Thomas Faxon

1662 - 1690  (27 years)

• Name	Thomas Faxon  [1, 2]
  Birth	2 Aug 1662	Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [3, 4]
  Gender	Male
  Death	1690	Weymouth, Norfolk, Massachusetts   [4]
  Person ID	I31063	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of EK
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

  Father	Richard Faxon,   b. Bef 17 Sep 1626   d. 20 Dec 1674, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age > 48 years)
  Mother	Elizabeth,   b. Abt 1633   d. 9 Aug 1704 (Age ~ 71 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1654  [5]
  Family ID	F18438	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mary Blanchard,   b. 1 Dec 1662
  Children	+ 1. Mary Faxon,   b. 12 Jan 1688, Braintree, Norfolk, Massachusetts d. 12 Oct 1720, Dedham, Norfolk, Massachusetts (Age 32 years)
  Family ID	F18436	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	10 Nov 2020

  
  

• Notes

  "He was forced to join the unfortunate expedition of Sir William Phipps. Before it sailed for Canada the small pox broke out, and Thomas fell a victim to it. He left a will, the original of which is carefully preserved in the files of Suffolk Probate. […] He died, 1690, and was buried at Weymouth, Mass. He seems to have been a sergeant." [History of the Faxon Family, citation details below] An abstract of the will mentioned above: [Suffolk Probate 8:56-7] The 4 Aug. 1690, I Thomas Faxon yeoman of Brantree, Mass., being prest out in the service of the Country in the Expedition against the French and Indians towards Canada, ... to my son Richard Faxon and daughter Mary Faxon [both minors] ... If they die ... Then to my Mother Mrs. Elizabeth Hubbard, to my Mother Basse Mrs. Susanna Basse, my three sisters, Mary Faxon, Hannah Faxon, Abigail Faxon, my Aunt Fisher, to Benjamin Hubbard my loving brother, my kinswomen Deborah Savel, Rebecca Bass, Sarah Weld, and Joanna Wales, to the Reverend Mr. Moses Fiske, to Benjamin Thompson, to the poor of the town, Rest of my estate to my Brother Josiah Faxon.

  
  

• Sources

  [S4930] Find a Grave page for Joseph Dean. [S4931] Find a Grave page for Mary Faxon Dean. [S1646] Records of the Town of Braintree, 1640 to 1793 by Samuel Bates. Randolph, Massachusetts: D. H. Hixford, 1886. [S4934] The History of the Faxon Family, Containing a Genealogy of the Descendants of Thomas Faxon of Braintree, Mass. by George L. Faxon. Springfield, Massachusetts: Press of Springfield Printing Company, 1880. [S4935] Clifford L. Stott, "The English Origin of Thomas1 Faxon of Braintree, Massachusetts." The American Genealogist 74:41, 1999.