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- [[Category:Landowner Map of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1681 - c1705]]
[[Category:Fleet of William Penn]]
[[Category: Amity, sailed April 1682]]
[[Category: Upperside Monthly Meeting, Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category: Middletown Monthly Meeting, Langhorne, Pennsylvania]]
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== Biography ==
=== Family & Children ===Children of James Paxson by his first wife (name unknown), all were born in Marsh Gibbon:<ref name=GrundyPA>Grundy, MJP. ''Paxson Family in Colonial Bucks County''. online [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/PaxsonCol.html rootsweb] (3/3/2015)</ref># James Paxson, baptised October 3, 1666; buried November 8, 1666<ref name=GrundyPA/>#James Paxson (second of this name), baptised 20 or 26 April 1668; buried May 27, 1673<ref name=GrundyPA/>#Henry Paxson, baptised January 15, 1669/70; presumed to have died young.<ref name=GrundyPA/>
Children of James Paxson and his second wife Jane Gurden.# Sarah Paxson, born October 23, 1671; baptized October 29 the same year in Marsh Gibbon; married(1) John Burling, married (2) James Kirkman<ref name=GrundyPA/># Henry Paxson (twin)<ref>James had another son named Henry with his first wife, who died as an infant</ref>; baptized May 25, 1673; buried two days later on May 27<ref name=GrundyPA/># William Paxson (twin); baptized May 25, 1673; buried two days later on May 27 <ref name=GrundyPA/># William Paxson (second of this name); born December 25, 1675; baptized January 27 1675/6 in Marsh Gibbon; died July 1719 in Newcastle County, Delaware; married Abigail Pownall February 20, 1695/6<ref name=GrundyPA/># Henry Paxson (second of this name); baptized April (22 or 27), 1678; buried February 7, 1681/2 in St. Mary's graveyard, Marsh Gibbon<ref name=GrundyPA/># Henry Paxson (third of this name); Born September 20, 1683 in Middletown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania; died 1756; married(1) Ann Plumley, April 1707; married (2) Mary (Budd) Shinn, February 7, 1739/40<ref name=GrundyPA/># James Paxson<ref>Two half brothers name James (by James with his first wife) died as infants in England</ref>; born April 10, 1687; died July(?) 16, 1687 in Middletown Pennsylvania<ref name=GrundyPA/>
=== Emigration from England to Pennsylvania ===
James arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682 aboard ''[[:Category: Amity, sailed April 1682 |Amity]]'' with his brother William. They carried with them certificates of removal from [[:Category: Upperside Monthly Meeting, Buckinghamshire | Upperside Monthly Meeting]]. Jame's certificate read as follows:
<blockquote>"Whereas James Paxson of the parrish [sic] of Marsh Gibbon in the County of Bucks, Labourer, hath signified unto us that he hath an intention (If the Lord permit) to transport himself, his wife and children unto the Province of Pennsylvania in America and hath desired a testimonial from the meeting for the satisfaction of friends here or elsewhere, unto whom he may be outwardly unknown, we therefore whose names are underwritten here do certify all whom it may concern that upon diligent observation and inquiry made we do not find but that the said James Paxson hath walked conscientiously and honestly in the place where he lives agreeably to the profession and testimony of truth.
<br>In witness whereof we have hereunto set our hands at our monthly meeting holden at Coleshill for the upper side of the county of Bucks the 3rd day of the 2nd month [April] 1682."<ref>MJP Grundy, ''Paxson Family in Colonial Bucks County'' (2002), online [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/PaxsonCol.html#2William rootsweb] (3/3/2015)<br>cites as source "The Minute Book of the Monthly Meeting of the Society of Friends for the Upperside of Buckinghamshire, 1669-1690," Records Branch of the Buckinghamshire Archeological Society, 1:102-l03.</ref></blockquote>
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== Confused with Lancester County Paxton Family ==This Paxson family is often confused with the Paxtons of Lancaster County. Those Paxtons were three brothers (Samuel, Thomas and William) who arrived from Ballymoney, County Antrim, Ireland about 1735 and settled in Marsh Creek, Lancaster (now Adams?) Pennsylvania. They are said to be sons of the [[Paxton-367 |James Paxton]] who died about 1720 in Ballymoney.
For more on the Lancaster County Paxtons see the book by W.M. Paxton, ''The Paxtons'', Landmark Print, Platte City Missouri (1903) [https://openlibrary.org/books/OL7151712M/The_Paxtons OL7151712M]; [https://archive.org/stream/paxtonstheirorig00paxt Internet Archive]
This Paxson family arrived in America from Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England in 1682 and settled in Middleton, Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
I do not know if there is a connection between these two families. [[Powell-5629|Powell-5629]] 22:25, 4 March 2015 (EST)
== Sources ==
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See also:* Jesse Bryan. Paxon ancestry: an adjunct to the Moorman-Johnson family (1906), [books.google.com/books?id=YQh267QeYU0C Google eBooks]
*Rusha Wesley, ''Our Quaker Ancestry'' (1945)
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