grandfather of littleberry cox

GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
Our Link to the Revolution
By Floyd R. Cox
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Foreword About “Being Jewish”
The paper trail back to Littleberry Cox (my father’s grandfather’s grandfather) has had three YDNA 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].
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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
John Cox
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: 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.)
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)
“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).
Campbell County, VA
b: 1817 KY
d: 10-11-1852
m: 1-24-1839 Adair Co., KY
Caroline Christenson
b: Abt 1822 Casey Co., KY
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
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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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LITTLEBERRY 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
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’s will 1821), Sam. Armistead, Peter Fore.
Robert D. Nash m: Sabra Ready
Robert witnessed the will of John Cox in 1821.
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:
Cox, William.
Age –35 years.
DEATHS
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
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.
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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
m: Abt 1757 William Stembridge
b: Abt 1732 Bridport, Dorset, Eng.
m: Abt 1762 John Cox
b: Abt 1740
Herod Reese Sr. b: Abt 1765
1787 in Dinwiddie Co., VA
m:1 Judith Weaver
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.
d: 6-20-1811
in Lebanon,
Wilson Co., TN
m: Abt 1780
Mary B.
Sammons
in Lunenburg
Co., VA
John
Stembridge
1780
Charlotte Co.,
VA
Henry Reese
Stembridge
b: 2-22-1809
Wilson Co., TN
Sally
Elizabeth
Mary
Martha
Thomas
Stembridge
Thomas
Cox 1763
Mary
Polly
Cox
1765
Sarah Sally
Cox 1767
William A.
Cox 1770
m: 1792
Sally
Stembridge
Charles
Cox 1772
m:
Elizabeth
Reese
b: ~1775
Littleberry
Cox m: 110-1791
Martha
Buckner
Surety,
Herod
Reese
Henry
Reese
Stembridge
Lucy
Reese Cox
b: 1806
m: James
Reese Cox
Henry
Reese Cox
1803
Thomas
Reese Cox
1829
Henry
Clifton
Cox
James
Reese Cox
1876
in Dinwiddie
m: 1796
Massey
Ready
James
Cox 1776
m:1 1800
Elizabeth
Farris
m:2 1815
Judith
Jones
James
Reese Cox
b: 1806
m: Lucy
Reese Cox
Note: James Reese Cox
is likely the son of
James Cox. Some have
alleged he is a son of
Charles.
Herod
Reese Jr.
was b: Abt
1790
m: ~1815
Frances W.
Walker
Henry
Reese
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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
James Reese b: 1745
m: Margaret Lewis
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 YDNA 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 Liverpool 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/cgibin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=monkeys&id=I24896
The Vernons & Maddock sisters, neighbors of a John
Cox in Pennsylvannia, also came from Cheshire, Eng.
1722 Hugh Rees
1729 Priscilla Rees
1732 Isham Rees
1742 Hugh Reese
m: Mary J. James
m: Elizabeth Newson
1743 Elizabeth Reese
1745 James Reese
1735 Sarah Rees
173? Edwin / Edward Rees
1741 James J. Rees m: Elizabeth Brown
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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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:
~1762
Thomas Cox (died in the Revolution after 1776)
~1766
~1769
Mary (Molly) Cox & William Hazlewood
Sarah (Sally) Cox & Benjamin Hazlewood. Surety. Publius Jones
(bro of Erasmus Jones).
1m-21d-1786
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
~1778
~1778
William Cox & Sally Stembridge
James Cox & Elizabeth Fariss, dt William. John Farriss, Surety
James Cox & Judith Jones, dt of Erasmus Jones. Wm. F. Jones, Surety
Robert D. Nash & Polly Jordan, dt Mathew, Wm. Hammersley, Surety
(Robert had m:1 Sabra Redey (Ready), sister of Massey
Abner Nash m: Rebecca Scott, Samuel Armistead, Surety
Ready & Mason
~1790
~1792
~1794
~1794
~1800
~1796
~1821
~1837
~1778
~1798
~1811
Bedford Co., VA:
Reuben Mason & Caty Richardson. Married 3-17-1790.
Lewis Mason & Betsey Dale (dau of Rishard & Mary). Surety: Reuben Mason
Charles Toney & Nancy Ready. Surety: Charles Ready.
Consent: Richard & Mary Dale.
Sally Mason (dau of Elizabeth Keenum) & Charles Ready (son of Mary Dale)
William Taylor & Katy Ready
Campbell Co., VA:
William Mason & Jenny Ready, dau of Nathan. James Ellet, Surety
Nathaniel Mason & Mary Ann Clark, dau of Paulet Clark
William R. Mason & Sarah E. Walker. Surety, Oliver L. Mason
Moore, Farris, Morris, Community Members
Robert Armistead & Susannah Morris d/o Samuel Morris.
Wm. Armistead, Surety.
Absalm Cox & Judith W. Moore, dt William Moore
Samuel Woodall & Sally Faris
Married on
(Quaker Dating)
(Jul. 14, 1792)
12m, 10d, 1800
3m, 14d, 1815
12m, 16d, 1815
8m, 02, 1830
2m, 22d, 1790
2m, 1d, 1792
7m, 28d, 1794
8m, 4d, 1794
10m, 27d, 1800
11m-22d-1796
10m-31d-1821
10m-9d-1837
2m-12d-1778
10m, 1d, 1798
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]”
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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:
Sally,
William
John Cox
sons:
Charles,
William,
Littleberry
& James
200 a
Erasmus
Jones
(was at the
100 a
Ann
(Mrs.
Michael
Jones)
200 a?
Publius
Jones
100 a
Rev.
Obediah
Edge
(minister)
Littleberry
Cox wedding)
100 a
William
Farris
Herod
Reese
was at
Rev.
Jacob?
Key
(Wm. Cox
wedding)
110 a
William A.
Farris
120 a
made in 1802
by John Cox,
Publius Jones
90 a
John
Farris
m: Sabra (Hix
Farris Morris)
100 a
Samuel
Morris
His inventory
100 a
William
Walker
(east side of
Hat Cr. Road)
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).
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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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GRANDFATHER OF
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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
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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William Farris on
Tear Wallet Creek
William Walker & George Cox Jr.
on the Appomattox River
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Avis Amos
b: ~1750
200 acres
John
Amos
100 acres
m: William Farris
of Powhatan Co., VA
b: ~1740
James Taylor
b: ~1725
Susannah Taylor
b: ~1725
m: Robertson
Mary Taylor
b: ~1725
m: Ferguson
1751 John, Ann, Jas,
Clement, Ferguson,
Elizabeth, William,
Mary &
Sarah
Robertson
John Taylor Ferguson
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 Farris
b: ~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
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.
John A. Farris
b: Abt 1795
of Hat Cr. Church, Campbell Co., VA
m: 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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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 2-121778, 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
Nancy Hanks
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
James Madison
learning, a distinguished physician and a man of wealth. He was an elder of Rought
Creek Presbyterian Church.
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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 9-121775, 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: 2-101812 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.
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
Clark
1682
Micajah
Clark
1684
Mary Kennon m:1 9-25-1682 John Cox
m:2 Maj. John Bolling b: 1-27-1676
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
7 kids: 1710-1722
11 kids at Fork Cr. Mtg., Louisa Co.
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
South River Meeting
south of Lynchburg
b: 1716 m: ~1733
d: 6-6-1791
Charlotte Co.
m: Ann Paulette
Christopher
Robt Adams
Surveyor of
3 Notched Rd.
with Peter Jefferson
Charles Lynch
Surveyor of
3 Notched Rd.
with Peter Jefferson
Thomas Clark
b: 7(Sep)-30-1746
Fork Creek,
Louisa Co., VA
Sarah
Ursula
Benjamin
Francis Clark
b: 8(Oct)-5-1748
Fork Creek, Louisa
Co., VA
Sarah Clark 1716
Bolling Clark
1722
(Overseer)
m: Winifred
Clerk of
South River
Meeting
John Edward
Clark, born
11(Jan)-3-1750
Sheriff in 1818
Campbell Co.
1 Penelope Lynch 1734
2 Charles Lynch Jr 1736
3 Sarah Lynch 1738
4 John Lynch 1740
Isaac Clark
b: 1752 Louisa
Co., VA
Elijah Clark
b: 1756
Louisa Co., VA
Edward Clark
b: ~1760
Sally Clark
b: ~1763 VA
Nancy Clark
b: 1770 Louisa
Paulette Clark
b: 9-30-1771
taught school
at Hat Creek
Campbell Co.
Edward
(Meeting
Overseer)
Agnes
Rachel
John
founder of Lynchburg
& South River Meeting
John,
the father of
George Rogers
Clark
and Governor. of Missippi
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 17431749. 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
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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
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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, 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)
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
This view suggests William
Cox was from England & married
a Swede named Amey of Olds
Sweed’s Church. 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.
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
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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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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).
William Cox
of Glocester, England
m: Amy
London Grove, PAAnn Cox
m:1 1713 DE
Casper. Garretson
2
m: Nat. Hussey
Thomas Cox married
Elizabeth Fincher &
witnessed by
John & Mary Cocks
-New Castle DE
William Cox
m:1 1713
m: ~1716
Catherine
Kinkey
m:1 1722 Fincher
Amey Cox
m: ~1722
John Allen
Richard Cox
of London
Grove Twp.,
Chester
Co., PA
John Cox Sr
b: ~1665 Eng
m: Rachel (Maddock?)
Kennett/
John Cox
Mary Garretson
John Cox, Abingdon Meeting
Berkshire, England b: ~1644
Thomas Cox
b: 1694
m:2 1730 Cooke
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)
Newark, PA
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)
4. Joseph
Cox
b: ~1698
m: 1716
1. Sarah Cox
b: ~1692
Berkshire, Eng
m:1 ~1712
Richard Leech
m:2 ~1719
Robert Hoar
3. Thomas Cox
b: ~1697
m: 5m-17-1712
“Cousin”
Mary Chandler
(m: 9-26-1716
Sarah Busby)
2. Richard
Cox
b: ~1693
m:1 Abt
3-26-1712
Marg. Potts
m:2 Mary
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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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).
