John Cox and Hannah Peirce

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Husband John Cox ¹

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           Born: 1786 1
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           Died: 1880 1
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       Marriage: Abt 1823

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Wife Hannah Peirce ¹

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           Born: 1797 1
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           Died: 1876 1
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         Father: Jacob Peirce (1761-1801) 1
         Mother: 

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Children

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General Notes: Husband - John Cox

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He and his wife were leaders in the reform and anti-slavery movements that agitated southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, in ante-bellum days; Longwood Meeting, the rallying point of these forces, was established on their land, and Whittier, Garrison, Phillips, Lucretia Mott, and a host of other prominent reformers were frequently entertained in the hospitable home of the Pierces, which also became an important station of the "Underground Railroad," and hundreds of slaves were aided to escape by that route to the North.
Poems were addressed to John and Hannah Cox, by both Whittier and Bayard Taylor, on the occasion of their Golden Wedding at Longwood in 1873

1 John W. Jordan, LL.D., Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania (New York, Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1911), Pg 426.