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1782, May 15. Thomas Cox made his will and mentioned: wife's brother, Lawrence Taylor's daughter, Hannah; four brothers, Samuel, James, Asher and Ezek Cox; wife's sister, Mehitable Kinan's daughter, Deborah.
Issue
Lewis Cox; died, June 24, 1774, aged 4, 6, 2.
56 ANNE COX, daughter of Joseph Cox. 27, was born Mch. 10, 1745, and died June 29, 1793. She married John Hendrickson by license dated Nov. 14, 1763.
Issue
Catherine Hendrickson; married Mr. Pew, and moved to New York.
57 ASHER COX, son of Joseph Cox, 27, was born Nov. S, 1746; died. Mch. 16, IS12, aged 66, 4, 6; married, by license dated Sept. 28, 1768, Rebecca Holmes. He was deacon of the old church, in place of his brother, Thomas Cox, in 1782.
18II, July 31. Will of Asher Cox, of Freehold; proved, at Freehold, Mch. 24, 1812, by the executors, mentioned :
Loving wife; unnamed.
Son, Samuel Cox, who had moved to Kentucky.
Son, Aaron Cox
Son, Asher Cox
Daughter, Hannah
Daughter, Mary
Daughter, Catherine Daughter, Amy
Executors: Son Aaron. and "my son-in-law, Thomas Britton."
Witnesses: Geo. Williams, Samuel Imlay and Mary Imlay. Freehold Wills, Book A., p. 485. He signed his full name, Asher Cox, to the will.
Issue
88 Asher Cox. born 1779: died, Apr. 16, 1856, aged 76, 4, 20.
89 Samuel Cox
90 Aaron Cox, born 1774; died, April 4. 1814, aged 39, 11, O.
91 Hannah Cox
92 Mary Cox
93 Catharine Cox
94 Amy Cox
58 JOSEPH COX, son of Joseph Cox, 27, was born Feb. 5, 1748; died November, 1776; married Charity Forman.
Issue
95 Charity Cox; named in the will of her grandfather, Joseph Cox, in 1786, as grand- daughter, Charity Cox, not yet eighteen years of age.
59 SAMUEL COX, son of Joseph Cox, 27, was born Mch. 2, 1750; died Oct. 31, 1785.
He was for four years a Member of Congress.
He married Priscilla Holmes, of Holmesburg.
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Issuc
96 Enoch Cox; died, in Augusta, Ga .; had a daughter, Jane Cox, who married James J. Wilson.
97 Hannah Cox; unmarried.
98 Mary Cox; married Rev. Edward Welsh, of Trumbull County.
60 BRIGADIER-GENERAL JAMES COX. son of Joseph Cox, 27, was born Oct. 16, 1753; died Sept. 12, 1810; married Ann Potts, 2nd Mo., 29th day, 1776. She was a daughter of William Potts by his wife, Amy Borden. and a grand-daughter of Joseph Borden, and a great-grand-daughter of Thomas Potts, who came, in 1678, in the ship "Shield," the first to drop anchor before Burlington, N. J. She, Ann Potts, was born Feb. 13, 1757.
General James Cox was born at Cox's Corners and died at Upper Freehold, N. J. He served several times as a member of the Legislature, and was Speaker of the Assembly.
He commanded a company of militia during the Revolution. and was present at the battles of Germantown and Monmouth. Subsequently he was a Brigadier-General of militia.
His death took place, while he was a Member of Congress, from New Jersey, 1809-1810. General James Cox died Sept. 12, 1810, aged 56, 10, 26. "He reared up a numerous off- spring, was 34 years a member of the Baptist Church, held many distinguished offices both civil and military and died suddenly." From his tomb-stone in Yellow Meeting House church- yard.
Issue
99 William Cox, born Mch. 29, 1777; died, July 28, 1803, "in 27th year."
100 Joseph Potts Cox, born Sept. 28, 1778.
IOI Lewis Cox, born Apr. 27, 1780; died Apr. 3, 1835.
