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Edward Wilcox - TimeLine
EDWARD, b. Portsmouth, King Town, R. I. ; d.
m.
---------, b. ; d.
1638. His name was in a list of inhabitants admitted to the island
ofAquidneck—having submitted themselves to the government that is or
shall be established.
1638 ± Kings Town. A declaration was made by Randall Holden and John Greene (in 1680), that prior to Richard Smith's coming to Narragansett a Mr. Wilcox was there. "But in process of time Mr. Roger Williams and one Mr. Wilcockes, for the advantage of trade, set up trading houses, and afterwards Mr. Richard Smith, Senr., came there, having joined in partnership with said Wilcockes, whereby he much augmented his estate, and had no occasion to expend anything, for the Indians would not let them have any land to improve nor suffer them to keep a beast there."
Edward is assumed to have been the father of Stephen and Daniel Wilcox.
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