Tags
ancestry, Brake, Coppock, Cox, Decker, family-history, Genealogy, George Rogers Clark, Kentucky, Nelson County, Pennsylvania, Pentecost, Polk, Sievers, Spratt, Virginia, Washington County, Wilson, Yohogania County
DNA Updates
- KB, a potential 6th cousin through Joseph Coppock and Jane Wilson. He’s one of my Revolutionary War Patriots. I only have the one child attached for them. I’ll need time to research and prove the line to KB.
- LA, a potential 5th or 6th cousin through Nicholaus Sievers and Gesina Brake. I have part of her line proven, but not much time this weekend to dive in and complete. The surnames are very familiar names I grew up with. I’ll need to tag for later.
Coxes of Cox Creek Footnotes
32. Calendar of Virginia State Papers, III, p. 633; IV, p. 8. I found both volumes on Hathitrust. In Volume III, Gabriel Cox and others, as military officers of Yohogania County, Virginia, fronted money for the War effort. When they asked for reimbursement in 1781, they were residing in the area that had been relinquished to Pennsylvania and apparently Pennsylvania was denying reimbursement because they acted on behalf of Virginia.
In Volume IV, there is reference to a judgement levied against Gabriel and the others for costs and damages associated with the war effort. The judgement was handed down in Washington County, PA.
33. Deposition of David Cox in Deposition Book, Nelson County, Kentucky, Courthouse, B, p. 677. There is a deposition book for Nelson County, Kentucky, but it does not have a page 677. The name David Cox does not populate when searched. It may be that book B has not been digitized.
34. Draper MSS., typed copy of 9ZZ96-102, in the Filson Club. I will add this to my list of Draper copies to request.
35. The Register of the Kentucky Historical Society, XXI, p. 302; XXXII, p. 174. The Register can be found on JSTOR.
Volume XXI – Land certificate records issued for Nelson County, Kentucky for the following individuals: David Cox, Isaac Cox, Jacob Decker, James McDonald, and Benjamin Cox.
Volume XXXII – This article provides quotations from various entries in the Nelson County Deposition books, including the one cited in footnote 33 above. Unfortunately, it is not clear who the “he” David is referring to in his deposition. The relevance of the citation, however, is that David Cox was present at Cox’s Station in April 1780.
AI Tasks
None this week.
Error Resolution
| Per Ancestry’s Tree Checker | This Week | Last Week |
| Total Errors | 5024 | 5032 |
| Potential Duplicates | 511 | 515 |
| No Documentation | 4091 | 4095 |
| Other Errors | 422 | 422 |
- YD, a distant cousin who has a residency reference attached that is before her birth. She was born about 1939. When I added the 1940 census information, it also added a residency for 1935 which I should not have accepted. It has been removed.
- SB, the father in law of a distant cousin. Since I am not keeping inlaws of distant family, I will be removing him and his wife.
- William Polk, is identified as the grandfather of the wife of a distant cousin. He was married to Elizabeth Spratt. Since the Polks are a bloodline of mine and they intermarried with several other lines of mine over the years, I am going to keep him. After reviewing information in my Polk books, I believe William to be the son of William and Margaret Taylor Polk. Elizabeth Spratt’s sister Susan married William and Margaret’s son Thomas. It was rather common during the 1700s for siblings to marry siblings, especially in frontier areas found in Pennsylvania and North Carolina. In a biographical sketch for Headley Polk found in Polk Family and Kinsmen, William is attributed to the elder William and Margaret. Another family genealogy entitled The McLendons of Anson County makes mention of a William Polk who married Pricilla Roberts. This will all need to be sorted out at a later date. Also to be considered is the family genealogy entitled The Shelby Family by Gwen Platt.
Goals and progress
Beginning of Week: 28,004 people
End of Week: 28,009 people
Change = +5 persons
Tasks for coming week:
- Continue research on Isaac Cox, “The Immigrant” and his wife Susannah Tomlinson.
- Review Coxes of Cox Creek
- Run newspaper search, especially for articles recounting local history
- Review the Cox package of information from Sweden
- Look for documents in Virginia, Maryland, West Virginia, Pennsylvania and Kentucky