102 James Cox, born Jan. 27, 1782; died, Jan. 22, ISO8, aged 25, II, 26.
103 Mary Cox married John Vandevere, and died Mch. 29, 1820. born Dec. 19, 1783.
104 Amy Cox died Sept. 3, 1834; married David Bateman, of Zanesville, O.
105 Thomas Cox, born July 8, 1787; died Dec. 21, 1813.
106 Rev. Samuel Jones Cox, born Nov. 2, 1789; died Aug. 23, 1870; married Hannah Lodge.
107 David Jones Cox ) died, Aug. 20, 1827, at Shelbyville, Ind. born July 28, 1792.
108 Jonathan Cox died, September, 1818, at St. Charles, Mo .; married Rosina Blake.
109 Ezekiel T. Cox, born May 25, 1795.
IIO Morgan Rhees Cox, born Nov. 27, 1798; died Jan. 11, 1881; married Mary Rittenhouse.
III Horatio J. Cox, born Aug. 14, 1801; died, Mch. 6, 1883, at Columbus, O .; mar- ried Ann Chambers.
61 EZEKIEL COX, son of Joseph Cox, 27, was born Oct. 4, [14], 1757; died Apr. 12, 1805 [1815]; married Rachel, daughter of James and Rebecca (Mount) Sexton, prior to Aug. 20, 1784.
Patience, daughter of James Sexton, deceased, in her will, Mch. 5, 1792, proved May 26, 1792, leaves legacies to Esek Cox's daughter, Mary Cox: to Ann Cox and to Rebecca Cox. Also to her brothers Peter Sexton and James Sexton, not 21 years of age. Appoints executors her sister, Rebecca Sexton and Win. Emley, Jr.
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Will of Rebecca Sexton, of Upper Freehold, June 24, 1806; proved July 28, 1808; mentioned: sons Peter Sexton, James Sexton; daughter Rachel, wife of Esek Cox and daughter-in-law Deborah Sexton, wife of her son James.
Issue
112 Mary Cox
113 Ann Cox; married Mr. Beatty.
114 Rebecca Cox
115 Joseph Cox, who died about 1801, leaving a will recorded at Trenton, N. J.
116 Catherine Cox; married George J. Miles.
65 JOSEPH COX, son of Thomas Cox, 33, in his will of 1767, of Reddington, Hunter- don County, mentioned his sisters. He had seven children, among them a son.
Issue
117 Thomas Cox, born 1765.
68 MAJOR RICHARD COX, son of Colonel Richard Cox, 35, was born 1754; died. Mch. 9, 1816, at Mount Holly. He served in the New Jersey line during the Revolutionary War. His wife was Jane Rose, a twin daughter of Dr. Alexander Rose.
Issue
118 Marion Hannah Cox; married, Rev. W. Holland Wilmer, in 1826, President of William and Mary College, Virginia.
Issue
W. P. Wilmer Jane Wilmer; married Dr. Bull.
Richard Hooker Cox Wilmer
Maria Wilmer; married Rev. John Brusse. Rev. George Wilmer
119 Alexander Cox
120 William Cox
71 THOMAS COX, son of Colonel Richard Cox, 35, was born Sept. 3, 1760; married, Elizabeth Comes, Oct. 3, 1782, by Mr. Smith, of Cranbury.
They moved to Kentucky.
Issue
121 Thomas Cox
122 Charles Cox
123 Harriet Cox
124 Elizabeth Cox
In the Yellow Meeting House Yard appear the following records, which may refer to Thomas Cox and his wife:
Thomas Cox, Esquire, died, Jan. 16, 1825, aged 63 years, 3 months and 26 days.
Elizabeth, widow of Thomas Cox, died, Sept. 14, 1840, aged 74 years and 7 months.
73 JOHN COX, son of Colonel Richard Cox, 35.
Issue 125 Richard Cox
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126 Edward Cox
127 Samuel Cox
78 THOMAS COX, son of Thomas Cox, 36, was born Sept. 19, 1761; married Elizabeth ., who died, Sept. 14, 1840, aged 74 years and 7 months. He died Jan. 16, 1825, aged 63, 3, 26.
