William Coxe (1598 - bef. 1656)

Born 1598 in Steeple Ashton, Wiltshire, England

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Descendants

Died before 14 Dec 1656 before age 58 in Henrico, Virginia

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Biography

William Coxe is a Qualifying Ancestor of the Jamestowne Society

William Coxe was a Jamestown colonist.

William Coxe^[1] was born approximately (1584-1598, in England, according to Genealogy.com and two other sources). ^{[2] [3]} William Cox is mentioned as being about twelve years of age in one source. ^[4] This source ^[5] shows William on the Jamestown arrival list. ^{[6][7] [8]}

Immigration

Three ships, the Discovery, Susan Constant, and the Godspeed left the England port for America. ^[5][9]William was listed as immigrating at the age of 12 on June 10, 1607 from England to Jamestown, Colony on the ship, Godspeed or Goodspeed. ^{[5][10][11] [12][13] [14][15]}He had traveled in the party of Thomas West, Third Lord de la Warre. ^[16]

Feb 1624, the Muster of Elizabeth City and Jamestown was taken, showing William Coxe living with friend, Thomas Bouldinge, age 40. ^[17] . Thomas Bouldinge had immigrated on the ship SWAN, 1610) to Jamestown and was living in Elizabeth City. "Immigrant: William Coxe, 1624, (age 26 Est. DOB: 1584-1598), Virginia was listed on the Godspeed ship. The Muster of Jamestown, of 1624 recorded that William was 26 years of age at that time. ^{[18] [13]}with friend, William Bouldin who arrived 1610. ^[19][16]

ANCIENT PLANTER

Ancient Planter

By 20 Sep 1628, following the 1624 Jamestown Muster, William Coxe of Jamestown, James, Virginia, qualified as Ancient Planters of Virginia. ^[20] This was defined as a person who had been in Jamestowne colony before the (Apr 1616 departure). He was granted a 10 YR LEASE for 100 Acres land., which was "within the precincts of Elizabeth City," bounded on the south by the maine (James) river, on the east by Dictoris Christmas, planter, and Christopher Calthropp, Gent.^{[21][18][22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27][28]}

Marriage:
Husband: William Coxe

Wife: Elizabeth Hutchins

Child: John Cox

LAND

When William Coxe arrived in Strawberry Bank, Robert Hutchins, the mariner and ship captain was a near neighbor south of Water's Creek. Robert had received a patent to these 100 acres below Blunt Point in May 1625. Coxe's Strawberry Bank lands abutted the land granted 14 March 1638 to Robert Sweete. Mathew Edloe, his mother, Alice Edloe, and sister, Hannah Boyes were neighbors of William Coxe, owning property adjoining his in Henrico Co VA..^[16]

In 1636 William is reported to have left the Strawberry Bank community and moved up the James River to land in Henrico County. William Cox, of Eliz. Citty, Planter, 100 acres within said precincts, abutting east on land of Dictoris Christmas, Planter, extending towards ground now graunted to Chrisopher Calthropp, Gent., south on the maine river, &c. Lease, as above. 20 Sept. 1628, page 89.^[29][18] Soon he had increased his land holdings to Henrico county.

• William Cox, 150 acres, Henrico Co., 29 Nov. 1636, page 403. )This is listed with the Virginia records spelling:: "Aboute 2 miles above Harroe Attocks, west by north upon the maine river, westerly upon the great swamp, easterly into the woods & southerly towards Harrow Attocks. Due for transportation of 3 persons: Thomas Braxston, Richard Bird, Richard Hewes."^[30]

• Mathew Edloe (Edlowe), son & heir to Matthew Edloe, late of Virginia, decd., 1,200 acres upon the north side of James River over against the Upper Chippokes Creek, southwest upon the maine river & NE into woods towards Danceing point, 12 July 1637. Due in right of 24 servants transported at the costs of his father: Math. Edloe, Hugh Tyder, Wm. D eane, E. Tompson, Wm. Cox, Eliz., J Licheston, P Homes, E Kemp, J Buxton, T Crosby, H Croft, T Morris, T Rogers, S. Pettis, C Jones, W Marsten, J Bethone, T Martin, J Seaton, Pricklove.^[31]

• Alice Edloe, 100 acres, Henrico Co, 14 July 1637, page 441. 2 miles above Harroe Attocks towards falls to a Swamp betwixt land belonging to William Coxe & 350 acres graunted to said Alice, bounded W by S upon the maine river, east by north into the maine woods through said Swamp, beginning 12 feet on that side of a Creek towards land of Coxe, running up the river & abutting her own land. Transportation of 2 persons: John Williams, William Attaway.^[32]

