Thomas Cox (abt. 1694 - abt. 1774)

Born about 1694 in New Castle, Delaware Colony [uncertain]

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Fincher) Cox — married 2 Nov 1722 in New Garden, Chester County, PA

Husband of Mary (Cook) Cox — married 31 Oct 1730 in Wilmington, New Castle Co. DE

Descendants

Died about 14 Jan 1774 at about age 80 in Berkeley, Province of South Carolina [uncertain]

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Biography

From the Winter 1998 Mountain States Genealogical Quarterly:

The second wife of Thomas Cox, Mary Cooke, was born at Tarvin, in Cheshire, England, and had accompanied her parents to Pennsylvania Colony in 1713. Her father, Peter Cooke, died in route, and was buried at sea. Mary Cooke was among the Cooke children who went with their mother, Elinor Normand Cooke, when she married John Fincher in 1714, and it was here that she met Thomas Cox (who was married to John Fincher's daughter, Elizabeth). Shortly after the death of Elizabeth Fincher Cox, Thomas Cox and Mary Cooke were married, but for some reason, they were married by a non Quaker minister. In 1733, Thomas Cox. Mary (Cooke) Cox, and the three children of his first marriage, removed from Chester County to York County, where they settled on a grant of 200 acres. Thomas and Mary Cox are found in records of the Warrington Monthly Meeting (Quakers, hereinafter noted as MM) in York County. It is believed that they removed to North Carolina, and then on to South Carolina, at about the same time as his son, Isaac and family left Pennsylvania. One source lists them as a founding family of the Fredericksburg MM in South Carolina (which was also known by several other names, ie: Camden, Pine Tree Hill, and Wateree), which was established circa 1751 by Irish Quakers. In later records, they were members of the Bush River MM (established in 1770, with many members coming from the Fredericksburg/Wateree MM), and later still, were among the founding families of Cane Creek MM, which was also known as Tyger River MM, and which was then located in Union County. South Carolina (Tyger River established in 1775 from Bush Creek). [Page 236] Cane Creek MM ceased to exist by 1808, with most of its members removing to Miami, Ohio, where they established Caesar's Creek MM. The minute book of Cane Creek is located with the records of Caesar's Creek MM. The Cane Creek Quakers moved from South Carolina to Ohio to escape the influx of slave owners flooding into the counties surrounding Union County (now Craven County, South Carolina); the idea of owning slaves being repugnant to the Quakers of this era.

Event

Event: Name: Thomas Cox

• Warrant Date: 5 Jul 1745
• Warrant Place: Conewago, Lancaster

Type: Land Grant

Date: 1745

Place: Conewago, Lancaster, PA^[1]

Marriage

1. Name: Thomas Cox

• Marriage Date: 8 Sep 1722
• Marriage Place: Chester, Pennsylvania
• Spouse: Elizabeth Fincher
• Event Type: Marriage Intention (Marriage)^[2]
• Monthly Meeting: New Garden Monthly Meeting Historical Meet ^[3]

Marriage: Date: 15 OCT 1722

Place: Chester, Pennsylvania^[4][5]

1. Thomas Cox

Marriage:Date:1730

Place: Chester County, Pennsylvania

Spouse: Mary Cooke

Children

Thomas and Elizabeth Fincher were the parents of:^[6]

1. Hannah b 1723, m James Musgrove Apr 12 1739
2. Rebecca m James Frazier Aug 20 1740^[7]
3. Isaac m (1) Olive Underwood Sep 27 1746 (2) Phebe Scarlett Allen (widow of John Allen III).

Thomas and Mary Cooke were the parents of:^[8]

1. Elizabeth m David Jenkins May 14 1754, went to North Carolina 1756.^[9]
2. Mary to North Carolina 1757
3. Peter New Garden MM, Original Member Wrightsboro, Georgia 1774
4. Thomas b 1740, d May 14 1821, m Tamar Davis May 9 1771 in Cane Creek
5. Ann m Isaac Hollingsworth Bush Creek MM, South Carolina
6. ?Richard m Ann Hodgin 1774 in Wrightsbora Ga, Went to South Carolina, Ohio and Indiana.