Issue
128 Jemima Cox, born Oct. 9, 1788; died, Sept. 15, 1816, aged 27 years, 11 months and 6 days.
129 Thomas H. Cox, born Mich. 5, 1791; died Jan. 16, 1834; married Leah Applegate. 130 Sarah Cox, born Apr. 26, 1793; died, July 3, 1811, aged 21 years, 2 months and 7 days. 131 Ann Cox, born Oct. 4, 1795; died, July 7, 1812, aged 16 years, 9 months and 8 days.
132 Ann Maria Cox, born Dec. 28, 1800; died, Sept. 28, 1816, aged 15 years and 9 months.
84 JOSHUA COX, son of Thomas Cox, 36, was born Mch. 4, 1774; died, Apr. 30, 1838, aged 64 years; married Lucretia Giberson, who died, Sept. 9, 1842, aged 61 years, 10 months and 14 days.
Issue
133 Sarah Cox; married Joshua Norton.
134 Harriet Cox; married Peter Wyckoff.
135 Catherine Cox; married Rev. William D. Hires.
100 JOSEPH POTTS COX, son of General James Cox, 60, was born Sept. 28, 1778; died July 25, 1830. He was of Hamilton County, Ohio. He married, Jan. 19, 1800, Deborah, daughter of Richard and Mehitable Kinnan.
Issue
136 Mary Cox, born Nov. 10, 1800. 137 James Cox, born Sept. 6, 1802.
138 Joseph Bloomfield Cox, born Sept. 6, 1804.
139 Ann Cox, born Dec. 26, 1806.
101 LEWIS COX, son of James Cox, 60, was born Apr. 27; 1780; died aged 54, 11, 7, Apr. 3, 1835; married Jan. 14, 1807, Elizabeth, daughter of James and Mary Lawrence, born Dec. 29, 1785; died June 3, 1861.
Issue
140 Samuel J. Cox, born 1823; died 1841.
14I Ann Cox; married Nathaniel S., Jr., son of Nathaniel S. Rue, Sr., and Elizabeth Toan. 142 George W. Cox
109 HONORABLE EZEKIEL TAYLOR COX, son of James Cox, 60, was born May 25, 1795; died May 18, 1873; married Maria Matilda Sullivan, 4, 9, 1822.
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Issue
143 Samuel Sullivan Cox, second son, known as Sunset Cox, born 9, 30, IS24. He was a Member of Congress, from Ohio, and later a Member of Congress from New York, and Minister to Turkey under Cleveland. He married Julia A. Buckingham. S. S. Cox died 9, 10, 1889.
William V. Cox, Esq., President of the Second National Bank, Washington, D. C., the great-grandson of General James Cox, was born, in Zanesville, O., and came to Washington, in IS79, with his uncle, Samuel S. Cox. He has, in manuscript, a history of General Cox, and in conjunction with Mr. Northrup, wrote the Life of the Honorable Samuel S. Cox, in which he gives a brief outline of the Cox Family. He has likewise accumulated much data con- cerning the Monmouth County Cox Family.
117 THOMAS COX, son of Joseph Cox, 65, was born 1765; married Sarah Bray. Issue
144 Susannah Cox, born 1789. 145 Joseph Cox, born 1791. 146 John Bray Cox, born 1794. 147 James Bray Cox, born 1798.
129 THOMAS H. COX, son of Thomas Cox, 78, born Mch. 5, 1791; died Jan. 16, 1834; married Leah Applegate, born April 29, 1794; died Jan. 27, 1874.
Issue
148 Sarah Ann Higbee Cox, born Nov. 22, 1816.
149 Elizabeth Hunt Cox, born Sept. 30, ISIS.
150 Maria Cox, born June 11, 1821.
151 Maria Louisa Cox, born Dec. 3, 1822.
142 GEORGE W. COX, son of Lewis Cox, 101, was born 1810; died Aug. 8, 1874. aged 64, 6, 27; married, first, Francinka Hendrickson, who died in 1854; second, Rebecca Mount Ely.
Issue by first wife 152 William Henry Cox, an only son, born 1841; died 1859. 153 Elizabeth Cox; died 1863.
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES
1639, Dec. 20. Deed between Daniel Cox, of London, Doctor of Physics, Thomas Cox and others, for all that tract of land, in America, now called East Jersey.