• William Cox, 150 acres, Henrico Co., 29 Oct. 1637, page 492. About 2 miles above Harrow Attocks, west by north upon the maine river, westerly --to swamp, easterly into the woods, & southerly towards Harrow Attocks. Transportation of 3 persons.^[33]

• Na Floyd, 850 acres, Isle of Wight Co, 20 Nov. 1637, page 498. 600 acres being a neck about 4 miles up the maine creek running up the baye of Warwicksquike, the said neck lying between 2 creeks, &c. 250 acres up towards the head of the maine creek over small creeks. Transportation of 17 persons: R Leaderd, W Moyses, A Proctor, T Weare, R Barton, R Joyce, M Tomlin, J Cox, R Redock, D Hopkins, F Floyd, W Cox, K Folder, R Carter, J Gillett, C Thomas.^[34]

• Robert (Craddock), 300 acres, Henrico Co., 29 May 1638, page 537. Northerly on a little creek towards Lilley Valley upon land of William Cox, & Isaac Hutchins & south upon land of John Davis. Transportation of 6 persons. ^[35][36]

• Thomas Ransha, 300 acres, Warwick Co., Aug. 25, 1642, page 813. Being a neck of land called Harwoods Neck, butting upon the Deepe Creek, near land of William Coxe, to Stokes Creek, dividing this from land of Christopher Boyce. 150 acres due by purchase of patent from John Garrett, & the other for transportation of 3 persons: R Puse, G Sutton, M Slowly.^[37]

• Cornelius de Hull, Oct. 31, 1642, p 842. 502 acres known as Lilley Valley, beginning next to Mrs. Edlows Swamp, near his land & SE- John Davis, southwest to the river, ending neare a place called Seaven -. 250 acres land was granted to William Cox in 1637. Transportation of 10 persons: T Blackston, R Bird, R Hewes, J Dupen, M Howtree, J Dodd, R Hayes, S Waterhowse, W Jones, W Thomas.^[38]

• Nov 29 , 1636 William Coxe received a patent for 150 acres in Henrico Co., VA, for the transportation of three persons into the Colony, according to Walter Lee Hopkins. This tract was also located on the James River, further west, and was about 2 1/2 miles northwest of "Harroe Attocks" (Arrowhattocks). On Oct. 29 , 1637, he received a patent for 150 more acres in the same location for three more headrights."^[39]

• William Cox, 312 acs. in Yorke Riv. behind land of Mr. Vause, 23 Apr. 1653, p. 89. Trans. of 7 pers: Richard Thorpe (or Thrope), Henry Greene, John Drinkwater, John Shelly, John Kerton, Mary Toprell, Katherine White. ^[40]

RETURN trip to ENGLAND
Willliam and Elizabeth returned at least once to England. Mathew Edloe claimed William Coxe and Elizabeth, his wife as two of his headrights in a patent, 12 July 1637. ^{[41][42] [16]}

DEATH: 1656, Henrico County, Virginia

BURIAL: 1656 (age 57-58) Henrico Parish Church Cemetery, Varina, Henrico County, Virginia^{[43] [44]}

Find A Grave: Memorial #136206838

The orphans of William COXE and his wife were mentioned in the Dec 14, 1665 patenting by Peter LEE of (126 acres land in Henrico, Co., Virginia) adjoining the land which belonged to the William Coxe orphans. ^{[45] [46][47][48]} LEE land was described as lying on the main (James) river and northeast of the land of Isaac HUTCHINS. Description: "Beginning at London Bridge which divides it from land belonging to the Orphans of William Cox, SE on the main river & NE on Isack Hutchings. Transportation of 3 persons. ^{[49] [50][51]}

Descendants (Orphans of William Coxe):

Thomas, inherited 250 acres, 1 Sept. 1642, by Mathew Gough to William Cox and Isaac Hutchins, and assigned his interest to John Knowles, 1 Aug, 1668.

John Cox, of Arrowhattocks, patented 550 acres 29 March 1665 in Henrico County on the north side of "Harristocks" [Arrowhattocks], adjoining Capt. Edloe. (formerly owned by William Coxe and then his orphans).

