Excerpts from Source: "A History of That Part of the Fox Family Descended from Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Mass. with Genealogical Records," By N. M. FOX, 1899, Pages 99-103, Vermont
William Fox (John 5, Thomas 4, Jabez 3, Jabez 2, Thomas 1) was born June 28, 1760, probably at Newburg, N. Y. [Note: Son Marvin's 1880 Census indicates William was born in Connecticut]. His father died when he was about two years old. His mother returned with her two little boys to her native place, Woodstock, Conn.
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Four or five years after marriage Fox sold or exchanged his farm in Tinmouth for one in Wallingford where he resided during the remainder of his life. It was a very pleasant place that he secured for a home, and the house that he built is still standing, though nearly a century has passed since it was completed. Fox became popular with his townsmen and held the offices of justice of the peace and town clerk for thirty years. Was also member of the Vermont legislature for twenty years. In the discharge of his duty as magistrate he probably married more couples than any other justice in the state. The fee for the ceremony was a silver dollar and as Fox invariably handed the dollar received from the groom to the bride there were few ladies so indifferent to their own interests as to allow any other justice to perform the ceremony. His decisions were so just and equitable that it is said none of them were ever reversed in the higher courts. William Fox, Esq., married Philena White in Rutland County, Vermont, 1780. She was born October, 1762. He died February 17, 1822, at Wallingford, Vt. She died at the same place July 3, 1817.
William Fox (John 5, Thomas 4, Jabez 3, Jabez 2, Thomas 1) was born June 28, 1760, probably at Newburg, N. Y. [Note: Son Marvin's 1880 Census indicates William was born in Connecticut]. His father died when he was about two years old. His mother returned with her two little boys to her native place, Woodstock, Conn.
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Four or five years after marriage Fox sold or exchanged his farm in Tinmouth for one in Wallingford where he resided during the remainder of his life. It was a very pleasant place that he secured for a home, and the house that he built is still standing, though nearly a century has passed since it was completed. Fox became popular with his townsmen and held the offices of justice of the peace and town clerk for thirty years. Was also member of the Vermont legislature for twenty years. In the discharge of his duty as magistrate he probably married more couples than any other justice in the state. The fee for the ceremony was a silver dollar and as Fox invariably handed the dollar received from the groom to the bride there were few ladies so indifferent to their own interests as to allow any other justice to perform the ceremony. His decisions were so just and equitable that it is said none of them were ever reversed in the higher courts. William Fox, Esq., married Philena White in Rutland County, Vermont, 1780. She was born October, 1762. He died February 17, 1822, at Wallingford, Vt. She died at the same place July 3, 1817.
Excerpts from Source: "A History of That Part of the Fox Family Descended from Thomas Fox of Cambridge, Mass. with Genealogical Records," By N. M. FOX, 1899, Pages 99-103, Vermont
William Fox (John 5, Thomas 4, Jabez 3, Jabez 2, Thomas 1) was born June 28, 1760, probably at Newburg, N. Y. [Note: Son Marvin's 1880 Census indicates William was born in Connecticut]. His father died when he was about two years old. His mother returned with her two little boys to her native place, Woodstock, Conn.
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Four or five years after marriage Fox sold or exchanged his farm in Tinmouth for one in Wallingford where he resided during the remainder of his life. It was a very pleasant place that he secured for a home, and the house that he built is still standing, though nearly a century has passed since it was completed. Fox became popular with his townsmen and held the offices of justice of the peace and town clerk for thirty years. Was also member of the Vermont legislature for twenty years. In the discharge of his duty as magistrate he probably married more couples than any other justice in the state. The fee for the ceremony was a silver dollar and as Fox invariably handed the dollar received from the groom to the bride there were few ladies so indifferent to their own interests as to allow any other justice to perform the ceremony. His decisions were so just and equitable that it is said none of them were ever reversed in the higher courts. William Fox, Esq., married Philena White in Rutland County, Vermont, 1780. She was born October, 1762. He died February 17, 1822, at Wallingford, Vt. She died at the same place July 3, 1817.
William Fox (John 5, Thomas 4, Jabez 3, Jabez 2, Thomas 1) was born June 28, 1760, probably at Newburg, N. Y. [Note: Son Marvin's 1880 Census indicates William was born in Connecticut]. His father died when he was about two years old. His mother returned with her two little boys to her native place, Woodstock, Conn.
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Four or five years after marriage Fox sold or exchanged his farm in Tinmouth for one in Wallingford where he resided during the remainder of his life. It was a very pleasant place that he secured for a home, and the house that he built is still standing, though nearly a century has passed since it was completed. Fox became popular with his townsmen and held the offices of justice of the peace and town clerk for thirty years. Was also member of the Vermont legislature for twenty years. In the discharge of his duty as magistrate he probably married more couples than any other justice in the state. The fee for the ceremony was a silver dollar and as Fox invariably handed the dollar received from the groom to the bride there were few ladies so indifferent to their own interests as to allow any other justice to perform the ceremony. His decisions were so just and equitable that it is said none of them were ever reversed in the higher courts. William Fox, Esq., married Philena White in Rutland County, Vermont, 1780. She was born October, 1762. He died February 17, 1822, at Wallingford, Vt. She died at the same place July 3, 1817.
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