Isaac Cox
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Isaac Cox (abt. 1716 - 1783)

Colonel Isaac Cox
Born about in Cock's Island, Philadelphia Pennsylvaniamap
Ancestors ancestors
Husband of — married 1737 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania Colonymap
Descendants descendants
Died at about age 67 in Wellsburg, Brooke, Virginia, United Statesmap
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Biography

Isaac Cox was born in 1716 in Cock's Island, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania.

Isaac married Susanna Tomlinson.[1]

In a 1733 census Isaac was in Tuckahoe Hundred, Talbot County, Maryland.[2]

He died in 1783 in Wellsburg, Ohio County, Virginia, in present-day West Virginia. He was buried on Lower Buffalo Creek in Ohio County. His estate was settled in Nelson County, Kentucky.


Parents' Marriage

: Husband: @P513@

Wife: Eleanor Peterson
Child: Colonel Isaac Cox
Date: 15 Nov 1735
Place: Christ Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States[3][4]

Birth: Death:1783 Occupation: Note: Occupation: Note:Surveyor Will:1716

Will:1767 Note:moved from Hampshire Co., VA to Wellsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) Residence:1776 Note:Was paymaster in Col. Samuel Miles' PA. Rifle Regt. Note: This Scotch-Irish Cox family from Switzerland had come to America in the late 1600s and settled in the Allegheny foothills of Maryland not far from the present town of Brownsville, PA. By 1750. the Cox families working together were engaged in obtaining land holdings and building forts in newly developing western frontiers in advance of settlers. When the area near the junction of Little Cacapon and South Branch of the Potomac became settled, the Cox families sold t heir holdings and built a new fort north of Romney near Patterson Creek in Hampshire Co., VA. Afterwards, the Cox families established three forts on the Ohio River frontier i n Yohogania and Ohio Counties of Virginia. Catfish Camp became Augusta Town, then was later known as the City of Washington, PA. For an interesting and detailed account of these Cox families and their enterprising business ventures, se e "The Coxes of Cox's Creek, Kentucky" by Evelyn C. Adams i n the Filson Club History Quarterly, 22.

Fought in the American Revolution. Isaac, Gabriel, and Friend Cox moved from Maryland about 1750 to the section of Frederick Co., VA that was organized as Hampshire Co., in 1753 . 1783-1800: moved from Oldtown, Allegheny Co., MD to Hampshire Co., VA (now WV), by 1753 moved to Wellsburg, Ohio Co. , VA. Between 1769 and late 1770s the three Cox families (I sac, Gabriel and Friend) acquired extensive landholdings and built three forts in Ohio and Yohogania Counties within an area of some forty square miles reaching from the present WV panhandle well into the southwest corner of what is now Penn. Isaac's sons, Gabriel, Isaac, David and John took an active part in the affairs of Yohogania Co., Gabriel and Isaac became prominent and wealthy.


!(1) "The Coxes of Cox's Creek, Kentucky," by Evelyn C. Ada ms, "Genealogies of KY Families, Filson Club Quarterly," p.442-469. (2) DAR Patriotic Index (1966) p.159.

!Birth: (1,2) c.1716. (1) Switzerland, of Scotch-Irish pare nts, brother of Gabriel and Friend Cox. Marriage to Susannah Tomlinson: (1,2) Death: (1,2) 1783. (1) Near Wellsburg, West Virginia.

(1) c.1740: Arrived at the foothills of the MD Alleghenies not far from present Brownsville, PA. (1) c.1750: Moved with brothers and their families to Frederick Co., VA, which in 1753 became Hampshire Co., VA (now WV). Bought land along the North and South Branches of the Potomac River & Cacagon streams. (2) CS, VA, Rev. War. (1) 1783-1800: Estate settled in Nelson Co., Kentucky.


The Coxes were adept in the building of communities and the roots of early Cox's Station struck deep and held fast fa r out on the rim of settlement. The place name Cox's Cree k appears in 1779 and 1780 in the Certificate Books of the Virginia Land Commission, which refer retroactively to the year of 1776 when Colonel Isaac made his first journey t o Kentucky. From 1785, when a church and school had already been built, the Cox's Creek community was destined to survive. Today the government post office called Cox's Creek stands not far from the actual site of the early station. Co x's Creek Baptist Church, with its long history and thriving congregation, is one of the best-known churches in the section. Recently a substantial brick structure was erected a short distance from the post office to house the modern consolidated Cox's Creek school. The vital rural community assures the perpetuation of the Cox name for generation s to come. Isaac the immigrant died in 1783, and nine surviving members of his family are named as heirs-at-law in the settlement of his estate in Nelson County in 1800. The violence attending pioneer life had taken its toll. His son s James, Joseph, and Colonel Isaac were slain by Indians, and his son-in-law Major William McMahan was killed in battle in 1794. Little is known of Nancy, the seventh child. Sh e evidently died without issue. Of the nine members of the family surviving, George and Ann lived in West Virginia , and Susannah the widow and John, David, Gabriel, Polly, Jonathan, and Benjamin lived in Kentucky. John lived in Fayette County, David and Gabriel in Nelson County, and the others in Shelby County. The approximate dates which are use d in the following genealogy of the twelve children of Isaac Cox the immigrant and Susannah Tomlinson have been correlated with pertinent records.