Daniel Cox and Thomas Cox were Proprietors of East Jersey.
New Jersey Archives, Vol. 1, 1631-1687.
Dr. Daniel Cox, the largest landed Proprietor of West Jersey, was appointed Deputy Governor, September, 1684, and so remained until 1690.
He had a son, Daniel Cox, whose will was dated Mch. 21, 1737, and mentioned:
IS5
COX OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
"I, Daniel Cox, of Trenton, county of Hunterdon, " etc., etc.
Son, John Cox Son, William Cox
Daughter, Rebecca
"Unto Charles, Thomas and Mary Cox, born of the body of Mary Johnson, of Trenton, aforesaid, spin- ster, and to their heirs," etc., ample provision.
Son, Daniel Cox; to him lands bequeathed to the testator by his father, Dr. Daniel Cox.
There are records of a pottery, at Burlington, or near there, for the making of white "chiney " ware, in 16So. This was the first attempt at this sort of manufacture in the Colonies.
This pottery was erected by Dr. Coxe, of London, at an expense of £2,000. Desiring to sell the property, he wrote, from London, as follows:
"I have erected, at Burlington, for white & chiney ware, two houses and kilns, with all necessary imple- ments, divers workmen and other servants, and have expended thereon about 2,000 pounds. Twelve hundred pounds have been made, & the ware has been sold in great quantities in Barbadoes, & the other islands-in the Country & in the neighboring Colonies."
From Mrs. John Moses, Trenton, N. J.
1725, Mch. 28. Will of John Cox, of Greenwich, Salem County, N. J., in which he devised his property to friends and mentions no children.
172S, Dec. 22. Will of Samuel Cox, of Burlington, blacksmith, mentioned:
Wife, Sarah, daughter of Emanuel Smith. Son, Emanuel Son, Samuel Son, Benjamin
1742 .. The Rev. Mr. Tennent employed Mr. John Cox, an eminent lawyer, of the province of New Jersey, to defend him in his celebrated law suit.
1749, July 26. Will of Edward Cox, of Woodbridge, County of Middlesex, N. J .; proved Sept. 14, 1749, mentioned:
Son, Humphrey
Eldest daughter, Dorothy, and three other children under age.
1758, October. Thomas Cox, cooper, held four acres of land in Upper Freehold.
1776. Thomas Cox, joiner, of Upper Freehold, mortgaged land.
1785. John Cox is mentioned, as a step-brother, in the will of Thomas Saltar, 1785, and was then a resident of North Carolina. He had ten children, as enumerated in Thomas Saltar's will. They were Monmouth County people. See Saltar Family.
Issue
Aaron Cox Paul Cox Elijah Cox Rebecca Cox Mary Cox Rachel Cox Anne Cox Elizabeth Cox Susanna Cox Elisha Cox
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1803. Will of Sarah Cox, of New York; [widow of Samuel, son of John Cox, of Morris- town, N. J.]; proved ISII, mentioned:
Brother-in-law, John Cox, and friend, William Allison; both of County of Burlington. Son, Samuel Cox
Daughter, Phoebe Barker
Daughter, Elizabeth Hull
Sister, Mary Emley
Thomas and John Antrem, children of sister, Margaret Antrem.
To Treasurer of Friends' School, at Burlington, for the benefit of the school; a legacy.
Witnesses: Ann Cox, Mary Emley and Susan Cox.
She signed herself: "Sarah Cox."
Freehold Wills, Book A., p. 426.
1750, Jan. 3. Will of Mr. William Cox, of Shrewsbury, Monmouth County, N. J .; proved by Jonathan Holmes, Min"., May 5, 1752, mentioned:
"Loving wife, Catherine Cox," one-third of real and personal estate, and "Molatta Girl named Elisabeth," in lieu of dower, for bringing up the young children.
"Son, Thomas Cox, " one-half of plantation, in Shrewsbury, "I bought of Capt. Leonard's Reliets."
"Son, John" £30, and "my Gold watch."
"William Beekman, son of Christopher Beekman, my Grandson, " fro.
"William Wiley, son of John Wiley, of New York, Distiller," Cio; other legacies to be in Jersey money. Son, Wm. Cox
Son, Thoms Cox
Son, Longfield Cox
Son, John Cox
residue of estate.
