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HISTORY OF BUCKS COUNTY. 



Mary's church, York, show that he was 

 buried there 25 April, 1664. James's father 

 was William, who married Eleanor, daugh- 

 ter of Richard Aldborough. William 

 Mauleverer was buried at x\rncliffe, the 

 familj' seat of the JNIauleverers, 11 April, 

 1618. William's father was Sir Edmund, 

 who married Mary, daughter of Sir Chris- 

 topher Danby, Bart. He was buried at 

 Arncliffe, 27 April 1571. Sir Edmund's 

 father was Robert, who married Alice, 

 daughter of Sir Nimian de Markenfield. 

 Robert's father was Sir William ]\Iaule- 

 verer (knighted at Flodden in 1513 )who 

 married Anne, daughter of William, first 

 Lord Conyers, and Anne de Neville his 

 wife. The latter was a daughter of Ralph 

 de Neville, third earl of Westmoreland. 

 Lord Conyers was the son of Sir John 

 Conyers, Bart, and Alice de Neville, his 

 wife. Through the Nevilles, and John of 

 Gaunt, the line may be readily traced to 

 Edward IIL, and so on back, by any one 

 familiar with English history. For further 

 research on this matter the reader is re- 

 ferred to "Descent of Anne Mauleverer 

 Abbott," by Charles Marshall and John B. 

 Clement, 1903. Times Printing House, 

 Philadelphia. See also "Inglesby Arncliffe, 

 and its Owners," by William Brown, F. S. 

 A., 1901, John Whitehead & Son, Alfred 

 street. Boar Lane, Leeds. The descent in 

 all its details is beautifully traced in the 

 Marshall-Clement chart, to which the 

 reader is referred. 



Sarah (Paxson) Taylor, second wife of 

 the late Charles W. Taylor, and mother of 

 the subject of this sketch, was born April 

 13, 1841, at "Brushy Park," near Edding- 

 ton, Pennsylvania, and died at Trevose, 

 February 22, 1889. She was the daughter 

 of Joseph Paxson and Elizabeth (Gallaher) 

 Paxson, his wife, and a member of the Rod- 

 man family. Joseph Paxson was born Feb- 

 ruary 12, 1803, and died September 24, 1867. 

 He was the eldest son of John Paxson, of 

 Brookfield, and Sarah (Pickering) Paxson, 

 his wife. John Paxson's father was Joseph, 

 who married Sarah Rodman. He was born 

 25 December, 1744, and resided at Brook- 

 field until his death in 1795. Sarah Rod- 

 man's father was John Rodman (fourth) of 

 Brookfield, who married (second) Mary 

 Harrison Rodman. Pie was born in 1714 

 at Flushing, Long Island. He removed to 

 Burlington, New Jersey, with his father, in 

 1726; thence September i, 1748, to Bensa- 

 lem township, Bucks county, Pennsylvania, 

 residing until his death in 1795 on the farm 

 called Brookfield, which he purchased from 

 the Growdons. His father was John Rod- 

 man (third) who married Margaret Grosse. 

 John Rodman (third) was born in the Is- 

 land of Barhadoes, May 14, 1679, and ac- 

 companied his father to Newport, Rhode 

 Island, in 1682. He resided at Newport 

 after he became of age. and was admitted 

 as a freeman of that city May i, 1706. He 

 removed to Flushing, Long Island, in 1712, 

 where he continued to reside until 1726. He 

 was a member of the Society of Friends, 



and a practicing physician. He was a mem- 

 ber of the ninth assembly of the province . 

 of New Jersey in 1727, from the city of 

 Burlington. From 1738 until his death, a 

 period of eighteen years, he acted as 

 King's Councillor for New Jersey. King 

 George II. appointed him 8 January, 1741, a 

 member of a commission to settle the con- 

 troversy between the Mohegan Indians and 

 the colony of Connecticut. He was the son 

 of John Rodman (second) and Mary 

 (Scammon) Rodman, his wife. John Rod- 

 man (second) was born in 1653. His name 

 appears among the inhabitants of Christ 

 church parish, Barbadoes, December 22, 

 1679, as the owner of forty-seven acres of 

 land and thirteen negroes. He was a mem- 

 ber of the Religious Society of Friends, 

 and while he lived in Barbadoes was fined 

 1)350 pounds of sugar "for default of ap- 

 pearing in the troop." He purchased land 

 in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1682, and in 

 Burlington, New Jersey, in 1686. He died 

 July 10, 1731, at the age of seventy-eight. 

 He was the son of John Rodman (first) of 

 the Island of Barbadoes, the progenitor of 

 the Rodman family in America, and Eliza- 

 beth Rodman, his wife. Of John Rodman 

 little is known. He died in the Island of 

 Barbadoes some time between the i6th Sep- 

 tember and 4th December, 1686. His will 

 bears the former date, and it was proved on 

 the latter date. From whence he came is 

 not now known. No memorials now exist 

 in the family showing this fact, and the re- 

 searches necessary to discover it from other 

 sources have not been made. The only fact 

 which tends to throw any light at all upon 

 the subect is found on page 2^ of Rutty's 

 "History of the Quakers in Ireland," pub- 

 lished in 1751 : "In the year 1655 ^oi" wear- 

 ing his hat on in the Assizes in New Ross, 

 was John Rodman committed to goal by 

 Judge Louder, kept a prisoner three months 

 and then banished the country." The infer- 

 ence from this passage is that John Rod- 

 man originally came from Ireland, and 

 upon his banishment went to the Island of 

 Barbadoes. See "A Genealogy of the Rod- 

 man Family from 1620 to 1886," by Charles 

 Henry Jones, Philadelphia, 1886, Allen 

 Lane & Scott, publishers. 



The Brookfield Farm above mentioned 

 as the home of the Rodmans for so many 

 generations is still owned by their descend- 

 ants, and the subject of this sketch inher- 

 ited an interest in it throiigh his mother. It 

 is worthy of remark that from the early 

 part of the seventeenth century until the 

 present time, a period of two hundred years, 

 this property has never been out of their 

 hands, but has been owned and occupied by 

 seven or eight successive generations of 

 the family. 



Charles W. Taylor, father of the subject 

 of this sketch, was born in Philadelphia in 

 t5i7. He was educated at the Westtown 

 Friends' School, and at the Friends' Acad- 

 emy, then on Fourth street, below Chestnut 

 street, Philadelphia. Soon after coming of 

 age he became associated with his great 



