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F Margaret Ann Fox

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Information from Kathi Mitchell, Gordert/Mitchell Families, RootsWeb WorldConnect Project.

Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 528-529:
Fox. The people of the Fox family form an important part of the early history of this neighbourhood, and begin with the founder, a sturdy, upright German, who brought with him the thrifty habits and sterling character which have ever characterized natives of the Fatherland.
In 1772 Philip Fox came to America from his birthplace, Baden, Germany, where he had married Catherine Lamer. They settled in the same year at Baltimore, Maryland, remaining for several years, and then moved to Pennsylvania, during their residence in which State several children were born. A number of neighbours then banded together to locate farther north, and in the company were John Wendel Wigle and Philip Fox, with their families. Their first objective point was Detroit, and they moved in a leisurely manner, carrying their belongings on pack horses, and driving their cattle before them. At one time they all lived on Grosse Ile. In 1791 Philip Fox removed to a farm six miles below Windsor, near Petit Cote, but in 1794 he was fortunate enough to draw Lot 10, on the lake shore in Gosfield, and removed thither. There both he and his wife passed the remainder of their lives, and their remains rest on the Wesley Wigle farm, in a private burying-ground. They had eight sons and two daughters born to them, as follows: Jonas, who settled on Lot 9; Philip, who settled on Lot 2, 5th Concession, Mersea, and married Miss Snyder; Margaret; Judith; Michael, who settled on Lot 250, Talbot Road West; George, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 4; Henry, father of Adam Fox, who settled on Lot 21, Concession 4; Adam, who settled on Lot 22, Concession 5; Jacob, father of William C. Fox, and grandfather of our subject (he settled on Lot 22, Concession 6); and John, who settled on Lot 20, Concession 5.
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Commemorative Biographical Record of the County of Essex, J. H. Beers & Co., Toronto, 1905, p. 92-94:
Adam Fox is a retired farmer and wealthy land owner of the township of Colchester South, County of Essex, and is one of the few still surviving who were participants in the Rebellion of 1837-38.
The Canadian ancestor of the Fox family was Philip, grandfather of Adam, who was an inhabitant of Pennsylvania, of German descent. With his wife he removed to Canada and settled near Ruthven, in the township of Gosfield South, on a grant of government land. He accumulated considerable property, at one time owning three farms, while he gave to each of his sons a farm as they started out in life. His children were ten in number and were named: Philip, Michael, George, Henry, Adam, Jacob, John, Jonas, Margaret (who married a Fulmer), and Judith (who married Henry Bruner). All were located in Gosfield except Adam, who lived in the township of Colchester.
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Philip Fox †   Catherine Lamar †
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Margaret Ann Fox 1775-