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GRANDFATHER OF LITTLEBERRY COX


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Our Link to the Revolution

By Floyd R. Cox

Published by Floyd R. Cox, Publisher

1721 Mason Dixon Drive West Lafayette, IN 47906

Copyright, 2010, by Floyd R. Cox.

All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without permission, except in the case of brief quotations in critical articles or reviews. For

information, contact Floyd Cox, Publisher, 1721 Mason Dixon Drive, West Lafayette, IN 47906.

Printed in the United States of America ISBN-10 0-9774 (pending)

ISBN-13 978-0 -9774(pend ing ) Library of Congress Control Number (pending)


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Foreword About “Being Jewish”

The paper trail back to Littleberry Cox (my father’s grandfather’s grandfather) has had three Y-DNA donors, which prove they belong to the J2 haplogroup.

It is my impression that the lab at FamilyTree DNA first arranged J2 as a "Jewish" haplogroup, J standing for "Jewish". However, after thousands of other donors, the haplogroup has expanded to include some living in Lebanon, Poland, Lithuania, Ukraine, Italy, Alsace Lorraine, Portugal and the Netherlands. Julius Caesar captured Alsace Lorraine and probably took some Israelite servants and soldiers from Italy to there. Allegedly, Lazarus, Mary the mother of Christ, Joseph of Arimathea (Israel) settled in Cyprus, Leon (France) and Glastonbury (England).

It should be noted that Y-DNA does not pass a race down from father to son. If Solomon had married wives from many nations and many races, each son would have Solomon's Y-DNA but not necessarily his race. Allegedly, the Queen of Sheba was black and allegedly had a son of Solomon. The son might have been black and still have Solomon’s haplotype.

Moreover, Gypsies and Hittites have often been mistaken as having "Jewish looking" noses and other features.

About 400 years ago, France, Germany and much of Europe reserved Poland as the Jewish "homeland" and evacuated them to there. French Huguenots were also too "Jewish" and were expelled to "communes" such as the one in Sedan, France. Some of these escaped to Mannheim, Germany, and near Amsterdam (the Netherlands), and many of them, eventually, joined William of Orange in conquering all of England.

The Cox clan along the James River in Virginia became associated with Michaux, Noel, Sublett and other Huguenot families from Sedan (France) and Amsterdam. The William Cox clan of Amsterdam became associated with the Quaker Coxes in Pennsylvania who came from Berkshire and Glocestershire, England. William Penn's mother, Margaret Jasper, lived in Rotterdam. George Fox, founder of the Quakers, had followers in the Netherlands. Augustine Herman was from The Hague.

Colonial Americans honored William of Orange in naming their first college, "William and Mary College" and in naming Orange Co., VA, Orange Co., NC, and Orange Co., IN.

Actually, the Revolutionary War could be renamed the “Presbyterian War” of the Church of Scotland (led by John Knox). It was stimulated by clashes with the Church of England, which collected "tithes" from all citizens to support the "Official Church".

Quakers often lived adjacent to and migrated with the Presbyterians into West Virginia and Southern Virginia and North Carolina. Presbyterians were Indian fighters, frontiersmen and owned slaves. Quakers avoided war and required that their own slaves to be set free after 1772.

Proof Needed: Search for Y-DNA Donors Four theories are presented to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. James, son of Valentine

Cox of Lynchburg, VA, removed to Monroe Co., MO, across the river from Valentine’s daughter, Lucy Johnson, in Hancock Co., IL, in about 1830. Marriages of James and Lucy are in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI.

Valentine had a brother, John Cox. Their parents were Henry Cox and Judith Redford who were probably married before 1740.

Our John Cox, Littleberry’s father, was also born about 1740 and the marriages of his offspring are also in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Lynchburg Twp. area.


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We could not prove that our John Cox was related to Valentine Cox until we found a male Y-DNA donor, a descendant of Valentine Cox. Census records for the Coxes of Monroe Co. and Shelby Co., MO, helped us find male descendants of James Cox, son of Valentine. James married Elizabeth Gills.

The Y-DNA of Valentine Cox should determine the Y-DNA of all male Coxes who descend from William Coxe, the 1610 immigrant to Jamestown, VA. I cannot express how important this was. I had to trace the last Coxes living in Monroe Co. and Shelby Co., MO, in the census records.

The same could be done for the descendants of John Cox, son of Frederick (son of Bartholomew). His Y-DNA should match the descendants of Valentine Cox. This John married Tabitha Price near Farmville, VA, and their son, John, moved to Greenville, KY. He has relatives living in Campbellsville, KY.

Moreover, the same could be done for the Coxes of Cane Creek, Orange Co., IN, who went to French Lick High School. The family claims to be descendants of Littleberry’s brother, Charles Cox & Elizabeth Reese. Y-DNA tests should match descendants of Littleberry.

A descendant of George Cox Jr. (grandson of Bartholomew) needs to be tested, but information is lacking on who his children and grandchildren were.

The Lemuel Johnson - Samuel Clemens – Cox Connections There is evidence that favored John, the brother of Valentine Cox, as the father of Littleberry Cox.

The strongest evidence was the association among the Coxes, Clements, and other families of Lynchburg, VA, Columbia, KY, and Monroe Co., MO. But a donor was found who failed to match a the Y-DNA of Littleberry Cox’s descendant.

Adam Clement married Agnes Johnson in Bedford Co., VA, 2-7-1765. She was a Quaker from Camp Creek, Louisa Co., VA. (She was a sister of Lemuel Johnson’s grandfather, Christopher Johnson.) Their son, Samuel Clement, married Pamela Goggin in Bedford Co., VA, in 1797, a year after Littleberry Cox married in Campbell County. Pamela was from Campbell County.

Their son, John Marshall Clements, was born in Lynchburg on 8-11-1798. He married Jane Casey Lampton in Columbia, Adair Co., KY, on 5-6-1823. It is assumed that families living near Clementsville are related to them. More research is needed. They moved to Florida, Monroe Co., MO, where their son, Samuel Langhorn Clemens (better known as Mark Twain who wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer) was born 11-30-1835, in the year Haley’s Comet appeared (and died when it reappeared in 1910). (Dr. Haley saw the comet in 1682, as William Penn’s fleet crossed the sea headed for the new world.)

Sam was twelve when his family moved to Hannibal, Marion Co., MO, on the Mississippi, where he worked for his older brother’s Hannibal Journal newspaper.

Coincidentally, John Valentine Cox’s wife, Martha Howell, was also from Marion Co. (probably Hannibal) and their son, John W. Cox, was born in Monroe Co. and published a newspaper there.

Samuel H. Cox (brother of John Valentine) had family in Hannibal and a sister, Mahala Cox Tinsley, living in Columbia, Adair Co., KY. Research carefully done proved this line is R1b1, that William Coxe, the 1610 immigrant to Jamestown, VA, was not my ancestor.

Disclaimer Statement Some of the information in this book was obtained from others’ research found on the

Internet and has not all been checked for accuracy. This is a work still in progress. Hopefully, a future version will be more comprehensive and will have more connections with the grandfather of Littleberry Cox.


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GRANDFATHER OF LITTLEBERRY COX – PART I

After eliminating several other John Coxes born about 1740, there were four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. By covering each of these, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false information on Rootsweb that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, Sarah Oldham, Sarah Nunnally, Mary Ferguson, Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is available. 1. THE FIRST THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox was based upon John Cox, father of Littleberry coming from Wales and settling in Campbell Co., VA, before the Revolution.

A family Bible is preserved in the William E. Parham Papers, McClung Collection in the Lawson McGhee Library, Knoxville, Tennessee. It was passed down to Marie Cox Fahey Skinner, a descendent of William Cox and his wife, Sally Stembridge Cox. Maria Skinner donated the Bible to the library.

The William Parham Collection:1 The following is a letter from Wm. Thomas Cox to Mrs. Minnie Martin, McKinney, TX, 1896: Dear Minnie,

I [Dr. William Thomas Cox] expect I know more about our family than anyone now living (in 1896). It came originally from Wales and settled in Campbell County, Virginia, as I have heard my grandfather… often tell. Of his father’s [my grandfather’s] family there were five sons: Thomas, Berry, Charles, William and James. Thomas was the only one old enough to serve in the Revolutionary War. He did enlist, served his time, came home, and one day being present when there was a draft for men, and when a poor neighbor was drafted, Tom could not bear the distress of the family, but stepped up and told the officer to put his name in his place, marched away and never returned. We read of Chevalier Bayard’s deed2 but it was never anything like this.

The other members of the family emigrated to Wilson County, Tennessee, in 1808 but Berry, Sr., having acquaintences in Green County, Kentucky, moved on and settled there. I suppose you have heard of your grandfather’s people- Thomas, Billy, Anderson, John (my father) and Berry. There was a sister, my aunt Lucy.3 She and her children came to Texas many years ago and I think they are in Lano [Llano] or San Ano counties and some in New Mexico. The members of my family are all dead except myself and my youngest brother, Jordan B. Cox, at Franklin, St. Mary’s Parish, Louisiana.

Henry, the brother next to me, served through the war, came home demoralized and ruined. He was murdered near his home near Homer, Louisiana. John, the next son, was a practising physician at Pine Bluff, Arkansas. He was assassinated there some years ago [end of quote].

1 Source for: Parham Genealogy This first letter of William Thomas Cox is invaluable because it prevents a lot of conjecture made from other sources. The children of Charles, William, Littleberry and James were first cousins of the father of William Thomas Cox. Their grandchildren were cousins of William Thomas Cox. 2 In chapter six, Chevalier Bayard is linked with Huguenots and Labadists of France and Holland as well as with Augustine Herman and Labadist settlements in New York, Maryland, Delaware, and Pennsylvania. 3 Offspring of John Cox's son, William Cox


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CHART 1. Descendants of William and Littleberry Cox

John Cox b: 1740 of Campbell Co., VA

Family of Welsh descent m: ~1762 Polly

William Cox b: ~1772

d: 12-1845 Lebanon, TN m: Sally Stembridge b: ~1774 d: Bef 1845

Thomas Cox b: ~1762 (Berry Cox b: ~1774) Charles Cox b: ~1776

(William Cox b: ~1772)James Cox b: ~1778

Littleberry Cox b: ~1774

d: 7-20-1846 KY m: 10-20-1796 Massilda Ready

Campbell County, VA

John Cox

b: 1797 Campbell Co., VA (raised in Wilson Co., TN)

m: Elizabeth Palmer (dau of Isham Palmer of Halifax Co., VA, bro of

Martin Palmer. These 2 went to Edwards Depor, Hinds Co., Miss.)

Thomas Cox (William “Billy” Cox)

Lucy Cox (m: James Cox Jr)

Anderson Cox m: Sally Palmer

(John Cox m: Eliz. Palmer)

Berry Cox

William Cox b: 1817 KY

d: 10-11-1852 m: 1-24-1839 Adair Co., KY

Caroline Christenson b: Abt 1822 Casey Co., KY

Dr. William Thomas Cox (who wrote the two letters

(Dr. William Thomas Cox)

Henry Cox (d: Homer, LA) Dr. John Cox

(d: Pine Bluff, AR)

John Cox b: 3-13-1849 Casey Cr., KY

d: 8-29-1895 Davidsonville, Randolph Co., AR

m: 6-24-1868 Mary Goode Casey Creek (Roley) KY

b: 4-17-1846 KY d: 2-12-1893 AR

Samuel Green Cox

b: b: 2-28-1872 d: 11-3-1920 Randolph Co., AR

m: Virginia Harden b: 1878 d: 1955

Her burial: Calumet, IN

John Henry Cox

b: 9-01-1902 Randolph Co., AR

d: 11-11-1985 Kokomo, IN m: Anna

“It [the Cox family] came originally from Wales and settled in Campbell County, Virginia, as I have heard my grandfather… often tell.” “We are of Welsh descent. My great-grandfather [John Cox] settling in Campbell County, Virginia, prior to the Revolution.” So what was meant? Thomas Jefferson spoke six languages, and his family came originally from Wales and eventually settled in Albemarle County long after the original immigrant. From census records, one can surmise that Little-berry arrived in Kentucky, when a son, John, was born, in 1805 (age 45 in 1850).


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Also preserved with the collection in Knoxville4 from Wm. Thomas Cox, June 30, 1898:

Dear Arthur, In a letter I wrote to you a few days ago I promised to write again soon and tell you about

our family. My cousin Henry C. Cox of Monterey, Putnam County, Tennessee had the old Family Bible and promised to send me a copy of the record, but has failed to do so. I hope he will fulfill his promise.

We are of Welsh descent. My great-grandfather settling in Campbell County, Virginia, prior to the Revolution. I have often heard my grandfather say that the eldest son, Thomas Cox, the only one of his brothers old enough served out a term of enlistment in the Continental Army, came home and one day on going to a public gathering where men enlisted; and being moved by the distress of a family whose husband and father had been drafted, took the man's place and marched away-never to return.

About the year 1808 the other sons, Berry Cox, Charles Cox, William Cox (my grandfather) and James Cox left Virginia where my father was born in 1797-and came to Wilson County, Tennessee near Lebanon. Berry Cox not liking Tennessee went over into Green County, Kentucky where no doubt many of his descendants are. William Cox (my grandfather) and Sally Stembridge his wife lived and died in Wilson County, Tennessee.

She was a woman of strong character and well known in the country in her day. Superior to the old man, who was however a good man and a very religious farmer. They had seven children- Thomas, William, Lucy, Anderson, John (my father), Henry and Berry.5 They were all farm people. My father, John Cox, tho born in Virginia was raised on the old farm in Wilson County, Tennessee and married Elizabeth Palmer, my mother, the daughter of Isham Palmer, a farmer from Halifax County, Virginia. I have often heard my mother say she was born there. My grandfather and his brother Martin Palmer left Tennessee and came to Hinds County, Mississippi near what was called Edwards depor afterwards, lived and… (end of quote). Much of the speculation I am making here is based upon what William meant by saying of the

family, “It came originally from Wales and settled in Campbell County, Virginia”, and “We are of Welsh descent”. Thomas Jefferson spoke six languages, and his family came originally from Wales and eventually settled in Albemarle County… long after the original immigrant.

From census records, one can surmise that Littleberry arrived in Kentucky, when a son, John was born, in 1805. John was age 45 in the 1850 Census, which shows he was the first born in Ky.

William and Berry are named as heirs of John Cox in Campbell County in 1821. In summary, here are the four generations down to William Thomas Cox who wrote the letters:

John Cox (Littleberry’s father) v

William Cox (Littleberry’s brother) v

John Cox (Littleberry’s nephew) v

William Thomas Cox Aunt Lucy Reese Cox

4 This second letter of William Thomas Cox is invaluable because it prevents a lot of conjecture made by other sources. The children of Charles, William, Littleberry and James were first cousins of the father of William Thomas Cox. Their grandchildren were cousins of William Thomas Cox. 5 Offspring of John Cox's son, William Cox


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Will of John Cocks, Will Book 4, Page 344, Campbell County, VA, May 22, 1821

In the name of God, Amen, I John Cocks of Campbell County and state of Virginia being sound in mind but infirm in my health do make this my last Will and Testament revoking all others heretofore made.

Item 2nd, Having given to my children, Charles Cocks, William Cocks and James Cocks their respective parts of my Estate I give in addition to each one dollar.

Item 3rd. I desire and hereby direct that one half of the tract of said in value on which I at present reside be laid of by Commissioners at the south ends of the tract from my residence in such form and direction as shall appear to said Commissions best and most convenient for the remaining tract and sell the same on such credit as may seem to them most advantageous and divide the money equally between my son Berry Cocks and my daughter Sally Hazlewood.

Item 4th. The residue of my Est(ate), which consist of the other half or moiety of land on which I reside at present stock of ? hogs, cattle, household and kitchen furniture etc, etc. I give to my daughter Mary Hazlewood after all my Just debts are paid and for which I give the following reason: my said daughter Mary brought into my Estate several cattle and the greater part of my household and kitchen furniture and loaned me some money which I never have returned and have lived with me for upwards of twenty year last past and to her industry economy etc. I am indebted. I consider fully if not more than the difference which may appear in her favour without this explanation- and which I hope all my beloved children will be satisfied.

Item 5th. I make and constitute Martin Hancock and Samuel Armistead my Ex(ecutors) to my last Will and Testament. Given under my hand and seal this 22nd May 1821.

John Cocks Witness Robert D. Nash, Thomas Sublett, Nancy Jordan at a court held for Campbell County August 13th

1821. The within Last Will and Testament of John Cock deceased was proven by the oaths of Robert D. Nash and Thomas Sublet witness thereto subscribed and ordered to be recorded and the Executors in said Will named having in open court refused to qualify. John Alexander, Cl(er)k

Will of Littleberry Cox

Will of Little B. Cox Oct. 2, 1841 In the name of God amen, I Little B. Cox of Green Co., state of Kentuckey, I am going the way of all the earth do commit my soul to God who gave it, and my body to the earth from where it came, and for my debts, I want property sold to pay my debts. And then what is left I want my wife, M Cox to have her lifetime, and at her death what is left then be divided among my children. This is my Last Will and Testament, and want Caleb Cox to attend to my business. Signed By Little B. Cox Asa Brack, Hiram Sublett, Jesse Briges At a county court commenced and held for Green County at the courthouse in Greensburg on the 20th day of July 1846. The foregoing instrument of writing purporting to be the Last Will and Testament of Littleberry Cox, decd, was produced into court, and… by the oaths of Asa Brack, Hiram Sublett and Jesse Briges the three subscribing witnesses thereto to be sealed and acknowledged by the said Littleberry Cox as his Last Will and Testament. And at the time of signing the same they believed him to be in his perfect mind and memory. And the same was… of the court; and ordered to be recorded. Where upon same with this certificate are duly recorded in my office. Given under my hand this 1st day of August, 1846. Signed by John Barret, Clerk


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John Cox b: ~1740 d: will 5-22-1821

m: Polly

Thomas Cox ~1763 Molly Cox ~1766 Sally Cox ~1768 Littleberry Cox Charles Cox ~1772 William Cox James Cox ~1776----------

m: Massey Ready m:1 Elizabeth Farris m:2 Judith Jones

Death of William Cox, Son of Berry Cox in 1852, Casey Creek, Adair Co., KY

At the Kentucky Historical Society, Frankfort, KY, the following card was found stored in a drawer:

The Reese Connection William’s first letter says, “There was a sister, my aunt Lucy. She and her children came to Texas [from

Wilson Co., TN] many years ago [before 1898] and I think they are in Lano [Llano] or San Ano counties and some in New Mexico.”

This infers that her husband had died before this. Family tradition says Lucy Reese Cox married her first cousin, James Reese Cox. I suppose he could have been the son of Littleberry’s brother, James, who was in the 1810 census of Campbell Co., VA, living adjacent to William Farris, Erasmus Jones and Robert D. Nash. This James married neighbors, first Elizabeth Farris and, secondly, Judith Jones. In the 1820 census, John Cox was living adjacent to Robert Nash and Samuel Armistead.

What happened to James in 1820? On 4-6-1820, Erasmus Jones (James’ father-in-law) bought 226 acres in Wilson Co., TN, from Robert Bumpus. On 1-29-1852, Judith (Jones) Cox received 50 acres adjacent to 100 acres of “James Cox now deceased”, conveyed to him by “Erasmus Jones now deceased”, in Cannon Co., TN.

A Cox tradition in Orange County, Indiana says James’ brother, Charles Cox, married Elizabeth Reese. Surety at the wedding was Herod Reese.

Littleberry’s brother, Charles Cox, married Elizabeth Reese and is often viewed as the father of James Reese Cox who married his cousin, Lucy Reese Cox, in Wilson Co., TN. They assume Charles’ brother, James Cox, not having a wife named Reese, would not have a son named James Reese Cox. But William Cox, not having a wife named Reese, had a daughter named Lucy Reese Cox. See the following chart on the common use of Reese.

Cox, William. DEATHS Age –35 years. Casey

Place of birth-Green River. Place of death-Adair, Co

Time of death-Oct 11, 1852 Cause of death-Typhoid Fever

Parents-Berry & Maria Cox

1810 Census (Campbell Co., VA) living consecu-tively, in a row, as follows: Elizabeth & Thomas Walker, William Farris (Elizabeth’s dad), Jacob Key, James Cox, Erasmus Jones (Judith’s father), Robert D. Nash (married Littleberry’s wife’s sister, Sabra Ready). 1820 Census (Campbell Co., VA) as follows: John Fore, Jacob Key, Thomas Walker, William Faris, John Cox (James’ father), Robert Nash (in John Cox’s will 1821), Sam. Armistead, Peter Fore. Robert D. Nash m: Sabra Ready Robert witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821.


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Note: James Reese Cox is likely the son of James Cox. Some have alleged he is a son of Charles.

TABLE 2. Cox and Reese Families in Hinshaw’s Quaker Encyclopedia

Littleberry’s brother, William, married Sally Stembridge. Sally’s father, John Stembridge came to Virginia from England with two brothers, William and Thomas Baker Stembridge. Perhaps this indicates that Littleberry’s grandparents were also born in England. We also find these allied families in Wilson Co., Tennessee and Kentucky, where Littleberry’s family moved. Reese or Rees is Welsh.

Mary (Reese?)

b: Abt 1733 Polly (Reese?)

b: Abt 1745 Herod Reese Sr. b: Abt 1765

1787 in Dinwiddie Co., VA m:1 Judith Weaver

m: Abt 1757 William Stembridge b: Abt 1732 Bridport, Dorset, Eng.

m: Abt 1762 John Cox b: Abt 1740

5-30-1789 in Charlotte Co. 5-25-1789 in Campbell Co.

m:2 Frances Cobbs 11-5-1810 Surety Wm Weaver

(11-5-1810 Wm Weaver also marries)

John H. Stembridge b. Abt 1758

Bridgport, Eng.

Sally Elizabeth

Mary Martha

Thomas Cox 1763

Mary Polly Cox 1765

Sarah Sally Cox 1767

d: 6-20-1811 in Lebanon,

Wilson Co., TN m: Abt 1780

Mary B. Sammons

in Lunenburg Co., VA

Thomas

Stembridge

William A. Cox 1770 m: 1792

Sally Stembridge

Charles Cox 1772

m: Elizabeth

Reese b: ~1775Surety, Herod Reese

Littleberry Cox m: 1-10-1791 Martha Buckner

in Dinwiddie m: 1796 Massey Ready

James Cox 1776m:1 1800 Elizabeth

Farris m:2 1815

Judith Jones

John Stembridge

1780 Charlotte Co.,

VA

Henry Reese

Stembridge

Lucy Reese Cox

b: 1806 m: James Reese Cox

Henry Reese Cox

1803

James Reese Cox

b: 1806 m: Lucy

Reese Cox

Herod Reese Jr.

was b: Abt 1790

m: ~1815 Frances W.

Walker

Henry Reese Stembridge b: 2-22-1809

Wilson Co., TN

Thomas Reese Cox

1829

Henry Clifton

Cox

Henry Reese

James

Reese Cox1876


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Note: Several Welsh traditions say certain Jews came to England from Israel. These include Jeremiah the prophet coming to Ireland (west of Dublin) with a king’s daughter and a coronation stone.

If so, this becomes a source for the “Jew-ish” J2 Y-DNA of the Cox, Cook & Cok family and supports the idea they came to the New World with the Rhys, Rees, Reese families.

Another says Joseph of Arimathea (Ramah) and Christ’s mother came to Glastenbury, England, with the cup used during the Last Supper and the Holy Grail (the cup used to collect Christ’s blood at the cross) .

Allegedly the legendary King Arthur pre-served these relics during the late fifth and early sixth centuries (See Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britannie written in 1138. Rootsweb/Family Trees has a John Cox born in Monmouth in about 1408.)

Another version is that Mary Magdalene used a chalice or cup to collect Christ’s blood. Allegedly the Grail was transferred to Rome and then to Payne Peveril (Percival) and then to a chapel at Whittington Castle in Shropshire on the border of Wales. Allegedly it was again transferred to Alberbury Priory, and recovered by a descendant, Robert Vernon.

http://www.britannia.com/history/arthur/marian.html Robert Vernon and two brothers departed from Liver-pool and arrived in Pennsylvania with William Penn, Joshua Morris and Thomas Wynne of Wales in 1682.

http://oguinnfamily.tripod.com/vernon/vernonhistory.html Robert Vernon’s son, Thomas, migrated to the Cub

Creek Settlement in Charlotte Co., Virginia. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-

bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I24896 The Vernons & Maddock sisters, neighbors of a John Cox in Pennsylvannia, also came from Cheshire, Eng.

TABLE 3. Timeline: Reese Family of Wales

814 Dynasty of south-west Wales ended. 825 Dynasty of Gwynedd ended 855 Dynasty of Powys ended

878 High Kings of all Wales. Rhodri Mawr (Morris) (The Great) fought Vikings & English and had a dynasty in Gwynedd

950 Hywel (Howell) Dda (The Good) had a dynasty in Dyfed-Deheubarth

800-1000 Vikings attack Welsh & Saxons.

1039-63 Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in Gwynedd

1066 William the Conqueror of the Normans (Normandy, France) takes England.

1155-97 Rhys ap Gruffydd had Deheubarth

submitted to Henry II of the Normans. 1189 Pembroke Castle made into a Norman fortification. Hastings family held it from 1324 to 1389 and held by Jasper Tewdwr (Tudor). Norman King Henry VII born there. 1197-01 Rhys ap Gruffydd 1199-30 Maelgwyn ap Rhys 1216-34 Rhys Gryg 1234-44 Rhys Mechyll 1271-83 Rhys ap Maredudd 1639-1660 Cromwell’s war blasted Pembroke Castle beyond use.

Hugh Rees Jr. b: 1722

m: Sarah Jordan 1722 Hugh Rees 1729 Priscilla Rees1732 Isham Rees

1735 Sarah Rees 173? Edwin / Edward Rees 1741 James J. Rees m: Elizabeth Brown

James Reese b: 1745

m: Margaret Lewis 1742 Hugh Reese m: Mary J. James m: Elizabeth Newson1743 Elizabeth Reese1745 James Reese

1732 Neil Reese 1746 Sarah Rees 1748 Isham Reese m: Sussanna Coleman 1750? Jordan Reese 1754 Benjamin Reese m: Sarah James 1794


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CHART 4. Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Campbell County Marriages

Born Offspring of John Cox in Campbell Co., VA: Married on ~1762 Thomas Cox (died in the Revolution after 1776) (Quaker Dating)

~1766 Mary (Molly) Cox & William Hazlewood 1m-21d-1786 ~1769 Sarah (Sally) Cox & Benjamin Hazlewood. Surety. Publius Jones

(bro of Erasmus Jones). 9m-20d-1790

~1770 Littleberry Cox m: Mascilda (Massey) Ready (Reddy). Guardian, John Hix.

Surety, William Hix 10m, 20d, 1796

~1771 Charles Cox & Elizabeth Reese 8m, 23d, 1791

~1772 William Cox & Sally Stembridge (Jul. 14, 1792) ~1778 James Cox & Elizabeth Fariss, dt William. John Farriss, Surety 12m, 10d, 1800 ~1778 James Cox & Judith Jones, dt of Erasmus Jones. Wm. F. Jones, Surety 3m, 14d, 1815

Robert D. Nash & Polly Jordan, dt Mathew, Wm. Hammersley, Surety 12m, 16d, 1815 (Robert had m:1 Sabra Redey (Ready), sister of Massey Abner Nash m: Rebecca Scott, Samuel Armistead, Surety 8m, 02, 1830 Ready & Mason Bedford Co., VA:

~1790 Reuben Mason & Caty Richardson. Married 3-17-1790. 2m, 22d, 1790 ~1792 Lewis Mason & Betsey Dale (dau of Rishard & Mary). Surety: Reuben Mason 2m, 1d, 1792 ~1794 Charles Toney & Nancy Ready. Surety: Charles Ready. 7m, 28d, 1794

Consent: Richard & Mary Dale. ~1794 Sally Mason (dau of Elizabeth Keenum) & Charles Ready (son of Mary Dale) 8m, 4d, 1794 ~1800 William Taylor & Katy Ready 10m, 27d, 1800

Campbell Co., VA: ~1796 William Mason & Jenny Ready, dau of Nathan. James Ellet, Surety 11m-22d-1796 ~1821 Nathaniel Mason & Mary Ann Clark, dau of Paulet Clark 10m-31d-1821 ~1837 William R. Mason & Sarah E. Walker. Surety, Oliver L. Mason 10m-9d-1837

Moore, Farris, Morris, Community Members ~1778 Robert Armistead & Susannah Morris d/o Samuel Morris.

Wm. Armistead, Surety. 2m-12d-1778

~1798 Absalm Cox & Judith W. Moore, dt William Moore 10m, 1d, 1798 ~1811 Samuel Woodall & Sally Faris 12m-11d-1811

This chart separates Littleberry and his siblings into pairs. Mary and Sarah married Hazlewoods. Littleberry and Charles married about the same time and migrated to areas of Kentucky and Tennessee. William and James migrated to Lebanon, TN, and James Jr. married William’s daughter, Lucy Reese Cox. William’s daughter, Lucy, handed down in her family information taken from her father, the William Cox Bible, now preserved in Knoxville, TN. She likely had copied pages from it. This view indicates her husband’s father was James Cox Sr., not his brother, Charles, as some have perhaps only assumed.

The true name of Littleberry’s mother is found in the DAR Patriot Service Index: “John Cox b c 1740 d p 5-22-1821 m: Polly [Mary] ______ PS [Patriot Service] VA [Virginia]”


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History of Entry Creek Littleberry’s father, John Cox, died in 1821 at Entry Creek, Campbell Co., VA. For some history of

the area of Entry Creek prior to 1793, we have the following: The John Caldwell Settlement

John Caldwell had belonged to the Philadelphia Presbyterian Synod. In 1738, he arranged for Presbyterian “dissenters” to have independence from the Episcopal Church (the Church of England) in the Shenandoah, such as Tinkling Spring, and in other wilderness areas of Virginia such as Entry, Hat and Cub creeks. (This would also give Quakers more freedom.) John Caldwell established the Caldwell Settlement of about 30,000 acres on Cub Creek, just east of today’s Campbell/Charlotte county border.

First Land Owners at Entry Creek Elders of Hat Creek Church included Paulette Clark, Capt. Charles Cobbs, Maj. John Irvine, Capt. Publius Jones, Joshua Morris (who married Sabra Hix), William Armistead, and Capt. John Marshall. In 1739, John Irvine removed from Pennsylvania to one mile from Hat Creek becoming the first white settler within 35 miles. After building a church, he invited William Tennant of Philadelphia to preach at Hat Creek. 10-1-1743 – Paulette Clark’s uncle Isaac bought 377 acres along the Staunton River (which borders Charlotte and Campbell counties) as early as 1743. The deed was witnessed by Paulette’s father, John Clark, and two uncles. In 1798, Paulette taught school at Hat Creek Church and married Major Irvine’s daughter. 5-15-1780 – Michael Jones leaves land to his wife (Ann Jones), his son, Publius, and six youngest children, Susannah, Dudley, Daniels, Christiana, Lucy and Erasmus. Executors were Joshua Morris, Publius Jones & son-in-law, Samuel Leason. Wit: Charles Hundley (of Amelia), John Irvin, Jacob Barnar. In 1781, the executors of the Thomas Jones estate of Bedford/Campbell County were John Cox, Thomas Jones and John Jones.

Chart 5. Neighbors at Entry Creek. Note that 640 acres equal one square mile:

Wm. Mason & Massey

Hix Ch:

John Cox sons:

Charles, William,

Erasmus Jones

Publius Jones

(was at the

Rev. Obediah

Edge (minister)

Herod Reese was at

Rev. Jacob?

Key

Samuel Morris

His inventorymade in 1802

Sally, William

Littleberry & James 200 a

100 a

Littleberry Cox wedding)

100 a

110 a

(Wm. Cox wedding)

90 a

by John Cox,Publius Jones

Ann (Mrs.

Michael Jones)

William Farris

William A. Farris

John Farris

m: Sabra (Hix Farris Morris)

William Walker

(east side of Hat Cr. Road)

200 a? 100 a 100 a 120 a

100 a

1829 bought land of Sabra (Hix Farris Morris)


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3-01-1782 – David Caldwell sells to John Caldwell 200 acres on both sides of Entry Creek adjacent Gates, Littlepace, Credell, Weaver, Thomas Cobbs.

Next Generation: Beginnings of Entry Creek William Moore, son of John Moore of Albemarle, moved to Campbell County, where his daughters married Publius Jones and Absalom Cox. William Dabbs: 2-12-1793 – William Dabbs of Charlotte Co. sells to Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. 800 acres adjacent William Dabbs, William Jones, the Venables, Road, and McNess. Wit: Herod Reese, William Farris, Erasmus Jones. This is equivilant to one square mile plus another 160 acres. Thomas Williams (Jr.?) was born in Cumberland Co. and married 12-13-1805 Elizabeth Woodson in Campbell County. Surety: William Walker.

8-31-1793 – Publius Jones sells to Erasmus Jones 65 acres on Entry Creek adjacent Publius Jones, Ann Jones and. Entry Creek farms began with a 1793 indenture in which Publius Jones sells Erasmus Jones 65 acres beginning at John Cox, up the Entry Creek, to where Publius Jones’ line crosses the creek. Follow his line to Ann Jones’ line (at a shrub oak). Follow her line to the corner (a pine) of John Cox’s border. Follow his line back to the beginning on Entry Creek.

Thomas Williams Deeds at Entry Creek Thomas Williams of Nottoway County bought 800 acres from William Dabbs of Charlotte Co.

and sold some of it to the following: 1.) 5-17-1793 – Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. sold to Erasmus Jones 100 acres on Entry

Creek adjacent Publius Jones, Ann Jones and John Cox. Wit: William Jones, Obediah Edge, Herod Reese.

Publius had owned 320 acres on Entry Creek, and, on 8-31-1793, he sells to Erasmus Jones 65 acres on Entry Creek adjacent Publius Jones, Ann Jones & John Cox. Publius Jones was evidently adjacent to the Erasmus property.

2.) 5-17-1793 -- Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. sold to Herod Reese 90 acres on Entry Creek adjacent William Farris, Kelly’s Path and Coxes Road. Wit: William Farris, Erasmus Jones, Obediah Edge.

3.) 5-17-1793 -- Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. sold to William Farris 200 acres adjacent William Faris, Herod Reese, & Obediah Edge. Other witnesses were Erasmus Jones and Obediah Edge.

4.) 5-18-1793 -- Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. sold to Obediah Edge of Charlotte Co. 110 acres on Entry Creek adjacent Coxes Road, Herod Reese, Kelly’s Path, Publius Jones and William Farris. Wit: Erasmus Jones, Herod Reese. (Note: Herod Reese was the father of Elizabeth Reese who married Littleberry’s brother, Charles Cox, son of John & Polly Cox of Entry Creek. Herod also provided “Surety” for the wedding of Sally Stembridge and William Cox, Littleberry’s brother.)

