THEODOSIA HENRIETTA, 6 b. May 4, 1778, at Fairfield, Connecticut United States to Rev John Sayre and Mary Bowes. The parents were British Loyalists and moved in late 1783 to Nova Scotia (the next year became New Brunswick). After her father died in 1784 their land title was transferred from him and released by his widow and other children to eldest son James. She is mentioned in this record as 'Henrietta'.
Married Feb. 11, 1801 in New Jersey Col. Richard Coxe, of Sidney New Jersey, who died in Washington, D. C.: Pennsylvania Vitals - Vol. 2. Records of Marriages copied from the Philadelphia Repository & Weekly Register; published by Ephraim Conrad for a few months, then by Hogan & Conrad and subsequently by David Hogan. Pg. 512, Issue of February 14, 1801. "By the Rev. Mr. Abercrombie, MR. RICHARD COXE, son of CHARLES COXE, of Sidney, at New Jersey, to MISS THEODOSIA HENRIETTA SAYRE, of the City of Philadelphia."
Theodosia likely met Richard at her Aunt Esther (Bowes) Cox's home, Bloomsbury Court in Trenton New Jersey, where her mother had taken (some of) the family after her husband Rev Sayre died in 1784. The Cox's lived there from 1778-1792. Life in this home would have been quite different from what Theodosia had previously known. Bloomsbury Court and the life there of the Chevalier great-aunts, the Bowes, Sayres and Cox's would have been an elevated social round. People who visited there were very notable (one an intimate of Marie Antoinette).[1]. Bloomsbury Court, the name of which has changed over time, was at one point leased by United States founding father Gouverneur Morris[2], so perhaps it's no coincidence that Theodosia's husband, Richard Coxe (no relation we presume) worked for period for Mr. Morris as his agent in upper New York State. Richard's sister Grace Coxe le Ray had her spousal allowance supervised and was accompanied in travel by Mr. Morris[3].
CHILDREN:
1) Theodosia Coxe, m. Samuel Cumming. CHILD. Theodosia Cumming,m. 1867, Rev. Francis H. Bushnell, Rector at Mauayunk, Pa.
2) Richard Coxe, m. Mary Ann Mackey. CHILDREN. a) Mary Coxe, m. William J. Phillips. b) Sarah Coxe, m. William Long, of Philadelphia.
3) Julia E Coxe,7 m. 1831, Robert Patterson, at Tremont, N. Y., and had seven children. She wrote in 1829, '33 and '58 from Underwood, N. B., to Peter Robinson in Toronto, and to others. In 1833 she had two daughters, and in 1858 she was living in New York. Her father and mother were then dead, but her sister, Marie Matilda Coxe, was still living (1858).
4) Marie Matilda Coxe, m. Alexander H. Evans, of Washington, D. C.
In a will dated 1808 and proved 1814 Henrietta was an heir of her Aunt Esther Cox, sister of her mother, with whom she likely had lived for a period of her childhood from after 1784.
Theodosia died Oct 1, 1845 of Enteritis at the Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane in Philadelphia and is buried at Christ Church cemetery.