Henry died without issue leaving will proved 1 Oct. 1697 by George Cox

George

Sources

1. ↑ Jamestowne Society: Cox/Coxe, William - A1909; born 1598, died by 1656, Henrico Co.: (Muster of 1624/5). accessed 16 July 2021
2. ↑ http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=chrispaul72&id=I598059106
3. ↑ https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/m/Jeff-C-Gambone/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1662.html
4. ↑ The Case of the Ancient Planter, by Charles Hughes Hamlin, Richmond, Virginia.
5. ↑ ^{5.0 5.1 5.2} https://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/shipnamesCo.htm
6. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/cavalierspioneer00nuge#page/n43/mode/2up Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1800. (Vol 1, Pages xxix, 12) [1st ed.] Richmond: Dietz Print Co., 1934, Archive.org accessed August 10, 2015
7. ↑ "Early Virginia Ancestors of our Cox Family and Their Colonial Cousins," compiled by Mrs. David O. Reichlein, submitted by Mrs. Opal Cox Avant
8. ↑ Adventurers of Purse and Person, pages 211-216
9. ↑ U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s, Author: Ancestry.com Publication: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc
10. ↑ Adventurers of Purse & Person, Musters, Ancestry.com
11. ↑ Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary, By Martha W. McCartney, pg 228
12. ↑ Hotten book 8a from the Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625 chapters, pages 201 thru 265
13. ↑ ^{13.0 13.1} http://www.packrat-pro.com/ships/godspeed.htm
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16. ↑ ^{16.0 16.1 16.2 16.3} The Cox Family
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21. ↑ Adventurers of Purse and Person, pages 211-216
22. ↑ https://archive.org/stream/cavalierspioneer00nuge#page/n43/mode/2up
23. ↑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_planter
24. ↑ Dorman, John Frederick, editor, The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 15, p. 163
25. ↑ The Case of the Ancient Planter, by Charles Hughes Hamlin, Richmond, Virginia.
26. ↑ The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 15, pages 163-165, Ancestry.com
27. ↑ The Original Lists of Persons of Quality: Emigrants, Religious Exiles ...edited by John Camden Hotten
28. ↑ The Virginia Genealogist, Volume 15, pages 163-165, Ancestry.com
29. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, Virginia State Library, Richmond, Virginia, 1992, page 12 (Patent Book 1, Part 1)
30. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 52 (Patent Book 1, Part 1)
31. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, Virginia State Library , Richmond, Virginia, 1992, pages 59-60 (Patent Book 1, Part 1 page 435)
32. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 61 (Patent Book 1, Part 1)
33. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 74 (Patent Book 1, Part 2)
34. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 75 (Patent Book 1, Part 2)
35. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 84 (Patent Book 1, Part 2)
36. ↑ Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I Abstracts of Land Patents - Henrico County, pg 42 of 176
37. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 133 (Patent Book 1, Part 2)
38. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 138 (Patent Book 1, Part 2)
39. ↑ Hopkins of Virginia and Related Families. p. 114, Nell Marion Nugent, CAVALIERS and Pioneers, by Walter Lee Hopkins, P. 52, 74: Virginia Patent Book 1, P. 403, 492
40. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers. Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, Vol. I, patent Book 3)
41. ↑ https://www.jstor.org/stable/4245305
42. ↑ http://vagenweb.org/hening/vol01-22.htm
43. ↑ https://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/m/Jeff-C-Gambone/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1612.html
44. ↑ https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136206838/William-coxe William Coxe FindAGrave'
45. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 334 (Patent Book 4)
46. ↑ Order of First Families of Virginia
47. ↑ Adventures of Purse and Person, p 212. John Frederick Dorman, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, Vol 15. P. 164.
48. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 334 (Patent Book 4)
49. ↑ Cavaliers and Pioneers, Volume 1, 1623-1666, Nell Marion Nugent, page 334 (Patent Book 4)
50. ↑ Order of First Families of Virginia
51. ↑ Adventures of Purse and Person, p 212. John Frederick Dorman, ed., The Virginia Genealogist, Vol 15. P. 164.

• Passenger List: "U.S. and Canada, Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s-1900s"
  Place: Virginia; Year: 1610; Page Number: 727
  Ancestry Record 7486 #4764105
  Name: William Coxe; Age: 12; Birth Year: abt 1598; Arrival Year: 1610; Arrival Place: Virginia; Primary Immigrant: Coxe, William; Source Publication Code: 1650.1; Annotation: Date and port of arrival. Date and place of embarkation, name of ship, acreage owned, names of family members, and other information may also be provided.; Source Bibliography: DORMAN, JOHN FREDERICK. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. Fourth edition. Three volumes. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004. vol. I;
  Household Members (Name) Age:
  William Coxe 12.