Marriages after 1793 On 8-04-1794, Sally Mason married Charles Ready.

On 5-23-1795. William Walker Jr. sells to Robert Armistead 300 acres adjacent Woodson Jordan, John Cox and Thomas Reading. Witnesses were John Morris, Charles Cobbs, Joh Cobbs and Charles Martin. On 11-22-1796, William Mason married Jane (or Jennie) Ready, a sister of Massey and Charles Ready. Sally and William Mason, two siblings, married two siblings, Charles and Jane Ready. On 10-20-1796, Littleberry Cox, married Mascilda (Massey) Ready. Her guardian was John Hix (her mother’s brother).


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On 10-01-1798, Absalm Cox married Judith W. Moore, daughter of William Moore. On 10-20-1798, Paulette Clark married Mary Ann Irvine, daughter of Major John Irvine. On 12-24-1799, Publius Jones married Rebecca Moore, daughter of William Moore. In 1797 and 1800, William’s sons, John and Anderson Cox, were born and later married Palmer

sisters of Halifax Co., VA, in 1818 & 1819, after removing to the Lebanon, TN area. On 10-10-1800, John’s son, James Cox, married a neighbor, Elizabeth Farris, daughter of William.

Time Line after 1800 On 6-10-1801, William Faris of Campbell County gives to son, John Faris, 100 acres adjacent

William Amos Faris corner on Keys, Morris and Walker’s line. 1801, William and Littleberry removed to Tennessee and Kentucky. During those last 20

years, Mary Cox (who married William Hazlewood) lived with and cared for their father. In 1802, John Cox and Publius Jones made an inventory of Samuel Morris’ estate.

Before 1805, Littleberry’s first children (Jacob, Joshua, Caleb and Sally) were born in Campbell County, VA. The next child, John, was born in KY in 1805, after leaving VA). On 5-30-1811, William Mason sold 66 acres “where said Mason now lives in Campbell County on the waters of Entry Creek”. He died shortly afterward, on 9-02-1811. His land was adjacent to Charles Cox. On 12-11-1811 that year, Sally Faris (daughter of William) married Sampson Woodall. Charles still owned land adjacent to William Mason in 1811, and James Cox married a neighbor, Judith Jones, on 3-14-1815, a daughter of Erasmus. 1821, prior to his death in 1821, John Cox had already distributed land to Charles, William and James plus another dollar to each in his will.

On 3-28-1838, Mary Ann Mason, daughter of Paulette Clark, died at Charlotte, and Samuel Armistead preached the funeral sermon at Hat Creek.

History of Turnip Creek After moving from Madisonville to teach at Hat Creek, Paulette Clark married Mary Ann Irvine in 1798, and they bought land on Turnip Creek, just across the border, in Charlotte County. Publius Jones also had land on Turnip Creek. During the Revolution, he was called “T. C. Jones” or Turnip Creek Jones. He fought in the battle of Yorktown. Littleberry Cox’s wife also had land on Turnip Creek as seen from the following Indenture:

Estate of Nathaniel Ready on Turnip Creek to Daughters, Massey Ready Cox and Sally Ready

In about 1829 Sally Ready and Massey Ready (wife of Littleberry Cox) and four other siblings each received 1/6th of a tract of land, which their father, Nathaniel Ready, had bought after writing his will. This tract on Turnip Creek, in Charlotte County, was bought from James Palmer and sold to William Walker by Sabra (Hix) Morris and distributed to the six offspring of Nathaniel. Sabra’s sister, Marcelda Hix, who had married Nathaniel Ready, must have already died prior to his death. This would explain why their brother, John Hix, was the guardian of Massey Ready when she married Littleberry Cox in 1796. Although more documentation is needed, the following are likely the six offspring of Nathaniel Ready. More research is neaded to be sure.


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Receiving money from Nathan’s estate in 1829: 1. Massey Ready married Little Berry Cox 2. Jane “Jenny” Ready married William Mason 3. Sabra Ready married Robert D. Nash (witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821) 4. Sally Ready (unmarried) 5. Unknown 6. Unknown


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Land in Virginia in 1829 Inherited by Littleberry Cox, Massey Ready Cox and Sally Ready

Residing in Green County, Kentucky This Indenture made and entered into this first day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand

eight hundred and twenty nine between Littleberry Cox and Massey his wife and Sally Ready of the County of Green State of Kentuckey of the one part and William Walker of the County of Charlotte state of Virginia of the other part Witnesseth that whereas Sabra Morris late of the County of Charlotte made and published her last will and Testament of Record in the County Court of Charlotte to which reference may be had after making her Will she purchased of James Palmer a certain tract of Land on Turnip creek containing five hundred and fourteen acres as may be seen by reference to his deed of Record to Sabra Morris agreeably to the Laws of Virginia the said Sabra Morris died intestate as to this tract of Land and it is subject to division amongst her next of kin - and whereas Massillida a sister of said Sabra Morris married one Nathaniel Ready and by him had six children the said Massey and Salley being two of them and of course entitled to two-sixths of one share in said Land.

Now This Indenture witnesseth that the said Littleberry Cox and Massey his wife and Salley Ready for and in consideration of the Just and full sum of seventy dollars to them in hand paid the receipt whereof is hereby acknowledged have given granted bargained and sold and by these presents do give grant bargain and sell unto said William Walker his heirs and assigns forever their undivided interest in two sixths of one share in the said tract of Land five hundred and fourteen acres on Turnip creek bought of Palmer as aforesaid To have and to hold the same to him the said William Walker his heirs and assigns forever with all and singular the rights members and appurtenances and every part and parcel thereof and the said Littleberry Cox and Massey his wife and Sally Ready for themselves and their heirs covenant and agree to and with the said Wm. Walker his heirs and assigns to warrant and forever defend a good and Lawful right and title to the said tract piece or parcel of Land against the claim or claims of every person or persons whatsoever. In Testimony whereof the said Littleberry Cox and Massey his wife and Sally Ready have hereunto set their hands and affixed their seals the day and year first mentioned. Teste Littleberry Cox Jos Richeson Massey Cox David Campbell Sally Ready Green County to wit

We Joseph Richeson and David Campbell Justices of the peace in the County aforesaid state of Kentucky do hereby certify that Littleberry Cox and Sally Ready parties to a certain deed bearing date on the first day of June 1829 and hereto annexed personally appeared before in our County aforesaid and acknowledged the same to be their act and deed and desired us to certify the said acknowledgement to the Clerk of the County Court of Charlotte in order that the said deed may be recorded. Given under our hands and seals this 18th day of June 1829. Jos Richeson J.P.G.C. David Campbell J.P.G.C.


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Indenture between William Mason and Jane, his wife of Campbell County of the 1st part, and William Walker of the county of Charlotte, VA, of the other part, whereas Sabra Morris late of the county of Charlotte died intestate… tract of land on Owniss creek 514 acres which she the said Sabra purchased of James Palmer and whereas daughter of Massildry Hix who was a sister of John Morris, the said Masselay leaving 6 children by her husband, Nathan Ready of whom the said Jane Mason is one receiving a share of $135. William Mason and Jane, his wife, sell to William Walker. Jane examined privately Nov. 4, 1826. Ref: Charlotte Co., VA Deed Bk. 17 (1823-27) p. 288.

William Walker & George Cox Jr.on the Appomattox River

William Farris on Tear Wallet Creek


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Earlier Taylors & Coxes on the James River 1667 Thomas Taylor got 350 acres at corner of John Cox. 1685 John Cox Jr. got land from John Sr. on road to Thomas Taylor.1687 Thomas Taylor has 1053 acres by late John Cox. 1691 Thomas Taylor witnesses the will of John Cox Sr.

CHART 6. William Farris & Judith Taylor Previously North of Farmville

John Taylor

b: ~1700 Cumberland Co., VA d: 4-14-1779 Cumberland Co.

m: Avis Executors: James Taylor &

John Pleasants Jr. (Quaker)

Judith Taylor

b: ~1720 d: 1758 m: Francis Amos

James Taylor b: ~1725

Susannah Taylor b: ~1725

m: Robertson

Mary Taylor b: ~1725

m: Ferguson

Avis Amos b: ~1750 200 acres

John Amos

100 acres

1751 John, Ann, Jas, Clement, Ferguson, Elizabeth, William,

Mary & Sarah

Robertson

John Taylor Ferguson

m: William Farris of Powhatan Co., VA

b: ~1740

Martha, Hughes and 1772 Samuel Taylor

William Amos Farris b: ~1760 d: will: 5-6-1831

John Farris b: ~1765

m: Sabra Hix Morris

Francis Farrisb: ~1770

m: 4-3-1793 Elizabeth Key

Jesse Farris b: ~1780

Sally Farris b: ~1790

Elizabeth Farris ~1780 m:1 12-10-1800

James Cox b: ~1778 brother of Littleberry

m:2

Sally Farris

m: 12-11-1811 Sampson Woodall

William Amos Farris Jr.

m: 7-27-1816 Sallie Moore

John A. Farris b: Abt 1795

of Hat Cr. Church, Campbell Co., VAm: 1-5-1819 Rebecca Woodall

10-8-1758 / 10-23-1758 (Cumberland Co., Will Book 1 p. 161) Will of John Taylor. 4-14-1779 / 4-26-1779 (Cumberland Co., Deed Book 6) William and Avis Farris of Powhatan Co., VA, sell land in Cumberland County which Avis had received from her grandfather, John Taylor, 200 acres on Tear Wallet branch.

Sampson Woodall’s father, John, inherited 150 acres from his father, John Sr., after 1747-50. Neighbors included John Pleasants, John Whitlow and Elizabeth Cox (who married a Quaker, Strangeman Hutchins). In 1754, John Pleasants and William Moorman visited Sarah Lynch at Lynchburg to help establish the South River Quaker meeting.


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NOTE: Mary Jean MASON m: 1783 William Boswell in Bedford Co., VA. Reuben MASON of Bedford Co. died in Claiborne Co. married 1790 Caty Richardson in Bedford Co. John MASON m: Mahalia Wilson Lewis MASON m: Elizabeth “Betsy” in Bedford Co., VA William MASON (m: Jenny Ready) d: 9-2-1811 Sally MASON m: 8-4-1794 Charles Ready of Bedford Co., VA. Rhoda “Rhody” MASON m: William Firth & m: Leonard Hutts of Bedford Co. VA.

Red House was near Cub Creek, west of Madisonville Other Cox, Reese, Stembridge Connections: On 10-23-1791 Charles Cox married Elizabeth Reese, daughter of Herod Reese. Their minister was Charles Cobbs. Tax lists that year of Campbell County include neighbors, John Cox and Erasmus Jones. John appeared with his son, Charles Cox.

On 7-20-1792, John’s son, William Cox, married Sally Stembridge of Charlotte County. Herod Reese was present to provide surety. John, Charles and William appeared in the 1800 tax lists of Campbell County. Evidently Sally Stembridge had removed from Charlotte County to live with William at Entry Creek after 1792. Their son, Thomas, was born there on 5-05-1793.

Neighbors of Charlotte County Campbell County was cut from Bedford County in 1782.

1.) Ann Jones was the widow of Michael Jones. Erasmus and Publius were her sons. 2.) 5-17-1793 -- Thomas Williams of Nottoway Co. sold to William Farris 200 acres adjacent

William Farris, Herod Reese and Obediah Edge. Wit: Obediah Edge, Erasmus Jones, Herod Reese. Elizabeth Farris (daughter of William) married James Cox (son of John).

3.) 10-09-1801 – William Faris of Campbell Co. sells to son William A. Faris 150 acres adjacent William Faris of Entry Creek, Walker’s line. (William’s corner 100 acres was a gift.)

4.) 5-04-1801 – William Amos Faris receives 100 acres from the Thomas R. (Roper) Williams estate, part of the 3624 acres (1 mi. x 5 3/4 mi. or perhaps 2 mi. x 2.87 mi.), which William Dabbs had previously patented on 10-13-1793. Executors were John Epps and David G. Williams.

6-10-1801 -- William Faris of Campbell Co. gives to son John Faris 100 acres adjacent the William Amos Faris corner on Walkers line, Keys, Morris and Walkers line.

In 1816, Sabra Morris sells to William Farris 10 acres adjacent to Sabra Morris and William Farris. Turnip Creek – Entry Creek Settlers

John Cox died in 1821 during the next generation. His executors were Martin Hancock and Samuel Armistead, a minister of Rough Creek Church in Charlotte County. Samuel’s grandfather was Rev. Samuel “the Dissenter” Morris of Hanover, VA, whose two daughters (Susannah and Margaret “Peggy”) married Robert and William Armistead. Two brothers married two sisters. Witnesses were Robert Daniel Nash who had married Sabra Ready (sister of Massey, Littleberry Cox’s wife). Several of the Hat Creek Settlement had moved about five miles east, to Turnip Creek in Charlotte County.

Moreover, several of the Turnip Creek area removed to the Hat Creek Settlement. Paulett Clark moved in 1798 to the home of Maj. John Irvine, taught school at Hat Cheek and married his daughter, Mary Ann Irvine. They first settled on Turnip Creek, sold it to John Hancock and moved back to Entry Creek buying land from Samuel Morris. After Mary Ann’s parents died, they bought her home place and moved back.


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Publius Jones Sr. who lived on Entry Creek was married to Elizabeth Word. Their son, Publius Jones Jr., married there and removed to Turnip Creek. His executrix in 1817 was his wife, Rebecca. He had married Rebecca Moore, daughter of William Moore.

William Hazlewood (Sr?) lived on Louse Creek, a branch of Turnip Creek after his marriage to a Mary on 3-21-1774. His daughter, Peggy, was married 11-27-1794 to William Childress by Obediah Edge. His daughter, Katey, was married 2-08-1805 to Thomas Hammock by Obediah Edge.

For some history of Entry Creek, Campbell County, prior to 1793, we have the following: Michael Jones. On 5-15-1780 – Michael Jones leaves land to his wife, Ann Jones, son, Publius,

and six youngest children, Susannah, Dudley, Daniels, Christiana, Lucy and Erasmus Jones. Executors were: Joshua Morris, Publius Jones & son-in-law, Samuel Leason. Wit: Charles Hundley (of Amelia Co.), John Irvin, Jacob Barnar.

John Caldwell. John Caldwell (b: 9-16-1683), an elder in the Doneagle Presbytery, arrived at New Castle, Delaware, about 1727. In 1738 he influenced the Philadelphia synod to ask Virginia’s Governor Gooch for religious tolerance. The Virginia House of Burgesses responded by establishing Frederick and Augusta counties west of the Blue Ridge to be considered independent and not be required to pay tithes to the Church of England. After John’s death on about 10-6-1750 at Cub Cr., Charlotte Co., VA, some of his descendants returned to the Tinkling Springs Congregation, in Augusta County, VA. Some moved south to NC & SC. His grandson, John Caldwell Calhoun, became Vice President of the U. S.

On 3-01-1782 – David Caldwell sells to John Caldwell 200 acres on both sides of Entry Creek adjacent Gates, Littlepace, Credell, Weaver and Thomas Cobbs.

John Caldwell’s father (or grandfather) John, established the Caldwell Settlement of about 30,000 acres on Cub Creek, in Charlotte Co., VA. John had belonged to the Philadelphia Presbyterian Synod and arranged for “dissenters” (Quakers and especially Presbyterians) to have independence from the Church of England in the Shenandoah and in other wilderness areas of Virginia such as Entry Creek, Hat Creek and Cub Creek.

Elders of Hat Creek Church included Capt. Charles Cobbs, Maj. John Irvine, Capt Publius Jones, Joshua Morris (who married Sabra Hix), William Armistead, Paulett Clark and Capt. John Marshall.

3-04-1793 – Lewis Derosset of Charlotte Co. sells to James Baker 50 acres adjacent Ann Jones, Wood Jones and Samuel Walker. Wit: John Hix, Benjamin Haslewood (Hazlewood), and Charles Harroway.

Note: Charles and Elizabeth Harroway were the parents of Catherine Harroway who married Benjamin Hazlewood. They were parents of Sally Harroway who married Luke Hazelwood. Two brothers married two sisters. Benjamin Hazlewood married Sally Cox (Littleberry’s sister) 6-06-1787. William Hazlewood married Molly Cox (Littleberry’s sister) 2-06-1786. Again, two brothers married two sisters.

Note: John Hix was the guardian of Massey Ready when she married Littleberry Cox in 1796. Her father, Nathaniel Ready, deceased, had married Massey Hix, John’s Hix’s sister.

Midway Baptist Church was probably midway from Hat Creek to Rough Creek Church. Some of its members were William Walker, Sarah Walker, Baylor Walker, Benjamin Sublett, Nancy Sublett, Jacob Woodall, William Woodall, Thomas N. Moore, Eli Kelly, and Susan Nowell.

5-23-1795 – William Walker Jr. sells to Robert Armistead 300 acres adjacent Woodson Jordan, John Cox & Thomas Reading. Wit: John Morris, Charles Cobbs (minister), John Cobbs, & Charles Martin.

12-11-1811 Sally Faris (daughter of William) married Sampson Woodall.


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7-27-1816 William Faris married Sallie Moore. 1816, Sabra Morris of Charlotte Co. sells land to William Farris Sr. of Campbell Co., 10 acres

adjacent to William Farris Sr. and Sabra Morris. Witnesses were William A. Farris, Jesse Farris and Sampson Woodall.

Sabra Morris receives 514 acres on Turnip Creek from James and Elizabeth Palmer. 6-18-1829 – Sabra Hix (wife of Joshua Morris) gives to Massey Ready Cox proceeds from a farm

owned by Nathaniel Ready, deceased, who had married Massildry “Massey” Hix, Sabra’s sister. Sabra’s land had been bought from James Palmer and sold to William Walker.

11-25-1831 – Martin & Sally Hancock of Charlotte Co. sell to Thomas C. Faris and William Faris Jr. 145 acres on Entry Creek, which had been conveyed to them by Sampson & Sally (Farris) Woodall after inheriting it from William Faris.

Heirs of William Faris: William A. Faris, Jesse Faris, Sampson & Sally Faris Woodall, William & Elizabeth Faris Spears, Robert & Carwile Faris Cox. John Cox of Wilson Co., TN, acted as attorney for Robert Cox 5-22-1834.

It is suspected that Publius Jones, Sabra Morris, and others mentioned also attended a church in this area of Turnip Creek.

Rough Creek Church Samuel Armistead was a pastor of Hat Creek Church in Campbell County and Rough Creek

Church in Charlotte County and was named as an Executor of the estate of John Cox, Littleberry’s father, in 1821.

Samuel Armistead married Nancy Madison 9-21-1821, and his brother, John Armistead, married Susanna Madison, Nancy’s sister (9-01-1818).

Samuel and John’s father, Robert Armistead, married Susannah Morris 2-12-1778, and his brother, William of Hesse Armistead, married Peggy Morris, Susannah’s sister. Rev. Samuel “the Dissenter” Morris of Hanover preached at Hat Creek and built Morris Church, near Entry Creek.

Another interesting note is that researchers of Campbell County have documented that Abraham Lincoln’s mother, Nancy Hanks, was from Hat Creek before moving to Kentucky and that her parents are buried at Hat Creek. Littleberry Cox was about nine years older.

Henry Cox mentioned above first married Elizabeth Richardson before marrying Ann Madison. She and Samuel Armistead’s father-in-law were first cousins. Ann Madison’s father and the grandfather of President James Madison were brothers.

Rev. Clement Read preached at Rough Creek Church for a period of time, and a Clement Read represented a John Cox of Goochland in a court case in 1742.

Huguenot, William Fuqua, married Mary Jane Barksdale. He was a man of learning, a distinguished physician and a man of wealth. He was an elder of Rought Creek Presbyterian Church.

Nancy Hanks

James Madison


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Map showing the Three Chopt (or Three Notched) Road later followed by Highways 250 and 64 descending from Staunton (Shenandoah), passing Charlottesville, separating Louisa from Goochland, and descending past Tuckahoe and Broad Creeks down to Tuckahoe Farms and Ferry. Beginning after 1733, Robert Adams, Peter Jefferson, Charles Lynch, Andrew Moreman (Moorman) and Henry Wood were appointed surveyors, and the road reached Lickinghole Creek by 1741, and Charles Allen obtained a License to keep an Ordinary (a tavern or “Bed and Breakfast” in Louisa County along this route. This road was used for bringing Quakers and Presbyterians from Shenandoah into Hanover, Goochland, Lynchburg, Goose Creek, Hat Creek, Cub Creek and Rough Creek in southern Virginia.


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Neighbors of Red House & Madison Several estates of the Red House-Madison area were closely associated with the residents of Hat Creek & Entry Creek settlements. 1. Paulette Clark’s father brought his family from Louisa Co., VA, to Madisonville (then called Chicken Town), Charlotte Co., in 1777, just before the Revolution, when Paulette was age six. He was about three years older than Littleberry Cox. Littleberry’s father settled in the present Campbell County area just before the war. Paulette removed from Madisonville in 1798 to teach school at Hat Creek.

2. The will of Joseph Marshall, son of John Wilkins Marshal, was probated by his wife Judith and

witnessed by Nathaniel Mason on 1-4-1773 (WB 1, p. 327 Charlotte Co.). Security was by William Price. (Eldest son of Pugh Price Sr., William, was prominent in cropping Prince Edward County from Amelia County in 1754. Another William Price, son of Daniel John Price, bought land on Louse Creek from John Clark of Louisa [Paulette Clark’s father?] and on Wards Fork Cr.) On 7-17-1773, a Deed of Trust was issued to Alexander Shaw and Nathaniel Mason for 96 acres on both sides of Bear Creek, adjoining land of Pugh Price and Charles Harvey. On 11-28-1774, the 96 acres of Joseph Marshal adjoining Thomas Harvey and John Marshall were sold and witnessed by Nathaniel Mason and John Harvey (DB p. 5000). On 9-12-1775, Nathaniel Mason sells John Marshall’s 96 acres on both sides of Bear Creek, a tributary of Cub Creek, witnessed by Drucilla Harvey and William Harvey (DB 3 p. 576). On 2-3-1783, Luke Palmer and others are ordered by Charlotte Court to settle the estate of Joseph Marshall, dec’d (CO BK 5 p. 6-7). Joseph’s parents were John Wilkins Marshall and Hannah Baldwin. Mary Marshall, Joseph’s sister, married William Hutchinson (Hutchins or Hutcherson) in about 1776 and moved to Green Co., KY.

3. Pugh Price Jr. was a brother of Tabitha Price who married, in Prince Edward Co., John Cox (son of Frederick Cox of Powhatan Co.). On 6-30-1772, Pugh Price Sr. of Prince Edward Co. (living southwest of Farmville) sold to Pugh Price Jr. (John Cox’s brother-in-law) 450 acres in Charlotte Co., on the south side of Cub Creek. Recorded on 7-6-1772.

4. The Will of John Wilkins Marshall was probated on 8-5-1771 (WB 1 p. 78, Charlotte County. John was born in England in about 1714 and came to Charlotte County with the John Caldwell settlers from Pennsylvania and had been an Elder of Hat Creek Church after it was founded by John Irvine of


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Pennsylvania. One source shows John’s children being born in southern Charlotte County, but this needs to be rechecked.

5. Henry Madison died leaving a son, Henry Jr., to his brother, Roger, to raise in Charlotte County. Henry Jr. eventually married Elizabeth White and both attended Rough Creek Church, south of the Red House-Madisonville areas, where their daughter, Nancy Madison, married the minister, Samuel Armistead, who was named as an executor of the estate of John Cox, Littleberry’s father. Roger and Henry Madison were brothers of Ambrose Madison, the grandfather of President James Madison.

6. Roger’s daughter, Ann Madison, became the wife of Henry Cox, perhaps a brother of John Cox who married Elizabeth Fore on 6-22-1766 in Louisa County (recorded in the Douglas Register) and also perhaps a brother of Edward Cox who married Cecelia Guillam. More research is needed. Henry, John and Edward were sons of John Cox (m: Elizabeth) and grandsons of Richard Cox (m: Mary Trent). We find Henry Cox, John Fore and Luke Palmer, Nathan Mason, and Robert Armistead also living along the Little Roanoke River and Horsepen Creek, in southern Charlotte County. More research is needed, for there is also a Horsepen Creek near Red House.

7. Martin Hancock was named as an executor of the estate of John Cox, Littleberry’s father. The Hancocks of Charlotte County descended from Red House, seven miles west of Madisonville.

8. Paulette Clark of Hat Creek had brothers and sisters of Madisonville who eventually married into the Mason family. John Mason m: Nancy Clark (sister of Paulette Clark of Hat Cr.) Abner Mason m: 2-10-1812 Lucy Francis Clark daughter of John (m: Penelope) Clark (brother of Paulette Clark of Hat Cr.) Jesse Mason married on 3-11-1812 Patsy Weatherford of Cub Creek Church.


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Quakers from the Charlottesville Area Quaker influence on Bedford, Campbell and Charlotte counties should not be overlooked.

President James Madison’s father-in-law, John Payne, had been the clerk of the Cedar Creek meeting in Hanover Co., VA.

After 1739, a road was built from the Beverly Manor in Shenandoah Valley (present Staunton, in Augusta County) through today’s Charlottesville over to an area near Richmond. Trees along the road were marked with three notches (or three chops) giving it the name “Three Notched Road” or “Three Chopped Road”.

Quaker settlers from the Three Notched Road (from Shenandoah to Goochland Co. and from Louisa and Hanover Counties moving to Hat Creek were related to some of the following:

In 1739, Henry Wood along with Charles Lynch, Robert Adams and Peter Jefferson (father of Thomas Jefferson) were appointed to survey, and a road was built from west to east and enabled Pennsylvanian Quakers and Presbyterians to cross the Blue Ridge Mountains and provide Virginians with some alternative religious views in contrast to the state religion, the Episcopalian church.

The gap in the Blue Ridge was called “Wood’s Gap”, and the trail was called “Wood’s Road” after the Quaker, Michael Wood, of Pennsylvania. The road eventually became known as “Three Notched Road”, “Three Chopt Road”, “Hwy 250” and “Hwy 64”. Trees along the way were chopped with three notches.

Henry Wood became Goochland County Clerk and married Martha Cox, Richard Cox’s niece. Their son married a sister of Patrick Henry.

In 1833, Charles Lynch married a devout Quaker, Sarah Clarke, and moved to Lynchburg. Henry Wood witnessed the will of Robert Adams in 1740, which named his daughters, Judith

Clark Moorman, Mary Moorman (of Sugar Loaf Mountain), and Elizabeth Moorman; a son married a Lynch, and a daughter married a Douglas. Ann married Richard Pleasants. These were Quakers.

Christopher Clark (father-in-law of Charles Lynch) had cut a road from his residence in Louisa Co., to his land in Albemarle County. His son, Micajah Clark, married a daughter of Robert Adams, a surveyor of Three Notched Road, Micajah surveyed land for the home of Thomas Jefferson, before patenting 10,000 acres in Campbell County and building Walnut Hill near Lawyers. Charles Lynch founded Lynchburg, where Jefferson resided after being President.

Paulette Clark was born on 9-30-1771 (about the same year as Littleberry Cox) in Louisa County with its southern border on the Three Notched Road. His parents were John and Ann Paulette Clark. In 1777 (age 6) during the war, Paulette’s parents removed with nine children from Louisa to today’s Madisonville, Charlotte County, with his parents and siblings. In 1798 (age 27) he taught school at Hat Creek while boarding at Maj. John Irvine’s (son of the founder of Hat Creek Church). He married Maj. Irvine’s daughter on 10-20-1798 and moved to Turnip Creek until 1801, when he bought land from Samuel Morris on the northwestern side of Entry Creek and sold his land on Turnip Creek to John Hancock. He raised money to have Publius A. Jones build Hat Creek Church in 1810, and Maj. Irvine made Paulette a church Elder.

William Tenant, a Presbyterian, left Pennsylvania and undoubtedly traveled down the Shenandoah to the Three Notched Road, proceeding on to Hat Creek, and lived for a year in the home of John Irvine, the founder of Hat Creek Church. Paulette lived in this same house after 1816, where his 11th child was born, about a mile from Hat Creek. Early records of Hat Creek were destroyed when this home burned in 1854.


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CHART 7. Paulette Clark, First Cousin of Sarah Clark Lynch

Micajah Clark m: Sally Ann Moorman in Eng.

Mary Kennon m:1 9-25-1682 John Cox m:2 Maj. John Bolling b: 1-27-1676

Francis Clark b: ~1684 Louisa Co., VA

m: 1704 Cordelia Lankford at New Kent Quaker Mtg,

Henrico Monthly Mtg grants of 2,450 acres at Fork Creek, now Louisa Co. VA

Edward Micajah Clark Clark 1682 1684

Capt. Christopher Clark b: 1681 d: 8-14-1741 / 5-28-1754

Green Springs, Louisa Co. Overseer of Quaker

Sugar Loaf Mountain Meeting m: ~1754 Penelope Bolling b: 8-04-1684

11 kids at Fork Cr. Mtg., Louisa Co.

7 kids: 1710-1722

John Clark

b: ~1720 VA of Fork Creek Quaker Mtg,

Louisa Co., VA

Joseph Agnes

Elizabeth Thomas

Isaac Francis

Micajah Sr. 1718 Surveyor of

3 Notched Rd.

m: dau of

Sarah Clark 1716

South River Meetingsouth of Lynchburg b: 1716 m: ~1733

Bolling Clark 1722

(Overseer) m: Winifred

Edward (Meeting Overseer)

Agnes Rachel John

d: 6-6-1791 Charlotte Co.

m: Ann Paulette

Christopher Sarah Ursula

Benjamin

Robt Adams Surveyor of

3 Notched Rd. with Peter Jefferson

Charles Lynch Surveyor of

3 Notched Rd. with Peter Jefferson

Clerk of South River

Meeting

Thomas Clark b: 7(Sep)-30-1746

Fork Creek, Louisa Co., VA

Francis Clark b: 8(Oct)-5-1748

Fork Creek, Louisa Co., VA

John Edward Clark, born

11(Jan)-3-1750Sheriff in 1818 Campbell Co.

1 Penelope Lynch 1734 2 Charles Lynch Jr 1736founder of Lynchburg & South River Meeting and Governor. of Missippi

John, the father of

George Rogers Clark

Isaac Clark b: 1752 Louisa

Co., VA

Elijah Clark b: 1756

Louisa Co., VA

Edward Clarkb: ~1760

3 Sarah Lynch 1738 4 John Lynch 1740

Sally Clark b: ~1763 VA

Nancy Clark b: 1770 Louisa

Paulette Clarkb: 9-30-1771 taught schoolat Hat CreekCampbell Co.

Paulette Clark left Fork Creek, Louisa Co., and came to Charlotte Co. when he was six. He removed in 1798 to Hat Creek in Campbell County where he taught six months, got married, began to farm and have 11 children.

In 1764, a John Clark was ordered by Louisa Court to survey a road (called Clark’s Tract) to the Louisa County line, near the Three Notched Road. George Rogers Clark’s parents built their residence on this road, near Charlottesville.

Christopher Clark patented about 5,000 acres in Hanover County from 1722 to 1739 and


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donated land for a Quaker Meeting near Sugar Loaf Mountain, where he was overseer after 1743-1749. Heirs in his will (8-14-1741, Louisa Co.) were Agnes Johnson, Rachel Moorman, Sarah Lynch, Micajah, Bolling Clark (adjoining Thomas Carr), Elizabeth Anthony, and Christopher’s wife, Penelope.

John Bolling appears in Bartholomew Cox records. John was a great grandson of Pocahontas. Sarah Clark Lynch At the Quaker Camp Creek Meeting, Micajah, Bolling, John, Francis and Tabitha were heads of

families in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy. John married Ann Paulette. Micajah’s son, Christopher, resided at Green Springs, now in Louisa County, between South Anna

River and Camp Creek, 6 miles from Albemarle, 10 miles south of Gordonville. The will of Micajah’s son, Christopher, was probated in 1754. Christopher became the father of

Sarah Clark, who married the above-mentioned surveyor, Charles Lynch. In 1754, Frances & Christopher Clark are at Cane Creek, Orange Co., NC, with William and

Cathrine Cox (of PA). Sarah became a Quaker while living at Green Springs, in Louisa County, and became a member of

the Quaker Camp Creek Monthly Meeting. She being Paulette’s first cousin founded Lynchburg on the James River and also founded the Quaker South River Meeting in 1754. Monthly meetings alternated between South River and Goose Greek meetings in Bedford County.

Nash and Cox Families of Farmville and Keysville The will of John Cox, Littleberry's father, is witnessed by Robert Daniel Nash and Nancy Jordan.

No wife is named, but his offspring are. In the 1810 census of Campbell Co., VA, we find the following in a row:

Elizabeth Walker, Thomas Walker, William Farris, James Cox, Erasmus Jones, Robert D. Nash In the 1820 census of Campbell Co., VA, we find the following in a row:

John Fore, William A. Faris, Samson Woodall, Matthew Sublett, John Cox, Robert Nash, Francis Armistead, John S. Armistead, Samuel Armistead, and Peter Fore.

The census taker allegedly wrote down the names as he traveled door to door. This John Cox must be Littleberry's father because:

1. John's will was witnessed by Roberd D. Nash 2. Robert Daniel Nash married Sabra Redey (Ready) in Charlotte Co., VA, the sister of

Littleberry's wife, Massey Reddy (original doc says Ready; I saw it). Robert allegedly first married Polly Jordan, and a Nancy Jordan witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821.

3. Samuel Armistead was named executor of the will of John Cox. He was a minister of Rough Creek Church in Charlotte Co., VA.

4. James Cox married Elizabeth Farris, daughter of William Farris. James Cox married Judith Jones, daughter of Erasmus Jones. Publius Jones witnessed marriages of Littleberry's siblings in Campbell/Charlotte Co., VA. We find Erasmus Jones in records of Wilson Co., TN, and Judith Cox in Cannon Co., TN. "James Cox deceased." "Erasmus Jones now deceased."

Rootsweb sources show Robert Nash having a son named Abner. This name appears in the John Nash family of Farmville, Prince Edward Co., VA. Abner of Farmville became Governor of NC eventually replacing Gov. Tyrone who fought the Regulators before the Revolution.

Littleberry's sister's wedding was performed by John Weatherford, minister of Cubb Creek Church, which was created by John Caldwell who moved down from PA. Caldwell wrote to the VA legislators to fund Hampden-Sydney college near Farmville and in Lexington (present-day Washington-Lee College) in the Shenandoah. Caldwell's sister lived near Farmville.


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John Nash established his Templeton estate near Farmville, where Bush River meets the Appomatox, across the river from Henry and George Cox Jr. and their uncle, Frederick Cox, brother of George Cox Sr. I can't think of any other Fredrick, Henry and George Cox that could have each received 400 acres in 1730 north of the Appomatox.

The marriage of Littleberry's brother, William, in Charlotte Co., was witnessed by William B. Morton (William Booker Morton). His grandfather, Joseph, was minister of Briery Creek Church, near Keysville. Joseph's previous home near Farmville is where a committee met to found the college (the college mentioned above supported by John Caldwell). William Daniel Nash (brother of Robert Daniel Nash) married at Briery Creek Church.

