This William Cox lived in Sagadahoc and Salem. He was a planter. We believe this because of statements made by Capt. Israel Cox of Bristol , Laurence Denis of Beverly and John and Thomas Cox of Beverly. Denis says he lived on a tract of land at Sagadehock on the mouth of the Kennebec Rever until 1677, when he fled from Indian attacks. He had bought this land from Thomas Adkins. His brother-in-law (actually half brother, which is what this term meant at that time) John Cox went there to live in 1686 until the Indian attacks of 1689.
In May 1656, William Cox of Sagadahoc, along with other inhabitants of Kennebec territory in the Plymouth Patent seized John Tead of Charlestown's vessel after trading with the natives which went contrary to the patent.
William had probably lived further up the river for a short time, then settled on a farm at the mouth of the Kennebec river called Cox's Head, in the town of Phippsburg. It was later sold to John Higginson Jr. of Salem, in 1693. It's in the document of the sale of this land that we find William's wife was named Mary.
In 1674, along with being listed as one of the freemen of Pemaquid, William received a license to keep a house of "publicke enterteynement and to be provided w'h necessarys for lodging, &c, accordingly, and to retajle beare, wine, & licquors " for Sagadahoc and Kennebec. {Mass. Col. Rec. V. 7p, 20).
Have you taken a DNA test? If so, login to add it. If not, see our friends at Ancestry DNA.
William is 25 degrees from Herbert Adair, 22 degrees from Richard Adams, 20 degrees from Mel Blanc, 25 degrees from Dick Bruna, 21 degrees from Bunny DeBarge, 32 degrees from Peter Dinklage, 21 degrees from Sam Edwards, 20 degrees from Ginnifer Goodwin, 23 degrees from Marty Krofft, 16 degrees from Junius Matthews, 15 degrees from Rachel Mellon and 22 degrees from Harold Warstler on our single family tree. Login to find your connection.