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About Phillip Cox, Jr.
Phillip Cox
- BIRTH 13 Jun 1705 Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
- DEATH 19 Sep 1785 (aged 80) Somerset County, New Jersey, USA
- Burial “Mercer Co, NJ decided to make a highway thru what was once a cemetery. The 2 Philip Coxes stones were found being used as steps into a house, nearby.”
- Son of Phillip Cox (d 1736) and Dorcas (d 1753)
- Husband of Johannah Trembley
Family
Philip married Johannah Trembly about 1738 in NJ. She was the daughter of Peter Trembley, Jr. and Martha.
Isaac, Susannah & Hannah were the children named in his 1785 will.
Children
- John Cox
- Peter Cox
- Phillip Cox
- Isaac B. Cox
- Hannah (Cox) Sutton and
- Susannah (Cox) Sutton
Origins
https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-257
By his wife Dorcas, Phillip Cox had
- John, b. Oct. 20, 1703, who married Mary;
- Philip, b. June 13, 1705, who married Johanna Trembly;
- Phineas (Fines), b. April 30, 1709;
- Jacob, b. Jan. 27, 1711;
- Elizabeth, b. Feb. 12, 1716, who married David Riggs, Sr.; and
- Mary, b. Sept. 17, 1719.
Biography
Extracted from PHILLIP COX FAMILY AMONG EARLIEST SETTLERS IN "THE BLUE HILLS" [From Warren History Vol Two, No. 8, Fall 1997]
Sometime after their father's death in 1736, Philip (1705-1785) and Phineas (1709-?) divided the 200 acre homestead. Phineas received the western half, Philip the eastern. In 1741 Philip Cox purchased 53 acres on the north side of First Mountain from Ebenezer Tingley. In 1744 Philip acquired 13 acres on the north side of First Mountain from Benjamin Gross. The Elizabethtown Bill in Chancery lists Philip Cox as the owner of 12.4 acres (Lot 141) on the north side of First Mountain, and surveyed March 27, 1744. ...
Philip Cox purchased 50 acres from Francis Hollinshead in 1743 by deed not acknowledged until 1753. At the end of this deed appears a notation: "I Philip Cox do sine over this written deed to Darkes Cox for rate resined by me." Apparently Philip wanted his mother to have her own place, since his family now included sons Peter and Isaac, and at least two older sons, probably John and Philip, and daughters Susannah and Hannah. About 1753 tragedy struck the Philip Cox family. A tradition handed down through Isaac's decendants and printed in a history of Ritchie County, WV, states: "His [Isaac's] brothers, having gone some distance from home to make an improvement, in advance of the settlement, and raise a crop, pitched their tent near a fine spring from which they got water for constant use, and in a short time they all sickened and died; and upon investigation, it was found that the water came from a copper-mine, and thus was poisonous. Isaac being but a lad, and drinking here and there where he chanced to be herding the stock, escaped death." Family historians claim that John and Philip died and no doubt were buried in the Cox Cemetery. Somehow Peter escaped. Where this copper mine may have been is open to conjecture, but we do know that Warren was known early on as a potential source of copper and that small mining operations were not uncommon in this area.
It may be more than coincidence that in 1756 four shares were sold in the Mine Lot, located "in the Township [of] Bridgewater in the County of Somerset on the Top in part and part on the South side of 1st Mountain." The property was purchased from William Burnett, who retained one share. The other four shares were owned by Daniel Cooper, Sr., and Jr., Philip Cox, and Phineas Cox. In 1790 Isaac Cox (1743-1838) requested a division of this property. The adjoining property owners were Abraham Vail, David Vail, John Vail, John Runyon, Cornelius Cornelison, Isaac Cox, and A. Clark Low. It is interesting that in the division Lot No. 1 began "at the Northern most Corner of the Intire Tract at a heap of stones near a spring of Water..." Lot No. 2 began "at a heap of stones on the Top of the aforesaid mountain ..." Lot No. 4 included land "to a heap of stones at or near the foot of said Mountain ..."
