Daniel Coxe
| Daniel Coxe | |
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| 2nd Governor of West New Jersey | |
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In office 1687–1688 |
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| Deputy |
John Skene Edward Hunloke |
| Preceded by | Edward Byllynge |
| Succeeded by | Edmund Andros (Dominion of New England) |
| 3rd Governor of West New Jersey | |
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In office April 1689 – March 1692 |
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| Deputy | John Skene |
| Preceded by | Edmund Andros (Dominion of New England) |
| Succeeded by | Andrew Hamilton |
| Personal details | |
| Born | c1640 England |
| Died | 19 January 1730 London, England |
| Nationality | English |
| Spouse(s) | Rebecca Coldham |
| Children | Daniel, Mary |
| Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge |
| Profession | Physician |
| Religion | Church of England |
Dr. Daniel Coxe (1640 – 19 January 1730) FRS was an English physician and governor of West Jersey from 1687-1688 and 1689-1692.
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. Daniel Coxe's father was also called Daniel Coxe. He was from Stoke Newington, London and died in 1686.
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. He was a Fellow of the Royal Society and a member of the Royal College of Physicians (Coxe is the Society member referred to by Samuel Pepys in his diary entry of 3 May 1665 when he poisons a cat with tobacco oil at Gresham College). Coxe was appointed a physician to the court of King Charles II of England and later to that of Queen Anne.
Coxe never left England, he served nominally as Governor of New Jersey by purchase of land. He then bought other land in the Mississippi Valley. He attempted to settle a colony of Huguenots in Virginia, but failed.
Initially Coxe purchased land in West Jersey in the mid-1680s. He bought out the heirs of Edward Byllynge there in 1687. Coxe opened the earliest commercial-scale pottery in New Jersey. He sold out most of his land there to the West New Jersey Society of London, in 1692.
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