Death

• 1774 Thomas Cox died, age 79-80, on January 14, 1774, in Berkeley County, South Carolina. Find A Grave: Memorial #75124022^[10]

Sources

1. ↑ Source: #S218 Page: Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives. Land Warrants. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA Note: #N108
2. ↑ Olds, Dan W. "Draft notes" ?August 7 2000. Page 18 https://documents.pub/reader/full/the-cox-danogenealogycoxlinpdf-quaker-family-living-in-chester-county-pa-with
3. ↑ Source: #S147 Page: Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA Note: #N107
4. ↑ Source: #S14 Page: Source number: 1261.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: PKK
5. ↑ Source: #S147
6. ↑ Buffa, Elizabeth. The Cox Family. Family Search:1 10 2010. Page 31. https://archive.org/details/coxfamilyoutline00buff/page/n76/mode/1up
7. ↑ Myers, Albert Cook. Immigration of the Irish Quakers into Pennsylvania, 1682-1750. Swarthmore, Pa. Albert Cook Myers:1902. Page 168. https://archive.org/details/immigrationofiri00myer/page/168/mode/1up
8. ↑ Buffa, Elizabeth. 1/10/2010 Page 31. https://archive.org/details/coxfamilyoutline00buff/page/n76/mode/1up
9. ↑ Cox, Rev William Henry A.M. The Cox Family in America. Somerville, N. J. The Unionist-Gazette Association:1912. Page 248. https://www.google.com/books/edition/The_Cox_Family_in_America/PTNGAAAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq=underwood
10. ↑ Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/75124022/thomas-cox : accessed 15 September 2021), memorial page for Thomas Cox (1694–14 Jan 1774), Find a Grave Memorial ID 75124022, ; Maintained by William Cox (contributor 47513798) Unknown.

• Richard Mullins Ged.FTW. File: E:\Geneology\CENSUS80 Wise - Mincy Vanover niece of Elizabeth Mullins.jpg Note: Elizabeth is 52 y.o. and says Mincy is her niece.
• My Heritage https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-1-375189841-1-238/thomas-cox-in-myheritage-family-trees
• Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA
• Source: S14 Author: Yates Publishing Title: U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc
• Source: S147 Author: Ancestry.com Title: U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1995 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Source: S204 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Global, Find A Grave Index for Non-Burials, Burials at Sea, and other Select Burial Locations, 1300s-Current Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.; Repository: #R1
• Source: S218 Author: Ancestry.com Title: Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc.
• Source: S24 Author: Edmund West, comp. Title: Family Data Collection - Births Publication: Name: Ancestry.com Operations Inc

Notes

Note N107Ancestry.com. U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.\r\nOriginal data:\r\nSwarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.\r\nNorth Carolina Yearly Meeting Minutes. Hege Friends Historical Library, Guilford College, Greensboro, North Carolina.\r\nIndiana Yearly Meeting Minutes. Earlham College Friends Collection & College Archives, Richmond, Indiana.\r\nHaverford, Quaker Meeting Records. Haverford College, Haverford, Pennsylvania.

Note N108Ancestry.com. Pennsylvania, Land Warrants and Applications, 1733-1952 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2012. Original data: Warrant Applications, 1733-1952. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania State Archives. Land Warrants. Pennsylvania State Archives, Harrisburg, PA.

Thomas Cox b. ca. 1674 m. Elizabeth Fincher 2 Sept. 1722 (dt . John Fincher Martha Taylor)

I. Hannah Cox m. James Musgrove 12 Apr. 1739 She b. ca . 1723.

II. Rebecca Cox m. James Frazier 22 Aug. 1740.

III. Isaac Cox m. 1) Olive Underwood 27 Sept. 1740 (she d. before 1764) Went to N.C. He m. 2) Phoebe Scarlett - widow Allen 1 July 1764 at Cane Creek. They resided Manchester & London Grove, Pa. and later N.C.

