Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
Spouses
Marriage1665, Westerly, Newport, Newport, Rhode Island75
ChildrenJohn (1666-1747)
Notes for John Maxson
[williamDavis.FTW]
(From "Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy" by Ilou & Don Sanford,1998)Made free in Westerly, Washington Co., RI - 28 October 1638
His father, John Maxson, Senior, was the first settler of Throgs Neck,then called "Maxson's Point," on the north shore of Long Island Sound, inthe present town and county of Westchester, New York, where he and hisson Richard were murdered in the early spring of 1638, by the Indians.Mrs. Maxson and a few others escaped to a shallop lying in the sound, andafter a long and tedious voyage, landed on the Island of Rhode Island,where a son was born to Mrs. Maxson a few days after landing, andprobably about the middle of March, 1638, who received the name of JohnMaxson, after his recently murdered father. On the 24th of the same monththe Island was purchased from the Indian sachems, Canonicus andMiantunomi. From John Maxson, the first white child born in Rhode Island,descended John Maxson, Jr., his son, born in 1666, and to him was bornJohn Maxson 3d, in 1701, whose son, David Maxson, was the father of ChloeMaxson, the mother of the subject of this sketch, who with her husband,Capt. Samuel Clark, and nine children, removed to Brookfield, Madisoncounty, New York, in 1801, where Capt. Clark died, Feb. 13, 1830, and hiswife on the 19th of March, 1833.
Info from Ann Hayes (forh@email.msn.com)
William and John Davis witnessed the will of John Maxson, 21 Jan 1715/16and 20 Feb 1720/21 John Davis deposed that he saw his father, Wm. Davissign as witness. (FHL Microfilm # 0930805, Westerly RI Probate and TownCouncil Records, pp53-59).
The will leaves to his wife, unnamed; to his sons, John , Jonathan andJoseph; to his dau. Hannah; to the five daus of his son Joseph, viz.Tace,Goodith, Mary, Ruth and Elizabeth; to the children of his deceased dauClark; to the children of his dec. dau. Lewis; to three grandsons,viz.John, son of my son, John; Joseph and John, sons of my son Joseph.His three sons were named executors. (He bequeathed to his son, John, the"great Bible which was my Father's". ) John Davis submitted a bill formaking a coffin, indicating he was "joyner Davis."
1.Deed of John Maxson to his son, John of Westerly, 5 Sep 1726:threetracts: 1/2 the tract I now dwell on that was ( ?, hard to read) by myhonored fatther, that is to say the north half of the farm; half of thetract I bought of Mr. John Saunders; and all that part of my lands that Ibought of Mr. John Wells bounding upon lands of Joseph Maxson's andlands of Joseph Covey, lands of Tobias Brand, lands of John Davis, andlands of John Lewis. (I have photocopy of this.)(FHL #0940223 Westerly,RI Land records)
2. Deed of John Maxson to his "son-in-law John Davis, Joyner", 7 Sep1726: 56 Acres bounded byOliver Babcock, John Crandall, John Lewis,Tobias Brand, land by name of 'Egypt'. (This is on page 173 of the FirstBook of Land Records.
3.Deed of John Davis, Joyner, to Jonathan Maxson, Jun., 30 Nov 1731,land known by the name of 'Egypt", bounded by Oliver Babcock, JohnMaxson, land lately sold by John Crandall to Jonathan Maxson, land ofTobias Brand, land of John Lewis. This deed is signed by John andElizabeth Davis.
It seems clear that the same land is being transferred in the abovedeeds. The only possible problem would be a question as to which JohnMaxson is the man in #1. However, since he mentions his honored father,presumably the man of the will above, and all the other John Maxsons canbe shown to be living in 1726, John of #1 is the son of the John Maxsonwho wrote the will and it is his daughter, Elizabeth, who m. John Davis.And he is the Joyner who rec'd 13 shillings for the coffin he made forhis wife's grandfather.
(From "Newport Seventh Day Baptist Trilogy" by Ilou & Don Sanford,1998)Made free in Westerly, Washington Co., RI - 28 October 1638
His father, John Maxson, Senior, was the first settler of Throgs Neck,then called "Maxson's Point," on the north shore of Long Island Sound, inthe present town and county of Westchester, New York, where he and hisson Richard were murdered in the early spring of 1638, by the Indians.Mrs. Maxson and a few others escaped to a shallop lying in the sound, andafter a long and tedious voyage, landed on the Island of Rhode Island,where a son was born to Mrs. Maxson a few days after landing, andprobably about the middle of March, 1638, who received the name of JohnMaxson, after his recently murdered father. On the 24th of the same monththe Island was purchased from the Indian sachems, Canonicus andMiantunomi. From John Maxson, the first white child born in Rhode Island,descended John Maxson, Jr., his son, born in 1666, and to him was bornJohn Maxson 3d, in 1701, whose son, David Maxson, was the father of ChloeMaxson, the mother of the subject of this sketch, who with her husband,Capt. Samuel Clark, and nine children, removed to Brookfield, Madisoncounty, New York, in 1801, where Capt. Clark died, Feb. 13, 1830, and hiswife on the 19th of March, 1833.
Info from Ann Hayes (forh@email.msn.com)
William and John Davis witnessed the will of John Maxson, 21 Jan 1715/16and 20 Feb 1720/21 John Davis deposed that he saw his father, Wm. Davissign as witness. (FHL Microfilm # 0930805, Westerly RI Probate and TownCouncil Records, pp53-59).
The will leaves to his wife, unnamed; to his sons, John , Jonathan andJoseph; to his dau. Hannah; to the five daus of his son Joseph, viz.Tace,Goodith, Mary, Ruth and Elizabeth; to the children of his deceased dauClark; to the children of his dec. dau. Lewis; to three grandsons,viz.John, son of my son, John; Joseph and John, sons of my son Joseph.His three sons were named executors. (He bequeathed to his son, John, the"great Bible which was my Father's". ) John Davis submitted a bill formaking a coffin, indicating he was "joyner Davis."
1.Deed of John Maxson to his son, John of Westerly, 5 Sep 1726:threetracts: 1/2 the tract I now dwell on that was ( ?, hard to read) by myhonored fatther, that is to say the north half of the farm; half of thetract I bought of Mr. John Saunders; and all that part of my lands that Ibought of Mr. John Wells bounding upon lands of Joseph Maxson's andlands of Joseph Covey, lands of Tobias Brand, lands of John Davis, andlands of John Lewis. (I have photocopy of this.)(FHL #0940223 Westerly,RI Land records)
2. Deed of John Maxson to his "son-in-law John Davis, Joyner", 7 Sep1726: 56 Acres bounded byOliver Babcock, John Crandall, John Lewis,Tobias Brand, land by name of 'Egypt'. (This is on page 173 of the FirstBook of Land Records.
3.Deed of John Davis, Joyner, to Jonathan Maxson, Jun., 30 Nov 1731,land known by the name of 'Egypt", bounded by Oliver Babcock, JohnMaxson, land lately sold by John Crandall to Jonathan Maxson, land ofTobias Brand, land of John Lewis. This deed is signed by John andElizabeth Davis.
It seems clear that the same land is being transferred in the abovedeeds. The only possible problem would be a question as to which JohnMaxson is the man in #1. However, since he mentions his honored father,presumably the man of the will above, and all the other John Maxsons canbe shown to be living in 1726, John of #1 is the son of the John Maxsonwho wrote the will and it is his daughter, Elizabeth, who m. John Davis.And he is the Joyner who rec'd 13 shillings for the coffin he made forhis wife's grandfather.