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Descendants of Thomas Cox

Generation No. 1

1. THOMAS¹ COX was born in Herefordshire, England, and died Abt. August 16, 1681 in Maspeth Kills, Long Island, New York. He married ELIZABETH BLASHFORD April 22, 1665 in Maspeth Kills, Long Island, New York. She was born in Maspeth Kills, Long Island, New York, and died in Maspeth Kills, Long Island, New York.

Notes for THOMAS COX:
Thomas Cox, a native of Herefordshire, England, was reputedly a man of ability, education, and prominence. He settled upon Long Island, New York, where he married Elizabeth Blashford, of Maspeth Kills, by license dated April 22, 1665. It is said that he was a brother of John Cox, who was drowned in the Pisarcke River in 1674. With the development of New Jersey, Thomas Cox, of Maspeth Kills, joined with others in their migration to the Monmouth Tract (NJ).

1667: Thomas Cox, of Middletown, one of the first settlers, bought land of 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 as first settlers, two hundred and forth acres of land.
1676: Thomas Cox received a grant of two hundred and sixty-nine acres of land in Middletown

Thomas Cox was a frequent Juryman according to Freehold records. He apparently died young. His widow, Elizabeth, was married by Capt. John Bowne, Justice, September 9, 1681, to Thomas Ingraham. February 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 in 1690.

1681, August 16: Inventory of the estate of Thomas Cox, of Middletown, was taken and amounted to L20-17-0, personal estate. (Vol.3, Stillwell's Historical Miscellany of New York and New Jersey)

Cox, Thomas (d. 1681), from Eng., was at Marspeth Kills, at head of Newton Creek, Long Island, 1665; a patentee of Monmouth tract, East Jerse; settled at Middletown, New Jersey 1665; founder of Baptist Church, Middletown, New Jersey; overseer, deputy, town agent; with three others was chosen to make prudential laws for the newly formed settlement of Middletown, 1668; received 240 acres, 1675; received 269 acres, 1676; juryman; departed to meet governor and council at Woodbridge, 1676; married 1665, Elizabeth Blashford. (The Compendium of American Genealogy, p.740)

Children of THOMAS COX and ELIZABETH BLASHFORD are:

2.	i.	JAMES² COX, b. August 18, 1672, Monmouth, New Jersey; d. October 24, 1750, Monmouth, New Jersey.
	ii.	THOMAS COX.
	iii.	JOHN COX.
	iv.	JOSEPH COX.