William Cox
b: ~1656 Gloucestershire, Eng.
m: Unknown
London Grove, PAAnn Cox
m:1 1713 DE
Casper. Garretson
2
m: Nat. Hussey
Thomas Cox married
Elizabeth Fincher &
witnessed by
John & Mary Cocks
-New Castle DE
William Cox
m:1 1713
m: ~1716
Catherine
Kinkey
m:1 1722 Fincher
Amey Cox
m: ~1722
John Allen
Richard Cox
Chester Co., PA
Thomas Cox II
of Berkshire
b: Christened on 12-8-1660
m: Grace
Kennett/
John Cox
Mary Garretson
of London Grove,
Thomas Cox I
of the London Yearly Meeting
b: ~1641Gloucestershire, England
Thomas Cox
b: 1694
m:2 1730 Cooke
Newark, PA
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
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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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CHART 11. John & Mary Cox -/- William & Amey Cox
Thomas Cox
b: ~16?? Gloucestershire, Eng.
d: London, Eng.
m: Christian Matthews
William Cox
b: ~1657 Gloucestershire, Eng.
m: Unknown
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
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
John Cox
m:1 1713
Mary
Garretson
of London
Grove Twp.,
Chester Co.
John Cox
b: ~1714
m: 1735
Mary Harlan
b: ~1716
Thomas Cox
b: 1694
m:1 1722 Fincher
m:2 1730 Cooke
William Cox
b: ~1692
m: ~1716
Catherine
Kinkey
New Castle, DE
Amey Cox
m: ~1722
John Allen
William “Bille” Cock
b:~1682 Netherlands? d: 1742
m: ~1714 Emmetje “Amey” Van der Coolen
b: ~1682
Holy Trinity (Old Swede’s) Church,
Wilmington, New Castle Co., DE
Richard Cox
m:1 1726 Mary
m:2 1733
Elizabeth
Scarlett
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
Siblings of William Cox
in London Grove Twp., Chester Co., Penn.
John Johan Cock
Hanna Cock
Margarita Cock
Rigner Von der Culen Cock
Regner Cock
Born
/
Baptized
10-21-1716 / 6-3-1716
4 -?-1720 /
1-20-1722 / 3-14-1723
1-15-1725 / 5-4-1726
d: 1727
2-20-1728 / 2-27-1728
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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CHART 12. Children of William Cox & Catherine Kinkey (Dutch)
Children of John Cox & Rachel (English/Welsh)
Thomas Cox married
Elizabeth Fincher &
witnessed by brother,
John & Mary Cocks
William Cox
b: ~1656 Gloucester, Eng
m: Unknown
London Grove, PAJohn Cox
Sr.
m:1 ~1713
Mary
Garretson
John Cox Jr.
m:1 1735
Mary Harlan
m:2 Sarah Dix
Oldham
-New Castle DE
Ann Cox
m:1 1713 DE
Casperus
Garretson
Richard Cox
R1b1?
m:1 1726 Mary
m:2 1733 Eliz.
Scarlett
(Wm. Oldham
m: Sarah Dix)
John Cox Sr
b: ~1665 Eng d:
m: Rachel (Maddock?)
Kennett/
William Cox
Thomas Cox
b: 12-11-1692
1.
Newark, PA
John Cox Jr
b: ~1698 Eng
b: 1694
m:1 1722 Fincher
d: 1767 NC
m: ~1716
Catherine
Kinkey
(granddaughter
of Augustine
Herman)
m:2 1730 Cooke
m:1 1717 Jane Phillips
Amey Cox
m: ~1722
John Alline of
Ireland
m:2 11-051720 PA
Hannah
Jenkins
(No records
of children?)
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
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
William Cox Jr.
Solomon Cox
m: 9-06-1755 NC
Juliatha Cox
m: 1756 in NC
Ruth Cox
Thomas Cox
m: 1-24-1760 NC
Sarah Davis
Peter Dix
m: Esther
Maddock
m:3 ~1735
PA?
Mary
unknown
Kennett Twp
2. Sarah Cox
b: ~1692
Berkshire, Eng
m:1 ~1712
Thos. Leech
m:2 Robert Hoar
3. Thos. Cox J2?
m: S. Busby
4. Joseph Cox J2?
m: 1716
5. Richard Cox
m: 1722 M. Potts
Kennett Minutes
1720 John m: Hannah
1729 “John Cox Jr”
1730-32 “ “
1732-35 “John Cox, wife”
1732 “John Cox, house”
1741 “John Cox “
1755 “John Cox Sr”
1755 “John Cox”
Cane Creek Minutes
(From Kennett MM, PA
To Cane Creek MM. NC)
1753 Solomon & Thomas Cox
1753 Mary 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
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.
John Cox
b: ~1740 NC?
m: ~1762 Polly
of Virginia
Charles Cox
Thomas Cox
d: Cane Creek,
Orange Co., IN
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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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-26d1708) 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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LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Esther Maddock
b: 12-16-1661
Chester MM, Cheshire, Eng
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)
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?
John Cox
b: ~1644 Abingdon Meeting,
Berkshire, England
m: Unknown
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)
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)
(Needs more evidence)
John Cox Jr. b: ~1740
(Perhaps moved first to
Tenby, Wales, Cane Creek MM,
Orange Co., NC,
or to Campbell Co., VA
Link needs more research
Littleberry Cox b: ~1774
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 witnessed by Henry Nayle; wedding witnessed by John Cox; will witnessed by John Cox; Deborah
Clark, a neighbor of John Cox.
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LITTLEBERRY 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
b: 9-30-1670
Chester MM, Cheshire, Eng
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?
(Needs more evidence)
John Cox Jr. b: ~1740
(Perhaps moved first to
Tenby, Wales, Cane
Creek MM, Orange Co., NC,
or to Campbell Co., VA
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
Link needs more research
Littleberry Cox
b: ~1774
Deeds, wills and weddings suggest that Rachel Maddock married John Cox.
Joseph Maddock Jr.
m: 1784 Rebecca Hinshaw
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY 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
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.
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)
John Cox
m: ~1714 Mary Garretson
NOTE: The marriage of
Thomas Cox & Elizabeth
Fincher witnessed by brother,
John Cocks & wife Mary Cocks
m:1 1713 Casper Garretson
m:2 Nathan. Hussey
John Cox m: ~1714 Mary Garretson
Wm. Cox m: ~1716 Catherine Kinkey
Thomas Cox m:1 1722 Eliz. Fincher
m:2 1730 Mary Cooke
Ann Cox
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
Tenby, Wales,
Cane Creek MM, Orange Co., NC,
or to Campbell Co., VA
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY 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
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
Lemuel Johnson
m: 1806
Bedford Co., VA
Lucy Cox
dau of Valentine Cox
moved to St. Marys,
Hancock Co., IL
Sally Johnson
m: 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
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)
Joshua Dicks
b: 11-21-1758 in NC
d: 1834 Sullivan Co., IN
m: 1782 Eliz. Baldwin
(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
Josiah
Hazlewood
b: 4-4-1792
Charlotte Co.,
VA
d: 10-13-1876
Stampers Cr.
Cemetery,
Orange Co., IN
m: Levisa
Johnson & Jane
Mahan
Rev. John
Duncan
b: ~1730 in
Glascow,
Scotland
m: in Amherst
(now Nelson)
Co., VA
Deborah Dicks
b: 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., NC
m: 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 PA
John 1st married Mary Harlan
Elizabeth
Duncan
b: ~1777
Lindley family
William Dicks
b: 1762 in NC
Rachel Oldham
b: ~1737 Chester Co., PA
m: 11-27-1764
George Hodgson,
New Garden MM,
Orange Co. (now Guilford)
North Carolina
Amherst Co., VA
m:
Adair Co., KY,
Campbell Goode
of Amherst
(now Nelson)
Co., VA,
brother of
of
Stampers Creek,
east of Paoli,
Orange Co., IN
John Goode of
Casey Cr, KY
Hazlewood
family of
Duncan
family of
Stampers
Creek,
Orange Co., IN
Stampers
Creek,
Orange Co., IN
Lindley family
of Stampers
Creek,
east of Paoli,
Orange Co., IN
New Garden MM,
Guilford Co., NC
Business in
Lynchburg, VA
&
South River MM
m: 2-7-1787
Agatha Terrell
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 Cox
m: 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
Samuel H. Cox
James W. Cox
b: 3-9-1825
d: 5-20-1853
Cox Cemetery
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
Matthew Maury Cox b:
1861
m: 1888 Annie M. Balliett
Eliza
Cox
m: __Sharp
Martha
Cox
m: __Crutcher
Sally Cox
b: 9-28-1821
d: 9-24-1831
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
Charles Turner Cox
b: 6-20-1859 d: 1913
m: 1879 Lillie Jane Davis
James W. Cox
m: 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,
Harold Davis Cox
b: 8-14-1914
Shelby
m: Lula Mae
Baker
Mary J. Cox
b: 1918
Edward
Matthew Cox
b: 11-26-1897
Hunnewell, MO
d: 8-1986
Kansas City,
Jackson Co., MO
m: Marie Garrigues
Edward Matthew
Cox b: 10-31-1929
Lizzie
Cox
b: 5-101892
m:
Clifton
Maupin
Paul L. Cox
b: 8-21-1897 Shelby Co.
d: 3-1943 Monroe Co.
m: 11-18-1909
Ruby M. Forsythe
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Francis Clements
John
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
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
Judith
Clements
Mary
Clements
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 YDNA 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
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William Cox b: 1817 KY (Model)
Caleb Cox
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Seaton Ready b: 1812 KY
Jon Levi b: 1798 Israel
Joseph Caruso b: 1895 Italy
William R. Cox d: 1896 of IL
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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
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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.
