Hazard Wilcox, Jr.

• Birth: December 25, 1775 in White Creek, Albany, New York, United States
• Death: October 25, 1854 (78) in Carolina Mills, Richmond, Washington County, Rhode Island, United States
• The Sabbath Recorder", Vol 11, No 22, p 87, Nov. 9, 1854. At Carolina Mills, R. I., on the 25th Oct., Dr. Hazard Wilcox, in the 77th year of his age. He has long been known as a man of skill in his profession, and much lamented in the community as well a large number of relatives and friends, who mourn his passing. J. G.

Married

• Married: Sarah Seeley on February 16, 1811 in Elizabethtown Twp, Leeds, Ontario, Canada.

Records & History

• Wilcox.Hazard (1775) - History
• Hazard Wilcox - Land grant 1826
• Hazard Wilcox Jr. Vermont probate records

History of Hazard Wilcox, Jr and Sarah Seely Wilcox

When the Treaty of Ghent ended the war of 1812 on Christmas Eve 1814. * {Sarah was bom in
Schaghticoke, Albany (Now Rensselaer), New York}. Her feet first plodded westward through the Mohawk Valley in 1801, having married Hazard Wilcox, Jr., in Albany. In the Mohawk Valley in 1801 there were still some echoes out of the revolution and even a few out of the earUer French and Indian frecas of her father's day.

Lying beside Sarah in far-off Utah is her oldest daughter and firstborn, Mary Wilcox Lowry. Mary was bom in "Ossewagotcha" (says the inscription on her stone ) County in "Upper Canada" in 1802. Obviously Sarah and Hazard had emigrated to Canada through the Mohawk Valley to the Niagara River and into what is now South-eastern Ontario. Albany is soundly located geographically at the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson Valleys, and in 1801 its 3,000 permanent residents probably still saw occasional characters in "leatherstockings." Up the Hudson to Lake Camplain and the Richelieu River lay French Canada and the Algonquins. Up the Mohawk lay the Iroquois Confederation and English Canada. Must there be any question that 1801 Sarah had the Mohawk, the Seneca, the Onandaga and the Hurons on her mind? One may well wonder whether even the name of Tecumseh was not known to her. In the case of Sarah and Hazard, they were looking forward to a grant of land in Canada, given to them by the British for services rendered to the crown by Hazard's father, Hazard Wilcox, Sr. The senior Wilcox was a captain in British-American loyalist militia, and he was killed in the battle at White Plains, New York in 1776, while in pursuit of the rebel general, Washington and McDougal. Hazard, Sr., in other words was a "Tory," and not only a "redcoat," but a captain of "Lobsterbacks."

How much that may have meant to Hazard, Jr., no one can now know. One can guess not much. He was an infant when his father died in battle for the Crown and he never knew him. Hazard Jr., was a farmer, and like many farmers in the 13 states, he wanted good, new land to start his manied life on, a desire to be realized in Upper Canada, thanks to Great Britain. Sarah bore five children in Upper Canada, her first-born being Mary, and all five were born in Emesttown, Ossewegatchie {Lenox-Addington} County. The Wilcoxes remain frontier Canadians for 10 years, but on the brink of the War of 1812 (1811), Hazard Wilcox made a decision. He removed his family back into American territory and emigrated farther *{ Southwest into what was then Gallatin County Ilinois. Later to be divided into other counties which included White County, with Carmi Township part of it and Williamson County, which Marion township became a part. They are listed in the 1820 census in Carmi, White County, Illinois (White County was created in 1815). Six children were born in this area, a set of twins that died and another set of twins, of which one died. Shortly, thereafter, the Wilcoxes are found in Benton, Saline County (Pulaski County then), Arkansas. Here in 1824, another son John Henry Owen Wilcox was born. (There is also a Benton, Saline, Illinois by Carmi, White, Illinois?) This same year of 1824, Sarah saw her first born, Mary, married to a Kentuckian, John Lowry Sr.

