Alexander Maddox Sr. (1613 - bef. 1659)

Born 12 Dec 1613 in London, London, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Unknown) Maddox — married 10 Jan 1637 in Northampton County, Virginia

Husband of Elinor (White) Caine — married 11 Mar 1651 in Nassawadox, Northampton, Virginia

Descendants

Died before 28 Feb 1659 before age 45 in Nassawadox, Northampton, Virginia

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Biography

Alexander Maddox Sr. migrated from England to Virginia.

The first record we have of Alexander Maddox is as a passenger on the ship Abraham in October, 1635.^[1] He is listed as 22 years old.

According to Hester Dorsey Richardson, in 1652, Alexander Maddox received a certificate for 300 acres in Northampton County, Virginia, for six people he brought into VIrginia. The persons themselves were not named.^[2]

Alexander Maddox and James Jones received 516 acres at the head of Nassawaddocks Creek in 1654 for transporting people into Northampton County, Virginia.^[2]

Alexander married Elizabeth and they had the following children:

• Thomas, oldest son
• Alexander, second son
• Elizabeth, married Phillip Fisher
• Ann

Alexander then married Elinor and they had one child:

• Lazarus

Alexander Mattocks wrote a will:

WILL of ALEXANDER MATTOCKS of Northampton County, Virginia, Jan'y 10, 1659

Witnesses: Nicholas Lawrence, Richard Teage.

• To my lawful wife Elinor Mattocks the third part of all my whole estate of moveable goods and two thirds of all my land during her widowhood or until my eldest son shall be of age -- and residue of my goods, cattle and chattels are to be equally divided amongst
• my children, vis: Thomas Mattocks my eldest son, Alexander Mattocks, my second son, Lazarus Mattocks, my third son, and Elizabeth Fisher, wife unto Philip Fisher, my eldest daughter, and that part that shall fall to Elizabeth Fisher of my estate by proportion I do give unto her, and if she shall die without issue then the property to be returned to be equally divided among my other children ---
• also my daughter Ann Mattocks, my second daughter.
• To my sons Thomas Mattocks and Alexander Mattocks the plantation I now live upon containing 300 acres and ye half moiety of one patent containing 516 acres that is betwixt me and James Jones.
• I appoint my beloved wife guardian to my son Lazarus and to have his estate in her possession as one having most right unto him.
• I appoint and it is my will that my sons shall be of age at eighteen years old and to be possessed of their estates at that age.
• Son Thomas Mattocks sole executor. Richard Bayly and Arthur Upshur overseers of the will. (signed) Alexander Mattocks

Book No. 7, p. 64, Northampton County, Virginia Records.

Sources

1. ↑ John Camden Hotten, The original lists of persons of quality; emigrants; religious exiles; political rebels; serving men sold for a term of years; apprentices; children stolen; maidens pressed; and others who went from Great Britain to the American Plantations, 1600-1700 : with their ages and the names of the ships in which they embarked, and other interesting particulars, from mss. preserved in the State Paper Department of Her Majesty's Public Record Office, England, 1874, p 138, available at Hotten
2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1} Hester Dorsey Richardson, Sidelights on Maryland history, with sketches of early Maryland families, (Baltimore:Williams & Wilkins), 1913, pp. 391-6.

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