Thomas Cox m. 2) Mary Cook in 1730. She d. 17 Jan. 1784, Bush Creek, S.C.

IV. Elizabeth m. David Jenkins, Warrington, MM. 14 May 1754; went to N.C. 1756.

V. Mary to N.C. in 1757.

VI. Peter - New Garden MM - original member Wrightsboro Ga. MM. 1774.

VII. Thomas b. ca. 1740 m. Tamar Davis 9 May 1771, Cane Creek MM. He d. 14 May 1821, age 81. She was b. 11 Apr. 1749; d. 25 Aug. 1829.

a. Mary m. Christopher Wilson

b. Ann m. Freyser.

VIII. Ann Cox m. Isaac Hollingsworth, Bush Creek MM, S.C.

IX. (Possibly) Richard m. Ann Hodgin 1774, Wrightsboro MM, Ga. Went to S.C, Ohio & Indiana. Ch. of Richard & Ann:

a. Thomas

b. Mary

c. Rebecca b. 18 Jan 1780

d. David - goes to Ohio

e. Peter

f. John - goes to Ohio

g. Richard - goes to Ohio

h. William

FINCHER FAMILY.

I. Elizabeth Finches, daughter of John and Martha (Taylor) Fincher, married, 9 mo. 2, 1722, at London Grove Friends' Meeting, Chester Co., Pa., Thomas Cox, a young man of the same township, and perhaps a son of John and Rachel Cox, of Kennett. By Thomas Cox she had at least three children, for Mary Newlins, in her will, dated 5 mo. 9, 1730. mentions the three children of her sister, Elizabeth Cox, deceased.

After Elizabeth's death, Thomas Cox was married, in 1730, " with Lisence by ye priest " to Mary Cooke, daughter of Peter and Elinor (Norman) Cooke. By deed of March 12 (?) and 14, 1722, Tobias Collett & Co. or the London Co. sold 150 acres of land in London Grove Twp., Chester Co., to Thomas Cox, yeoman. By deed of June 14 and 15, 1733, Thomas Cox and wife Mary, granted the tract to Joseph Jackson and removed with their family to the country "over the River Susquehannah," in what is now York county. Here by a warrant (No. 113) dated March 30, 1738, from the Penn proprietaries, he was granted a tract of 200 acres of land settled by him [con]veyed to James Logan, Esquire, on the west side of in 1733, adjoining a tract of two hundred acres sur-Susquehannah river in Hallem township." He also owned other land in the same county. About 1757 he removed with his wife and younger children to North Carolina, where trace of him and his wife has been lost. He had three children, Rebecca, Isaac, and Elizabeth, by his first wife and Mary, Peter, and others by his second wife. Children of Thomas and Elizabeth (Fincher) Cox:

1. Rebecca Cox was married. 8 mo. 20, 1740, by Friends' ceremony, at the house of William Garretson, in what is now Newberry Twp., York Co., Pa., to James Fraizer. A son, Joshua, married, 12 mo. 22, 1772, Deborah Marsh, daughter of Peter Marsh, of Warrington Twp., York Co., Pa.

2. Isaac Cox m. 9 mo. 27,. 1746, at Warrington Meeting, York Co., Pa., Olive Underwood, daughter of Alexander Underwood. A certificate of removal for him, his wife, and family, to North Carolina, was signed by Warrington Monthly Meeting, 8 mo. 18, 1753.

