Posted on: Chowan County NC. Query Forum Reply Here: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NC/Chowan/10962 Surname: Cox, Blount, Brownrigg, Jones, Holley ------------------------- African-American research in Edenton, Chowan County. I am the descendant of former slaves Providence(Provey) and Betty Cox(ages @68 in 1870 census, he-a blacksmith, she-houskeeping), who died @1871-75, leaving four adult children, Harry(m. Priscilla Blount) Tattie(m. Willam Jones) Will(m. Sarah Brownrigg/ridge) and Eden(m. Henrietta Holley) Provey and Betty are my great-great-great grandparents, through their son, Harry. I have done a lot of research, and have pretty much cleared up the lineage on these four KNOWN children, although Provey had a son, John Buncomb, baptized at St. Paul's Episcopal Church, in 1840. I believe there was a tie to the Buncombe family of Washington County through slave ownership, but by then, Provey had been sold to John Cox of Edenton. They only line I'm not quite sure of, or finished with, is the Will Cox/Sarah Brownrigg line. I don't know if they had any children. In 1994, I went to Edenton to take care of the funerary business of a cousin, Sara Beatric Jones, fondly called "Bob Shorty", by her church family at Providence Baptist Church. She was 91 at her death, and was the granddaughter of Will's sister, Tattie. I asked her if Will and Sarah had any children, but she did not remember. She did remember that Will was a Mason, and would "come up from the country for his lodge meetings,and Aunt Sarah would stay with here side of the family while he would attend his meetings". They would come up on a mule cart, with a lantern hanging on the back of the cart, so no one would run into them on those busy country roads! I have information on a request someone posted on this website on Shepard Brown. I believe that Shepard and Sarah were brother and sister, based on some information that I have at home. Looking to hear from someone ASAP!