Mary Nash and two siblings married offspring of Clement Read. Mary Read married Clement Read Jr. and lived at Keysville. He was County Clerk at Charlotte Court House. Frederick Cox's son, John, married Mary (Coleman?) and lived SE of Keysville on Finneywood Creek. Thomas Bouldin lived in Keysville. His mother was Thomason Nash. Thomas' daughter, Francinia Bouldin, married John Cox.

Conclusion This first theory appears to be the most rational of the four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. It is based upon John Cox, father of Littleberry, coming from Wales and settling in Campbell Co., VA, before the Revolution. Perhaps we can now rid ourselves of false information on Rootsweb that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is becoming available.

Connections between Entry Creek and Farmville might imply that Littleberry's father was a son of George Cox Jr. who had land just north of Farmville. He had a son named John in his will. His John was likely born in about 1740. Littleberry's father did patriotic service during the Revolution and the Patriotic Service Index says he was born in 1740. However, this George and John descended from William Cox who arrived on the Godspeed at Jamestown in 1610. A descendant of this William Cox, Valentine Cox, has a living male descendant who tested as having a male Y-DNA haplotype, R1b. Our John and Littleberry Cox have living descendants who tested as having a male Y-DNA J2 haplotype. Haplo R1b1: Walter LeCoc b: 1640 France William Cox b: Abt 1692 d: 1767 Solomon Cox b: Abt 1745 (Quaker) John Cock b: 1721 Kent England Wade Cox of Australia Patrick Ready b: 1835 Ireland Thomas Cox b: ~1645 Herefordshire Valentine Cox b: ~1752 VA

Haplotype J2: William Cox b: 1817 KY (Model) Caleb Cox b: 1802 VA (Model) Seaton Ready b: 1812 KY Jon Levi b: 1798 Israel Joseph Caruso b: 1895 Italy William R. Cox d: 1896 of IL

Robert Daniel Nash was a witness of the will of John Cox, Littleberry’s father. Thomas Nash, the father of Robert Daniel Nash, probably arrived in Charlotte County from Wales in about 1774. More research is needed.

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Littleberry's brother's grandson wrote in 1898 that we are of Welsh descent and that the family settled in Campbell Co., just before the war.

John Nash originally from Wales somehow obtained 12,584 acres in Virginia, near Farmville. Neighbors at Entry Creek (Hat Creek Church) and Rough Creek Church and Keysville included

Huguenots and the Welsh. These and other settlements along the James were owned by Col. William Byrd. He allegedly had land on the Meherrin River. More research is needed.

Letters of William Thomas Cox say that Littleberry’s father came from Wales and settled in Campbell Co., VA, just before the Revolution. Actually Campbell County was established in 1782, just after the war. Littleberry’s neighbors had Welsh names, such as, Nash, Jones, Pugh (ap Hughes), Price (ap Rice), Reese (Rees), Morris, Cocks and Jefferson. Wynn, Oldham and Jenkins are also Welsh surnames.

Connections between Entry Creek and Farmville might imply that Littleberry's father was somehow associated with John Nash of Farmville who was from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales, where the Nashes had merchant ships during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Her grandfather, King Henry VII, was from Pembroke Castle. Sir Richard Coxe, Chancellor of Oxford Univ. was her Chaplain.

Richard fled to Strasburg, Germany, during the reign of Elizabeth’s half sister, Queen Mary (a Catholic). Richard Coxe spoke several languages (perhaps including Welsh, German and Greek) and translated several books of the New Testament into English. Queen Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, likely spoke Welsh and English.

Erasmus and Publius Jones were brothers and neighbors on Entry Creek. An earlier Erasmus was a famous scholar of Rotterdam, and Publius was a pen name of a famous

writer of that same area. Erasmus (born 1464) visited Oxford and Cambridge and translated the New Testament into Greek. Martin Luther was born later, in 1483.

It’s more likely that the J2 haplotype of Welsh Coxes came from nearby Ireland rather than from the far away Netherlands. http://pages.slc.edu/~eraymond/reformation/one.html

Connections among Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Haag, ships from Holland and Wales


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GRANDFATHER OF LITTLEBERRY COX – PART II

There are four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. By covering each of these, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false information on Rootsweb that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is now available.

2. THE SECOND THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox is based upon connections among Littleberry Cox – John Cox – Hannah Jenkins, Quakers of Pennsylvania and Welsh immigrants of Pennsylvania and Virginia.

The family of Hannah Jenkins of Pennsylvania was very likely from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales! The family of John Nash of Farmville, VA, came from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales! Here’s the connection:

After 7-13-1686, William Penn conveyed to William Jenkins 1000 acres in Haverford, Delaware County, PA, and he became a Justice of Chester Co., PA, and later removed to Jenkintown in Abington Township becoming a founding member of the Abington Quaker Meeting in 1697. His only son, Stephen, was born in Tenby, Wales and married at the Abington Meeting in PA, on 9m-14d-1704.

A John Cox married Jane Phillips at the Abington MM (Monthly Meeting) in PA in 1717 and was possibly the same John who married Hannah Jenkins in 1720 at the Newark/Kennett MM, in New Castle Co., DE. (Note: There was also an Abingdon Meeting and a Kennet in Berkshire, England. William Penn was from Berkshire.)

Thomas Cox married Sarah Busby at the Abington MM in 1716. Richard Cox married Margaret Potts at the Abington MM in 1716. Her father and Stephen Jenkins

were active leaders of the Abington MM. Richard had attended the Newark/Kennett MM (Monthly Meeting) where John Cox married Hannah Jenkins.

John Cox of Campbell Co., VA (father of Littleberry Cox) was of Welsh descent living near Hat Creek, Campbell Co., VA, adjacent to Robert Daniel Nash. Again, the Nashes of Farmville and Keysville were from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales.

Gilbert Tennent, a missionary who visited Hat Creek Church, lived with John Irvine, the founder of Hat Creek Church, in 1742. Tennent was from Abington, Pennsylvania, and had known Irvine there before Irvine left for Hat Creek. Gilbert’s nephew, Rev. Dr. William Tennent, was pastor of the Presbyterian Church in Abington for 21 years.

Samuel Davies, son of David Davies of Glamorgan, Wales, was born in New Castle, DE (near the Quaker Newark MM) and became a minister founding the first Presbyterian Church in Hanover, VA. He resided with the Morton family at Farmville, VA, and became the President of Princeton College (now a university).

The Presbyterian Church became divided in 1837. Samuel Armistead was a minister at Rough Creek Church and Hat Creek Church. Armistead was an executor of the will of John Cox, father of Littleberry Cox, in 1821.

John, Thomas, and Richard Cox of Newark/Kennett/Concord Richard, Thomas and John Cox of Kennett Township married Welsh wives of Abington,

Pennsylvania. Richard married Margaret Potts at Abington on 3m-26d-1712. She was related to the Potts of Abington and probably of Pottstown. Thomas married Sarah Busby of Abington on 9-26-1716, and John married Jane Phillips of the Abington MM on 9m-25d-1717 and possibly married, secondly, Hannah Jenkins (probably of Abington) on 11-05-1720.

Hannah was undoubtedly related closely to William Jenkins of Jenkintown who was from Pembroke, Wales.


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The following five charts show five theories about John, Thomas and John Cox of Chester Co., PA. Dan Olds, in The Cox Line, explains why there had to be two John Coxes, Two Richard Coxes and Two Thomas Coxes in Chester County, PA. Other researchers believe there was only one John, one Richard and one Thomas Cox, each having three or four wives with different children. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dano/cox.lin.pdf

CHART 8. Thomas Cox of England, William Cox of Amsterdam

William Cox b: 1657 Gloucester, Engm: Emme-tje Amey Van der Coolendau of Reynier Van der Coolen (Jr.), gr-dau of Reynier Van der Coolen

(& Cattalyn-tje Gerritz)

John Cox Abingdon Meeting, Berkshire, England

b: ~1744, m: Unknown

John Cox

b: ~1692 m: ~1713 Mary Garretson

John Cox b: ~1665 (Age sbout 14?

when house burned in 1779) (1719 deed, John Cox to Robert

Carter, witnessed by Henry Nayle)m: ~1695 Rachel Maddock

b: 7-30-1670 Chester MM, Cheshire, Eng

John Cox Jr.

b: ~1714 m:1 1735 Mary Harlan

m:2 1751 Menallen Twp., Sarah Dicks (Dix) Oldham

John Cox b: ~1699

m:1 9m-25d-1717 Jane Phillips m:2 11-05-1720 Hannah Jenkins

Sarah Cox m:1 ~1712 Richard Leech m:2 ~1719 Robert Hoar Richard Cox m:1 1712 Marg. Potts m:2 Mary Thomas Cox m:1 1712 Mary Chandler m:2 1716 Sarah Busby Joseph Cox m:2 1716 John Cox m:1 1717 Jane Phillips m:2 1720 Hannah Jenkins

No sons named John or Solomon

in the will of Moses Harlan, Mary’s father

(Needs more evidence) John Cox Jr. b: ~1740 (Perhaps moved first to

Tenby, Wales, Cane Creek MM, or Orange Co., NC,

or to Campbell Co., VA

Richard Cox of Kennett Henry Miller Cox, The Cox Family In America, says, “Richard Cox, probably a son of John and

Rachel, of New Castle Co., Delaware, emigrated, with his parents, from England, 1708; certificate granted him, 2, 5, 1712, from Newark, Del., Monthly Meeting of Friends, to [Welsh Quaker] Gwynedd, Pa., in order to request his marriage with Margaret Potts… a daughter of Jane Potts, a native

This view suggests William Cox was from England & married a Swede named Amey of Olds Sweed’s Church. Their son alleg-edly married a Garretson from Amsterdam.

This William may or may not be a brother of John Cox of Berkshire, England, and they could have two different Y-DNA haplotypes.

More research and more donors are needed.


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of Wales, whose husband had died on the voyage from England, she arriving in Philadelphia by a later ship, to find herself a widow with four daughters. She settled in Germantown…”

“The minutes of Kennett Monthly Meeting, Apr. 6, 1713, refer to the removal of Richard Cox and family to West Jersey… Richard Cox, again a member of Kennett Monthly Meeting, 1728, transferred, that year, to North Wales, (Gwynedd Meeting)… where he died, in Vincent Tp., about 1762…”

Margaret was a cousin of the daughters of Jonas Potts of Perkiomen, Pennsylvania. Abington minutes of 3m-26d-1712 say, “Whereas Richard Cox, of Kennet Monthly in ye County

of New Castle, and Margaret Potts, having declared their intentions of marriage with other, before two Monthly Meetings…” At Kennett MM, Richard’s wife, Margaret, had a sister named Potts.

Thomas Potts of Radnor, Wales, headed for Philadelphia on the William Galley on 3-7-1697/98. On 8m-20d-1699, Thomas Potts (Jr) declared intentions to marry Martha Courlin (Keurlis) at the Abington Meeting and later became the sheriff of Germantown.

Obviously, this Richard is not the Richard Cox who married Elizabeth Scarlett of London Grove. Thomas Cox

On 10m-13d-1714, Thomas Cox arrived at the Concord MM, Chester Co., PA, from the Tetbury MM of Gloucester County, in England, and married Sarah Busby at the Abington MM (where Richard had married Margaret Potts).

Note: Gloucester is significant in that Thomas Cox Sr. (of the Quaker Yearly Meeting in London) was allegedly born in Cheltenham, Gloucester(shire). He was allegedly taken to Newgate Prison in 1672 for tithe evasion and married Christian Matthews there on 4-10-1672.

This “Thomas Cox of London” mentions in his will (5-20-1709, Codicil of 12-13-1711) his cousin, Hannah Clark Print, cousin Richard Cooper, both of Gloucester, and cousin Mary Chandler of Philadelphia (who married Thomas Cox after 1709, on 5m-17d-1712). Thomas Cox Jr. married Grace and inherited 800 acres in Philadelphia Co., PA.

Thomas, the son of John and Rachel Cox, first married Sarah Busby in 1716. Abington was also in Philadelphia County, PA.

Thomas Potts, was a member of the Abington Meeting in 1698. This being the case, it becomes believable that Richard, Thomas and John Cox all married Welsh women of the Abington MM and is believable that these Coxes spoke English and Welsh.

Concord minutes of 7m-10d-1716 say, “Thomas Cox appeared (sic) here (sic) and declared his intention of marriage with Richard Busby’s daughter belonging to Abington Monthly Meeting desired a certificate.”

Abington minutes of 9m-26d-1716 say, “Thomas Cox of Concord and Sarah Busby appeared before two Monthly Meetings and declared their intention of marriage with other.” Thomas and Sarah lived in Concord Twp., Chester Co., PA, and had seven children including Richard, Thomas, Hannah and Sarah.

Thomas was a carpenter. In 1741, he was disowned by the Quakers and sailed to today’s Wayne Co., North Carolina. (Obviously, this is not the same Thomas Cox who stayed and married Elizabeth Fincher of London Grove.)

Kennett was about six miles east of the Richard, Thomas and John Coxes of London Grove. Obviously, John Cox (son of John and Rachel) who married Hannah Jenkins is not the John Cox Sr. of London Grove who married Mary (Garrettson?) in about 1713, nor is he John Cox Jr. (son of John Sr. and Mary) who married Mary Harlan of London Grove in 1735.


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CHART 9. Two John, Richard and Thomas Coxes

Note: Thomas Cox was born 2-20-1697 & would only be 15 in 1712. So he more likely married only Sarah Busby (in 1716).

John Cox, Abingdon Meeting Berkshire, England b: ~1644

William Cox

of Glocester, England m: Amy

Thomas Cox married Elizabeth Fincher & witnessed by John & Mary Cocks

John Cox Sr b: ~1665 Eng

m: Rachel (Maddock?)

London Grove, PA- -New Castle DE Kennett/ Newark, PA

Ann Cox m:1 1713 DE

Casper. Garretson m:2 Nat. Hussey

John Cox

m:1 1713 Mary Garretson

of London Grove Twp.,

Chester

William Cox

m: ~1716 Catherine

Kinkey

Thomas Cox b: 1694

m:1 1722 Fincherm:2 1730 Cooke

5. John Cox Jr / Sr b: ~1699 Eng

m:1 9m-25d-1717 Jane Phillips

m:2 11-05-1720 PA Hannah Jenkins

(lacks records)

1. Sarah Cox b: ~1692

Berkshire, Eng m:1 ~1712

Richard Leech m:2 ~1719

Robert Hoar

Co., PA Amey Cox m: ~1722

John Allen

Richard Cox m:1 1726 Mary

m:2 1733 Elizabet Scarlett

4. Joseph Cox

b: ~1698 m: 1716

3. Thomas Cox b: ~1697

m: 5m-17-1712 “Cousin”

Mary Chandler

2. Richard Cox

b: ~1693 m:1 Abt

3-26-1712

John Cox m: Mary Harlan

(m: 9-26-1716 Sarah Busby)

Marg. Potts m:2 Mary

John, Thomas and Richard Cox

of London Grove Twp., Chester Co., Pa. (see map) John, Thomas and Richard Cox

of Kennet Twp., Chester Co., Pa.

The above view suggests William Cox was from England & married Amey. Their son allegedly married a Garretson from Amsterdam. This William may or may not be a brother of John Cox of Berkshire, England, and they could have two different Y-DNA haplotypes. More research and more donors are needed. However, some researchers believe Mary Harlan had several children that were not mentioned in the will of Moses Harlan, including a son named Solomon. His will has no Solomon:

Will Of Moses Harlan (12-10-1747 / 3-29-1749) Here is a timeline for the Harlan-Cox connection: 1735: John Cox marries Mary Harlan. 1737: Jacob Cox is born. 1747: Mary Harlan Cox’s father (Moses Harlan) of Menallen Twp., York (now Adams) Co., PA,

gives 200 acres to his grandson, Jacob Cox, son of his daughter, Mary (Harlan) Cox. Acres are located on the north side of Conewago Creek. Moses also names his granddaughter, Dinah Cox, who was probably named for his daughter, Dinah Harlan. Moses also had a daughter named Rebecca, and Mary’s daughter, Rebecca, attended her sister’s, Dinah’s, wedding, and her husband, John Blackburn, and his sons, Moses & Thomas Blackburn, are mentioned in Moses’ will.

1755: Three children (Thomas? Ruth? and Solomon?) went with John Cox, to Cane Creek, NC, in 1755. William Cox and Catherine Kinkey had children named Thomas, Ruth and Solomon, but they are not named as grandchildren of Moses Harlan in his will.

1758: Jacob marries Margaret in Menallen Twp. on 10-21-1758. Quakers disown Jacob for his condescending attitude and disobedience to his father.


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1769: Jacob and Margaret sell 855 acres to Benjamin Lone on 3-15-1769, This may indicate Jacob was contemplating a move to North Carolina perhaps to help support his relatives who were members of the Regulators and the war of 1771 or to move to eastern Tennessee.

CHART 10. John Cox - Mary Garretson (R1b1 Haplotype)

Note: Thomas Cox born 2-20-1697 & would only be 15 in 1712. So he more likely married only Sarah Busby (in 1716).

Thomas Cox I of the London Yearly Meeting

b: ~1641Gloucestershire, England

William Cox

b: ~1656 Gloucestershire, Eng. m: Unknown

Thomas Cox married Elizabeth Fincher & witnessed by John & Mary Cocks

Thomas Cox II of Berkshire

b: Christened on 12-8-1660 m: Grace

London Grove, PA- -New Castle DE Kennett/ Newark, PA

Ann Cox m:1 1713 DE

Casper. Garretson m:2 Nat. Hussey

John Cox

m:1 1713 Mary Garretson of London Grove,

Chester Co., PA

William Cox

m: ~1716 Catherine

Kinkey

Thomas Cox b: 1694


Thomas Cox III b: ~1697

m: 5m-17-1712 “Cousin”

Mary Chandler m: 1716 Sarah Busby

John Cox b: ~1699 Eng

m:1 9m-25d-1717 Jane Phillips

Amey Cox m: ~1722

John Allen

Richard Cox m:1 1726 Mary

m:2 1733 Elizabet Scarlett

John Cox

m: Mary Harlan

John, Thomas and Richard Cox

of London Grove Twp., Chester Co., Pa. (see map) John, Thomas of Abbington MM

The above chart represents the view that William Cox on the left was a brother of Thomas Cox on

the right. Thomas and his son, Thomas, are mentioned in the will of Thomas Cox of the London Yearly Meeting. This would mean that all male Coxes were the same Y-DNA haplotype, R1b1.


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CHART 11. John & Mary Cox -/- William & Amey Cox

Thomas Cox b: ~16?? Gloucestershire, Eng.

d: London, Eng. m: Christian Matthews

Reynierse Van der Coelen b: ~1640 Netherlands

d: ~1677 New Castle, DE m: ~1660 Cattalyntje “Catherina”

(Gerritzen) Gerritz b: ~1640 Bommel, Gelderland, Zuid-Holland d: New Castle, DE

William Cox b: ~1657 Gloucestershire, Eng.

m: Unknown

Emmetje “Amey” Van der Coelen b: ~1670

Reynierse Van der Coelen b: ~1662 Netherlands d: ~1702 m: ~1675 New Castle Co., DE

Margaret Barentse Egge b: ~1660 .

Ann Cox

m:1 1713 DE Casper.

Garretson m:2 Nat. Hussey

Thomas Cox b: 1694


Amey Cox m: ~1722

John Allen

William “Bille” Cock b:~1682 Netherlands? d: 1742

m: ~1714 Emmetje “Amey” Van der Coolenb: ~1682

Holy Trinity (Old Swede’s) Church, Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE

John Cox m:1 1713

Mary Garretson of London

Grove Twp., Chester Co.

William Cox b: ~1692 m: ~1716 Catherine

Kinkey New Castle, DE

Richard Cox

m:1 1726 Marym:2 1733 Elizabeth Scarlett

John Cox b: ~1714 m: 1735

Mary Harlan b: ~1716

John Cox b: 4-25-1728 New Castle

d: Guilford, NC m: Mary Scarlett

b: 12m-23-1734 d: 6m-24-1796

Guilford Co NC

John Johan Cock

Hanna CockMargarita Cock

Rigner Von der Culen Cock

Regner Cock

Born / Baptized10-21-1716 / 6-3-17164 -?-1720 / 1-20-1722 / 3-14-1723 1-15-1725 / 5-4-1726 d: 1727 2-20-1728 / 2-27-1728

Siblings of William Cox

in London Grove Twp., Chester Co., Penn. Siblings of Johan Cock

in White Clay Creek Hundred, New Castle, DE According to Dan Olds, William & Amy Cock mortgaged land to William & Catherine Cox of Hockesin.

William & Amey Cock had bought 100 acres in 12-21-1734 and two months later mortgaged these 100 acres to William & Catherine Cox of “Osasson” (Hockessin). Both deeds had same deed description.

William Cock died after 1742. His son Johan of White Clay Creek Hundred (that was baptized 10-21-1716) was estate executor on 5-18-1743 when he sells the entire tract by order of Orphan’s Court. Deed description recorded on 6-7-1743 matches the above descriptions.

William & Catherine received 100 acres from William & Amey. These must have been mortgaged or sold on contract for the deed was still in William & Amey’s estate in 1743, when William & Amey’s son, John, sold it.

Two other John Coxes (1. m: Mary Garretson? & 2. m: Mary Harlan) had removed to York Co. before 1743.


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CHART 12. Children of William Cox & Catherine Kinkey (Dutch) Children of John Cox & Rachel (English/Welsh)

William Cox

b: ~1656 Gloucester, Eng m: Unknown

Thomas Cox married Elizabeth Fincher & witnessed by brother, John & Mary Cocks

John Cox Sr b: ~1665 Eng d:

m: Rachel (Maddock?)

Peter Dix m: Esther Maddock

London Grove, PA-

-New Castle DE Kennett/

Newark, PA

John Cox

Sr. m:1 ~1713

Mary Garretson

Ann Cox m:1 1713 DE

Casperus Garretson

William Cox

b: 12-11-1692

Thomas Cox

b: 1694 m:1 1722 Fincherm:2 1730 Cooke

1. John Cox Jr b: ~1698 Eng

m:1 1717 Jane Phillips

2. Sarah Cox b: ~1692 Berkshire, Eng m:1 ~1712 Thos. Leech m:2 Robert Hoar

John Cox Jr.

m:1 1735 Mary Harlan m:2 Sarah Dix

Oldham (Wm. Oldham m: Sarah Dix)

Richard Cox R1b1?

m:1 1726 Mary m:2 1733 Eliz.

Scarlett

d: 1767 NC m: ~1716 Catherine

Kinkey (granddaughter of Augustine

Herman)

Amey Cox m: ~1722

John Alline of Ireland

m:2 11-05-1720 PA Hannah Jenkins

(No recordsof children?)

m:3 ~1735 PA?

Mary unknown

Kennett Twp

3. Thos. Cox J2? m: S. Busby 4. Joseph Cox J2? m: 1716 5. Richard Cox m: 1722 M. Potts

Margery Cox m: 3-26-1742 DE

Isaac Nichols

Rebecca Cox m: 3-26-1742 DE

John Dixon

Martha Cox m: 4-26-1744 DE William Terrell

Kennett Minutes 1720 John m: Hannah 1729 “John Cox Jr”

Harmon Cox m: 10-25-1745 VA

Loudon Co. Jane John

Mary Cox m: 5-05-1753

London Grove, PA James Lindley

John Cox m: 5-22-1755

London Grove, PA Mary Scarlett

1730-32 “ “ 1732-35 “John Cox, wife”1732 “John Cox, house” 1741 “John Cox “

Cane Creek Minutes (From Kennett MM, PA To Cane Creek MM. NC) 1753 Solomon & Thomas Cox 1753 Mary Cox

William Cox Jr.

m: 9-06-1755 NC Juliatha Cox

Solomon Cox

m: 1756 in NC Ruth Cox

Thomas Cox m: 1-24-1760 NC

Sarah Davis

1755 “John Cox Sr” 1755 “John Cox”

1755 John Cox Sr. 1755 John Cox 1755 Juliatha Cox marries 1757 Ruth Cox misconduct

All married in NC Solomon

Enoch Catherine

Ruth Samuel William Mary

Joseph Jesse

Juliatha Cox m: 1755 NC

William Cox Jr

Ruth Cox m: ~1756 NC Solomon Cox

John Cox b: ~1740 NC?

m: ~1762 Pollyof Virginia

Charles Cox Thomas Cox

d: Cane Creek, Orange Co., IN

This chart represents the descendants of William and John Cox as two different families, which could possibly have two different Y-DNA haplotypes. John who married Hannah Jenkins is said to have had also married a Mary in about 1735. These may have migrated to northern North Carolina after 1753. However, this would not account for Juliatha Cox and her sister, Ruth Cox, marrying their cousins unless the word “cousin” included 2nd cousins and unless they were the same family.


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The Maddock Sisters’ Family Other siblings including Esther and Deborah are:

1. Nathan Maddock b: 12-30-1660 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. Witnessed the marriage of Thomas Cox (likely from Berkshire, England) to Elizabeth Fincher (of Berkshire, Eng.) at New Garden Mtg, 9m-2d-1722, in the same year a Thomas Cox bought land at London Grove, Chester Co., PA.

2. Esther Maddock b: 12-16-1661 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. 3. Deborah Maddock b: 6-20-1666 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. 4. Abel Maddock b: 11-01-1668 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. 5. Rachel Maddock b: 9-30-1670 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. Married possibly John Cox likely

from Berkshire, England. 6. Mordecai Maddock b: 7-10-1672 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. 7. Hezekiah Maddock b: 7-30-1673 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. 8. Alice Maddock b: 5-23-1675 Chester, Cheshire, Eng.

9. Caleb Maddock b: 5-14-1677 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. John Cox of Drayton

Albert Cook Myers compiled some information about John Cox’s transition from Drayton, Berkshire, England, to Pennsylvania, and lists their children’s names:

6m-28d-1707: John Cox (I) of Drayton, member of Abington Mtg. the jurisdiction of Newbury, requested of the West Chalow MM a certificate for himself, his wife and children to remove to Pennsylvania. Newark (Center) Minutes (10-2-1710) say, “At this meeting was read a certificate on ye behalfe of John Cox Junior which excepted (sic) on, it being from Ould England.”

Myers’ notes describe “John Cox Jr.” (II) of the Kennett Minutes as the one who announced at Kennett Mtg. in 1720 his intentions to marry Hannah Jenkins.

(Note: Kennett and Abingdon were also in Berskhire, England.) Other links on the Rootsweb site offer other suggestions: John Cox (I) of Abingdon Mtg. in Berkshire, Eng., was a blacksmith whose home burned in

1679, and the various meetings who knew him, his wife and son offered relief. This John (I) would have been born in about 1644 and married about 1664.

My own conjecture from this is as follows: 1. John Cox (I) and wife had a house that burned in 1679. They had a son at the time. 2. John Cox Jr. (II) was likely born in about 1665 and would have been about 14 years old in 1679. 3. A John Cox, wife & family arrived at Newark Kennet Mtg. in 1708. 4. A John Cox Jr. arrived at Newark Kennet Mtg. unmarried in 1710. 5. John and Rachel Cox buy land at Newark Kennet in 1713 from Nicholas Pyle. 6. John Cox married Jane Phillips in 1717. 6. John Cox married Hannah Jenkins in 1720. 7. John Cox and wife needed financial aid up through October, 1735. 8. A John Cox Jr. married Mary Harlan in October, 1735. 9. John and Mary (Garretson?) sell London Grove land, 1737, to Robert Carter of London Grove. 10. A John Cox buys land in York (now Adams) County, PA in 1737. 11. A John Cox ceases to be taxed in London Grove, but a John Cox continues to be taxed in

Kennett Twp. in 1737, 1738, 1739 & 1740 but not in 1747 to 1763 (when he may have removed to Wales or NC or VA).


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12. Moses Harlan buys land in York Co. in 1740. 13. Newark Kennet Mtg. complains of John Cox’s abuse of drinking in 1741, and a John Cox

(likely the son of William & Catherine) requests a certificate to remove to New Garden to marry. A John Cox (likely the son of William & Catherine) and “John Cox Sr.” go from Kennett to NC in 1755.

Circumstamces of John and “Old Rachel” Was it John and “Old Rachel” who were needy? Or was it “John Cox and his wife” who were

needy? The expression, “John Cox Jr. and his wife” is never used in the Kennett MM Minutes. It is believed (by conjecture) that this elderly couple, moved into the home of their daughter, Sarah

Leech, who had remarried Robert Hoare. Sarah removed from home leaving her elderly parents, John and his wife, in the care of her brother John Cox Jr. and his wife Hannah. Complaints arose over John’s drinking, and they received relief from the Kennett Meeting. They also remained about the poorest in the township and underwent several setbacks as follows:

Son Richard left Kennett for Abington MM in 1712 to marry Margaret Potts. (Note: There is also a Kennet and Abingdon in Berkshire, England.) They return and are taxed in Kennett from 1715 to 1728, when they removed to Philadelphia (now Montgomery) Co., PA.

Sarah was disowned in 1712 for marrying Richard Leech, a non-member. John “Sr.” was disowned in 1712 but was reinstated in 1719 (-1666 = age 53). Now comes the story of Abiah Taylor, a friend from Berkshire already living at Kennett. Abiah

married (m: 2m-18d-1694) in Berkshire and removed to PA in 1702. He purchased land (5m-26d-1708) in Kennett Twp., on the forks of the Brandywine, adjacent to his own land in Chester Co., PA. He purchased this on behalf of his friend, John Cox, whom we assume is John Cox of Drayton. (Abiah’s home has recently been restored; so we know where the property was.)

7m-4d-1708: John was received on certificate at the Kennett Mtg. from “Ould England”. It is assumed he was the same John Cox just mentioned who was from Berkshire. Other Kennett Minutes also mention “John Cox Sr.” and “John Cox and wife Rachel”, “John Cox Jr.” and “John Cox and wife”. This John was probably born in about 1666, and Rachel Maddock was born 9-30-1670. In 1682, this John Sr., and a Rachel would have personally known William Penn and George Fox (founder of Quakerism) in Berkshire, England. All were from Berkshire.

Two Thomas Coxes of Philadelphia Co., PA Thomas Cox (born in about 1641) of the London Quaker Yearly Meeting in his will

identifies his grandsons. These need to be separated from the sons of John and Rachel Cox. Thomas Cox (son of John & Rachel) was born 2-20-1697 & would only be 15 in 1712, when a

Thomas Cox married Mary Chandler in Philidelphia Co., PA, and was more likely a son of Thomas Cox born on 12-8-1660, who was a son of Thomas Cox of the London Yearly Meeting.

The Problem Much of the difficulty stems from the conjecture and assumption that John and Rachel Cox (of

Chester County) had children named Richard, Thomas and John who lived in both Kennet Township and in London Grove Township. This would mean that the three men would have several wives each, that Richard Cox (of Kennett) married Margaret Potts (of Abington), and allegedly also married Elizabeth Scarlette (of London Grove), that Thomas Cox (of Kennett) married Sarah Busby (of Abington), and allegedly also married Elizabeth Fincher (of London Grove) and Mary Cooke (of London Grove), that John Cox Jr. (of Kennett) married Jane Phillips (of Abington), and allegedly also married Mary (Garretson?) (of London Grove), Hannah Jenkins (of Kennett) and Mary Harlan (of London Grove). Do we find these to be six men, or are they only three?


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CHART 13. Three Maddock Sisters and John Cox

Anthony Nichols

Alice Nichols m: (??) Maddock (The 3-05-1684 will of Alice [Nickalls] Maddock

mentions Alice’s father, Anthony Nickalls, her son-in-law Peter Dicks and her daughter Rachel)

son of

John Cox b: ~1644 Abingdon Meeting,

Berkshire, England m: Unknown

Esther Maddock


m:1 Peter Dicks (Dix) b: ~1660 d: ~2-07-1703/04

m:2 11-09-1713 John Mendenhall

Rachel Maddock? b: 9-30-1670

Chester MM, Cheshire, Eng m: ~1695 John Cox

b: ~1670 (1719 deed, John Cox to Robert

Carter, witnessed by Henry Nayle)

Deborah Maddock b: 6-20-1666

d: Probate 8-28-1751 m: 1684 Henry Nayle

(wedding witnessed by John Cox)b: 1647 Cheshire, England

d: 8-20-1726 (Will witnessed by John Cox)

Peter Dicks Jr.

m: Sarah Hayes (His sister, Sarah Dicks, married 1715 Joseph Pyle whose grandfather deeded

200 acres in 1713 to John & Rachel Cox in Kennett Twp., Chester Co.)

(His brother, Nathan Dicks m: Deborah Clark, a neighbor of John Cox in Kennett Twp., Chester Co.)

John Cox b: ~1699

m: 9m-25-1717 Jane Phillips? m: 11-05-1720 Hannah Jenkins

m: ~1735 Mary Unknown?

Link needs more research

Sarah Dicks (Dix) m:1 ~1736 William Oldham

m:2 1751 Menallen Twp., York Co. John Cox Jr.

(who had married 1735 Mary Harlan of London Grove and moved to Menallen twp., York Co., PA)


Tenby, Wales, Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., NC,




It is speculation that Rachel Maddock was the wife of John Cox. It is a conjecture based upon marriages, deeds and wills mentioned above: Deed, John Cox to Robert Carter wit-nessed by Henry Nayle; wedding witnessed by John Cox; will witnessed by John Cox; Deborah Clark, a neighbor of John Cox.


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CHART 14. Three Maddock Siblings and John Cox

Anthony Nichols

Alice Nichols m: ~1659 Nathan Maddock b: 1642 Chester, Cheshire, Eng. d: 1680

(The 3-05-1684 will of Alice [Nickalls] Maddock mentions Alice’s father, Anthony Nickalls,

her son-in-law Peter Dicks and her daughter Rachel)

Rachel Maddock


3-5-1739 joined Newark MM m: ~1695 John Cox b: ~1670

(1719 deed, John Cox to Robert Carter, witnessed by Henry Nayle)

Deborah Maddock b: Probate 6-20-1666 m: 1684 Henry Nayle

(wedding witnessed by John Cox) b: 1647 Cheshire, England

d: 8-20-1726 (Will witnessed by John Cox)

Nathan Maddock b: 12-30-1660

m: ~1680 Esther Nichols

John Cox b: ~1699

m: 9m-25-1717 Jane Phillips? m: 11-05-1720 Hannah Jenkins

m: ~ 1735 Mary Unknown?