Connections among Amsterdam, Rotterdam, the Haag, ships from Holland and Wales
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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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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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 4,819acre 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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
53
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
54
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
2
m: Mary Branch
NOTE:
Richard Kennon
(Richard Cox’s
Cousin?) 3-1-1744:
got 31,700 acres.
1-1-1745: 30,000 a.
to Cub Cr. Settlement
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
Frederick Cox 1687
m: Elizabeth
1730 - 400 acres
adjacent George’s 400
near Farmville, VA
In Cumberland Co.
Martha Cox
400 acres south
of James River
m: Thomas
Walton
Richard Cox
(b: Abt 1683)
Henry
Cox
(Son of Mary
Kennon?)
d: 7-13-1734 of
Henrico Co., VA
m: 1700
Mary Trent
8 children
d: 10-11697
Henrico
Co.
No kids.
George Cox 1685
d: 2-15-1728
m: Martha
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-inlaw?)
bought 3003
acres in
Cumberland
Co (5-7-1759)
John Cox Sr 1710
Cumberland Co
Mary Cox 1712
d: ~9-19-1785 Goochland Co.
m: John Fore Sr.
b: ~1703
m: ~1730 Elizabeth (Farley?)
(Son Edward married in Prince Edward Co)
ÅNeighbors in 1736 in Henrico Co.Æ
George Cox Jr.
b: 1710
(orphan aft 1728)
d: 10-31-1794/1-15-1795
Powhatan Co., VA
m: Martha Walton
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 Henry’s 400
in Cumberland Co.
1730 - 400 acres
north of the Appomattox R.
adjacent George’s 400 in
Cumberland Co.
10 kids
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.
Link to John & Polly needs more evidence.
Henry Cox
b: ~1734
d: 1781
George Cox
b: ~1736
Richard Cox b: ~1738
Witnessed 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: ~1750
Surety 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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
55
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 1229-1697. 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
d: 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
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
Lucy Ann
Cox
James Cox b: 6-20-1787
d: 8-7-1846 Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. MO
m: 11-14-1811 Bedford Co., VA, Elizabeth Gills
Surety, Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)
m: Martha Howell b: 8-23-1823 Marion Co., MO
m: Elizabeth
Blackburn b: 1751
James Cox
b: 1843
Shelbina,
Shelby Co.,
MO
~1740 John Cox
1741 Elisha Cox
Frances Cox
William Cox
1750 Valentine Cox
Valentine Cox b: ~1750
m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA
Nancy Dawson
John Valentine Cox
b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA
d: Hunnewell, Jackson & Hunnewell Townships,
Shelby County, MO
Charles Webster
Cox b: 4-4-1844
m: Bettie b: 1853
Jackson, Shelby
Co., MO
Edith Cox b: ~1719 Henrico Co., VA
John Webster Cox
Newspaper publisher
b: 2-2-1859 Shelby Co., MO
d: 3-3-1937 Monroe City
m: Emily m: Anna F. Cox
Family in Monroe Dist.
Parents of Paul L. Cox 1887
Lucy Cox
James Cox
Milly Cox
Elizabeth Cox
Judith Cox
Sarah Cox
Damaris Cox
Mahalia Cox
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.
James Winston
Cox b: 11-7-1854
Hunnewell,
Washington twp,
Monroe Co., MO
d: 10-30-1918
m: Nannie Boone
Marion Co., MO
Lucy Ann Cox
Matilda Cox
Eliza Cox
Martha Cox
Sallie Cox
Charles Turner
Cox b:1-20-1859
Washington twp,
Monroe Co., MO
m: Lillie J. Davis
Parents of
John H. Cox
Edward Mat. Cox
1750 Judith Cox
1750 Archelaus Cox
Milner Cox
Martha Cox
Elizabeth Cox
1760 Damarist Cox
1765 Redford Cox
Frances Cox
Samuel H. Cox
1825 James Cox
1819 John Valentine
Cox
Emily 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).
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Replica of the Godspeed
in Jamestown, VA
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 Cox
d: 1675
No kids.
Richard Cox
Son of Mary
Kennon of
HenricoCo., VA
m: 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 1743
Abt 12 in 1755
m:1 3-5-1767
John Wakefield Cox
b: 1865
d: 3-19-1953
Greensburg, KY
m: Sallie M. Shreves
John Webster Cox
. Valentine Cox
b: ~1750
m: 3-3-1772
Nancy Dawson
in Amherst Co
Tabitha Price b: 2-12-1751
m: south of Farmville
Prince Edward Co. VA
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 Penick
b: 7-8-1919
Robert Cox
m: Jennie
& living in VA
b: 2-2-1859
Shelby Co., MO
d: 3-3-1937
Monroe City, MO
m: Emily
m: Anna F.
Paul L. Cox
b: 8-21-1897
in Shelbina
d: 1943 St. Judes
m: Ruby M.
Forsythe
Kathleen Kathy Cox
b: 11-17-1914
Monroe City, MO
d: 6-16-2007
m: Floyd Cailloux
James Cox
d: Cox Cemetery
Monroe Co., MO
m: 11-9-1853
Elizabeth Gills
Bedford Co., VA
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
57
Jefferson’
octagonal home
Henry lived at Red Hill, near Rev. John Weatherford,
who performed the marriage of Sally Cox, Littleberry’s sister
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
58
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)
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 Gills b: 1793
Surety, Lemuel Johnson (Quaker)
John Valentine Cox b: 3-7-1819 Lynchburg, VA
was 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
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
James
H. Cox
b: 1854
Shelbina, Shelby
Co., MO
1920 in Heppnet,
Morrow Co., OR
d: 12-1-1936
Morrow Co., OR
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.
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
No Children
Family Monroe Dist.
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 Cem
Monroe City, MO
~1930 moved to
Oklahoma City and
Garfield, WA.
m: 1909
Ruby M. Forsythe
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.
James
Winston Cox
b: 11-7-1854
Washington twp,
Monroe Co., MO
1910 in Quency
d: 10-30-1918
Palmyra Cem,
Marion Co., MO
m: Nannie Boone
Marion Co., MO
No sons?
Edward
Matthew Cox
b: 11-27-1896
Hunnewell, MO
m: 6-29-1926
Marie Garrigues
d: 8-1986
Kansas City,
Jackson Co., MO
~1740 John Cox
1741 Elisha Cox
Frances Cox
William Cox
1750 Valentine Cox
1750 Judith Cox
1750 Archelaus Cox
Milner Cox
Martha Cox
Elizabeth Cox
1760 Damarist Cox
1765 Redford Cox
Frances Cox
Lucy Cox
James Cox
Milly Cox
Elizabeth Cox
Judith Cox
Sarah Cox
Damaris Cox
Mahalia Cox
Lucy Ann Cox
Matilda Cox
Eliza Cox
Martha Cox
Sallie Cox
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
1819 John V. Cox
1825 James W. Cox
d: 1853
1827 Samuel H. Cox
1829 Emily Cox
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
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
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.
Harold
Davis Cox
b: 8-14-1914 Clarence,
MO
d: 1984
Parents of Edward Matthew Cox Jr
Festus, Jefferson Co., MO
Hollis
Herbert
(Henry H)
b: 1896m: 1930
Annie
d: 1976
in Hannibal
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
59
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
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
60
CHART 24. Male Line of John Valentine Cox of Bedford Co., VA
8 males – 4 females
John Cox
b: Aft 1740 Chesterfield Co., VA
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
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)
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 Gills b: 1793
Surety, 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
John Valentine Cox
d: 8-15-1900 at Hunnewell,
buried at Cox Cemetery, Monroe
Co. & was in Jackson &
Hunnewell Township, Shelby
County, MO
m: Martha Howell
b: 8-23-1823 Marion Co., MO
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
Samuel H. Cox
b: 5-26-1827
Bedford Co., VA
d: 2-19-1896
m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley
d: 1912 Cox Cem.
Family of East Hunnewell
Twp., Shelby Co.
James H. Cox
b: 1854 Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO
1892 in Walla Walla Co, WA Territory
1920 in Heppner, Morrow Co., OR
d: 12-1-1936 Morrow Co., OR
m: Margaret B. b: 1860 KY
1811 Emily Cox
m: 1826
Lucy Ann Cox
Matilda Cox
Eliza Cox
Martha Cox
Sallie Cox
1819 John V. Cox
1825 James W.
Cox
d: 1853
1827 Samuel H.
Cox
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
Kathleen (Kathy) Cox
b: 11-17-1914 Monroe City, Monroe Co., MO
(Raised in Oklahoma City. Classen H.S. 1933)
d: 6-16-2007
Living
b: 1926
m: 1942 Floyd Cailloux, Retired in Kerrville, TX
Kathy Cox
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
61
CHART 25. John Valentine Cox of Monroe Co., MO (Male Y-DNA Lineage)
Year
1811
1819
1833
John
V. Cox’s
Age
Charles
W. Cox’s
Age
James
H. Cox’s
Age
Event
James A. Cox marries in Bedford Co., VA
John V. Cox born in Bedford Co., VA
James A. Cox takes 9 children & 9 slaves from
Lynchburg, VA, to Monroe Co., MO
John V. Cox marries in Monroe Co., MO
1
14
1844
1853
20?
Marries
25
34
1854
1859
1860
1873
35
40
41
54
10
15
16
29
Marries
1
5
6
19
1879
60?
35?
1881
62
37
25?
Marries
27
1883
1897
64
68
39
43
1889
1889
70
70
1892
1900
73
81
1839?
John
W. Cox’s
age
1
9
1
2
15
Charles W. born in Shelbina, Shelby Co.
James W. Cox, brother of John V., dies & buried
in Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co.
James H. Cox born in Shelby Co.
John W. Cox born in Shelby Co.
John V. Cox, in Jackson Twp., Shelby Co.
Charles W. marries, Jackson Twp., Shelby Co.,
MO.
21?
James H. Cox marries in Shelby Co.
John W. Cox marries in Monroe Co.
