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Last name Paxson
First name Oliver
Display name Oliver Paxson
Other names Paxton;Paxon;Paseton
Birth date 1741
Death date 1817
Gender m
Affiliations Society of Friends, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of Friends. Indian Committee
Bio notes Bucks Co. farmer. Born in Buckingham. Married Ruth Blakey (d. 1774); m. Ruth Potts Johnson (1782). Indian Committee of PYM. Died at Solebury.

Mentioned in:

Halliday Jackson's Journal, 1806

Isaac Coates Journal of Journeys to the Indian Country

Journal of a Visit to the Seneca Indians, 1796, by James Cooper of Woodbury, N.J.

Jacob Lindley's Account, 1793

John Peirce Notes, on a visit to Several Tribes of Indians, 1796

Joshua Sharpless' Journal [Visit to Upper Canada and Parts Adjacent], 1797

Letter to Western Indians from the Meeting for Sufferings

Address to the Six Nations

Letter to the Shawanese, Delawares & others from Quakers of Pennsylvania and New Jersey, 1795

Copy of a manuscript respecting the American Indians (A)

A series of letters written on a Journey to the Oneida, Onondago, and Cayuga Tribes of the Five Nations, by Joseph Sansom