Matthew Cox

• GIVN: Matthew
• SURN: Cox
• Sex: M
• Born: 23 Mar 1717 in Boston, Suffolk, Massachusetts, United States
• Died: 16 Feb 1756 in Cambridge, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
• AFN: 4S4D-ZT
• _UID: F6CB4F6B2A0111DAB9B700A0CC5D9B65CA28
• Baptised LDS: 24 Feb 1914
• TEMP: MANTI 25 Feb 1914
• TEMP: MANTI 27 Feb 1914
• Record last updated: 26 Oct 2014
• TIME: 22:04
• Notes:

  Additional sources: Research of Lawrence Brainerd 7 Arborway Court, Forest Hills MA
  Alt death: 16 feb 1756
  Source: http://newenglandgenealogy.pcplayground.com
  Occupation: tanner
  He was admitted to the First Church in Cambridge, 30 DEC 1739 and his wife joined the same 17 APR 1742. They lived in a cottage on what is now the west side of Massachusetts Avenue, a little north of the railroad station at North Cambridge.
  
  In 1746 Matthew gave a deed of land in Boston which he described as "being a part of my honored father, Robert Cox's estate", & mentioned Elias Cox & Andrew Cox as coheirs.
  
  He was killed in an accident-- "The Boston News Letter" (issue of 19 Feb 1756) contains the following account under a heading "Casmbridge, February 17": "Yesterday towards the setting of the sun, Mr. Matthew Cox of Cambridge, fell from an apple tree that he was pruning and breaking his neck, died instantly, whose sudden death is very much lamented having left a sorrowful widow and eight young children and she in daily expectation of increasing the number of the fatherless."
  
  The above notice was reprinted in the New York Mercury, Monday, March 1, 1756.
  
  Widow Elizabeth Cox died prior to Feb 1768, & Walter & Samuel, her sons, administer. The children of Matthew & Elizabeth (Russell) Cox were ten. Of the six boys who lived to mature years, five at least have a Revolutionary War record:
  (Middlesex Probate 3576, Records First Church of Cambridge, Family Bible of F.A. Cox of Cambridgeport, Paige's Hist. of Cambridge, Cutler's Hist. of Arlington.)