29
33
23
Marries
25
29
45
45
35
35
31
31
48
56
38
46
34
42
1900
56
46
42
1900
56
46
42
1909
1910
65
66
55
56
51
52
1910
1918
66
74
56
64
52
60
1920
1920
1929
1929
1930
76
76
85
66
66
75
75
76
62
62
71
71
72
82
78
79
1936
1937
William P. Cox born to James H.
Paul L. Cox, son of John W., in Pomeroy,
Garfield, WA
John V. Cox is President of Hunnewell Bank
Paul L. Cox, son of John W., in Pomeroy,
Garfield, WA
Harold J. Cox born of James H. Cox
John V. Cox dies & buried at Cox Cemetery,
Monroe Co., MO
James H. Cox in Waitsburg, Walla Walla Co.,
WA
Paul L. Cox in Shelbina, Shelby Co., MO.
Lived in Shelbina with John W. four yrs.
Paul L. Cox marries Ruby Forsythe.
Paul L. Cox in Monroe City, Monroe Co.
with John W. Cox
James H. Cox in Heppner, Morrow Co., WA
Paul L. Cox drafted into WW I. Has wife, 1 child
in 1917.
Paul L. Cox in Salt River Twp., Shelby Co.
James H. Cox in Heppner, Morrow Co., WA
Charles W. Cox dies.
P aul L. Cox in Pomeroy, Garfield, WA
Paul L. Cox in Oklahoma City. Worked at a
newspaper.
James H. Cox dies, Morrow Co., OR.
John W. Cox dies in Monroe Co., MO.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
62
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)
Valentine Cox b: ~1750
m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA Nancy Dawson
(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)
b: 8-27-1782 Cedar Cr Meeting
James Cox b: 6-20-1787 b: VA
d: 8-7-1846 Cox Cemetery, Monroe Co. MO
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
Damaris Cox
Mahalia Cox
Samuel H. Cox
b: 5-26-1827
Bedford Co., VA
d: 2-19-1896
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
m: Martha Howell
b: 8-23-1823 Marion Co., MO
m: 11-9-1853 Mary Lasley
Lucy Ann Cox
Matilda Cox
Eliza Cox
Martha Cox
Sallie Cox
1819 John V. Cox
1825 James W. Cox
d: 1853
1827 Samuel H. Cox
1829 Emily Cox
d: 1912 Cox Cem.
Family of East Hunnewell
Twp., Shelby Co.
John Valentine Cox
James Winston Cox b: 11-7-1854
Charles Turner Cox
b: 1-20-1859
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
Living?
Washington twp, Monroe Co., MO
d: 2-20-1913 Hunnewell Cem.,
Shelby Co., MO
m: 12-21-1879 Lillie J. Davis
Edward Matthew
Cox b: 11-27-1896
Hunnewell, MO
m: 6-29-1926
Marie Garrigues
d: 8-1986
Kansas City, Jackson
Co., MO
John Henry Cox
b: 9-9-1894
Clarence, MO, ,
Living?
Harold
Davis Cox
b: 8-14-1914
1930 in Clarence,
Shelby Co., MO
d: 1975 Shelbina
m: 1913
Lula Mae Baker
Clarence
d: 1984
Festus, Jefferson
Co., MO
Living?
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
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 Hannibal
d: June, 1976
in Hannibal
Marion 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.)
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
63
CHART 27. Timeline for Samuel H. Cox of Monroe Co., MO (Male Y-DNA Lineage)
1827
1833
Samuel
H. Cox’s
Age
1
8
1844
19
1848
23
1853
1854
1859
1861
1874
29
34
36
49
1879
54
26
21
Marries
19
1881
56
28
23
21
1885
60
32
27
25
1888
63
35
29
27
Marries
1894
1896
1896
69
71
71
41
43
43
35
37
37
33
35
35
1898
73
45
39
37
1910
1910
1913
1914
57
57
60
61
51
51
54
49
49
52
53
1918
65
Year
James
W. Cox’s
Age
28 Marries
1
6
8
21
Marries
Charles
T. Cox’s
Age
Matthew
M. Cox’s
age
1
3
16
1
14
57
1927
66
1930
1933
1938
1976
1981
69
72
77
1984
2006
Event
Samuel H. born in Bedford Co., VA
James A. Cox takes 9 children & 9 slaves from
Lynchburg, VA, to Monroe Co., MO
Samuel H. a member of Methodist Episcopal.
Church South of Hunnewell.
Samuel’s father, James, dies & leaves farm to
Samuel H. (400 + 120 acres).
Samuel H. marries
James W. Cox born in Monroe Co.
Charles T. Cox born in Monroe Co.
Matthew M. Cox born in Monroe Co.
James W. marries Nannie Boone.
Samuel and James W. form a business
in Hunnewell & attend M E Church.
Charles T. marries & moves to Hunnewell,
worked with brother-in-law,
W.C. Blackburn, Willie’s husband.
Matthew forms partnership with older
brother (Charles?) in Hunnewell.
Matthew partnership in Hunnewell with brotherin-law, W.C. Blackburn, Willie’s husband.
Charles returns home to farm.
Matthew marries Anna May Balliet of
Hannibal, Marion Co., MO
Charles T.’s son, John Henry Cox, born.
James W.’s son, Edward Matthew Cox is born.
Matthew M.’s son, Hollis Herbert (i. e., Henry
H.) Cox is born.
Samuel H. dies.
Charles returns to Hunnewell, buys business of
C.L. Landrum, partner of brother, Matthew Cox.
James is on the Quincy, Illinois border.
Matthew M.’s son, Thomas Jay Cox, born.
Charles T. dies, buried in Hunnewell Cem.
Charles T.’s grandson, Harold Davis Cox is born
of John Henry Cox.
James dies & buried at Palmyra Cemetery,
Marion Co., MO
James W.’s grandson, Edward M. born.
Matthew M. Cox Jr. is born of Edward
Matthew M. Cox Sr.
Matthew M. in Hannibal, Marion Co., MO
Matthew Sr.’s son, Thomas J. Cox, marries
Matthew M. Sr. dies
Matthew M.’s son, Hollis, dies in Marion Co.
Matthew M.’s son, Thomas Jay Cox, dies at
Redford, Wayne Co., MI, or near Quincy, IL.
Charles T.’s grandson, Harold Davis Cox dies at
Festus, Jefferson Co., MO.
James W.’s grandson, Edward Matthew Cox Jr.
dies in Shawnee Mission, near Kansas City, KS.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
64
CHART 28. George Cox Jr. of Cumberland Co.
Thomas Bouldinge
b: ~1584, Barford,
Warwick, England
m: Mary
1610 to Virginia
on the Swan
< Allegedly married
sister of Pocohantas
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 Herman
John Cox Sr.
William Bouldin II
b: ~1630 d: 1710
Cecil Co., MD
m: Mary Thwaite
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-ofhenrico-county/
Augustine >
was Surveyor &
County Clerk of
New Castle Co.,
DE, after 1673
(before Wm. Penn).
Augustine Herman
d: 1686 Cecil Co, MD
m: Janetie Varleth
New Amsterdam
b: 1621
Ultrect, Holland
Margery Herman
m: Augustine
Herman Kinkey
b: 1672
Catherine Kinkey
m: William Cox
whose children
married at London
Grove Twp.,
Chester Co., PA
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
Thomas Johnson
(South River
Meeting,
Lynchburg)
m: Ann
George Cox, Jr.
b: ~1710 orphan:
1730 received 300
ac n. side
Appomatox
m: Martha Walton
John Cox
b: ~1740
b: 1640
Henrico Co., VA
m:1 Johnson
m:2 Craddock
m:3 1682 Kennon
m:4 Elam
Bartholomew Cox
b: 1665 d: 1731
Goochland
(Powhatan) Co., VA
m: ~1693 Rebecca
(Baugh?) (Wood?)
William Bouldin III
b: ~1665 d: 1741
m: 1687
Thomasin Nash
Cecil Co, MD
John Cox
b: ~1703 d: 1764
m: Mary Coleman?
Finneywood Cr.,
Lunenburg, near
Keysville
d: 1686 Cecil Co, MD
m: Janetie Varleth
New Amsterdam
b: 1621
Ultrect, Holland
Francenia Herman
b: 1662 Cecil Co, MD
d: 1749
New Castle, DE
m: Joseph Wood
b: 1666 d: 1721
New Castle, DE
Jenneken Wood
b: 1693 Cecil Co, MD
m: 1710
Thomas Clark
Cecil Co, MD
Ann Nancy Wood Clark
b: 1715 Cecil Co, MD
d: 1780 Charlotte Co.
m: Thomas Bouldin Sr
b: 1706 Cecil Co, MD
Frederick Cox
b: 1738 d: 11-12-1781
m: Millie Estes
Lunenburg Co.
Mary Cox m: Thos. Bouldin Jr.
Armine Cox m: Jonathan Vernon
of Pennsylvania
Francinia Bouldin
m: 7-15-1758
John Cox Jr.
b: 1-6-1736/37
Thomas Cox
b: 8-3-1759
Lunenburg Co, VA
m: Rebecca Johnson
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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CHART 29. Hinshaws Encyclopedia of Quaker Genealogy, Vol. VI, Bedford County Marriages
Married on
Samuel Clemens & Pamelia Goggin. Surety: Samuel Hancock
James Cox & Elizabeth dau of John Gills. Surety: Lemuel Johnson
Emily Cox (dau of James) & Amasa W. [Holmes]. Surety: Elisha Whitten
(Amasa is buried in the Cox Cemetery in Monroe Co., MO.)
Joel Cox & Peggy M. Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum
Eli Cox & Elizabeth Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum
Spotswood H. Cox & Catherine C. Wigginton.
(Quaker Dating)
10m-23d-1797
11m-4d-1811
11m-3d-1826
12m-22d-1828
1m-6d-1830
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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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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 (112-1747/8 & 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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
67
CHART 30. The Nash – LeGrand – Cox – Ready Connections
Abner Nash b: 1685 Tenby Dyfed, Cymru
Jean Pierre LeGrand
b: 1695 Amsterdam,
Noord, Holland,
Netherlands
m: Jane Michaux
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
John Nash Jr. b: 1732 VA
Templeton Manor, Pr. Ed. Co VA
(bro of Gen Francis & Gov Abner)
(1775 was a Trustee of HampdonSydney College at Farmville)
d: Will 5-24-1800 Pr. Ed. VA
m: 8-24-1757 Elizabeth Fisher
Thomas Nash
b: 1734?
