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In presence of Gawin Drummond Thomas Parker Tho. Webley
his (Signed) Ebenezer + Cooke mark her Mary + Cooke mark
Issue by first husband
Faith Patterson, born Jan. 20, 1656; died Nov. 30, 1683; married William Worth.
Ralph Patterson; baptized Jan. 13, 1655/6. Peter Hobart's Diary.
Mary Patterson: signs, as such, Dec. 12, 1688; married prior to Apr. 26, 1695, Ebenezer, son of Thomas and Mary (Havens) Cook.
Issue by second husband*
Sarah Huet; married, July 7, 1692, John, son of John and Ann (Barber) Lippin- cott, born May 14, 1670. (Joseph?) IIuet; married Mary
13 HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, son of John Chamberlain, 7, born Feb. 3, 1659, in Boston, Mass .; married Ann, daughter of Robert and Elizabeth West, of Shrewsbury, N. J .; died Jan. 1691/2.
1680, Mch. 20. Calling himself the eldest son of John Chamberlain, deceased, of Rhode Island, Henry Chamberlain sold all his interest in his father's estate in Rhode Island to Valen- tine Huddlestone, of Newport.
1687, Mch. 25. Henry Chamberlain is mentioned as bounding certain lands patented to George Corlies and John Havens, of Shrewsbury , N. J.
*For other data concerning this second marriage see undder Huet, in Historical Miscellany.
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1687, Sep. 4. Will of Edmund Lafetra of Shrewsbury refers to Joseph West, Robert West, Frances Stout, Mary Cammock and Ann Chamberlin as "children."
16SS, Feb. 14. Anne Chamberline filed the inventory of the estate of Henry her husband, of Manasquan, amounting to £42, 14, made by Nicholas Brown, Thomas Wainwright, Edward Williams and Thomas Webley.
1688/9, Feb. 15. Anne Chamberlaine, widow, with Joseph West as her fellow bondsman, gave surety to administer the estate of Henry Chamberlain, of Shrewsbury.
1691/2, Jan. 15. Will of Ann Chamberlin, which she signed by her mark, of Shrowesbury, widow of Henery, proved Jan. 25, 1691/2, mentions:
Son John Chamberlain, not of age, giving him land at Long Branch,and Shrewsbury; in case of his having no heirs then this is to go to "my brother Robert and my brother Joseph."
An equal division of her wearing clothes is to be made "among my sisters."
"My sisters that are by my Mother's [side]."
My brothers Joseph West and Nathaniell Cammock, executors.
Desires that her son live with "her mother," "and in her absence I committ him to ye protection of God & my executors."
Witnesses Sarah Reape, Mary Williams, Edward Williams, Thomas Webley.
1691/2, Jan. 30. Inventory of the personal estate of Ann Chamberlain made by Nicholas Brown, John Williams, Allen Collwell and Thomas Webley. To this inventory is attached a note signed by Thomas Webley which states that Joseph West was "at all the trouble and charge for the apprisement and severall things as ffunerall charges &t."
1692, June 2Sth and 29th. At a Court held at Middletown, the Grand Jury made a present- ment against Jedediah Allen for threatening speeches "to the widow Chamberlain, late de- ceased, which she did say was the instrumental cause of her death, upon her death bed."
And at a later term the Court sent a bill to the Grand Jury against Jedediah Allen, of Shrewsbury, with instructions to indict him for "using threatening speeches to Ann Chamber- lain, of the same place, which she said was the cause of her death."
1692, Dec. 29. Joseph West gave bond to administer the estate of Ann Chamberlain, Thomas Webley and Thomas Hearse being his fellow bondsmen.
The will of Ann Chamberlain is of the greatest assistance in helping to distinguish the children of Robert West Sr. by his first wife Elizabeth from the children of his second wife Frances. For when she so clearly makes a distinction between her "sisters" and her "sisters by her mother's side, " it at once places Elizabeth West. Mary the wife of Nathaniel Cammock and herself as daughters of Robert and Elizabeth West in contradistinction to Frances the wife of Richard Stout as a daughter of Ann's step mother (who was then the wife of Edmund Lafe- tra but formerly the second wife of Robert West), together with the daughter of Edmund Lafetra and this same Frances, viz. Sarah Lafetra.
