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Edward Wilcox was born at Lincolnshire, England, in February 1603/4. The family of Edward Wilcox of Croft, Lincolnshire, England became a part of the migration to New England in 1637. His sons, Daniel (age 4 in 1637) and Stephen (age 2 in 1637) are the only known children of Edward who survived to adulthood in the American colonies. Edward’s sons experienced a pioneering era of settlement, politics, and religion in the formative years of America.
Book 2 includes Volume 2.D Daniel2 Wilcox and Volume 2.S Stephen2 Wilcox (begins at image 240). 325 pages.
Book 2 includes bibliographic references and index.
Includes Almy, Briggs, Church, Cook, Cooke, Cornell, Head, Lake, Manchester, and related families (Volume 2.D); and Champlin, Hazard, Morey/Mowry, and related families (Volume 2.S).
Daniel Wilcox signed legal documents by his mark, indicating that he probably couldn’t read and write. While he was evidently not as well-educated as some of those he associated with, he had learned the language of the local Indians and was a well-regarded interpreter and acquired a large landed estate in eastern Rhode Island and southwestern Massachusetts.
Not long after he began buying land in Plymouth Colony Daniel married Elizabeth Cooke of Plymouth Colony, a daughter of Mayflower passenger John Cooke (and granddaughter of Mayflower passenger Francis Cooke).
Daniel Wilcox became a prominent member of both the Portsmouth and Dartmouth communities before the age of forty, and he later engaged in several acts of civil disobedience as he challenged England’s methods of governing its citizens in the American Colonies.
In his later years, having lived in exile at Portsmouth, Daniel Wilcox apparently missed his children and finally agreed to settle his differences with Massachusetts Bay Province and he “returned home” to Tiverton not long before his death. Daniel was also probably dealing with two other disappointments at this time: the mental decline of his wife Elizabeth and the question of what became of his namesake, oldest son Daniel3 Wilcox.
The life of Stephen Wilcox began in England, over 3,000 miles distant from Westerly, Rhode Island, which was probably his last resting place. Stephen Wilcox chased his dreams by moving west from Portsmouth to the far western border of Rhode Island — almost in Connecticut — while his older brother Daniel went eastward to what was a part of Massachusetts at the time.
Stephen Wilcox and his wife Hannah Hazard had two daughters and five sons who lived to adulthood. Thomas Hazard, Hannah’s father, was one of the nine founding settlers of Newport, Rhode Island after initially settling in Boston and Portsmouth.
All of Stephen and Hannah’s children probably lived the majority of their lives in Rhode Island, and at least three of them remained in the Stonington/Westerly area (Edward, Daniel, and William) while two others lived mostly in Kingstown (Bethia and Thomas). Of the remaining two children, Stephen lived his early adult years in Kingstown and then returned to Westerly. Hannah probably lived most of her life in Portsmouth and Newport.
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