John Oxford

He apparently had acquired the lower-class habit of misplacing his H's, because his name was phonetically transcribed as Hoxford, Hauxford, Hawksford, and Haxford as well as Auxford, Axford and Oxford. He could not read or write, and "signed" all legal documents with a mark.

Emigrated to Virginia in 1652 as an indentured servant, to escape the wreck of his family's fortunes. (His younger brother Thomas followed in 1661.) May have been married at some point during the years 1657-1687, as there are four unaccounted-for Oxfords born at approximately this period (James, William, John, and Higgin).

On 1 July 1687 John Oxford at age 48 married Sainty Jay, widow of Josiah Mason. On 2 May 1688, the Rappahannock court records show that John sued the executors of the Josiah Mason estate on behalf of his wife Sainty for her share of the inheritance. On 4 January 1700, a boy was apprenticed to John Oxford and his wife Sainty. The last mention of Sainty Oxford is in 1709 when she relinquished her dower rights to land being sold by her husband. In 1709 the elderly John Oxford seems to have married Elizabeth (surname unknown) and had two additional children. It is Elizabeth who is listed as his wife on the sale of part of his plantation in 1717 and it is Elizabeth who is his wife at his death in 1719.

Children of John Oxford and Sainty Jay:

1. . Sarah (Born about 1690) (Married William Willis and then Rush Hudson.)
2. . Roger (1692-1759) (Married Margaret Kirtley and lived in Culpepper County VA, just upriver from the John Oxford plantation. In 1727 Roger Oxford “of Hanover Parish in King George County” bought 400 acres of land in Culpepper County. In 1758 Roger Oxford was listed in the Will of Robert “King” Carter as an overseer of one of the Carter properties. Roger’s Will was recorded in Culpepper County where he died on 15 March 1759. He had children Hannah (1714-1781), John (1716-1785), Mary (1720-1757), Winifred (1724-1755), and Thomas (1728-1792).
3. . Samuel Oxford (Sr.) (1696-1773) (Married Mary Brown.) In 1752 Samuel Oxford (Sr) migrated with two of his sons John (1731-1778) and Samuel (Jr.) (1742-1811) to North Carolina. Samuel Oxford (Jr) is the most well known of the Oxfords. He was the Samuel who married Bathsheba Barrett, operated a ferry at Oxford Ford NC, and had nine children most of whom moved west to Kentucky, Georgia, Tennessee, Missouri, and Arkansas. One son of Samuel (Jr) was James Oxford (1768-1846), who married Hannah Barnes (1778-1849) and was the only Oxford son to remain in North Carolina.
4. . Sarah Elizabeth. (Born about 1701). (Married Joel Terrell.) ["Sarah Elizabeth" may be an error, or may represent an unusual compound first name - shorter names such as "Ann" or Jane" were beginning to be used as the second, or sometimes the first, element about this time.]

Children of John Oxford and Elizabeth:

1. . Elizabeth (Born about 1710) (Married Samuel Boling.) Their marriage was recorded in the St. Paul’s Parish register in Stafford County along with the re-marriage of her mother Elizabeth and the births of the children of her brother Samuel (Sr) Oxford.
2. . Jane (Born about 1711) (Married Thomas Waring.)

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