• {The family then moved in 1826 to Congressional district 60

TIMELINE OF HAZARD WILLCOX

• 25 DEC 1775 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.' S BIRTH AT WALLUMSCOCK, ALBANY, NEW YORK.
• 1777 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR. FLED WITH FAMILY TO CANADA AFTER LOSING HIS PROPERTY IN THE BATTLE OF BENNINGTON.
• 02 MAR 1779 HAZARD WILLCOX, SR.'S DEATH. (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
• 1779 EUNICE . (HAZARD WILCOX, JR. 3 YEARS OLD).
• 14 OCT 1801 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S MARRIAGE TO SARAH SEELEY IN OSWEGATCHIE, ONTARIO, CANADA.
• 27 DEC 1810 SABRA WILCOX PURDY'S PETITION LISTED HAZARD WILCOX, JR. AS "OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
• 14 MAY 1793 HAZARD JR. AND WILLIAM WILLCOX BOTH PETITION FOR 800 ACRES IN GRANVILLE, UPPER CANADA.
• 16 OCT 1802 FIRST CHILD MARY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
• 10 AUG 1804 SECOND CHILD SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
• 07 JAN 1806 THIRD CHILD WILLIAM AUGUSTUS WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
• 08 MAR 1808 HAZARD JR. WROTE TO THE BOARD LISTED AS "U. E. LOYALIST OF LOUGHBOROUGH".
• 19 MAY 1808 FORTH CHILD EUNICE SEELEY WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
• 16 JUN 1810 FIFTH CHILD SABRAH WILLCOX BORN IN ERNESTOWN, UPPER CANADA.
• 30 JUN 1811 SARAH SEELEY WILLCOX LISTED AS "WIFE OF HAZARD WILLCOX OF LOUGHBOROUGH" IN HER PETITION.
• 26 JAN 1813 SIXTH CHILD JONATHAN HAZARD WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
• 01 DEC 1815 SEVENTH AND EIGHTH CHILDREN JAMES M. AND JOSEPH S. WILLCOX BIRTHS IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI
• 16 OCT 1816 HAZARD JR. GRANTED 200 ACRES IN CARTWRIGHT TOWNSHIP, DURHAM COUNTY, CON. 9, LOT 24.
• 20 APR 1817 NINTH CHILD STEVEN ENOS WILLCOX BORN IN MARION COUNTY, MISSOURI.
• 01 OCT 1821 TENTH AND ELEVENTH CHILDREN CLARISSA JANE AND LEMUEL NIXON WILLCOX BIRTHS IN CARMI, WHITE, ILLINOIS.
• 14 JAN 1824 TWELFTH CHILD JOHN HENRY OWEN WILLCOX BORN IN BENTON, SALINE, ARKANSAS.
• ABT 1828 THIRTEENTH AND FOURTEENTH CHILD JAMES AND HAZARD WILLCOX BIRTHS.
• 16 FEB 1831 HAZARD WILLCOX, JR.'S DIED IN MARION, WILLIAMSON, MISSOURI.

Sources;

• Hazard Wilcox Jr.,'s history is contained in the Book: John Lowry - His Life and His Family. This History is too big to place here. It is online at Search-Catalog- Books- "Triumphant Banners, Higgins, Lowry, Tuttle, Gardner", Pages 268-272 (Images 187-282). Downloadable. This history contains, pictures, land deeds, wills, family group sheets, stories, etc
• Pioneers and Prominent Men of Utah, Volume - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000013137118684?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082929947922
• Hazard Wilcox in the U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900-U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 No Image, Text-only collection, Add alternate information, Name: Hazard Wilcox, Gender: Male: Birth Place: Cn, Birth Year: 1775, Spouse Name: Sarah Seeley, Spouse Birth Place: NY, Spouse Birth Year: 1780 Marriage Year: 180 Pages:1 –://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=7836&h=1323838&ssrc=pt&tid=4865373&pid=-1068567416&usePUB=true
• Hazard Willcox in the 1810 United States Federal Census - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014428069962?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082929369164&position=3
• Willcox in Utah, Veterans with Federal Service Buried in Utah, Territorial to 1966 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014428069962?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082930690851
• U.S. General Land Office Records, 1776-2015 for Hazard Wilcox - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014428069962?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082928404860&position=3
• Wilcox.Hazard (1775)_Petition 1793 #2-To His Excellency the Governor in Council The Petition of William & Hazard Wilcox in behalf of their father Hazard Wilcox Deceased. Humbly Shewith That you Petitioners Father served in the late American War as a Captain and his great sufferings willfully appeased by voucher here with (illeg) your petitioners settlers themselves that they may be intitled (sic) to the same allowance of Lands as allowed others of the same rank, deducting (illeg) eight Hundred acres granted be Lord Dorchester to your petitioners Sister. And most humbly prays it may be granted them. William Willcox Has Srd (sic) Willcox County of Grenvile May 14, 179 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014428069962?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082930720891&position=0
• Hazard Wilcox - Land grant 1826- https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014428069962?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082927129207&position=0
• Hassard Wilcox mentioned in the record of Sabra Wilcox - Name: Sabra Wilcox, Event Type: Residence, Event Date: from 1839 to 1846, Event Place: Nauvoo, Hancock, Illinois, United States, Birth Date: 16 Jun 1810, Birthplace: Ernestown Twp, Frontenac Lennox and Addington Upper Canada, Death Date: 17 Mar 1880, Death Place: Charleston, Lee, Iowa, Father's Name: Hassard Wilcox, Mother's Name: Sarah Seeley, Affiliate Image Identifier: 66220 - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000014816317171?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082929373000&position=0
• Clarissa Jane Seeley (Wilcox) Death Certificate - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000013137118684?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082904229161&position=0
• John Henry Owen Wilcox Death Certificate - https://www.geni.com/photo/view/6000000000193711569?album_type=photos_of_me&photo_id=6000000082903854506&position=0
• Histories of the Nelson Higgins Family, John Lowry Family, Edward Tuttle Family and Elias Gardner Family, Written and compiled by Kay Lundell, 2258 West 12090 South, Riverton, Utah, 84065. Contains information and documents on the Norris family.Triumphant Banners, Higgins, Lowry, Tuttle, Gardner by Kay Lundell, Lowry Pages 187-190, Family History Library, 35 North West Temple, Salt Lake City, Utah, FHL US/CAN Book 929.273H535L familysearch.org. Sources: Will of Nicholas Norris, Smithville, Lawrence, Arkansas, Film #1290719; Land Records of Nicholas Norris Family in Lawrence County, Arkansas, Film 1290729; Marriage of Norris, Book #976.25v25L; Probates 1815-1890, Records on Nicholas Norris Family, Book # 976.725p28c, pages 148,176.