Nathan Maddock b: 11-29-1691/92 m: 1719 Hester

b: 1696




Francis Nash (A lawyer at Hillsboro, NC)

(Son of John Nash of Farmville) (1771 fought the Regulators

at battle of Alamance) (Was brigadier general over NC

Regiment at Battle of Brandywine.Died after wounded in 10-4-1777)

Joseph Maddock b: ~1720 Brandywine,

New Castle Co., DE 1754 settled at Hillsboro NC

1771 friend of Herman Husband (leader of the Regulators)

brother-in-law of Catherine Kinkey who married William Cox of

Brandywine, DE, & Cane Cr., NC m: Rachel Dennis of NJ



Joseph Maddock Jr. m: 1784 Rebecca Hinshaw

Deeds, wills and weddings suggest that Rachel Maddock married John Cox.


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CHART 15. Thomas Cox of England, William Cox of Amsterdam

John Cox, Abingdon Meeting Berkshire, England

b: ~1744 m: Unknown

William Cox b: 1657 Gloucester, Eng m: Emme-tje Amey Van der Coolen dau of Reynier Van der Coolen (Jr.), gr-dau of Reynier Van der Coolen

(& Cattalyn-tje Gerritz)

NOTE: The marriage of Thomas Cox & Elizabeth

Fincher witnessed by brother, John Cocks & wife Mary Cocks

John Cox b: ~1670

(1719 deed, John Cox to Robert Carter, witnessed by Henry Nayle)

m: ~1695 Rachel Maddock b: 7-30-1670

Chester MM, Cheshire, Eng.

John Cox m: ~1714 Mary Garretson

Ann Cox m:1 1713 Casper Garretson m:2 Nathan. Hussey John Cox m: ~1714 Mary GarretsonWm. Cox m: ~1716 Catherine KinkeyThomas Cox m:1 1722 Eliz. Fincher m:2 1730 Mary Cooke

Amey Cox m: ~1722 John Allen Richard Cox m:1 1726 Mary

m:2 1733 Eliz. Scarlett

John Cox b: ~1699

m:1 9m-25d-1717 Jane Phillips m:2 11-05-1720 Hannah Jenkins

John Cox Jr. b: ~1714

m:1 1735 Mary Harlan m:2 1751 Menallen Twp.,

Sarah Dicks (Dix) Oldham

(Needs more evidence)

John Cox Jr. b: ~1740 (Perhaps moved first to



No sons named John or Solomon in the will of Moses Harlan, Mary’s

father

In both the Quaker Kennett Minutes (of Chester Co., PA) and the Cane Creek Minutes (of Orange

Co., NC) say that a “John Cox Sr.” removed from Kennett for Cane Creek in 1755 in the same year that another “John Cox” made the same trip. This John Cox Sr. could not be the son of William and Catherin Kinkey Cox, the parents of William Cox Jr. and Solomon Cox.


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CHART 16. Quaker Johnson and Dicks Families of Lynchburg, VA

Esther Maddock m: Peter Dicks b: 1660

Benjamin Johnson b: ~1705 in VA

Agnes Clark b: ~1712 in VA Nathan Dicks b: in PA

m: ~1713 Deborah Clark in PA

Christopher Johnson b: 1731

Louisa Co., VA m: Elizabeth Moorman

William Johnson b: 4-25-1734

Louisa Co., VA m: Susanna Clark

Nathan Dicks b: 1727 in PA m: 1-9-1756

Mary Ballinger

Sarah Dicks m: 1736 Wm. Oldham (Chester Co., PA)m: 1751 John Cox Jr. (Menallen, PA)

John 1st married in 1735 Mary Harlan (Chester Co., PA)

Benjamin Johnson

m: Mary Elijah Johnson

b: 1777 Campbell Co., VA

m: Eliz. Watkins

William Dicks b: 1762 in NC m: 2-7-1787

Agatha Terrell

Joshua Dicks b: 11-21-1758 in NC

d: 1834 Sullivan Co., IN m: 1782 Eliz. Baldwin

Lemuel Johnson

m: 1806 Bedford Co., VA

Lucy Cox dau of Valentine Cox moved to St. Marys,

Hancock Co., IL

Sally Johnsonm: 2-4-1819

Nathan Dicks

to Miami MM Warren Co., OH

Sally died 5-10-1859 Lafayette, IN

Nathan Dicks b: 1-4-1788 Guilford Co., NC Estate: in Lynchburg

(Note: Lucy Cox’s brother, James Cox (son of Valentine Cox), moved to Monroe Co., MO, across the Mississippi from Lucy & Lemuel. Nathan Dicks’ cousin (Deborah Dicks) married 1-1-1775 Jonathan Lindley, Orange Co., NC, and died in 1811, Orange Co., IN.

Anselm Johnson (son of Benjamin and Mary Johnson) and Deborah Douglas (daughter of Achillis and Elizabeth Douglas) of Bedford County, VA, were married at South River Meeting on 7-10-1810).

Witnesses were: Achillis Douglas, Benj. Johnson, Lemuel Johnson, Samuel Johnson, Samuel Fisher, Nicholas Johnson, Mahlon Cadwalader, James S. Butler, Etchison Grigsby, James Cox, Garland Johnson, Stephen Butler, Jr., Nathan Dicks, Wm. Davis, Jr., Samuel Davis. William Davis, Harrison Ratcliff, Stephen Butler, John Lynch, Josiah Bailey, Latham Stanton, Daniel Burress, Isaac Pidgeon, Edward Lynch, Jonathan Butler, Elias Fisher, Elizaljeth Fisher, Mary Lynch, Mary Butler, Zalinda Davis, Matilda Johnson, Lucy Johnson, Jonathan Johnson, Nancy Butler. (Note: Solomon Hartsfield was guardian in 1845 of a Matilda Johnson in Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN. His daughter, Martha Jane Hartsfield, married a Dawson.)

1812 Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Johnson exchange lands in Bedford and Campbell Counties for mutual benefit. John Gill, David Johnson, John Wales, Lemuel Johnson, Lilbourn Johnson and others are mentioned. Elizabeth Gills, daughter of John, married James Cox, Valentine’s son.

Valentine Cox’s grave was recently found in Forest, Bedford Co., VA, near Jefferson’s octagonal home. Valentine’s brother, John, was born about 1740, and Littleberry’s father, John Cox, was born in about 1740, but their Y-DNA does not match.


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CHART 17. Hazlewood, Duncan and Dicks of Orange Co., Indiana

Esther Maddock m: Peter Dicks b: 1660

Nathan Dicks b: in PA

m: ~1713 Deborah Clark in PA

Luke

Hazlewood b: ~1761

Lunenburg Co., VA m: 9-22-1782

Charlotte Co., VA by Rev. John Weatherford

Rev. John Duncan

b: ~1730 in Glascow, Scotland

m: in Amherst (now Nelson)

Co., VA

Deborah Dicksb: 10-10-1751 d: 8-10-1811 Stampers Cr.

Cemetery Orange Co., IN

m: Jonathan Lindley

Nathan Dicks Jr b: 1727 in PA d: 10-27-1765

Rowan Co., NCm: 1-9-1756

Mary Ballinger

Sarah Dicks b: 1718 Chester Co., PA

m: 6-10-1736 Wm. Oldham b: abt. 1710 Chester Co., PA m: 1751 John Cox Jr. in PAJohn 1st married Mary Harlan

Josiah Hazlewood b: 4-4-1792

Charlotte Co., VA

d: 10-13-1876 Stampers Cr.

Cemetery, Orange Co., IN

m: Levisa Johnson & Jane

Mahan

Elizabeth Duncan b: ~1777

Amherst Co., VAm:

Adair Co., KY, Campbell Goodeof Amherst

(now Nelson) Co., VA, brother of

John Goode of Casey Cr, KY

Lindley family

of Stampers Creek,

east of Paoli, Orange Co., IN

William Dicksb: 1762 in NC

New Garden MM, Guilford Co., NC

Business in Lynchburg, VA

& South River MM

m: 2-7-1787 Agatha Terrell

Rachel Oldham b: ~1737 Chester Co., PA

m: 11-27-1764 George Hodgson, New Garden MM,

Orange Co. (now Guilford) North Carolina

Hazlewood family of Stampers

Creek, Orange Co., IN

Duncan family of Stampers

Creek, Orange Co., IN

Lindley family of Stampers

Creek, east of Paoli,

Orange Co., IN

Nathan Dicks b: 1-4-1788

Guilford Co., NC m: 2-4-1819

Sally Johnson d: Lafayette, IN

Note: Luke Hazlewood is likely a brother of William who was married to Molly Cox (Littleberry’s sister) by John Weatherford. Luke was likely a brother of Benjamin who was married to Sally Cox (Littleberry’s sister). Surety was by William Hazlewood. Elizabeth Duncan’s brother, George Duncan, and her husband, Campbell Goode, died in Orange Co., Indiana. Josiah Hazlewood and George Duncan, along with Deborah Dicks, are buried at Stampers Creek Cemetery, east of Paoli, Indiana. This would support the theory that Littleberry Cox had an alleged nephew named Thomas Cox who lived in Orange Co., Indiana, but their Y-DNA does not match.


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CHART 18. Quaker Coxes from the Lynchburg, VA, Area

Valentine Cox b: Abt 1750 m: 3-3-1772 Nancy Dawson, Amherst Co., VA d: 27 Dec. 1813. Will Book 4, pgs. 111-112. Written 12-27-1812

James A. Cox

b: 6-20-1787 d: 8-7-1846 Lucy Cox

b: ~1788 m: 1833 Milly Cox

m: Dawson Elizabeth Cox

m: Calvert Judith Cox m: Tinsley

Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co., MO m: Elizabeth Gills

Lemuel Johnson (Executor of the

Sarah Coxm: Sullivan

Damaris Cox m: Farnsworth

Mahalia Cox m: Tinsley

b: 1-27-1793 d: 6-25-1860 Cox Cemetery,

Monroe Co., MO

Valentine Cox estate & was surety for James

Cox’s marriage)

Nancy Cox

Lucy Ann

Cox m:_Saunders

Mary Matilda Cox b: 4-12-1823

d: 3-3-1915 Cox Cemetery m: Robert Price

Eliza Cox

m: __Sharp

Martha Cox

m: __Crutcher

Sally Cox b: 9-28-1821 d: 9-24-1831

Cox Cemetery

Samuel H. Cox b: 5-26-1827 Bedford Co., VA (got the James Cox homestead)

d: 2-19-1896 Cox Cemetery Monroe Co., MO

m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley

James W. Cox b: 3-9-1825

d: 5-20-1853 Cox Cemetery

John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA d: 4-15-1900 Cox Cemetery

Monroe Co., MO m: Martha Ellen Howell

Emily Parker Cox d: 1909 m: James W.

Herndon m: 1841 Amasa

Welch Holmes

Matthew Maury Cox b: 1861

m: 1888 Annie M. Balliett

Charles Turner Cox b: 6-20-1859 d: 1913

m: 1879 Lillie Jane Davis

James W. Coxm: Nancy Boone

John W. Cox b: 2-2-1859 KY d: 3-3-1937 m: Anna

2 boys 4 girls

Henry Hollis Cox

b: 12-4-1896 d: 7-1976 Hannibal,

Marion Co MO

Thomas J. Cox

b: 9-27-1910 Hunnewell, Shelby Co.,

MO

John Henry Cox

b: 9-9-1894 d: 1975

Clarence, Shelby

m: Lula Mae Baker

Edward Matthew Cox b: 11-26-1897

Hunnewell, MO d: 8-1986

Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO

m: Marie Garrigues

Lizzie Cox

b: 5-10-1892 m:

Clifton Maupin

Paul L. Cox b: 8-21-1897 Shelby Co. d: 3-1943 Monroe Co.

m: 11-18-1909 Ruby M. Forsythe

Harold Davis Cox

b: 8-14-1914 Mary J. Cox

b: 1918 Edward Matthew Cox b: 10-31-1929


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CHART 19. Clements and Cox Families of Amelia Co., VA

William Clements b: 1675 d: 1766 Amelia Co., VA

Benjamin Clements

b: 1700 m: Susannah Hill

William Clements

John Clements

Francis Clements b: 1706 Gloucester Co., VA

d: 3-15-1764 Lunenburg Co., VA (Charlotte Co. after 1765)

probated 7-7-1767 Charlotte Co., VA

m: Elizabeth Cox of Amelia Co., VA (sister of Josiah Cox)

Adam Clements

b: 4-22-1738 Amelia Co., VA m: Agnes Louisa Johnson

William Clements

Stephen Clements

Judith Clements

Mary Clements

Samuel B. Clements

m: 1797 Pamela Goggin Adam Clements

b: 5-5-1782 m: Nancy Ann Alexander

John Marshall Clements

b: 1798 m: Jane Lampton

Adam Clements b: 1826 Campbell Co., VA

d: 7-8-1915 Campbell Co., VA m:1 9-18-1846 Nancy Martha Cox

Campbell Co., VA m:2 5-31-1888 Ann Cox

Campbell Co., VA

Samuel Langhorn Clemens

”Mark Twain” b: 11-30-1835 Monroe Co., MO

1847 moved to Hannibal, Marion Co., MO

Note: A relationship between John Cox of Amelia and Elizabeth Cox of Amelia (wife of Francis Clements) has not been established and needs more research. On May 11, 1742, John Cox of Amelia hired Clement Read as a lawyer after John had moved to Goochland Co., VA. Prince Edward Co. was cropped from Amelia Co., VA, in 1754.

John Cox, son of Frederick, grandson of Bartholomew, married Tabitha Price in Prince Edward Co., just south of Farmville. Their son, John P. Cox, married Elizabeth White and removed to Greensburg, Green Co., KY. A few of their descendants live in Campbellsville, Taylor Co., KY.


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Conclusion This second theory appears to be less rational than the first theory in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. By covering the next two, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false info on Rootsweb that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is becoming available.

Connections between Entry Creek and Quakers of Pennsylvania might imply that Littleberry's father was John Cox (m: Hannah Jenkins likely of Wales) a son of John Cox who married Rachel. This John was likely born in about 1740.

Littleberry's father did patriotic service during the Revolution and the Patriotic Service Index says he was born in 1740. However, descendants of Quaker Cox of Pennsylvania tested as having a male Y-DNA haplotype, R1b or R1b1. Our John and Littleberry Cox have living descendants who tested as having a male Y-DNA J2 haplotype. Haplo R1b1: Walter LeCoc b: 1640 France William Cox b: Abt 1692 d: 1767 Solomon Cox b: Abt 1745 (Quaker) John Cock b: 1721 Kent England Wade Cox of Australia Patrick Ready b: 1835 Ireland Thomas Cox b: ~1645 Herefordshire Valentine Cox b: ~1752 VA


Letters of William Thomas Cox say that Littleberry’s father came from Wales and settled in

Campbell Co., VA, just before the Revolution. Actually Campbell County was established in 1782, just after the war. Littleberry’s neighbors had Welsh names, such as, Nash, Jones, Pugh (ap Hughes), Price (ap Rice), Reese (Rees), Morris, Cocks and Jefferson. Oldham and Jenkins are Welsh surnames.

Connections between Entry Creek and Farmville might imply that Littleberry's father was somehow associated with John Nash of Farmville who was from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales, where the Nashes had merchant ships during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Her grandfather, King Henry VII, was from Pembroke Castle. Sir Richard Coxe, Chancellor of Oxford Univ. was her Chaplain.

Richard fled to Strasburg, Germany, during the reign of Elizabeth’s half sister, Queen Mary (a Catholic). Richard Coxe spoke several languages (perhaps including Welsh, German and Greek) and translated several books of the New Testament into English. Queen Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, likely spoke Welsh and English. Erasmus and Publius Jones were neighbors. Erasmus was a famous scholar of Rotterdam, and Publius was a pen name of a famous writer of that same area. Erasmus (born 1464) visited Oxford and Cambridge and translated the New Testament into Greek. Martin Luther was born later, in 1483. http://pages.slc.edu/~eraymond/reformation/one.html

13 24 14 12 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 30 15 13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 16 19 29 15 13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 29 15 13 25 14 11 11 14 11 12 13 13 13 30 17 09 10 11 11 24 15 19 30 15 13 23 15 11 11 13 12 12 11 13 13 30 17 09 09 11 11 26 15 19 28 15 13 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 13 13 29 17 09 10 11 11 24 15 19 30 15 13 23 14 11 11 14 12 12 11 13 14 29 17 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 29 15 13 23 14 11 12 14 12 12 12 13 13 30 17 09 09 11 11 23 15 19 28 15

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John Nash somehow obtained 12,584 acres in Virginia. John Nash somehow obtained 12,584 acres in Virginia. Thomas Nash, likely the father of Robert

Daniel Nash, arrived in Charlotte County in about 1774. Littleberry's brother's grandson wrote in 1898 that we are of Welsh descent and that the family

settled in Campbell Co., just before the war (in about 1776?). Neighbors at Entry Creek (Hat Creek Church) and Rough Creek Church and Keysville included

Huguenots and the Welsh, settlements provided by Col. William Byrd along the James and Meherrin Rivers.

Haplotypes of various surnames above are compared with the first markers of Littleberry’s son, William Cox, born 1817 in Casey Creek Kentucky. Seaton Ready is a perfect match on William’s first twelve markers. Jon Levi of Israel is twice a mismatch for William’s first 22 markers. Each of the next group down is off by two markers. Theory is that each haplogroup began with one sequence and that over the centuries changes are made in one, two, three, etc. markers by going through what is called a mutation.

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GRANDFATHER OF LITTLEBERRY COX – PART III

There are four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. By covering each of these, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false information on Rootsweb/Family Trees that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is available.

3. THE THIRD THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox is based upon his line descending from William Cox who arrived on the Godspeed in 1610. This line was sometimes adjacent to Huguenot refugees from Amsterdam England and Wales, Welsh Quakers of Pennsylvania and Welsh immigrants to Charlotte County, Virginia, such as the Reese, Jones, Pugh and Morris families. I also thought George Cox, Jr. may have been the grandfather until a descendant tested as R1b, not J2.

William Cox of Pennsylvania & Augustine Herman of Virginia and The Netherlands George Fox, leader of the Quakers, visited Amsterdam followers before sailing to America.

Augustine Herman married at the Hague, Netherlands, before sailing to New Amsterdam (NY). Thomas Bouldin lived near Augustine Herman before moving to New Castle, DE, near William Cox and his wife, Catherine Kinkey. William Cox lived at Mill Creek Hundred, New Castle, DE, and had siblings that married residents of London Grove Twp., Chester Co., PA. He married Catherine Kinkey, a granddaughter of Augustine Herman, and in 1751 they removed to the Cane Creek Meeting, in Orange (now Guilford) Co., NC, and lived at his William Cox Settlement near Guilford Court House.

Catherine's sister married Herman Husband, one of the leaders of "the Regulators" who fought Governor Tyrone of North Carolina... a battle that led to the Revolution. Coloniel Augustine Herman, who was cartographer for the East India Company in New Amsterdam (NY), who mapped the Chessapeak Bay and surveyed the land given William Penn, had granddaughters living adjacent to the battle of Guilford Court House.

Eventually, Abner Nash from Farmville, Virginia replaced Governor Tyrone over North Carolina. Francis Nash, Abner’s brother, fought the Regulators before the Revolution but fought the British during the Revolution. Nashville, TN, was named in honor of Francis’ death after being wounded by the British at Brandywine adjacent to the previous Quaker residence of John Cox and Hannah Jenkins.

Coxes of Virginia also had connections with Huguenots refugees from the Netherlands. Cox, Noel, Michaux & Sublett Allied Families

1572 St Bartholomew’s Day Massacre on Aug. 23 began weeks of killing between 5 to 30 thousand protestant Huguenots (followers of John Calvin) living near Paris.

Allied Families Congregate in the Netherlands 1596 Pieter Passchier Nowe marries Stijnje Jaspers, both of Zuid, Leiden, South Holland, Netherlands, and had Cornelius Nowe (Noel) in 1623. 1643 William Penn marries Margaret Jasper of Rotterdam, Netherlands. 1648 Abraham Soblet born in Sedan, France, a community of Protestant Huguenots. The larger region becomes the United Provinces after 30 years of war. The region evolved into the kingdom of the Netherlands in 1814, which included Belgium and a capital at Amsterdam with the Hague as the seat of government. 1660 Cornelius Noel marries Elizabeth Page in Essex Co., Virginia, in 1660 and received land in 1668 four miles from the Rappahannock, near Tappahannock. He called his plantation “New Holland”. 1660 Charles II restored to the throne over England.


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1661 Persecution of Huguenots and infringement of Edict of Nantes. 1664 New Netherland (New York) established as an English colony. 1670 Three ships from London transport mostly Huguenots to North Carolina. 1672 Abraham Michaux is born in Sedan, France by the French. 1678 Huguenots attacked across France. 1680 James Noel born in Essex Co., VA, near the Rappahannock, and later names 10 children in his will in 1741. 1681 Abraham Michaux flees to Mannheim, Germany. William Penn receives Pennsylvania as a grant. 1684 George Fox visits followers (Quaker Friends) in the Netherlands and Germany and writes to Poland and Denmark. 1684 Ann Sublet born in Sedan, France. 1685 Moses and Suzanne Rochet place their daughter, Suzanne, in a wine cask on a boat headed for North Holland, Netherlands on Oct. 18. 1685 Abraham Soblet and his brother, Jean, move their families to Mannheim, Germany before the revocation of the Edict of Nantes by French King Louis XIV on Oct. 22. 1685 England’s James II succeeds Charles II (both sons of Charles I) and makes Catholic ties with French Louis XIV against the followers of John Calvin in Ireland and Huguenot territories. 1686 Abraham Soblet joins with other Huguenots the army of William of Orange to help overthrow James II and his Stuart line over England. 1688 James II and Charles II had a sister, Mary II, who had married William of Orange. William and Mary were both grandchildren of Charles I, and both shared the throne after 1688. William seized the throne and James II fled to Ireland. 1688 William III of Orange warred against armies of Charles II and French Louis XIV in Ireland and the French and Indian war in America with his Dutch and Huguenot armies. After the Battle of Boyne, James II fled to France. 1689 Mannheim was destroyed by the army of Louis XIV capturing some of its Hugenots. This caused Germany and its neighbors to unite against France. 1692 Suzanne Rochet marries Abraham Michaux on July 13 in a French Reform church, Amsterdam, Netherlands. 1697 Abraham Soblet’s family was living in London. Their son, Robert, was baptized there in 1698.

Allied Families Remove to Virginia 1700 Dr. Daniel Coxe offered the Huguenots land in Norfolk, Virginia, but Governor Nicholson preferred William Byrd’s land on the James River, west of Richmond, which they called Manakintown. 1700 Abraham Soblet arrived on the James River, east of Jamestown, with his sons, Abraham Soblet Jr. and Jacques (James) Soblet along with his future son-in-law, Pierre Chastaine, on the ship, Mary and Ann (named after the protestant daughters of James II). Abraham’s wife, Susanne, arrived with three remaining children, Piere Louis, Littlebury, and Anne (on the ship, Peter and Anthony). Pierre Castain married Ann Soblet, Abraham’s daughter. Pierre Louis Soblet married Marte Martain. Jacques Soblet had a son named James. 1701 Abraham Michaux’s family left Amsterdam for America on May 8 and settled in Virginia on the James River adjacent Bartholomew Cox and his son, Frederick Cox. 1721 John Noel born of James Noel & Elizabeth Evans in 1721 in Essex Co., VA. 1723 William A. Sublett born of Peter Louis and Marti Sublett in Cumberland Co., VA, and married Susanna Allen of Albemarle Co., VA.


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1730 Jean Pierre LeGrand arrives from Amsterdam and marries Jane Michaux in Virginia. They have a son named Abner. Their son, Peter LeGrand, Jr., marries Lucy Nash of Templeton Manor (Farmville, VA). The Nash family arrived from Pembroke, Wales, in 1730. (King Henry VII, the Tutor family, was from Pembroke before conquering England.) 1740 John Cox (Littleberry’s father) was born and married Polly in about 1762. 1741 Thomas Noel was born of John & Ann Noel in Cumberland Co., VA. He married Mary Drucillar Sellers in Cumberland Co. and eventually moved to Mercer Co., KY, having 11 children in his will. 1761 Littleberry Noel was born in Cumberland Co., VA, of Thomas and Drucilla Noel and married Sarah. 1767 Abraham Sublett was born of William and Susannah Sublett in Charlotte Co., VA, and married Polly Smith. 1780, Aug 7, William A. Sublett, son of Pierre Louis Soblet, dies in Charlotte Co., VA. 1792 William Cox (Littleberry’s brother) married Sally Stembridge in Charlotte Co., VA, next to Campbell County. Certificate was signed by William B(ooker) Morton, a grandson of Joseph and Agnes Woodson Morton of Briery Church in Charlotte County. Agnes’ siblings married Ann and Jacob Michaux.

Allied Families Remove to Kentucky 1782 Dudley Noel was born of Benjamin and Sara Noel in Green Co., KY, and married Lucretia Love Herren. 1796 Littleberry Cox married Massey Ready in Campbell Co., VA. 1801 Abraham Sublett is Captain in a Green Co., KY, Militia. 1804 Hiram Sublett born of Abraham and Polly Sublett in Charlotte Co., VA, and married Elizabeth Tenninson in Green Co., KY. (He is 44 in the 1850 Taylor Co. Census.) Littleberry Cox’s family travels to Kentucky with a Noel family. 1814 Joel Noel born of Dudley Noel and Lucretia Herren. He married Nancy Chisholm (Chism) on 12-16-1838. 1817 Emily B. Noel was born of Dudley and Sarah Noel in Mercer Co., KY, and married Charles Cox of Green Co., KY. 1820 John Cox, , Littleberry’s father, was a neighbor of Robert Daniel Nash who was, a brother-in-law of Littleberry Cox. 1821 The will of John Cox, Littleberry’s father, was signed by Thomas Sublett in Campbell Co., VA 1839-69 Joel Noel and Nancy Chisholm (Chism) has 12 children born. 1841 Hiram Sublett, son of William and Susannah Sublett in Charlotte Co., VA , signed the will of Littleberry Cox (Little B. Cox) in Green Co., KY. 1843 Walker Cox born of William Cox, son of Littleberry Cox. 1844 Lucretia Jane Cox born of Charles Cox (son of Littleberry) and Emily B. Noel. Lucretia marries first cousin, Walker Cox, son of William Cox, son of Littleberry Cox. 1850-52 Susanna Sublett (daughter of Hiram) marries John L. Chisholm (Chism).

Holland after 1940 1940 Hitler bombs airfields, on May 10, in Belgium, Holland, and Luxembourg. 16,000 troops parachuted into Rotterdam, Leiden, and The Hague. The Dutch army was defeated in five days. 1942 After July, over 12,029 taken from the Netherlands were killed at Auschwitz, in Poland. Of these, 61 were born in 1941. Jewish rabbis, surnames like Levi and Cohen, were among the first to disappear (See Rootsweb.com /Family Tree) (See The Hiding Place).


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Hinshaw Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, records the marriages of Charles, Littleberry, James, Molly & Sally Cox as well as William Daniel Nash and Benjamin & Thomas Johnson and James Cox, who married a daughter of Erasmus Jones in Campbell Co. (at Entry Creek). These had associations with the Quakers of South River Meeting (in Lynchburg) and Cedar Creek Meeting (in Hanover County). Marriages also include Lucy Cox and James Cox, children of Valentine.

William R. Cox of Illinois was evidently haplotype J2 (Y-DNA) like Floyd R. Cox. Y-DNA results have shown that all descendants of William Cox, immigrant to Virginia, are all R1b or R1b1.

Connecting Valentine Cox, John Cox, Thomas Jefferson and Lemuel Johnson (a Quaker) Thomas Jefferson married Martha Wales on 1-1-1772 and honeymooned at Poplar Forest, a 4,819-

acre plantation south of Lynchburg. When her father died in 1773, she inherited Poplar Forest. The following quote is from: A Calendar of The Jefferson Papers of the University of Virginia, A

Collection in Special Collections, University of Virginia Library: “THOMAS JEFFERSON DEED to BENJAMIN JOHNSON, Bedford County. 1812 December 13

AD 2 pp. File draft. Endorsed by T. J. McGregor Library, #564. Exchange of lands in Bedford and Campbell Counties for mutual benefit. Mentioned: John Gill, David Johnson, John H. Moreman, Samuel Poindexter, Daniel Robertson, and John Wayles. Witnessed by Lemuel Johnson, Jeremiah A. Goodman, Nirwood Daniel, Stephen Butler, and Lilbourn Johnson. [1207]”

The following quote is from: Our Quaker Friends of ye Olden Time Being in Part a Transcription of the Minute Books of Cedar Creek Meeting, Hanover County, and the South River Meeting, Campbell Co., VA:

“Lilburn Johnson, son of Christopher and Sarah Johnson, and Deborah Butler, daughter of Stephen and Mary Butler, were married at South River Meeting-house 1-14-1819. The following witnesses signed the marriage certificate: James S. Butler, Pleasant Johnson, Caleb Johnson, Jonathan Butler, Lemuel Johnson, John Davis, John H. Moorman, Joseph Boyce. Richard Tyree, John F. Hawkins, Micajah T. Lynch, Charles Fisher, Achillis Douglas, James Butler, Sr., Polley Lynch, Mary Johnson, Lucinda [Lucy Cox] Johnson, Zalinda Lynch, Mildred Tyree, Louisa Bailey, Ann T. Lynch, Rebecca Preston, Mary Lynch, Zalinda Davis, Judith Johnson, Anna Lynch, Mary Ann Lynch, Sally Bailey, Lucy Jones, Eliza Lynch, Sarah L. Davis, Mary A. Davis.”

In 1812, Benjamin Johnson sold to Lemuel Johnson 100 acres on Tomahawk and Ivy Creeks, in Bedford Co., VA (DB 13, pg 779. Recently, the grave of Valentine Cox was found near Ivy Creek, about 2 miles north of Jefferson’s octagonal home. (Valentine’s son, James, married Elizabeth Gills, daughter of John Gills. Lemuel was Surety for James Cox’s wedding. Moreover, Lemuel married James’ sister, Lucy Cox. Lemuel was almost certainly Valentine’s son-in-law.

In 1812, THOMAS JEFFERSON receives 29 acres on Tomahawk Creek from Benjamin Johnson in a deed of exchange (DB 13, pg 785).

Valentine had resided on Harris Creek, a few miles northwest of Lynchburg, in Amherst County, but he was evidently buried near his daughter’s land owned by her husband, Lemuel, on Ivy Creek, in Bedford County. More research is needed.


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Lemuel Johnson and Lucy removed to Illinois, near Quincy, and her brother, James Cox, settled

across the Mississippi, in Monroe Co., Missouri. By “coincidence” Valentine Cox and John Cox (Littleberry’s father) both had sons named, “James

A. Cox”. More research is needed. Jefferson’s land was equivalent to 3 miles long, 2½ miles wide.


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John Cox Sr. in VA (with William Cox, Robert Burton 11-20-1637 / 12-29-1637) d: 2-19-1691/ 2-1-1697 m:1 Abt 1662 Mary Elam m:2 9-25-1682 Mary Kennon b: 6-29-1679 d: 1727. (Her m:2 12-29-1697 Col. John Bolling b: 1-26-1675-76)

John Cox Jr. From Eng. to Lunenburg Co

with John Davis b: 1663

d: 7-18-1710/ 1-1-1711

m:1 Mary Baugh m:2 Mary Branch

William Cox

b: 2-1665 d: 6-2-1712 Henrico Co.

m: Sarah Dennis?

Bartholomew Cox Goochland Co., b: 1665

Powhatan Co., VA d: 6-15-1731

John Bolling (Jr?) presents

inventory to court

m: Rebecca (Baugh? Wood? Branch?) ~1693

Richard Cox (b: Abt 1683)

(Son of Mary

Kennon?) d: 7-13-1734 of Henrico Co., VA

m: 1700 Mary Trent

8 children

Henry Cox

d: 10-1-

1697 Henrico

Co. No kids.

George Cox Henrico Co.

b: ~1670 d: 1728

m: 11-22-1697 Martha Stratton

Bond: John Bolling (Jr?) She d: 1734

NOTE: Alexander Trent III

(Richard Cox’s brother-in-

law?) bought 3003

acres in Cumberland

Co (5-7-1759)

NOTE:

Richard Kennon (Richard Cox’s

Cousin?) 3-1-1744: got 31,700 acres.

1-1-1745: 30,000 a.

Frederick Cox 1687 m: Elizabeth

1730 - 400 acres adjacent George’s 400

near Farmville, VA

George Cox 1685

d: 2-15-1728 m: Martha

John Cox Sr 1710 Cumberland Co

d: ~9-19-1785 Goochland Co. m: ~1730 Elizabeth (Farley?)

(Son Edward married in Prince Edward Co)

Mary Cox 1712

m: John Fore Sr.b: ~1703

to Cub Cr. Settlement In Cumberland Co. Neighbors in 1736 in Henrico Co.

Martha Cox

400 acres south of James River

m: Thomas Walton

George Cox Jr. b: 1710

(orphan aft 1728) d: 10-31-1794/1-15-1795

Powhatan Co., VA m: Martha Walton 1730 - 400 acres

north of the Appomattox R.adjacent Henry’s 400

in Cumberland Co.

Henry Cox b: 1712

(orphan aft 1728) d: 7-29-1790/6-16-1791

Powhatan Co., VA m: Judith Hughes

1730 - 400 acres

north of the Appomattox R. adjacent George’s 400 in

Cumberland Co.

NOTE: Frederick is found with his nephews, George & Henry, each owning 400 acres north of the Appomattox River after 1730. John Fore Jr, son of Mary Cox, became guardian of orphans of John Cox (Mary’s brother). A Peter and a John Fore lived in Campbell Co. in 1810 & 1820, not far from Littleberry Cox’s father and brother, James.

10 kids Link to John & Polly needs more evidence.

Henry Cox b: ~1734 d: 1781

George Cox b: ~1736

Richard Cox b: ~1738Witnessed will of

Henry Cox in 1791

John Cox b: ~1740 d: 1821

m: Polly

Martha Cox b: ~1742

Sally Thompson b: ~1744

Robert Cox b: ~1746

Bartlet Cox b: ~1750Surety for

Judith Cox marriage

Judith Cox b: ~1754 m: 8-17-1789

Powhatan Co., VA

Abraham Cox b: ~1756

Thomas Cox ~1763 Molly Cox ~1766 Sally Cox ~1768 William Cox ~1770 Charles Cox ~1772 Littleberry Cox ~1774 James Cox ~1776------

m: Elizabeth Farris m: Judith Jones

1810 Census (Campbell Co., VA) living consecutively, in a row, as follows: Elizabeth & Thomas Walker, William Farris (Elizabeth’s dad), Jacob Key, James Cox, Erasmus Jones (Judith’s father), Robert D. Nash (married Littleberry’s wife’s sister, Sabra Ready). 1820 Census (Campbell Co., VA) as follows: John Fore, Jacob Key, Thomas Walker, William Faris, John Cox (James’ father), Robert Nash (in John Cox’ will 1821), Sam. Armistead, Peter Fore.

NOTE: John and Mary Coleman Cox’s son, Frederick married Milly Estes. Their daughters, Mary & Armine, married Jonathan Vernon and Thomas Bouldin Jr in Charlotte Co. VA. Thomas Bouldin built Rough Creek Church there in Charlotte County.