An unfortunate mistake in Salter's History has given rise to the idea that Frances, the widow of Robert West Sr. and afterwards of Edmund Lafetra, was the daughter of James Heard. This has come from the will of Edmund Lafetra being printed under the name of James Heard, where it does not belong. Aside from this displacement there is not the slightest par- ticle of evidence to show that she ever bore the name of Heard.
Issue
18 John Chamberlain; died 1739; married Rebecca Morris.
14 WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, son of John Chamberlain, 7, born about 1661; died prior to July 8, 1717; married, it is said, a daughter of Nathaniel Raulins.
1686, Mch. 20. He witnessed the deed of Henry Chamberlain to Valentine Huddlestone.
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1687, Nov. 19. William Chamberlaine, cooper, of Shrewsbury, gave a deed to Edward Woolley of the same place, for all his right, title, etc., in one hundred acres of land that had been patented to him and Robert West, of Shrewsbury, Aug. 12, 1685.
1691, Dec. 10. William Chamberlain was one of the witnesses to the will of Nathaniel Raulins, of Elizabeth, N. J., in which a wife and children are spoken of but not named.
1692, June 28. At a Court held at Middletown the Grand Jury found a bill against Stephen Cook: "for violently abusing Mary Chamberlain." This would seem to have been the wife of William Chamberlain, since, at the same term, a presentment was made by them against John Slocum for "using threatening speeches to William Chamberlain."
Issue
. 19 Henry Chamberlain, of Long Branch. 20 William Chamberlain, of Barnegat.
18 JOHN CHAMBERLAIN, son of Henry Chamberlain, 13, was born prior to 16SS, for that was about the time when his father died, and he sells land in 1709, when he must have been of age to do so. Unfortunately the date of his birth is not obtainable from the Quaker records of Shrewsbury, for the entry of his birth is so worn away that all that can be read is that he was born in Shrewsbury, on the 17th day of the month. Under burials, as entered in the register of Christ Church, Shrewsbury, we find, as of the date Sep. 2, 1739, "Then Interd the Corps of John Chamberlain Near his House at Deal."
He married Rebecca, the daughter of Lewis Morris, of Passage Point, and Elizabeth (Almy) his wife, and administration was granted to her on his estate, Nov. 27, 1739, her brother John Morris going upon her bond.
A most painstaking and careful investigation at Trenton, Freehold, Shrewsbury, and in Hunterdon Co., of the Chamberlain family has rendered it convincingly evident that down to at least 1750, the descendents of but one man of the name were resident in New Jersey, viz .: those of John Chamberlain, 7, the son of Henry, of Hingham, Mass.
Of the three surviving sons of John Chamberlain, 7, Henry, 13, William, 14, and their half brother Peleg, 16, the last named spent some time in New Jersey prior to the opening of the ISth century, but returned to Newport, R. I., where he lived for many years, while Henry and William settled in Monmouth Co., probably soon after reaching their majority, and died there, Henry about 1688. leaving an only son, John, 18. and William not later than 1717, when his son Henry chose his cousin John, 18, for his guardian. What other children William may have had cannot now be determined, except that there was a William Chamberlain who had a son, named after himself, born in 1723. As he could not have been a son of Henry, 13, we must regard him as his nephew, or son of William, 14. In all the records examined of many kinds, there is not another Chamberlain mentioned who could have been a son of William, except these two, Henry and William. So that in the second generation of Chamberlains on the Jersey soil we have no more to take into account than these three, John, Henry and William. If there were any others they either died without leaving a record of themselves, even to their names, or else removed away from New Jersey completely.
This being the case it makes it comparatively easy to fix with certainty upon John as having been the father of those Chamberlains of the next generations who settled in Hunterdon Co., at or near the time of the death of the said John Chamberlain. He was the only one oid enough to have children in 1711 who was surviving in 1732.
In 1709, John Chamberlain, calling himself a single man, and son of Henry Chamberlain, deceased, sells to Thomas Layton the fifty acres in Passaquenecqua Purchase that had been his father's. This left him still with his share in the tract of land near Long Branch that had been
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purchased jointly by his father and his uncle William Chamberlain, 14. And from 1733 10 1737 he paid interest upon a mortgage on part of this land, which was bounded east by the sea, and west by Henry Chamberlain, who, without doubt, was the son and heir of William Chamber- lain, and he who had chosen John .Chamberlain for his guardian, in 1717, when over the age of fourteen years, but not having yet reached his majority.
