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Facts and Events
| Name[1] |
Thomas Fox |
| Gender |
Male |
| Birth[1] |
Abt 1608 |
age at death 85 |
| Marriage |
Bef 1647 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States (probably)to Ellen Unknown |
| Marriage |
24 Apr 1683 |
Watertown, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Elizabeth Unknown |
| Marriage |
16 Dec 1685 |
Concord, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United Statesto Rebecca Unknown |
| Death[1][2] |
25 Apr 1693 |
Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States |
Identity
Paige in History of Cambridge seems to confuse the record of Thomas Fox of Cambridge and Thomas Fox of Concord and should be considered with care. Anderson in the Great Migration Begins is clear that there were two Thomas Fox (at Cambridge & Concord) and Thomas of Concord had connections to Cambridge.
In the Great Mig Begins sketch of Thomas Foxe (3:2079, 2080), who was brought before the magistrates in 1630 and again in 1634, Anderson states "[t}here were a few years later two men by the name of Thomas Fox, one at Concord and one at Cambridge, but the (sic) nothing connects the records above with either of these two immigrants."
Ellen (_) Green, widow of Percival, "died 27 May 1682 at Cambridge, 'a. 82y.' widow of Thomas Fox" (of Concord) [GreatMig 3:149]. Thomas Fox of Cambridge died 1693.
In the Great Mig Begins (1:322-324), the widow of Charles Chadwick, is said to have married Thomas Fox 24 Apr 1683 at Watertown as his third wife. She died 2 Feb 1684/5. This Thomas Fox would be of Cambridge (Thomas of Concord, died earlier). However, Anderson adds "[t]hat this Elizabeth Chadwick did become, for less than two years, the third wife of Thomas Fox is made likely by the facts that she was about his age, and that he married a fourth time on 16 December 1685, less than a year after Elizabeth's death." What is Anderson's authority for the four wives? Did he simply restate the confused record.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Thomas Fox, in Paige, Lucius Robinson. History of Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1630-1877: With a Genealogical Register. (Boston, Massachusetts: H. O. Houghton, 1877)
p 547.
Fox, THOMAS, was prob. the freeman named 1638, and may have been the same whose name is found in the Colony Records, 8 Mar. 1630-31 ; "Ordered, That Tho. Foxe, servant to Mr. Cradocke, shall be whipped for uttering malicious and scandalous speeches, whereby he sought to traduce the Court, as if they had taken some bribe in the business concerning Walter Palmer."
He prob. resided a few years at Concord, for Mitchell says his son Jabez was baptized there, but was in his minority when his father joined this church. His w. Rebecca d. at Concord 11 May 1647. Before June 1649, he came to Camb. He m. Ellen, wid. of Percival Green, the marriage contract being dated 24 May 1650. Mr. Fox m. (3d) Elizabeth, wid. of Charles Chadwick of Watertown, 24 Apr. 1683, who d. 22 Feb. 1684-5, and was buried in the old cemetery in Watertown, by the side of her former husband. Soon afterwards, 16 Dec. 1685, Mr. Fox m. Rebecca, wid. of Nicholas Wyeth. He had no children by his last three wives. He d. 25 Ap. 1693, aged 85 ; his w. Rebecca d. in 1698. After his marriage to Mrs. Green he resided in Holmes Place, about midway between its northeasterly angle and North Avenue, until the house was destroyed by fire about 1681 or 1682; after which, with the exception of a very short residence in Watertown, he probably occupied the estate on the east side of Holmes Place, afterwards owned by Steward Hastings and still later by the Rev. Dr. Holmes.
- ↑ Baldwin, Thomas W. Vital Records of Cambridge, Massachusetts, to the Year of 1850. (Boston: Wright & Potter Printing Co., 1914-15)
v.2 p.560.
FOX, Thomas, (d.) Apr. 25, 1693 in his 86th y., grave record, cemetery at Harvard Square
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