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CHARTS 20-21. John & Valentine Cox of Bedford Co., VA

Note: John Bolling (b: 1-27-1676) was a son of Jane Rolfe (m: Robert Bolling), the daughter of Thomas Rolph, the son of Pocahontas. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=norvan&id=I108072 When George Cox married on 11-22-1697, John Bolling was Bondsman. Bolling married Mary Kennon Cox 12-29-1697. After Bartholomew’s death in 1731, Bolling presented the inventory to the court. In 1732, John Bolling lived adjacent of to the estate of Bartholomew Cox and Jacob Michaux on Mahook Creek, south side of the James River. This line is traced to a male descendant of Valentine Cox of the Y-DNA R1b, not J2, haplogroup.

Bouldin/Bollin Cox b: ~1702

Martha Baldwin Cox b: ~1708 Henrico Co., VA m: _Collham

Richard Cox b: ~1714 Henrico Co., VA

Edith Cox b: ~1719 Henrico Co., VAd: 11-1768 Henrico Co. m: James Whitloe

Henry Cox b: ~1705 Henrico Co., VA

d: 7-26-1779/6-01-1780 m: ~1740 Chesterfield Co., VA

Judith Redford

Elizabeth Cox b: 2-25-1712/13 Henrico Co., VA

d: 1816 Surry Co., NC m: ~1731 Strangeman Hutchins (Quakers)

Obedience Cox b: ~1717 Henrico Co., VA

d: ~1771 Goochland Co., VA m: ~1737 Philemon Perkins

John Cox

b: ~1740? Chesterfield Co., VA Valentine Cox b: ~1750

m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA Nancy Dawson

~1740 John Cox 1741 Elisha Cox Frances Cox William Cox

1750 Valentine Cox Lucy Cox d: Hancock Co, IL

dau of “Voluntine” m: 11-24-1806 Bedford Co. Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)

b: 8-27-1782 Cedar Cr Meeting

James Cox b: 6-20-1787 d: 8-7-1846 Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. MO

m: 11-14-1811 Bedford Co., VA, Elizabeth GillsSurety, Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)

Lucy Cox James Cox Milly Cox

Elizabeth Cox Judith Cox Sarah Cox

1750 Judith Cox 1750 Archelaus Cox Milner Cox Martha Cox Elizabeth Cox 1760 Damarist Cox

Damaris Cox Mahalia Cox

1765 Redford Cox Frances Cox

Lucy Ann

Cox

John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA

d: Hunnewell, Jackson & Hunnewell Townships, Shelby County, MO

m: Martha Howell b: 8-23-1823 Marion Co., MO

Samuel H. Cox b: 5-26-1827 Bedford Co., VA d: 2-19-1896

m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley b: VA d: 1912 Cox Cem. Family of

East Hunnewell Twp., Shelby Co.

Lucy Ann Cox Matilda Cox Eliza Cox Martha Cox Sallie Cox

Samuel H. Cox 1825 James Cox 1819 John Valentine Cox Emily Cox

Charles Webster

Cox b: 4-4-1844 m: Bettie b: 1853 Jackson, Shelby

Co., MO m: Elizabeth

Blackburn b: 1751

James Cox b: 1843

Shelbina, Shelby Co.,

MO

John Webster Cox Newspaper publisher

b: 2-2-1859 Shelby Co., MO d: 3-3-1937 Monroe City

m: Emily m: Anna F. CoxFamily in Monroe Dist.

Parents of Paul L. Cox 1887

James Winston Cox b: 11-7-1854

Hunnewell, Washington twp,Monroe Co., MO d: 10-30-1918

m: Nannie BooneMarion Co., MO

Charles Turner Cox b:1-20-1859Washington twp,Monroe Co., MO m: Lillie J. Davis

Parents of John H. Cox

Edward Mat. Cox

Matthew M. Cox b: Mar 15, 1861 VA

Washington twp., MO d: 1-25-1938

m: Anna May Balliet of Hannibal, MO

Parents of Thomas J. Cox b: 1911 & Hollis Herbert m: Annie Irene O’Brian

Note: Paul L Cox b: 8-21-1897 Shelbina, MO, moved to Oklahoma City and Garfield, WA. He m: 1909 Ruby M. Forsythe. Edward M. Cox b: 11-27-1897 at Hunnewell, MO. m: 6-1926 Marie Garrigues: son was Edward Matthew Cox, b: 10-31-1927 d: 2-25-2006 Shawnee Mission, Johnson, KS. John Henry Cox (son of Charles Turner Cox) b: Clarence, MO, 9-9-1894, d: 7-1975 Shelbina, m: Lulu Mae Baker. They had Harold Davis Cox (b: 8-14-1914 Festus, Jefferson, MO).


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CHART 22. Alternative View of William Cox Descendants down to Two John Coxes

William Cox b: 1598 England d. 12-14-1656

Arrived 6-10-1610 aboard the Godspeed m: Elizabeth Hutchins 1633

Elizabeth City Co., VA

John Cox Sr., of Henrico Co., VA, 1640 of Harrowattocks

Will of 1691/probate 1696 m:1 ___Johnson? m:2___Craddock

m:3 Mary Kennon 1682 m:4 ___Elam

William Cox

b: 1663 Henrico Co.

m: Sarah Dennis? Will: 1726

Inventory 1734 Prob 1747

Bartholomew Cox Goochland Co.,

Powhattan Co., VA 1665-1731

m: Rebecca (Baugh? Wood? Branch?) ~1693

Will: 1730

George Cox HenricoCo., VA

~1670-1728 Will: 1728 m: Martha Stratton

She d: 1734

John Cox Jr. From Eng. to Lunenburg Co

with John Davis d: will 1710

m:1 Mary Baugh m:2 Mary Branch

Henry Coxd: 1675 No kids.

Richard Cox Son of Mary Kennon of

HenricoCo., VAm: 1700

Mary Trent d: 1734

Frederick Cox

b: Abt 1700 Will: 5-4-1754

Proved 1-27-1755 m: Elizabeth in

Cumberland Co., VA

James A. Cox b: 1818

m: Elizabeth Burton b: 1832

John Valentine Cox

b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA

d: Shelby Co., MO m: Martha Howell

of KY

Henry Cox b: ~1705 d: 1780

m: ~1740 Judith Redford in Chesterfield

County, VA

John Cox b: Abt 1743Abt 12 in 1755 m:1 3-5-1767

Tabitha Price b: 2-12-1751m: south of Farmville

Prince Edward Co. VA

John Wakefield Cox b: 1865

d: 3-19-1953 Greensburg, KY

m: Sallie M. Shreves

John Webster Cox b: 2-2-1859

Shelby Co., MO d: 3-3-1937

Monroe City, MO m: Emily

m: Anna F.

. Valentine Cox b: ~1750

m: 3-3-1772 Nancy Dawson in Amherst Co

John Price Cox

b: Abt 1777 m: 2-9-1795

Elizabeth H. White Powhatan Co., VA

Henry Alfred Cox

of Louisville m: 7-22-1939

Jennye Elizabeth Penickb: 7-8-1919

Paul L. Cox b: 8-21-1897 in Shelbina

d: 1943 St. Judes m: Ruby M.

Forsythe

James Cox d: Cox Cemetery Monroe Co., MO

m: 11-9-1853 Elizabeth Gills

Bedford Co., VA

Robert Cox m: Jennie

& living in VA

Kathleen Kathy Cox b: 11-17-1914

Monroe City, MO d: 6-16-2007

m: Floyd Cailloux

Replica of the Godspeedin Jamestown, VA


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Note: South River Quaker Meeting is east of the land of Valentine Cox. Rough Creek Church is east of John Cox, across the Charlotte Co. border. Cub Creek Church is close to Red Hill, the last residence of Patrick Henry, near the Roanoke River. Falling River begins near Rustburg, south of Long Mountain.

Valentine’s son, James Cox, was born in Amherst Co., likely on Harris Creek, north of the James River, and was “James of Bedford” in 1812.

New London was county seat when Campbell County was cropped from Bedford County in 1781. The seat was moved to Liberty (later renamed Bedford City and later Bedford), and Rustburg became the county seat of Campbell County.

Henry lived at Red Hill, near Rev. John Weatherford, who performed the marriage of Sally Cox, Littleberry’s sister

Jefferson’

octagonal home


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CHART 23. Male Line of John Valentine Cox of Bedford Co., VA

John Cox b: ~1740 Chesterfield Co., VA

(Littleberry’s marriage is in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy)

Valentine Cox b: ~1750 m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA Nancy Dawson

(Jamse’s marriage is in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy)

~1740 John Cox 1741 Elisha Cox Frances Cox William Cox

1750 Valentine Cox Lucy Cox d: Hancock Co, IL

dau of “Voluntine” m: 11-24-1806 Bedford Co. Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)



m: 11-14-1811 Bedford Co., VA, Elizabeth Gills b: 1793

Surety, Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)

Lucy Cox James Cox Milly Cox Elizabeth Cox Judith Cox Sarah Cox

1750 Judith Cox 1750 Archelaus Cox Milner Cox Martha Cox Elizabeth Cox 1760 Damarist Cox

Damaris Cox Mahalia Cox

1765 Redford Cox Frances Cox

John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VAwas in Jackson & Hunnewell Township,

Shelby County, MO d: 8-15-1900 at Hunnewell,

buried at Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. m: Martha Howell b: 8-23-1823 Marion Co., MO

Samuel H. Cox b: 5-26-1827 Bedford Co., VA d: 2-19-1896

m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley b: VAd: 1912 Cox Cem.

Family of East Hunnewell Twp., Shelby Co.


1819 John V. Cox 1825 James W. Cox d: 1853 1827 Samuel H. Cox1829 Emily Cox

Charles

Webster Cox b: 4-4-1844

d: 7-27-1929 m: Bettie b: 1853 Jackson, Shelby

Co., MO m: 9-2-1873

Elizabeth Blackburn b: 1751

No Children

James H. Cox b: 1854

Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO

1920 in Heppnet, Morrow Co., OR

d: 12-1-1936 Morrow Co., OR

John Webster Cox Editor:

Shelbina Democrat 115 S. Center St.

(owned by sister’s husband)

b: 2-2-1859 Shelby Co., MO

d: 3-3-1937 Monroe City

m: Emily m: Anna F. Cox

Family Monroe Dist.

James Winston Cox b: 11-7-1854

Washington twp,Monroe Co., MO 1910 in Quency d: 10-30-1918 Palmyra Cem,

Marion Co., MOm: Nannie BooneMarion Co., MO

No sons?

Charles Turner Cox b:1-20-1859

Washington twp, Monroe Co., MO

d: 2-20-1913 Hunnewell Cem., Shelby Co., MO m: 12-21-1879 Lillie J. Davis

Matthew M. Cox

b: Mar 15, 1861 VA Washington Twp. Monroe Co., MO

d: 1-25-1938

m: 10-31-1888 Anna May Balliet of Hannibal, MO

1930 in Hannibal, Marion

Co., MO

Harold J. Cox b: 3-2-1892

Waitsburg, WA d: 8-23-1965

Umatilla Co., OR m: Doris M.

William Prewitt Cox b: 3-12-1883

MO d: 8-11-1951 Evergreen, Clackamas

Co., OR m: Nettie 1889

Paul L Cox b: 8-21-1897 in Shelbina

d: 1943 St Jude CemMonroe City, MO~1930 moved to

Oklahoma City and Garfield, WA.

m: 1909 Ruby M. Forsythe

Edward Matthew Cox b: 11-27-1896

Hunnewell, MOm: 6-29-1926

Marie Garriguesd: 8-1986

Kansas City, Jackson Co., MO

John Henry Cox b: 9-9-1894

Clarence, MO, , 1930 in Clarence, Shelby Co., MO

d: 1975 Shelbina m: 1913

Lula Mae Baker

Thos. J. Cox b: 9-27-1910

Hannibal d: 1981

Adams Co., IL

m: 1933 Mildred Ann

Riley

Hollis Herbert

(Henry H) b: 1896- m: 1930 Annie

d: 1976 in Hannibal

Note: Sarah E. Cox (sister of Charles, James & John) was b: 10-5-1851, Hunnewell. m: Wm. O. L. Jewett of Shelbina, District Attorney, Editor of Shelbina Democrat, & a member of state legislature.

Edw. Matthew Cox Jr b: 10-26-1927 Kansas City, Jackson

Co., MO d: 2-26-2006 in Shawnee Mission, Johnson, KS

m: Nancy W. Parents of Edward Matthew Cox Jr

Harold Davis Cox

b: 8-14-1914 Clarence, MO

d: 1984 Festus, Jefferson Co., MO


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NOTE: Locating possible Y-DNA donors: 1880 – in Hunnewell, Jackson Twp., Shelby Co.: – John V. Cox, John Webster Cox & Charles Webster Cox, James Winston Cox & Charles Turner Cox. 1910 – in Hunnewell, Jackson Twp., Shelby Co.: – Charles Webster Cox & Charles Turner Cox. – in Monroe City, Monroe Co.: – John Webster Cox, newspaper publisher. (Is buried at Andrew Chapel Cemetery, Monroe City, 1937.) – in Quincy, Adams Co., IL – James Winston Cox. (Is buried at Palmyra Cemetery, Palmyra, Marion Co., 1918.) Paul L Cox b: 8-21-1897 Shelbina, MO. 1930: 1210 37th St., worked at the newspaper. Moved to Oklahoma City and Garfield, WA. He m: 1909 Ruby M. Forsythe. Thomas J. Cox (son of Matthew M. Cox of Hannibal, Marion Co.) b: 9-27-1910, d: 2-1981 in Redford, Wayne Co., MI. Hollis Herbert Cox b: 12-4-1896, at Hannibal, Marion Co., MO, d: 7-4-1976. Edward M. Cox b: 11-27-1896 at Hunnewell, MO. m: 6-29-1926 Marie Garrigues: His son was Edward Matthew Cox, b: 10-31-1927 d: 2-25-2006 Shawnee Mission, Johnson, KS. John Henry Cox (son of Charles Turner Cox) b: Clarence, MO, 9-9-1894, d: 7-1975 Shelbina. m: Lula Mae Baker. They had Harold Davis Cox (b: 8-14-1914 Festus, Jefferson Co., MO). They had Samuel C. Cox (b: 1-8-1887 Hunnewell, Shelby Co., MO; d: 11-12-1929 Hunnewell Cem.) He married 1-3-1909 Leila Ione Balliett (b: 9-26-1889 d: 11-1-1987 Hunnewell Cem.)

Leila Ione Balliett Cox


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CHART 24. Male Line of John Valentine Cox of Bedford Co., VA

8 males – 4 females

John Cox b: Aft 1740 Chesterfield Co., VA


(Jamse’s marriage is in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy)

1740 John Cox 1741 Elisha Cox Frances Cox William Cox

1750 Valentine Cox 1750 Archelaus Cox Milner Cox 1765 Redford Cox

Lucy Cox d: Hancock Co, IL dau of “Voluntine”

m: 11-24-1806 Bedford Co. Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)





Lucy Cox James Cox Milly Cox Elizabeth Cox

Judith Cox Sarah Cox Damaris Cox Mahalia Cox

John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA d: 8-15-1900 at Hunnewell,

buried at Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. & was in Jackson &

Hunnewell Township, Shelby County, MO


Samuel H. Cox b: 5-26-1827

Bedford Co., VA d: 2-19-1896

m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley d: 1912 Cox Cem.


1811 Emily Cox m: 1826 Lucy Ann Cox Matilda Cox Eliza Cox Martha Cox Sallie Cox

1819 John V. Cox1825 James W. Cox d: 1853 1827 Samuel H. Cox

Charles Webster Cox

b: 4-4-1844 d: 7-27-1929 m: Bettie b: 1853

Jackson, Shelby Co., MO m: 9-2-1873 Elizabeth Blackburn

b: 1751 No Children

James H. Cox b: 1854 Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO

1892 in Walla Walla Co, WA Territory1920 in Heppner, Morrow Co., OR

d: 12-1-1936 Morrow Co., OR m: Margaret B. b: 1860 KY

John Webster Cox Editor: Shelbina Democrat

115 S. Center St. (owned by sister’s husband)b: 2-2-1859 Shelby Co., MO

d: 3-3-1937 Monroe City m: 1-2-1884 Anna F. Lyell

Family in Monroe Dist. d: 1953 buried at Andrew Chapel, Marion Co., MO

Vivian A. Cox

b: 1888 William Prewitt Cox

b: 3-12-1883 MO d: 8-11-1951

Clackamas Co., OR m: Nettie b: 1888

Harold Jewett Cox b: 3-2-1892 Waitsburg, WA

d: 8-23-1965 SS 544-14-0278

Umatilla Co., OR m: Doris M.

(Parents of Doris b: 1916)

Paul L. Cox b: 8-21-1897 in Shelbina d: 1943 St Judes Cem., Monroe City, MO

m: 1909 Ruby M. Forsythe 1930 He worked at Oklahoma City newspaper

1937 he was in Oklahoma City later in Pomeroy, Garfield WA

Living

b: 1926 Kathleen (Kathy) Cox

b: 11-17-1914 Monroe City, Monroe Co., MO(Raised in Oklahoma City. Classen H.S. 1933)

d: 6-16-2007 m: 1942 Floyd Cailloux, Retired in Kerrville, TX

Kathy Cox

John Valentine Cox


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CHART 25. John Valentine Cox of Monroe Co., MO (Male Y-DNA Lineage)

Year John V. Cox’s

Age

Charles W. Cox’s

Age

James H. Cox’s

Age

John W. Cox’s

age

Event

1811 James A. Cox marries in Bedford Co., VA 1819 1 John V. Cox born in Bedford Co., VA 1833

14

James A. Cox takes 9 children & 9 slaves from

Lynchburg, VA, to Monroe Co., MO 1839? 20?

Marries John V. Cox marries in Monroe Co., MO

1844 25 1 Charles W. born in Shelbina, Shelby Co. 1853 34 9 James W. Cox, brother of John V., dies & buried

in Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. 1854 35 10 1 James H. Cox born in Shelby Co. 1859 40 15 5 1 John W. Cox born in Shelby Co. 1860 41 16 6 2 John V. Cox, in Jackson Twp., Shelby Co. 1873 54 29

Marries 19 15 Charles W. marries, Jackson Twp., Shelby Co.,

MO.

1879 60? 35? 25? Marries

21? James H. Cox marries in Shelby Co.

1881 62 37 27 23 Marries

John W. Cox marries in Monroe Co.

1883 64 39 29 25 William P. Cox born to James H. 1897 68 43 33 29 Paul L. Cox, son of John W., in Pomeroy,

Garfield, WA 1889 70 45 35 31 John V. Cox is President of Hunnewell Bank 1889 70 45 35 31 Paul L. Cox, son of John W., in Pomeroy,

Garfield, WA 1892 73 48 38 34 Harold J. Cox born of James H. Cox 1900 81 56 46 42 John V. Cox dies & buried at Cox Cemetery,

Monroe Co., MO 1900 56 46 42 James H. Cox in Waitsburg, Walla Walla Co.,

WA 1900 56 46 42 Paul L. Cox in Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO.

Lived in Shelbina with John W. four yrs. 1909 65 55 51 Paul L. Cox marries Ruby Forsythe. 1910 66 56 52 Paul L. Cox in Monroe City, Monroe Co.

with John W. Cox 1910 66 56 52 James H. Cox in Heppner, Morrow Co., WA 1918 74 64 60 Paul L. Cox drafted into WW I. Has wife, 1 child

in 1917. 1920 76 66 62 Paul L. Cox in Salt River Twp., Shelby Co. 1920 76 66 62 James H. Cox in Heppner, Morrow Co., WA 1929 85 75 71 Charles W. Cox dies. 1929 75 71 P aul L. Cox in Pomeroy, Garfield, WA 1930 76 72 Paul L. Cox in Oklahoma City. Worked at a

newspaper. 1936 82 78 James H. Cox dies, Morrow Co., OR. 1937 79 John W. Cox dies in Monroe Co., MO.


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CHART 26. Male Line of Samuel H. Cox of Bedford Co., VA 8 males – 4 females

John Cox

b: ~1740 Chesterfield Co., VA (Littleberry’s marriage is in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy)


(James’s marriage is in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy)

1740 John Cox 1741 Elisha Cox Frances Cox William Cox

1750 Valentine Cox 1750 Archelaus Cox Milner Cox 1765 Redford Cox

Lucy Cox d: Hancock Co, IL dau of “Voluntine”

m: 11-24-1806 Bedford Co. Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)


James Cox b: 6-20-1787 b: VA d: 8-7-1846 Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. MO



Lucy Cox James Cox Milly Cox Elizabeth Cox

Judith Cox Sarah Cox Damaris Cox Mahalia Cox

John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA

d: 8-15-1900 at Hunnewell, buried at Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. &

was in Jackson & Hunnewell Township, Shelby County, MO


Samuel H. Cox b: 5-26-1827


m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley d: 1912 Cox Cem.



1819 John V. Cox 1825 James W. Cox d: 1853 1827 Samuel H. Cox1829 Emily Cox

James Winston Cox b: 11-7-1854 Washington Twp, Monroe Co., MO

d: 10-30-1918 Salt River Twp., Palmyra Cem, Marion Co., MO

m: Nannie Boone in Marion Co., MO 1880-90 in Hunnewell, 1910 in Quincy, IL

Charles Turner Cox b: 1-20-1859

Washington twp, Monroe Co., MO d: 2-20-1913 Hunnewell Cem.,

Shelby Co., MO m: 12-21-1879 Lillie J. Davis

Matthew M. Cox b: Mar 15, 1861 VA Washington Twp., Monroe Co., MO

d: 1-25-1938 Grandview Burial Park m: 10-31-1888

Anna May Balliet of Hannibal, MO 1930 was in Hannibal, Marion Co., MO

Edward Matthew

Cox b: 11-27-1896 Hunnewell, MO

m: 6-29-1926 Marie Garrigues

d: 8-1986 Kansas City, Jackson

Co., MO


Clarence, MO, , 1930 in Clarence, Shelby Co., MO

d: 1975 Shelbinam: 1913

Lula Mae Baker

Thos. J. Cox b: 9-27-1910 Hannibal,

Marion Co., MO d: 1981 Adams Co., IL

just above Pike Co. SS 490-07-9481

m: 1933 Mildred Ann Riely

Hollis Herbert (Henry H)

b: 12-4-1896 m: 1930 Annie

1938, in Hannibald: June, 1976 in Hannibal

Marion Co., MO

Living? Living? Harold Davis Cox

b: 8-14-1914 Clarence d: 1984

Festus, Jefferson Co., MO

Note: Sarah E. Cox (sister of James, Charles & John) b: 10-5-1851, Hunnewell. m: Wm. O. L. Jewett of Shelbina, (District Attorney, Editor of Shelbina Democrat, & state legislature.)

Living?

John Valentine Cox


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CHART 27. Timeline for Samuel H. Cox of Monroe Co., MO (Male Y-DNA Lineage)

Year Samuel H. Cox’s

Age

James W. Cox’s

Age

Charles T. Cox’s

Age

MatthewM. Cox’s

age

Event

1827 1 Samuel H. born in Bedford Co., VA 1833

8

James A. Cox takes 9 children & 9 slaves from Lynchburg, VA, to Monroe Co., MO

1844 19 Samuel H. a member of Methodist Episcopal. Church South of Hunnewell.

1848 23 Samuel’s father, James, dies & leaves farm to Samuel H. (400 + 120 acres).

1853 28 Marries Samuel H. marries 1854 29 1 James W. Cox born in Monroe Co. 1859 34 6 1 Charles T. Cox born in Monroe Co. 1861 36 8 3 1 Matthew M. Cox born in Monroe Co. 1874 49 21

Marries 16 14 James W. marries Nannie Boone.

Samuel and James W. form a business in Hunnewell & attend M E Church.

1879 54 26

21 Marries

19 Charles T. marries & moves to Hunnewell, worked with brother-in-law,

W.C. Blackburn, Willie’s husband. 1881 56 28 23 21 Matthew forms partnership with older

brother (Charles?) in Hunnewell. 1885 60 32 27 25 Matthew partnership in Hunnewell with brother-

in-law, W.C. Blackburn, Willie’s husband. 1888 63 35 29 27 Charles returns home to farm.

Marries Matthew marries Anna May Balliet of Hannibal, Marion Co., MO

1894 69 41 35 33 Charles T.’s son, John Henry Cox, born. 1896 71 43 37 35 James W.’s son, Edward Matthew Cox is born. 1896 71 43 37 35 Matthew M.’s son, Hollis Herbert (i. e., Henry

H.) Cox is born. 1898 73 45 39 37 Samuel H. dies.

Charles returns to Hunnewell, buys business of C.L. Landrum, partner of brother, Matthew Cox.

1910 57 51 49 James is on the Quincy, Illinois border. 1910 57 51 49 Matthew M.’s son, Thomas Jay Cox, born. 1913 60 54 52 Charles T. dies, buried in Hunnewell Cem. 1914 61 53 Charles T.’s grandson, Harold Davis Cox is born

of John Henry Cox. 1918 65 57 James dies & buried at Palmyra Cemetery,

Marion Co., MO 1927 66 James W.’s grandson, Edward M. born.

Matthew M. Cox Jr. is born of Edward Matthew M. Cox Sr.

1930 69 Matthew M. in Hannibal, Marion Co., MO 1933 72 Matthew Sr.’s son, Thomas J. Cox, marries 1938 77 Matthew M. Sr. dies 1976 Matthew M.’s son, Hollis, dies in Marion Co. 1981 Matthew M.’s son, Thomas Jay Cox, dies at

Redford, Wayne Co., MI, or near Quincy, IL. 1984 Charles T.’s grandson, Harold Davis Cox dies at

Festus, Jefferson Co., MO. 2006 James W.’s grandson, Edward Matthew Cox Jr.

dies in Shawnee Mission, near Kansas City, KS.


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CHART 28. George Cox Jr. of Cumberland Co. Sir Henry Cox of Broxwood, Herefordshire, Eng.

(His daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert West, brother of Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warre) http://geesnmore.wordpress.com/henry-gee-of-

henrico-county/

Thomas Bouldinge b: ~1584, Barford, Warwick, England

m: Mary 1610 to Virginia

on the Swan

< Allegedly married sister of Pocohantas

Augustine >

was Surveyor & County Clerk of New Castle Co., DE, after 1673

(before Wm. Penn).

Augustine Hermand: 1686 Cecil Co, MDm: Janetie VarlethNew Amsterdam

b: 1621 Ultrect, Holland

William Cox b: 1598 England

d: 1656 VA 1610 on the Godspeed

m: Elizabeth

William Bouldin I b: ~1612, VA

d: 1671 Baltimore m: 1649 Ann

Jacobs Cecil Co., MD

Augustine Hermand: 1686 Cecil Co, MDm: Janetie Varleth New Amsterdam

b: 1621 Ultrect, Holland

Margery Hermanm: Augustine

Herman Kinkey b: 1672

John Cox Sr. b: 1640

Henrico Co., VA m:1 Johnson

m:2 Craddock m:3 1682 Kennon

m:4 Elam

William Bouldin II b: ~1630 d: 1710 Cecil Co., MD

m: Mary Thwaite

Francenia Hermanb: 1662 Cecil Co, MD

d: 1749 New Castle, DE m: Joseph Wood b: 1666 d: 1721 New Castle, DE

Catherine Kinkey

m: William Cox whose children

married at London Grove Twp.,

Chester Co., PA

Bartholomew Cox b: 1665 d: 1731

Goochland (Powhatan) Co., VAm: ~1693 Rebecca (Baugh?) (Wood?)

William Bouldin III b: ~1665 d: 1741

m: 1687 Thomasin Nash Cecil Co, MD

Jenneken Wood b: 1693 Cecil Co, MD

m: 1710 Thomas Clark Cecil Co, MD

Benjamin Johnson

b: 1749/50 Cedar Cr. Meeting Hanover Co., VA (Ancestor of Wm. Wade Hinshaw)

George Cox, Sr. b: ~1685

d: 2-15-1728 m: ~1705 Martha

John Cox b: ~1703 d: 1764

m: Mary Coleman?Finneywood Cr., Lunenburg, near

Keysville

Ann Nancy Wood Clark b: 1715 Cecil Co, MDd: 1780 Charlotte Co.m: Thomas Bouldin Srb: 1706 Cecil Co, MD

Thomas Johnson

(South River Meeting,

Lynchburg) m: Ann

George Cox, Jr. b: ~1710 orphan:

1730 received 300 ac n. side

Appomatox m: Martha Walton

Frederick Cox b: 1738 d: 11-12-1781

m: Millie Estes Lunenburg Co.

Francinia Bouldin m: 7-15-1758 John Cox Jr.

b: 1-6-1736/37

John Cox

b: ~1740

Mary Cox m: Thos. Bouldin Jr. Armine Cox m: Jonathan Vernon of Pennsylvania

Thomas Cox b: 8-3-1759

Lunenburg Co, VAm: Rebecca Johnson


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CHART 29. Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Bedford County Marriages

Married on (Quaker Dating) Samuel Clemens & Pamelia Goggin. Surety: Samuel Hancock 10m-23d-1797 James Cox & Elizabeth dau of John Gills. Surety: Lemuel Johnson 11m-4d-1811 Emily Cox (dau of James) & Amasa W. [Holmes]. Surety: Elisha Whitten 11m-3d-1826 (Amasa is buried in the Cox Cemetery in Monroe Co., MO.) Joel Cox & Peggy M. Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum 12m-22d-1828 Eli Cox & Elizabeth Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum 1m-6d-1830 Spotswood H. Cox & Catherine C. Wigginton. 4m-11d-1844

French Huguenots in Goochland County South of James River Other churches in the area were Dover Episcopal, Beaverdam Episcopal and Lickinghole

Episcopal, north of James River. William Mac Jones edited the work of Rev. William Douglas of the Dover Church after 1750.

Title: Douglas Register, Index of Goochland Wills, Notes on the French Huguenot Refugees Who Lived in Manakin Town, 1928, 408 pp.

Huguenot Connections in Cumberland/Powhatan County South of James River With controlling interest in the London Company, Daniel Coxe negotiated that 10,000 acres be

given to the French Huguenots who were docking in Virginia. John Bolling was assigned to survey the 10,000 acres in the area abandoned by the Manakin Indian tribe, now called Manakin Town.

When Bartholomew Cox died in 1731, his inventory on Mahoon, Mehook, or Mohawk Creek was taken to the court by his neighbor, John Bolling. His will was witnessed by Anthony Morgan, Agnes Noulin and Rebecca Wood. John Bolling of Goochland (later Powhatan) sold John Cox of Goochland (later Powhatan) a tract between John & Henry Cox’s line and John & Frederick Cox’s line, on the south side of the river (4-03-1738). In 1741, John and Alce (Hix) Cox sold to Edward Osborne land in Henrico County.

Bartholomew, a grandson of William “the Immigrant”, received land on Mahoon Creek on 10-20-1697, south of the James River (Powhatan Co.), which became adjacent to Abraham Michaux, a Huguenot of Sedan, Ardennes, France, John Bolling and Anthony Morgan of Wales, who married Olive Judith Micheaux in Cumberland County, about 1720. After Bartholomew died in 1731, his son, Frederick, sold land on Mohawk Creek (adjacent to William Wilkerson (Wilkingson) to John Woodson on 5-15-1740/41. John had received massive patents on both sides of the river early on. Paul Michaux had patented 574 acres on 11-02-1705. Frederick’s will was witnessed by Anthony Morgan and others on 5-04-1754.

John Cox Sr., son of the immigrant, married Mary Kennon on 9-25-1682. This may have been her married name, for John is the son-in-law of William Elam in 1688/89. Another Mary Kennon married a John Bolling Jr, who was about age 31 in 1731 (b: 1-20-1700), when John Bolling Sr. was about 55, when Mary Kennon was about 52 (b: 6-29-1679).

At Entry Creek, Campbell County, Publius Jones’s sister-in-law, Leanna Dibrell, was a daughter of Anthony Jeane Du Breuil (Dibrell) a son of Christopher Du Breuil of Lagne, France.

Thomas Noel, was born 1741 in Cumberland Co. (later cropped from Goochland Co.). According to family tradition, a Noel family traveled with the Littleberry Cox family to Mercer Co.,

KY. Emily Noel married Charles Cox, my great grandfather’s brother, at Casey Creek, Adair Co., KY. The Noels and Subletts were from Sedan, Ardennes, France. Hiram Sublett witnessed the will of Littleberry Cox of Green (later Adair) Co., KY (at Casey Creek) on 10-02-1841, and Thomas Sublett witnesses the will of Littleberry’s father, John Cox, Campbell Co., VA, on 5-22-1821.


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Morton Family of Farmville and Keysville Areas William B. Morton witnessed the marriage of Littleberry’s brother, William Cox (m: Sally

Stembridge) on 7-24-1792, in Charlotte County. This was 9 years before William Morton married Lucy Flournoy. Another witness was Herr/Hern Reese, probably the father of Elizabeth Reese who married Charles Cox.

William Morton’s grandfather, Joseph Morton, patented 1200 acres from King George II along “Bryery River”. 252 of these acres, called “Slate Hill Plantation”, were purchased by Nathaniel Venable for his home (built around 1756) and family cemetery. Foundations and floor plan have recently been restored by an archaeology class of Hampden Sydney College under Dr. Charles Pearson. Nathaniel Venable had been a founding Trustee of the college, and his home, Slate Hill”, is where the Hanover Presbytery met in 1775 to found the college.

Nathaniel Venable was a grandson of Judith Woodson (m: Jacob Michaux), and William B. Morton (who married at Farmville) was a grandson of Agnes, a sister of Judith Woodson. Agnes had married Joseph Morton who had patented the original 1200 acres mentioned above.

Jacob Michaux was previously a neighbor of Bartholomew, Frederick and George Cox Sr. on the south side of James River, on Mahook Creek. Jacob Michaux, Frederick, George Jr. and Henry also had land north of the Appomattox River, just north of Farmville.

Judith and Agnes Woodson were previously neighbors of Bartholomew, Frederick and George Cox Sr. on the south side of James River, on Mahook Creek. Judith Woodson also had land north of the Appomattox River, just north of Farmville, because she was married to Jacob Michaux.

Stephen Hughes family was also a neighbor of Bartholomew, Frederick and George Cox Sr. on the south side of James River, on Mahook Creek. Stephen also married a Judith Woodson and had land north of the Appomattox, on Tare Wallet and Little Guinea creeks.

Frederick Cox’s son, John, married Tabitha Price, in Prince Edward County. Her father, Pugh Price, lived at Buffalo River, southwest of Farmville.

Richard Morton’s land adjoined the 400 acres of John Price, son of Pugh Price, in 1774. Pugh Price settled in today’s Prince Edward Co., by 1745. He had obtained 728 acres on Buffalo River (1-12-1747/8 & 1-18-1750/51). 400 acres were given Pugh Price Jr. (5-10-1757). Pugh Price Sr. acquired 450 acres (south fork of Cub Cr., in Charlotte Co. (8-7-1761).