• [http://www.genealogy.com/ftm/g/a/m/Jeff-C-Gambone/WEBSITE-0001/UHP-1612.html William Coxe, ancient planter, <Genealogy.com> Jeff Gambone,

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• Hotten book 8a from the Musters of the Inhabitants in Virginia 1624/1625 chapters, pages 201 thru 265,

• Musters of the Inhabitants, in 1624/1625, p 201- 265, list muster captain, ship, by Hotten bk 8a

• 1623 Jamestowne Living and the Dead Census

• Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. Vol. I

• Dorman, John Frederick; Virginia M. Meyer, Adventurers of Purse and Person 1607-1624/5. ( p. 211) AP&P Richmond, VA: The Dietz Press, Inc., 1987

• http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=cox1&id=I15892

• William Hutchins of Carolina, by Jack Randolph Hutchins, Gateway Press, Inc., Baltimore MD, 1995, pages 632-647: Appendix V, Extracts from the manuscript Coxe Chronicles: Our Immigrant Ancestors and Their Ports of Entry, by Simeon Oliver Coxe, Sr., 1877-1955

• Jamestowne Society

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• Order of Descendants of Ancient Planters/Ancestors

See Also:

• Millennium File Author: Heritage Consulting Publication: Ancestry.com Operations Inc

• Source: S00128 Author: William Hopkins Title: William Hopkins papers Repository: #R00007 Call Number: Acc 40606 NOTEWilliam Hopkins, William Hopkins papers, Acc 40606, Source Medium: (null) CONT Genealogy notes from collection of William Hopkins.

• Library of Virginia Address: Richmond, VA

• Source: S00157 Title: Virginia Genealogist Repository: #R00002

• New England Historic Genealogical Society, 2009.

• http://www.evmedia.com/virginia/

• https://sites.google.com/site/henrycoxblountcounty/home/allenjeffriespaper

Ancestry Family Trees

Source S-456906241

Repository: #R-2097757945

Title: Ancestry Family Trees

Publication: Online publication - Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network. Original data: Family Tree files submitted by Ancestry members.

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Acknowledgements

Thanks to import of and Howe (1).ged, 2011 and Coxe-68 was created by Bill Sigmund through the import of Sigmund Family Tree.ged on Jul 1, 2014. Additions of biography by Richardson-7161.

The Reverand Simeon Oliver Coxe (1877-1955) made an extensive study of the Coxe-Hutchins-Burt on families along the James River in Virginia. After his death his son Simeon Jr. assisted Mrs. Nellie M. Knox of Loveland, Colorado, with data for a supplement to her earlier edition of The History and Genealogy of the John Pleasants Burton Family of Lawrence County, Indiana.

While gleaning through his father's file he became interested in carrying on the family research and proceeded to analyze the land grants and patents in Henrico County as recorded in Cavaliers and Pioneers. These grants and patents were plotted on topographic maps to show the location and relationship of the various lands along the James River. In comparing land ownership and movements of owners he was able to piece together the information which he included in a publication printed in 1964 and revised in 1992. On August 24, 1995, Simeon Jr. lived in a retirement home in Spanish Fort, Alabama.

After long and detailed research, Simeon Jr. noted that there have been several articles written about the relationship of the Coxe-Hutchins-Burton families, but due to the scarcity of ancient records, they are largely based on conjecture and circumstantial evidence. He notes that although his papers do not have much additional hard data to present, they do have much better circumstantial evidence to support the conclusions stated. Members of these families were all adjacent or nearby land owners in the "Lilley Valley" and "Fallen Creek" areas of Henrico and in the Strawberry Bank community of Elizabeth City. The chronology of events and then early simultaneous movements of individuals and their interactions in land transactions point to a very close family relationship which can best be explained as noted in this publication.

There has been a lot of speculation as to the Christian and family names of the wife of John Burton and the names of the wife of his son Richard Burton. Some give the Christian name of John's wife as Rachel because that was the name of his second daughter and the name Rachel was used in the Howchins family of St. Peter's Parish, New Kent Co VA, where some assume John obtained his bride. New Kent records do not show a Rachel of the age to be the wife of John Burton but some assume that Edward Howchins, father of Rachel baptized in 1686 in St. Peter's Parish, might have had an unknown sister named Rachel, who married John Burton.

Moreover, it was then the custom to name the eldest daughter after the mother. If they followed this custom the wife of John Burton was named Mary. The Burton families and the Coxe families were intermingled in land transactions along the James River which presents the good possibility that Mary Coxe, daughter of William Coxe of Strawberry Banks and probably granddaughter of Robert Hutchins, was the wife of John Burton. If she were his wife it would account for the use of the Hutchins Burton name for the grandson of John Burton.