John Chamberlain served on the grand jury repeatedly over a long period of years. And from an exact comparison of the several signatures to be found of that name it can be safely deduced that there was but one John Chamberlain in Monmouth Co. at that time. Of the three Chamberlain men in this generation John was evidently the eldest, and had reached his majority prior to or in the year 1709, when he sold the Passequenecqua tract. And doubtless it was shortly after this sale that he married his wife, Rebecca Morris. For there are five Chamber- lains, John, Lewis, Richard, Henry, and Joseph, whose births fell between 1711 and 1732, that have every appearance of being brothers, (and the evidences to that effect are not a few), who must have been the sons of John and Rebecca Chamberlain. True, their names are not to be found in the settlement of John's estate, but not a paper is discoverable relating to any such settlement. These five appear together in Hunterdon Co., at about the time of John's death. Together they are found afterwards in Middlesex Co. at or near Windsor. The names of two of them, Lewis and Henry, are indicative of their having been called so after their grand- fathers, while John was so called after his father, and Richard after his mother's brother. Richard Morris. Joseph is known to have been a brother to Henry. Henry and Richard pur- chase 1700 acres of land together in 1747. Lewis is a witness on a deed given there by Richard. John, in 1748, witnesses a deed given by Henry, and in 1774 testifies that he had done so. And, as clinching the whole argument, the signature in 1748 of John Chamberlain, is the same pre- cisely as that of the John Chamberlain who became surety on the bond for the marriage license of Jediah Stout and Philena Chamberlain, Jan. 13, 1744/5. But Philena Chamberlain could only have been the sister of these men, and bore a name which is to be found in the Almy family, from which Rebecca, their mother, is descended; in fact Rebecca (Morris) Chamber- lain was own cousin to Philena Townsend, the daughter of Rebecca (Almy) Townsend. And Philena is such an unusual name that it would seem as if there were warrant enough in assert- ing that it alone is sufficient to demand the recognition of the descent of these five Chamber- lain men from some member of the Almy family. They all five left wills, and like their father, John, had good signatures, whereas most of the other East Jersey Chamberlains were compelled to make their mark.
Issue
21 John Chamberlain Esq., of Hunterdon Co., later of Windsor, Middlesex Co., N. J.
22 Lewis Chamberlain, born probably between 1710 and 1714: married Lucretia Woolsey.
23 Richard Chamberlain, of Windsor, Middlesex Co., in 1747; married Mary, daughter of Freegift and Mary (Higgins) Stout.
24 Henry Chamberlain, born 1725; of Windsor in 1747; married and had
Issue Philena Chamberlin
25 Joseph Chamberlain, born 1732.
26 Philena Chamberlain; married, by license dated Jan. 13, 1744/5, Jediah, son of Freegift and Mary (Higgins) Stout.
19 HENRY CHAMBERLAIN, son of William Chamberlain, 14.
1717, July 8. Henry Chamberlain, son of William Chamberlain. chose John Chamber- lain as his guardian, and letters of guardianship were issued to him.
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1733. He owned land at Long Branch to the west of John Chamberlain. Issue
27 Henry Chamberlain: called Senior, late in life, to distinguish him from his nepbew. Henry Jr., born in 1766.
28 William Chamberlain. born 1734; buried at Long Branch; married and had Issue Henry Chamberlain Jr., born 1766, of Long Branch, N. J. John Chamberlain; died without issue.
William Chamberlain Jr., of Long Branch, N. J.
20. WILLIAM CHAMBERLAIN, son of William Chamberlain, 14.
1749, May 26. William Chamberlain of Barnegat, Sr., was baptized, and two days later his daughter, Zilphia. living with Mr. Osburn, was also baptized.
1759. On the Shrewsbury tax list for this year appear the names of William Chamberlain Sr., William Chamberlain Jr., William Chamberlain and James Chamberlain. Seemingly the third of these names is not a duplicate of either of the first two, but probably referred to William, 28, the son of Henry and nephew of William Sr.
In his will dated 1765, proved 1770, he mentioned:
Issue
29 William Chamberlain Jr., born 1723; died 1759; married, by license dated Dec. 22, 1746, Catherine Longstreet, and had
Issue Richard Chamberlain, baptized May 18, 1748. And other children.