Son, Samuel Cox
Son, Cornelius Cox
Daughter, Mary Cox
"to daughter, Sarah, wife of Christopher Beekman," one-half a share.
Mentioned: bond "to Mr. Thoms Lawrence, of Philadelphia, by which I became bound with my son, Wm. Cox," for £9co.
Mentioned: estate "left me by my Kinsman, Walter Cox, of Cheltenham, Glocestershire."
Executors: "Loving wife, Catherine Cox, my son, Wm. Cox, and my son, Thomas Cox."
Witnesses: Jonat" Holmes, Mint, Archelaus Ludis, [or Leedis], and John Wiley.
Recorded in Book F., of Wills, p. 96, Trenton, N. J.
Nancy Cox, born 1794; died 1799.
Eliza, wife of James Cox, died, Jan. 28, 1824, aged 27, 10, 15.
Rachel, wife of John Cox, born 1700; died 1750.
Elizabeth, wife of James Cox, died, Jan. 28, 1824, aged 27, 10, 15. Yellow Meeting House Burying Ground.
1727, Jan. 15. Elizabeth Cox and Richard Compton, Jr.
1729, April 28. Mary Cox and William Evelman.
1740. John Liming and Mary Cox, of Monmouth Co.
1745, Nov. I. James Cox and Hannah Robbins.
1746, April 21. Mercy Cox and Ephraim Robbins, both of Upper Freehold.
1748, Aug. I. Rebecca Cox and Joseph Norcross.
1749, Sept. 20. Thomas Cox and Elizabeth Bills, aged 26 years. She was the widow of Samuel Corlis, of Shrewsbury whom she married by license dated Aug. 17, 1745.
1750, Dec. 25. Ann Cox, widow, of Monmouth Co., and Zacharias Coulion, of Middle- sex Co.
.
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1751, Dec. 5. Langfield Cox and Aun Sears of Shrewsbury.
1754, Mch. 25. Mary Cox of Shrewsbury and Richard Allen of New York.
1760, Nov. I. Elizabeth Cox and Samuel Mead.
1761, Feb. 18. Nathaniel Cox and Rachel Vahan. 1762, Jan. 23. Hannah Cox and John Reynolds, of Freehold.
1768, Jan. 1. John Cox and Elizabeth Holman. 1769, Feb. 25. James Cox and Elizabeth Cox.
1769, Oct. 29. John Cox, minor, and Margaret Morris.
1770, Jan. 6. Joseph Cox and Sarah Wardell.
1773, June 21. Morris Cox and Catharine Hutchinson.
1775, Nov. 20. Rebecca Cox and William Mount.
1783, Nov. 20. Hannah Cox and Joseph Burdsell.
Monmouth County Marriage Licenses, from Trenton, N. J.
1828, Sept. 27. Will of Philip Cox, of Blue Hills, Somerset Co., N. J., mentioned:
Son, John Son, Philip Son, Phineas Daughter, Elizabeth Executrix: Dorcas Cox.
1821. Administration on the estate of Joseph Cox.
IS22. Administration on the estate of James S. Cox.
1822. Administration on the estate of Jonathan Cox.
1825. Administration on the estate of Thomas Cox, Esquire.
1830. Will of Elizabeth Cox.
Freehold Records.
In 1911 the Rev. Henry Miller Cox of New York City had ready for the press a very complete and interesting history of the Cox Family. It started with the arrival of the first Cox in this country in 1610, and included all bearing the name down to the present time.
1794, Nov. 10. Richard Cox, Mary Coward and Fenwick Cox, heirs at law of Thomas Cox late of Upper Freehold, deceased, conveyed lands.
1755, 21, 12 mo. Paid £3-14-5 to Doctor John Cox for services upon George Woolley. Shrewsbury Town Poor Book.
CRAWFORD
OF
MONMOUTH COUNTY
The Crawfords were Scotchmen, who early settled in Monmouth County, and in ad- joining portions of Middlesex County, N. J.
I see no relation between John Crawford, who settled in Middleton, about 1672, and William, Samuel and Gideon Crawford, who were conspicuous about Freehold and the adjacent country, in Middlesex County.
