Genealogy of the Farr and Webb Families

Samuel Wilcox¹

M, #1496, b. 12 January 1742, d. 28 June 1827

Father

Samuel Wilcox²

Mother

Ann Carpenter²

Charts

Ancestor Chart for Nancy Farr Webb

Birth*

Samuel Wilcox was born on 12 January 1742 at West Greenwich, Fairfield County, Connecticut.^1,3

He was the son of Samuel Wilcox and Ann Carpenter.²

Marriage*

Samuel Wilcox married Lois Cogswell on 22 June 1763 at Preston, New Lond, Connecticut.^3,2

Military*

Samuel Wilcox was a Seargent in Capt. Nathan Watkin's company of Minute-men, which marched April 22, 1775 in response to the alarm of April 19, 1775. He served 1 month and 25 days. He was given an order for a bounty coat dated Charlestown Camp, Fort No. 3, Oct 27, 1775 while in Capt. Sloan's company of Col John Paterson's 26th regiment.⁴

Residence*

Hesettled in 1798 at Manlius, Onondaga, NY; now Dewitt near Lyndon.⁵

Death*

He died on 28 June 1827 at Lyndon, Dewitt County, New York, at age 85.¹

Family

Lois Cogswell b. 28 April 1744

Children

Huldah Wilcox³ b. 1 Feb 1765
Samuel Wilcox³ b. 18 Jan 1767, d. 29 Oct 1769
Daniel Wilcox³ b. 22 Aug 1769, d. 19 Sep 1776
Sabra Wilcox³ b. 11 Dec 1771
Anna Wilcox³ b. 13 Jul 1774
Samuel Wilcox³ b. 13 Mar 1777
Abi Wilcox³ b. 28 Oct 1779
Bridget Wilcox³ b. 8 Feb 1782
Asahel Wilcox+^1,3 b. 8 Apr 1784, d. 5 Jun 1867
Lois Wilcox³ b. 25 May 1787, d. 25 Oct 1797

Citations

[S358] DAR ApplicationAncestor Samuel Wilcox (as viewed on the DAR website, copy made). Hereinafter cited as DAR ApplicationAncestor Samuel Wilcox DEA 358.
[S386] M.D. William G. Peacher, Craft Masonry in Onondaga County, New York 1799-1826 (Liverpool, New York: Chancery Press, 1962), page 16. Hereinafter cited as Craft Masonry Onondaga County, NY. (ART 386).
[S359] Jay Mack Holbrook, compiler, Massachusetts Vital Records, Peru 1771-1894 (Oxford, MA: Holbrook Research Institute, 1987), page 22. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Vital Records, Peru 1771-1894. (REF359).
[S371] Secretary of the Commonwealth Massachusetts Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors of the Revolutionary War, Vol. 1-17, volume 17 (Boston, MA: Wright and Potter Printing, 1896-1908), page 403. Hereinafter cited as Massachusetts Soldiers and Sailors in Rev. War. MIL 371.
[S373] Dwight H. Bruce, editor, Onondaga's Centennial Gleanings of a Century (Boston, MA: The Boston History Company, 1896), pg 779. Hereinafter cited as Onondaga's Centennial. (ART 373).