William Price and John Morton were named as executors of Pugh Price’s estate on 11-20-1774. John and his sister, Jeanne (Jane) Caldwell, were born in Ireland. Their mother was Jane McGhie

(McGee) of County Derry, Ireland. John Caldwell is credited as the founder of the Cub Creek Presbyterian Settlement in Charlotte County. He died 10-6-1750 at Cub Creek. Jeanne Caldwell married Alexander Samuel Richey in 1716 in Ireland. Alex died on 8-18-1749 at Farmville, Prince Edward Co., VA.

In 1761, the four original trustees of Buffalo Presbyterian Congregation were John Cunningham, John Caldwell, James Daniel and William Watson. The first Buffalo church was then built on land granted by Samuel Cunningham.

On 10-13-1774, at the Cub Creek Meeting, the Hanover Presbytery decided to establish a college in Augusta Co. (now Washington and Lee University) and a college in Prince Edward Co. (Hampden Sydney College).

Like John Caldwell, Thomas Vernon also came from Pennsylvania. Thomas came to there with William Penn. His daughter, Martha, married George Pattillo of Pennsylvania and had land on Turnip Creek and Louse Creek, in Charlotte Co.

My best two theories are that Littleberry’s father, John Cox, is either a son of George Cox Jr., or he came from Wales at the time Robert Daniel Nash’s parents, Thomas Nash and Sarah Daniel, arrived in 1774, just before the war. One solution goes back to William Cox the immigrant in 1610, and the other goes back to Wales as in our family tradition. Recent Y-DNA results show these two theories are not likely. George Cox Jr. should be R1b or R1b1, not J2.

Francis Scott Key The Keysville area had several distinguished residents. Francis Scott Key, wrote the Star Spangled

Banner. Mary Isham Key died in Keysville, Charlotte Co., VA. Their fathers were brothers.


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CHART 30. The Nash – LeGrand – Cox – Ready Connections

Abner Nash b: 1685 Tenby Dyfed, Cymru

John Nash Sr. b: 1-01-1710/11 Tenby Dyfed, Cymru (to VA in 1730) (bro of Thomas Nash)

m: Anne Owen b: Pembroke, Dyfed, Cymru (South Wales)m: Mary Kirkpatrick of Farmville, Prince Ed. Co., VA

Mary’s will: 10-22-1765

Jean Pierre LeGrand b: 1695 Amsterdam,

Noord, Holland, Netherlands

m: Jane Michaux

John Nash Jr. b: 1732 VA Templeton Manor, Pr. Ed. Co VA (bro of Gen Francis & Gov Abner)

Thomas Nash b: 1734? VA, near Farmville

Mary Nashb: 1733 m: 1757 Clement

1. Lucy Nash LeGrand m: Peter LeGrand Jr.

John Cocks

(1775 was a Trustee of Hampdon-Sydney College at Farmville) d: Will 5-24-1800 Pr. Ed. VA m: 8-24-1757 Elizabeth Fisher

m: Mary Reade (Reed)

dau of Clement Reed

Reade Jr. (Ash Camp, Charlotte Co)

2. Mary 1731 3. Anne 4. Elizabeth 1739 5. Abner 1742 6. Francis 1744

b: ~1740 d: 1821

m: ~1762 Polly

Needs a link

Abner Nash b: 1765 Pr. Ed. VA d: 3-02-1823 Lynchburg age 64

m: 7-11-1792 Amherst Co., VA

Matilda Penn

Thomas Nash Sr to America in 1774

b: 1762 Amelia Co VAm: Sarah (Daniel?) Widow of a Cole?

b: ~1764 Charlotte Co

Abner Nash LeGrand b: 7-02-1775

m: 7-11-1809 Jane Rogers Morton

in Lexington, KY

Sons sold land to Wm. Walker

Abner O. Nash

b: ~1804 Lynchburg

Thomas Nash Jr b: Abt 1781

Wm. Dan. Nash b: 7-12-1787

m: Mary Francis Gaulding

Abner Nash 1789 m: Lucy Gaulding Presley Nash 1792 m: Eliz. Gaulding

Martha Nash

James Nash b: 1782 Charlotte Co.

Owned Nash & Hart

of Lynchburg d: 1848

m: 11-02-1806 Jean Jane Pugh

(were members of

Rough Cr. Church) m: 2-11-1806

Charlotte Co., VA

Robert Daniel Nash (Witnessed will of John Cox in 1821)

b: 1784 Charlotte Co. d: 1847 m:1 8-26-1805 Campbell Co.

Sabra Ready Lived adjacent to John Cox

1820, in Lynchburg b: Abt 1786 Bedford

d: ~1830 Charlotte Co m:2 12m-16-1815 Polly Jordan (Nancy Jordan witnessed will

of John Cox) (Rev. Wm. Hammersley,

Surety, of Rough Cr. Church)

Littleberry Cocks

b: ~1774 m: 1796

in Campbell Massey Ready

(Sister of Sabra)

Pughs were from Wales Thomas Pugh Nash

Abner Pugh Nash 1. Abner Nash b: 1805 VA m: 8m-8-1830 Rebecca Scott (Rev. Sam. Armistead)


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Jesse Hughes b: 1673 France CHART 31. Hughes & Walten Families

(moved to Eng. age 14, then to Wales) m: Sarah Tarleton

b: 1677 d: ~5-19-1730 Goochland Co., VA

Stephen Hughes 1706 Ashford Hughes 1708 Robert Walton Sr. Sarah Hughes 1710 Elizabeth Hughes 1712 b: 10-19-1700 Mary Hughes 1714 Isaac Hughes 1716 m: Frances Sherwood b: 1699 Eng

Robert Hughes b: 1704 Henrico Co.

m: ~1723 Martha Morton d/o Hezekiah Morton

of Prince Edward Co VA b: 1704 d: 1785

French Huguenots land grant from King Charles II

The Hughes family moved to Hughes Creek, now Powhatan Co., VA

adjacent to Frederick Cox-

Sarah Hughes b: ~1723

m: Tucker Woodson

Susanna Hughes 1731

Robert Hughes 1733

Abraham Hughes 1735

Temperance Hughes 1742

Mary Hughes b: 3-11-1724 Powhatan Co.

d: 11-24-1760 Cumberland Com: ~1745 Powhatan Co.,

Robert Walton b: 1-7-1718 Prince Edward Cod: ~1-25-1750 Cumberland Co

Martha Hughes b: 2-25-1727 d: 9-18-1813

m: 8-14-1749

Gen. Geo. Walton in Cumberland Co., VA

b: 2-17-1723/24 New Kent Co d: will 9-2-1796 / 7-17-1797

wit.: Isaac Read(y) Geo. Gave Martha 4000 acres on north saide of Green Riv.

in Green Co., KY

Sherwood Walton

b: 7-10-1728 an elder of

Briery Church &

had 300 acres on south branch of Robertson Fork

of Meherrin River

1720 Rebecca

1722 Joseph

1729 Polly

1730 Sally

“Uncle George” an elder of Briery Church,

Col. George Walton b: 1749-50 Farmville,

Jesse Hughes Walton 1750 Frances Walton 1752

John Walton m: Eudosia

Walton a guardian of nephew

George Walton

1753 George the elder deeded land on North Fork

of Meherrin Riv.

Cumberland Co., VA d: 2-2-1804 Augusta, GA

(1776 age 26 became a

delegate to the Philadelphia Assembly, signed the

Declaration of Independence. Bacame Governor of

Georgia in 1779.)

Robert Walton 1754 Mary Walton 1756

m: Woodson Knight George Walton 1757 d: 1777 Nancy Hughes Walton 1760

Martha Walton 1762 Eudosia Walton 1764 Susanna Walton 1766

m: Morton Temperance Walton 1769

John Walton 1770 Sally Walton 1772

Thomas Walton 1775


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John Woodson CHART 32. Woodson & Michaux Families

Robert Woodson b: 1634 m: Elizabeth Ferris

Richard Woodson b: 1662 Judith Woodson b: 1673 m: William Cannon, uncle? of m: Ann Smith Francinia Cannon (m: Wm Cox, son of Frederick)

Richard Woodson Jr “Baron” of Prince Edward Co., VA

b: 1696 m: Anne Madolin

Michaux in Prince Edward Co.

Judith Woodson b: 1703 Henrico Co.

d: 12-13-1744 in Goochland

(now Cumberland) Co., VA

m: Jacob Michaux

Agnes Woodson d: age 91 b: 2-27-1710/11 Henrico Co d: 3-10-1802 Lunenburg Co

m: Joseph Morton Founder of Briery Church

Trustee of Hampden-Sydney Collegein 1735 at Slate Hill Estate

Prince Edward Co., VA b: 12-27-1709 Henrico Co d: 6-28-1782 Charlotte Co

Note: The Woodsons, Hughes and Jacob

Michaux were neighbors of

Bartholomew & Frederick Cox on the

James River, on Mahook Creek.

Joseph Michaux m: Judith Woodson

Elizabeth Michaux b: 1731 d: 1801

m: Abraham Venable b: 2-9-1725

Josiah Mortonb: 11-14-1737

Litttle Roanoke Bridge

Judith Morton b: 12-27-1739


Jane Morton b: 2-14-1745


Agnes Morton b: 2-26-1747


Charlotte Co Charlotte Co Charlotte Co Charlotte Co Nathaniel Venable

of Slate Hill Plantation m: 3-29-1755

Elizabeth Woodson

Joseph “Litttle Joe” Morton

b: 11-15-1749Litttle Roanoke

William L. Morton

b: 11-27-1743 Litttle Roanoke

Maj. Jacob Morton


Elizabeth Morton


Bridge Bridge Charlotte Co

(Received Rev. Samuel Davies

in Charlotte Co.)

Bridge d: 5-22-1829 Charlotte Co m: 9-6-1774 Jane Booker

Prince Edw Co

Bridge Charlotte Co

d: 1828 at Cub Creek

Abraham Venable

of Princeton College NJ 1791-99 Member of Congress

Richard W. Venable b: 1-16-1763 m: Mary Morton

William Booker Morton b: 9-3-1775 at Slate Hill, Prince Ed. Co.

m: 12-6-1802 at Farmville Lucy Faris Flournoy

Note: Briery Church: Rev. Robert Henry Elders: Joseph Morton George Walton Sherwood Walton

1810 Census Charlotte Co. VA:

Col. Wm. L. Morton Capt Wm. B Morton

John Morton b: 9-10-1777 Charlotte Co Mary Morton b: 1782 Charlotte Co

Gideon Morton b: 1783 Charlotte Co Robert Morton b: 1785 Charlotte Co Nancy Morton b: 1787 Charlotte Co Joseph Morton b: 1790 Charlotte Co Betsy Morton b: 1793 Charlotte Co

Samuel Morton b: 1795 Charlotte Co Agnes Morton b: 1802 Charlotte Co


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Synopsis of Research in Progress Descendants of Littleberry Cox

Littleberry Cox married Massey Ready, daughter of Nathaniel, in 1796. They moved from Campbell Co, VA, to Green Co., KY, after 1804. His youngest son, William, married Caroline Christensen, daughter of Thomas, and farmed in Casey Creek “Rolly”, KY, east of Campbellsville. William died young of Typhoid but managed to have three children: 1. Walker Cox married Lucretia Jane Cox, daughter of James, son of Littleberry. 2. John Cox married Mary Syrelda Goode. Daniel Goode of Amherst Co., VA, had a son, John Goode, who died at Casey Creek, KY. John and Mary Cox, by ox-wagon, removed to Willow Springs, MO, then arrived in 1892 at today’s Davidsonville State Park later built on their farm. They had Will Ed 1766, Samuel Green 1874, Alice, Newton “Newt”, Elliott, Janey, & Omer “Lee” Cox. Samuel Green Cox married Virginia Harden, daughter of Obe Harden, and had Gertrude, John Henry, Edna, Gus, Sherman, and Maggie. (Generation omitted to prevent ID theft) moved to Kokomo, IN, 1942. 3. Sarah Elizabeth married David B. Mann. Their son, Ben Roy, had a daughter, Zelma, who married William Bottom of Kokomo, IN.

Where was Littleberry Cox’sGrandfather From?

Littleberry Cox’s brother, William, had a grandson who, in 1898, wrote two letters to a niece saying, “we are of Welsh descent” and that the family settled in Campbell Co., VA, just before the Rev-olution. Here are more Clues: 1. Littleberry and sister, Sally, were married by John Weatherford of Cub Creek Church, Charlotte Co., VA. 2. Littleberry’s parents, John and Polly Cox, did pat-riotic service during the war. 3. John’s offspring includes “Little Berry Cocks”, in his will written in 1821 in Camp-bell Co., VA. Executor was Samuel Armstead, minister of Rough Creek Church, Char-lotte Co., VA. 4: Littleberry’s wife, Mass-ey Ready, had a sister named Sabra, who married Robert Daniel Nash. Robert witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821, and was a neighbor of John Cox in 1820. 5. Lynchburg was the first Quaker settlement south of the James River, and marriages of John Cox’s children are in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy. 6. William Daniel Nash, Robert’s brother, was married in the Old Briery Church, near Keysville (Prince Edward Co.). Brother, James, married Jane Pugh of Welsh descent. 7. The marriage of William Cox, Littleberry’s brother, was

witnessed by William Booker Morton. His grandfather, Jo-seph Morton, was minister of Old Briery Church. The Mor-ton estate, Farmville, called “Slate Hill” is where the Han-over Presbytery met to found Hampden Sydney College. 8. William Daniel Nash was possibly a grandson of John Nash, who immigrated in 1730 from Pembroke, Wales. He was Hampden Sydney College Trustee. Daughter, Mary, married Clement Read of Keysville. Descendants of William Cox

the 1610 Immigrant William Cox arrived at Jamestown, from (Broxburn?) England aboard the Godspeed at age 12 in 1610. He was allegedly a nephew of De La Warr, Governor of Virginia. 1. William married Eliza-beth and had four children after about 1630: Mary, Eliza-beth, Thomas and John. 2. Their son, John, left a will in 1692 for his six sons: John, William, Bartholomew, Richard, Henry and George. 3. Bartholomew eventually obtained land south of James River (20 miles west of Rich-mond). His will in 1731, men-tions wife, Rebeckah, son Frederick, gr-son Wm. Baugh, gr-son George (son of Geo.). “John Cox” is visibly crossed out in the will. 4. The will of Geo. Cox Sr. (1728) mentions sons Geo. & Henry, dau. Martha & gives son, George, 500 acres on the


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north side of the Appomatox River, Henrico (Goochland, now Cumberland) Co. (across the river from John Nash’s estate in 1732 near Farmville). 5. Thomasin Nash was the mother of Thomas Bouldin of Keysville. His son, Thos. Jr., married a daughter of Freder-ick Cox, son of Bartholomew. 6. Geo. Sr. mentions wife, Martha, three children, Geo., Henry, and Martha. His bro-ther, Frederick, was a witness to his will. Frederick’s son, John, eventually lived near Keysville. 7. George Sr. died young but his sons, Henry & George Jr., in 1730, each obtained 400 acres across the Appomatox from John Nash’s Templeton Manor estate (12,584 acres). Jacob Michaux, a neighbor of George Sr. also obtained land north of the Appomatox. Jacob’s sister, Jane Michaux (north of the river), became mother-in-law of Lucy Nash, daughter of John Nash (south of the river). George Cox Jr. had a son, John, born in about 1740. However, he was not Littleberry’s grandfather as proven by a recent Y-DNA of a decendant of a cousin of George Jr.

Proof Needed: Search for Y-DNA Donors This third theory has left several issues unsolved. ,

James Cox, son of Valentine of Lynchburg, VA, removed to Monroe Co., MO, across the river from Valentine’s daughter, Lucy Johnson, in Hancock Co., IL. Marriages of James and Lucy are in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI.

Valentine had a brother, John Cox. Their parents were Henry Cox and Judith Redford who were probably married before 1740.

In contrast, our John Cox, Littleberry’s father, was born about 1740 and the marriages of his offspring are also mentioned in Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Lynchburg Twp. area.

We could not prove that our John Cox was related to Valentine Cox until we found a Y-DNA donor for a descendant of Valentine Cox. Census records for the Coxes of Monroe Co. and Shelby Co., MO, helped us find male descendents of James Cox, son of Valentine. James married Elizabeth Gills.

The Y-DNA of Valentine Cox should determine the Y-DNA of all male Coxes who descend from William Coxe, the 1610 immigrant. I cannot express how important this was. This was our opportunity to find something very important.

The same can be done for the descendants of John Cox, son of Frederick (son of Bartholomew). His Y-DNA should match the descendants of Valentine Cox. This John married Tabitha Price near Farmville, VA, and their son, John, moved to Greenville, KY. He has descendants living in Campbellsville, KY.

Moreover, the same was done for the Coxes of Cane Creek, Orange Co., IN, who went to French Lick High School. The family claims to be descendants of Littleberry’s brother, Charles Cox & Elizabeth Reese. Y-DNA tests did not match descendants of Littleberry.

Conclusion The first theory appears to be more rational than the second and third theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. The FOURTH THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox test results of Kenny Cox of Cumberland Co., IL, who claims to descend from William R. Cox. Researchers claim this line descended from Coxes of Amherst Co., VA. The Coxes of Benton Co., IN, also to descend from William Richard Cox of Coles Co., IL. Researchers claim this line came from Bedford Co., VA. Neither of these two lines have a paper trail earlier than


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1740, and neither claim descent from Wales. Y-DNA donors are needed to prove their paper trails. So this is a work in progress. Connections between French Huguenot immigrants from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Holland and France might imply that Littleberry’s family had once lived near the Netherlands. Huguenot surnames associated with Cox wills and deeds were Fuqua, Noel, Michaux, DuBreuil and Sublett of Sedan, France, near the Netherlands.

Connections between Entry Creek and Farmville might imply that Littleberry's father was somehow associated with John Nash of Farmville who was from Tenby, Pembroke, Wales, where the Nashes had merchant ships during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Her grandfather, King Henry VII, was from Pembroke Castle. Sir Richard Coxe, Chancellor of Oxford Univ. was her Chaplain. Richard fled to Strasburg, Germany, during the reign of Elizabeth’s half sister, Queen Mary (a Catholic). Richard Coxe spoke several languages (perhaps including Welsh, German and Greek) and translated several books of the New Testament into English. Queen Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, likely spoke Welsh and English. Erasmus and Publius Jones were neighbors. Erasmus was a famous scholar of Rotterdam, and Publius was a pen name of a famous writer of that same area. Erasmus (born 1464) visited Oxford and Cambridge and translated the New Testament into Greek. Martin Luther was born later, in 1483. http://pages.slc.edu/~eraymond/reformation/one.html

Connections between Entry Creek and Robert Daniel Nash of Lynchburg, VA, might imply that Littleberry's father was perhaps associated with Valentine Cox of Lynchburg and John Nash of Farmville, an immigrant from Tenby, Wales.

Littleberry's father did patriotic service during the Revolution and the Patriotic Service Index says he was born in 1740. However, a descendant of William and Valentine Cox tested as having a male Y-DNA haplotype, R1b. Our John and Littleberry Cox have living descendants who tested as having a male Y-DNA J2 haplotype. Haplo R1b1: Walter LeCoc b: 1640 France William Cox b: Abt 1692 d: 1767 Solomon Cox b: Abt 1745 (Quaker) John Cock b: 1721 Kent England Wade Cox of Australia Patrick Ready b: 1835 Ireland Thomas Cox b: ~1645 Herefordshire Valentine Cox b: ~1752 VA

Haplotype J2: William Cox b: 1817 KY (Model) Caleb Cox b: 1802 VA (Model) Seaton Ready b: 1812 KY Jon Levi b: 1798 Israel Joseph Caruso b: 1895 Italy William R. Cox d: 1896 Coles Co., IL

By covering the fourth and last theory, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false information on

Rootsweb/Family Trees that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is available.

13 24 14 12 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 30 15 13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 16 19 29 15 13 24 14 11 11 13 12 12 12 13 13 30 18 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 29 15 13 25 14 11 11 14 11 12 13 13 13 30 17 09 10 11 11 24 15 19 30 15 13 23 15 11 11 13 12 12 11 13 13 30 17 09 09 11 11 26 15 19 28 15 13 24 14 10 11 15 12 12 11 13 13 29 17 09 10 11 11 24 15 19 30 15 13 23 14 11 11 14 12 12 11 13 14 29 17 09 10 11 11 25 15 19 29 15 13 23 14 11 12 14 12 12 12 13 13 30 17 09 09 11 11 23 15 19 28 15

Haplotype J2: 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 27 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 16 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 31 11 13 23 15 09 13 16 11 16 13 13 11 29 12 23 15 09 14 16 11 16 12 13 11 29


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GRANDFATHER OF LITTLEBERRY COX – PART IV

There are four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. By covering each of these, perhaps we can rid ourselves of false information on Rootsweb that says Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or Sarah Oldham, or Sarah Nunnally, or Mary Ferguson, or Mary Bryson, or Sally Tweedy now that recent Y-DNA technology is available.

4. THE FOURTH THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox is based upon connections among Kenny Cox, whose 12 Y-DNA markers tested as J2 and allegedly related to William R. Cox of Cumberland Co., IL. His twelve markers are 12 23 15 09 14 16 11 16 12 13 11 29.

Is he related to the William Richard Cox of Coles Co., IL, and his siblings living in Benton Co., Indiana? More donors are needed, and 37 markers are needed.

If these match, will they match the markers of descendants of Littleberry Cox? Their first 12 markers are 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29. So four of the twelve markers are different from Kenny Cox’s 12 markers.

Reasons for believing they may be related are based upon: a. Both are likely in the J2 haplogroup. b. Both came from Campbell and Bedford counties of Virginia. c. The mother of Joel Cox of Benton Co., IN, Peggy Keenum, and his grandfather was James

Keenum, the second husband of Elizabeth Dale. The first husband of Elizabeth Dale was Gilbert Mason. Their son, William Mason, married Jenny

or Jane Ready. His daughter, Elizabeth Dale Mason, married James Ready. His daughter, Sally Mason, married Charles Ready.

Jenny Ready’s sister, Massey, married Littleberry Cox. Her sister, Sabra, married Robert Daniel Nash, who witnessed the will of John Cox, Littleberry’s father, in 1821, in Campbell Co., VA. Therefore, William Mason was married to Littleberry’s sister-in-law.

CHART 33. Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Bedford County Marriages Married on Samuel Clemens & Pamela Goggin. Surety: Samuel Hancock 10m-23d-1797 James Cox & Elizabeth Gills, dau of John Gills. Surety: Lemuel Johnson 11m-4d-1811 Emily Cox (dau of James) & Amasa W. [Holmes]. Surety: Elisha Whitten 11m-3d-1826 (Amasa is buried in the Cox Cemetery in Monroe Co., MO.) Joel Cox & Peggy M. Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum 12m-22d-1828 Eli Cox & Elizabeth Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum 1m-6d-1830

Reuben Mason & Caty Richardson. Married 3-17-1790. 2m, 22d, 1790 Lewis Mason & Betsey Dale (dau of Rishard & Mary). Surety: Reuben Mason 2m, 1d, 1792 Charles Toney & Nancy Ready. Surety: Charles Ready. 7m, 28d, 1794 Consent: Richard & Mary Dale. Sally Mason (dau of Elizabeth Keenum) & Charles Ready (son of Mary Dale) 8m, 4d, 1794 William Taylor & Katy Ready 10m, 27d, 1800 Campbell Co., VA: William Mason & Jenny Ready, dau of Nathan. James Ellet, Surety 11m-22d-1796 Nathaniel Mason & Mary Ann Clark, dau of Paulet Clark 10m-31d-1821 William R. Mason & Sarah E. Walker. Surety, Oliver L. Mason 10m-9d-1837


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CHART 34. Dale, Keenum & Cox Families of Campbell & Bedford Co., VA

William Dale b: 3-10-1718 m: Frances Phillips

she d: 5-10-1777 / 7-28-1777 Bedford Co., VA

Elizabeth Dale b: 3-31-1745

m: ~1766 Gilbert Mason b: 1740 d: ~8-28-1781

Alexander Keenum b: ~1725

John Cox J2 b: ~1740

m: ~1762 Polly

William Mason b: 1765 m: Jenny Ready (sister-in-law of Littleberry Cox) Eliz. Dale Mason b: 1768 m: 1784 Jas KeenumSally Mason m: Charles Ready (He was with James Cox near Murfriesboro, TN?)

James Keenum 1760m: 3-12-1784

Elizabeth Dale Mason b: 1768

James Cox J2 b: ~1778

m:1 12-10-1800 Elizabeth Farris

m:2 1815 Judith Jones

Littleberry Cox J2 b: 1774

m: 10-20-1796 Massey Ready

both Campbell Co., VA In Campbell Co., VA Richard Keenum

b: 1786 Bedford Co.m: 10-23-1805

William Farris d: 5-6-1831 Campbell Co. John Cox of Wilson Co., TN, acted as attorney for Robert Cox 5-22-1834

Nancy Williams Need the will of William Farris

Peggy Keenum b: 1809

m: 12-22-1828

William W. Cox b: 1883 d: 1896

Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL

Joel Cox J2 Bedford Co., VA b: 1802 Botetourt

Co., VA

1804 Robert Cox 1805 Elizabeth Cox Daughter Cox 1808

Alfred Wm. Cox m: 1911 Lola M. Kingery

of Woodbury, IL

William Richard Cox b: 2-25-1832

Bedford Co., VA d: Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL

m: Hannah Thompson b: Ross Co., OH

1830 Martha P. Cox Bedford Co.1832 William R. Cox “ 1834 John Aaron Cox “ 1837 Margaret Cox “ 1839 Catherine Cox “ 1842 Joel C. Cox “ 1848 Amanda V. Cox “

Wayne Cox

of Millersville, TN b: 8-3-1926 d: 3-28-2008

Jewitt Cemetery, Coles Co, IL

Joel F. Cox b: 2-25-1858

Hutton Twp., Coles Cr., IL

1854 Emma Hariett Cox 1855 Mary C. Cox Ross Co., OH1858 Joel F. Cox Hutton Co., IL 1859 Elizabeth Cox Hutton Co 1872 William Allen Cox Hutton, IL


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CHART 35. Keenum and Coxes of Bedford Co., Virginia

Alexander bought land in Bedford Co. in 1777. Alexander Keenum b: ~1725

d: 1778 Bedford Co., VA m: Sarah

Elizabeth Dale Alexander

Keenum John

Keenum William Keenum

b: Abt 1767 John Cox J2

b: ~1740 m:2 3-12-1786

James Keenum

Bedford Co.

m:1 ~1766 Gilbert Mason

Bedford Co.

b: Abt 1762 Bedford Co.,

VA

b: Abt 1765 Bedford Co.,

VA

Bedford Co., VA m: ~1762 Polly

Richard Keenum

b: 1786 m: Nancy Williams

William Mason b: 1766

m: Jane Ready (sister-in-law of Littleberry Cox)

sisters

Littleberry Cox J2 b: 1774

m: 10-20-1796 Massey Ready

James Cox J2 b: ~1778 m:1 12-10-1800 Elizabeth Farris

m:2 1815 Judith Jones both of Campbell Co., VA

Parents of Joel are allegedly William &

Elizabeth Cox

Margaret Peggy Keenum b: 6-1809 d: 12-9-1872 m: in Bedford Co, VA

Joel Cox b: 1802 d: 1876 Warren Co., IN

.

John Aaron Cox

b: 7-9-1831 Bedford Co., VA

d: 1-3-1888 West Oxford Cem.

Benton Co., IN m: 1854

Lydia Neff

Jeremiah Cox b: 2-24-1836 Bedford VA d: 8-8-1890 West Oxford

Cem. Benton Co. IN


Bedford Co., VA d: 7-16-1918 Charleston,

Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL m: Hannah Thompson

b: Ross Co., OH

Catherine F. Cox b: 12-4-1839


W. Lafayette, IN m: 1821 John Michael Rowe

1872 Benton, IN

Joel C. Cox b: 1842

Bedford Co. VA d: Bolivar,

Benton Co., IN m: Ellen

1856 Jeremiah 1858 Joel Cox

Joel F. Cox b: 2-25-1858 d: 1927


William Rowe

1859 John Cox 1862 Mary E. 1864 Margaret J.

William W. Cox b: 1883 d: 1896


Walter Rowe

1864 Jacob H. 1865 William L. 1867 Martha A.

Alfred William Cox Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL m: 1911 Lola M. Kingery

of Woodbury, IL

Wayne Cox

b: 8-3-1926 d: 3-28-2008 Jewitt Cemetery, Coles Co., IL

William Robert Rowe d: 1995

m: Living

Living m: Helen Rowe

Living

Wayne


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CHART 36. Cox J2 Family of John Cox Richard Keenum

son of James Keenum m: 3-17-1784 Elizabeth Dale Mason b: 1785 Bedford Co VA d: 8-1-1853 Ross Co., OH m: 10-23-1805 Bedford Co VA Nancy Williams

James Cox J2 b: ~1778m:1 12-10-1800 Elizabeth Farris

m:2 1815 Judith Jones both of Campbell Co., VA

Elizabeth Keenum b: 1806

m: 1830 Eli Cox

Francis (sister) Keenum b: 1816

m: 1843 Eli Cox

James Middleton Keenum b: 1832

Bedford Co

Margaret Peggy Keenum b: 6-9-1809 Bedford Co., VA

m: 12-22-1828 Bedford Co., VAJoel Cox

b: 1802 Botetourt Co., VA d: 3-1876 Independence,

Warren Co., IN

Elizabeth Cox 1805 Daughter Cox 1808 Robert M. Cox 1813

John Aaron Cox b: 7-9-1831 Bedford Co., VA

d: 1-3-1888 West Oxford Cemetery, Oxford,

Benton Co., IN Co. C. 12 Ohio Vol. Calvery

m: 10-4-1854 Lydia Neff Ross Co., OH


Bedford Co., VA

d: 7-16-1918 Charleston, Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL

m: Hannah Thompson b: 11-19-1834 Ross Co., OH

Martha P. Cox 1830 Bedford Co. William R. Cox 1832 ” John Aaron Cox 1834 ” Jeremiah M.Cox b: 2-24-1836 d: 8-8-1890 West Oxford Cemetery Margaret Cox 1837 ” Catherine Cox 1839 ” Joel C. Cox 1842 ” Amanda V. Cox 1848 ”

1856 Jeremiah Cox 1858 Joel S. Cox

1859 John W. Cox 1862 Mary E. Cox

* 1864 Jacob H. Cox. 1864 Margaret J. Cox 1865 William L. Cox 1867 Martha A. Cox

Joel F. Cox b: 2-25-1858

Hutton Twp., Coles Cr., IL

Emma Hariett Cox 1854 Mary C. Cox 1856 Ross Co., OH Joel F. Cox 1858 Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL Elizabeth Cox 1860 Hutton Twp. Emma Margaret Cox 1862 ” William Allen Cox 1872 Hutton Twp

William W. Cox b: 1883

* born in Oxford, Benton Co., IN

Burial: Crown Hill Cem., Indianapolis, IN

Alfred Wm. Cox 1883-1960m: 1911 Lola M. Kingery

of Woodbury, IL

Wayne Cox

Wayne’s Issue:

Diana Cox Sheila Cox

William Cox

David Cox Jerry Cox Steven Cox

Wayne Cox of Millersville, TN

b: 8-3-1926 d: 3-28-2008 Jewitt Cemetery,

Coles Co, IL

John Cox Frank Cox Ruby Cox

Lucille Cox

Barbara CoxWayne Cox

Opal Cox


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1808 July Elizabeth Jones – “ “ William Cox’s sister was Lavinia Ann Sophia Cox, wife of William McGee of Cannon Co., TN.

CHART 37. John Cox of Virginia down to WW I & II Michael Jones

m: Julia Ann Chamberlin

John Cox

b: ABT 1740 d: will: 5-22-1821 m: Abt 1762 Polly

Erasmus Jones b: 5-8-1762

Campbell Co., VA d: 1841 Cannon Co., TN

m: Amiah Fuqua

Publius Jones

James A. Cox

b: ~1779 Campbell Co., VA

d: 10-3-1840 Cannon Co., TN m: 12-10-1800

Elizabeth Farris Campbell Co., VA

m: 3-14-1815 Judith Jones

Campbell Co., VA

Littleberry Cox b: ABT 1774 VA d: will: Green Co.,

Kentucky m: 1798 Massey

Ready

1786 Nancy Jones 1789 Judith Jones – Campbell Co., VA 1790 Harrison Jones 1791 William Fuqua Jones 1793 Henry Jones – Wilson Co., TN 1795 Tolbert Jones – Wilson Co., TN 1796 Michael Jones – Wilson Co., TN 1798 Sally Jones – 1799 Erasmus Jones – Wilson Co., TN 1801 Mary Jones – 1807 Martha Jones – Wilson Co., TN

James R. Cox

8-31-1805 William H. Cox

b: 1819 Campbell Co., VA

d: 1840 Cannon Co., TNm: Alisa Cates

Henry H. Cox

b: 5-6-1841 d: 6-8-1920

Cannon Co., TN m: 2-15-1863 TN Louisa Mullins

Cannon Co., TN

Charles Anthony Cox b: 1844

m: 7-20-1869 Julia Ann Evans Woodbury, TN

m: 12-27-1871 Amelia Geneva Cannon Co., TN

Henry H. Cox Mary M. Cox m: Benjamin, son of Edmund Jones Josephine Cox Charles Anthony Cox Celia I. Cox m: James, son of Edmund Jones Christina Cox

James Monroe Cox b: 1872 Deer Lodge, Morgan

Co., TN d: 12-30-1922

m: 1898 Gladis, Morgan Co., TN

m: Mary Elizabeth Spurling

John Riley Cox b: 6-22-1875 McNairy, TN

d: 1-6-1964 m: 1-9-1901

Mary Etta Woods

1861 Elizabeth Cox 1867 William H. Cox 1869 Ela M. Cox 1870 Josephis Cox 1872 James Monroe Cox 1875 John Riley Cox


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1827 John Cox 1829 Elizabeth 1830 Joshua Cox1831 Lucinda 1832 Mary Cox 1838 Robert Cox1840 Alvina Cox1842 Martha Cox

CHART 38. John Cox of Virginia down to WW I & II

Valentine Cox

b: Abt 1750 VA d: 1812 m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA

Nancy Dawson

John Cox b: ABT 1740

d: will: 5-22-1821 m: Abt 1762 Polly

William A. Farris d: 5-6-1831, Campbell Co.,

VA

James A. Cox b: 6-20-1787


Monroe Co., MO m: 11-14-1811

James A. Cox ~1779 Campbell Co., VA

d: 10-3-1840 Cannon Co., TN m: 12-10-1800

Elizabeth Farris

Littleberry Coxb: ABT 1774 VAd: will: Green Co.,

Kentucky

Cannon County, TN, deed book "G"

page 424, Jan 29 1852: James Cox's daughter,

Lavina Ann Sophia Cox, married William McGee and sold 50 acres to

Elizabeth Gills Bedford Co., VA

Campbell Co., VA m: 3-14-1815 Judith Jones

d: Cannon Co., TN

m: 1798 Massey

Ready

her mother, Judith Jones Cox. “Erasmus Jones now deceased”

“James Cox deceased”

Links to John & James need more proof

John Cox b: 1801

(Film 182, 1830 Census of Lebanon, TN, b: 1790-1800

-had 2 sons, 3 daughters in 1830)

Robert Rex Cox b: 1804

(Film 182, 1830 Census of Lebanon, TN, b: 1800-1810 -had 3 sons, 1

daughter in 1830)

m: 3-23-1824 Rebecca Routon,

Rowton b: Lynwood,

Wilson Co., TN

. James Reese Cox b: 8-31-1805

(Film 182, 1830 Census of Lebanon, TN, b: 1800-1810

& had 2 sons in 1830)

m: 11-11-1826 Lebanon, TN

Lucy Reese Cox daughter of

William Cox

William H. Cox b: 1819

Campbell Co., VA d: 1863 Cannon Co.,

TN m: 3-4-1840 Apsley

Cates Cannon Co., TN

1802 Joel Cox? 1804 Robert R. 1805 James R. 1811 Eli Cox? 1819 William H. 1821 Henry H. 1824 Lavina Ann McGee 1825 Josiah B. 1828 Delilah F. 1831 Irmah H. 1833 Trudh H. 1834 Lucinda

1829 Thomas Reese Cox

1827 Uncle Billy Sterling 1830 Elizabeth Sarah Cox1832 Harriett Cox 1835 Charles Sims Cox 1837 Martha Jane Cox 1841 Mary Francis Cox 1843 James B. Cox

1841 Henry H. Cox 1842 Mary Maranda m: Benjamin F. Jones 1843 Joseph Cox 1844 Charles Anthony 1847 Celia Ama Cox m: Francis M. Jones 1851 Julia Christinia

John Cox of Wilson Co., TN, acted as attorney for Robert Cox on 5-22-1834 as an heir of William Farris.