The line of John Crawford is pretty thoroughly traced, but only scattering information has been obtained concerning those who resided about Freehold.
JOHN CRAWFORD, Gent., whose name was indifferently spelled in old records, Craw- ford, Crawfurd, Crauford, Craufford and Crafford, came from Ayrshire, Scotland, to America, in 1672, and perhaps after a brief sojourn in Massachusetts and on Long Island, settled in Middle- town, New Jersey.
1678. He bought a house and lot, in Middletown, N. J., from Richard Gibbons and his wife.
1678. He was licensed to keep an Ordinary, or public victualling house, at Middletown.
1679, Mch. 15. John Crawford, yeoman, of Middletown, made a mortgage to Robert Hamilton.
16So, Nov. 25. He had three hundred and six acres of a Proprietary grant surveyed for him, at Middletown.
1682, Apr. 10. Richard Hartshorne, attorney for Thomas Snowsell, sold forty acres of land, in Middletown, to John Crawford.
1682, July 11. John Crawford bought land, on the South side of the highway, in Middle- town, as it runs East and West, from Samuel Moor, of Woodbridge, attorney for Mr. Anthony Cheekely, of Boston, who received the same by process of law, by a marshal's bill of sale of lands of Thomas Snawsell, July 10, 1682.
1684-5, Mch. 30. John Crawford, of Middletown, sold to Richard Hartshorne, one hundred acres of land, on the South side of said town, adjoining the home lots of Richard Stout, Richard Gibbons and John Smith.
1685, Sept. 19. John Crawford sold one hundred and thirty acres of land, in Middletown, to Jeremiah Bennet.
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CRAWFORD OF MONMOUTH COUNTY
1687, Mch. 25. Patent from the Proprietors to John Crawford for two hundred and twenty acres of land, in two lots, in Middletown.
1687, Dec. 3. John Crawford, of Middletown, Gent., received a grant of land from the Proprietors, bounded by Richard Gibbons and John Wilson, the elder, containing two hundred acres, and lying in Nutswamp. This property is still occupied by his descendants.
1690. John Craufford was an appraiser of the estate of Thomas Ingraham, of Middle- town.
1691, Aug. 3. John Crawford, of Middletown, conveyed two hundred and eighty acres of land to his son, John Crawford, of the same place, lying at Weycock, Monmouth County.
1693, Aug. S. John Crafford, Sr., of Middletown, sold to Richard Hartshorne the sixteen acre home-lot, bought of Richard Gibbons, in 1678.
John Crawford, Sr., was buried, according to tradition, upon his farm, in Nutswamp, Middletown.
John Crawford may have had a wife, Elizabeth :
1692, Apr. 30. John Crawford, of "Midletoun," and his wife, Elizabeth, sold a sixteen acre house-lot, in Middletown, to Major Anthony Brockhols, of New York City.
Whether this is a reference to John Crawford, 1, I am not prepared to say, for if it is so. it seems noteworthy that a wife, Elizabeth, only joins him once, in many conveyances that precede, and in one that follows this date.
It is remarkable too, that there appears in Cape May County, in 1693-4, a John Crafford, who recorded his earmark. Jan. 3, of that year, and who, apparently died, in 1705, for Dec. II, of that year, an inventory, amounting to £131 and over, of his personal estate, was delivered by his son, George Crawford.
Between the dates of his first appearance in Cape May and his death, he appeared in various suits and appraisals, and one, Elizabeth Craford, who I infer, may have been his wife, made complaint to the Justices, in March, 1693-4, that there was not proper restraint of the liquor traffic.
In 1721, when George Crawford made his final accounting, of his father's estate, he charged himself with two coffins, one for the father, the other, for the father's wife, who died a month before him.
This George Crawford took up his father's earmark, in 1707, and was, probably, the progenitor of those bearing the Crawford name in Cape May and Gloucester Counties, who appear in the New Jersey marriage licenses of a much later date.
John Crawford, of Middletown, had the following
Issue
2 Daughter, perhaps: as in Edwards' Contributions to the History of the Baptists, it is stated that one of the sons of Richard and Penelope Stout, married a Craw- ford.
