Benjamin WILCOX

21 Aug 1737 - AFT 1805

  • BIRTH: 21 Aug 1737, Dartmouth, Bristol, MA
  • EMIGRATION: 1787, Grimsby, Lincoln, Ontario, Canada
  • DEATH: AFT 1805, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
  • BURIAL: Windham Methodist, Windham Twsp, Norfolk, Ontario, Canada
Father: William WILCOX
Mother: Dorothy ALLEN

Family 1 : Elsie LANNING
  1. +Hannah WILCOX
  2.  Absalom WILCOX
  3.  Daniel WILCOX
  4.  David WILCOX
  5.  Israel WILCOX
  6.  Benjamin WILCOX
  7.  Sarah WILCOX
  8.  Elsie WILCOX
  9.  Richard WILCOX
  10.  Rachel WILCOX


                                      _Daniel WILCOX ____+
                   _Daniel WILCOX ___|
                  |                  |_Hannah COOK ______+
 _William WILCOX _|
|                 |                   ___________________
|                 |_Sarah ___________|
|                                    |___________________
|
|--Benjamin WILCOX 
|
|                                     _Increase ALLEN ___+
|                  _Benjamin ALLEN __|
|                 |                  |_Rachel ___________
|_Dorothy ALLEN __|
                  |                   _Jonathan RUSSELL _+
                  |_Deborah RUSSELL _|
                                     |_Hassadiah SMITH __+


[3701] Named as grandchild in will of Deborah Allen; see Deborah Russell entry.

Massachusetts Vital Records Transcriptions
New England Historic Genealogical Society
http://www.nehgs.org/
Children of William and Dorothy in Dartmouth, Bristol, MA:
"1737 WILCOX Benjamin, s. William and Dorathy, Aug. 21, 1737."

"People & Places From Grimsby's Past"
Dorothy Turcotte, Grimsby, ON, 1995
Willcox, p. 78
"Among the early Loyalists to come to The Forty from New Jersey
were Benjamin Willcox, his wife Elsey and their eleven children.
... After Elsey died in 1805, Benjamin moved to Norfolk County to
be near one of his sons."

"Annals of the Forty"
R. Janet Powell
Grimsby Historical Society, 1950-1959
Volume 8, p. 41 (for Smith)
"John married Hannah, daughter of Benjamin and Elsey (Lanning) Wilcox."
Volume 9, p. 63 (for Willcox)

"Genealogy Page of John Blythe Dobson"
(A nicely researched and referenced site including the Wilcox line)
http://cybrary.uwinnipeg.ca/people/dobson/genealogy/
Citing "Wilcoxes and McIntyres of Lincoln County"
Cecelia & Roland Botting
Tucson, Arizona: 1970s
Dobson includes a summary of genealogical findings that support
Benjamin's being the son of William & Dorothy of Dartmouth, MA.


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