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Note: The will of William Farris in Campbell Co. (Will Book 7, 1831-36) names his likely grandson Robert Cox, likely born of Elizabeth Farris and James Cox. William Farris died in 5-6-1831, Campbell Co., VA. John Cox of Wilson Co., TN, acted as attorney for Robert Cox on 5-22-1834 as an heir of William Farris. This Robert Rex Cox (b: 1804) married Rebecca Routon (Rowton) who was born near Lebanon. Joel Cox married Margaret “Peggy” Keenum and Robert H. Cox (b: 1813) married Susannah Morris in Bedford Co., VA, in 1837. In the 1850 Census, these two couples were living adjacent to each other in Ross Co., OH. Joel’s children were Martha 20, William R. 18, John A. 16, Jeremiah 14, Margaret M. 13, Catherine F. 11, Joel C. 8, Amanda V. 2. Robert was 11 years younger than Joel Cox Sr. William R. Cox had two daughters in Ross Co., Emma Harriet Cox and Mary Catherine. The following chart are Quakers descending from Pennsylvania with R1b1 haplo. Note that birthdates of Eli and Joel Cox make them unlikely to be the ancestors of the Coxes of Benton Co., IN.

CHART 39. Family of William Cox & Catherine Kinkey down to Joel Cox (Quakers with R1b1 haplo)

Herman Husband led the Regulators to fight the governor of North Carolina. Several of the Coxes were disowned from their Quaker Meeting for participating. Some feel that William Cox’s brother, John Jr., married Mary Harlan and Sarah Oldham.

Augustine Hermon Kankey b: 1677 Hamburg, Germany

m: Margery Herman granddaughter of Augustine Herman

1810 Solomon Cox (son of William Cox & Catherine Kinkey) wrote his will in Ross County, OH. 1853 Richard Keenum died in Ross County, OH. 1853 William Richard Cox married Hannah Catherine Thompson in Ross County, OH. 1918 Wm. Richard died in Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL.

Mary Kinkey b: 1704 Cecil Co. MD

m: 5-20-1720 Cecil Co. MD William

Husband (NC Regulators 1770)

his m:2 Mary Pugh

Catherine Kinkey b: Cecil Co. MD

m: 1716 Cecil Co. MD

William Cox Sr. b: 1692 d: 1767 Orange Co., NC

Hannah Husband

Catherine Husband

William Husband

John Husband

Thomas Husband

Mary Husband

Joseph Husband

Herman Husband b: 10-03-1724 m:1 1752 Mary Cox

m:2 7-17-1762 Mary Pugh

Margery Husband

Ann Husband Sarah Husband

Rebecca Cox

b: 1717 Hockessin, New Castle

Co., DE

Mary Cox b: 1719

Hockessin, New Castle Co., DE

Martha Cox b: 1721

Hockessin, New Castle Co., DE

Harmon Cox Sr. b: 1723

Hockessin, New Castle Co., DE 1771 leader of Regulators in NC

Thomas Cox b: 1736

New Castle, DE

William Cox b: ~1725

Hockessin, New Castle, DE m: Juliatha Cox

b: Gunpowder MM, MD

John Cox b: 4-25-1728 Mill Creek, New Castle m: Mary Scarlett

Solomon Cox b: 1730 New Castle

will: 9-19-1810 Ross Co., Ohio

m: 1756 Orange Co., NC

Ruth Cox d/o Hannah Jenkins

Catherine Coxb: 1732

Mill Creek, New Castle, DE

Margery Cox b: 1724 Hockessin, New Castle, DE

m: Isaac Nichols (1799 land from Andrew Bryan

who married Catherine Evans, daughter of Rees Evans)

on Molly’s Cr., Rustburg, VA

Nathaniel Cox m: 1779

William Cox 11-12-1757

John Cox 10-14-1767

1758 Lydia Cox1761 Hannah

Catherine Caty Nichols b: 1748 m: 5-31-1766 James Hatcher

Eli Cox 3-11-1765 m: 2-23-1792 Margaret

Brown in Cane Cr. Mtg.

Guilford Co., NC

Solomon Cox 7-12-1771

Joel Cox 7-7-1778 1802 married out of unity

near Cane Cr. Mtg. Guilford Co., NC

1774 Mary Ann 1802 inherited land bought from Andrew Bryan on Molly’s Cr.,

Rustburg, VA. Attended South River Meeting at Lynchburg


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CHART 40. Mason & Ready Allied Families William Dale b: 3-10-1718

m: Frances Phillips she d: 5-10-1777/7-28-1777 Bedford Co., VA

Elizabeth Dale

b: 3-31-1745 Richmond Co., VA

William Dale Jr. “Billy Deal”

b: 9-1-1737 Richmond Co. d: 1792

Mary “Polly” Haislip As “Polly Dale”, age 73,

applied for pension in Henry Co., VA

m:1 ~1766 Gilbert Mason

b: 1740 d: ~8-28-1781

m: 10-26-1778 Jemima Jackson Bedford Co., VA

(North fork of Cub Cr.)

m:1 2-16-1837 Isaac Ready

m:2 1-16-1784 Richard Dale

b: 12-1-1757 d: 1841

William Mason

b: Abt 1765 m: 11-22-

1796 Jenny Ready d/o Nathaniel

Mary Jane Mason

b: Abt 1769 m: 1783 William Boswell

Reuben Mason

b: Abt 1770m: 3-17-1790

Caty Richardson

Charles Ready(son of Mary

Dale) m: 8-4-1794 Sally Mason Bedford Co. Consent by Richard & Mary Dale

Nancy Ready

m: 7-28-1794 Charles Tony Bedford Co.

Consent by Richard & Mary Dale

Betsy Dale m: 2-1-1792

Lewis Mason surety by Reuben

Mason b: 1770

John Mason b: Abt 1773 m: Mahala

Wilson

Sally Mason

b: Abt 1775 m: 8-4-1794 Charles Ready s/o Mary Dale

Elizabeth Dale Masonm: 3-12-1785James Keenum

Surety by Richard Dale

http://files.usgwarchives.net/va/campbell/military/history01.txt Isaac Ready served under Col. Charles Lynch of Lynchburg, Campbell Co., VA. He was wounded at Guilford Court House and died after 1782. His widow was relieved by a petition.

Lewis Mason m: 2-1-1792 Betsy Dale

(d/o Rich. & Mary) Surety, Reuben Mason

Rhoda Mason

b: Abt 1777 m: Wm Frith

Charles Ready Mason b: 6-30-1800 Bedford Co.

m: 1822 Martha Ann Brooks

William Marshall Frith

d: 1888 in Trigg Co., KY

Note: Charles Ready was a first cousin of Jenny Ready (sister of Sally and Massey Ready). The estate of Nathaniel Ready may have been distributed to the six offspring before 1796 because John Hix was listed as the guardian of Massey Ready in 1796, when she married Littleberry Cox. John was a brother of Sabra and Massillida Hix. The Indenture to Jane Ready was written before 1829.


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Estate of Joshua Morris and Nathaniel Ready Joshua Morris had married Sabra Hix, and she became Sabra Morris. She bought 514 acres on Turnip Creek

from James Palmer after she had written her will. William Walker agreed to buy the 514 acres in about 1829 (adjacent his farm), and the money was to be distributed to Sabra Morris’ nearest kin, one part each.

One part went to Massillida (Hix) Ready’s six offspring, because she was a sister of Sabra (Hix) Morris. Two of Massillida’s offspring were Massey Ready (wife of Littleberry Cox) and Sally Ready. One was Jane Ready (wife of William A. Mason).

Although more documentation is needed, the following are likely four of the six offspring of Nathaniel Ready.

1. Jane “Jenny” Ready married William A. Mason. 2. Sally Ready unmarried? 3. Massey Ready married Little Berry Cox. 4. Sabra Ready married Robert D. Nash (who witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821). 5. Isham Redy married 6-3-1799 Mary Garland in Albemarle Co., VA. 6. Speculation: Katy Ready married 10-27-1800 William Taylor in Bedford Co., VA. Charles Ready (m: Sally Mason) is likely a cousin of Jane, Sally, Massey and Sabra. Martha Ready married Elijah Christensen. She was likely the daughter of Sally Ready. Hiram Ready was likely a son of Sally Ready. Seaton Ready was likely a son of Sally Ready. One of his descendants Y-DNA test matched (except for two markers) the results of a descendant of William Cox (Littleberry’s son). Seaton and William were about the same age. A descendant of William’s brother, Caleb, also matched. So it is likely that the descendants of Seaton Ready are actually Coxes. There are two Sally Readys: wife of Charles Ready and Littleberry’s sister-in-law, likely the mother of Seaton Ready.

CHART 41. Mason & Ready Allied Families

Nathaniel Ready b: d:

m: Masilda Hix

Jane Jenny Ready m: 1796

William A. Mason

Massey Ready m: 1796

Littleberry Cox

Sally Ready (unmarried?)

Sabra Ready m: Robert D. Nash

Isham Ready m: 6-3-1799 Mary Garland

in Albemarle Co., VA.

???

Note: Robert D. Nash witnessed the will of John Cox (Littleberry’s father) in 1821.


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CHART 42. From William Cox “the Immigrant” to John Cox of the Douglas Register (Dover Church)

Note: These Coxes should all match the R1b1 haplo of Henry Cox (m: Judith Redford) father of Valentine.

William Cox b: 1598 m: Elizabeth Hutchins

After 3-29-1665: William Johnson transfers 550 acres to John Cox After 2-1-1696/7: Mary, wife of John Cox, sues for 550 acres, her dower right.

Mary Cox b: ~1630

m:1 Matthew Edloe m:2 John Longfield Burton

Elizabeth Cox b: ~1634

m:1 Robert Porter m:2 Benjamin Burton

Thomas Cox b: ~1637

d: 2-27-1692 m: ~1683 Jane

John Cox b: ~1640 d: will: 1691/2, probated 1696

m:1 Bef 3-29-1665 Craddock or Johnsonm:2 9-25-1682 Mary

John Cox Jr. From Eng. to today’s Lunenburg Co. area

with John Davis b: Abt 1660

d: 1-01-1710/11 Henrico Co., VA

m: Mrs. Mary Baugh

Branch

William Cox b: Abt 1662 Henrico Co.

m: Sarah Dennis

(No sons or

grandsons namedJohn or Henry)

Bartholomew Cox b: Abt 1663

Goochland Co., Powhattan Co., VA

m: Rebecca (Baugh?)

~1693 Will: 1731 John Bolling presents

inventory to court

Richard Cox b: Abt 1664 d: 7-13-1784

of Henrico Co.

m: 1700 Mary Trent

8 children

Henry Coxb: Abt 1668

d: 1675 Henrico Co.

No kids.

George CoxHenrico Co.b: Abt 1672d: 2-5-1728m: 10-22-

1691 Martha Stratton

Bond: John Bolling

She d: 1734

Link needs proof

1685: Four sons of John were over 21

Bouldin/Bollin

Cox b: ~1702

Henry Cox b: ~1705

Henrico Co. d: ~6-01-1780

m: ~1727 Judith Redford

Mary Cox b: ~1708

Henrico Co. m:__Fore\Ford\Faure

Martha Baldwin Cox

b: ~1708 Henrico Co. m:_Collham

John Cox Sr. b: before 1710 d: will dated 9-19-1785

Goochland Co. (m: ~1734 Alce Hix?)

Elizabeth Cox b: 2-25-1712/13 Henrico Co. VA

d: 1816 Surry Co. NC m: ~1731

Strangeman Hutchins

Richard Cox b: ~1714

Henrico Co. VA

Obedience Cox b: ~1717

Henrico Co. VA d: 4-15-1771

Goochland Co. m: ~ 1737

Philemon Perkins

Edith Cox b: 1719 Henrico Co. VA

d: Nov. 1768 Henrico m: ~1739 VA

James Whitloe b: ~1719 Brother of:

Nathaniel Whitlow 1721

Glaphery Cox

b: ~1735 m: 9-16-1759 Joseph Davis

(Douglas Register)

Obedience Cox b:~1739

m: November 24, 1757 John Hilton

(Douglas Register)

John Cox b: ~17401762 sold land to

Richard Wilkinson m: 6-22-1766

Elizabeth Fore (Douglas Register)

Sarah Perkins b: ~1786

m: William Moore Jr. (executor of estate of Obedience Perkins)

Abram Perkins b: ~1720

m: Cicily Turpin d: Caswell, NC

Henry Cox b: ~1741 m:1 1762

Eliz. Richardson m:2 4-5-1773

Ann Madison

< dau of John & Mary Curd Richardson

Edward Cox b: ~1742

d: will 5-3-05 m: 12-10-1767 Cecily Gilliam

(Douglas Register)

John Perkins b: ~1718

m: Rachel Ferguson

Mary Perkins m: Stephen Nowling

William Cox b: 1688 d: 24 Feb 1734/1735 m: Sarah Cocke b: ~1696

Parents of John Cox of Bluestone?


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Note: Edward’s son, Trent Cox, peobably named for Mary Trent

Curd Cox b: 1762 Charlotte Co.

d: 11-17-1853 Knox Co., TN m: 11-17-1782

Susannah Overton

Glaffree Cox Henry Cox Trent Cox Nancy Cox

Claiborn Cox Redford Cox

John Cox Elizabeth Cox Mullins

Obedience Cox John M. Cox

b: 1787 Charlotte Co. d: 8-1-1880 Clinton, Anderson Co., TN

m: 10-16-1815 Knox Co., TN

Alice “Alsie” Cammon b: 1798 Dan River

Pittsylvania Co. VA m: 11-17-1782

Henry Cox Elizabeth Jett Polly Cox Roads 1787 John M. Cox 1788 James Cox Richardson Cox Moses Cox 1783 Sally Cox Conner Milly Cox Hill

Charles Bernard Cox b: 1842 Knox Co., TN

d: 1-25-1919 Andersonville,

Anderson Co., TN m: 9-13-1868 Union, IL

Mahaley Walker

1816 James Harrison Cox d: 1891 m: Elizabeth Leach 1818 Susan Cox 1820 John R. Cox 1822 William Carroll Cox 1824 Robert T. Cox 1828 Lavica Jane Cox 1830 Curd Cox

1832 Margaret Ann Cox 1834 Samuel Love Cox 1836 Moses C. Cox 1838 Pleasant M. Cox 1841 Freeling Hyacinth Cox 1842 Charles Bernard Cox 1845 Rufus Mynatt Cox d: 1929 m:1Alice West

Caswell McClure Cox

b: 1880 Clinton, Anderson Co., TN d: 1961 Earl Park,

Benton Co., IN m: 9-9-1900

Carrie L. Rector in Andersonville, Anderson Co., TN

Clifford E. Cox

b: 7-18-1904 Anderson Co., TN

d: 5-20-1971 Crawfordsville, IN Earl Park Cemetery

Benton Co., IN

Finding Henry, by Lou Ann Murphy: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coxcuz/finding_henry.htm Cox Cousins Web Site: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coxcuz/ Will of Richard Cox: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coxcuz/Documents/Henrico/WillOfRichardCoxHenricoCoVA_1784.htm Will of Curd Cox http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=gammon&id=I7799 Note: John Cox married Mrs. Mary Baugh Branch. This John’s will was proved on 1-01-1710/11. A John Cox married Elizabeth Fore (Ford) (in the Douglas Register) Richard’s daughter, Mary, married a Fore (Ford) (in Richard’s will). Marriages of John’s children, Glafre, Obedience, John and Edward are at the Dover Church, in Goochland County, north of the James River (in the Douglas Register). In 1761, Henry Cox sells to John Cox land inherited in Goochland which his wife had inherited from her father, John Richardson.

Enoch Everett Cox d: 1975Nellie Cox Mayme Vesta Eulilia Walter Ted R.

Rosemary Cox m: Mixon

Augustus Gus Cox b: 1872m: Belle Agnes Galbraith


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CHART 43. From John Richardson to Curd Cox

John Cox b: ~1710 d: 9-19-1785 m: Abt 1728 Elce Hix

Dover Cr. Goochland Co.

John Richardson d: 9-4-1753 / 9-24-1753

Cumberland Co., VA m: Mary Curd

Edward Curd

1. Isham

Richardson Got land on

Nodnetts Cr., Albemarle Co. Got his father’s

estate 500 acres on

Little Willises Cr.

2. John Richardson Got 800 acres

on Cub Cr., Lunenburg (Charlotte) Co., VA m: 1755 Sarah Cook

3. Elizabeth Richardson

b: Aft 1732 d: 1773Got 320 acres on

Lickinghole Cr. in Goochland Co.

m: Aft 1753 Henry Cox

4. Mary Richardson

Got 300 acres on

Mill Creek,Goochland

Co., VA

5. Martha Richardson b: after 1739 Got 150 acres on Mill Creek, Goochland Co.

m: Richard Lumpkin d: 1778

m:2 Aft 1778 Thos. Dawson of Amherst Co

6. Ann Richardson

Got 200 acres on Buffalow R.

in Amelia (Prince

Edward) Co.,VA

7. Sarah

8. Susannah m: Joseph

Davis Goochland

Co., VA 9.

Agnes 10.

Frances

William Pegram

Cox b: 1754 York Co.,

VA

John Cox b: 1758

Charlotte Co., VA

Clement Cox b: ~1758

Curd Coxb: ~1762 Charlotte Co., VA

Martha Lumpkin

b: 6-1-1767 Charlotte Co.

3-16-1761 Henry Cox of Lunenburg Co. (was Charlotte Co. after 1764) sold 200 acres in Goochland Co. to John Cox, likely was part of the 320 acres Henry’s wife had inherited from her father, John Richardson, after he died in 1753. Joseph Davis, Henry’s brother-in-law) witnessed the deed and signed by Henry and Elizabeth Cox. 3-16-1761 Henry Cox, on the same date, sold 100 of the above 320 acres to his brother-in-law, Thomas Dawson and witnessed by Joseph Davis, Henry’s brother-in-law). 1764 Henry Cox was guardian of Francis Richardson when she married Lewis Jackson. 5-6-1765 Henry Cox of Charlotte Co., VA, buys from Godfrey Jones of Charlotte Co. acreage on branches of Ash Camp (near Keysville). http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~coxcuz/Ancestry%20Files/richardson/pafn04.htm

Conclusion The FOURTH THEORY for finding the grandfather of Littleberry Cox is based upon J2 test results

of Kenny Cox of Cumberland Co., IL, who claims to descend from William R. Cox. This could be the William Richard Cox of Coles Co., IL, who has relatives in Benton Co., IN. This line in Benton County claim to descend from Joel Cox and Peggy Keenum of Bedford Co., VA, and may be J2. Neither of these two lines have a paper trail earlier than 1740, and neither claim descent from Wales. Y-DNA donors are needed to prove their paper trails. So this is a work in progress.

Another line of Coxes of Benton Co., IN, are likely descendants of the Godspeed and are likely R1b1. A donor is needed.


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CHART 44. Some Vestrymen of Curles Church (1730-1750) Sir Henry Cox of Broxwood, Herefordshire, Eng.

(His daughter, Elizabeth, married Robert West, brother of Thomas West, Third Lord De La Warre)

http://geesnmore.wordpress.com/henry-gee-of-henrico-county/

John Worsham m: Elizabeth Littleberry

Francis Redford

b: ~1615 m: Ann Lawrence

b: ~1630

William Cox b: 1598 England

d: 12-14-1656 VA1610 on the Godspeed

m: Elizabeth

Elizabeth Worsham m: 1674

Dr. Richard Kennon

Vestrymen

William Randolph,

Esq Bowler Cocke

James Powell Cocke Edward Curd

Vestryman John Redford

b: ~1660 m: 5-20-1698 Martha Milner

John Cox Sr. b: 1640

Henrico Co., VA m:1 Johnson

m:2 Craddock m:3 9-25-1682 Mary Kennon m:4 Mary Elam

Mary Kennon m:1 9-25-1682

John Cox b: 1645 d: 02-01-1697

m:2 12-29-1697 Vestryman

John Bolling gr-grandson of

Pocahontas

Elizabeth Kennon

m: 12-1698 Vestryman

Joseph Royal

Sharon Kennon

m: Vestryman

Col. Francis Epps

Milner Redford

b: 1795 John Redford Jr.

b: ~1700 m:1 Mary Cocke m:2 Mary Goode

Richard Cox b: Aft 1682

Henrico Co., VA d: 7-13-1734 / 2-2-1735/36

m: 1-8-1700/01 Mary Trent

NOTE: In the Curles church processioning, after 1730, John Cox was near or adjacent to Higgason Cox, Capt. Francis Epps, Maj. John Bolling, Mary Cannon (Ken-non), Edward Curd, John Pleasants, Thomas Jordan, George Cox, orphan, Edward Cox, deceased, Richard Cox, John Bullington, John Redford Sr., Frances Red-ford, Milner Redford, Samuel Hancock, James Whitloe, Prudence Cox, Edward Curd, Benjamin Burton, Will-

iam Burton, John Whitloe, William Whitloe, William Perkins, Philemon Perkins, John Taylor, Thomas Branch, Samuel Hancock, Michael Turpin, William Randolph, son Thomas, Edward Good Jr., William Ferris Sr., and William Farris Jr.

Judith Redford b: ~1724

m: Henry Cox

Henry Cox d: 7-26-1779

m: Judith Redford

John Cox m: Elizabeth

Farley

Mary Cox m: Fore or

Faure

Elizabeth Cox m: Strangeman

Hutchins

b: ~1721 b: ~1724 d: 8-15-1785-9

Richard Cox

Obedience Cox m: Philemon

Perkins d: 5-15-1769

Edith Cox m: James Whitloe

d: 8-7-1727

John Cox

b: ~1740

Valentine Cox

Milner Cox

Higgason Cox Sr. d: 4-20-1793

Ex: Simon Hancock

Henry Y. Whitloe b: 1730 Chesterfield Co., VA d: 1783 Mecklenburg Co., VA

1793: Higgason gave son Obediah 181 acres on north side of south branch of Appomatox R., near Farmville


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MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION IN FINDING Y-DNA DONORS – PART V In May, 1850 (after Littleberry & Massey died), Taylor Co., KY Circuit Bundle #16 was asked to

decree that Littleberry's land, which was still being farmed by sons, John and Thomas, be sold and money distributed among all heirs, that is Caleb Cox, William Cox (dad’s great-grandfather), Nathan Cox, Charles Cox, Sarah Cox Mann, the children of Juda Cox White, deceased (i.e., Elizabeth White, Martha White, Sarah White, Mary Jane White, John White and Hiram White) John Cox, Thomas Cox, and Joshua Cox. There was another son, Jacob Cox, but he was not included as an heir.

SCOTT CEMETERY, OLD DAVIDSONVILLE STATE PARK (AR) John Cox 3-13-1849 / 8-29-1895 (Grandson of Littleberry Cox) Mary Cox 4-17-1846 / 2-12-1893 Scott Cemetery is on the farm where my dad, John H. Cox, was born. I have photos of Littleberry’s grandsons, Walker Cox, John Cox and granddaughter, Sarah Cox Mann.

CHART 45. Ten Offspring of Littleberry & Mascelda Cox

GREEN CO., KY, CENSUS

1820 Age Span Most Likely Person Male 45 (-50) Littleberry Cox Sr. b: 1770-1775 Female 45+ Mascelda (Massey) Ready Cox b: 1775-1780

1. Female 16-26 Sally Cox b: abt 1797 (age 23) m: 1819 John Mann 2. Male 16-26 Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 22) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann 3. Male 16-26 Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 20) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen 4. Male 16-26 Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 18) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White 5. Female 10-16 Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 16) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White 6. Male 10-16 John Cox b: 1805 (age 15) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White 7. Male 0-10 Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 5) m: 1838 Emily Noel 8. Male 0-10 (Littleberry Jr.) Nathan Cox Jr. b: 1816 (age 4) m: 2-25-1845 Hester

Beard. Joseph Cox on bond. Consent by David Beard. Her nickname was Hetty and she was still with him on MO census.

9. Male 0-10 William Cox b: 1817 (age 3) m: abt 1841 Caroline Christensen 10. Male 0-0 Thomas Cox b: 1821 (not born yet) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin

John Mann on bond. Consent by Littleberry Cox, father and Amos Baldwin, father. Married 29 Sept 1839 by R.B. Vannoy (from Old Marriage Certificates, Book C. 1836-1861. Green County, Kentucky). (Malvina was the child of Amos Baldwin and Jane Herron.)

Note: Letters in Part I above call Littleberry Cox “Berry Sr.”. It is speculation that Nathan Jr. was “Berry Jr.” 1830 Male Littleberry Cox Sr. b: abt 1770


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Female 50-60 Mascelda Ready Cox b: 1770-1780 1. --- Sally Cox b: abt 1797 (age 33) m: 1819 John Mann 2. Male 20-30 Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 32) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann 3. Male 20-30 Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 30) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen 4. Male 20-30 Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 28) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White 5. --- Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 26) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White 6. --- John Cox b: 1805 (age 25) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White 7. Male 15-20 Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 15) m: 1838 Emily Noel 8. Male 15-20 Littleberry Nathan Cox Jr. b: 1816 (age 14) m: 2-25-1845 9. Male 10-15 William Cox b: 1817 (age 13) m: abt 1841 Caroline Christensen

10. Male 10-15 Thomas Cox b: 1821 (age 9) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin

1840 Male 70-80 Littleberry Cox Sr. b: 1760-1770 m:2 10-20-1796 Mascelda “Massey” Ready Female 60-70 Mascelda (Massey) Ready Cox b: 1770-1780

1. --- Sally Cox b: abt 1803 (age 37) m: 1819 John Mann 2. Male 40-50 Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 42) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann

Removed to Arkansas 3. --- Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 40) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen 4. Male 30-40 Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 38) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White 5. --- Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 36) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White 6. Male 30-40 John Cox b: 1805 (age 35) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White 7. Male 20-30 Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 25) m: 1838 Emily Noel 8. Male 20-30 William Cox b: 1817 (age 23) m: abt 1841 Caroline Christensen

Removed to Missouri 9. --- Littleberry Nathan Cox Jr. b: 1816 (age 20) m: 2-25-1845 10. Male 15-20 Thomas Cox b: 1821 (age 19) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin

On 11-22-1821 Littleberry’s son, Joshua Cox (b: 1800), married Agnes Christenson. About twenty

years later, Littleberry’s son, William, married Caroline Christenson, Agnes Christenson’s niece, and they moved to Casey Creek, where my dad’s father, Samuel, and uncle, Will Ed, and dad’s grandfather, John, were born, about six miles from Littleberry’s estate on Stoner Creek. William died at Casey Creek on October 11, 1852 of Typhoid Fever.

Property of Littleberry Cox on the Stoner Fork of Robinson Creek was received from William Buckner according to an email from LaMar Buckner but will take more research to find the borders. Yr. Born Age – Where born 1850 TAYLOR CO., KY, CENSUS

1798 52 - VA Sarah Cox 1798 52 - KY Jacob Cox (not in estate settlement in 1850). 1800 (50 - VA) Joshua Cox (age 60, Polk Co., AR, 1860 Census) 1802 48 - VA Caleb Cox 1804 (46 - KY) Juda Cox (Judy Cox White) (Deceased) 1805 45 - KY John Cox 1815 35 - KY Charles Cox 1817 1820 1821

(33 - KY) (30 - KY) 29 - KY

William Cox (age 33 and is likely in Adair Co. until Oct 11, 1852) Nathan Cox (age 40 in 1860, McDonald Co., MO) Thomas Cox (age 19 in 1840)


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Map of Littleberry Cox Estate on Stoner Creek

CHART 46. Land Grants of Littleberry’s Family

Littleberry Cox & Sons

Acres of Land Grant

Year of Land Grant

River or Creek County in Kentucky

Littleberry 73 1830 Green R. Green Littleberry 15 1831 Stoners Fork Green

Jacob 50 1830 Green R. Green Jacob 87 1839 Robinson Cr. Green

Jacob Sr. 53 1858 Robinson Cr. Taylor Joshua 100 1830 Green R. Green Joshua 135 1855 Robinson Cr. Taylor Caleb 25 1831 Robinson Cr. Green Caleb 120 1841 Stoners Cr. Green

Casey Creek 2.5 miles

2 miles


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Caleb 125 1854 Stoners Cr. Taylor Caleb 166 1860 Robinson Cr. Taylor Caleb 100 1872 Stoners Cr. Taylor

Caleb/Jacob 100 1855 Robinson Cr. Taylor Caleb/Joshua 70 1856 Stoner Fork, Robinson Cr. Taylor Caleb/Joshua 200 1866 Robinson Cr. Taylor Joshua/Squire 77 1858 Robinson Cr. Taylor

Squire 135 1853 Robinson Cr. Taylor Squire 20 1856 Robinson Cr. Taylor

William (son of Littleberry) 100 1840 E. Fork, Casey’s Cr. Casey Caroline (wife of Wm.) 68 1856 Casey Cr. Adair

John 200 1853 Green R. Casey John Sr. 70 1876 Stoners Cr. Taylor

Land in Virginia in 1829

Inherited by William Mason and his wife, Jane “Jenny” Ready, sister of Massey and Sally Ready who had moved to Green Co., KY.

Indenture between William Mason and Jane, his wife of Campbell County of the 1st part and William Walker of the county of Charlotte, VA, of the other part, whereas Sabra Morris late of the county of Charlotte died intestate… tract of land on Owniss creek 514 acres which she the said Sabra purchased of James Palmer and whereas daughter of Massildry Hix who was a sister of John Morris, the said Masselay leaving 6 children by her husband, Nathan Ready of whom the said Jane Mason is one receiving a share of $135. William Mason and Jane, his wife, sell to William Walker. Jane examined privately Nov. 4, 1826. Ref: Charlotte Co., VA Deed Bk. 17 (1823-27) p. 288. NOTE: Mary Jean MASON m: 1783 William Boswell in Bedford Co., VA. Reuben MASON of Bedford Co. died in Claiborne Co. married 1790 Caty Richardson in Bedford Co., VA. John MASON m: Mahalia Wilson Lewis MASON m: Elizabeth “Betsy” Dale in Bedford Co., VA William MASON (m: Jenny Ready) d: 9-2-1811 Sally MASON m: 8-4-1794 Charles Ready of Bedford Co., VA, son of Nathaniel Ready & Massildry

Hix Rhoda “Rhody” MASON m: William Firth & m: Leonard Hutts of Bedford Co. VA.

Family Connections in Virginia and Kentucky Evidently, several unrelated families lived close together both in Virginia and in Kentucky. 1.) Frederick Cox (son of Bartholomew) obtained land south of the Appomatox River, near

Farmville in 1730. His son, John, married Tabitha Price just south of Farmville. Their son, John P. Cox, moved to Greensburg, KY, about 17 miles NW of Columbia.

2.) David Caldwell, son of John Caldwell, founder of the Cub Creek Settlement in Charlotte Co., VA, died at Cub Creek, and his son, John C. Caldwell, removed to Columbia, KY, where he married Dicy Mann on 6-01-1775. John Caldwell, the founder, had a sister living near Farmville.


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Neighbors of Casey Creek, KY & Hannibal, MO

3.) Adam Clement married Agnes Johnson in Bedford Co., VA, 2-7-1765. She was a Quaker from Camp Creek, Louisa Co., VA. (She was a sister of Lemuel Johnson’s grandfather, Christopher Johnson.) Their son, Samuel Clement, married Pamela Goggin in Bedford Co., VA, in 1797, a year after Littleberry Cox married in Campbell County. Pamela was from Campbell County.

Their son, John Marshall Clements, was born in Lynchburg on 8-11-1798. He married Jane Casey Lampton in Columbia, Adair Co., KY, on 5-6-1823. Her father is buried on their farm in Paris, MO. It is assumed that families living near Clementsville are related to them. More research is needed. They moved to Florida, Monroe Co., MO, where their son, Samuel Langhorn Clemens (better known as Mark Twain who wrote the Adventures of Tom Sawyer) was born 11-30-1835, in the year Haley’s Comet appeared (and died when it reappeared in 1910). (Dr. Haley saw the comet in 1682, as William Penn’s fleet crossed the sea headed for the new world.)

Sam was twelve when his family moved to Hannibal, Marion Co., MO, on the Mississippi, where he worked for his older brother’s Hannibal Journal newspaper.

Coincidentally, John Valentine Cox’s wife, Martha Howell, was also from Marion Co. (probably Hannibal) and their son, John W. Cox, was born in Monroe Co. and published a newspaper in Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO.

Samuel H. Cox (brother of John Valentine) had family in Hannibal and a sister, Mahala Cox Tinsley, living in Columbia, Adair Co., KY.4.) Campbell Good, son of Daniel Good and Elizabeth Campbell, likely became friends with George Duncan of Amherst, VA, during battles of the Revolution. He married George’s sister, Elizabeth Duncan, and removed to Dunnville, KY, where Goose Creek meets the Green River. Campbell’s brother, John Goode, lived nearby, in Casey Creek, until he was over 90. John’s great granddaughter, Mary, married John Cox, my great grandfather.

