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The surname Paxson was first found in the ancient county of Berwickshire, now an administrative area of the Scottish Borders region, home of Paxton House, a historic house built between 1758 and 1766. This was the former seat of the Paxton family and is now open to the public as a Partner Gallery of the National Galleries of Scotland. Great Paxton and Little Paxton are villages in the ancient county of Huntingdonshire, now part of Cambridgeshire. Both villages have kept relatively small over the years, but trace back to the Domesday Book where they were listed as Pachstone and literally meant "farmstead of a man called Paecc" from the Old English personal name + tun.

Paxson Spelling Variations

Spelling variations of this family name include: Paxton, Paxson, Paxon and others.

Paxson Early History

This web page shows only a small excerpt of our Paxson research. Another 233 words (17 lines of text) covering the years 1296, 1304, 1350 and 1400 are included under the topic Early Paxson History in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.

Paxson Early Notables (pre 1700)

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The Great Migration

Some of the first settlers of this family name were:

Paxson Settlers in United States in the 17th Century

Henry Paxson, who settled in Pennsylvania in 1682 with his wife, three children and his brother Thomas
William Paxson, who settled in Delaware in 1682 with his wife Mary and children
Henry Paxson, aged 37, who landed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1682 ^[2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
James Paxson, who arrived in Pennsylvania in 1682 ^[2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
William Paxson, who landed in Pennsylvania in 1682 ^[2]CITATION[CLOSE]
Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)

Contemporary Notables of the name Paxson (post 1700)

Melanie Deanne Paxson (b. 1972), née Moore, an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Jaclyn in Cupid
James Edward Paxson (1932-2014), American professional gold medalist basketball player
Scott M. Paxson (b. 1983), American NFL football defensive tackle
Frederic Logan Paxson (1877-1948), American Pulitzer Prize (1925) winning historian
Vern Edward Paxson, American Professor of Computer Science at the University of California, Berkeley
Christina Hull Paxson (1960-2012), American economist and academic, 19th President of Brown University (2012-)
Diana L. Paxson (b. 1943), American author who specializes in Paganism and Heathenism, founder of the The Fellowship of the Spiral Path
James Joseph "Jim" Paxson (b. 1957), American retired professional NBA basketball player
John MacBeth Paxson (b. 1960), retired American basketball player, current vice president of Basketball Operations for the Chicago Bulls
Joseph Paxson, American politician, Mayor of Atlantic City, New Jersey, 1930 ^[3]CITATION[CLOSE]
The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 22) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html
... (Another 2 notables are available in all our PDF Extended History products and printed products wherever possible.)

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Citations

^ Mills, A.D., Dictionary of English Place-Names. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991. Print. (ISBN 0-19-869156-4)
^ Filby, P. William, Meyer, Mary K., Passenger and immigration lists index : a guide to published arrival records of about 500,000 passengers who came to the United States and Canada in the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. 1982-1985 Cumulated Supplements in Four Volumes Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co., 1985, Print (ISBN 0-8103-1795-8)
^ The Political Graveyard: Alphabetical Name Index. (Retrieved 2016, January 22) . Retrieved from http://politicalgraveyard.com/alpha/index.html

Other References

Fairbairn. Fairbain's book of Crests of the Families of Great Britain and Ireland, 4th Edition 2 volumes in one. Baltimore: Heraldic Book Company, 1968. Print.
Magnusson, Magnus. Chambers Biographical Dictionary 5th edition. Edinburgh: W & R Chambers, 1990. Print.
Markale, J. Celtic Civilization. London: Gordon & Cremonesi, 1976. Print.
Hitching, F.K and S. Hitching. References to English Surnames in 1601-1602. Walton On Thames: 1910. Print. (ISBN 0-8063-0181-3).
Humble, Richard. The Fall of Saxon England. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1975. Print. (ISBN 0-88029-987-8).
Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Galveston Texas 1896-1951. National Archives Washington DC. Print.
Elster, Robert J. International Who's Who. London: Europa/Routledge. Print.
Holt, J.C. Ed. Domesday Studies. Woodbridge: Boydell, 1987. Print. (ISBN 0-85115-477-8).
Samuelsen, W. David. New York City Passenger List Manifests Index 1820 - 1824. North Salt Lake, Utah: Accelerated Indexing Systems International, 1986. Print.
Innes, Thomas and Learney. The Tartans of the Clans and Families of Scotland 1st Edition. Edinburgh: W & A. K. Johnston Limited, 1938. Print.
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