Col. Cornelius Cox and Mary Forster

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Husband Col. Cornelius Cox ^{1 2 3}

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           Born: Abt 1750 - Philadelphia, PA
     Christened: 
           Died: 3 Feb 1803 - Estherton, Dauphin Co, PA 4
         Buried: 

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         Father: Dr. John Cox (      -Abt 1770) 1 2
         Mother: Esther [Unk] (      -      ) 1

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       Marriage: 

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   Other Spouse: Unknown (      -      )

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Wife Mary Forster ^{4 5}

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           Born: 1767 5
     Christened: 
           Died: 2 Aug 1810 5
         Buried: 

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         Father: John Forster (1725-1789) 6
         Mother: Catharine Dickey (1738-1804) 6

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Children

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• They had no children.

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General Notes: Husband - Col. Cornelius Cox

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He received a good education in his native city. Some time prior to the Revolution he was at Estherton in management of the estate left him by his father. He early espoused the cause of the colonies, was present at the meeting at Middletown which passed the patriotic resolutions of June, 1774, and when the people were called to arms was commissioned major of Col. James Burd's battalion of Lancaster County associators. He was appointed assistant commissary of purchases, and also issuing commissary July 7, 1780. Until the close of the Revolution he was actively engaged, whether it was in the collecting of flour for the French fleet, the gathering of blankets for the half-clad army at Valley Forge, or the superintending of the construction of bateaux for the use of Gen. Sullivan in his expedition against the Six Nations. In 1792 he was chosen one of the State electors for President in favor of Gen. Washington. Governor Mifflin appointed him one of the associate justices of the courts of Dauphin County, but preferring quiet he declined the honor.

1 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 476.

2 —, Commemorative Biographical Encyclopedia of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania (Chambersburg, PA: J. M. Runk & Company, Publishers, 1896), Pg 239.

3 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 196, 247.

4 William Henry Egle, History of the County of Dauphin in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA: Everts & Peck, 1883), Pg 477.

5 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 247.

6 William Henry Egle, M.D., M.A., Pennsylvania Genealogies; Chiefly Scotch-Irish and German (Harrisburg, PA: Harrisburg Publishing Co., 1896), Pg 246.