VA, near
Farmville
m: Mary
Reade (Reed)
dau of
Clement Reed
Mary Nash
b: 1733
m: 1757
Clement
Reade Jr.
(Ash Camp,
Charlotte Co)
1. Lucy Nash LeGrand
m: Peter LeGrand Jr.
2. Mary 1731 3. Anne
4. Elizabeth 1739
5. Abner 1742
6. Francis 1744
John Cocks
b: ~1740
d: 1821
m: ~1762
Polly
Needs a link
Abner Nash b: 1765 Pr. Ed. VA
d: 3-02-1823 Lynchburg age 64
Thomas Nash Sr
to America in 1774
b: 1762 Amelia Co VA
m: 7-11-1792 Amherst Co., VA
m: Sarah (Daniel?)
Matilda Penn
Widow of a Cole?
b: ~1764 Charlotte Co
to Wm. Walker
Sons sold land
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
Pughs were from Wales
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
Thomas Pugh Nash
Abner Pugh Nash
Abner Nash LeGrand
b: 7-02-1775
m: 7-11-1809 Jane
Rogers Morton
in Lexington, KY
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)
1. Abner Nash b: 1805 VA
m: 8m-8-1830 Rebecca Scott
(Rev. Sam. Armistead)
Littleberry
Cocks
b: ~1774
m: 1796
in Campbell
Massey
Ready
(Sister of
Sabra)
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Jesse Hughes b: 1673 France
(moved to Eng. age 14, then to Wales)
m: Sarah Tarleton
b: 1677 d: ~5-19-1730 Goochland Co., VA
CHART 31. Hughes & Walten Families
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
Mary Hughes
b: 3-11-1724 Powhatan Co.
d: 11-24-1760 Cumberland Co
Susanna Hughes 1731
m: ~1745 Powhatan Co.,
Robert Walton
Robert Hughes 1733
b: 1-7-1718 Prince Edward Co
d: ~1-25-1750 Cumberland Co
Abraham Hughes 1735
Temperance Hughes 1742
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
“Uncle George”
an elder of Briery Church,
Col. George Walton
b: 1749-50 Farmville,
Jesse Hughes Walton 1750
Frances Walton 1752
a guardian of nephew
George Walton
Cumberland Co., VA
d: 2-2-1804 Augusta, GA
1753 George the elder
deeded land on North Fork
of Meherrin Riv.
(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
Sherwood
Walton
b: 7-10-1728
an elder of
Briery Church
&
had 300 acres on
south branch of
Robertson Fork
of
Meherrin River
John Walton
m: Eudosia
Walton
1720 Rebecca
1722 Joseph
1729 Polly
1730 Sally
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John Woodson
CHART 32. Woodson & Michaux Families
Robert Woodson b: 1634
m: Elizabeth Ferris
Richard Woodson b: 1662
m: Ann Smith
Richard Woodson Jr
“Baron” of Prince
Edward Co., VA
b: 1696
m: Anne Madolin
Michaux
in Prince Edward Co.
Joseph Michaux
m: Judith Woodson
Judith Woodson b: 1673 m: William Cannon, uncle? of
Francinia Cannon (m: Wm Cox, son of Frederick)
Judith Woodson
b: 1703 Henrico Co.
d: 12-13-1744
in Goochland
(now Cumberland)
Co., VA
m: Jacob Michaux
Elizabeth Michaux
b: 1731 d: 1801
m: Abraham
Venable b: 2-9-1725
Nathaniel Venable
of Slate Hill Plantation
m: 3-29-1755
Elizabeth Woodson
Abraham Venable
of Princeton College NJ
1791-99 Member of Congress
Note: Briery Church:
Rev. Robert Henry
Elders: Joseph Morton
George Walton
Sherwood Walton
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 College
in 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.
Josiah Morton
b: 11-14-1737
Litttle Roanoke
Bridge
Judith Morton
b: 12-27-1739
Litttle Roanoke
Bridge
Jane Morton
b: 2-14-1745
Litttle Roanoke
Bridge
Agnes Morton
b: 2-26-1747
Litttle Roanoke
Bridge
Charlotte Co
Charlotte Co
Charlotte Co
Charlotte Co
Joseph “Litttle
Joe” Morton
b: 11-15-1749
Litttle Roanoke
William L.
Morton
b: 11-27-1743
Litttle Roanoke
Maj. Jacob
Morton
b: 1-29-1751
Litttle Roanoke
Elizabeth
Morton
b: 5-14-1754
Litttle Roanoke
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
Richard W. Venable b: 1-16-1763
m: Mary Morton
1810 Census
Charlotte Co. VA:
Col. Wm. L. Morton
Capt Wm. B Morton
William Booker Morton
b: 9-3-1775 at Slate Hill, Prince Ed. Co.
m: 12-6-1802 at Farmville
Lucy Faris Flournoy
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 oxwagon, 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’s
Grandfather 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 Revolution. 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 patriotic service during the war.
3. John’s offspring includes
“Little Berry Cocks”, in his
will written in 1821 in Campbell Co., VA. Executor was
Samuel Armstead, minister of
Rough Creek Church, Charlotte Co., VA.
4: Littleberry’s wife, Massey 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, Joseph Morton, was minister of
Old Briery Church. The Morton estate, Farmville, called
“Slate Hill” is where the Hanover 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 Elizabeth and had four children
after about 1630: Mary, Elizabeth, 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 Richmond). His will in 1731, mentions 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 Frederick Cox, son of Bartholomew.
6. Geo. Sr. mentions wife,
Martha, three children, Geo.,
Henry, and Martha. His brother, 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.
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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 YDNA 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
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
1740, and neither claim descent from Wales. Y-DNA donors are needed to prove their paper trails. So this is a
work in progress.
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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
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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.
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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
Samuel Clemens & Pamela Goggin. Surety: Samuel Hancock
James Cox & Elizabeth Gills, dau of John Gills. Surety: Lemuel Johnson
Emily Cox (dau of James) & Amasa W. [Holmes]. Surety: Elisha Whitten
(Amasa is buried in the Cox Cemetery in Monroe Co., MO.)
Joel Cox & Peggy M. Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum
Eli Cox & Elizabeth Keenum. Surety: Richard Keenum
Reuben Mason & Caty Richardson. Married 3-17-1790.
Lewis Mason & Betsey Dale (dau of Rishard & Mary). Surety: Reuben Mason
Charles Toney & Nancy Ready. Surety: Charles Ready.
Consent: Richard & Mary Dale.
Sally Mason (dau of Elizabeth Keenum) & Charles Ready (son of Mary Dale)
William Taylor & Katy Ready
Campbell Co., VA:
William Mason & Jenny Ready, dau of Nathan. James Ellet, Surety
Nathaniel Mason & Mary Ann Clark, dau of Paulet Clark
William R. Mason & Sarah E. Walker. Surety, Oliver L. Mason
Married on
10m-23d-1797
11m-4d-1811
11m-3d-1826
12m-22d-1828
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2m, 22d, 1790
2m, 1d, 1792
7m, 28d, 1794
8m, 4d, 1794
10m, 27d, 1800
11m-22d-1796
10m-31d-1821
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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
William Mason b: 1765 m: Jenny Ready
(sister-in-law of Littleberry Cox)
Eliz. Dale Mason b: 1768 m: 1784 Jas Keenum
Sally Mason m: Charles Ready (He
was with James Cox near Murfriesboro, TN?)
James Keenum 1760
m: 3-12-1784
Elizabeth Dale
Mason b: 1768
Richard Keenum
b: 1786 Bedford
Co.m: 10-23-1805
Nancy Williams
William W. Cox
b: 1883 d: 1896
Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
John Cox J2
b: ~1740
m: ~1762 Polly
Alexander
Keenum
b: ~1725
Peggy Keenum
b: 1809
m: 12-22-1828
Joel Cox J2
Bedford Co., VA
James
Cox J2
b: ~1778
m:1 12-10-1800
Elizabeth Farris
m:2 1815 Judith Jones
both Campbell Co., VA
Littleberry
Cox J2
b: 1774
m: 10-20-1796
Massey Ready
In Campbell Co., VA
William Farris d: 5-6-1831 Campbell Co.
John Cox of Wilson Co., TN, acted as
attorney for Robert Cox 5-22-1834
Need the will of William Farris
1804 Robert Cox
1805 Elizabeth Cox Daughter Cox 1808
b: 1802 Botetourt
Co., VA
William Richard Cox
b: 2-25-1832
Bedford Co., VA
Alfred Wm. Cox
m: 1911 Lola M. Kingery
of Woodbury, IL
d: Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
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
m: Hannah Thompson
b: Ross Co., OH
1830 Martha P. Cox Bedford Co.
1832 William R. Cox “
1834 John Aaron Cox
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1837 Margaret Cox
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1839 Catherine Cox
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1842 Joel C. Cox
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1848 Amanda V. Cox
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1854 Emma Hariett Cox
1855 Mary C. Cox Ross Co., OH
1858 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.
Elizabeth Dale
m:2 3-12-1786
James
Keenum
Bedford Co.
m:1 ~1766
Gilbert
Mason
Bedford Co.