1. James Cox (1740? - 1760?) is said to have been a large m an. Induced perhaps by rewards ranging from fifteen to thirty pounds that were offered by the Virginia Assembly in 175 7 for each Indian scalp, he ran away from home at the age o f eighteen and became an Indian scalper. When he was about twenty -years old he was slain by mistake one night as h e was returning in Indian garb to his own forted home in Hampshire County.

2. John Cox (1742?- ) married first Mary -- in Hampshire County, Virginia, and secondly Martha Rich, in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1791. There was a son Benjamin by the first marriage, and a son John or Jack (1792-1852) by the second marriage. The latter married (a) a Miss Henning, (b) Sarah Bosworth, and (c) Martha Roberts. He and his third wife are buried near Boston, Kentucky. Mrs. Beaven Hamilton (Florence Knight Cox), descendant of Jack Cox and Sarah Bosworth reside s at Hodgenville, Kentucky.

3. Isaac Cox (1744? - 1788) married Mary Enoch in Hampshire County, Virginia. There were no children. Isaac was slain by Indians, very likely on March 31, 1788, the day that t he Bland Ballard family was attacked. On November 15, 1788 , his widow married William May, who was prominent in public affairs and for many years had been a close friend of the family.

4. David Cox (1746?-1820) married first Margaret Bruce in Hampshire County, Virginia, and secondly Susanna Martin, in Bullitt County, Kentucky, July 28, 1808. David died in Nelson County, November 18, 1820. Eleven children by the firs t marriage were James, who married Mary Cox, Gabriel's daughter, in 1791; Jane, who married Abner Chalfant in 1789 an d William McDonald in 1816; Friend, who is mentioned in Colonel Isaac's will; Mary, who married James Pursell in 1793 ; David, who married Mehitable Boyd in 1798; Margaret, who married Friend McMahan, Ann's son, in 1798; Susannah, who married James Reed in 1799; Isaac, who married Jane McGee in 1811; Jonathan, who married Mary McGee in 1809; Gabriel, who married Ruthy Swearingen in 1817; and George, who married Ellen Connor in 1821.

5. Gabriel Cox (1747?-1807) married first Sarah Enoch in Hampshire County, Virginia, and secondly Elizabeth Robinson i n Nelson County, Kentucky, August 31, 1795. The three children mentioned are Mary, who married James, David's son, i n 1791; Nancy, who married Walter Beall in 1794; Susannah , who married Thomas Foster in 1804.

6. George Cox (1748-1838) married Susannah Decker in Ohio County in February 1775. The Decker Fort stood on Cross Cree k in Ohio County a short distance north of Cox's Fort. George is said to have been a large man. He was survived by hi s wife and the following children, who are named in his will written July 10, 1837. John; Isaac; George; Joseph, who married (a) Elizabeth Buchanan, and (b) Sarah Hedges; Nancy , who married George Aulbin; James; Susannah, who married Matthew Harris; and Friend (1794-1877), who married (a) Eliza Jane Woods, (b) Rebecca Thistle, and (c) Susan Thistle. Friend, Michael, and Margaret, children of a deceased son Jonathan are also named in the will. Mr. J. Frank Cox, 106 Pi ne Avenue, Wheeling, West Virginia, is a descendant of George's son Friend Cox.

7. Nancv Cox (1750?- ) married Nathan Chalfant. The record is obscure.

8. Ann Cox (1752?- ) married first William McMahan in Hampshire County about 1772, and secondly Ed Worrell in Ohio County about 1798. Eight children named in the settlement of William McMahan's estate in 1800 are Friend, who married Margaret Cox, the daughter of David in Nelson County; Richard ; Susannah; James; John; Joseph; Polly, who married Joseph Agnew; and Nancy, who married John Buky, The early McMahan home, a mile east of Wellsburg, is referred to as "a sea t of hospitality where army officers and distinguished adventurers from beyond the mountains were liberally entertained. A spacious old two-story house, an early home of one o f the McMahans, still stands in Wellsburg, West Virginia.

