John Cox, Sr.

Don’t confuse children with those of William Cox of New Castle

http://lewis-genealogy.org/genealogy/Lewis/Cox-98y.htm#a

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Summary for John Cox

• Birth: Sept. (7 mo.) 24, 1675, somewherer in England (however, this is likely asserted based on the birth information for the John Cox, born to Thomas Cox, Vintner of London, which took place at Haymarket, London - if the birth date is based on the marriage date, the likely birth date would be closer to 1667 or earlier, but no reliable sources yet point to this date)
• Baptism: Unknown
• Marriage: Probably 1685, somewhere in England (if the 1675 birth date turns out to be incorrect)
• Death: Probably in Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania (early half of the 18th century, Bell asserts 1711 at Kennett Meeting in Chester County)
• Burial: Unknown.
• Occupation: Landowner, possible early sponsor of the Huntington Friends Meeting.
• Timeline:
  • 1667: Unsupported estimate of birth if he isn't the John Cox who was son of Thomas Cox, Vintner of London.
  • 1675, Sept. 24: birth date of the John Cox, who was the son of Thomas Cox, Vintner of London
  • 1684: Bell's asserted date of marriage in England (exact location unknown, but likely under the auspices of a Quaker Friends Meeting)
  • 1686: Bell's asserted date of first born child Joseph. Likely all children were born in England.
  • 1698: Bell's asserted date of last born child Amy.
  • 1708: arrived at New Castle, Lower Counties on the Delaware from England with wife Rachel.
  • 1711: Bell's asserted date of death.
  • 1712: first marriages of John's children (Richard with Margaret Potts on March 26, Sarah with Thomas Leach, Ann with Casparus Garretson in 1713)
  • 1745, June (Mo. 4) 9: named as home owner whose house held the Huntington Monthly Meeting.

Relationships:

• Parents: Asserted incorrectly to be Thomas Cox, vintner of London, with either Christine Matthews, or Ann Hind.
• Spouse: Rachel Embree (widow Carr - death of first husband and remarriage took place in England)
• Siblings: Unknown.
• Children (all born in England):
  • 1. Joseph (b. 1686),
  • 2. Richard (b. 1688, m. Margaret Potts and Elizabeth Scarlett), [NO]
  • 3. Sarah Cox (1690 - Apr. 2, 1755, m. Thomas Leach)
  • 4. William Cox (Dec. 11 1692 - Jan 20, 1767, m. Katherine Kinkey) [NO]
  • 5. Ann Cox (c1694 - 1762) [NO]
  • 6. Thomas Cox (c1695 - 1760) [NO]
  • 7. John Cox (c1696 - 1745)
  • 8. Amy Cox (c1698 - 1778) [NO]

Please note: Although a lot of the data for this branch of family is not adequately sourced, it is necessary that assertions be attributed, so that their accuracy can be checked against competing assertions (at least until one set of assertions is more universally recognized as authoritative). -Ben M. Angel

concerns

When merging and changing profiles where a lineage will be cut, father and mother cut/ changed, Must provide proper documentation, probated Wills, court land deeds, census records, marriage records, marriage bonds, vestry records. NOT ACCEPTED a copy of an Ancestry tree.

links

• http://vault.hanover.edu/~smith/c13.html
• https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131616895

content to clean up

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From Good Family Genealogy by Mary Grant Bell:

https://books.google.com/books?id=2ifNCQAAQBAJ&pg=PA12&lpg=PA12&dq=...

John Cox

• Born: 24 Sept. 1675, Drayton, Berkshire, England
• Married: About 1684 (not very likely - source required), England or New Castle, Delaware
• Spouse: Rachel Embree Carr
• Died: 1711, Kennett, Chester County, Pennsylvania
• Buried:
• Father: Thomas Cox
• Mother: Ann Hind

Children:

• 1. Joseph Cox, born about 1686 (John would have been age 11, the date is not likely).
• 2. Richard Cox, born about 1688 (John would have been age 13, the date is not likely).
• 3. Sarah Cox, born about 1690 (possible, John would have been age 15, though still not that likely).
• 4. William Cox, born 11 Dec. 1692, died 20 Jan. 1767, married Katherine Kinkey.
• 5. Ann Cox, born about 1694, died before 1762
• 6. Thomas Cox, born about 1695, died after 1760
• 7. John Cox, born about 1696, died 1745.
• 8. Amy Cox, born about 1698, died 1778.