Richard Keenum
b: 1786
m: Nancy
Williams
Parents of Joel
are allegedly
William &
Elizabeth Cox
Alexander
Keenum
b: Abt 1762
Bedford Co.,
VA
William Mason
b: 1766
m: Jane Ready
(sister-in-law of
Littleberry Cox)
Alexander Keenum
b: ~1725
d: 1778 Bedford Co., VA m: Sarah
John
Keenum
b: Abt 1765
Bedford Co.,
VA
sisters
Littleberry Cox J2
b: 1774
m: 10-20-1796
Massey Ready
Margaret Peggy Keenum b: 6-1809
d: 12-9-1872 m: in Bedford Co, VA
Joel Cox b: 1802
d: 1876 Warren Co., IN
Catherine F. Cox
b: 12-4-1839
Bedford Co., VA
d: 6-3-1921
W. Lafayette, IN
m: 1821 John
Michael Rowe
1872 Benton, IN
1856 Jeremiah
1858 Joel Cox
Joel F. Cox
b: 2-25-1858 d: 1927
Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
William Rowe
1859 John Cox
1862 Mary E.
1864 Margaret J.
William W. Cox
b: 1883 d: 1896
Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
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
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
Wayne
Wayne Cox
b: 8-3-1926 d: 3-28-2008
Jewitt Cemetery, Coles Co., IL
James Cox J2 b: ~1778
m:1 12-10-1800
Elizabeth Farris
m:2 1815 Judith Jones
both of Campbell Co., VA
.
William Richard Cox
b: 2-25-1832
Bedford Co., VA
d: 7-16-1918 Charleston,
Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
m: Hannah Thompson
b: Ross Co., OH
John Aaron Cox
John Cox J2
b: ~1740
m: ~1762 Polly
William Keenum
b: Abt 1767
Bedford Co., VA
William Robert Rowe
d: 1995
m: Living
Joel C. Cox
b: 1842
Bedford Co. VA
d: Bolivar,
Benton Co., IN
m: Ellen
Living
m: Helen Rowe
Living
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
76
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
Elizabeth
Keenum
b: 1806
m: 1830
Eli Cox
Francis (sister)
Keenum
b: 1816
James
Middleton
Keenum
b: 1832
Bedford Co
Margaret Peggy Keenum
b: 6-9-1809 Bedford Co., VA
m: 12-22-1828 Bedford Co., VA
Joel Cox
b: 1802 Botetourt Co., VA
d: 3-1876 Independence,
Warren Co., IN
James Cox J2 b: ~1778
m:1 12-10-1800
Elizabeth Farris
m:2 1815 Judith Jones
both of Campbell Co., VA
Elizabeth Cox 1805
Daughter Cox 1808
Robert M. Cox 1813
m: 1843
Eli Cox
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
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
William Richard Cox
b: 2-25-1832
Bedford Co., VA
d: 7-16-1918 Charleston,
Hutton Twp., Coles Co., IL
m: Hannah Thompson
b: 11-19-1834 Ross Co., OH
Joel F. Cox
b: 2-25-1858
Hutton Twp., Coles Cr., IL
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
”
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
Wayne’s Issue:
Diana Cox
Sheila Cox
William Cox
David Cox
Jerry Cox
Steven Cox
Alfred Wm. Cox 1883-1960
m: 1911 Lola M. Kingery
of Woodbury, IL
Wayne Cox
of Millersville, TN
b: 8-3-1926 d: 3-28-2008
Jewitt Cemetery,
Coles Co, IL
Wayne Cox
John Cox
Frank Cox
Ruby Cox
Lucille Cox
Barbara Cox
Wayne Cox
Opal Cox
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
77
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
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
James R. Cox
William H. Cox
8-31-1805
b: 1819 Campbell Co.,
VA
Erasmus Jones
b: 5-8-1762
Campbell Co., VA
Publius
Jones
d: 1841 Cannon Co., TN
m: Amiah Fuqua
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
1808 July Elizabeth Jones – “ “
William Cox’s sister was Lavinia Ann Sophia Cox,
wife of William McGee of Cannon Co., TN.
d: 1840 Cannon Co., TN
m: 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
James Monroe Cox
b: 1872 Deer Lodge, Morgan
Co., TN
d: 12-30-1922
m: 1898 Gladis,
Morgan Co., TN
m: Mary Elizabeth Spurling
Charles Anthony Cox
b: 1844
m: 7-20-1869 Julia Ann Evans
Woodbury, TN
m: 12-27-1871 Amelia Geneva
Cannon Co., TN
John Riley Cox
b: 6-22-1875 McNairy, TN
d: 1-6-1964
m: 1-9-1901
Mary Etta Woods
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
1861 Elizabeth Cox
1867 William H. Cox
1869 Ela M. Cox
1870 Josephis Cox
1872 James Monroe Cox
1875 John Riley Cox
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
78
CHART 38. John Cox of Virginia down to WW I & II
Valentine Cox
b: Abt 1750 VA d: 1812
John Cox
b: ABT 1740
d: will: 5-22-1821
m: Abt 1762 Polly
m: 3-3-1772 Amherst Co., VA
Nancy Dawson
James A. Cox
b: 6-20-1787
Bedford Co., VA
d: 7-26-1779
Monroe Co., MO
m: 11-14-1811
Elizabeth Gills
Bedford Co., VA
James A. Cox ~1779
Campbell Co., VA
d: 10-3-1840
Cannon Co., TN
Littleberry Cox
b: ABT 1774 VA
d: will: Green Co.,
Kentucky
m: 12-10-1800
Elizabeth Farris
Campbell Co., VA
William A. Farris
d: 5-6-1831, Campbell Co.,
VA
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
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)
. James Reese Cox
b: 8-31-1805
(Film 182,
1830 Census of
Lebanon, TN,
b: 1800-1810
& had 2 sons in
1830)
m: 3-23-1824
Rebecca Routon,
Rowton
b: Lynwood,
Wilson Co., TN
m: 11-11-1826
Lebanon, TN
Lucy Reese Cox
daughter of
William Cox
1827 John Cox
1829 Elizabeth
1830 Joshua Cox
1831 Lucinda
1832 Mary Cox
1838 Robert Cox
1840 Alvina Cox
1842 Martha Cox
William H. Cox
b: 1819
Campbell Co., VA
d: 1863 Cannon Co.,
TN
m: 3-4-1840 Apsley
Cates
Cannon Co., TN
1829 Thomas Reese Cox
1827 Uncle Billy Sterling
1830 Elizabeth Sarah Cox
1832 Harriett Cox
1835 Charles Sims Cox
1837 Martha Jane Cox
1841 Mary Francis Cox
1843 James B. Cox
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
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
79
LITTLEBERRY COX
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)
Augustine Hermon Kankey
b: 1677 Hamburg, Germany
m: Margery Herman
granddaughter of Augustine Herman
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.
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.
Hannah
Husband
Joseph
Husband
Catherine
William
Husband
Husband
Herman Husband
b: 10-03-1724 m:1 1752 Mary Cox
2
m: 7-17-1762 Mary Pugh
Rebecca Cox
b: 1717 Hockessin,
New Castle
Co., DE
William Cox
b: ~1725
Hockessin,
New Castle, DE
m: Juliatha Cox
b: Gunpowder
MM, MD
Mary Kinkey
b: 1704 Cecil Co. MD
m: 5-20-1720
Cecil Co. MD William
Husband
(NC Regulators 1770)
his m:2 Mary Pugh
John
Husband
Margery
Husband
Mary Cox
Martha Cox
b: 1719
b: 1721
Hockessin, New
Hockessin, New
Castle Co., DE
Castle Co., DE
John Cox
Solomon Cox
b: 4-25-1728
b: 1730 New Castle
Mill Creek,
will: 9-19-1810
New Castle
Ross Co., Ohio
m: Mary
m: 1756
Scarlett
Orange Co., NC
Ruth Cox
Thomas
Husband
Ann Husband
Catherine Kinkey
b: Cecil Co. MD
m: 1716
Cecil Co. MD
William Cox Sr.
b: 1692 d: 1767
Orange Co., NC
Mary
Husband
Sarah
Husband
Harmon Cox Sr.
Thomas Cox
b: 1723
b: 1736
Hockessin, New Castle Co., DE
New Castle, DE
1771 leader of Regulators in NC
Catherine Cox
Margery Cox b: 1724
b: 1732
Hockessin, New Castle, DE
Mill Creek,
m: Isaac Nichols
New Castle, DE
(1799 land from Andrew Bryan
who married Catherine Evans,
daughter of Rees Evans)
on Molly’s Cr., Rustburg, VA
d/o Hannah Jenkins
Nathaniel Cox
m: 1779
William Cox
11-12-1757
John Cox
10-14-1767
1758 Lydia Cox
1761 Hannah
Catherine Caty Nichols b: 1748
m: 5-31-1766 James Hatcher
Eli Cox 3-11-1765
Solomon Cox
7-12-1771
Joel Cox 7-7-1778
1802 married
out of unity
near Cane Cr. Mtg.
1774 Mary Ann
1802 inherited land bought from
Andrew Bryan on Molly’s Cr.,
Rustburg, VA. Attended
m: 2-23-1792 Margaret
Brown in Cane Cr.
Mtg.
Guilford Co., NC
Guilford Co., NC
South River Meeting at Lynchburg
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
80
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
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.)
William
Mason
b: Abt 1765
m: 11-221796
Jenny Ready
d/o Nathaniel
John Mason
b: Abt 1773
m: Mahala
Wilson
Mary Jane
Mason
b: Abt 1769
m: 1783
William
Boswell
Sally Mason
b: Abt 1775
m: 8-4-1794
Charles Ready
s/o Mary Dale
Lewis Mason
m: 2-1-1792
Betsy Dale
Reuben
Mason
b: Abt 1770
m: 3-17-1790
Caty
Richardson
Elizabeth
Dale Mason
m: 3-12-1785
James Keenum
Surety by
Richard Dale
Mary “Polly” Haislip
As “Polly Dale”, age 73,
applied for pension in Henry Co., VA
m:1 2-16-1837
Isaac Ready
Charles Ready
(son of Mary
Dale)
m: 8-4-1794
Sally Mason
Bedford Co.
Consent by
Richard &
Mary Dale
m:2 1-16-1784
Richard Dale
b: 12-1-1757 d: 1841
Nancy Ready
m: 7-28-1794
Charles Tony
Bedford Co.
Consent by Richard &
Betsy Dale
m: 2-1-1792
Lewis Mason
surety by Reuben
Mason
b: 1770
Mary 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.
