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He signed indentures in 1712 as the son of Hester Fox, a widow from Whitechapel, to be the apprentice of Francis Garthorne of the Girdlers Company.
He entered marks at Goldsmiths Hall from 1730-1755 in partnership and alone from an address in St Swithin's Lane.
Christenings of the children of Mordecai and Jane Fox were recorded at St Swithin, London Stone from 1725-35 without detail of an address or their father’s trade.
The 1750 Poll book shows him in the Girdlers Company and a silversmith at Swithin’s Lane.
He was last named in full in the 1760 Land Taxassessment book for St Swithin’s Precinct. The entries for the same property in 1761-3 record simply “Fox”.

The Will of Mordecai Fox, Girdler late of London, was proved for probate on 21st April 1762 (National Archives reference PROB 11/875/248).

7 April 1724 Mordecai Fox of the Parish of Saint John at Hackney in the County of Middlesex aged thirty-three years Batchelor and Girdler alleged that he intended to marry Jane Gibson of the same Parish aged twenty years Spinster with the consent of her lawful guardian William Smith of the Tower of London.