The following paper drawn up a that time is of interest as showing who were the subscribers to the fund for the building of the first meeting-house:

We the Subscribers, knowing the Necessity of Publick Worship & being Destitute of a Piece of Land to Set a Meeting House on Do Each of us Promise to pay the Respective sums under written in order to get a Warrent for 25 acres of Land adjoyning Stephen Ail's Land, as witness our Hands:

• John Earl, 5s.
• Alexander Underwood, 3s.
• Thomas Cox, 5s.
• Joseph Garrtson, 5s.
• William Garretson, 5 s.
• Christopher Hussey, 5s.
• John Frazier, 4s.
• Isaac Cox, 3s.
• Samuel Underwood, 3s.
• Thomas Cook, 3s.
• Richard Wickersham, 3s.
• William Underwood, 3s.
• Peter Cook, 15, 6d

Manuscript, among title papers of Menallen Monthly Meeting. This long meeting-house stood a little south-east of the present stone building, on a part of the tract that has since been enclosed in the graveyard. The foundations were discovered in the latter 80s by persons digging in the graveyard.

About nine miles southwest of Warrington, in Latimer, now Huntington Township, Adams County, is Huntington Meeting House, situated on a wooded ridge overlooking Bermudian Creek, some two miles southeast of the Borough of York Springs, formerly Peterburg. Unauthorized meetings were held in the neighborhood as early as 1745, for at Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, 9 Mo. 4, 1745, William Garretson was directed to read three papers of acknowledgement "at Huntington Meeting." These meetings were evidently convened at the house of John Cox, where nearly all the early marriages (took place).

From http://wisecomp.com/ccl/QuakerPA01.htm (inactive link, Sept. 13, 2016).

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Joseph Cox - Ancestors and Descendants

• Compiled with the assistance of other members of the family
• By Stanley M. Cox - 1955

1. John Cox - thought to have been a son of Thomas Cox of London. There are some facts indicating that John Cox was probably born in Drayton, Berkshire, England. John Cox and his wife Rachel arrived in New Castle County, Delaware, in 1708, apparently from England. The Cox Family in America suggests that he had brothers Thomas and Richard. Possibly there were others.

Children of John and Rachel Cox:

• 1. John, birth date unknown. Married Mary. May have married Hannah Jenkins first, about 1720.
• 2. Richard, married Margaret Potts, March 26, 1712.
• 3. Sarah, married Thomas Leach, 1712
• 4. Joseph
• 5. William, married Katherine Kinkey. They had a son, Solomon, who married Ruth. Quaker records indicate that this Solomon was received by the Quakers in Cane Creek, North Carolina, on Oct. 6, 1753.
• 6. Ann, married Casparus Garretson, 1713.
• 7. Thomas, married (a) Elizabeth Fincher, 1722; (b0 Mary Cooke, 1730.
• 8. Amy, married John Allen, 1719. John Allen was a witness to the will of William Cox (6), his brother-in-law.

There were possibly other children. Old records are not always complete.

Elizabeth Scarlett's brother, Nathanial, had a daughter named Mary Scarlett. Mary Scarlett married John Cox (born 1728). John Cox was the grandson of John Cox and Rachel Embree Carr, through their son, William.

Elizabeth Scarlett married Richard Cox, who was the son of John Cox and Rachel Embree Carr.

Detailed information regarding the history of John Cox and Rachel Embree Carr is documented in Chapter 11 of Dixon Family History by Mary Grant Bell (ISBN: 978-0-615-14973-8).

