James Wilcox could have been Mrs Hannah Wilcox Ricketts' uncle or great-uncle --According to DNA. The use of family tree DNA.com has linked my dad's DNA to a distant cousin, which indicates that James Willcox of Chester Co MAY BE a distant blood ancestor of my dad. Going by dates, James Willcox could certainly have unnamed (illegitimate?) siblings, thus James could actually be Hannah Wilcox Ricketts' great-uncle. Hannah's father is most likely William Wilcox who was living in the Augwick community (Shirleysburg) as early as February 1756, and patenting land in Black Log Valley in 1766. ------- my dads DNA is likely a match, to this Ivy Mills Willcox line, but of course can't be 100% sure, but likely. ------- So There was the 1766 landowning William Wilcox, and there was a freeman: John Wilcox, possibly being William's Son (or father?). -------- Family tree DNA.com has a distant cousin listed who's pedigree contains James Wilcox of Philadelphia, born 1732-died 1769. So this James Willcox is possibly a great-uncle to my Dad's ancestor: Mrs Hannah Wilcox Ricketts. ------ James Willcox's wife is listed as Prudence Doyle Willcox, of Lancaster, Lancaster County, PA, having been born and died there, 1732, and August 4, 1801. ------ according to statistics, approximately 9% of white colonial births were illegitimate. So, it could be that William Wilcox of Augwick (Shirleysburg) was an illegitimate offspring somehow from the Ivy Mills Wilcox families. ~~~ With James's father, Thomas Willcox, having been born in 1689, and marrying in 1727, I find it extraordinarily difficult to believe that Thomas went for decades sexless, until marrying at 38 years old! So I believe that William Wilcox of 1756 Augwick Fort (Shirleysburg) could possibly be an out-of-wedlock grandson of Thomas Wilcox 1689–1779 of Ivy Mills. This could explain why the DNA seems to be a match.