30 Samuel Chamberlain
31 Thomas Chamberlain, baptized May 21, 1748; married, by license dated May 4, 1767, Catharine Grant.
32 James Chamberlain, baptized May 6, 1750.
33 John Chamberlain; married, by license dated Dec. 1, 1749, Mary Grant, baptized May Q. 1750; and had
Issue
Ann Chamberlain, baptized May 9, 1750, aged 3 mos.
34 Valeriah Chamberlain, baptized May 21, 1748, aged 15 years; married, by license dated Aug. 17, 1752, Uriah Lippincott; died 1759/60.
35 Zilphia Chamberlain; married by license dated May 30, 1755, Ephraim Bates.
22 LEWIS CHAMBERLAIN, son of John Chamberlain. IS. born probably between 1710 and 1714; of Amwell, Hunterdon Co., before 1740; married Lucretia Woolsey; died Jan. . 1812, aged 98 years, or by other accounts, over 100 years.
Issue
36 Anne Chamberlain; married Mr. Sutphen.
37 Uriah Chamberlain, born 1755.
38 William Chamberlain, born Sep. 25, 1736.
39 John Chamberlain; married Mary, daughter of David and Elizabeth (Larrison) Stout.
COWARD
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
From somewhat untrustworthy sources, it is stated that Hugh Coward was of Bristol, England, and later, a resident near the city of Manchester, in the same country. Further, that he was a Captain in the Royal Navy, and that he died about the year 1760, in this country. [Evidence of Rebecca Meirs, a daughter or grand-daughter of the Rev. John Coward, when this family was in quest of a Coward estate in England.]
1 HUGH COWARD married Patience Throckmorton, by license granted July 6, 1703. Issue 2 Rev. John Coward
2 REV. JOHN COWARD, son of Hugh Coward, I, died July 13, 1760. He married Alice Fitz-Simons, of England, who died Oct. 30, 1766.
1760, June 12. Will of John Coward, yeoman, of Upper Freehold; proved Sept. 12, 1760, mentioned:
Wife, Alice; £50, and a negro wench.
Son, John, Jr .; a plantation; he to pay £1200 to his estate.
Son, Joseph; £5co.
Son, Jonathan; a plantation.
Son, Thomas Daughter, Alice Brown
Daughter, Deliverance Fitz Randolph
Daughter, Patience Coward
Daughter, Rebecca Coward Daughter, Elizabeth Coward He devised negroes to each of his children.
He made a fine signature to his will.
Issue
3 John Coward, born Aug. 26, 1728; died Apr. 13, 1777.
4 Joseph Coward, born Oct. 25, 1729; died, aged ..... months.
5 Joseph Coward, born Jan. 26, 1731; died July 26, 1798.
6 Thomas Coward, born Sept. 1, 1732; dicd, aged 4 years.
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7 Samuel Coward, born Apr. 27, 1734; died Feb. 21, 1759.
8 Alice Coward, born May 13, ... .; died Mch. 23, 1810.
9 Deliverance Coward, born Nov. 24, 1737; died Feb. 13, 1787.
IO Patience Coward, born Sept. 7, 1740.
II Rebecca Coward, born Oct. 27, 1742.
12 Thomas Coward, born Apr. 14, 1745; died Jan. 10, 1775. His inventory is dated 1775; Tobias Hendrickson, administrator.
13 Elizabeth Coward, born Apr. 14, 1746.
14 Jonathan Coward, born Dec. 28, 1748.
5 JOSEPH COWARD, son of the Rev. John Coward, 2, born Jan. 26, 1731; died July 26, 1798; married Lucretia Scudder.
Issue
15 Elizabeth Coward, born Apr. 13, 1756.
16 Joseph Coward, born Jan. 9, 1758.
17 Samuel Coward, born Nov. 2, 1759; died Oct. 23, 1811.
18 Jacob Coward, born Apr. 17, 1763.
19 John Coward, born Mch. 8, 1765.
20 Ruth Coward, born Sept. 2 or 3, 1761.
21 Alice Coward, born Mch. 7 or 9, 1763, [1767].
22 Enoch Coward, born Apr. 1, 1768.
23 Lucretia Coward, born Apr. 5, 1770.
24 Alice Coward, born Dec. 3, 1772, or 1780; died Apr. 21, ISII.
25 John Coward, born Nov. 1, 1775, or 1785.
26 Thomas Coward, born May 2, or 20, 1779; died Aug. 14, 1862.
The confusion in this record is such as to leave one in doubt what dates are correct.
