James | William | Cary Sr | Cary Jr | Willis
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William  |
1761 VA | 21 Mar 1848 Habersham Co GA |
Katy Roberts Arthur B: 1775 D: aft 1813 in NC M/1 bef 1792 Katherine McKinney B: 1775 New Jersey D: 30 Aug 1841 Habersham Co GA M/2 1794 Edgefield Dist SC |
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| Cary Cox Sr may have had a wife before Mary Horne and it is thought that William Cox is a son of that marriage. Nothing is known of the first wife. | ||||
| Revolutionary Soldier, N. C Line, Pension certificate 33083, Georgia, Nov. 27, 1845, 85 at the time of application. States he enlisted as a substitute on April 15 or 16 in 1776, in the village of Halifax, N. C., in Captain Caswel’s Company of the 5th Reg’t. and was discharged Oct. or Nov. 1778. | ||||
| Jesse | 1764 Halifax Co NC |
1834 Jones Co GA |
Nancy Taylor B: 1773 Edgefield Co SC D: 1820 Jones Co GA M/1 1798 Nancy Hobbs B: ??? D: 1835 Talbot Co GA M/2 15 Mar 1821 Jones Co GA |
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| Ichabod | 19 June 1769 Halifax Co NC |
26 Oct 1861 Stewart Co GA |
Mary (Polly) Rowan B: 1775 Talbot Co GA D: 1843 Stewart Co GA M: 1792 Putnam Co GA |
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| James | 1771 Halifax Co NC |
??? | ??? | |
| Asa | 1773 Halifax Co NC |
c1863 Harris Co GA |
Mildred Mariah Rountree B: 8 Mar 1778 Union Co SC D: c1856 M: 1793 |
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| Bethney | 1774 Halifax Co NC |
1844 Harris Co GA |
Edmund Dismukes B: 1757 VA D: 1829 Jones Co GA M: 1794 |
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| Clarissa (Clara) | 1775 Halifax Co NC |
??? | ??? | |
| Cary Jr | 1 Oct 1778 Halifax Co NC |
2 Jun 1871 Putnam Co GA |
Martha Rountree B: 6 Oct 1783 Union Co SC D: 30 Jun 1863 Putnam Co GA M: 10 Jan 1799 Edgefield Co SC |
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Cary Cox Sr was a Revolutionary War soldier who served as a private in the NC and SC Troops. He is buried at the Old Cox burial grounds, Oconee National Forest, near Standfordville, about 12 miles from Eatonton. |
| PENSION STATEMENT BY ASA COX SON OF CARY COX, SR. State of Georgia ) SS: Harris County ) On this 24th day of June A. D. 1852 before me a Justice of the Interior Court of said county personally appeard Asa Cox aged seventy six (76) years passed, a resident of the county and state aforesaid, who after being duly sworn according to law doth upon his oath make the following statements. That at the time of his earliest recollection he was living in Halifax County, North Carolina. That this was in time of the Revolutionary War. That his father Cary Cox, and his brother, William Cox, were engaged in said war. That he has no recollection of the time when his father and said brother went into the service, but he remembers distinctly that his father got wounded and came home and that when his mother talked a great deal about his said brother William who still remained in service after the return of his father as stated above, and he remembers his mother said that his brother was fighting for liberty, against the Tories and British. That he does not know what officers his said brother served under nor what time he went into service, but that he continued in service until peace was made. That he remembers clearly when his said brother came home. That he talked much about the hardships that he and his fellow soldiers had endured. And deponant further states that about the year 1788 himself and his fathers family moved from North Carolina to Edgefield District South Carolina that about two or three years after this his said brother William Cox also moved from n. Carolina to said District South Carolina, where he lived a few years and moved to Pendleton District in said State, where he remained until about the year 1822 when he moved to Habersham County, Georgia where he remained until his death which occurred on the 21st day of March 1848, as he had been credibly informed and verily believed. And he swares that he is a disinterested witness. (signed)Asa Cox Sworn to and subscribed before me the day and year above written. And I hereby certify that the deponent Asa Cox is well known to me, that he is a highly respectable citzen, that his statement are worth of full credit, and that I believe he is of the age above stated. (Signed) P. T. Trammell J. P. |