cox Judge b: 18 Aug 1713 in Monmouth Co., Nj
10. Rebecca Cox b: 1715 in Middletown, Monmouth Co., Nj m William Ansley[3]

Marriage 2

Wife 2: Rebecca Stillwell Married: ABT 1748 in Monmouth Co., Nj
Children

1. Amy Cox b: 1698

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Page: 117 Name: James Cox Date: 22 Dec 1747 Location: Upper Freehold, Monmouth Co. gentleman; will of. Reserves to his heirs forever, one chain square of ground where his wife and others of the family are buried. John Cox, son of son Thomas, deceased, when 21, lots No. 3 and 4 in draught made by John Lawrence, April 22 and 23, 1736, being 69 acres. If said John dies, land to John's sisters, Mary Cox, lately called, now married, and Anna Cox. Son, John Cox, northern part of testator's plantation, excepting burying ground; also land adjoining Robert Lawrence. Son, Joseph, southern part of plantation, 27 acres bought of Elisha Lawrence, deceased. Four daughters of testator's daughter, Anna Jewell, deceased. Daughter, Elizabeth, land adjoining Burlington road. Sons, James, John, and Joseph, all apparel and arms. Grandson, James Cox. Daughters--Elizabeth, Alice, Rachel, Dorothy and Rebecca. Executors--sons John and Joseph Cox, and kinsman Thomas Cox. Witnesses--Samuel Stelle, John Hartshorne and John Lawrence, Jr. Proved Nov. 7, 1750. Lib. 6, p. 437.

1750, Oct. 30. Inventory of the estate of James Cox, "Senior," (£715. 13.4 1/2) includes negroes Pink, Adam, Lydia and Vina. Made by Edward Taylor and William Tapscott. Additional goods, £29.7.6, includes debts due from Joseph Throckmorton and --- Hankinson.

Calendar of New Jersey Wills, Vol II 1730-1750

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Monmouth patent Governor Nicolls, on April 8, 1665, issued to twelve patentees the famous "Monmouth Patent," covering a part of Middlesex county, the present county of Monmouth, except Freehold townships and the western portion of Millstone, and a part of Ocean county. The coast line extended from Sandy Hook to Little Egg Harbor, being more than half of the New Jersey seacoast.

The Monmouth patentees were men of strong character and great enterprise, and the most of them were deeply religious. Mention of their antecedents and traits is necessary to a proper appreciation of their worth as founders of communities and of their influence in their own day and upon their descendants....

Acting under the authority conferred upon them, the patentees and their associates began the establishment of settlements at Middletown and Shrewsbury. Later the same year (1665) many settlers came from Long Island and Rhode Island, and during the following years the number of families in the present territory of the county of Monmouth had increased to more than one hundred, reaching the limit which had been set by the settlers at their general assembly in 1668. The landowners comprised in the settlements, who were for the greater number actual residents and heads of families, were named as follows:

From Massachusetts Bay.—George Allen, William Gifford, John Jenkines, Richard Sadler, Edward Wharton.

From Rhode Island.—John Allen, Christopher Allmy, Job Allmy, Stephen Arnold, James Ashton, Benjamin Borden, Richard Borden, Francis Brindley, Nicholas Brown, Abraham Brown, Henry Bull, Robert Carr, George Chutte, Walter Clarke, Thomas Clifton, William Coddington, Joshua Coggeshall, Edward Cole, Jacob Cole, Joseph Coleman, John Cook, Nicholas Davis, Richard Davis, William Deuell, Benjamin Deuell, Thomas Dungan, Roger Ellis and son, Peter Easton, Gideon Freeborn, Annias Gauntt, Zachary Gauntt, Daniel Gould, John Havens, Robert Hazard, Samuel Holliman, Obadiah Holmes, Jonathan Holmes, George Hulett, Richard James, William James, William Layton, James Leonard, Henry Lippett, Mark Lucar (or Luker), Lewis Mattux, Edward Pattison, Thomas Potter, William Reape, Richard Richardson, William Shaberly, Samuel Shaddock, Thomas Shaddock, William Shaddock, William Shearman, John Slocum, Edward Smith, John Smith, Edward Tartt, Robert Taylor, John Throckmorton, Job Throckmorton, Edward Thurston, Eliakim Wardell, George Webb, Bartholomew West, Robert West, Robert West, Jr., Thomas Winterton, Emanuel Woolley.

