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From: "William Hartman" <>
Subject: Re: [NJHUNTER] Cox/Coxe
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 2002 11:33:40 -0400
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John B. Ten Eyck Wrote:

Bill,
You are fast, never would have I imagined you would give me such a quick response to my question. What an eye openner.
Wish I was there giving you a hand in your research. You are doing a great service to all of us that are struggling with our NJ research. You have given me more inspirations and a great new direction to my ancestral challenge. God bless you for your wonderful talent and dedication, it keeps the memories of those before us who may have been forgotten.
I hope you may have another moment and I am not pressing your good nature to ask if you have run across any COCK/COX? I have some photographs of Cox's from the late 1800's that were mixed with some of my T.E.'s photos in MI. that I can not place and it is drawing a blank with other researchers. Please, at your leisure when your time permits.
Please and THANKS,

RESPONSE:

Thank you for the compliment John, This is a labor of love and I appreciate all the accolades (a favorite word used back in the 1800s!). I sure could use a good typist, I can photo a year of the Gazette in about 4 hours, but it takes a couple of months to type - proof - and do the Index. As I have told others, the only reason that I am doing the Hunterdon Gazette, is because I found out many interesting tidbits about my ancestors. I am retired, can type, am very experienced with software programs, and felt it was necessary to index this newspaper - the first in Hunterdon. Hopefully, others will index some of the other Hunterdon newspapers - there are tons of interesting items waiting for genealogists, historians, and family researchers to re-discover.

Anyway, since I am going on vacation to Florida this afternoon, (don't ask - we want to see how hot it can be there in the summer since we may relocate in a few years when the NJ taxes drive us out of the state!). Here is what I can easily give you for the surname COX/COXE; there were no COCKs, but there were LaCock, LeCock, PidCock and a few others.

COX: Abel, Albert, Albert S. Charles, Hannah, Henry, Joseph, Mrs. Margaret, and Rebecca.
COXE: Albert, Albert S., Charles, Charles D., Mr. D. W., Mrs. Fortunata, Peter, Richard, Miss Theodosia H., and William.

I have found the same person spelled differently on a number of occassions in the Gazette. There were no typewriters back then. Info was passed on orally or hand written. Names were generally written phonetically unless the person knew how to spell their name and insisted on that spelling when they had the chance to do that. Most of the newspaper was set letter by letter, usually by an apprentice teenage boy. I do not know if the editor proof read the text. I have seen the same name spelled differently within the same paragrah. So Albert and Albert S. noted above could be 4 different people or they could all be the same person!

Hope the info is of benefit to you. Soon (end of August?), the Index will be on the internet and I will announce same. The text is at the Hunterdon County Historical Society in Flemington, and the newspaper is available on microfilm at a number of places in NJ. Not sure if the Latter Day Saints have a copy.

Regards for now, Bill,

Whose ancestors date back to early 1700s in Hunterdon County.


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