Rhoda Mason
(d/o Rich. & Mary)
b: Abt 1777
m: Wm Frith
Surety, Reuben Mason
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
81
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
Isham Ready
m: 6-3-1799 Mary Garland
in Albemarle Co., VA.
Sally Ready
(unmarried?)
Sabra Ready
m: Robert D. Nash
???
Note: Robert D. Nash witnessed the will of John Cox (Littleberry’s father) in 1821.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
82
CHART 42. From William Cox “the Immigrant” to John Cox
of the Douglas Register (Dover Church)
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.
William Cox b: 1598
m: Elizabeth Hutchins
Mary Cox
b: ~1630
m:1 Matthew Edloe
m:2 John Longfield Burton
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
Elizabeth Cox
b: ~1634
m:1 Robert Porter
m:2 Benjamin Burton
William Cox
b: Abt 1662
Henrico Co.
m: Sarah
Dennis
(No sons or
grandsons named
John or Henry)
William Cox
b: 1688 d: 24 Feb 1734/1735
m: Sarah Cocke b: ~1696
Note: These Coxes should all match the
R1b1 haplo of Henry Cox (m: Judith
Redford) father of Valentine.
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 Johnson
m:2 9-25-1682 Mary
Bartholomew Cox
b: Abt 1663
Goochland Co.,
Powhattan Co., VA
Richard Cox
b: Abt 1664
d: 7-13-1784
of Henrico Co.
Henry Cox
b: Abt 1668
d: 1675
Henrico Co.
m: Rebecca (Baugh?)
~1693 Will: 1731
John Bolling presents
inventory to court
m: 1700
Mary Trent
8 children
No kids.
Parents of
John Cox of Bluestone?
George Cox
Henrico Co.
b: Abt 1672
d: 2-5-1728
m: 10-221691 Martha
Stratton
Bond: John
Bolling
She d: 1734
1685: Four sons of John were over 21
Link needs proof
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
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
Richard Cox
b: ~1714
Henrico Co. VA
(m: ~1734
Alce Hix?)
Elizabeth Cox
b: 2-25-1712/13
Henrico Co. VA
d: 1816 Surry Co. NC
m: ~1731
Strangeman Hutchins
Glaphery Cox
b: ~1735
m: 9-16-1759
Joseph Davis
Obedience Cox
b:~1739
m: November 24, 1757
John Hilton
(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
(Douglas Register)
John Cox b: ~1740
1762 sold land to
Richard Wilkinson
m: 6-22-1766
Elizabeth Fore
(Douglas Register)
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
John Cox Sr.
b: before 1710
d: will dated
9-19-1785
Goochland Co.
Henry Cox
b: ~1741
m:1 1762
Eliz. Richardson
m:2 4-5-1773
Ann Madison
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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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Note: Edward’s son, Trent Cox, peobably named for Mary Trent
Glaffree Cox
Henry Cox
Trent Cox
Nancy Cox
Claiborn Cox
Redford Cox
John Cox
Elizabeth Cox Mullins
Obedience Cox
Curd Cox
b: 1762 Charlotte Co.
d: 11-17-1853
Knox Co., TN
m: 11-17-1782
Susannah Overton
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
Augustus Gus Cox b: 1872
1828 Lavica Jane Cox
m: Belle Agnes Galbraith
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
Enoch Everett Cox d: 1975
Nellie Cox
Mayme
Vesta
Eulilia
Walter
Ted R.
Rosemary Cox
m: Mixon
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/WillOfRic
hardCoxHenricoCoVA_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 1-011710/11.
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
84
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.
1. Isham
Richardson
Got land on
Nodnetts Cr.,
Albemarle Co.
Got his father’s
estate
500 acres on
Little Willises Cr.
William Pegram
Cox
b: 1754 York Co.,
VA
2. John Richardson
Got 800 acres
on Cub Cr., Lunenburg
(Charlotte) Co., VA
m: 1755 Sarah Cook
John Cox
b: 1758
Charlotte Co., VA
John Richardson
d: 9-4-1753 / 9-24-1753
Cumberland Co., VA
m: Mary Curd
3. Elizabeth
Richardson
b: Aft 1732 d: 1773
Got 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
Clement Cox
b: ~1758
Curd Cox
b: ~1762
Charlotte
Co., VA
Edward Curd
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
7.
Sarah
8.
on Buffalow R.
Susannah
m: Joseph
Davis
in Amelia
(Prince
Edward) Co.,
VA
Goochland
Co., VA
9.
Agnes
10.
Frances
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
85
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-ofhenrico-county/
Vestrymen
William Randolph,
Esq
Bowler Cocke
James Powell Cocke
Edward Curd
Milner Redford
b: 1795
John
Cox
b: ~1740
Valentine
Cox
Francis Redford
b: ~1615
m: Ann Lawrence
b: ~1630
William Cox
b: 1598 England
d: 12-14-1656 VA
1610 on the
Godspeed
m: Elizabeth
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
John Worsham
m: Elizabeth
Littleberry
Elizabeth
Worsham
m: 1674
Dr. Richard
Kennon
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
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 (Kennon), Edward Curd, John Pleasants, Thomas Jordan,
George Cox, orphan, Edward Cox, deceased, Richard
Cox, John Bullington, John Redford Sr., Frances Redford, Milner Redford, Samuel Hancock, James Whitloe,
Prudence Cox, Edward Curd, Benjamin Burton, William 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
b: ~1721
b: ~1724
d: 8-15-1785-9
Milner
Cox
Richard
Cox
Mary Cox
m: Fore or
Faure
Obedience Cox
m: Philemon
Perkins
d: 5-15-1769
Higgason Cox Sr.
d: 4-20-1793
Ex: Simon Hancock
Elizabeth Cox
m: Strangeman
Hutchins
Edith Cox
m: James Whitloe
d: 8-7-1727
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
86
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
87
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
Male 45 (-50)
Female 45+
1. Female 16-26
2. Male 16-26
3. Male 16-26
4. Male 16-26
5. Female 10-16
6. Male 10-16
7. Male 0-10
8. Male 0-10
Most Likely Person
Littleberry Cox Sr. b: 1770-1775
Mascelda (Massey) Ready Cox b: 1775-1780
Sally Cox b: abt 1797 (age 23) m: 1819 John Mann
Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 22) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann
Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 20) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen
Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 18) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White
Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 16) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White
John Cox b: 1805 (age 15) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White
Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 5) m: 1838 Emily Noel
(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
Thomas Cox b: 1821 (not born yet) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin
10. Male 0-0
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
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
88
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
1840
1.
2.
Removed to Arkansas 3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
Removed to Missouri 9.
10.
Female 50-60
--Male 20-30
Male 20-30
Male 20-30
----Male 15-20
Male 15-20
Male 10-15
Male 10-15
Mascelda Ready Cox b: 1770-1780
Sally Cox b: abt 1797 (age 33) m: 1819 John Mann
Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 32) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann
Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 30) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen
Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 28) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White
Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 26) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White
John Cox b: 1805 (age 25) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White
Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 15) m: 1838 Emily Noel
Littleberry Nathan Cox Jr. b: 1816 (age 14) m: 2-25-1845
William Cox b: 1817 (age 13) m: abt 1841 Caroline Christensen
Thomas Cox b: 1821 (age 9) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin
Male 70-80
Littleberry Cox Sr. b: 1760-1770
m:2 10-20-1796 Mascelda “Massey” Ready
Mascelda (Massey) Ready Cox b: 1770-1780
Sally Cox b: abt 1803 (age 37) m: 1819 John Mann
Jacob Cox b: 1798 (age 42) m: 9-26-1821 Peggy Mann
Joshua Cox b: 1800 (age 40) m: 11-22-1821 Agnes Christensen
Caleb Cox b: 1802 (age 38) m: 4-10-1823 Susanna White
Judy Cox b: abt 1804 (age 36) m: 3-21-1822 Andrew White
John Cox b: 1805 (age 35) m: 4-2-1836 Malinda White
Charles Cox b: 1815 (age 25) m: 1838 Emily Noel
William Cox b: 1817 (age 23) m: abt 1841 Caroline Christensen
Littleberry Nathan Cox Jr. b: 1816 (age 20) m: 2-25-1845
Thomas Cox b: 1821 (age 19) m: 9-21-1839 Malvina Baldwin
Female 60-70
--Male 40-50
--Male 30-40
--Male 30-40
Male 20-30
Male 20-30
--Male 15-20
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
1798
1798
1800
1802
1804
1805
1815
1817
1820
1821
Age – Where born
52 - VA
52 - KY
(50 - VA)
48 - VA
(46 - KY)
45 - KY
35 - KY
(33 - KY)
(30 - KY)
29 - KY
1850 TAYLOR CO., KY, CENSUS
Sarah Cox
Jacob Cox (not in estate settlement in 1850).
Joshua Cox (age 60, Polk Co., AR, 1860 Census)
Caleb Cox
Juda Cox (Judy Cox White) (Deceased)
John Cox
Charles Cox
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)
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
89
Map of Littleberry Cox Estate on Stoner Creek
Casey Creek
2.5 miles
2 miles
CHART 46. Land Grants of Littleberry’s Family
Littleberry Cox
& Sons
Acres of
Land Grant
Littleberry
Littleberry
Jacob
Jacob
Jacob Sr.
Joshua
Joshua
Caleb
Caleb
73
15
50
87
53
100
135
25
120
Year of
Land Grant
1830
1831
1830
1839
1858
1830
1855
1831
1841
River or Creek
Green R.
Stoners Fork
Green R.
Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Green R.
Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Stoners Cr.
County in
Kentucky
Green
Green
Green
Green
Taylor
Green
Taylor
Green
Green
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
90
Caleb
Caleb
Caleb
Caleb/Jacob
Caleb/Joshua
Caleb/Joshua
Joshua/Squire
Squire
Squire
William (son of Littleberry)
Caroline (wife of Wm.)
John
John Sr.
