James Moon, his wife Joan, and their children came to Pennsylvania in the mid 1680s.
Joan's maiden name was likely Burges (or Burgess).
This conclusion is based on the following pieces of evidence:
On the 14th day of the 7th month [September] 1676 in Somerset County, England, James Hill married Sarah Burgess, daughter of Thomas Burgess of Paulton.
In a Bucks County deed recorded the 20th day of the 10th month 1688, James Hill of Burlington in the Province of West New Jersey, sold to James Moon and his son James, 125 acres in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. This tract adjoined a piece of land purchased in 1685 by Samuel Burges from John Rowland. It has been supposed that Samuel Burgess was probably a brother Joan, the wife of James Moon.
In his will of 15 Nov 1694, James Hill, of Burlington, West Jersey, mentioned his brother-in-law James Moune. James was further identified as being a yeoman from Pennsylvania.
A Tentative Family Tree:
Thomas Burges
| | |
James Moon + Joan Burges Sarah Burges + James Hill Samuel Burges + Eleanor
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James Moon + Mary Wilsford
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England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 for James Hill
Somerset Piece 1023: Monthly Meeting of North Div of Somerset (Bath, Claverham, Sidcot) (1648-1766)
{Marriages}
| day | Mon | yeare
...
James Hill of Beckington in the County }
of Somerset and Sarah Burgess Daughter } j4 | 07 | j676
of Thomas Burges of Palton in ye Same County }
was married the ______________________ ___}
...
Note: Palton is Paulton. Paulton is about 6 miles NW of Beckington.
Below is a Thomas Burges of Paulton who died ten years before the marriage of Sarah Burgess. Had he been her father? Her brother?
England & Wales, Quaker Birth, Marriage, and Death Registers, 1578-1837 for Thomas Burges
Somerset Piece 0291: Monthly Meeting of North Div of Somerset (Bath, Claverham, Sidcot) Burrington, 1648-1775
Deaths and Burials
...
Thomas Burges the Son of Elizabeth Burges of
29 of 11 Mo: | Paulton died on the twenty ninth day of the eleventh
1666 | month One Thousand and six Hundred and sixty six
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https://books.google.com/books?id=-BUVAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Moon%20Family%22
History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time, Volume 3
William Watts Hart Davis
Lewis Publishing Company, 1905 - Bucks County (Pa.)
p.212
MOON FAMILY. James Moon and
Joan Burges were married near Bristol,
England, and with a family of children
were among the early emigrants to settle in
Pennsylvania. By deed dated 10 mo. 13,
1688, he purchased of James Hill 125 acres
of land in Falls township, one and a half
miles west from Morrisville, and largely
covered in 1905 by the classification yard
of the Trenton branch of the Pennsylvania
Railroad. On 12 mo. 11, 1706, he conveyed
the same by deed in fee to his son Roger.
James Moon's will mentions six children:
Sarah, James, Jonas, Jasper, Mary and
Roger. James married Mary Wilsford, 1
mo., 1696, and afterward Agnes Priestly,
in 1714; he deceased 4th mo. 6, 1755.
...
p.214
The Burgess Family, with whom the
Moon and Price families are much inter-
married, are descended from Samuel and
Eleanor Burges, who came from England
in 1685 and settled in Falls township, on
200 acres of land purchased of William
Penn, for one silver shilling per acre, the
original deed for which is still in possession
of their descendants. The land joined that
on which James and Joan (Burges) Moon
settled, and Samuel was probably a brother
of Joan Moon. ...
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Bucks Co., PA
Deeds v. 1, 1684-1692 Film 172871 DGS 8067819
https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSF1-PTRH?i=20&cat=244488
Film # 008067819
Image 21 of 213
Deeds v. 1, p.10-11
Deed - John Rowland and Thos Rowland to Samuel Burgess
This Indenture Made the first day of the Tenth Month 1685 being the first
year of King James the Second his reign over England etc and the fifth
year of the Proprietarys Government Between John Rowland and Thomas
Rowland his brother both of the County of Bucks in the Province of
Pennsylvania of the one party and Samuel Burgess of the said County and
Province on the other part Witnesseth that the said John and Thomas
Rowland for and in consideration of Ten pounds fifteen shillings the
rece ipt whereof is hereby acknowledged where with the said John and
Thomas Rowland acknowledgeth themselves fully satisfied and contented and
thereof clearly acquiteteth and dischargeth the said Samuel Burges his
heirs executors and ad ministrators they the said Jon and Thomas Rowland
hath granted bargained and sold and by these presents doth grant bargain
and sell unto the said Samuel Burges his heirs and assigns A certain
tract of land lying in the County of Bucks as aforesaid now in the
occupancy of the said Samuel Burgess being bounded on the Northerly side
with land of James Hill on the Easterly side with the great Timber Swamp
on the Southerly side ...
Image 116 of 213
Deeds v. 1
p.193
Deed - James Hill to James Moon
Know all men that James Hill of Burlington
in the Province of West New Jersey Shoemaker for the
consideration of Four pounds current money to him
paid by James Moon of the County of Bucks and
Province of Pennsylvania laborer and James Moon
son of the said James Moon ...
one hundred and twenty five acres of land situate in
the County of Bucks aforesaid ...
... which said one hundred
twenty five acres is part of five hundred acres sold
and conveyed by William Penn Proprietory and
Governor of the aforesaid Province of Pennsylvania
unto the said James Hill by Indenture of Lease
and Release dated the twenty sixth and twenty
seventh days of July one thousand six hundred
eighty and one [1681] is now in the tenure of the said
James Moon ...
p.194
...
