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Gabriel Fox
Loudoun County is part of Northern Neck of Virginia. Settling of the Loudoun area began between 1725 and 1730 while it was owned by Lord Fairfax. Permanent settlers came from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Maryland. For more than two centuries, agriculture, especially growing tobacco, was the dominant way of life in Loudoun County.
Children of George and Mary Fox
  • Anchor Fox Bonham
  • Absalom Fox
  • George Fox
  • Gabriel Fox
  • Ambrose Fox
  • Mary Fox
  • Amos Fox
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    Gabriel Fox was born in 1736 in Kingwood, Hunterdon County, New Jersey. He was the son of George and Mary Fox. He was a tanner.

    When his father died, he inherited five pounds. 

    He married Anne (Ann) Warford (Worford) about 1757 in Hunterdon. Anne was born in 1727. Her parents were John Warford and Elizabeth Stouth.

    Gabriel and Anne's children were Ivea Fox Allen (1758) and William Fox (June 8, 1759).

    He purchased land in Loudoun County, Virginia and later moved to Romney, Hampshire County, Virginia/West Virginia. He appeared in the census lists of Loudoun County for 1769, 1771, and 1772. He appeared in the census lists of Hampshire County in 1782.

    Ann died in 1762. His will was dated February 26, 1798 and proved in 1798. The will mentioned, but does not name his wife. It also mentioned carpenter tools, his grandsons William and John Allen, and granddaughters, Margaret Allen and Ivea Fox. His wife is instructed to care for and educate bound boy, Malen Lewis. 

    He died in 1799 in Hampshire County, Virginia/West Virginia.

    Hunterdon County was originally part of Burlington County, West Jersey. It was set off from Burlington County on March 11, 1714. It included Amwell, Hopewell, and Maidenhead Townships. From 1714 until 1739 when Morris County was formed, Hunterdon County embraced a vast territory including all, or nearly all, of the present counties of Mercer, Hunterdon, Morris, Warren, and Sussex. In 1816, Maidenhead was renamed Lawrence and it became part of Mercer County in 1838.

         

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