Daniel Coxe III was an English physician and governor of West Jersey from 1687 to 1688 and 1689 to 1692.
15 Facts About Daniel Coxe
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The Coxe family traced their lineage to a Daniel Coxe who lived in Somersetshire, England, in the 13th century and obtained a doctor of medicine degree from Salerno University.
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Daniel Coxe was from Stoke Newington, London, and died in 1686.
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Daniel Coxe the son was born in London, the oldest of thirteen children, and was educated at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he became a doctor of medicine in 1669.
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Daniel Coxe was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Royal College of Physicians.
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Daniel Coxe never left England, he served nominally as Governor of New Jersey by purchase of land.
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Daniel Coxe then bought other land in the Mississippi Valley.
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Daniel Coxe attempted to settle a colony of Huguenots in Virginia, but failed.
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Daniel Coxe bought out the heirs of Edward Byllynge there in 1687.
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Daniel Coxe sold out most of his land there to the West New Jersey Society of London, in 1692.
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Later in the 1690s Daniel Coxe acquired a grant of land in 1698 known as "Carolana" which had been given by Charles I to Sir Robert Heath; this he purchased from Sir James Shaen, or his son Arthur; Shaen had acquired the rights from Henry Howard, 6th Duke of Norfolk.
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Daniel Coxe died in 1730, and was buried in London, England.
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Daniel Coxe's portrait is held by the Royal College of Physicians in London.
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Daniel Coxe lived in the American colonies from 1702 to 1716 and after returning to England published an account in 1722 of his travels and a description of the area encompassed by his father's claim, entitled A Description of the English Province of Carolana, by the Spaniards called Florida, And by the French La Louisiane.
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Daniel Coxe was appointed by the Duke of Norfolk as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons for the provinces of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania, but died before he had chartered any lodges.