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Classification: Query
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Johnson Claxton & Ann Gurney where my g-g-grandparents.
Johnson died 1884 & Ann died 1895 both in Ballarat, Australia.
Hope this helps.
Briefs to collect charitable donations granted to certain persons, 5 July 1653 -
Vpon the humble petition of John Claxsonn an old Virginian, and the testimony
of the comissioners of the countie of Yorke where hee lived of the great loss he
sustained by ffire to his vtter vndoeing, not able to maintain himselfe and five
children, The Grand Assembly duely weighing his distressed estate hath granted
him the said Claxsonn, an order as a breife to gather the charitable benevolence
of well disposed persons. The like also is granted vnto Thomas Bagwell of the
Isle of Wight county and to Richard New of James Cittie county.
Source The Statutes at Large; Being a Collection of all the Laws of Virginia,
Volume 1, by William Waller Hening, R. & W. & G. Bartow, New York, 1823,
reprinted for the Jamestown Foundation, Univ. of VA Press, Charlottesville, 1969
(spelling as shown in the book)
This shows that John Claxsonn of York County, VA was probably old enough to have
been the same John Claxon/Clackson who came to Jamestown in 1619, and who showed
up in the muster roll in 1621 and census in 1623, and who left a will in York
County in 1659.
I think this means that he had five children still living at home in 1653 and,
therefore, maybe more children who were already grown and on their own. I have
no proof, but it is possible that he was the ancestor of some of the Claxton
families of Virginia.
Kathryn