1647 - 1723 (76 years)
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| Name |
Henry Paxson |
| Birth |
11 Jan 1647 |
Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Death |
Jul 1723 |
Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA |
| Person ID |
I746 |
Parlett-Stancliff |
| Last Modified |
3 Jul 2023 |
| Father |
James Paxson, b. 1616, Stowe Parish, Oxfordshire, England d. 15 Aug 1670, Marshgibbon, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 54 years) |
| Mother |
Mary Jane Clerk, b. Abt Sep 1620, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England d. 15 Aug 1670, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England (Age 49 years) |
| Marriage |
16 Aug 1640 |
Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire, England |
| Family ID |
F736 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- [[Category:Landowner Map of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1681 - c1705]]
[[Category:Samuel, sailed May 1682]]
[[Category: Middletown Monthly Meeting, Langhorne, Pennsylvania]]
[[Category: Biddlesden Monthly Meeting, Buckinghamshire]]
[[Category:Fleet of William Penn]]
{{Pennsylvania Settlers}}
== Biography ==Henry Paxson (or Paxton) was baptized at St. Mary's Church in Marsh Gibbon on January 11, 1646/7. He was the son of James & Jane (Clerk) Paxton.<ref name=Grundy>Grundy, MJP. ''Paxson Family in Colonial Bucks County''. online [http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/PaxsonCol.html rootsweb] (3/3/2015)</ref>
Henry was a Quaker, and in October of 1681 Biddlesden Monthly Meeting made him a trustee for the Meeting property. While still in England he purchased 500 acres of land in Pennsylvania from William Penn. Four of the Paxson brothers and their families emigrated from England to Pennsylvania: William & James on ''[[:Category: Amity, sailed April 1682 |Amity]]'' and Henry & Thomas aboard ''[[:Category:Samuel, sailed May 1682 |Samuel]]''. When smallpox broke out on ''Samuel'', Henry's wife and sons John & Henry, along with his brother Thomas, died enroute.<ref name=Grundy/>
His second marriage to widow Marjorie (Page) Plumley on August 13, 1684 was the first marriage recorded by the Middletown Monthly Meeting. Henry & Marjorie had no children together.<ref name=Grundy/>
=== Children of Henry Paxson ===Henry had three children by his first wife (name unknown), all were born in England:
# John Paxon, died at sea July 1682<ref name=Grundy/># [[Paxson-33 |Henry Paxon]], died at sea 30 July 1682<ref name=Grundy/># Elizabeth Paxson, born about September 5, 1675; died December 1700 in Pennsylvania; married Richard Burgess in 1691 (no children)<ref name=Grundy/>
== confused with nephew ==This Henry's brother James had a son also named Henry. After 1704 when Henry's nephew became of age, both Henrys appeared in the public records and are often confused.
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== Acknowledgments ==Thank you [[Powell-5629 |Andrea Powell]] for contributing to this profile.
* [[Bradley-3871 | John Bradley]], Thursday, July 10, 2014
* import of kerr2012.ged on Nov 4, 2012 by [[Kerr-1233 | Bob Kerr]]
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