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Channing Cox

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Channing Cox

49th Governor of Massachusetts

    John Locke

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    • 5th Great-grandfather of Channing Cox — 8th Generation
    • Ahnentafel No:
    • 176 
    • Birth Date:
    • ABT 1644 
    • Birth Location:
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    • Christening Date:
    • 16 Sep 1627 
    • Christening Location:
    • St. Mary Whitechapel, Stepney, London, England 
    • Death Date:
    • 26 Jun 1696 
    • Death Location:
    • Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
    • Burial Date:
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    • Burial Location:
    • Rye Central Cemetery, Rye, Rockingham, New Hampshire 
    • Marriage Date:
    • ABT 1652 
    • Marriage Location:
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    • Children:

      • Nathaniel Locke

      Edward Locke (Ahnentafel No:88 )

      William Locke

    • Notes: 

    • Capt. John Locke was killed by Indians while reaping grain in his field. After being shot and wounded, Capt. Locke is said to have struck one of his attackers with a sickle, partly cutting off his assailant's nose. Two sons with him hid and escaped.

      John Locke was killed by Indians on Dover Plains in 1696.

      John Locke was killed by Indians.

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  • Sources for John Locke

    • 3 Cutter, William Richard and William Frederick Adams, Genealogical and Personal Memoirs Relating to the Families of the State of Massachusetts, Volume 4, New York: Lewis Historical Publishing Company (1910), 2461.
    • 4 Locke, Arthur H., A History and Genealogy of Captain John Locke (1627-1696) of Portsmouth and Rye, N. H., and His Descendants . . ., Concord, New Hampshire: The Rumford Press (n.d.), 11.
    • 5 Noyes, Sybil, et. al., Genealogical Dictionary of Maine and New Hampshire, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. (1979), 90.