Some Descendants of Edward Wilcox - aqw02.htm

Some Descendants of Edward WILCOX

Second Generation


3. Daniel WILCOX (Edward ) was born 4 Mar 1632/1633 in Croft, Lincolnshire, England. He died 2 Jul 1702 in Tiverton, Newport Co., Rhode Island.

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF  STONINGTON, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, 1900. Page 658.
   Daniel...who had gramts of land at Portsmouth, RI.

Researching this line is Susan at [email protected]

Daniel married (1) Miss.

They had the following children:

+ 7 M i Samuel WILCOX died before 14 Apr 1697.

Daniel also married (2) Elizabeth COOKE, daughter of John COOKE and Sarah WARREN. Elizabeth was born 1647 in Plymouth, Plymouth Co., Massachusetts. She died 1715 in Tiverton, Newport Co., Rhode Island.

4. Stephen WILCOX (Edward ) was born 26 Dec 1634 in Croft, Lincolnshire, England. He died 6 Feb 1690 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

RHODE ISLAND ROOTS, June 1986, by Mildred Mosher Chamberlain, C.G.page 21.
    Hannah m. Stephen Wilcox.

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF  STONINGTON, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, 1900. Page 658.
    Stephen...who had gramts of land at Portsmouth, RI. Stephen became a freeman there in 1658.  Sometime before 1669 he came to Westerly.

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  Sources: Potter-Richardson Memorial; Hazard Family of RI; Genealogies of RI
Families.
  Memorial: Stephen Wilcox, son of Edward of Portsmouth, RI.
  Hazard Family: Stephen Wilcox, born about 1633, son of Edward Wilcox; died
about 1690; married 1658 Hannah Hazard. That year his father-in-law deeded him
34 acres as a dower for Hannah. Stephen was listed as an inhabitant of Westerly
18 May 1669.

"Stephen Wilcox, son of Edward, was born in 1633 and died in 1690. He had a grant of 16 acres, Dec.10, 1657, and in 1657 from his father-in-law, Thomas Hazard, a deed of 30 acres as a dowery with the _____ daughter. He was a free man May 18, 1658. In May 1669, he was among the free inhabitants of Westerly, RI. He was __________ (obliterated) June 21, 1670 for unjustly possessing, with others, five hundred acres of land in Stovington. This controversey, which resolved itself into a question of boundary and jurisdiction between Mass. and R.I., continued for several years and was finally settled in favor of the latter state.
"In 167? and 167? he was _______ __ of the first from Westerly.
In a paper dated Feb. 6, 1690, he is mentioned as 'lately deceased'. In 1648, he married Hannah, daughter of Thomas and Martha (-----) Hazard of Portsmouth. Thom Hazard was a ship carpenter by trade and came from Wales to Boston about 1635. In the Hutchinson __________ he was driven from Mass. and settled upon Aquideeck."
Transcribed from: notes recopied by Kate Wilcox Thorsen, 4/26/1980
Researched & copied by Agnes Wilcox Limas 9 May, 1958 for Jeffrey Wilcox

Also see: NEHGR Vol. 147, pp 188-191

Stephen married Hannah HAZARD, daughter of Thomas HAZARD and Martha POTTER, on 30 Jan 1657/1658 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island. Hannah was born 10 Jul 1637 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts and was christened 10 Sep 1637 in Boston, Suffolk Co., Massachusetts. She died after 13 Nov 1679 in or near Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF  STONINGTON, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, 1900. Page 658.

Researching this line is Susan at [email protected]

  Sources: The Hazard Family of RI; Potter-Richardson Memorial; Genealogies of
RI Families; Ancestral Lines Revised.
  Memorial: Hannah Hazard, married Stephen Wilcox, son of Edward Wilcox (from
Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk), of Portsmouth (1638), who, some say, was a a partner
of Roger Williams, as a pioneer trader.
  Hazard Family: Hannah Hazard, married 1658 Stephen Wilcox. They had 7
children.
  Ancestral Lines: Hannah Hazard, married Stephen Wilcox.

They had the following children:

  8 F i
Bertha WILCOX was born about 1659 in Portsmouth, Newport Co., Rhode Island. She died after 17 Dec 1711 in or near Kingstowne, Kings Co., Rhode Island.
       
Bertha married Gershom COTTRELL on 15 Feb 1677/1678 in Stonington, New London Co., Connecticut. Gershom was born about 1642 in Newport, Newport Co., Rhode Island. He died 1711 in Kingstown, Kings Co., Rhode Island.
+ 9 M ii Edward WILCOX was born about 1662 and died 5 Nov 1715.
+ 10 M iii Thomas WILCOX was born 18 Feb 1663/1664 and died 1728.
+ 11 M iv Daniel WILCOX was born about 1666 and died after 1728.
+ 12 M v William WILCOX was born 1668 and died 27 Dec 1757.
+ 13 M vi Stephen WILCOX was born 1670.
+ 14 F vii Hannah WILCOX was born about 1672.
  15 M viii
Jeremiah WILCOX was born about 1680 in Westerly, Kings Co., Rhode Island.

HISTORY OF THE TOWN OF  STONINGTON, COUNTY OF NEW LONDON, CONNECTICUT, by Richard Anson Wheeler, 1900. Page 658.
       
Jeremiah married Mary MALLETT, daughter of Thomas MALLETT and Mary.

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