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Joseph Hoxsie (also Hoxie or Hoxsey; May 8, 1733 – 1817) was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court from June 1795 to May 1796.[1]
"Joseph Hoxsie, Esq., fifth, justices of the inferior court of common pleas, and general sessions of the peace, in and for the county of Kings county". https://books.google.com/books?id=Z9hKAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA601
Of Charlestown.[2]
Born, Charlestown, R.I. He married first, Mary Peckham, 5 Dec. 1754; and second, Hannah (Stanton) Potter, widow of Robert Potter. Joseph Hoxsey served as Justice of the Inferior Court of Common Pleas, Kings County, R. I., from 1776 to 1787, and as Justice of the Superior Court from 1795 to 1796. He had no children, but left the bulk of his estate to his step daughter and her husband, Mary (Potter) Lewis and Simeon P. Lewis.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Manual - the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations (1891), p. 208-13.
- ^ Samuel H. Allen, "Rhode Island Judiciary", in James N. Arnold, ed., The Narragansett Historical Register (1889), Volume 7, p. 62.
- ^ Leslie R. Hoxie, The Hoxie Family: Three Centuries In America (1950), p. 18.
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