Person:John Cox (146)

Will Abstract

Will of John Cox The Elder 15 July 1764;13 Sep. 1764

Names: Wife: Mary Cox

Sons: John Cox, Frederick Cox & Bartley Cox

Daus: Anne Ship & her dau. Nancy Ship; Delita Chandler & her two children, Rebekah & Keziah Chandler; Mary Smithson & her dau. Keziah Smithson; Edith Minor & her dau. Letitia Minor; and Talletha Cox

Granddaus: Mary Cox d/o John Cox; Franky Coleman Cox d/o Frederick Cox.

Source: Lunenburg County, Virginia Will Book 2:232

Will Transcript

I, John Cox the Elder of Lunenburg County and Parish of St. James, sick and weak of body but of sound and perfect memory.

To my wife, during her natural life or widowhood - 8 negroes, to wit, Aaron, Judy, Peter, Beck, Sharper, Abraham, Amy & Fanny, and all my household furniture (except 2 beds and their furniture and a desk), and 3 horses named Jenny, Pusy and Scuball. Also the stock of cattle, sheep & hogs. At her death or marriage, all the moveables of the estate to be left at the discretion of my son John Cox, to be equally divided as he thinks proper, amongst himself & my living issue.

To my daughter Ann Ship - Negro boy George, which she now has in her possession.

To Nanny Ship - daughter of said Anne Ship - Negro boy Isaac To my son John Cox - Negro wench Frank and a bed and furniture (to be disposed of by him for the use of my daughter Delita Chandler, or her 2 children, Rebeckah and Keziah Chandler).

To my daughter Mary Smithson - Negro girl Lucy

To Keziah Smithson, daughter of said Mary - Negro boy Aaron

To my daughter Edith Minor - Negro boy James

To Letitia Minor, daughter to the said Edith - Negro Child Beck

To my daughter Tallitha Cox - Negro girl Jenny & Negro boy Andrew, and a good horse and saddle & 1 feather bed & furniture & 10 Lbs.

To my son Frederick Cox - I lend him a Negro man named Matt & a Negro boy named Harry, during his natural life, and then to return to his heirs lawfully begotten.

To Franky Coleman Cox , daughter of the said Frederick - Negro boy Peter.

To my son Bartley Cox - the plantation & land & appurtenances after the death or marriage of my wife. Also, Negroes Venture, Betty & Bob, & 1 feather bed & furniture & a desk, a large bay mare called Jewel, and a small white horse.

To my granddaughter Mary Cox, daughter of John Cox - Negro boy Jerry

To my son John Cox - the rest of my estate."

Executors: my wife, Mary Cox & my son John Cox

(Signed): John Cox

Witnesses: Benjamin Clark, William Naish, Thomas Taylor, Benjn. Whitehead, Jr.

At M. Court of 13 September, 1764, the will of John Cox, Gent., decd., was exhibited in court by executor John Cox the Younger, proved by the oaths of the witnesses, and ordered recorded. John Cox the Younger was granted a certificate for obtaining probate."

[Source: Lunenburg County, Virginia Will Book 2:232]

1. ↑ ^1.0 1.1 Find A Grave.

   John Cox
   Birth: Mar. 27, 1703
   Henrico County
   Virginia, USA
   Death: 1764
   Lunenburg County
   Virginia, USA
   
   John Cox was born March 27, 1703 in Henrico Co., Va., and died before September 13, 1764 in St. James Parish, Lunenburg Co., Va.. Before 1724 he married Mary Coleman born ca. 1700 in Lunenburg Co., Va., and died after 1793.
   
   Children of John Cox and Mary Coleman:
   - Mary Cox (b. ca. 1728 in Lunenberg Co. Va.; married into the Smithson family; her father John had land transactions with Macajer Smithson);
   - Debitha Cox (b. ca. 1726 in Lunenberg Co., Va.);
   - John Cox, Jr. (b. January 6, 1736/37 in Cumberland Parish, Lunenberg Co., Va.; died June 09, 1794 in Mecklenburg Co., Va.);
   - Edith Cox (b. born ca. 1728 in Lunenberg Co., Va.; died about 1802 in Mercer Co., Ky.; married Joseph Minor - see link below);
   - Frederick Cox (b. ca. 1739 in Lunenburg Co., Va.; d. about 1791);
   - Anne Nancy Cox (b. 1724 in Lunenburg Co., Va.; d. July 3, 1828 in Stokes Co., N.C.; married into the Ship family);
   - Bartley Cox, (b. ca. 1748 in Lunenburg Co., Va.; died November 1, 1793 in Wilkes Co., Ga.);
   - Tabitha Cox (b. ca. 1735 in Lunenberg Co., Va.; died February 3, 1767 in Mecklenburg Co., Va.; married Isham Browder February 3, 1767 in Lunenberg Co.);
   - Daughter Cox (married Baugh; William Baugh, their son, was listed in the will of his grandfather, Bartholomew Cox).
   
   http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=117596642

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   http://www.vagenweb.org/mecklenburg/cox.htm