This sounds like our Dr. Daniel Coxe except for one small problem. Our Dr. Coxe was born around 1640 (he died an old man in 1730). So this must have been someone else. The Dr. Coxe who governed West New Jersey is said to have been the son of Daniel Coxe of Stoke Newington, Gent., who was buried there in 1686. Could this other Dr. Coxe have been the father of the Governor?\u00ac\u2020 Birken\u201a\u00c4\u00f4s source was the \u201a\u00c4\u00faDictionary of National Biography.\u201a\u00c4\u00f9 Someday I\u201a\u00c4\u00f4ll get over to the Library of Congress to look it up.<\/p>\n

Another Dr. Coxe tidbit tomorrow, or sometime soon.
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I’ve been absent for 3 months.\u00ac\u2020 (I left off with West New Jersey in 1687.) Perhaps one reason I stopped blogging is the work it takes to write about a whole year in one post. My daughter-in-law (who has a new blog about gardening that I highly recommend) suggested breaking things down into smaller posts. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-west-new-jersey","tag-daniel-coxe","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6819,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101\/revisions\/6819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodspeedhistories.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}