WILLIAM PAXSON, wife Mary, daughter Mary and JAMES PAXSON, wife Jane, children: Sarah, William arrived aboard the ship "Amity"

source: http://www.welcomesociety.org/Welcome_ancestors.htm

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from source

William1 Paxson (JamesA), son of James and Jane (Clerk) Paxton, was baptized 21 December 1648 in St. Mary's Church, Marsh Gibbon, Buckinghamshire. He was buried 2 January 1709/10 in Middletown Meeting cemetery, Bucks County, Pennsylvania. His first wife was Mary, who, according to an old family Bible, was surnamed SYDENHAM. She is not named in William's certificate of removal which merely states that he would be taking his wife and children with him. Her death is not recorded in Middletown Friends records, and may have occured while the family was separated from the Meeting over the Keithian controversy, or she may never have been a Friend. An interesting clue is found in a letter from William Penn dated 28 Third Month [May] 1705: "The lieutenant-governor first took lodgings at W. Paxson's, where his wife's health rendering his stay improper, he removed to John Finney's . . ."[19a] It seems quite possible that Mary died soon after. William's second wife was Mary WHITE, the widow of Judge John White of Philadelphia, and her maiden name may have been PACKINGHAM as appears in other old family records.[20] I have been unable to find any record of this marriage, but presumably it occurred before September 1698 when Mary Paxson and Grace White (her daughter) signed a marriage certificate in Middletown Meeting. Mary was buried at Falls Meeting 31 August 1719.[21] She was literate and signed her will, which named the same children as those named in Judge White's will. Mary owned several books at the time of her death. William was illiterate and signed with his mark, which resembled a "W".

http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/pafiles.htm

Bucks County will extract:

1.213. WILLIAM PAXSON of Middletown.
January 17, 1731/2. Proved February 11, 1733.

• Wife Mary, extx.
• Son Thomas 200 acres formerly William Bryan's.
• Son John 200 acres s. side road leading from Neshaminey to Falls adj. Jer. Langhorne, Stophel Vansant, John Plumly with swamp called Pear's Swamp.
• Son James 200 acres adj. Adam Harker, and land formerly Danl. Jackson.
• Eldest son William 406 acres on which I live.
• Son Henry lots in Bristol bought of John Forrest. ~• Is John Forrest related to the Forest who married an Albertson?

Brothers-in-law Nathan and Mark Watson Trustees to complete division of land bequeathed to eldest son William by (?) John Plumly by Uncle Henry Paxson. Dau. Deborah Paxson.

Wit: Jael Beckerdike, Joseph Richardson, Wm. Atkinson.

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the following is copied from: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~buckscounty/middletown.html

Middletown was organized in 1692. Hulmeville School, Main Street

Middletown is the last of the original townships (in this area of eastern PA).

Landowners in 1684:

Walter Bridgeman, Thomas Constable, widow Crosdale, Robert Holdgate, Alexander Biles, widow Bond, Robert Heaton, Thomas Stackhouse, Jr., Thomas Stackhouse, James Dilworth, Widow Hurst - (she is also found as  widow Hairst -  she actually  was the widow of Cuthbert Hayhurst), Richard Thatcher, John Scarborow (Scarborough), Nicholas Walne, Jonathan Towne, Joshua Boar, Thomas Marle,

William Paxson

,James Paxson, Jonathan Fleckne, William brian, Robert Carter, Francis Dove, Henry Paxson, William Wiggin and Edward Samway.

• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via daughter Mary Walmsley (born Paxon) by SmartCopy: Jun 18 2015, 20:01:23 UTC

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GEDCOM Note

William Paxson Sr., his wife Mary, his daughter Mary and his brother
James sailed from London on the Amity, arriving 3 Aug. 1682. They settled in Middletown Township, Bucks County, PA.

William and Mary (Sydenham) Paxson came to Pennsylvania with a minute

from Coleshill Monthly Meeting in England to Middletown, dated "2 mo., 3rd (day), 1682."

They settled on a large plantation in Middletown Township, Bucks County, PA., between the Middle Lots and Oxford, near a crossroad village called Four-Lanes-End by the Indians. This tract of land was a Penn grant and remained in the Paxson family for more than 200 years.

William Paxson Sr. became an extensive landowner. At the time of his death, 2 Nov. 1709/10, he owned about 1,000 acres in and about Middletown Township, Bucks County, PA., which his only daughter Mary (Paxson) Walmsley, wife of Thomas, and his only son, William Jr., inherited.

His estate, aside from his land holdings, amounted to £391.14.6, including "one servant woman Margaret Gisher, valued at £10 and one negro boy at £37.10.0."

He was an active member of Neshamnie Monthly Meeting (later Middletown) and Bucks Qurterly Meeting of Friends. He took an active part in public affairs, representing Bucks County in the Assembly conducted in Philadelphia in 1692, 1696, 1700-01, and 1705-08.

Descendants of William Paxson Sr. are eligible for membership in the Welcome Society.