3 John Crawford, Jr.
3 JOHN CRAWFORD, son of John Crawford, I.
1691, Aug. 3. He received two hundred and eighty acres of land, at Weycock, from his father, John Crawford.
1698, Nov. 26. John Craford, of Middletown, and wife Abigaill, sold to Elisha Law- rence, of the same place, two hundred and eighty acres of land, at Middletown, which he had received from his father, Aug. 3, 1691.
1704, Nov. 25. Administration was granted on the estate of John Crawford, Jr., of New
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Jersey, to James Wilson, with Peter Wilson and Andrew Wilson, as bondsmen. He is, I infer, the son of John Crawford, the First.
He married Abigail
Issue 4 George Crawford
4 GEORGE CRAWFORD, son of John Crawford, 3, died in 1745-6, as per the date of his will. He married Esther Scott, of Shrewsbury, born 13, 3 mo., 1701. She was a daughter of John Scott, whose will was made and proved in 1736, and is recorded at Trenton, Vol. C., p. 128, in which he appointed "his sons, William and Samuel, and his son-in-law, George Crawford, executors." John Scott was born, at Gravesend, 9, 11 mo., 1679, and married Mary, daughter of Thomas and Joanna. Bills, and was a son of William Scott by his wife, Abigail, daughter of Jolin Tilton, whom he married Feb. 7, 1678.
Abigail Tilton had previously married, May 15, 1669, Ralph Warner, who was buried, according to Hotten's List of Emigrants, Apr. 24, 1678, and by whom she had a daughter Mary, and a son, Ralph Warner, born 4 mo., 167-, who was a witness to a marriage, at Shrews- bury, 29, 7 mo., 1692, and who probably died in 1695. for July 22, of that year, an inventory was taken of Ralph Warner's estate.
1723, Feb. 29. George Crawford, of Middletown conveyed to Nicholas Stillwell, of the same place, weaver, land in Middletown, which he had received through his grandfather, John Crawford, who took title to it in 1687.
1731. George Crawford was mentioned as son and heir of John Crawford, deceased.
1735. George Crawford appeared in Holmes' Account Book.
1745-6, MIch. 15. Will of George Crawford, of Middletown, farmer, sick, etc .; proved May 10, 1745, mentioned:
Beloved wife Son, George 1 who received, equally, his lands, after the legacies are paid by them.
Son, Richard
Son, William; a minor, received £150.
Son, Joshua; a minor, received £150.
.Son, Job; a minor, received £150.
Daughter, Lydia, to receive £So, when she arrives at the age of eighteen years. Child, which wife "is big of," to receive £150, if a boy, and £So, if a girl.
Executors: son, George Crawford, and friends, Josoph Stillwell and James Mott.
Witnesses: Samuel Ogborne, Joseph Shepherd and William Craddock.
The testator signed his name in full to the will.
1745, May 16. The inventory of the personal estate of George Crawford was taken, and amounted to £381-12-1.
Issue
5 George Crawford; died young and unmarried.
6 Richard Crawford
7 William Crawford; followed the sea; married Catharine Bowne.
8 Joshua Crawford; moved to Pennsylvania.
9 Job Crawford; moved to Georgia; marriage license of Job Crawford and Ann Morrice, issued Nov. 25, 1766.
10 Lydia Crawford; marriage license of Lydia Crawford, of Middletown, to Cor- nelius Compton, of Middletown, issued July 30, 1756; married, second, by license dated June 1, 1767, Benjamin Morris, of Nutswamp.
II Elizabeth Crawford, born after 1745-6.
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6 RICHARD CRAWFORD, of Middletown, son of George Crawford, 4, was born Jan. 27, 1729: married, by license dated Sept. 17, 1751, in which he is called Richard, Jr., Catharine Shepard, of Middletown, and died, Sept. 20, 1798, aged 68 years, 8 months and ; days. She was born .Aug. 11, 1734 and died, June 13, 1807, aged 72 years, 10 months and 2 days, and both are buried in the burying ground on the old homestead site, now occupied by Richard, son of John Bowne Crawford, in Nutswamp, near Morrisville.
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