Brief Life History of John
John Saxton was born about 1730, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. He married Catherine Poole on 13 February 1760, in Pennsylvania, British Colonial America. They were the parents of at least 1 daughter.
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- John Saxton, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
- John Saxton in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Tax and Exoneration, 1768-1801
- John Saxton, "Pennsylvania, County Marriages, 1885-1950"
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Name Meaning
English: habitational name principally from Saxton (Yorkshire), but perhaps occasionally from the lost Saxton preserved in Saxon Street in Woodditton (Cambridgeshire). The Yorkshire placename probably derives from the Old Norse personal name Saxi (see Sax 3) + Old English tūn ‘farmstead, estate’, though the first element may alternatively be Old English Seaxe ‘the Saxons’ (in the stem-form Seax-) or perhaps Old English seax ‘stone, rock’. The Cambridgeshire placename probably derives from Old English Seaxe (in the stem-form Seax-) + tūn.
Dictionary of American Family Names © Patrick Hanks 2003, 2006.
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