14 JONATHAN COWARD, son of Rev. John Coward, 2, married Theodosia Brown.
Issue
27 Samuel Coward; married Elizabeth Taylor.
28 Jonathan Coward, Jr .; married Mary Emley.
29 Clayton Coward; married Elizabeth Darby.
30 Daniel Coward; married ..... , had one child; dead.
31 Noah Coward; married Catharine Taylor, sister of Elizabeth.
22 ENOCH COWARD, son of Joseph Coward, 5, born Apr. 1, 1768. Issue
32 Enoch L. Coward; married
32 ENOCH L. COWARD, son of Enoch Coward, 22, married Issue
33 Samuel Coward, Esq.
34 William T. Coward
35 Enoch L. Coward.
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TAYLOR RECORD*
1 JOHN [?] TAYLOR married Ann Benhan.
Issue
2 John Taylor, born Aug. 9, 1763; died Apr. 28, 1833. He had probably half brothers and sisters. He married Mary Ellison, born Jan. 2, 1758.
Issue
3 Catharine Taylor, born June 3, 1785.
4 Ann Taylor, born Nov. 5, 1786.
5 Mary Taylor, born June 4, 1787.
6 Katharine Taylor, born Aug. 9, 178 -; married Noah Coward. She died June 5, 1829.
7 John Taylor, born Nov. 11, 17 -.
8 Joseph Taylor, born Dec. 3, 179 -; died 1820.
9 Elizabeth Taylor, born Aug. 29, 1801; married Samuel Coward. She is still living, (August 1894), with her son, Forman Coward, at Cream Ridge, N. J.
NOTES.
Charles Eldridge, Esq., of Prospertown, N. J., has the old Coward Bible.
The Cowards tried for an English estate; sent Wyckoff Hendrickson, Esq., deceased, to England. They say that he got rich, and that they got nothing. He kept all the papers. They were gotten together by Mrs. Ottison's grandmother, and are now probably all destroyed.
Isaac C. Kennedy, Esq., of Asbury Park, N. J., possesses information concerning the Coward Family.
The Rev. Morgan Edwards made the following statement about the Rev. Hugh Coward (2), which, as he was nearly a contemporary, is likely to be correct :
1760, July 30. Hugh, son of Capt. Hugh Coward, died. His wife was Alce Britton and they had children: John, Joseph, Samuel, Alce, Deliverance, Patience, Rebecca, Thomas, Elizabeth and Jonathan, who formed alliances with the Coxes, Scudders, Browns, Randolphs, Sayres, Hendricksons, Applegates and Sills, and have raised him fifty-eight grandchildren, and they a generation of forty-eight.
Morgan Edwards' Materials to a History of the Baptist Church. .
*From an old Bible owned by Forman Coward, Esq., Cream Ridge, N. J.
COX
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
THOMAS COX, a native of Herefordshire, England, settled upon Long Island, N. Y., where he married Elizabeth Blashford, of Maspeth Kills, by license dated Apr. 22, 1665. It is said that he was a brother of John Cox, who was drowned, in the Pisarcke River, in 1674.
There were numerous others of the name of Cox who settled in Burlington, Salem, Middle- sex, Essex, Gloucester. Hunterdon and Cape May Counties, New Jersey, to whom there are many allusions in the published State Archives, as well as settlers of like name in New York, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, Maine and Virginia. It is doubtful whether they are of kin, and no attempt has been made to connect them.
With the development of New Jersey, Thomas Cox, of Maspeth Kills, joined, with others, in their migration to the Monmouth Tract.
1667. Thomas Cox, of Middletown, one of the first settlers, bought land of the Indians.
1668. Thomas Cox, with three others, was chosen to make prudential laws for the newly formed settlement of Middletown.
1675. Thomas Cox and his wife, received for their rights as first settlers, two hundred and forty acres of land.
1676. Thomas Cox received a grant of two hundred and sixty-nine acres of land, in Middle- town.
Thomas Cox was frequently a Juryman. Freehold Records.
1681, Aug. 16. Inventory of the estate of Thomas Cox, of Middletown, was taken, and amounted to £20, real, and £45-17-o, personal estate.