George Duncan and Campbell Goode both moved to Orange Co., Indiana, near Paoli.


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Note: Another Campbell Goode: 9-25-1798 land on Goose Creek

Lincoln (Green, now Adair) Co., KY Estimated ages in 1798:

Fleming 24, Robert 21, Campbell 20

CHART 47. Goodes of Rappahannock, Culpeper & Bedford Counties

Richard Goode Cornwall, England

John Goode b: ~1620 Cornwall, Eng

m:1 Frances Mackerness m: 2 Anne Bennett of Holland

Richard Goode IV b: ~1635 Cornwall, Eng,

Rappahannock River d: 1719 Essex Co., VA

6 offspring John Goode

Richard Goode V b: 1649 1670 granted 250 acres on

the Rappahannock, VA d: 1719m: Mary Cox d/o William

John Goode (John Goade) Sarah Goode

Edward Goode Margaret GoodeFlorida Goode

John or Daniel Goode

b: 1718 Prince Edward Co., VAm: 1776 Elizabeth Campbell

Maj. Richard Goode VI b: 1733 d: 4-23-1801/6-9-1801 Rappahannock, Essex Co., VA

m: ~1776 Rebecca Young d: Henry Co., KY

Campbell Goode b: ~1745 d: 1810

m: Elizabeth Duncan Amherst Co., VA

John Goode b: 3-11-1749 d: 3-11-1840

Casey Creek, Adair Co., KY m: 1770 Mary Ousley

Richard Young Goode VII b: 1798 Stokes Co., NC

d: 11-19-1873 Louisville, Jefferson Co., KY

Elizabeth Campbell Goode

James Campbell Goode Elizabeth Duncan Goode

Philemon Fleming Goode

b: 9-16-1774

Robert Ellas Goode b: 5-16-1777

Campbell Goode b: Abt 1771-1777

All of Casey Co., KY Edmund Goode b: 12-13-1804

Casey Creek, Adair Co., KY

John V. Goode b: 10-27-1841 Casey Creek

d: 4-05-1901 Mannsville m: 5-02-1871 Mary Nancy Christersen, Casey Creek KY

Mary Syrelda Goode b: 4-17-1846Casey Creek, KY d: 2-12-1893, AR

m: John Cox

Obituary of John Goode from The Adair County News, Wed., b: 1839 d: 4-17-1901 We desire to extend our sympathy to Mr. McC. (McClellan) Goode, of Campbellsville, who has lately been

grieved by the death of his father, Mr. John Goode. The end came on Friday, the 5th day of this month, at Mannsville, Taylor county. Mr. Goode was about 62 years of age, and was an excellent citizen. If we are correctly informed the deceased was reared in Casey’s creek, this county, and leaves many relatives and friends in and about Roley.


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Table 48. Allied Families of Walker, John and Sarah Cox John Mann Jr b: 1731 d: 10-10-1774

m: Francis Damis Carpenter 3-19-1760 dau of Joseph Coles Carpenter

John Cox b: ABT 1740

d: will: 5-22-1821 m: Abt 1762 Polly

Moses Mann b: ~1757 Fort Young, Covington, Augusta Co., VA

d: 7-5-1849 Mannsville, KY m: Frances Bland b: 3-19-1760

Littleberry Cox

b: ABT 1774 m: 1796 Massey Ready

John Mann m: 8-5-1819 Sally Cox (sister of Caleb,

Charles and William)

Caleb Cox m: Susanna

White

Charles Cox b: 1815 Green Co., KY

m: Emily Noel b: ~1818

William Cox b: 1815 d: 10-11-1852 of Typhoid m: Caroline Christensen

1-24-1839 at Casey Creek

John Berry Mann b: ~1821 m: 10-15-1839

Sally Eliz. White dau of Andrew White

Littleberry Thomas Cox m: Nancy J. Gaddis (5 ch.)

m: Mary Jane McDaniels (10 ch)

Walker Cox b: ~1843 m: Lucretia Jane Cox

dau of Charles

John Coxm: Mary Goode

Sarah Elizabeth Cox b: 10-28-1849 Casey Creek, KY m: David B Mann b: ~1846

Littleberry Nathan Cox d: 5-5-1943, age 79

b: 1863 Campbellsville, Taylor Co., KY m:1 Mary Eliza Burress b: ~1865 KY d: 2-2-1914

m:2 1911 Dorthea Miles b: 3-6-1880 d: 11-7-1943(Her m:1 was Noah Wethington)

10 ch. of Mary Jane: 1855 Elizabeth Cox 1855 George W. Cox 1858 Barbee Cox 1860 Margaret Cox 1861 Elias B. Cox

Ben Roy Mann m: 1878 Emma Pointer

1862 Susan Jane Cox 1863 Littleberry Nathan Cox 1866 Sarah Cox 1869 Amanda Cox 1872 Martha Cox

Eff (Ephraim?) Cox b: ~1887 d: 3-16-1952 Owen Cox Lola Mann Zelma Mann m:1 1906 Cora Lee Bass

b: 1880 Casey Co. dau of James Wm. Bass

& Susanna Noel (her m:1 1897 M. L. Cox)

m:2 Flossie Mae Bottom

m:1 Minnie Bottom

(Flossie & Minnieare sisters)

m:1 Marcus Tucker

(his m:2 Flossie Wethington)

m: William Bottom of Kokomo, IN

Mary Pauline Cox

b: 11-28-1912 Stoner Cr., KY m: Veachel Compton (1911)

Nellie Cox Risico Eddie Cox (d: WW II)

Rufus Cox (of Detroit area) Mary Pauline Cox Compton

Ada Cox Pearce


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Note: A tradition in Orange Co., IN, is that Charles Cox was a brother of Littleberry, that Charles died or became estranged from his family, that his wife allegedly took his son and daughter to Orange Co., Indiana, that Cane Creek Church was built on Thomas’s farm near French Lick. Y-DNA from a descendant, James T. Cox, does not confirm this legacy as shown below.

CHART 49. Coxes of Orange Co., Indiana

Charles Cox b: Abt 1776 (Littleberry’s brother)

m: 8-23-1791 Elizabeth Reese Campbell Co., VA

Thomas Cox

m:1 Abt 1813 Elizabeth Ash m:2 1858 Mary A. Kirkland

Reuben Cox John Cox

b: 1818 d: 1869 m: Rachel Hubbs

b: 1826 d: 9-10-1861(Coxes first buried at

Elon Cemetery moved to Potaka Cemetery)

Christopher Coxm: 1-1-1846

Elizabeth Parks Orange Co., IN

Charles Cox b: 12-13-1820 Orange Co., IN d: 2-10-1863

Battle at Vicksburg m: Susan Mary

Kearby

1815 Reuben Cox 1817 Elizabeth Cox 1818 John Cox 1818 Mary Ann Cox 1820 Charles Cox 1822 Catherine Cox 1824 Susannah Cox 1827 Christopher Cox

1839 Elizabeth Cox 1840 Thomas Cox 1842 Jacob Cox 1843 Nancy Cox 1845 Mary Cox 1847 John Cox 1849 Phillip Cox 1853 Rachel Cox

Joshua Coxm: Luzena

Beatty

William J. Cox

4-11-1858Orange Co.d: 7-7-1908m: Martha Poindexter

Willis Cox

6-10-1841 m:

11-24-1859Mary Jane

Flick

Richard L. Cox

b: 6-29-1846 d: 1-15-1916

m: 12-23-1869 Elizabeth Spaulding

Orange Co., IN

1844 Thomas Cox 1846 Richard L. Cox 1848 Elizabeth Cox 1850 Nancy J. Cox 1851 William H. Cox 1854 Christopher Cox 1856 James C. Cox 1858 Sarah C. Cox

1860 Priscilla A. Cox Robert

Clinton Cox

m: Dessie Sutton

William Arthur

Cox 6-25-1888

m: Olive Mae

Owen

James C. Cox11-26-1864 m:

Hester Weaver

Oscar Cox b: 3-11-1880 d: 3-28-1970

m: Julia Milburn

1863 Madison Cox

Claude E.

Cox 9-20-1906

French Lick H.S. 1925

Ernest Virgil Cox3-9-1919

Otis Cox b: 4-6-1894

d: 1973 Orange Co., IN

m: Hazel Frentress

Ray Cox b: 6-28-1896

Orange Co., IN m: 3-18-1915

Dubois Co., IN Helen Alexander

Warren Cox, 1-21-1922 French Lick, IN

1940 French Lick H.S; d: 10-23-1986 Logan. m: 11-20-1945 Donna R. b: 11-18-1927

Eugene Cox 6-4-1918, Orange Co. French Lick H.S. 1935 d: 11-19-1996

State Trooper at Shoals, Indiana m: 4-1947 Mabel Sherfick

Living Cox

Markers of Orange Co., IN, Coxes 1st 12 markers are 13 25 17 11 13 17 11 13 12 12 11 28 Markers of J2 Coxes 1st 12 markers are 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29

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CHART 50. Land Received by Brothers of Littleberry Cox in Wilson Co., TN

Relatives of John & Polly Cox

Acres

Year River or Creek County in Tennessee

Isham Palmer 248 1810 ?? Wilson William Cox 127 1831 Jenkins Fork, from his best man Wilson

John Cox from Isham Palmer ?? 1830 ??, from his father-in-law Wilson John B. Cox (Anderson Cox estate) 43 1857 East of Lebanon Wilson Note: John Cox, son of William & Sally, died before October 26, 1836, in Mississippi. He had 80 acres on Barton’s Creek, west of Lebanon, contains John Cox’s dwelling house, and was adjacent to Robert Goodall. William Cox had contracted to buy John’s 40 acres on Pinning’s Fork of Round Lick Creek adjacent S. B. Crutchfield, William Green, the schoolhouse, a beach, James Turner, William Cox’s best man, and near Watertown. His 37 acres were adjacent to his brother, William Cox, on Hart’s Ferry Road. John also had 12 acres on Barton’s Creek adjacent to his 80 acres and the road leading to Hartsville.

CHART 51. Time Line for Valentine Cox & John Cox 11-23-1797 5-11-1803 4-16-1806 12-20-1810 1810 Census 12-27-1813 2-3-1815 5-16-1818 10-20-1818 6-17-1819 7-25-1819 1820 to 1836 1820 Census Wilson Co. TN 5-22-1821 7-25-1821 9-22-1822 6-24-1825 8-09-1826 11-11-1826 1835 3-26-1830

William Thomas Cox born in VA, son of William & Sally. Henry Reese Cox born of William Cox & Sally Stembridge in Wilson Co. William Thomas Cox born in VA of William Cox & Sally Stembridge. Lucy Reese Cox born in VA of William Cox & Sally Stembridge. Isham Palmer (m: Sally Johnson) buys 248 acres in Wilson Co., TN Census was lost. Valentine Cox’s will record in Bedford Co., VA. WB 4, pp 111, 112. Is brother-in-law of Samuel Littleberry (Berry) Cox born in VA of William Cox & Sally Stembridge. William Thomas Cox marries Evalina Reese, Wilson Co., TN John Cox marries Elizabeth Palmer, daughter of Isham, Wilson Co., TN. Anderson Cox marries Sarah Palmer, Wilson Co. (ch: William, John B., Isham Palmer, James Thomas, Elizabeth. William Cox buys 127 acres on Jenkins Fork from James Turner, his best man. Children of John Cox born: William Thomas, Henry L., John W., Jordan B., Elizabeth T., Margaret M., Martha P., grandchildren of William & Sally Cox. COX: Charles, John, William (Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN). All 4 on same page. Martin Hancock is executor for the estate of John Cox, father of Littleberry. William Cox marries Holland Greer, Wilson Co. Isham Palmer indicted by Grand Jury. He and his brother, Martin, leave for Hinds Co., Miss., probably where John Cox, Isham’s son-in-law, dies in about 1836. Charles Cox marries Martha Palmer, Wilson Co. John Cox buys land from Isham Palmer, his father-in-law. Henry Cox marries Perlina Shorter in Wilson Co. Martin Hancock Jr. marries Mary Blair in Wilson Co., TN Henry Cox marries Maria Clifton in Wilson Co. (ch: Perlina, Sarah Ann, Henry C., John B., William T., Nancy P.)


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1830 Census Wilson Co., TN 10-27-1836 9-30-1849 2-4-1857 11-28-1849 8-30-1865 12-21-1899

COX: Andrew, Flemming, Henry, James, James, John, John, Lenett, Lunons, Robert, William. John Cox, William’s brother, dies in Mississippi. His widow, Elizabeth T. (Palmer) Cox, petitions the court for a Dower, her portion, by sueing William T. Cox (recorded in 1840). Littleberry White Cox born of Littleberry Cox & Lucy Clifton. John B. Cox buys 43 ac. east of Lebanon (He was Administrator for Anderson Cox). Henry R. Cox becomes guardian of John Cox’s children, Elizabeth, John & Jordan. William Thomas Cox marries Elizabeth Green. Elizabeth Bennett Cox marries Samuel Edward Hartsfield. Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN

Note: There was a Martin Hancock who was more likely the executor of the will of John Cox, Littleberry’s father, in 1821. He resided in Red House, not far from Rough Creek Church, where Samuel Armistead, the other executor, was a minister. Nevertheless, this does not void the connections among the Valentine Cox and John Cox families in Wilson County, Tennessee. The J2a-λ (J2a-Lamda) haplogroup

The top shaded row is the J2a-λ (J2a-Lamda) haplogroup 23, 15, 9, etc. The bottom row is the Littleberry Cox markers. Three markers have mutated and do not match. This cluster appears to contain haplotypes that are M67- Members in this cluster have paternal line origins in: Bohemia France Germany British Isles Italy Malta the Netherlands Switzerland

3 9 0

1 9

3 9 1

3 8 5 a

3 8 5 b

4 3 9

3 8 9 1

3 8 9 2

4 5 8

459a

459b

4 5 4

4 4 7

4 3 7

4 4 8

4 4 9

4 6 0

Y C A I I A

Y C A I I B

4 5 6

6 0 7

5 7 6

7 7 0

4 4 2

438

23 15 9 13 16 11 13 29 14 8 9 11 26 14 21 32 10 19 22 16 14 16 18 12 9

23 15 9 13 17 12 13 29 15 8 9 11 26 14 21 30 10 19 22 16 14 16 19 12 9


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CHART 52. Noel Families Associated

James Noel b: ~1692 New Holland Plantation, Occupacia, Essex Co., VA

m: Eliz. Evans dau of Reese & Eliz. Evans

Thomas Garnett m: Elizabeth Muscoe

b: 1685

Edward Noel Joseph Noel Rice Noel Milley Noel Elizabeth Noel

Cornelius Noel Reuben Noel Thomas Noel m: William Smither

John Noel b:1721 m: Ann Garnett

of Occupacia, Essex Co., VA

Esther Noel m: John Garnett

James Noel b: 1717

m: Eliz. Taylor

1725 Joseph Noel, Attorney

m: Mary Smither

Richard Noel b: ~1733

m: Mary Garnett

Thomas Noel

b: 1741 d: 1789 KY m: 1762

Drucilla (Smith?)

Robert Noel John Noel

Rebecca Noel

Larkin Noel b: 1740

William Noel James Noel

Tabitha NoelAnne Noel

Esther Noel Rose Noel

???

Not Thomas Noel

Lette Benj. Noel = Littleberry Noel

b: 4-22-1776 Fluvanna, VA d: 1846 Boone Co., KY m: 1801 Patsy Sutton of Garrard Co., KY

(Nancy Noel b: 1775 m: John Mann)

Elizabeth Noel Edmund Noel

Sally Noel Leonard Noel Callis Noel

Theodrick Noel

Molly Noel Reuben Noel Richard Noel Caleb Noel

Benjamin Noel b: 1761 VA d: 1822 KY

Will: 4-07-1822 m: Bef 1782

Sarah (Willis?)

Little- Berry Cox

~1774

Dudley Noel b: Abt 1782 Mercer Co., Ky

m: 1806 Lucretia HerrenLincoln Co., KY

Willis b: 1798, Lucy, Joel, Burrel, Nancy, & Horace

Noel

Caleb Cox

b: 1802

Willis Bridges Noel,

Sarah Bridges Noel, Horrace, Joel, Lucinda,

Emily Noel (m: Charles Cox)

Joel Noel b: 1814

Mercer Co., Ky m: 1838 Nancy Chisholm

Green Co., KY

William Cox

b: 1829

Artemicia, Henry, Sally, Mary A.,

John, Willis L. B., Nancy, Susanna (mother of Cora Lee Bass),

Martha, Sam., Paralee & Lucinda Noel

Willis B. Noel b: 8-14-1850 Mannsville m: 1878 Eliza Jane Cox

Taylor Co., KY

William McKinley Noel, father of Esther Noel Reed

Note: In Thomas Noel’s will, some have wrongly transcribed “Lette Benj” as “Little Benjamin”. This wrongly identifies “Lette Benj” with Benjamin Noel born about 1761. Likewise, Littelberry Cox was transcribed as “Little Benj” in Charlotte Co., VA, in 1829. Littleberry Noel’s Y-DNA does not match that of Benjamin Noel.


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Family Links Near Lebanon

Francis Palmer, born 1776, is buried in the Palmer Cemetery, ¼ mi. north of I-40,west side of Murphy Rd. (probably Cedar Grove Cemetery on Murfreesboro Rd., whereIsham Palmer Cox, John Cox’s nephew, is buried.) Isham Palmer got 248 acres, in 1810, on Spring Creek and sold part to John Cox in1826. Margaret Reese (b: 1803) daughter of Thomas B. Reese married John Palmer and isburied in the Palmer Cemetery on Hwy 231 north, on the east side, across from CarrollOakland School, in a field.


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Spring Creek runs between Palmers Cemetery and Hartsville Pike. Property line of John Cox (son of William Cox & Sally) was east of the creek on the east side of Hartsville Rd. for 56 poles at 45 degrees. Isham Palmer went to Mississippi, and John died there probably on a visit. Henry Reese Cox, John’s brother, became guardian of John’s three youngest children. The Palmer land is now owned by grandson, James Lewis Chambers. Brothers, John and Anderson Cox, married sisters, Elizabeth and Sarah Palmer. John’s brother, William Cox, married Evalina Reese in 1818 and received 127 acres in 1819 (at Jennings Fork) from their bondsman, James Turner.


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Present Researchers in finding a Y-DNA Donor Researchers contributing mainly to their own lines and aiding in this publication are: Linda Ready, Esther Noel Reed, Tim Cox, Carol Regehr, Zelma Mann Bottoms & Floyd Cox in the following family lines:

CHART 53. Researchers who are Descendants of Littleberry Cox

John Cox b: 1849 is brother of Sarah Elizabeth Cox, grandmother of Zelma Mann Bottom John Cox b: 1849 is great grandfather of Floyd Cox John Cox b: 1849 is great great grandfather of Carol Regehr

Littleberry Cox b: ~1774 d: 7-20-1846

m: 10-20-1796 Massilda Ready Campbell County, VA

Sally Ready, head of household (age 26-45) in 1820. b: 1774-1794. She was allegedly Littleberry’s sister-in-law

Seaton Ready b: 2-12-1812

m: Mary He was brother of

Martha Ready b: 1805 who m:

Elijah Christeson

Joshua Cox b: 1800 VA

m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christenson

b: ~1799 Lincoln Co., KY

Caleb Cox 4-4-1802 VA / 6-5-1885

m: Susanna White b: 10-11-1802 d: 12-26-1881

(Ancestor of James Cox now of Nashville)

William Cox b: 1817 KY

d: 10-11-1852 m: 1-24-1839 Adair Co., KY

Caroline Christenson

Charles Cox b: ~1813

m: Emily Noel

Hiram Ready b: 12-8-1840

(gr-grandfather of Linda Ready)

m: Polly Steward

Caleb Cox b: ~1829 KY

m: Sarah Pirtle, AR

He had a brother, Littleberry Cox

and brother of Seaton R. Cox

b: 1837 MO (1850 Census Polk Co., AR)

Littleberry Cox b: 3-4-1837

Green Co., KY m: 4-13-1854

Mary Jane McDaniel

(He had brothers, Joseph Cox & Caleb Cox)

Caleb was the gr-gr-gr grandf. of Esther Noel Reed

John Cox b: 3-13-1849

Casey Cr., KY d: 8-29-1895 m: 6-24-1868 Mary Goode

b: 4-17-1846 Casey Creek (Roley) KY

d: 2-12-1893 Davidsonville,

Randolph Co., AR (gr-grandparents of

Floyd Cox)

Walker Cox b: 1843

(brother of John, sonof William Cox

who was b: 1817) m: 1st cousin

Lucretia Jane Cox b: ~1844

She was a sister of Littleberry Cox

This Littleberry had twin daughters.

Benton Benj. Cox

b: 3-4-1859 AR d: 5-21-1942

m: Malissa Guinn in AR

George Cox (brother of LBN Cox)

b: 11-10-1855 d: 4-24-1940

Taylor Co., KY m: 10-14-1875

Thomasanne Mingsb: 1857 d: 1939

Samuel Green Cox b: 2-28-1872 KY

d: 11-3-1920 Randolph Co., AR

m: Virginia Harden

Her burial: Calumet, IN

Ben Roy Mann m:

1878 Emma Pointer(he was son of

Sarah Elizabeth Cox,(Walker & John’s sister)of Casey Creek, KY

Joseph Ready b: 10-27-1893

m: Effie Jane Fellows

Gaius Cox b: 10-12-1882 AR

William Leslie Coxb: 10-9-1877

d: 1955 m: 4-17-1898

Cordelia Baldwin


Randolph Co., AR d: 11-11-1985 Kokomo, IN

Zelma Mann m:

William Bottom of Kokomo, IN

Archie Lee Ready

b: 5-7-1917 m: Iris Seibert

Carl E. Cox

Walter Leslie Cox b: 9-11-1912

m: Cora Herron

Grandfather of Tim Cox,


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Conclusion I have recently made several connections between William Cox the immigrant and his descendants

near Farmville and Cub Creek, VA.. 1. John Cox, son of William, the immigrant, died in 1697, and his 2nd wife, Mary Kennon, married

in 1697 John Bolling, who was bondsman for Mary’s stepson, George Cox, in 1697, and Bolling presented the inventory of Bartholomew Cox in 1731 and was living adjacent to Bartholomew's land in 1732. This John Bolling was a great grandson of Pocahontas and was somehow related to Thomas Jefferson. But Y-DNA results imply this is not likely our William and John Cox.

2. Richard and William Kennon, Mary's brothers, sold 30,000 acres to John Caldwell's Cub Creek Settlement in Lunenburg (now Charlotte) Co., VA, on 1-1-1745. They had other lands south of Farmville all sold on 1-1-1745. These folks really got around! Richard sold land to at least 20 buyers from Pennsylvania and Shenandoah Valley. Richard Kennon made at least eight trips to England prior to 1680. In other words, they did not always just marry their neighbors as they did at Entry Creek!

4. Mary Kennon's father-in-law, William Cox the immigrant, was allegedly the nephew or brother-in-law of Thomas West, Third De La Warr (where we get the name Delaware). Some of these folks were globe trotters!

5. The Kennon’s were related to the Worsham's just south of Farmville, VA. Elizabeth Worsham was the mother of Richard, William and Mary Kennon.

Therefore, it was reasonable to expect a connection with the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. Y-DNA has the Final Say

The first theory appears to be the most rational of the four theories in trying to identify the grandfather of Littleberry Cox. The first theory is based upon two letters from a son of Littleberry Cox’s nephew in Lebanon, TN. He stated that his Cox family was of Welsh descent and settled in Campbell Co., VA, before the Revolution. It would have been nice to find a ship list from Wales with Littleberry’s parents, John and Polly Cox, on it. Perhaps someone will eventually find this and let me know.

Littleberry's parents, John and Polly, both did patriotic service during the Revolution and the Patriotic Service Index says he was born in 1740. Our John and Littleberry Cox have living descendants who tested as having a male Y-DNA J2 haplotype. Haplo R1b1: Walter LeCoc 1640 France (Model) William Cox b: Abt 1692 d: 1767 Solomon Cox b: Abt 1745 (Quaker) John Cock b: 1721 Kent England Wade Cox of Australia Patrick Ready b: 1835 Ireland Thomas Cox b: ~1645 Herefordshire Valentine Cox b: ~1752 VA


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Haplotype J2: 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 17 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 27 14 21 30 11 13 23 15 09 13 16 11 16 13 13 11 29 14 08 09 11 11 26 14 21 31 11 13 23 15 09 13 16 11 16 13 13 11 29 12 23 15 09 14 16 11 16 12 13 11 29


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At least we can now rid ourselves of false ideas that Littleberry's mother was Mary Harlan, or

Sarah Oldham of Pennsylvania, or Sarah Nunnally, Mary Ferguson, Mary Bryson or Sally Tweedy of Virginia thanks to recent advancement in Y-DNA technology.

Unfinished Business Several reservations still remain. Our John Cox might be connected with the Coxes near Farmville

that descended from William Cox of the Godspeed… 1. If there were an adoption. My own family, my maternal grandfather’s first wife had a son. She

died young, and her new son was adopted by her mother. The son was given the surname of his grandmother’s husband.

2. If there were a mistress. Regarding Thomas Jefferson, Martha Wayles and Sally Hemmings, some claim that Sally’s male Hemmings descendants have the same Y-DNA as all of Martha’s male Jefferson descendants. (Sally’s son retained the surname of Hemmings.) Descendants of Littleberry’s Cox’s wife, Massey Ready, and her sister, Sally Ready, had sons with the same Y-DNA, even though Sally’s son retained the surname of Ready. This means we cannot always rely upon surnames!

Using these two ideas to connect our John and Littleberry with William the immigrant is contradicted by two letters from the son of Littleberry’s nephew in 1898 stating we are of Welsh descent and settled in Campbell Co., VA, prior to the Revolution.

Other research is needed, other connections between French Huguenot immigrants from Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Holland and France might imply that Littleberry’s family had once lived near the Netherlands. Huguenot surnames associated with Cox wills and deeds were Fuqua, Noel, Michaux, DuBreuil and Sublett of Sedan, France, near the Netherlands. At least we have our line back to Littleberry and his father for sure as being J2. Future Y-DNA tests in Ireland and Wales may also help.

After all this effort, we still don’t know who Littleberry’s grandfather is. We do know who he isn’t.


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INDEX Abingdon .......................... 31, 32, 34, 38, 39, 40, 42 Abington ............................................. 31, 33, 38, 39 Abner Nash ............................................... 12, 49, 67 Abraham Michaux .......................................... 50, 65 Absalm Cox .................................................... 12, 15 Absalom Cox ........................................................ 14 Adair Co., KY....................................... 6, 9, 65, 100 Alexander Keenum ............................................... 74 Amelia................................................. 13, 21, 24, 67 Amelia County...................................................... 24 Amsterdam........................ 32, 42, 49, 50, 51, 64, 67 Appomatox ......................................... 29, 64, 70, 71 Armistead.............................................................. 12 Augustine Herman ................................ 5, 37, 49, 64 Berry Cocks ...................................................... 8, 70 Berry Cox...................................... 2, 6, 7, 9, 16, 100 Briery Creek Church ............................................. 29 Bryery River ......................................................... 66 Cane Creek.............................. 32, 34, 37, 40, 42, 49 Cannon Co., TN................................................ 9, 28 Catherine Kinkey ........ 34, 35, 36, 37, 41, 42, 49, 64 Charles II .................................................. 49, 50, 68 Charles Ready ......................... 12, 14, 20, 73, 74, 80 Charles Ready Mason ........................................... 80 Charlotte Co.14, 18, 21, 22, 24, 28, 29, 30, 48, 51, 54, 64, 66, 67, 69, 70 Christensen ..................................................... 6, 100 Coles Co., IL................................................... 74, 76 Cornelius Noel ...................................................... 49 Cox,......................................................................... 2 Cub Creek ................... 13, 20, 21, 24, 25, 66, 69, 70 Cubb Creek ........................................................... 28 Dudley Noel.......................................................... 51 Elizabeth Dale........................................... 73, 74, 80 Elizabeth Farris ............................... 9, 15, 20, 28, 54 Elizabeth Fore ....................................................... 25 Elizabeth Reese................................... 12, 14, 20, 66 Emily B. Noel ....................................................... 51 Entry Creek13, 14, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 30, 48, 51, 52, 65 Erasmus Jones......... 9, 12, 13, 14, 20, 21, 28, 52, 54 Faris ...................................................................... 12 Farmville24, 28, 29, 30, 31, 41, 47, 49, 51, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72 Finneywood Creek................................................ 29 Francinia Bouldin ........................................... 29, 64 Francis Nash ................................................... 41, 49

Frederick Cox........24, 29, 50, 54, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69 George Cox ...................................29, 54, 64, 66, 71 George Fox................................................39, 49, 50 Gilbert Tennent .....................................................31 Godspeed...............................................................56 Green Co., KY ....................................24, 51, 68, 70 Hannah Jenkins31, 32, 34, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 49 Hat Creek ........13, 15, 20, 21, 22, 24, 25, 30, 31, 48 Hazlewood ................................................12, 65, 73 Henry VIII.................................................30, 47, 72 Herman Husband.............................................41, 49 Herod Reese ....................................................14, 20 Hiram Sublett ..............................................8, 51, 65 Hockessin ..............................................................79 Howard Co., IN.......................................................6 Huguenots ...........................5, 30, 48, 49, 50, 65, 68 James Palmer.......................................15, 17, 18, 22 Jane Phillips ....31, 32, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42 Jenkintown ............................................................31 John Caldwell....................13, 14, 21, 24, 28, 29, 66 John Fore...................................................25, 28, 54 John Hix ........................................12, 14, 15, 21, 80 John Irvine...............................13, 15, 20, 21, 24, 31 John Nash..28, 29, 30, 31, 41, 47, 48, 67, 70, 71, 72 John Weatherford ............................................28, 70 Jones......................................................................12 Joseph Maddock....................................................41 Joseph Morton...........................................66, 69, 70 Judith Jones .....................................9, 12, 15, 28, 54 Keysville .........28, 29, 30, 31, 48, 64, 66, 70, 71, 85 Lebanon.........................................................6, 7, 12 Little B. Cox......................................................8, 51 Littleberry Cox5, 6, 8, 9, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 20, 21, 22, 24, 31, 40, 41, 47, 49, 51, 54, 65, 70, 71, 73, 74, 75, 80, 87, 88, 89, 95, 100, 101 Lucretia Jane Cox............................................51, 70 Luke Palmer ....................................................24, 25 Madisonville........................................15, 20, 24, 25 Margaret Potts .....................................31, 32, 33, 39 Margery Herman ...................................................64 Martin Hancock...........................................8, 20, 25 Martin Palmer .....................................................6, 7 Mary Goode ............................................................6 Mary Harlan5, 29, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, 42, 47, 49, 72, 73, 102 Mascelda Ready ....................................................88 Masselay................................................................18


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Massey Ready... 9, 15, 16, 17, 21, 22, 51, 67, 70, 80 Massildry Hix ................................................. 18, 20 Meherrin ................................................... 30, 48, 68 Mill Creek Hundred.............................................. 49 Nancy Hanks......................................................... 22 Nathan Maddock............................................. 38, 41 Nathan Ready ....................................................... 18 Nathaniel Ready............................ 15, 17, 21, 22, 80 Netherlands................................... 36, 49, 50, 51, 67 New Castle............................................................ 79 New Castle, DE .................................................... 79 Orange Co., NC ................................................ 6, 79 Palmer............................................... 6, 7, 15, 17, 22 Parham Genealogy.................................................. 5 Paulet Clark .................................................... 12, 73 Paulett Clark ................................................... 20, 21 Paulette Clark ..................................... 13, 15, 24, 25 Peggy Keenum.......................................... 73, 74, 76 Peter Fore.................................................... 9, 28, 54 President James Madison................................ 22, 25 Price ................................................................ 24, 66 Prince Edward County.................................... 24, 66 Princeton......................................................... 31, 69 Publius Jones .............. 12, 13, 14, 15, 21, 22, 28, 65 Pugh...................................................................... 79 Pugh Price....................................................... 24, 66 Queen Elizabeth........................................ 30, 47, 72 Rachel Maddock ........................... 32, 38, 40, 41, 42 Ready.................................................. 6, 12, 73, 100 Red House................................................. 20, 24, 25 Reddy.............................................................. 12, 73 Regulators..................................... 28, 35, 41, 49, 79 Richard Cox25, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 39, 42, 54, 74, 76, 85 Robert D. Nash ........................... 8, 9, 12, 16, 28, 54 Robert Daniel Nash20, 28, 29, 31, 48, 51, 66, 67, 70 Robert Nash ................................................ 9, 28, 54 Ross Co., OH ........................................................ 79 Rotterdam ....................................................... 49, 51 Rough Creek Church20, 21, 22, 25, 28, 30, 31, 48, 54, 70 Sabra Hix .................................................. 13, 21, 22 Sabra Ready........................................ 16, 20, 54, 67 Sabra Redey.................................................... 12, 28

Sally Hazlewood .....................................................8 Sally Ready ...............................................15, 16, 17 Sampson Woodall .....................................15, 21, 22 Samuel Armistead.....8, 9, 12, 15, 20, 22, 25, 28, 31 Samuel Davies ................................................31, 69 Sarah Oldham..............5, 29, 31, 47, 49, 72, 73, 102 Seaton Ready ........................................................16 Sir Richard Coxe.......................................30, 47, 72 Slate Hill Plantation ........................................66, 69 Stembridge ............................................................12 Taylor Co., KY .....................................................87 Templeton ...........................................29, 51, 67, 71 Templeton estate ...................................................29 Templeton Manor......................................51, 67, 71 The Hague.............................................................51 Thomas Bouldin............................29, 49, 54, 64, 71 Thomas Jefferson ....................................................7 Thomas Potts.........................................................33 Thomas Sublett ...........................................8, 51, 65 Thomas Williams ............................................14, 20 Turnip Creek .................................15, 20, 21, 22, 66 Tutor family ..........................................................51 Wales5, 7, 30, 31, 32, 33, 38, 40, 41, 42, 47, 51, 65, 66, 67, 68, 70, 72, 74, 75, 76 Walker Cox .....................................................51, 70 Washington-Lee College.......................................28 Welsh descent .............................6, 7, 30, 31, 48, 70 William B(ooker) Morton .....................................51 William B. Morton..........................................29, 66 William Byrd ............................................30, 48, 50 William Dale...................................................74, 80 William E. Parham..................................................5 William Faris ................................14, 15, 20, 22, 54 William Farris .....................9, 13, 14, 20, 22, 28, 54 William Jenkins ....................................................31 William Mason............12, 14, 15, 16, 18, 73, 74, 80 William Moore....................................12, 14, 15, 21 William Penn ................................31, 39, 49, 50, 66 William R. Cox .........................................52, 74, 76 William Thomas Cox ......................................5, 6, 7 William Walker.................13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 21, 22 Wilson Co., TN .....................6, 9, 22, 28, 74, 78, 79 Woodall.................................................................12

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