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The John Cox who was born to Thomas, the Vintner, did not leave England (source: The Family of Thomas Cox, Vintner, London, England )

Society of Friends London Meeting records and Cox family wills show that the male heirs of Thomas Cox, Vintner, with the surname Cox lived and died in England, not America. Thomas Cox, Vintner, had no surviving great-grandsons with the surname Cox. Several men named Thomas Cox and John Cox appear in early Pennsylvania and New Jersey records. They can not be the legitimate sons, grandsons, or great-grandsons of this Thomas Cox of London, the very wealthy Quaker, Citizen, Vintner and Proprietor. jcw, May, 2009

This family history is from my small book Thomas Cox, Citizen and Vintner, of London, England, ©2009. Some of this information was published in my 1989 book A Cox Family History from Thomas Cox, 1694-1762, ©1989).

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coxwhipple/cox3thosvintner...

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John Cox

• Birth: 24 SEP 1675 in London,England
• Death: abt 1763 in England
• parents: Thomas "the vintner" Cox & Christian Matthews

Ascribed as husband of Rachel Embree CARR with the following children

Children

1. Ann COX b: ABT 1688 in England
2. Richard COX
3. Sarah COX
4. William COX
5. Joseph COX
6. Amy COX
7. John COX
8. Thomas COX

notes

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Name: John COX

• Sex: M
• Birth: BET 1655 AND 1658 in England
• Death: ABT 1711 in Kennett, Chester, PA

John & Rachel Cox arrive in New Castle County, Delaware in 1708 from Ould England, probably London. After this they appeared in the records of the Quaker Churches in Chester and York Counties, Pennsylvania.

John Cox and his wife Rachel had eight children of record. There may have been others whose names have not been found.

1. Information from the book, "Joseph Cox, Ancestors and Descendants, by Stanley M. Cox.

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Marriage 1 Rachel b: ABT 1657

• Married: in New Castle, DE
• Children
  • 1. Sarah COX
  • 2. Joseph COX
  • 3. Thomas COX
    • b: ABT 1674
  • 4. Ann COX
    • b: ABT 1678 in New Castle, DE
  • 5. John COX
    • b: BET 1685 AND 1690 in Drayton, Berkshire, England
  • 6. Richard COX
    • b: ABT 1688 in DE
  • 7. William COX
    • b: ABT 1692 in New Castle, New Castle, DE
  • 8. Amy COX
    • b: ABT 1698 in DE

More discussion of origins here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/QUAKER-ROOTS/1997-09/...

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:a67133&i...
• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coxwhipple/cox3thosvintner...

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JOHN COX son of Thomas and Christian (Mathews) Cox, No. 1

• b. 24th of 7th mo. 1675, near Haymarket, Whitechapel, England. Father is listed as a Victualer.65
• d. abt. 1763. John was the last of the male Coxes outliving his brother and nephews. [No death record has been found for John Cox in the Society of Friends records which indicates he may no longer have been a member. That he was in England is proven by his will and his name appearing among those present at Friends’ weddings and being mentioned in family wills.]
• wp. 02 Nov 1763, Westminster, Middlesex, England. His nephew Lasselles Metcalfe is his Executor.66 [No wife or children are mentioned. He leaves his estate to his nephew Lasselles Metcalfe and bequests to his nieces Lady Frances Mordaunt and Lady Mary Mordaunt.]
• mar. unmarried? [No marriage record has been found in the Society of Friends records, but he may have married out of unity or no longer was a member. There are dozens of marriage records for John Coxes in the Church of England London area parish records and the Non-Conformist records.]

Links

• http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~coxwhipple/cox3thosvintner...

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My heritage list him & his family as:

John Cox

• Birth: Sep 24 1675 Drayton, Berkshire, England
• Marriage: Between 1688 and 1721 Rachel Embree Cox (born Carr)
• Death: 1711 Kennett, Chester Co., PA

Children:

• Richard Cox 1688 - ?
• William C. Cox I 1692 - 1767
• Anne\Ann Garretson (born Cox) 1694 - 1762
• John Cox II 1699 - 1745
• Sarah Leach (born Cox) 1692 - ?
• Joseph Cox 1694 - ?
• Amy Cox 1697 - ?
• Thomas Cox

Familysearch:

https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/LDM6-3N6

Wikitree:

• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-554