Cox Characters
Conclusions to Confusions

Part 2: Chapter 7

The following records, including the probate documents in the next section, finalize the disposal of Michael Sr.’s estate, as well as his youngest son’s, Joseph, who died at the age of 35, in 1816, just a year after his father.

Thanks go to Mary Ann Bowry for digging out the Orphans’ Court records. No corrections have been made to these documents which the modern reader will find sorely lacking in punctuation. They have been left as provided. They do not present any of the imaginative spelling to be found in the other documents that follow.

Very curiously, the age of majority is set at 14. Joseph’s three children are named, but no mention is made of his widow, Mary Margaret Doney Cox.

While we know that David Porter was a neighbor, Charles Porter might have been as well. William Roberts might have been the father of Magdalin, Peter’s wife. Could she have been christened Magdalin Jane Roberts?

FAYETTE COUNTY RECORDS, UNIONTOWN, PENNSYLVANIA

ORPHANS COURT, VOLUME 1, page 183

No. 2, JOSEPH COX, Dec'd, August 1816

The court appoints Charles Porter and William Roberts guardian of the persons and Estates of Elizabeth Cox, William Michael Cox and Samuel Joseph Cox, minor children under the age of fourteen years of Joseph Cox late of Luzerne Township, deceased until they shall severally arrive at the age of fourteen years of age.

ORPHANS COURT RECORDS, No. 239

JOSEPH COX, Dec’d, June Term 1819

David Porter and Margaret Cox, Administrators of all and singular the goods and chattels of Joseph Cox late of Fayette County, deceased as will grant and so much of the same as have come to their hands a knowledge of their payments and disbursements out of the same as per inventory exhibited into the Registers office and then remain in produce to the court and account of their administration duly passed before the Register whose by their appears to be a balance in the hands of the account of one hundred and thirteen dollars one cent and a half which account the court allows and confirms and under that said balance after deducting the clerk fees and the orphan of the court be and remain in the hands of said accounts until such time as it may be legally called for.
$113.015

ORPHANS COURT, VOLUME 1, page 242

MICHAEL COX ACCOUNT, 18^th September 1819

Michael Cox, Sr. and George Dearth Executors of the last will and Testament of Michael Cox late of Luzerne Township, Fayette County and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, deceased as will such and so much by the goods, chattels, land and tenements of the said dec'd as there comes to the hands and possessions of the said accountants do offer the said payments and disbursements out of the same as our inventory exhibits into the Registers office and remaining presently to the court and account of their Executors duly sworn before the Register whereby then appears to be a balance in the hand of the accounts of Twelve hundred and twelve dollars and thirty seven cents which account the Court allows and confirms and orders that said balance after dividing the Executors fees and the court be and remain in the hand of the accountants until such time as they may be legally called on for the same.
$1212.37

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