Elizabeth Smith

Elizabeth Cox

• 1675 South Farnham Parish, Old Rappahannock County, Virginia
• d 1704 - Abingdon Parish, Gloucester, Virginia
• Parents: Henry Cox, Arabella Cox (born Strachey)
• Brother: William Cox
• Husband: Hon. John Smith

Children:

1. Mary Smith
2. John Smith
3. Mildred Smith
4. Lawrence Smith,
5. John Morris Smith

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Birth seen as November 05, 1669 without supporting evidence. It appears Elizabeth was born posthumously:

Wills of Old Rappahannock County, Virginia [William Montgomery Sweeny] COX, HENRY, 22 February, 1674/5; 2 November, 1675.

Very sick and weake in body but of good and perfect memory. … I freely and willingly give and bequeath them all to my Executors hereafter named for and during their natural lives and after their decease unto William Cox my son hereby willing and requiring my said son William within one year after he shall be possessed of my estate as aforesaid to give unto the child my wife now goeth with a good assurance of the moitie of the land he shall be possessed withall by this my will or the value thereof (as two men indifferently chosen shall adjudge it worth) at the discretion of my sd son but if the sd child should happen to die before my sd son William shall be possessed with my estate as aforesaid then the whole estate to be and remain with my son William and his heirs forever. Appoints as Executor and Executrix "my father-in-law Mr William Strachey of Glocester County and Arabella Cox my now wife hereby willing and requiring them to pay all debts as I shall Justly happen to owe at the time of my death to take care of and provide for my children during their minorities and to bring my body decently to the ground and it is my earnest desire that my father-in-law would come and live with my wife and assist her in the management of her estate.

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• 1694-1695 Essex County, Virginia Order Book; [Antient Press]; Page 259)
• At a Court held for Essex County 10th of September 1695
• - In the difference between JOHN SMITH and ELIZABETH his Wife, Daughter & heir of HENRY COX, late of RAPPA: County deced. Plts. & JOHN GRIFFING Defendt., in an accon: of Trespass & ejectment is (after the severall pleas offer'd by Plts. & Defendts.) wth: ye consent of both Plt. & Defendt. refer'd till next Court in order that ARABELLA WHITE, Orphan who may be thought to have right to ye Lands in dispute. may then appear & make choice of a Guardian to defend ye same & ordered that ye Sheriff of this County or his Deputy give the sd WHITE notice hereof

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From “Colonial Families of the Southern States of America: A History and Genealogy ...” (1911) By Stella Pickett Hardy. “Cooke Family.” <GoogleBooks>

2—4. John, of “Beechley,” Gloucester Co., Va., m. (first) Ann Todd, b. 1682; d. 1720; dau. of Capt. Thomas and Elizabeth Todd, of “Toddsbury;" (second) Mary Smith, d. 1724; dau. of John and Elizabeth Smith, of Ware Parish, Gloucester Co., Va., and had issue.

References

• William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine, Volume 9. Page 43. <GoogleBooks>
• ”Descendants of Mordecai Cooke: Of "Mordecai's Mount", Gloucester Co., Va., 1650, and Thomas Booth, of Ware Neck, Gloucester Co., Va., 1685”. (1923). By William Carter Stubbs. Page 81. <GoogleBooks>
• https://www.colonial-settlers-md-va.us/getperson.php?personID=I7444...