"According to our records then, Michael Cox, Sr. came from Hamburg, Germany to the Susquehanna Valley, in eastern Pennsylvania, where he served seven years as an indentured servant, probably to pay for his passage. He tried, unsuccessfully, three times to escape." (p. 49)
Note: Cox provides no authority for these statements? Family tradition? Uncited court references?
Kenny Ray Cox, Cox Characters: Conclusions to Confusions (Utica, Kentucky: McDowell Publications, 2000).