Bible record, including title page, with handwritten entries recording vital statictic data for the family of William Burbanks Cox and Mattie Brooks (Usher) Cox of Salem, Mass. Includes entries for allied Rowe and Usher families. Bible was gifted to mother of Mattie, Hattie E. Usher, in December, 1925.

John Cox was born in 1758. He married Mary Peark, daughter of Joseph Peark and Elizabeth. They had nine children from 1780 to 1799.

Thomas Cox (ca.1694-1762), a Quaker, immigrated in 1714 from Gloucester County, England to Philadelphia, and settled in Chester County, Penn- sylvania. He married twice, moved several times in Pennsylvgania, and in 1741 moved to Wayne County, North Carolina. Descendants and relatives also lived in Indiana, Nebraska, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, California, Georgia and elsewhere.