James Moon (1713-1796)
Inscription:
James Moon
His Book 1773
James Moon is most likely the grandson of a Quaker Englishman from Bristol named James Moon who immigrated to Bucks County, PA. with his wife Joan and their six children in 1682. The family is said to perhaps have sailed with William Penn on the "Welcome" and landed in New Castle, DE.
Cf. worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm....
The family then settled in Fallsington, in Falls Township, Bucks County, near Morrisville, and eventually purchased a 125 acre farm that is still in the family today (now called Snipes Farm). The family was actively involved with the Falls Monthly Meeting.
There are two headings for James Moon of Bucks County in VIAF. The correct one probably is Moon, James, but there are no dates so it is difficult to tell.
The James Moon who inscribed these pamphlets may be the grandson of James Moon Sr., and he remained in Bucks County and began to grow and sell ornamental trees in 1767, beginning a tradition of horticulture in the family. He was born in 1713 and is the eldest son of Roger Moon (James Moon Sr.'s youngest child) and Ann Nutt Moon. He died in 1796. Cf. pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/moonfamily.html
The autographs of James Moon look like a match to this one found here. This document (and there are several others for sale by this auction house) is a Quaker slave manumission from Bucks County, PA. in 1777. It is a Quaker document declaring a particular slave to be freed on a particular date in the future, and James Moon has signed these documents as a witness.
Penn Libraries call number: EC7 A100 721j 1761
James Moon (1713-1796)
Inscription:
James Moon
His Book 1773
James Moon is most likely the grandson of a Quaker Englishman from Bristol named James Moon who immigrated to Bucks County, PA. with his wife Joan and their six children in 1682. The family is said to perhaps have sailed with William Penn on the "Welcome" and landed in New Castle, DE.
Cf. worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm....
The family then settled in Fallsington, in Falls Township, Bucks County, near Morrisville, and eventually purchased a 125 acre farm that is still in the family today (now called Snipes Farm). The family was actively involved with the Falls Monthly Meeting.
There are two headings for James Moon of Bucks County in VIAF. The correct one probably is Moon, James, but there are no dates so it is difficult to tell.
The James Moon who inscribed these pamphlets may be the grandson of James Moon Sr., and he remained in Bucks County and began to grow and sell ornamental trees in 1767, beginning a tradition of horticulture in the family. He was born in 1713 and is the eldest son of Roger Moon (James Moon Sr.'s youngest child) and Ann Nutt Moon. He died in 1796. Cf. pagenweb.org/~bucks/BIOS_DAVIS/moonfamily.html
The autographs of James Moon look like a match to this one found here. This document (and there are several others for sale by this auction house) is a Quaker slave manumission from Bucks County, PA. in 1777. It is a Quaker document declaring a particular slave to be freed on a particular date in the future, and James Moon has signed these documents as a witness.
Penn Libraries call number: EC7 A100 721j 1761