From Long Island.—John Bowne, Gerrard Bowne, James Bowne, William Bowne, William Compton, John Conkling (earlier from Salem, Massachusetts),Thomas Cox, John Cox, Richard Gibbons, William Goulding, James Grover, James Grover, Jr., William Lawrence, Bartholomew Lippincott, Richard Lippincott, Richard Moor, Thomas Moor, John Ruckman, Nathaniel Silvester, Benjamin Spicer, Samuel Spicer, John Stout, Richard Stout, John Tilton, Nathaniel Tompkins, John Townsend, John Wall, Walter Wall, Thomas Wansick, Thomas Whitlock....

In 1680, under a second grant made by the Duke of York, West Jersey was conveyed to William Penn, Edward Byllinge, Gawen Lawry, Nicholas Lucas, John Eldridge and Edward Warner, the two last named having become possessed of the Fenwick interest. This grant covered the free use of all bays, rivers and waters, for navigation, fishing, trade, etc.

The administration of the Province of East Jersey was devolved upon Lady Elizabeth Carteret by the death of her husband, and in the settlement, in 1681-2, Lady Carteret and eight trustees acting with her, sold East Jersey for the sum of £3,400 to William Penn and eleven other grantees named in the deed, a majority of whom were Quaker yeomen, and all Englishmen: William Penn, Robert West, Thomas Rudyard, Samuel Groome, Thomas Hart, Richard Mew, Thomas Wilcox, Ambrose Rigg, John Heywood, Hugh Hartshorn, Clement Plumstead and Thomas Cooper. In 1682 Penn purchased all the right to the title of John Fenwick in West Jersey, and the twelve proprietors associated with themselves twelve others, viz.: James, Earl of Perth, John Drummond, Robert Barclay, David Barclay, Jr., Robert Gordon and Arent Sonmans, all Scotchmen; and Gawen Lawry, Edward Byllinge, James Braine, William Gibson, Thomas Booker, Robert Turner and Thomas Warne, Englishmen. The sale to these twenty-four proprietors was confirmed by the Duke of York, March 14, 1682-83, and their rights were further confirmed by King Charles II on November 23, 1683.

These proprietors now included not only Friends, but Dissenters, Roman Catholics, and a small but sturdy representation of Scots. Their influence in the Mother Country extended practically to all parts of the United Kingdom, and brought a large immigration from all classes.

n 1687 Edward Byllynge died, and his interest in West Jersey was by his heirs vested in Dr. Samuel Cox, who, on March 4, 1691, sold to a land association, the West Jersey Society, all his lands, including a large acreage in East Jersey and West Jersey, also land in New Hampshire and Pennsylvania; the deed mentions a pottery in Burlington, three lots in Perth Amboy, Gloucester and Egg Harbor, and also lands in Cape May and on the Maurice river. The Council of Proprietors of West Jersey was organized on a basis similar to that of East Jersey. In 1702 the interests of both were surrendered to the Crown, and from that time begins the real political history of New Jersey, in geographical and governmental forms practically unaltered to the present time, except in its separation from the Mother Country at the time of the Revolution.

With the topics last mentioned above we have at this time no concern. The People, and what they wrought, is briefly our theme, and religion and education claim our principal attention, as attesting the lofty character of many of the early settlers, and also as commemorating the splendid results of their effort.
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GEDCOM Source

"Find A Grave Index," database, <i>FamilySearch</i> (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/QVLS-Q1LC : 13 December 2015), James Cox, 1750; Burial, Red Valley, Monmouth, New Jersey, United States of America, Yellow Meeting House Cemetery; citing record ID 81536348, <i>Find a Grave</i>, http://www.findagrave.com. James Cox, "Find A Grave Index" https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QVLS-Q1LC