Joseph Fox I (1702 - abt. 1750)

Born 1702 in Westmoreland, Colony of Virginia

Ancestors

Husband of Susanna (Smith) Fox — married 6 Aug 1729 in Spotsylvania Colony of Virginia

Descendants

Died about 1750 at about age 48 in Hanover Colony of Virginia

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Biography

Joseph was the 3rd son of John and Frances (Lightfoot) Fox. Joseph married Susanna Smith on October 6, 1730 in Spotsylvania, Virginia.^[1] Book states 6 Aug 1729.

Parents of:

1. Captain Joseph Fox (1731-????) married Anjelettah Wroe
2. Lucy Ann Fox married Nathaniel Pope (1729-1806), half-brother of Anjelettah Wroe
3. Thomas Fox (1733-????), no further record
4. Susannah Fox Jr. (April 1736-????) married George Johnson
5. Elizabeth Fox married Meredith Price
6. Captain John Fox (March 1739-March 1803) married Grace Young, daughter of John and Mary Young.

Sources

• Ancestry.com. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.

Original data: Headley, Robert K. Married Well and Often: Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, 1649-1800. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2003. Genealogies of Virginia Families: From Tyler's Quarterly ..., Volume 1 By Tylers Quarterly Historical and Geneological Magazine pg 726

• Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012.

Original data: Bentley, Elizabeth Petty, indexer. Virginia Marriage Records: From the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary College Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. Baltimore, MD: Genealogy Publishing Co., Inc., 1984.

• Fox Family of King William County, Virginia https://archive.org/details/jstor-1919334

Research Notes

Possible Source

264 William and Mary Quarterly

4 Thomas^ Fox (Hcnry,^ John>) married, about 1707, Mary, daughter of Edmund Tunstall, of King and Queen county, and Catherine, his wife, who married 2dly Richard Wyatt, of King William county. {Virginia Maga::ine, IX., 310.) They had is- sue: 6 Joseph Fox, of Planover county, who married Susanna Smith in 1730 {Spotsylvania County Records, 84). She was the sister of Thomas Ballard Smith, of Louisa, who names her in his will. Thomas Ballard Smith was son of William Smith, one of the sons of Major Lawrence Smith, of Gloucester county. 7 Thomas Fox, of Spotsylvania county, who married Philadelphia, daughter of Col. William Claiborne, of Romancoke; 8 probably Richard, named for Richard Wyatt.

6 Joseph* Fox {Thomas,^ Hcnry,^ Johii^) and Susanna Smith, his wife, appear to have had issue : 9 Elizabeth, who married Mer- edith Price, of Louisa. Issue: Nathaniel West Fox, b. Oct. 25, 1768; John Fox, b. June i, 1770; Kate, b. Dec. 5, 1772; Jean Bal- lard, b. Feb. 2j, 1777.

Acknowledgements

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Sources

1. ↑ Ancestry.com. Virginia, Marriage Records, 1700-1850