Recorded the 20th [day] 10th Month 1688.
p.195
Bond – James Hill et al to Phineas Pemberton and Randolph Blackshaw
Know all men by these Presents that we James Moone
of the County of Bucks in the Province of Pennsylvania x x
Plautor and James Hill of Burlington in west Jersey
Yeoman do owe and acknowledge ourselves to be xx
in debted unto Phineas Pemberton and Randolph Black
-shaw of the said County of Bucks in the sum of one
hundred pounds ...
The condition of the obligation is such that if the
above bounded James Moon and James Hill they
or either of their heirs executors or assigns procure and
cause good assurances to be made unto Joan Moon
wife of the said James Moon one hundred twenty five
acres of land with improvements on the same during
her natural life when James the son of ye said James
Moon shall come unto the age of twenty one years x x
which said tract of land being sold to the said James
Moon the elder and James the younger as joint
purchaser by the above said James Hill lying
and being in the above said County of Bucks and
butting and bounding as is expressed in one deed
or conveyance from the said James Hill to the said
James Moon the elder and James the younger as
may more fully appear reference thereunto being had
the deed bearing date ye day after these presents
their this obligation to be void or else to stand
and be in full force power virture.
Signed Sealed and Delivered }
in the presence of } James Hill (seal)
Thomas Lambert } his
Henry Margerum } James X Moon (seal)
Joseph Cross } mark
Recorded the 20th 10th Month 1688.
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https://dcms.lds.org/delivery/DeliveryManagerServlet?from=fhd&dps_pid=IE5827551
Records of the Courts of Quarter Sessions and Common Pleas of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 1684-1700
p.286 [Image 296/456]
Att a Court of Quarter sessions ...
the iith day of the i0th month ... i695
...
p.287 [Image 297/456]
a Certificate of Joan the wife of James Moones being alive
Signed in Court Shee being then Present
...
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO THE COLONIAL HISTORY OF THE STATE 0F NEW JERSEY. Volume 23 (1901):
CALENDAR OF NEW JERSEY WILLS, VOL. I. 1670--1730.
p.228
...
1697 Dec. 4. Hill, Betty, daughter of James Hill of Burlington,
cordwainer, dec'd. Bond of Peter Frettwell of said place, tanner, as
guardian of.
1694 Nov. 15. Hill, James, of Burlington; will of. Daughters—
Mary and Elizabeth; sons—James and Richard**. Land in Buckes Co.,
Penna. Personal property. Executors—brother-in-law James Moune,
Petter Frettwell, John Antrum and Samuel Furnes. Witnesses—James
Wills, Jonas Moune and Benj. Wheate. Proved November 24, 1694.
1694 Nov. 24. Inventory of the estate of (£118. 11.5, incl. house and
lot valued at £70); made by James Wills, Thomas Raper and Benj.
Wheate.
1694 Dec. 1. Bond of James Moune of Pennsilvania, yeoman, Peter
Frettwell of Burlington, gentleman, John Antram of Burlington Co., cord-
wainer, and Samuel Furnis of Burlington, saddler, as executors. James
Wills, cooper, and Henry Grubb, butcher, fellow bondsmen.
1694 Dec. 1. Will proved and letters testamentary granted to the ex-
ecutors James Moune, Peter Frettwell, John Antram and Sam'l Furnis.
Burlington Records, p. 23
...
**In 1709, Richard Hill m. Agnes Crosdale, dau of William Crosdale of Bristol (d.1715) and his first wife Elizabeth Hayhurst.
Agnes Croasdale, dau of William & Elizabeth, was born 11. 9. 1690. [11th month, 9th day, 1690]
http://files.usgwarchives.net/pa/bucks/wills/willabstbk1.txt
Wills: Abstracts: Books A and 1 : Bucks Co, PA 1685-1739
1.9. SAMUEL BURGES of Hall Twp. Bucks Co.
October 14, 1713. Proved August 21, 1714.
Wife Eleanor.
Eldest Son Joseph Burgess, 1 shilling. Son John 1 shilling.
Daus. Priscilla and Sarah Burges Ł40 each.
Son Daniel Burges, land and residue of estate.
Son Samuel inadvertently omitted.
Sons Daniel and John exrs.
Wit: Peter Webster, Nehemiah Blackshaw, John Thornton.
1.4. JAMES MOON of County of Bucks.
Dated January 20, 1710/11. Proved January 9, 1713.
Wife. --- Eldest son James 1 shilling.
Sons Jonas and Jasper each 1 shilling. Daus. Mary and Sarah.
granddaus. Sarah Curtis and Elizabeth Moon.
Son Roger, exr.
Wit: Richard Hill and Nathaniel Tyler.
1.22. WILLIAM CROSDALE of Town of Bristol.
1st mo., 30th day, 1715. Proved January 10, 1715.
Grandson William Hill. Daughter Agnes Hill, extx. Son-in-law Richard Hill.
Sis. Mary Smith's 8 children, Sis. Alice Pott's 10 children,
Sis. Bridget Cougill's 4 children, Bro. John Croasdale's (December'd.)
2 daus. Money in hands of William Bleakey to People called Quakers at
Bristol Meeting. George Clough and John Hall to have care of same.
Brother-in-law John Cutler and David Potts. Balance between me and
Bro. Wm. Smith to Elizabeth Smith. Bal. between me and Marrah Wildman
to her daughter Ruth Croasdale.
Wit: Joseph Bond, James Moon, and William Atkinson.
Note: In 1709, Richard Hill m. Agnes Crosdale, dau of William Crosdale/Croasdale of Bristol (d.1715) and his first wife Elizabeth Hayhurst.
Agnes Croasdale, dau of Wm & Elizabeth, was born 11. 9. 1690. [11th month, 9th day, 1690]
William Croasdale's second wife was Sarah Wilsford. They had one child, Wilsford Crosdale, who died young.
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