Daniel Coxe IV was appointed a member of the New Jersey Provincial Council on November 29, 1705, replacing the late Edward Hunloke.
In 1716 he was elected to the New Jersey General Assembly representing Gloucester County, and was chosen as Speaker, but was expelled from the lower house that same year.
[2] He was appointed by the Duke of Norfolk as Provincial Grand Master of Freemasons of New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania in 1730.
The ensuing scandal was one of many injustices that inflamed American anger against the British during the years leading up the Revolutionary War.
As a result, many Hopewell residents left New Jersey, either unable to pay Col. Coxe or disgusted with the colony's rampant political corruption.