Philip Cox made his will on March 10, 1785, leaving "all my Homeste[a]d Plantation where I now live together with all my out Land and Rights of Land throughout the State of New Jersey to my Son Isaac Cox, his Heirs and Assigns, forever." In exchange, Isaac had to pay his sisters, Hannah Sutton and Susannah Sutton, 100 pounds "proclamation money." Philip left all of his movable estate to his three surviving children, Isaac, Hannah, and Susannah. A granddaughter, Sarah Riggs, was to receive 8 pounds and her son, Peter Riggs, 2 pounds. (Jo)Hannah Cox, Philip's wife, is not mentioned. Isaac Cox and Anthony Cosart were named as executors, Samuel Tingley, Janet Tingley, Rhoday Corton, and Abner Sutton were witnesses.
On September 19, 1785, Philip Cox died at age 80 years. An inventory of his estate made on September 24, 1785 by Jonathan Willet and William Winans in the presence of Phineas Cox and Rev. Abner Sutton valued his moveable estate at 396 pounds and 81 shillings. Philip Cox was buried in the Cox Cemetery on his farm. In 1947 Charles C. Gardner described his marker as follows: "Near Springdale, Warren Township, Somerset County, in a green patch in a ploughed field. No other stone in patch. Stone is broken and is scaling off, but pieces still there. The exact wording on this stone, which will soon disappear is: In memory of Mr. Philip Cox who died Sept. 19, 1785 aged 80 years." My research leads me to conclude that Cox's tombstone was on the upper (northwest) side of what became Mountain Blvd. Extension.
In 1796 Isaac Cox sold 242 acres (the "Homeste[a]d Plantation" and other tracts) to James Wemyss for 942 pounds 10 shillings. By 1798 Isaac, Sarah, and their five children had settled in Harrison County, (West) Virginia.
This article was prepared by Phillip L. Crane, Rte 2, Box 191, Lowell, OH 45744, and edited by A. A. Siegel. Anyone with information on the descendants of Phineas Cox, Peter Cox, Hannah or Susannah Sutton, please contact the author.
References
- The Cox Family in America: A History and Genealogy of the Older Branches of ... By Henry Miller Cox. Page 205. GoogleBooks
- PHILLIP COX FAMILY AMONG EARLIEST SETTLERS IN "THE BLUE HILLS" [From Warren History Vol Two, No. 8, Fall 1997] posted at https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Cox-257
- https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178453152/phillip-cox Philip Jr. married Johannah Trembly about 1738 in NJ. This family was something else to straighten out. Everyone thought he lived to be about 106 but as it turned out. There were 2 Philip Coxes. His father died young. We found out when Mercer Co, NJ. decided to make a highway thru what was once a cemetery. The 2 Philip Coxes stones were found being used as steps into a house, nearby.
- New Jersey Colonial Documents abstracts of Wills, Source Information Ancestry.com. New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: New Jersey State Archives. New Jersey, Published Archives Series, First Series. Trenton, New Jersey: John L Murphy Publishing Company. About New Jersey, Abstract of Wills, 1670-1817 This database contains 13 volumes of details abstracted from early New Jersey wills. digital image
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Phillip Cox, Jr.'s Timeline
| 1703 |
July 31, 1703
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Basking Ridge, Somerset County, Province of West Jersey
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| 1705 |
June 13, 1705
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Bridgewater Township, Somerset County, NJ, United States
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| 1707 |
January 17, 1707
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Bound Brook, Somerset County, New Jersey, British Colonial America
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| 1734 |
1734
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Somerset County, NJ, United States
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| 1736 |
1736
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Bridgewater, Somerset, New Jersey, USA
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| 1743 |
June 25, 1743
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Bridgewater, Somerset County, Province of New Jersey
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1745
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New Jersey
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| 1746 |
March 22, 1746
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Bridgewater, Somerset, Province of New Jersey
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| 1785 |
September 19, 1785
Age 80
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Blue Hills, Somerset County, New Jersey, United States
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