Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 176-178:
Fox. Jonas Fox, the eldest son of Philip Fox, the first settler of the name in this country, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a young man when the family came to Gosfield. He received from the government Lot 9, on the lake shore... Jonas Fox cleared up his farm, and increased largely his original holding, adding Lot 8, so that he had 400 acres in one block; he also bought 200 acres on the Talbot Road, in Romney township, County of Kent... Their children were as follows: Philip is mentioned below...
Philip Fox, the oldest son of Jonas Fox, was born on Lot 9, in Gosfield, and first settled on his father's land in Romney township. Afterward he returned to Gosfield South, and located on the west quarter of Lot 8. His death was caused by drowning in 1842. Philip Fox married Ann Hairsine, a native of Yorkshire, England, and to them were born: Charles, born in Romney township, Aug. 17, 1829; Rebecca, who married John James Campbell, of Mersea township; Thomas, who died young; Mary, now deceased, who married Alexander Wilkinson; George, who married Julia Quick, and lived on the present Philip Fox place, and whose daughter, Georgianna, married William D. McDonald and lives on Lot 13, Concession 2; Melissa, who married Henry Wiper, of Leamington, Mersea township; Jane, who married Thomas Quick, of Mersea township; and Charlotte, deceased, who married Peter Hetherington, Jr. For her second husband Mrs. Fox married Peter Hetherington, Sr., of Romney township.
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