3. Elizabeth Cox, m. 5 mo. 14, 1754, at Warrington Meeting, David Jenkins, son of Thomas Jenkins. David' Jenkins produced a certificate of removal from Exeter Mo. Mtg., Berks Co., Pa., dated 8 mo. 30, 1753, to Warrington Mo. Mtg., 12 mo. 15, 1753. At Warrington Mo. Mtg., 5 mo. 15, 1750, a certificate to Cane Creek Mo. Mtg., North Carolina, was signed for David Jenkins and wife. In 1786, Margaret Cook, a Quaker minister, of London Grove, Chester Co., Pa., made a religious visit to South Carolina, and at Bush River, according to her Journal, she "came to David Jenkin's; his wife, is my husband's cousin." Judge O'Neall, in his "Annals of Newberry,"1 South Carolina, says: "David Jenkins, about 1762, or possibly a few years before, settled on the plantation where Mayor Peter Hare resides." The same writer also gives the following description of Bush River Friends' Meeting: "In imagination often can I see the aged form of the elder David Jenkins immediately below the preacher's bench, on the left of the southern entrance to the men's meeting, leaning on the head of his staff, his large protruding lower lip the most remarkable feature of his face. Along side him might be seen the tall form and gray hairs of 'Tanner' Thompson, as he used to be called. Scarcely could the sacred stillness of Friends' meeting keep him from snapping his thumb and finger together as if feeling a side of leather. Just here, I recall the person of Isaac Hollingsworth. His was a stalwart form, more than six feet high. He sits the picture of firmness, and ever and anon, throwing up the ample brim of his flapping beaver, he looks as if restless for execution." (To be continued.)

At the General Quarter Session of October 1749, the following persons were recognised as constables; for ...Warrington, Robert Vale; ...Huntingdon, William Caxon; ...Monallen, Robert Moore; ...Manheim, Valentine Herr. The county having "been fully organized" by a competent set of officers at the 'helm', with municipal powers------ Hans Hamilton, Sheriff; John Day, Thomas Cox, John Wright, Jr., George Schwaabe, Matthew Diel[Dill?], Hans Hamilton, Patrick Watson and George Stevenson, Justices of the Peace...

History of York and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania 1834-1844, pg. 580

(3) Thomas Cox of Warrington was one of the commissioners for setting up York County.

August 19, 1749, the General Assembly of Pennsylvania passed an act erecting certain lands west of the Susquehanna into York County. In this act it was enacted, among other things, that a competent number of justices should be commissioned; that these justices should hold courts of General Quarter Sessions of the Peace, Common Pleas and Orphans' Courts, and that Thomas Cox, Michael Tanner, George Swoope, Nathan Huffey (Hussey) and John Wright, Jr., be authorized to purchase a lot in a convenient place, and thereon build a court house. The justices were not men learned in the law, but any citizens who were influential and popular enough to be elected...

On 1st of November (1749), the next day, the first Orphans' Court was held before John Day, Thomas Cox and Patrick Watson. The first act performed by this court was to bind out an orphan boy, two years old, by name of George McSweny, to John Witherow of Hamilton's Band, till he should come of age: "In consideration whereof, the said John Witherow covenants and oblidges himself to furnish and Allow the said Apprentice Sufficient Meat, Drink, Apparel, Washing and Lodging during the said term, and to teach or cause him to be taught to read and Write; and Arithmetic as far as the Rule of three Direct, and at the Expiration of the said Term to give him two suits of Apparel, one whereof shall be new."

Although the before mentioned trustees had been appointed to in 1749, by act of Assembly, to build a court house, yet was nothing was done toward performing that trust until 1754. In that year the commissioners made a number of contracts for the material and construction and the long-looked-for and much needed house of justice was commenced. But it was not completed until the beginning of the year 1756. Up to this time the courts had been held in private houses, probably those of the justices themselves.

pg. 3. 1mo. 19, 1747/8 Patrick Carson has openly accused Thomas Cox with telling an untruth this meeting appoints John Day, William Garretson, Jacob Beals and John Griest to treate with them both together and find if posible where the fault is and make reporte to next meeting.

2mo. 16, 1748 The friends appointed Last meeting to treate with Patrick Carson and Thomas Cox Concerning the dispute between them reports that they were with them, but Could not Come to any Settlement between them this meeting appoints John Day and Richard Wickersham to go down to Sadsbury where the dispute arose and sarch the matter and being a true account back to next meeting how they (formed or found) it.

pg. 4. 3mo. 21, 1748 The friends appointed Last meeting to go down to Sadsbury to inquire into that affare between Thomas Cox and Patrick Carson reports that they were down accordingly and reports that what Thomas Cox reported was true, and Patrick not being here this meeting appoints John Blackburn and Peter Stout to speake to him and desire him to be at next meeting, and make report to next meeting.