125
166
100
100
70
200
77
135
20
100
68
200
70
1854
1860
1872
1855
1856
1866
1858
1853
1856
1840
1856
1853
1876
Stoners Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Stoners Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Stoner Fork, Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
Robinson Cr.
E. Fork, Casey’s Cr.
Casey Cr.
Green R.
Stoners Cr.
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Taylor
Casey
Adair
Casey
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
91
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
92
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: 1719
m: Mary Cox d/o William
John or Daniel Goode
b: 1718 Prince Edward Co., VA
m: 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
Elizabeth Campbell Goode
James Campbell Goode
Elizabeth Duncan Goode
Philemon Fleming
Goode
b: 9-16-1774
John Goode
(John Goade)
Sarah Goode
Edward Goode
Margaret Goode
Florida Goode
Richard Young Goode VII
b: 1798 Stokes Co., NC
d: 11-19-1873 Louisville,
Jefferson Co., KY
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: 4-17-1846
Casey Creek, KY d: 2-12-1893, AR
m: John Cox
Note: Another Campbell Goode: 925-1798 land on Goose Creek
Lincoln (Green, now Adair) Co., KY
Estimated ages in 1798:
Fleming 24, Robert 21, Campbell 20
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
93
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
Moses Mann
John Cox
b: ABT 1740
d: will: 5-22-1821
m: Abt 1762 Polly
b: ~1757 Fort Young, Covington, Augusta Co., VA
d: 7-5-1849 Mannsville, KY
m: Frances Bland b: 3-19-1760
John Mann m: 8-5-1819
Sally Cox (sister of Caleb,
Charles and William)
Littleberry Cox
b: ABT 1774
m: 1796 Massey Ready
Caleb Cox
m: Susanna
White
Charles Cox
b: 1815 Green Co., KY
m: Emily Noel
b: ~1818
Littleberry Thomas Cox
m: Nancy J. Gaddis (5 ch.)
m: Mary Jane McDaniels (10 ch)
William Cox b: 1815
d: 10-11-1852 of Typhoid
m: Caroline Christensen
1-24-1839 at Casey Creek
Walker Cox b: ~1843
m: Lucretia Jane Cox
dau of Charles
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)
John Cox
m: Mary
Goode
John Berry Mann b: ~1821
m: 10-15-1839
Sally Eliz. White
dau of Andrew White
Sarah Elizabeth Cox
b: 10-28-1849 Casey Creek, KY
m: David B Mann b: ~1846
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
m:1 1906 Cora Lee Bass
m:2 Flossie Mae Bottom
b: 1880 Casey Co.
dau of James Wm. Bass
& Susanna Noel
(her m:1 1897 M. L. Cox)
Mary Pauline Cox
b: 11-28-1912 Stoner Cr., KY
m: Veachel Compton (1911)
Owen Cox
m:1 Minnie
Bottom
(Flossie & Minnie
are sisters)
Nellie Cox Risico
Eddie Cox (d: WW II)
Rufus Cox (of Detroit area)
Mary Pauline Cox Compton
Ada Cox Pearce
Lola Mann
m:1 Marcus
Tucker
(his m:2 Flossie
Wethington)
Zelma Mann
m:
William Bottom
of Kokomo, IN
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
94
CHART 49. Coxes of Orange Co., Indiana
Charles Cox b: Abt 1776
(Littleberry’s brother)
m: 8-23-1791 Elizabeth Reese
Campbell Co., VA
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. YDNA from a descendant, James T. Cox, does not confirm
this legacy as shown below.
Reuben 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
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)
Thomas Cox
m:1 Abt 1813 Elizabeth Ash
m:2 1858 Mary A. Kirkland
Christopher Cox
m: 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
Joshua Cox
m: Luzena
Beatty
William J.
Cox
4-11-1858
Orange Co.
d: 7-7-1908
m: Martha
Poindexter
Willis
Cox
6-10-1841
m:
11-24-1859
Mary Jane
Flick
Robert
Clinton
Cox
m: Dessie
Sutton
William
Arthur
Cox
6-25-1888
m:
Olive Mae
Owen
James
C. Cox
11-261864
m:
Hester
Weaver
Claude E.
Cox
9-20-1906
French Lick
H.S. 1925
Ernest
Virgil Cox
3-9-1919
Otis Cox
b: 4-6-1894
d: 1973
Orange Co., IN
m: Hazel
Frentress
Richard L.
Cox
b: 6-29-1846
d: 1-15-1916
m: 12-23-1869
Elizabeth
Spaulding
Orange Co., IN
Oscar Cox
b: 3-11-1880
d: 3-28-1970
m: Julia Milburn
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
< Link not
supported by DNA.
See example below.
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
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
1863 Madison Cox
Ray Cox
b: 6-28-1896
Orange Co., IN
m: 3-18-1915
Dubois Co., IN
Helen Alexander
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
Markers of J2 Coxes
1st 12 markers are 13 23 15 09 13
17 11 13 12 12 11 28
17 11 16 13 13 11 29
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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CHART 50. Land Received by Brothers of Littleberry Cox in Wilson Co., TN
Relatives of John
& Polly Cox
Acres
Year
Isham Palmer
William Cox
John Cox from Isham Palmer
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127
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1810
1831
1830
1857
River or Creek
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Jenkins Fork, from his best man
??, from his father-in-law
County in
Tennessee
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
Wilson
John B. Cox (Anderson Cox estate)
East of Lebanon
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
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.
1820 Census
Wilson Co. TN
COX: Charles, John, William (Lebanon, Wilson Co., TN). All 4 on same page.
5-22-1821
7-25-1821
9-22-1822
6-24-1825
8-09-1826
11-11-1826
1835
3-26-1830
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.)
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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1830 Census
Wilson Co., TN
10-27-1836
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
9-30-1849
2-4-1857
11-28-1849
8-30-1865
12-21-1899
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
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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 M67Members in this cluster have paternal line origins in:
Bohemia
France
Germany
British Isles
Italy
Malta
the Netherlands
Switzerland
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Edward Noel
Joseph Noel
Rice Noel
Cornelius Noel
Reuben Noel
Thomas Noel
John Noel b:1721
m: Ann Garnett
of Occupacia,
Essex Co., VA
Esther Noel
m: John
Garnett
James Noel
b: 1717
m: Eliz. Taylor
Thomas Noel
b: 1741 d: 1789 KY
Robert Noel
John Noel
Rebecca Noel
m: 1762
Drucilla (Smith?)
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)
Thomas Garnett
m: Elizabeth Muscoe
b: 1685
Milley Noel
Elizabeth Noel
m: William Smither
1725 Joseph Noel,
Attorney
m: Mary Smither
Richard Noel
b: ~1733
m: Mary Garnett
Larkin Noel
b: 1740
William Noel
James Noel
Tabitha Noel
Anne Noel
Esther Noel
Rose Noel
???
Not Thomas Noel
Elizabeth Noel
Edmund Noel
Sally Noel
Leonard Noel
Callis 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?)
Dudley Noel b: Abt 1782
Mercer Co., Ky
m: 1806 Lucretia Herren
Lincoln Co., KY
Willis b: 1798,
Lucy, Joel, Burrel,
Nancy, & Horace
Noel
Theodrick Noel
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.
Willis Bridges Noel,
Sarah Bridges Noel,
Horrace, Joel, Lucinda,
Emily Noel
(m: Charles Cox)
Artemicia, Henry, Sally, Mary A.,
John, Willis L. B., Nancy, Susanna
(mother of Cora Lee Bass),
Martha, Sam., Paralee & Lucinda Noel
Joel Noel
b: 1814
Mercer Co., Ky
m: 1838 Nancy Chisholm
LittleBerry
Cox
~1774
Caleb
Cox
b: 1802
William
Cox
b: 1829
Green Co., KY
Willis B. Noel
b: 8-14-1850 Mannsville
m: 1878 Eliza Jane Cox
Taylor Co., KY
William McKinley Noel, father of Esther Noel Reed
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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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., where
Isham Palmer Cox, John Cox’s nephew, is buried.)
Isham Palmer got 248 acres, in 1810, on Spring Creek and sold part to John Cox in
1826.
Margaret Reese (b: 1803) daughter of Thomas B. Reese married John Palmer and is
buried in the Palmer Cemetery on Hwy 231 north, on the east side, across from Carroll
Oakland School, in a field.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
99
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
Hiram Ready
b: 12-8-1840
(gr-grandfather of
Linda Ready)
Caleb Cox
b: ~1829 KY
m: Sarah Pirtle, AR
m: Polly Steward
He had a brother,
Littleberry Cox
and brother of
Seaton R. Cox
b: 1837 MO
(1850 Census
Polk Co., AR)
Benton Benj. Cox
b: 3-4-1859 AR
d: 5-21-1942
m: Malissa Guinn
in AR
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)
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
George Cox
(brother of LBN Cox)
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
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, son
of William Cox
who was b: 1817)
m: 1st cousin
Lucretia Jane Cox
b: ~1844
She was a sister of
Samuel Green Cox
b: 2-28-1872 KY
d: 11-3-1920
Randolph Co., AR
Ben Roy Mann
Littleberry Cox
This Littleberry had
twin daughters.
m:
1878 Emma Pointer
b: 11-10-1855
d: 4-24-1940
Taylor Co., KY
m: 10-14-1875
Thomasanne Mings
b: 1857 d: 1939
m: Virginia Harden
Her burial:
Calumet, IN
(Walker & John’s sister)
Zelma Mann
m:
Joseph Ready
b: 10-27-1893
m: Effie Jane Fellows
Gaius Cox
b: 10-12-1882 AR
William Leslie Cox
b: 10-9-1877
d: 1955
m: 4-17-1898
Cordelia Baldwin
John Henry Cox
b: 9-01-1902
Randolph Co., AR
d: 11-11-1985
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,
(he was son of
Sarah Elizabeth Cox,
of Casey Creek, KY
William Bottom
of Kokomo, IN
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY 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 brotherin-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
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
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GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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.
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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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
104
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
GRANDFATHER OF
LITTLEBERRY COX
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