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State of Service: NC
Qualifying Service: Private
Birth: abt 1743 Death: bef Dec 1812 / Hopkins / KY
Qualifying Service Description:
He served as a Private in the North Carolina Militia and, along with his son Titus and Allen Fox, was engaged at the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780.
Additional References:
Military pay request voucher of Capt Joel Lewis vouched for by B. Cleveland. November 1780 as serving in the Battle against Col Ferguson
North Carolina Revolutionary Army Accounts, Vol X, Part VIII, Treasurer's and Comptroller's Paper, pg 34 Edenton District
Spouse: Elizabeth XX; Children: Titus; James; John; Daniel; Allen; Elijah; Enoch; Noah; Hunter; Jeremiah; Elizabeth
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Author: Dr. Darrell Ray Over M.D.
James Fox's origins are uncertain. Some sources give his date and place of birth as Orange County, Virginia, on 23 April 1734. Other sources, which state Beaufort County, South Carolina, on 23 April 1743 to parents to David and Elizabeth Fox, have proved to be incorrect. The David Fox family Bible shows his son James Fox died in 1773. The James Fox of this report lived until 1812.
The information that James Fox was married to Elizabeth Bean, a daughter of William Beeman Bean, and Lydia Russell of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, who relocated to Washington County, Tennessee, has also proved incorrect. William Bean, who is well-documented in historical sources as a pioneer in the Watauga Settlement, is not shown in his probate papers or biographies with a daughter named Elizabeth.
While James Fox’s wife was named Elizabeth, shown in Burke County, North Carolina, deed records, based on the close association of James Fox with the Timothy Sisk family, she may have been a Sisk. The Sisk family was attached somehow to James Fox and seems to have traveled with him from Virginia to North Carolina to Kentucky.
During the American Revolution, James Fox served as a private in the North Carolina militia and was engaged in the Battle at King’s Mountain with sons Titus, John, and Allin Fox.
James wrote his Last Will and Testament in 1811, and it was probated in December 1812, mentioning only three children: Titus, Allen, and Elizabeth. Another son, Enoch, is recorded in a 1774 Shenandoah County, Virginia birth record. James Fox is also proposed as the father of Daniel, James Jr., Noah, Elijah, and Jeremiah Fox, as they are found in residential proximity in census records in more than a single state and lived on land adjacent to one another, as well as witnessed and acted as chair bearers in land grants for one another. James seemed to favor Old Testament names for his children.
Allin was born in 1755 in Virginia and died on 13 June 1843 in North Carolina.
Elizabeth was born in 1760 in Wilkes County, North Carolina.
Titus was born in 1762 in Wilkes, North Carolina, and died in June 1875 in Hopkins, Kentucky.
John was born on 19 February 1764 in Wilkes, North Carolina, and died in 1840 in Knox, Tennessee.
Daniel was born in January 1766 in Rockingham, Virginia, and died in April 1845 in Marshall, Kentucky.
James Jr. was born in 1768 in Shenandoah, Virginia.
Enoch was born on 3 July 1774 in Shenandoah, Virginia, and died in May 1853 in Lafayette, Missouri.
Noah was born in 1776 in Rockingham, Virginia.
Jeremiah was born about 1780 in Botetourt, Virginia.
Sources:
Wilkes County, NC, Deeds, Book B-1, p. 283.
David Fox Family Bible, Richard Winn Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution. Bible Records. Jenkinsville, SC, 1953. Republished 2008 by Fairfield Archives and History, Winnsboro, South Carolina, p. 55-56.
NC Rev Army Accts, Vol X, Part VIII, Treasurer’s and Comptroller’s Papers, p.34, Folio 4, Edenton District SAR RC #2904 (Nat’l #148826) cites “Military pay request of Capt Joel Lewis, November 1780, vouched for by B. Cleveland”. Hopkins County, KY, Wills, Vol. 1, pages 96-97
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