4mo. 18, 1748 it was proposed in this meeting to recommend Thomas Cox, Solomon Shepherd and William Ferrel to the meeting of ministers and Elders this meeting appoints William Garretson, John Blackburn, John Wright and Peter Stout to make inquiery as usal in Such Cases and make report to next meeting. Patrick Carson acknowledged in this meeting that he was sorrey for the misunderstanding that was between him and Thomas Cox, and also that he was sorrey that he gave Thomas the Lie after such a maner which this meeting takes as satisfaction.

pg. 5. 5mo. 16, 1748 The friends appointed Last Meeting to inquire into the business Concerning Recommending the three friends to the Meeting of Ministers and Elders as ministers reports that the have made inquiring and that they find nothing to object against them, as such we recommend them William Garretson is desired to see it accomplished at next Quarterly meeting.

pg. 25. 2mo. 15, 1752 "Warrington meeting Enters a Complaint against Thomas Cox and Henry Clark for allowing Spiriteous Liquer to be given at a vandue. this meeting appoints William Griffith, Samuel Underwood, Nathan Hussey, Joseph Bennet, James Hamel and William Beals to inquire further into the affare and make report to next meeting."

Pg. 25-26. 3mo. 21, 1752 Thomas Cox and Henry Clark reported guilty of the charge against them: Peter Stout and John Garretson to treat with them. Henry Clark appeared and promised to satisfie friends.

pg. 26. 4mo. 18, 1752 "The friends appointed Last meeting to treate with Thomas Cox and Henry Clark reports that they treated with them in love but could not bring them to see that they have done amiss: this meeting Concludes to have the advice of the Quarterly Meeting before they proceed any further on it."

pg. 27. 5mo. 1752 "Thomas Cox appeared at this meeting and justifies his proceeding Concerning the vandue, and in no shape Condesending to friends." James Hamel & Richard Wickersham to draw a testimony against him.

pg. 27-28. 6mo. 20, 1752 Testimony signed against Thomas Cox: Richard Wickersham and Wm. Underwood to give him a hearing of it and Wm. to read at Warrington Mtg.

pg. 28. 7mo. 18, 1752 Testimony against Thomas Cox read and returned

pg. 32. 12mo. 16, 1752 Thomas Cox declares intention to appeal: James Hamel, William Griffith, Joseph Bennet, Robert Comer, Peter Stout and John Blackburn to attend the Quarterly Meeting with copies of the minutes in this case.

pg. 69. 4mo. 21, 1759 at Warrington Mary Cox with her children being removed and settled in Carolina with Certificates (Except her daughter Mary), Peter Cleaver to assist Ann Collins & Katherine Teaviller to prepare one.

pg. 70. 5mo. 12, 1759 Certs signed for Mary Cox & children and Jane Boyd.

1760, 10, 25. Peter (Coks) & mother & younger ch rocf Warrington MM, Pa., dated 1759, 5, 12.

Page 3.

Mary Cox, w. Thomas, d. 1-17-1784.

Cox Family Outline, page 31, Elizabeth Berry Buffa, 1977

Albert Cook Myers Collection, CCHS c. 1955 -- Notes on Thomas Cox & Family - History of York Co., Pa. (a.) P. 278 et seq - Chapter entitled - Friends or Quakers, John Gibson, 1886

History of York County, Pennsylvania 'The Bench and Bar' page 430, John Gibson, 1886

Abstracts of the Records of Warrington Monthly Meeting York County, Pennsylvania, Gilbert Cope, 1877 LDS FHL Film # 387937

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I North Carolina, page 535, New Garden Monthly Meeting, Guilford Co., North Carolina "Minutes and Marriage Records" under "Cox" William Wade Hinshaw 1936

Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy, Vol. I North Carolina, page 1019, Bush River Monthly Meeting, Newberry Co., South Carolina "Birth and Death Records" William Wade Hinshaw 1936

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 "Rev. Henry Miller Cox A.M. 1912