Thomas Cox was a man of ability, education and prominence. He, apparently, died young. His widow, Elizabeth Cox, was married by Capt. John Bowne, Justice, Sept. 9, 1681, to Thomas Ingraham. Feb. 26, 1688/9, in an allusion to this marriage, it is stated that she carried with her six children, two very small. She was shortly again a widow, for Ingraham died about 1690.
Issue
2 Thomas Cox
3 John Cox
4 James Cox, born Aug. 18, 1672.
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5 Joseph Cox
6 .. Cox, who probably married Nathaniel Robbins, and had: Issue
Sarah Robbins mentioned in the will of Thomas Cox, in 1723.
Meribah Robbins j
Cox, who may have become the wife of Ebenezer Cook, who died, in 1711, 7
but of which I have found no proof.
2 THOMAS COX, son of Thomas Cox, I, died 1722/3.
1695. Thomas Cox, of Middletown, planter, for forty shillings, and brotherly love, con- veyed land to his brother, James Cox, lately owned by their father, Thomas Cox. To this deed Thomas Cox made his mark.
169S. Thomas Cox was appointed administrator of the estate of Walter Wright, late of Middletown, with Jarrat Wall, as his bondsman.
1722/3, Feb. 16. Will of Thomas Cox, of Freehold, yeoman; proved Mch. 25, 1723, mentioned:
To his three children: Thomas Cox, his son and heir, Mary Lawrence, and Lidy Cox, each £50, and his son £50 additional.
To my daughter Catharine's husband, Cornelius Vanhorn, and to her son, Thomas Vanhorn, legacies. To my loving wife, Mary, a legacy.
My brother. John Cox; my cousins, Sarah and MIeribah, daughters of Nathaniel Robbins. deceased. Executors: his wife, and following her, his son, Thomas Cox.
Sets aside an acre of land, on the hill above the orchard where " my Children lyes buried," for a burial place for his and his brother John's family.
Witnesses: Elias Holman, Thomas Taylor, James Cox and Robert Lawrence.
1722/3, Mch. 15. An inventory of his personal estate amounted to £630-13-2.
His widow survived him many years.
1731, Apr. I. Widow Cox held lands in Upper Freehold.
1758, October. Mary Cox, widow, held one hundred and seventy acres of land, in Upper Freehold.
She was Mary ..... , and perhaps was the sister of Thomas Wright, of Shrewsbury, which I infer from the fact that Thomas Cox, her husband, settled the estate of Walter Wright, but more especially from a paper, referring to a controversy, concerning the title to lands, between the Stouts, Wrights, Walls and Coxes, which appears under the Leeds Family.
In the will of Mary Cox, the widow of Thomas Cox, it is stated that she is about eighty- six years of age, and as the will was written in 1757, it would make her born about the year 1671.
1757, Aug. 6. Will of Mary Cox, widow of Thomas Cox, deceased, of Upper Freehold, about 86 years of age; proved 1760, mentioned:
Her son and heir, Thomas Cox, received 6 shillings.
William Cheesman, son of my daughter, Lydia, received 6 shillings.
Her two grandsons, Richard and Thomas Cox, received 6 shillings, each.
Her two grand-daughters, Elizabeth and Rebecca Cox, received £5, each.
Other grandchildren, Thomas Vanhorne, Joseph Lawrence, Mary Lawrence and Elizabeth Hutcheson, the balance of her estate.
She willed money for the use of the Baptist congregation in Upper Freehold, for relief of traveling Baptist ministers, repairs to building, etc.
Executors: Iler grandson, Richard Cox, and John Coward, Jr.
1760, July 29. Inventory of Mary Cox, widow, of Upper Frechold, amounted to
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£1472-15-3. [Elsewhere the amount is given as £1471-15-5.] Among the items were " mort- gages, bonds and bills," amounting to £1332-6-4.
Issue
8 Catherine Cox, born Sept. 20, 1695; married Cornelius Van Horn.
9 Mary Cox, born Nov. 5. 1696; married Benjamin Lawrence.
IO Elizabeth Cox, born July [20] 30, 1698.
II Thomas Cox, born June 23, 1700.
12 Alice Cox, born July 22, 1702.
13 John Cox, born Mch. 27, 1706.
14 Lydia Cox, born Oct. 2, 1709; married Joseph Cheeseman.
3 JOHN COX, son of Thomas Cox, I.
John Cox was one of the founders of the Baptist Church, of Middletown, N. J.
1715. He was a Grand Juror, at Freehold.
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