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Facts and Events
The following list of the children of Sir Richard and Mary Cox is furnished by the College of Arms, Dublin:
(1)Amy, b. 1676, d. 1683; (2) Richard, b. 1677, d. 1725; (3) John, b.1678, d. 1692; (14) Walter, b. 1679, d. 1683; (5) George, b. 1681, d.1735; (6) Catherine, b. 1682; (7) Mary, b. 1683; (8) Amy, b. 1684; (9)Anne, b. 1685; (10) William, b. 1686; (11)Elizabeth, b. 1688; (12)Michael, b. 1691, d. 1779; (13) Susannah, b. 1692; (14) John, b. 1694;(15) Sarah, b. 1698. Other sources for the above list: Burke's Landed Gentry; 0’Hart Irish Pedigrees Cox Autobiography Cox History of Ireland,1689; Harris (Ware), etc.
Cox once boasted of having sired 22 children. Most of the later children died in infancy or very young.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Ancestry.com. OneWorldTree (2). (Name: The Generations Network, Inc.; Location: Provo, UT, USA;)
Database online.
Record for John Cox _FOOT: Ancestry.com, OneWorldTree (Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc.), Database online.
- ↑ Will of Joshua Cox, in Lancaster County (Pennsylvania). Register of Wills. Wills, 1730-1908 ; Index to Wills, 1729-1947. (Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1947, 1973)
Vol. A p. 131.
IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I, being at present under some indipossion of body but in perfect use of my reason and knowing it is appointed for all men to die, I do make, this my last will and testament first, then I leave my soul to God who gave it and my body to be buried where my friends think fitt and as for my worldly goods I do dispose of them in the mannore and form following:
After pay my just debts and funeral charges, first then I bequeath and leave to my loving wife the bed whereon we have ly on and her saddle, her cloths and a young mare of three year old of a gray colour and the third of all my other goods. The other two thirds of my estate and goods I leave and bequeath to my children to be equally divided among them and if it be so ordered in Providance that any of whom dy then that ones share shall be equally divided among the rest. I do appoint that soon after my death that all my goods and estate be prised and the account taken and kept. If my wife shall think fitt to marry again that, before she marry,that what I have left to my children be secured for them. There is a gun now in my house which was given to my son John in way of a gift which I acknowledge doth properly belong to him. there is also a young black mare of three years old given by Mr. Cochran to my daughter Mary that doth properly belong to her. I do appoint my beloved wife and my son Richard to be my executors to perform this, my last will and testament, I do appoint my neighbore John Holiday and my brother-in--law, William Rankin,to oversee and assist my wife as to this my last will.
/s/ JOSHUA COX (L.S. )
This 22 of April, 1747. Signed and sealed in the presence of:
Robert Jordan and Andrew Donlap.
1747 Will 
- ↑ 1747 Will
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