What We Know About The Family Of Absalom and Christian (Bonham) Fox:

We find Absalom FOX listed as the son of George and Mary FOX of the New Jersey FOX family born Abt. 1734 . We believe he was born in the area of Kingwood, Hunterdon County, New Jersey.  He married Christian BONHAM, daughter of Amariah BONHAM, at Kingwood,  New Jersey. They lived in New Jersey, and Loudon County Virginia (500 acres on the Broad Run of the Potomac, Feb 8 1765) before removing to Washington County in western Pennsylvania. This was originally the part of Fayette County which became Washington County, in 1781. In 1780, Absalom FOX was granted 276 acres on Buffalo Lick Run in West Virginia. In 1781, Absalom is recorded in the Tax records with 95 acres, two horses, seven cattle and no sheep. In 1782 Absalom and wife Christian, of Washington county PA, leased 276 acres of land in Hampshire county VA, on Branch Mountain, to Robert Calvin.. When the Reverend Sutton brothers were called into the Western Pennsylvania wilderness in the 1780's, it appears our Absalom and Christian BONHAM FOX and their children followed; moving to the upper Ten Mile area near Lone Pine, in present day Washington County. Land record has them located at "FOX HILL" on Bushy Run of Ten Mile Creek. With 324 ¾  acres, granted January 26 1785 land warrant.  It is stated that the two youngest children, Jonathan and Rebecca FOX,  rode in hampers on horseback.  After the death of Absalom in about 1795 , the family members signed some of the land over to sons, Jonathan FOX, and Charles FOX. The remaining children and their mother, Christian traveled with other families into Warren County, OH. Charles and Jonathan were to join them a few years later. (David and Sarah SUTTON( daughter of Rev. Abraham Sutton)  FOX; Charles and Mary FOX; Bonham and Temperance FOX; Sampson SARJEANT, whose wife was the recently deceased Ivy/Iva  FOX; David SUTTON and wife Anchor FOX; Rebecca FOX and husband Bazil DEARTH; Jonathan and Rebecca DEARTH FOX.)  Other families that came about this time from Washington county PA, were the McFARLAND, RILEY, and EDDY . Later members of our FOX family also married into these families. On the tombstone of the DEARTH family in the Springboro, OH cemetery, is the name, Christian Fox 1737-1821.  Christian BONHAM FOX lived with the Dearth family. Her youngest daughter, Rebecca, was married to Bazil  Dearth, son of Edward and Elizabeth. The stone contains fourteen names and a memorial that  reads that the families "came to Ohio by way of the Ohio River and landed near present day Cincinnati April 10th of 1798, where there was a village of less than thirty houses at the time." In the old history and Atlas of Warren county, Absalom FOX (son of David and grandson of Absalom) stated that he came with his parents to Warren county in 1798. (there is a picture of Absalom  in this atlas.) They worked their way along the Waynes Mile Long Road to the waters of Clear Creek and settled there before Ohio became a State.  Our ancestors, David and wife Sarah SUTTON FOX, and children settled near the Fork of Todds Creek just beyond South Lebanon, one mile from the present day Kings Island Park. The Fellowship Christian Church and cemetery is on their land. David built a grist mill and ran a copper still on the creek.  David and Sarah and many of the children and relatives of this FOX family are buried in the Fellowship cemetery. Close cousins of this FOX and DEARTH family settled in Champaign County, OH.