Bucks County PA Archives Biographies.....Paxsons Of Maple Grove, the
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Source: History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania; edited by 
J.H. Battle; A. Warner & Co.; 1887
Solebury Township


   THE PAXSONS OF MAPLE GROVE The Maple Grove property was 
conveyed about 1763 from Richard Pike, of Cork, Ireland, to 
Thomas Paxson, son of William and Abigail Pownall Paxson, 
grandson of James and Jane Paxson, who came to America in 
1682 from the county of Bucks, England.  Thomas Paxson 
married in 1732 Jane, daughter of Thomas Canby, who came in 
1683 from Yorkshire, England.  He married first, Sarah 
Jarvis, and second, Mary Oliver, of Welsh descent, mother of 
Jane Canby.  Thomas and Jane (Canby) Paxson had nine 
children.  Two of them, Benjamin and Oliver, are 
respectively the paternal and maternal ancestors of the 
present heirs of Maple Grove.  Oliver Paxson, a prominent 
and influential Friend, married first Ruth Watson, and 
second Ruth Johnson.  By the first marriage there were four 
children, two of whom, William and Oliver, died in infancy; 
Jane married Benjamin Parry, and Ruth married, in 1793, Hugh 
Ely, son of Hugh and Elizabeth Blackfan Ely.  Their children 
were:  Elizabeth, married Richard Randolph, and Elias, 
married Sarah M., daughter of Dr. John and Margaret 
(Mitchel) Wilson, of Buckingham.  Elias Ely died in 1836 and 
his wife in 1849, leaving three children:  Ruth Anna married 
in 1861 Oliver Paxson, son of Benjamin Paxson; Margaret 
Wilson married Dr. James E. Rhoads; and Richard Elias 
married Caroline A. Newbold.   Oliver Paxson, senior, 
ancestor of Ruth Anna Ely, had a brother, Benjamin, ancestor 
of the late Oliver Paxson, as mentioned before.  Benjamin 
Paxson married in 1763 Deborah Taylor, daughter of Benjamin 
and Hannah (Town) Taylor, and had eight children.  Thomas, 
the third child, born in 1769, married in 1814 Hannamiel, 
daughter of Thomas and Beulah Canby.  They had six children, 
two of whom died young.  The remaining are:  Deborah, Elias, 
married Margaret Wilson; Richard, married Eleanor Ely; and 
Oliver, who married in 1861 Ruth Anna Ely, and whose 
children are:  Sarah Ely, Margaret Ely, Oliver Wilson and 
Caroline Ely Paxson, who at present reside at Maple Grove.