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buried in that cemetery, where today many stones commemorative of individuals of this family
exist and which, so far as they relate to those in the early generations, are introduced m
their proper ])laces in this memoir, or under the notes relating to those unplaced.
1747, Dec. 22. Will of James Co.x, of Upper Freehold, Gent.; proved Nov. 7, 1750,
mentioned
John Cox, son of my son, Thomas, deceased, at 21, a legacy.
Mary Cox, "so lately called, but now marrved. " \ ,
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Ann Cox
Son, John Cox; heirs land.
> both daughters of my son 1 homas.
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Son, Joseph Cox; heirs land.
Daughter, Elizabeth
Four daughters of my late deceased daughter, Anna Jewell.
Grandson, James Cox
Five daugliters, Elizabeth, .-Vlice, Rachel, Dorothy and Rebecca.
He reserved ground where his wife and others of "my faniDy lyes buried," for a burying ground
forever.
His apparel to be divided between his three sons, James, John and Joseph Cox.
Executors: Sons, John and Joseph, and my kinsman, Thomas Cox.
Witnesses: Samuel Steele. John Hartshorne and John Lawrence, Jr.
The inventory of his personal estate amounted to £743-9-103^-^.
Issue
23 Thomas Cox
24 John Co.x
25 James Cox
26 Anna Cox; married ]\Ir. Jewell.
27 Josei)h Cox, born Aug. iS, 1713.
28 Elizabeth Cox
29 Alice Cox
30 Rachel Cox
31 Dorothy Cox
32 Rebecca Cox
5 JOSEPH COX, son of Thomas Cox, i.
1697, July 28. Thomas Cox, of Middletown, X. J., deeded to his brother, Joseph Cox,
of the same place, one hundred and sixty acres of land there, patented to their father, Thomas
Cox, deceased, Dec. i, 1676.
1717. Joseph Cox, of Middletown, was sued in the Superior Court, at Amboy, ^vliddlcsex
County. The complaint sets forth that Joseph Cox, of Middletown, yeoman, was the late
Collector of the Tax for the "goall and Courthouse," within the said county of Monmouth,
and that the .\llorney-General, Thomas Gordon, on behalf of the King, doth comj>lain that
whereas on the 28th day of March, 1717, at the City of Perth Amboy, in the County of Middlesex,
in the said Province of Xew Jersey, he, the said Joseph Cox, had together accounted with
John Reid, Ilenr)- Leonard, John Willson, Richard Chambers, James Ashton, John Anderson,
Laurence \'anhook and David Johnstone, His ^Lijesty's Justices of the Peace, of .said County,
James Willson, Peter Willson, John Eaton, James Grover, Gershom Mott and Henry .Allen,
Freeholders of said Count}' of Alonmouth, and upon which account the aforesaid Jo.-cjjh
Cox was then and there found in arrear, in the sum of £21-5-10, and did assume upon himself
to pay the said an'iount. but rie'scrfiifless the said J"^(ph, his promise and assumption, made