Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Paxson, Hugh P.
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   HUGH P. PAXSON farmer, P.O. Aquetong, was born in 
Solebury township, March 31, 1813, being a son of Asher and 
Martha (Harding) Paxson.  His paternal grandfather was 
Mahlon Paxson, a son of Henry, who was a son of Henry 
Paxson.  The latter was a son of James Paxson, from Bycot 
House, parish of Slow, Oxfordshire, England, who settled in 
Bucks county in 1682.  Our subject's mother was a daughter 
of Jonathan Harding, of Southampton township, who died in 
1833.  Mahlon Paxson, grandfather of Hugh P., married Jane 
Parry, by whom he had four children:  Alice, Asher, Phineas 
and Jane.  Asher, the second of these children, had five 
children:  John H. (deceased), Sarah H., Howard H., Alice 
P., Hugh P. and Grace W. (deceased).   Hugh P., with his 
sister Sarah, occupies the old homestead of his father and 
grandfather.