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From: "Judith Anthony" <>
Subject: [RIGENWEB] More from the RI Roots CD
Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2003 16:33:47 -0600

Jayne,

Here is some more detail from the RI Roots CD:

That one mention of John Peck's name follows. The writer was relating a
story about Hannah Robinson and was talking about the Hannah Robinson house
in Wickford.

"Now Dean Helen Peck, daughter of John Peck, lived in that house while
growing up, and this is another story. You know how sometimes we forget how
poor people were in the old days, but there is the story of John Peck who
took the Seaview Railroad from Saunderstown to Wakefield where the people
came to shop, and someone remarked one time about how it was cold and he had
no socks, and he said he could not afford socks because he had to send Helen
to Pembroke." (Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 4, Winter 1978, page 6).

I'm not sure how helpful that is since there is absolutely no reference to
when this episode happened!

*Daniel Wilcox
His name shows up on the 1777 Military Census for Cumberland, RI (spelled
"Willcox")

His name is listed as follows: "Inventory of Lott Straing, taken at request
of his wife Marey 13 Feb. 1698/9 by Daniel (mark) Wilcock & William Arnolds
[pound sign]9:01:04; sworn to 12, 4th mo. by wife Mary, executrix." ("Rhode
Island Scrapbook" by Jane Fletcher Fiske, FASG, Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 9,
September 1983, page 58).

His name is listed in the 1777 Military Census of South Kingstown, RI:
"Daniel Willcox 50-60 U R-Jameston"

Another Daniel Willcox is listed in the 1777 Military Census of Westerly, RI
(He is shown as 16-50 A).

Deed from Daniel Wilcock to Latham Clarke; Little Compton and Dartmouth, 18
October 1686. Witnesses: Peleg Tripp, John Yelthrough. (2:11) ("Table of
Contents to the Lane and Notarial Records of Rhode Island, Collection in the
Secretary of State's Office, Archives Division, State House, Providence,
R.I.", Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 13, June 1987, page 28).

His name appears as follows: Wilcox, Daniel m. 22 Oct. 1829 Phelse Baggs of
Richmond. ("Elder Matthew Stillman's Marriages", edited by Dorothy Stewart
and Vera Robinson in memory of Gladys Palmer, Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 14,
March 1988, page 107)

His name appears in a book review of "Wilcox/Wilcoxson Families of New
England" compiled by Martha Scott Osborne. (Rhode Island Roots, Vol. 17,
September 1991, page 94)

His name appears in "Rhode Islanders in Chautauqua County, NY in the 1855
New York Census" by Karen E. Livsey, Vol. 21, September 1995, page 86. The
listing shows him as age 13, Male, Son [of William and Almira Wilcox],
living in Chaut.

In "Occupations and Social Status in Early Newport, Rhode Island" by Jane
Fletcher Fiske (Vol. 22, December 1996), there is a Daniel Wilcox listed as
a Blacksmith (page 101), one listed as a Mariner (page 108), one listed as a
Shipmaster (page 110-spelled Wilcocks), and one listed as a Yeoman (page
114). These occupations were abstracted from Newport court records from
1690 to 1780.

*Hannah Wilcox

None of the nine citations that are in the index appear to be *your* Hannah
Wilcox. They are either for the wrong time frame or Hannahs who married
someone other than Festus Button.

Hope this helps!

Judy

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