Anthony Taylor Buxton, Sr.

Anthony BUXTON

• Birth:  1601 Wookey Somerset, England
• Death:  May, 1684 Salem Essex County Massachusetts, USA
• Father: John Taylor BUXTON b: 1568 in Wookey, Somerset, England d: 08 MAR 1629 in Wookey, Somerset, England
• Mother: Isabell BROWNING b: 1580 in Yarley, Wookey Parish, Someset, England d: 1632 in Wookey Parish, Someset, England

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From _Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966)_, by Walter Goodwin Davis with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1996, pp. 1:248-49:

Apparently Buxton came to America with an uncle or cousin, William Vinson who was about his age, and Vincent's William Vinson's mother for in Roger Conant's list of grantees of marsh lands, probably made in December, 1637, William Vincent, Vincent's mother and "Vincet's coin [cousin] Antho: Bucstone" are successive entries. Some years later he was joined by his brother, Thomas Buxton, who was certainly in Salem by 1648.

Thomas, apparently a widower, died in 1654 and Anthony was appointed to admister his estate. The court directed that he pay to the three children of Thomas, who were in England, £21, and that the remainder be divided between Anthony and his children. The inventory totaled only £52, the chieff item being "eleven acres of land with a little house on it lying in the north neck."

In addition to the five acres given him when he was admitted to Salem, and his half acre of marsh, Buxton received from the town four acres of meadow in 1658. He had several times applied for a grant of upland, and in 1661 he was allotted ten acres "if he can tell where to find it," a rather unsatisfying answer. In 1664 he was granted thirty acres "lying about the seaven mens bounds." This was the farm on the Ipswich river, beyond Salem Village, shich he left to his son John. In 1692 his son Joseph was living in the western part of the nort field on a farm which had apparently been Anthony Buxton's homestead.

Anthony Buxton was a member of the grand jury in 1663, 1666, 1677, 1680 and 1681. He was several times a witness against Quakers and others for absence from meeting, as was Elizabeth Buxton, aged thirty-eight, in 1661. He took the Oath of Fidelity March 25, 1678, and the Freeman's Oath in June, 1682. By warrant dated July 19, 1678, he swas appointed a tythingman, and at various times he was a member of committees to view and mend highways and bridges.

Elizabeth Buxton witnessed the nuncupative will of John Leach, Sr., in 1659, and Anthony Buxton took the inventory of the estate of Anne Fuller, who had been a widow Leach, in 1662. He was a witness and overseer of the will of John Marsh in 1674.

In 1662 the Buxtons lost two children within six days, and in 1676 three children, a boy of twenty-two, a boy of twnety and a grown girl, the two latter dying on the same day, doubless victims of some contagious disease.

In June, 1681, Anthony Buxton "who hath attended his duty in trayneing either in ye exercise of armes or attending ye company to whome he belonged in ye Field for forty yeares or more but now labouring under ye Burden of his Infirmities through his age being 71 as aforesaid doth thinke that he may presume to address himself to this honored court for his Freedome from his attendance on ye duryt of trayning being in ne wise able to doe it." His request was granted upon the payment of one-helf bushel of corn yearly to the use of the company.

The will of Anthony Buxton of Salem was made March 8, 1683/4, and proved July 29, 1684. To his wife Elizabeth he left his dwelling house with all the land thereunto belonging for her life, all his cattle and moveable goods. To his wife, also, the land he bought from Thomas Wheller in the north field, but his daughter Clizabeth Cook was to have the upper part thereof as far as it had been improved by her husband Isaac Cook. To son John, the thirty acres granted by the town of Salem, lying on the Ipswich river. To daughter Lydia and her children, £6. To daughter Mary and her children, £6. To daughter Sarah and her children, £6. To son John, "my great bel metal morter which I brought out of England." After the death of his wife the lands given to her were to go to his son Joseph, but Elizabeth was to have liberty to dispose of half the value of the houses and lands as she saw fit among the children. To daughter Hannah, £10 at marriage. Executrix: wife Elizabeth, with son Joseph to assist. Witnesses: Nathaniel Felton, Robert Fuller, William Osborn. Inventory, £238.

His widow was probably the Elizabeth Buxton who signed the testimonial to Rebecca Nurse's character in 1692.

•_TMPLT: •FIELD: •Name: Page •VALUE: p. 71 1 •Birth: ABT 1610 in , , England •Death: ABT JUN 1684 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Marriage 1 Elizabeth •Married: ABT 1640 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Children 1. Lydia BUXTON b: 1647 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts c: 27 APR 1689 in  2. John BUXTON b: 1643/4 in Salem, Essex, Massachusetts

Sources: 1.Abbrev: (Adams, Theresa, ttsmad{at}pivot.net) Title: (Adams, Theresa, ttsmad{at}pivot.net) Name: Footnote Name: ShortFootnote Name: Bibliography Page: p. 71

Anthony Buxton came to America in 1637, and settled in Salem, MA. Many of the English and New England Buxton families were Quakers.

Children of Anthony Buxton and Elizabeth Leach are:

• i. Elizabeth Buxton, born Abt. 1642 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; married Isaac Cooke May 3, 1664; born Apr 3, 1640 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; died 1692.
• ii. John Buxton, born 1645 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; died 1715; married (1) Mary Small Mar 30, 1668 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; married (2) Elizabeth Holten Oct 7, 1677.
• iii. Mary Buxton, born Abt. 1646 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; married John Cooke Dec 28, 1671; born Sep 6, 1647; died 1716.
• iv. Rachel Buxton, born 1647; died Feb 24, 1674/75.
• v. Lydia Buxton, born 1648 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; died 1708.
• vi. Sarah Buxton, born 1651.
• vii. Anthony Buxton, born Sep 6, 1653 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; died May 1676.
• viii. Samuel Buxton, born Aug 14, 1655; died Feb 24, 1675/76.
• ix. James Buxton, born Aug 8, 1659 in Salem Village, Essex, MA; died Oct 15, 1662.
• x. Thomas Buxton, born Feb 24, 1661/62.
• xi. Joseph Buxton, born Jul 17, 1663 in Salem Village, Essex, MA.
• xii. Hannah Buxton, born Jan 27, 1665/66.

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• Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966)_, by Walter Goodwin Davis with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1996, p. 1:248.
• The Hutchinson Family: or the Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England_, compiled by Perley Derby, Essex Institute Press, 1870, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 10;
• _Massachusetts and Maine Families in the Ancestry of Walter Goodwin Davis (1885-1966)_, by Walter Goodwin Davis with an Introduction by Gary Boyd Roberts, Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc., Baltimore, Maryland, 1996, p. 1:248.
• Find A Grave Memorial# 124002674
  • Walter Goodwin Davis. "The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824". Portland, Maine. 1960: p.86
  • Sidney PERLEY. "History of Salem, Mass." p.450
  • NEHGR. Vol. 103, p.223
• page 83 of The ancestry of Charity Haley, 1775-1800 : wife of Major Nicholas Davis of Limington, Maine by Davis, Walter Goodwin, 1885-1966.  1916.
• http://nutfieldgenealogy.blogspot.com/2012/02/surname-saturday-buxt...
• http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db...

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