Daniel Coxe

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Daniel Coxe
2nd and 3rd
John Skene
Preceded byEdmund Andros (Dominion of New England)
Succeeded byAndrew Hamilton
Personal details
Bornc.1640
England
Died19 January 1730
London, England
SpouseRebecca Coldham
Children
Daniel, Mary
Alma materJesus College, Cambridge
ProfessionPhysician

Daniel Coxe III[1] (c. 1640 – 19 January 1730) FRS was an English physician and governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1688 and 1689 to 1692.

Biography

The Coxe family traced their lineage to a Daniel Coxe who lived in

Salerno University. Daniel Coxe's father was also called Daniel Coxe. He was from Stoke Newington
, London, and died in 1686.

Daniel Coxe the son was born in London, the oldest of thirteen children, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a doctor of medicine in 1669.[2] He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Royal College of Physicians (Coxe is the Society member referred to by Samuel Pepys in his diary entry of 3 May 1665 when he poisons a cat with tobacco oil at Gresham College). Coxe was appointed a physician to the court of King Charles II of England and later to that of Queen Anne.

Colonial landowner

Coxe never left England, he served nominally as

Mississippi Valley. He attempted to settle a colony of Huguenots in Virginia
, but failed.

Initially Coxe purchased land in West Jersey in the mid-1680s. He bought out the heirs of Edward Byllynge there in 1687.[3] Coxe opened the earliest commercial-scale pottery in New Jersey.[4] He sold out most of his land there to the West New Jersey Society of London, in 1692.[3]

Later in the 1690s Coxe acquired a grant of land in 1698 known as "

New York state
.

Later life

Coxe died in 1730, and was buried in London, England. His portrait is held by the Royal College of Physicians in London.

Family

Coxe married Rebecca Coldham (only surviving child and heiress of John Coldham, Esquire of Tooting Graveney, Alderman of London and Rebecca Wood) on 12 May 1671. They had a son Colonel Daniel Coxe and a daughter Mary.

Freemasons for the provinces of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania
, but died before he had chartered any lodges. In 1731, he claimed that he possessed superior title to that of the West Jersey Society, via a superseding deed that his father had recorded years earlier; the courts upheld Coxe's claim. Hundreds of families were forced to repurchase their own property from Col. Coxe or be forcibly evicted. The ensuing scandal was one of many injustices that inflamed American anger against the British during the years leading up the Revolutionary War. There were lawsuits; there were riots; Col. Coxe was burned in effigy; but to no avail. As a result, many Hopewell residents left New Jersey, either unable to pay Col. Coxe or disgusted with the colony's rampant political corruption. One group of Hopewell expatriates settled on the Yadkin River in what was then Rowan County, NC. This community, the Jersey Settlement, continued to attract new settlers from the Hopewell area for several decades.

Mary became a Maid of Honour to Queen Caroline, the wife of King George II and later married John Montgomery (died 1733) in 1732 and had a son Alexander, who were both M.P.'s for County Monaghan in Ireland. After Col. John Montgomery's death she married William Clement LL.D. Vice Provost of Trinity College, Dublin and M.P. both for the college and the City of Dublin. She died at Beaulieu, Co. Louth in 1790 aged 97 years.

See also

Sources

References

  1. ^ a b Neufeld, Rob (5 July 2021). "Visiting Our Past: Coxes were WNC empire builders since the 1600s". Asheville Citizen-Times.
  2. ^ "Coxe, Daniel (CKS659D)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  3. ^
    doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/37319. (Subscription or UK public library membership
    required.)
  4. ^ Ceramics - Daniel Coxe, Burlington Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Art & Architecture of New Jersey. URL accessed on 7 March 2006.
  5. ISSN 0161-391X
    .
  6. ISBN 978-1-4331-0759-7
    . Retrieved 5 November 2012.
  7. ^ Clarence Walworth Alvord, Lee Bidgood, The First Explorations of the Trans-Allegheny Region by the Virginians, 1650-1674 (1912), p. 241; archive.org.

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Government offices
Preceded by Governor of West Jersey
1687 – 1688 		Succeeded by

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