9. Polly or Mary Cox (1753?- ) married John Lemen or Lemon . An unauthentic list of their children includes Samuel, William, Gabriel, Robert, David, Friend, and a daughter. Polly and John Lemen moved from Hampshire County to Ohio Count y in 1776, and to Nelson County in 1787, where they purchased a small tract of land" and inherited several hundred acres from the two Isaac Coxes. In 1808 they were living in Shelby County, near Benjamin and Jonathan Cox and many other Lemen families. In the latter part of 1808 they sold about two thousand dollars worth of land and within a short tim e moved to Knox County, Indiana, where they were enrolled a s charter members of the Maria Creek Baptist Church at the time of its organization in May 1809.

10. Joseph Cox (1755?-1780) was killed by Indians as he was en route to Kentucky.

11. Jonathan Cox (1757?- ) the twin brother of Benjamin, married Isabella Lemen, the daughter of Robert Lemen of Shelby County. Jonathan came to Kentucky in 1785 or 1786, perhaps with Gabriel. He purchased land and also inherited several hundred acres from the two Isaac Coxes. I n 1808 he was living near Benjamin and Polly in Shelby County, where many of his wife's relatives, the Lemens, also lived. In 1808 Isabella inherited land from her father, and f rom that time until 1815 she and Jonathan sold a number o f tracts. It is thought that they joined Polly and John Lem en in Knox County, Indiana.

12. Benjamin Cox (1757?-1829), the twin brother of Jonathan , married Sarah Piety, the daughter of Austin Piety and Sarah Polk. Their eleven children were Elizabeth, who married (a) Joseph Simpson in 1798 and (b) Samuel Miller in 1816 ; Sarah Piety, who died unmarried in Clay County, Missouri ; Susanna, who married James Ballard in 1803; Gabriel S., w ho married Nancy Gaston in 1816 and had a family of twelve children; Isaac, who died unmarried; Joseph, who died unmarried; Jonathan P., who married Rachel Lemen Tigert in 181 7; Austin Piety, who married Rebecca Phillips; John Calhoun , who married Eliza B. Garrett; Benjamin F., who married Elizabeth Shepherd; and Finetta A.,- who married Elbridge Arn old. Benjamin Cox was one of the founders of Cox's Station . Colonel Isaac favored him among his brothers by leaving him and three of his children more than twenty-five hundred acres of land in addition to the thousand acres that were claimed in his name in 1776. Benjamin and Sarah establish ed their permanent home on Bullskin Creek in Shelby County. Isaac Cox U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970 U.S., Sons of the American Revolution Membership Applications, 1889-1970

Isaac Cox Family History 1600's - 1700's Maryland, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia This Scotch-Irish Cox family from Switzerland had come to America in the late 1600s and settled in the Allegheny foot hills of Maryland not far from the present town of Brownsville, PA. By 1750. the Cox families working together were engaged in obtaining land holdings and building forts in newly developing western frontiers in advance of settlers. James Stickley originally shared this on 02 Sep 2013

Sources

  1. Marriage: "U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560-1900"
    Source number: 10141.000; Source type: Electronic Database; Number of Pages: 1; Submitter Code: JJ2
    Ancestry Record 7836 #286828 (accessed 29 November 2023)
    Isaac Cox marriage to Susanna Tomlinson.
  2. 1733 Census: "Maryland, U.S., Compiled Census and Census Substitutes Index, 1776-1890"
    Jackson, Ron V.; Accelerated Indexing Systems, Comp.; Maryland Census, 1772-1890;
    Ancestry Record 3552 #11676595 (accessed 29 November 2023)
    Isaac Cox in Tuckahoe Hundred, Talbot, Maryland.
  3. Source: #S-630606598 Page: Source number: 1234.229; Source type: Family group sheet, FGSE, listed as parents; Number of Pages: 1 APID: 1,7836::285750
  4. Source: #S-630417554 APID: 1,2383::40966
  • Genealogies of Kentucky Families from The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, Vol. III [database on-line]. Section: The Coxes of Cox Creek, Kentucky, Page 463, [1]




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Cox-7097 and Cox-4054 appear to represent the same person because: Same death dates and spouse name
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Cox-3188 and Cox-9345 do not represent the same person because: I'm not convinced this is the same person. Dates of birth and death are different, places of birth are similar but different. Place of death is very different. There are a lot of men named Isaac Cox.
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