Anthony Taylor Buxton

• BIRTH 1601 Wookey, Mendip District, Somerset, England
• MARRIAGE 1643 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts
• DEATH May 1684 (aged 82–83) Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• BURIAL Goodale Cemetery, Danvers, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
• MEMORIAL ID 124002674

Anthony's father, John Taylor Buxton was born 1568 in Wookey, Somerset, England and died 08 MAR 1629 in Wookey, Somerset, England. His mother, Isabell Browning was born 1580 in Yarley, Wookey Parish, Someset, England and died 1632 in Wookey Parish, Someset, England. He immigrated to Salem in 1637 with his cousin William Vincent and Wm. Vincent's mother. [2] Six years later he married Elizabeth 1632-1713 iin 1643 in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts where she also died.

"On 09 August 1637, at Salem town meeting, Anthony Buxton was allowed five acres of land. He was an appraiser of Ann Fuller's Estate in March 1662. His wife was witness to a nuncupative will of John Leach in April 1669." Anthony Buxton was joined by his brother Thomas Buxton, who was at Salem by 1648. Thomas BUXTON was a widower, and died at Salem 1654. Anthony Buxton was appointed to administer his estate.

In 1692 Elizabeth Buxton signed the testimonial to Rebecca NURSE's character in the Witch Trials.She signed as Elizabeth N. Buxton. In the June 1692 witch trials, Elizabeth Buxton was described as being "grand, wise and skillful".)

Together they had the following children: Anthony, Samuel, James, Thomas, Joseph, Hannah, Rachel, Elizabeth, John, Lydia, Mary and Sarah. In 1662 they lost 2 children in 6 days; and in 1676 they lost 3 children from infectious disease. These were a son of 22 years, a daughter of 20 years and another grown daughter.

"Will of Anthony Buxton, of Salem, dated March 8, 1683-4, mentions wife Elizabeth, daughter Elizabeth, wife of Isaac Cook, to son, John Buxton, his 80 acres (given him by the town of Salem lying on Ipswich river, daughter Lydia and her children, daughter Mary and her children, daughter Sarah & her children, to my son John my great bell metal morter which I brought out of England, son Joseph to have what is left to his mother after her decease, daughter Hannah ten pounds to be p'd her on her marriage; appoints his wife Elizabeth ex'tx of the will, and his son Joseph to assist her.

Witnesses, Nath'l Felton, Robert Fuller & Wm. Orne. Proved in Court 29 July, 1684.
Inventory of above estate taken May 30, 1684, by Robert Fuller & Sam'l Aborne Sen'r, amount £238, returned by widow Elizabeth who is app'ted adm'x, 29 July, 1684." [16]

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. Many of the English and New England Buxton families were Quakers. 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.

Parents
John Taylor Buxton 1566–1629
Isabell Browning Buxton 1579–1632

Spouse
Elizabeth Buxton 1623–1713 (m. 1643)

Children all 13x b in Salem, MA
Elizabeth Buxton Cook 1641 – ? m Isaac Cooke 5/3/1664
John Buxton 7/1/1644 - 5/161715 m 1st Mary Small 3/30/1668, 2nd Elizabeth Holten 10/7/1677.
Joseph Buxton 1663–1752
Mary Buxton c1646 - ? m John Cooke Dec 28, 1671; born Sep 6, 1647; died 1716.
Rachel Buxton, born 1647; died Feb 24, 1674/75
Lydia Buxton, born 1648 i- 1708
Sarah Buxton 1651 - ?
Anthony Buxton 9/6/1653 i- 5/1676
Samuel Buxton 8/14/1655 - 2/24/1675/76
James Buxton 8/8/1659 - 10/15/1662
Thomas Buxton 2/24/1661/62
Joseph Buxton 7/17/1663
Hannah Buxton 1/27/1665/66

Descendant Details

John Buxton 7/1/1644 - 5/161715 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage1: Mary SMALL
d: 27 FEB 1676 in Salem, Essex, MA
(dau of John and Anna SMALL)
Married: 30 MAR 1668 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage2: Elizabeth HOULTON***
(dau. of Joseph HOULTON and Sarah INGERSOLL)
Married: 07 OCT 1677 in Salem Village, Essex, MA

Mary Buxton
b: 1646 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 25 MAR 1716 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA
Marriage: John COOKE
b: 06 JUL 1647 in Salem, Essex, MA
(son of Henry COOKE and Judith BIRDSALL)
d: MAR 1716 in Lancaster, Worcester, MA
(Will proved 20 MAR 1716)
Married: 28 DEC 1671 in Salem, Essex, MA

Elizabeth Buxton
b: 1645 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: DEC 1690 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage: Isaac COOKE
b: 3 APR 1640 in Salem, Essex, MA
(son of Henry COOKE and Judith BIRDSALL)
d: 11 SEP 1689 in Salem, Essex, MA
Married: 03 MAY 1664 in Salem, Essex, MA

Lydia Buxton
b: FEB 1647 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 1708 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage1: Joseph SMALL
d: MAY 1676 in Salem, Essex, MA
Married: 26 DEC 1672 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage2: Joseph HUTCHINSON
b: 1635
(son of Richard HUTCHINSON and Alice BOSWORTH)
Married: 28 FEB 1678 in Salem, Essex, MA

Rachel Buxton
b: 27 FEB 1650 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 24 DEC 1675 in Salem, Essex, MA

Sarah Buxton
b: 1651 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: MAY 1676 in Salem, Essex, MA

Anthony Buxton
b: 06 SEP 1653 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: MAY 1676 in Salem, Essex, MA

Samuel Buxton
b: 14 AUG 1655 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 24 FEB 1675 in Salem, Essex, MA

James Buxton
b: 08 AUG 1659 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 15 OCT 1662 in Salem, Essex, MA

Thomas Buxton
b: 24 FEB 1661 in Salem, Essex, MA
d. 20 OCT 1662 in Salem, Essex, MA

Joseph Buxton
b: 17 JUL 1663 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: FEB 1752 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage: Hester SOUTHWICKE
b: 26 JUN 1665 in Salem, Essex, MA
(dau. of Daniel SOUTHWICKE and Hester BOYCE)
Married: 1689 in Salem, Essex, MA

Hannah Buxton
b: 27 JAN 1665 in Salem, Essex, MA
d: 1732 in Salem, Essex, MA
Marriage: David FOSTER
b: 16 OCT 1665 in Salem, Essex, MA
(son of John FOSTER and Martha TOMPKINS) d: 18 SEP 1748 in Salem, Essex, MA
Married: 13 JAN 1687 in Salem, Essex, MA

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.

References

1 NEHGR. Vol. 103, p.223

2 Roger Conant's list of grantees of marshlands, made Dec 1637.

3 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:

4 Walter Goodwin Davis. "The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824". Portland, Maine. 1960: p.86
Sidney PERLEY. "History of Salem, Mass." p.450

5 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.

6 The Hutchinson Family: or the Descendants of Barnard Hutchinson, of Cowlam, England_, compiled by Perley Derby, Essex Institute Press, 1870, Salem, Massachusetts, p. 10;

7 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.

8 http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=124002674 Find A Grave Memorial# 124002674]

9 Walter Goodwin Davis. "The Ancestry of Sarah Johnson, 1775-1824". Portland, Maine. 1960: p.86

10 Sidney PERLEY. "History of Salem, Mass." p.450

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