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William Cox (abt. 1630 - abt. 1720)

William Cox
Born about in Pemaquid, Cornwall, New York Colonymap [uncertain]
Brother of and
[spouse(s) unknown]
[children unknown]
Died about at about age 90 [location unknown]
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Biography

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).

Sources


  • The Cox family in America : a history and genealogy of the older branches of the family from the appearance of its first representative in this country in 1610 by Cox, Henry Miller, 1854-1916; Cocks, George William, b. 1829. History and genealogy of the Cock-Cocks-Cox family. 1912; Cox, John, 1860-1951. as found at [1]
  • New England Cox families; a series of genealogical papers .. by Cox, John Hosmer, 1848- as found at [2]
  • A history of the towns of Bristol and Bremen in the state of Maine, including the Pemaquid settlement by Johnston, John, 1806-1879 as found at [3]
  • Records of The Gov, and Com. of Mass. Bay, v. 17, 18. Genealogical Register, iii. 243, 244. Documentary Hist, of Maine, iv. 344, 345.
  • Laurence Denis Sworn Salem July }« 4tli 1699. Essex Deeds, 13, 177, York Deeds, 6, 141.




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