Mary Heston
(1740-1829)

 

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Spouses/Children:
1. Joseph Paxson

Mary Heston 1 2 3 4

  • Born: 19 Nov 1740, Upper Makefield Twp., Bucks, PA 4
  • Marriage (1): Joseph Paxson on 28 Jun 1758 in Wrightstown: Wrightstown Meeting House, Bucks, PA 1
  • Died: 29 Mar 1829, Sadsbury Twp., Chester, PA at age 88 4

   FamilySearch ID: LZ3Q-RCW.

  Noted events in her life were:

1. Quaker: Certificate of Removal Granted by Buckingham Friends Meeting House on 7 Apr 1788 in Lahaska, Bucks, PA. 5 When Quaker families moved, they were granted a "removal certificate" by their Meeting to present to a new Meeting near their new residence, as proof they were Quakers in good standing. Joseph and Mary Paxson were given such a certificate at Buckingham Friends Meeting House on 7 Apr 1788. The meeting house still stands today at 5784 York Road in Lahaska, PA 18931.

Transcription:

"Joseph Paxson and Wifes Certificate
To the monthly Meeting of friends held at Sadsbury Lancaster County. Dear Friends. Our Friends Joseph Paxson and Mary his Wife having removed from us and settled within the Compass of your meeting have Requested Our Certificate to join in membership with you these may Inform that after necessary Enquiry made no other appears but that they have been in a good degree orderly. Frequently attended our religious meetings and settled their affairs to satisfaction amongst us. Therefore as members of our Society we recommend them with their six minor Children Viz. Aaron, Jonathan, Abigal, Esther, Jane & Ann to your Christian care & oversight desiring their growth in the truth we subscribe ourselves your friends brethren & sisters.
Signed on and by order of our monthly meeting held at Buckingham
(by Robert Herkbride Clerks
(by Sarah Gillenham."

2. Chester County File 8349. Admin Bond, Inventory and Accounts in 1841 in Sadsbury Twp., Chester, PA. 6


Mary married Joseph Paxson on 28 Jun 1758 in Wrightstown: Wrightstown Meeting House, Bucks, PA.1 (Joseph Paxson was born on 21 Nov 1733 in Solebury, Bucks, PA and died on 3 Aug 1808 in Sadsbury Twp., Chester, PA.)

Sources

1 Pennsylvania Archives: Second Series (Harrisburg, Pennsylvania State printer, 1895.), Vol. 9. Page 277. Wrightstown Monthly Meeting, list of marriages.

2 Reading Times (Reading, PA) (Reading, Berks, Pernnsylvania.), 25 Jan 1900, page 1. Obituary of Mrs. Philip B. Ottey (nee Rachel E. Paxson).

3 Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 (Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.), PA > Bucks > Buckingham Monthly Meeting > Births 1720-1801. List of births of children of Joseph Paxson son of Joseph and Mary his wife. Online image 168 of 242.

4 MJP Grundy, Paxson Family (MJP Grundy email: kwg@cwru.edu homepage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/), See Joseph Paxson family at http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~paxson/Paxson4Gen.html#91Joseph.

5 Ancestry.com, U.S., Quaker Meeting Records, 1681-1935 (Swarthmore, Quaker Meeting Records. Friends Historical Library, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.), Online image 54 of 82. PA > Bucks > Buckingham Monthly Meeting > Certificate of Removal. Original record: Swarthmore College; Call Number: MR Ph 47.

6 Chester County Archives, Pennsylvania (https://www.chesco.org/193/Records-Guides-Indexes), http://www.chesco.org/DocumentCenter/View/4124.


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