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I have not found documentation for Susanna (Smith) Fox's Johnson grandchildren, but I did find documentation for her chldren,which was published in the William and Mary Quarterly:
To THE Editors of the William and Maby Quarterly :
I think that we, who have possession of points that have never been published should divulge them, especially in such cases as that of the vexed genealogy of the Fox line in Virginia, for instance, which arises from the
destruction of so many records in the Old Dominion. With this motive in view, I am glad to give the following data:
In Spotsylvania, Will Book A shows that Joseph Fox took out "Marriage Lycence £1," when he wedded Susannah Smith. Now, by the kindness of Mrs. Linda Fox Walker, of Louisa, a descendant, I have a list of the children of Joseph Fox (1702-1749), and Susannah Smith (1707-1790), as taken from an old prayer book owned by Miss Lucy Wash, another descendant, of Louisa County, whom I met and who is still sprightly and gracious at the age of ninety or over :
Joseph, bom January, 1730.
Ann, bom August, 1732.
Thomas, bom February, 1733.
Susannah, born April, 1736.
Elizabeth, bom May, 1738. (Elizabeth Fox Price departed this life, April 19, 1814 aged 75).
John, bom March, 1739; died Saturday, March 5, 1803; married Grace Young, Thursday, September 6, 1764, and had these children:
Joseph, born Sunday, June 23, 1765 ; died Wednesday. September 19, 1765.
Susannah Smith, born Friday, February 20, 1767 ; married Thursday, June II, 1785, Thomas Wash.
(Ann, remembered by her grandmother, Susannah Smith Fox,
in her will, as being the daughter of John Fox, is not here recorded).
Francis, bora Fcbraary, 1741.
Agnes, bora March, 1744;
Katy, bora March, 1745. (Katy Fox Anderson departed this life, February 17, 1814).
Sarah, the leaf unfortunately tora ofiF here, so we do not know the date of her birth, or if there were other children bom after her, which is rather unlikely, as Joseph Fox died in December, 1749.
In an ended chancery cause in Augusta County (1788-1802), I find a confirmation of this marriage of John Fox and Grace Young, and that she was the daughter of John Young, of Gloucester. Mrs. William (barter Stubbs, of New Orleans, a most painstaking genealogist and an authority on Gloucester families, gives me from the Abingdon Parish Register,
which she copied in toto, the item that:
"Grace, the daughter of John and Mary Young, was bom March
(gth?), 1747, and Mary Young, her mother, died March 20, 1747."
Joseph and John, above, the sons of the older Joseph, were, undoubtedly, I think, the Captains of the Rangers from Louisa County who were in the French and Indian War, I755-I756, and John the Captain of the Revolutionary Louisa Militia, mentioned in 1777. This younger Joseph was, also, I think, the Joseph Fox who was a member of the Committee
of Freeholders, appointed Tuesday, January 31, 1775, at Westmoreland Court House, to see that the Articles of the Association in Westmoreland, which had been written by Richard Henry Lee and passed at Leedstown, February 27, 1766, were faithfully observed in that county, according to
the direction of the Continental Congress. I think this because Joseph Fox, of Westmoreland, conveyed to John Fox 800 acres on Cub Creek, in Louisa, on January 30, 1772, Susannah Fox being mentioned; and, again, Joseph and John sell laid in Louisa, about 1776.
Among the possessions of the elder Joseph was a grant to him by George II, January 4, 1735, 400 acres, then in Hanover, to-day in Louisa ; and a descendant, now living in Louisiana, has a survey of this land made and signed by Washington, October 6, 1772. Joseph was one of the coun-
try gentlemen who were on terms of intimacy with Washington and often went hunting with him in Louisa.
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